Redefining Success:
The Workshop
From A Life That Looks Good on Paper to a Life that Actually Feels Good
Reconnect with what matters.
When striving, achievement, and appearances start feeling empty, this workshop helps you reconnect with real meaning, purpose, and vitality.
“I didn’t realize how much I needed a space where it was okay to say I don’t want to climb anymore. I spent 20 years in the rat race. Now, I want a simpler life with a lot of art, nature, time with friends, and giving back. This workshop was the permission and encouragement I needed to begin creating it.”
— Paulina
About The Workshop
We’re taught that achievement leads to happiness—but time and again, research shows that striving doesn’t offer lasting fulfillment. Many achievement-oriented people feel stuck in lives that look good on paper, craving lives that actually feel good. This workshop helps you imagine a different way.
Redefining Success is an on-demand workshop designed to help you understand why you’ve outgrown the myth of achievement-as-fulfillment, and create a new personal definition of success: one oriented around not how much you achieve, but how deeply your life aligns with your values and sense of meaning.
This workshop is not about becoming “anti-work,” blowing up your life, or rejecting success altogether. It’s about reconnecting with the parts of life—and the parts of you—that got crowded out along the way. This session combines research-supported education and guided coaching exercises for clarity and next steps.
During the session, we’ll:
Make sense of why striving no longer feels fulfilling:
Explore why achievement often fails to produce lasting happiness
Reframe your disenchantment with striving not as laziness or weakness, but as natural responses to a system designed to keep you wanting
Explore your unmet emotional needs that achievement has been attempting to fill
Understand why you’ve outgrown the success-as-fulfillment story at this particular moment in your life
Illuminate the common phases of the transition from identifying with success to identifying with self, bringing clarity and structure to the transition unfolding within you
Reorient around the things that really matter:
Explore thought-provoking exercises designed to help you uncover what genuinely matters to you when you stop chasing achievement
Clarify misalignments between your values and your current relationship with work and striving
Explore the four sources from which humans get a sense of meaning—and determine the unique combination that gives you the deepest sense of fulfillment
Build a new, personal definition of success: one that centers not achievement, but aligning more deeply with your meaning, values, and contributions
Identify practical, personalized steps you can begin taking to bring your new definition of success to life
What’s included with my purchase?
The on-demand Zoom workshop recording.
A virtual session that combines education, reflection, and hands-on coaching exercises. You’ll have unlimited access for two years.
A printable workshop slide deck.
The PDF of the session slides that’s yours to keep and print.
A journaling workbook for reflection and integration.
Thought-provoking prompts designed to help you integrate and maintain momentum after the session.
“I was blown away to learn the science behind why achievement isn’t actually fulfilling. It made me feel less broken and alone in my burnout. Doing the visioning exercises about my values gave me a clear compass to guide my next (hustle-free) chapter. So helpful! Thanks Hailey.”
— Sara R.
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meet your facilitator
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meet your facilitator 〰️
Hailey Magee helps people who have built their lives around success reconnect with real meaning, purpose, and vitality—without work being their entire world.
Her work meets people in moments when achievement no longer feels fulfilling—often, burnout, identity shifts, and major life transitions—and supports them in reshaping their lives around what actually matters. ICF-credentialed and certified by Erickson Coaching International, Hailey brings over a decade of experience supporting individuals, groups, and organizations through periods of meaningful change.
Her debut book Stop People Pleasing and Find Your Power (Simon & Schuster) has been translated into over 15 languages, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Gottman Institute, and Vox.