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Featured Resources
If you’re not sure where to begin, start with a few of my most loved and impactful pieces:
The 5 Childhood Wounds That Might Be Ruining Your Career (Without You Knowing It)
In this powerful episode of Self-Conscious, host Chrissy Teigen sits down with executive coach and author Amina AlTai to explore the hidden forces shaping the way we pursue success. Drawing from her book The Ambition Trap, Amina shares a powerful framework for understanding the difference between painful ambition, driven by fear, people-pleasing, and old wounds, and purposeful ambition, which grows from alignment, self-worth, and joy.
Along the way, Chrissy opens up about her own relationship with ambition, comparison, and shame and why saying no can still feel like failure. If you’ve ever wondered whether your drive is coming from purpose or pressure, this honest and compassionate conversation will help you start untangling the difference.
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Why You’re Burned Out, Overachieving & Still Not Fulfilled
If you’ve ever felt stuck in the hustle, addicted to achievement, or like you’re constantly proving your worth, this episode will be your soul medicine.
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The Burnout Playbook (What to Do No Matter Your Job Situation)
In this podcast conversation, Amina AlTai explores the root causes of burnout and offers practical tools to help listeners recover their energy and reconnect with meaningful work. She breaks down the three types of burnout, introduces her framework for purposeful work, and shares how to recognize when it is time to shift roles, careers, or boundaries. Listeners leave with actionable strategies to regulate their nervous system, set healthier limits at work, and make more aligned career decisions.
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Painful Ambition vs. Purposeful Ambition
Amina AlTai joins host Mandi Woodruff-Santos to discuss the deeper forces that shape ambition, burnout, and success. Drawing from her book The Ambition Trap, Amina shares how her own health crisis transformed her relationship with achievement and led her to redefine ambition beyond hustle and overwork. The conversation explores the difference between painful and purposeful ambition, the cultural roots of overachievement, and practical ways to pursue success with more balance, wellness, and intention.
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How to Chase Sustainable Ambition & Find Your Purpose with Amina AlTai | Ambition 2.0
In this episode of Ambition 2.0, Amina AlTai joins host Amanda Goetz to explore how ambition has been shaped by culture, capitalism, and overachievement. Amina reframes ambition as something cyclical and sustainable, helping listeners distinguish between painful ambition driven by old wounds and purposeful ambition rooted in alignment. Together they share practical tools for redefining success, setting boundaries, and building a healthier relationship with work and rest.
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11 Professionals Helping People Find More Satisfying, Successful Careers
In this feature for Goop, executive coach Amina AlTai is highlighted as one of several professionals helping people build more fulfilling careers. Drawing from her own experience of burnout and leaving a business after her health suffered, Amina now helps clients move away from hustle culture and reconnect with work that aligns with their values, gifts, and sense of purpose. Through coaching programs, courses, and accessible resources, she guides people to release outdated expectations and consciously design careers that feel both meaningful and sustainable.
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The Cost of Ambition: Affording Goals Without Burnout
In this episode, Amina AlTai joins Farnoosh Torabi to explore how ambition can quietly shift from a source of motivation to a driver of burnout. Drawing from her personal health crisis and her book The Ambition Trap, Amina explains the difference between painful ambition fueled by old wounds and purposeful ambition rooted in alignment and well-being. The conversation offers a new lens on success, helping listeners rethink achievement in ways that support both personal fulfillment and sustainable impact.
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It is the honor of a lifetime to help you come home to you and the work you are called to do—your sacred contribution.
And you’re in great company! Over the years, this work has supported Fortune 100 leaders, founders, Olympians, creatives, and organizations who want to pursue ambition without abandoning themselves along the way.
At its core, this space is about one thing.
Helping people build lives of purpose, meaning and impact.
Welcome.
Amina
