A lot of us were raised on the idea that you have to struggle to earn anything good.
That pain makes you “worthy.”
That life has to drag you before you can rise.
But the truth is simpler:
struggle isn’t a requirement — it’s just what many of us had to survive.
I’m Desiree’ Stapleton de González — Harvard-certified Business Strategist, PMP-certified Project Manager, Six Sigma Black Belt, Fractional COO, and someone whose work has been featured in more than fifty publications including Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global.
In this episode, I’m breaking down why suffering is not the price of success, and why so many high-achieving women — especially Black women — have been conditioned to see exhaustion as normal.
We talk about the quiet ways survival mode follows you into your goals, why “earning it the hard way” is not a personality trait, and what it looks like to build progress from structure instead of crisis.
If you’ve ever felt guilty wanting ease…
If you’re tired of equating pain with progress…
If you’re done believing you have to fight your way into the life you want…
this episode will feel like permission to choose a different path.
Goal Accomplishment Made Easy™ was built for this exact shift — structure instead of suffering, clarity instead of chaos, consistency instead of burnout.
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