🎧 Audio Post! How to Rethink Our Ambition with Rainesford Stauffer

The author of All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive joins me to discuss ambition, where it comes from, and how we might redirect it.

Hi, and welcome to the FIRST *experimental* audio edition of Downtime! These audio chats are exclusively for paid subscribers—would love to know what you think. (And, er, thanks for bearing with any audio issues you might hear, as I’m totally new to this audio/podcast thing!)

Rainesford Stauffer (Photographer: Hannah Kik)

In today’s audio edition, I chat with Rainesford Stauffer, author of All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive, about the nature of ambition, where it comes from, and what it might look like to be more ambitious in our friendships in particular. (We mayyyy or may not also discuss Pizza Hut’s Book It program, for all you 90s kids out there. 🍕)

My recent essay on my own complicated journey with ambition kicked off some great discussions. Clearly, this topic is something on a lot of our minds. I’m excited to continue that thread with this chat with Rainesford, whose work I’ve admired from afar. She’s recently pushed the topic to the forefront of many people’s minds thanks to her timely book and pieces she’s written for outlets like The Guardian, ELLE, and Esquire. Enjoy!

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🎧 How to Rethink Ambition: A Chat with Rainesford Stauffer, Author of All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

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