Ep 272 Finding Your Self Worth After the Title, Mission & Money Are Gone w/Dr. Esther Zeledon

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What happens when everything you've built — your contracts, your identity, your network — disappears in a single week? Dr. Esther Zeledon, founder of Be Act Change and author of Creating Your Limitless Life , knows that answer firsthand. In this conversation, Esther takes us back to the wound that started everything: a 10-year-old girl watching her father lose his PhD funding, her family's world unraveling mid-school year, and the obsession with advocacy that grew from that moment. That obsession eventually carried her into humanitarian aid, where she grew a $700K project into a $100M initiative and invented the $40 billion question along the way. Then January 2026 hit. USAID cuts. Half a…