61. How to Design Your Dream Life

How to Design Your Dream Life (Part 1 of 3) | Finding Your Purpose, Identifying Your Values & Building a Life You Actually Love Do you feel stuck in a job you don't love-- but you also don't really know what you want to do instead? Uninspired, unsatisfied, or just going through the motions? This episode is for you. The good news? You've already done most of the work. The answers are hiding in plain sight: in your YouTube watch history, your saved Instagram posts, the books that changed your life, the moments that made you feel most alive. You just need to know how to notice and capture them. In Part 1 of this three-part series, I walk you through a practical framework for designing your dream life: how to notice what's already lighting you up, how to reflect and make sense of it (including a powerful AI prompt, the dream day exercise, and how to ask your friends the questions that unlock your self-awareness), and how to capture and visualise it into something real and concrete. I also share how reading Just Mercy led me to law, how becoming obsessed with podcasts led me here, and why I'm heading to Harvard Law School this year while building this show-- and what all of that taught me about chasing the feeling, not the plan. Part 2 is about learning your way into the life you want. Part 3 is about taking action. But it all starts here. The Grown-Ups Are Talking is a podcast about navigating adulthood--relationships, identity, money, career, and purpose. Keywords: how to design your dream life, how to find your purpose, figuring out what you want from life, life design, finding your passion, feeling lost in your twenties, identifying your values, dream day exercise, vision board, self-discovery, personal development, career change, finding direction in life, intentional living, twenties podcast