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Podcast: So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Episode: 1880: The Cost of Ambition: Affording Goals Without Burnout
Description: What happens when ambition—the very quality that’s supposed to fuel our success—ends up making us sick?My guest today, Amina AlTai, knows this firsthand. On a sweltering July morning in New York City, she got a call from her doctor that changed everything: if she didn’t head to the hospital immediately, she was just days away from multiple organ failure. The cause? Years of overwork and overstriving, rooted in her experience as the child of immigrants, navigating a post-9/11 workplace with an Arab name, and feeling she had to be the hardest working...