Sep 9, 2026 · 16 min · 8 segments
**What happens when the life you worked so hard to build looks successful from the outside, but something inside you is asking you to stop?** In the first episode of *The Story Beneath*, host…
Susanne CooksonHost
If you had asked me three years ago how life was going, I would have smiled and said, pretty good.
My business partner and I had just sold the company we spent 13 years building.
After more than 30 years building a career in healthcare, leading teams, solving problems, creating new programs, and building a business from the ground up, we sold it.
For the first time in my life, I didn't feel that overwhelming stress of wondering whether there would be enough money.
I love filling my house with people, dinner parties, game nights, family gatherings, the more the merrier.
If someone had looked at my life from the outside, I think they probably would have said, she's figured it all out.
Have you ever spent years chasing a finish line only to get there and think, now what? That's where I found myself.
There was this quiet, unsettled feeling, a pit in my stomach that I couldn't quite explain.
I'd spent decades producing, taking meetings, solving problems, making decisions, being busy.
My brain had become so used to operating at full speed that I'd get these sudden stomach drop moments, like I'd forgotten something incredibly important.
You know that feeling when you're convinced you've missed a meeting or you had forgotten to return an important phone call.
And for the first time in my adult life, there wasn't another crisis to solve, another deadline to hit, another meeting to lead.
If you had asked me three years ago how life was going, I would have smiled and said, pretty good.
My business partner and I had just sold the company we spent 13 years building.
After more than 30 years building a career in healthcare, leading teams, solving problems, creating new programs, and building a business from the ground up, we sold it.
For the first time in my life, I didn't feel that overwhelming stress of wondering whether there would be enough money.
I love filling my house with people, dinner parties, game nights, family gatherings, the more the merrier.
If someone had looked at my life from the outside, I think they probably would have said, she's figured it all out.
Have you ever spent years chasing a finish line only to get there and think, now what? That's where I found myself.
There was this quiet, unsettled feeling, a pit in my stomach that I couldn't quite explain.
I'd spent decades producing, taking meetings, solving problems, making decisions, being busy.
My brain had become so used to operating at full speed that I'd get these sudden stomach drop moments, like I'd forgotten something incredibly important.
You know that feeling when you're convinced you've missed a meeting or you had forgotten to return an important phone call.
And for the first time in my adult life, there wasn't another crisis to solve, another deadline to hit, another meeting to lead.
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