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Catch The Upswing is a business and leadership podcast exploring how people build, lead, and navigate complexity in a rapidly changing world.
Hosted by global finance leader Jessica Espinoza, the show features candid conversations with global leaders, entrepreneurs, and emerging voices shaping today’s economy.
Each episode explores the real journeys behind leadership — from setbacks and reinvention to resilience and purpose — while translating these experiences into practical insights listeners can apply in their own work, decisions, and lives.
"That's just how it's done."
I think it might be one of the most dangerous sentences in business.
Not necessarily because of the words themselves — but because of what happens right after we hear them.
In this episode of Walk With Me, I reflect on why questioning the way things have always been done matters — and what can happen when we stop.
From building a global team to some of the ideas we now take completely for granted, this is a short reflection on curiosity, convention, and the questions worth asking when an old answer starts to sound like a fact.
Chapters:
00:00 The most dangerous sentence in business
00:38 Not the sentence, the shrinking
01:12 What curiosity really means
01:28 Questioning how things are done
02:12 The questions worth asking
03:00 The real danger
I'd love to hear your perspective:
What's one "that's just how it's done" you've learned to question?
🎙️ Walk With Me is an invitation to step away from the noise for a few minutes. Join me for short reflections on leadership, technology, decision-making, and the ideas shaping our future.
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5 Aug 2026
When You Follow Your Dreams, You Don't Lose | Carolina Suárez
What does it actually cost to walk away from a career everyone tells you not to leave?
What does it take to build trust across an entire continent — when the thing you're building doesn't exist yet?
And how do you hold onto hope when the geopolitical context keeps shifting beneath you?
Carolina Suárez Visbal is the CEO of Latimpacto — the leading impact investing network in Latin America, connecting foundations, impact investors, academia, and families working toward the same goal across the region. Twenty years ago, she was a corporate lawyer with a successful career ahead of her. She chose a differentpath.
In this conversation from Lima, she shares what it took to make that decision, what she learned building a regional network from scratch, why the best leaders get closer toreality, and why she believes the most important thing we've learned in impact investing is that we cannot work alone.
🎙️ In this episode:
Why she left corporate law — and what she saw that changed everything
What it actually takes to build trust across an ecosystem
Why the best leaders get closer to reality
What gives her hope in uncertain times
What she would say to anyone wanting to leave a conventional career to build something that matters
⏱️ Chapters
00:00 Trailer
01:09 Introduction — Carolina Suárez and Latimpacto
02:00 Why she left corporate law — and chose a different path
06:16 "When you follow your dreams, you don't lose"
11:53 Building Latimpacto — creating a movement from the start
17:56 Why building a network is harder than building a project
23:15 Trust — the foundation of every ecosystem
24:51 What gives her hope for Latin America?
26:48 "We cannot work alone"
28:07 How she stays grounded — and lives in the present
29:08 Why she brought her network to the Amazon
36:41 How success has changed over time
45:05 Advice for the next generation of leaders
46:53 Staying patient when change takes time
49:32 The legacy she hopes to leave behind
50:07 Thinking about leaving your career? Start here.
🔗 Follow Carolina on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mar%C3%ADa-carolina-suarez-visbal/
🌎 Learn more about Latimpacto:
https://latimpacto.org/
📅 Join Impact Minds 2026:
https://impactmindsconference.com/
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Catch The Upswing is a podcast for people building meaningful things in a rapidly changing world.Honest conversations with leaders, founders, investors, and changemakers about what it actually takes to keep going, lead well, and stay hopeful about the future.
New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one.
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27 Jul 2026
Why Success Doesn't Feel Like Success | Simon Alexander Ong
What happens when you finally achieve the life you've been working towards... and something still feels missing?
Build the career. Reach the goals. Tick every box.
And still find yourself wondering why success doesn't feel the way you thought it would.
How does that happen?
And how do you know whether you're building a life that's truly yours — or simply becoming successful at someoneelse's definition of success?
Simon Alexander Ong is the bestselling author of Energize, an award-winning coach, and an internationally sought-after keynote speaker whose work on energy, leadership, and purpose has built a global following.
This isn't a conversation about becoming more productive. It's about asking whether the version of success you've been chasing is actually your own.
Together, we explore what happens after success — when everything looks right on paper, but something doesn't quite feel right inside. We talk about the difference between achievement and fulfillment, the stories we inherit about what success should look like, and the quieter questions that often emerge only after we've reached the goals we once believedwould make us happy.
We also get into a story involving Richard Branson that Simon rarely tells — and a strange decision-making exercise he still uses before making hard choices, involving a room that doesn't exist and six people, some living, some dead.
🎙️ In this episode:
Why success doesn't always feel the way we expect it to
The subtle difference between achievement and fulfillment
How to tell whether you're pursuing your own ambitions — or someone else's
Why two people can work equally hard and experience work completely differently
The four dimensions of energy that shape how we live and lead
The role courage plays in changing the direction of your life
A simple exercise Simon returns to whenever he's facing one of life's biggest decisions
⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 Trailer
01:15 From Investment Banking to Finding Purpose
03:20 "On Paper, I Had It All"
06:00 The Signs You're Living the Wrong Life
10:00 The Four Types of Burnout
15:45 Why Purpose Gives You Energy
20:14 Create an Environment That Makes Success Inevitable
28:30 Journaling & Closing the Loop
33:50 The Loneliness of Reinventing Yourself
36:20 The Imaginary Room with Six Mentors
38:02 Stop Saying "Should"
42:45 The Wormhole Effect
43:35 Richard Branson, a Paper Airplane & Courage
46:15 Ambition Without Losing Your Peace
53:00 Is Hustle Culture Doing More Harm Than Good?
58:00 Recharge Yourself Like Your Devices
1:01:15 Plan Tomorrow the Night Before
1:04:40 Can You Have Energy Without Purpose?
1:08:40 Where to Follow Simon
🔗 Follow Simon's work:
Website: https://www.simonalexanderong.com/ (https://www.simonalexanderong.com/)
Instagram: @simonalexanderong
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonalexanderong/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonalexanderong/)
Simon’s best-selling book Energize:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321571/energize-by-ong-simon-alexander/9780241502761 (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321571/energize-by-ong-simon-alexander/9780241502761)
📺 Watch more episodes:
Catch The Upswing is a podcast for people building meaningful things in a rapidly changing world. Honest conversations with leaders, founders, investors, and changemakers about what itactually takes to keep going, lead well, and stay hopeful about the future.
New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one.
🔗 Follow & connect:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CatchTheUpswing (https://www.youtube.com/@CatchTheUpswing)
Instagram: https://instagram.com/CatchTheUpswing (https://instagram.com/CatchTheUpswing)
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@catchtheupswing (https://tiktok.com/@catchtheupswing)
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