What if the stories you inherited about where you come from were all a lie?

In part two of a three-episode Becoming You series about the places you travel and the self-discoveries that arise, your host Suzy Welch voyages to Sicily. Not for sun-drenched escapism or waterfront glamour (hello White Lotus), but to confront the whispered mythology that shaped her childhood and, without her knowing it, her values. This is an episode about ancestry, silence, and the stories families tell to survive.

Suzy takes us to Caltanissetta, her family’s ancestral village in the center of Sicily, where a long-told narrative of nobility and elegance collides with historical truth, about the kind of suffering that forces people to choose between staying—or running for their lives. What unfolds is not just a revelation about where her family came from, but a profound insight into a core value she would later name Scope: the desire (or lack thereof) for risk, stimulation, and a big, expansive life.

This episode explores:

• How generational trauma gets buried under idealized fictions
• The difference between grief and gratitude when facing your family’s past
• How values like Scope shape whether we run toward calm and security vs chaos and excitement

With vulnerability, honesty, and unexpected joy, Suzy reflects on her ancestors’ courage, and their decision to leave everything behind, cross an ocean, and choose uncertainty over suffering. And she asks the question at the heart of this series: What do the places you’ve been reveal about who you are?

Next week, the journey continues—in Paris—where a completely different truth waits to be discovered. Because sometimes, you have to travel all the way across the world to meet yourself.

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What if the places you travel don’t take you far away… but bring you closer to who you actually are?

In this deeply personal and openly vulnerable episode of Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch launches a rare three-part storytelling series about travel—not as escape or travelogue, but as excavation. On this first trip, you will land in Agra, India, at the foot of the Taj Mahal. What unfolds there is not a story about architecture or history, but a reckoning: about love, power, identity, and the value Suzy would later name Belovedness (long before she had the language for it).

Through the lens of her marriage, the complicated legend of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, and the quiet ache of self-betrayal that can come from living misaligned with your deepest values, Suzy shares the kind of insight that only comes from a trip to the other side of the world. Along the way, you’ll hear about:

• How travel can surface buried truths about your values
• Why love stories are always more complicated than they appear
• The difference between loving someone and organizing your life around them
• What it means to “miss yourself” inside a life that looks beautiful from the outside
• How self-knowledge can arrive long before you have the words for it

Sometimes, you have to go very far away to finally see yourself. Be sure to tune in next week, as we journey to Italy for a story that is at once identity-shattering and deeply clarifying. And we want to know, where have you traveled and found yourself? Leave a review with your answer.

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Ordinarily, Becoming You is a podcast about the information we have to excavate, the decisions we need to make, and the actions we have to take, in order to live by design, not default. This week, in an unusually intimate episode, our host Suzy Welch talks about the words you need to say, three to be exact, to the same end. The only hitch is, you need to say them before it’s too late.

Suzy almost missed that chance with her lifelong best friend, Sue Jacobson, this week’s special guest, in an episode that brings us inside a hospital room awash with despair, and plumbs just what it means to demonstrate the very hard, very necessary act of mattering.

Yes, mattering. It sounds simple. It feels obvious. And yet, as this episode explores, most of us are getting it wrong.

Drawing on the research of Professor Zach Mercurio, and decades of real-life friendship, work, loss, and resilience, Suzy breaks mattering down into three teachable practices: Noticing, affirming, and needing. These aren’t platitudes. They’re behaviors. And when done right, their impact is profound.

You’ll hear live demonstrations with Suzy and Sue, honest missteps, and one extraordinary story that reveals why telling people “you matter” isn’t enough. Along the way, Suzy and Sue admit to friendship ruptures, leadership lessons, near-loss, and why vulnerability is the most underused advantage in work and life.

If you want to be a better boss, partner, friend – or simply a more impactful human – this episode will give you tools you can use today. Fair warning: it may also make you cry.

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