When the Life You Thought You Wanted Doesn’t Fulfill You with Co-Founders of The Granola Bar

That is incredible, first off.

And I think to kind of what I was saying earlier, I think when you meet or talk to someone that can relate to a shared feeling and experience, I think it's very...

Like for me, when I felt that, to me it's like, wow, this is very human.

This is not like abnormal to feel.

It's funny because I have a lot of friends where all in or about the age demographic of, you know, we think about a couple years from now, getting married, a couple years from now, maybe having children and all that.

you know, some of them will pick at the idea of, oh, like, kind of to your point, like, okay, yeah, maybe I'll be done with my career and be a stay at home mom thing.

I've never been like, against that.

But I have always questioned to what extent is that being idealized, right? You guys know that feeling, right? And you guys have already been there.

But it's like, this idea that, okay, let me go from this, you know, career woman to then this.

And I think the idea that I see is that Each person, regardless, like man or woman, I think we're meant to be holistic human beings that fulfill different parts of us.

And I think that when one part drops, we feel it pretty significantly, like from an individual level.

I think you were working on a trading floor.

Like, I can't believe, you know.

The dopamine.

Yeah, the dopamine hits were, you know, it was it was every day was a different day.

It was exciting.

It was exhilarating.

I really loved being on the sales side and having clients and going out to dinners and things of that.

Once I had my kids, that became less important to me.

And I actually resented it a bit because I wanted to be at home.

I figured, OK, I can go in during the day and do my job.

But in the evenings...

I'm not willing to sacrifice that time with my family because I'm sacrificing it during the day, you know, in my 20s, throughout my 20s, because I started working.

Julie started a bit earlier than I did.

But right out of school, I started working and, you know, I didn't come up for air until I had kids.