131. [Choosing] healthy purposeful growth with Dr. Kerry Ann Rockquemore

Self-Compassionate Professor

Last in the "August 2022 choosing wellness series," I re-release my conversation with Dr. Kerry Ann Rockquemore. After having earned tenure, left academia, and built a wildly successful company (the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity), Kerry Ann retired at the age of 45. In this episode, she shares her deep wisdom about how she grew into a life grounded in purpose and health: pausing every year to reassess her life and ensure that she's on track to fulfill her own definition of success, working to let go of her entrenched childhood fears around financial insecurity, and willingly embracing a life free of attachment to particular identities and roles. In this episode, you'll hear and feel the unwavering commitment she has to living up to her own potential and helping others to do the same.