Jul 14, 2026
20 min
Writing Your Own Obituary Can Change Your Life, with Mylena Sutton
If you could read the story of your life as if it ended today, would you like what it says and would you change anything while you still can? Leadership consultant and growth coach Mylena Sutton joins us to unpack a surprisingly practical personal development tool: writing your own obituary, not as something morbid, but as a precision instrument for clarity, urgency, and honest self-reflection.
We talk about why this exercise works when other goal-setting methods stall out. Mylena explains how imagining “no more opportunity to fix anything” can snap us out of taking relationships, time, and health for granted. We dig into the quiet ways avoidance hides inside a life that looks successful on the outside: repeating the same cycle, using hedged language to dodge full responsibility, and numbing with excess spending, food, or other escapes. Along the way, we explore a core tension many high achievers carry, the gap between what we think is logical and what we actually feel, and why real growth requires reconciling both.
You’ll also get two concrete writing practices you can try this weekend. First, list everything currently in motion in your life and ask, item by item, “If I died today, am I okay with the condition I left this in?” Second, if you keep replaying a painful pattern, write what happened in detail and record your feelings so you stop romanticising the parts you liked and forgetting why it keeps going wrong. We close on Mylena's leadership philosophy that all leadership is personal, because who you are at work and who you are at home is the same person.
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