Stephanie Ohannesian went four years without a day off producing events for NBC Universal, until her body froze and she ended up in the ER. The doctors told her to change her life or expect a heart attack.

Caroline Benefield wanted to be an author her whole life. She wrote a cozy fantasy series, won best manuscript at a writing conference, and had agents and indie presses asking for full drafts. By most measures she made it. Then she decided that wasn’t the thing she wanted to build her career on, and that decision is the part of her story I keep thinking about.