Watch: Suzy Welch on Becoming You

What are your values? How do you live your values — and, more importantly, how can you craft a career and a life aligned with those values?

These are the questions that best selling author Suzy Welch poses to hundreds of students through her class at New York University’s Stern School of Business, that she raises in her new book also called Becoming You, and that she posed to about 100 people Monday night at an author talk hosted by The Philadelphia Citizen and Jacobson Strategic Communications. (Sue Jacobson has been best friends with Welch since they were teenage camp counselors together.)

Becoming You is a user’s guide to answering those questions, a written version of Welch’s popular NYU class, and the result of a career spent writing about and studying success and fulfillment. As Welch explained to former Today Show Financial Editor Jean Chatzky, host of the HerMoney podcast, understanding what matters to you, what you’re good at, and what gives you meaning are keys to a well-lived life.

Not living within your values can “feel like we’re living in a suit that’s the wrong size,” Welch said. The flip side can be liberating.

Throughout the event at the Union League, Welch regaled the audience with her own stories of overcoming adversity, learning to identify and live according to her own values, and how the work has profoundly impacted her students — like the young man who came to NYU to become an investment banker, and left to become a fashion designer. “He blew it all up,” Welch said — and he couldn’t be happier.

Watch the whole conversation between Welch and Chatzky below, then buy Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career from Head House Books, which was onsite at the event.