The Dark Side of Ambition: Deep Rooted Anxiety

Jade Reichling
4 min readApr 3, 2018
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A recent visit to San Francisco, overflowing with meetings and precious time with friends, reacquainted me with my brightest self and darkest demon: ambition and anxiety. Since the start of the year, I have been in an emotional, exhaustive ping-pong tournament between the two. Unfortunately, anxiety had been winning more battles than I like to publicly admit and I felt absolutely helpless. Sleepless nights, 4…

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Jade Reichling

Miami native. @Harvard alum. CX expert - people first, then talk data to me. Sociologist at heart.