Mikel McGee had a master’s in criminal justice, a stable nonprofit job, and no plan to become a florist. On Success, Rewritten, the founder of Milwaukee’s 414loral traces the pivot from human-services work to a Bronzeville flower shop, and how she stopped measuring success in dollars.

J Johnson Jr was the number one ranked track athlete in the country before an ADHD diagnosis sent him looking for an alternative and, eventually, to sound. This is the story of how a skeptical experiment with a frequency video became High Frequency Highway, and how J's definition of success shifted from making money to raising the frequency of the planet.

When Jenny Dempsey lost her dad, then her job, then got rejected by 400 employers, she didn't find her way forward on a trend feed or a job board. She found it in a friend's basement, in the shape of a junky table. This episode is a conversation about grief, layoffs, and how redefining success sometimes starts in the most unexpected places.

Former news anchor Lynn Smith spoke to millions for a living and was terrified of public speaking the entire time. In this episode, she breaks down the Brain Bully, why your communication challenges have nothing to do with communication, and how reframing fear is the only fix that actually works.

Most of us grew up with a clean version of success: work hard, move up, don't stop. Then something happens that doesn't fit the line. This show is about those moments.