# Back-to-back meetings and the breaking point

- **Episode:** [221](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/221.md) (2025-08-07)
- **Type:** interview
- **Tags:** meetings, burnout, boundaries, workplace-culture, breaking-point
- **Time:** 25:17–28:00 (start 1517s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/221?t=1517](https://truthliesandwork.com/221?t=1517)

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[25:17] Leanne Elliott: But come back
[25:18] Al Elliott: Yeah, come back. Definitely come back because Nudge isn't as good as this. So come back. I'll cut that out. Keep that in. So going back to the young woman who was eating her lunch in the elevator, who was not drinking so that she didn't have to go to the toilet. What story was she telling herself back then?
[25:38] Carolina Lasso: So, Al is mentioning the story I tell in my book that sometimes I would have back-to-back meetings without any breaks throughout my day. This was when I was in the corporate world, that sometimes I chose not to drink so much water because I wouldn't have enough time to go to the bathroom in between meetings. Sometimes I remember in the Google campus, which was so big, I had to bike from one building to the next with the pretty yellow Google bikes, and that wouldn't give me enough time to go to the bathroom. And of course, it's an exaggeration, but yeah, like, that was part of it. And the story that all of that situation stemmed from is I need to meet other people's expectations. I cannot let them down. There was That big component. I thought I was being responsible. I thought I was being responsible by attending all meetings, going to everything, doing it all. And then I realized it was not responsible with myself, my own health. And that responsibility is the ability to respond. And I was not really responding properly. I was not really having the ability to respond because clearly that was anti-humanness. And I learned, right? And I think that's the thing. And lately I've really been embracing this idea that our life purpose, our supreme life purpose is to uncover, kind of like peel the onion and uncover deeper and deeper versions of ourselves. That are more authentic, that remove all of those ego narrative, self-identity layers and get to the core of who we truly are. And I think a lot of people ask me, do I have a purpose? Does everybody have a purpose? I can't find my purpose. I'm like, first of all, you don't find purpose. We walk the purpose path. It's a path. It's a journey. And number 2, yeah, every single person has one. And at the very highest level, it's that, to reconnect with who you truly are, your true essence, your inner being, your, if you allow me to say, more divine self