On paper, your career looks like it’s supposed to: you’re good at your job, you’re making decent money, and you know you should feel satisfied with it all. 

But you still can’t shake that voice in the back of your head, after you hit send on another email, asking, “Is this really it?” 

Your mind will do its best to quiet that voice. Immediately you start reasoning: changing jobs now would be irresponsible, you don’t want to seem ungrateful for your career growth, and anyway, you’re decades into it now. It’s too late to start something new. 

So you just get back to work. 

Is that loop familiar? 

Jodi Kantor, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative reporter, author of How to Start: Discovering Your Life’s Work, and co-author of She Said, is going to show you why a career that looks successful on paper can still feel completely empty. 

Jodi spent her career interviewing people who reset their careers at every stage of life. What she found is that those who feel like their work is truly theirs didn’t quit their job or finally follow their passion. In fact, Jodi bluntly states “doing what you love” can be a setup for getting exploited.

Instead, they built two things: a craft that’s genuinely their own and a need only they can see. 

When you put them together, the work becomes yours again.

On July 21st, Jodi joins Rich Life Expert Sessions. 

What you’ll do in the session

Bring one part of your work that stopped feeling like yours. 

You’ll name your craft, name a need only you can see, and leave with one real first move, with a date attached to it, to start feeling like your work is meaningful again. 

Jodi also answers a common objection she hears: that meaningful work doesn’t pay. 

She’ll show you how an archivist earning about $60,000 built a life she calls “equipoise,” and why a museum director earning $1.4 million and a surgeon earning $2 million were chasing the exact same thing.

Join us live on Tuesday, July 21, at 12pm ET. 

If your job pays well but you’ve still found yourself staring out the window on a Thursday afternoon wondering if this is really all there is, this session is for you. 

Before you make any big career moves, come find out what’s actually missing.