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Paige Polk

Paige Polk

Emmy Award-winning experience designer and wellness facilitator; founder of Paige Polk International and North Carolina State Manager at Dogwood Alliance.

Sep 15, 2026

28:18
And I know there's a whole spectrum in between where it might feel, you know, somewhere in between internal and external, but Could you think about a moment of transition or shifting where you like adopted a new identity, you learned a new skill set that kind of led you to a new confidence in a new domain or entry into a new world where, well, I guess just in general, and then maybe just kind of reflecting on like, how much do you view the propulsion, the motivation for that change coming from like something within you versus outside you?
28:57
I will add a little auditory asterisk that the majority of my career has been a fluid career.
29:09
So if anything, I shifted out of a fluid career, briefly going into a career that felt more like a ladder trajectory and then switched immediately back to And so I want to speak to that moment because I think it can resonate with people who are on either end of the spectrum.
29:33
So I had actually moved.
29:36
I had moved from New York City to Durham, North Carolina.
29:41
I moved for love.
29:42
It worked out.

7 MINS LATER

37:04
I don't know, you tell me, but like you had many different skills in this sense to look at in your garden and you didn't necessarily maybe use all of them at the same time, but just by virtue of having cultivated them, you had that optionality.

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