Redefining Success: When Corporate Achievement Costs You Your Freedom

What if the success you worked so hard for is the very thing keeping you trapped?

In this episode of Flying Upstream, host Kristin Medeiros sits down with Guy Morris for a deeply honest conversation about trauma, ambition, and the disconnect between success and true freedom.

Guy shares his journey from a traumatic childhood into the world of corporate achievement, where education and ambition opened doors — but at a significant personal cost. As his career progressed, Guy found himself suppressing unresolved trauma, conforming to expectations, and slowly betraying himself in the pursuit of external validation.

This episode explores the emotional toll of corporate life, how fear can be used to maintain control, and why many people avoid facing their past — even when it’s shaping their present. Guy reveals how reaching a breaking point forced him to confront what he had been avoiding and how storytelling became his most honest form of leadership and healing.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that real success isn’t about accumulation or status — it’s about wholeness, freedom, and the courage to face what we’d rather forget.

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Episode Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Flying Upstream
02:10 Overcoming adversity through education
05:41 The cost of corporate success
09:33 Facing the breaking point
14:56 The power of storytelling
22:00 Redefining success and finding wholeness

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