Is My Ambition a Trauma Response?

Brown Ambition

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Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Investing, Business

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mandi, Yanely, and Chris are celebrating milestones, unpacking celebrity controversies, and diving deep into the relationship between ambition and self-worth. WHEW. Yep. We go there!

BTW, why is Jonathan Majors all over our feeds and how is Meagan Good single-handedly holding up his career rn? We explore the fine line between talent appreciation and moral responsibility in entertainment.

Finally, we dive into ambition and self-worth. Through personal stories and therapy insights, we reflect on how ambition is often fueled by trauma and can be reshaped into something healthier and more sustainable.

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0:00.0	All right, BA fam, welcome back.
0:07.8	I am back with the Brown Table and I have my friends, my BA fam, in person, well, kind of virtually, but in person.
0:14.9	We got Janelli, Ivy League educated, the humble hot shot from Brooklyn, New York.
0:24.8	I'm dead.
0:25.8	What an intro?
0:26.8	I don't know why I went.
0:28.5	Maybe because George Foreman just passed, so I was channeling like some boxing energy,
0:32.3	RIP.
0:33.0	I'm not mad at it.
0:34.8	You're not mad at him dying?
0:36.3	No, I'm not mad at the energy and also celebrating his life.
0:40.5	Gotcha.
0:41.1	R-I-P to the grill master of all girl masters.
0:43.9	He really did his big one for like college students, circa 2000.
0:48.8	And every cookout and every barbecue and every black party in Brooklyn.
0:52.6	Yeah.
0:52.9	You can make two pinninis at a time, but, you know.
0:59.9	Oh, man.
1:00.7	I inherited my parents, George Foreman Griddle.
1:03.0	I think they had, like, other things than just like the press, the Michael Scott, you know, the one that.
1:08.2	I forgot to introduce Chris and Chris.
1:10.3	I was going to say, I was like, at some point I'll get interviews.
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