Sussi Mattsson | Successful but Empty? - Why You Can't Outrun Your Past | A Wisdom Letter

Successful but empty? Sussi Mattsson on success and how to discover your wisdom within. She was eight years old, with one dollar in her pocket, when she ran away from home.

Her mother had died of cancer six months earlier. Thirty-five years later, she drove back to the schoolyard where it began and, for the first time, saw the little girl she had been. – Not feeling fear is absolutely not the same thing as being brave.

Sussi built a successful career in Sweden and the United States, from leadership programs to the spotlight and the red carpet. But at the height of her success she felt empty and began to ask: is this all life has to offer? Her answer began with a handwritten letter to the girl she once was.