You have built your entire identity around being excellent at things. And for a long time, that worked. The grades, the career, the reputation. There was always somewhere to point to and say, look, I am doing well. But there are parts of your life that have been sitting quietly in the corner for years, underdeveloped, untouched, a little frozen in time. Intimate relationships. Play. Creativity. Emotional vulnerability. The things that don't come with a performance review or a clear metric for success. In this episode, you will understand exactly why high-achieving women tend to hide in their areas of competence, and what it actually costs over time. You will hear why being bad at something feels so unbearable when your whole sense of worth has been built on excellence, and what is really underneath that discomfort. And you will leave with a much more honest question to sit with than the ones you usually ask yourself. This is a solo episode, short and direct, and it might be the one that names something you have been quietly aware of for a while. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.
