Amina AlTai: Redefining Ambition on Your Own Bold Terms

About This Episode

In this powerful episode, holistic business and career coach and author Amina AlTai joins us to unpack and redefine ambition. Drawing from her own experiences and her new book, The Ambition Trap: How to Stop Chasing and Start Living, Amina explores the difference between painful ambition rooted in core wounds and purposeful ambition aligned with wellbeing and contribution. We dive into the nuanced ways identity and societal pressures shape ambition, especially for women and marginalized leaders, and introduce tools and ideologies like the resentment line. If you're feeling burned out, questioning your path, or craving a more sustainable version of success, this conversation will help you redefine achievement on your own terms without losing yourself in the process.

About Amina AlTai

Amina AITai (pronounced AH-MIN-UH) is a holistic business and career coach, proud immigrant and chronic illness advocate.  A leading coach to notable leaders, executives and founders—Amina's mastery is in connecting us to our brilliance and teaching us to live and lead from it each day. She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Ambition Trap, with Penguin/The Open Field. Amina has partnered with progressive companies such as Google, Roku, Deloitte, Snap, Outdoor Voices, NYU and HUGE. She's an Entrepreneur Magazine expert-in-residence, a Forbes contributor, and was named one of Success Magazine’s Women of Influence. Additionally, she's been featured in goop, Well+Good, The New York Times, Yahoo, NBC, and more.

Additional Resources

Web: aminaaltai.com

Instagram: @aminaaltai

LinkedIn: @AminaAlTai

Chapters

• 8:33 From Burnout to Finding Purpose
• 16:48 Healing Wounds and Painful Ambition
• 22:30 Understanding the Resentment Line
• 26:22 Identity's Intersection with Ambition
• 29:20 Ambition as a Seasonal Cycle
• 32:42 Purpose vs. Its Expression
• 35:58 From Chasing to Living