Jul 28, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 16 segments
What happens when you've done everything "right", earned the degrees, built the career, started a family, and still feel like you're falling behind? In this episode of What I Wish I Knew at 30, Fran…
Philip WilkinsonGuest
Fran HarperHost
You know, thinking about like, as I said earlier, who am I supposed to be? Who I was then is supposed to be the person I was because it made me who I am today.
You know, maybe I could have, you know, kind of like the movie Back to the Future to give myself that book to, you know, rig the rig, the sports betting, get some money.
But beyond that, beyond that, no, I think what is supposed to happen has happened.
When you then decided that, you know, you're carrying all of that, all of the stuff, you know, the standard ambition, the quiet sense of being behind.
And then at the same time, you decide that actually you're going to start something building of your own, building something of your own out of it.
So tell me, how did the positive filter, how did that start to build? That's funny.
I was doing these YouTube videos in my car called Random Rambles of Philip Wilkerson.
I started in April 2017, like maybe five or six months before that huge transitional period of getting to Mason and having what I talked about in my TEDx.
And then I had a career, not career, a job switch, you know, from my previous employer to where I am at now.
You know, thinking about like, as I said earlier, who am I supposed to be? Who I was then is supposed to be the person I was because it made me who I am today.
You know, maybe I could have, you know, kind of like the movie Back to the Future to give myself that book to, you know, rig the rig, the sports betting, get some money.
But beyond that, beyond that, no, I think what is supposed to happen has happened.
When you then decided that, you know, you're carrying all of that, all of the stuff, you know, the standard ambition, the quiet sense of being behind.
And then at the same time, you decide that actually you're going to start something building of your own, building something of your own out of it.
So tell me, how did the positive filter, how did that start to build? That's funny.
I was doing these YouTube videos in my car called Random Rambles of Philip Wilkerson.
I started in April 2017, like maybe five or six months before that huge transitional period of getting to Mason and having what I talked about in my TEDx.
And then I had a career, not career, a job switch, you know, from my previous employer to where I am at now.
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