Hi, I’m Vicki.

For most of my life, I followed the rules—the ones I inherited from my parents, who emigrated from China in search of stability, and the ones society promised would lead to success: get good grades, build the perfect résumé, land the right career. For a while, it worked. I checked all the boxes.

But beneath the surface, something felt wrong. I started noticing the invisible fences that shaped my world—the assumptions I had absorbed without question, the values I had never stopped to examine. And once I saw them, I couldn’t unsee them.

In 2023, I left my corporate tech job at Amazon. Even though I was working on the Sustainability team, the dissonance was too loud to ignore. I wasn’t helping build a better world, though I had told myself I was. That realization sparked an unraveling of everything I thought I knew about success, fulfillment, and purpose—a sometimes painful, but ultimately freeing, process.

This podcast is the result of that journey. It’s about questioning the rules we’ve inherited, exploring the rules and values that shape our lives, and imagining what might be possible if we choose differently.

I started asking bigger questions: What if the rules we live by aren’t as solid as they seem? What if the values we’ve been handed no longer serve us—or the planet we depend on? And what happens when we decide to write a new story?

Let’s re-examine the rules together.