The Owner's Room: Is This Actually Necessary?
In this Owner’s Room episode, Tara Vossenkemper is thinking out loud about a shift she doesn’t fully understand yet.
Not burnout. Not depression.
Just a different relationship to energy, work, and what feels worth doing.
Just a different relationship to energy, work, and what feels worth doing.
She names the context — perimenopause, progesterone, sobriety, coming off Adderall — and then moves through a set of real-time questions.
What emerges is a clear pull toward depth, nature, and family — and a noticeable absence of work in what feels like a yes.
The practice still matters. Deeply.
But parts of the day-to-day — payroll, marketing, being pulled back into things that no longer belong to her — feel heavier than they used to.
But parts of the day-to-day — payroll, marketing, being pulled back into things that no longer belong to her — feel heavier than they used to.
This episode sits in that space: when things are stable, and urgency is no longer driving you.
Timestamps
00:00 Selectivity Shift
02:15 Question One Yes Noise
03:08 Noise at Work Boundaries
05:55 Question Two Stimulation
08:45 Question Three Observe
12:25 Question Four No Tolerance
13:28 Work Moving Forward
15:53 What Matters Heavy
17:51 Closing Reflections
02:15 Question One Yes Noise
03:08 Noise at Work Boundaries
05:55 Question Two Stimulation
08:45 Question Three Observe
12:25 Question Four No Tolerance
13:28 Work Moving Forward
15:53 What Matters Heavy
17:51 Closing Reflections
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