You’d Like Her

May Chang

You'd Like Her is a podcast about people who imagined a different version of what their life could look like — and chose it. Your host May Chang spent most of her career in the corporate world, then left. She began meeting people around the world living in ways she had never imagined. You'll meet women who made the "unconventional" choice, whether in their career, how they live, or what they decide a good life actually looks like. You’d like her. Season 2 is in production! Catch up on all episodes of Season 1, from Antarctica to Kazakhstan.

Episodes

  1. Jul 15

    You Can Build Your Dream Life After 40 — Kathleen in Kyrgyzstan

    Welcome to the season finale where you’ll get to meet the most radical person I met on my career break. Kathleen and I met at a hostel in Kyrgyzstan - she was one of the oldest people there in her early 50s. We bonded over our love of running (she’s an ultramarathoner!) and the next day we shared a taxi to Fairytale Canyon to go hiking together. By the end of the day I was rethinking everything I thought I knew about what the next few decades of my life had to look like. She and her husband John spend roughly half the year slow traveling — volunteering with animal welfare projects, trekking remote mountain ranges, visiting places most people are too scared to consider — and the other half at home in the US. She started this life at 40…and has never looked back. In this conversation we get into: (8:43) Why she travels to misunderstood countries and how she became an ambassador for Iran’s tourism board (17:07) Her unconventional lifestyle: how she splits her time between staying in the U.S. and applying her professional skills to her travel abroad (24:43) The practicalities of financially supporting slow travel as a lifestyle (31:15) How the universe showed up for her when she was strapped for cash while traveling abroad This one's for you if you're anywhere past your twenties and wondering whether it's too late to want something different. What would you change in your life if you stopped believing that you’re too late? Share with me below (I read every comment!) or connect with me @youdlikeher on Instagram. While we go on break to prep for Season 2, you can find me on Substack where I write about how to expand your idea of what’s possible. Also don’t forget to subscribe to You’d Like Her with May Chang on your favorite podcasting platform so you don’t miss what’s next (or the bonus episodes that come out!). Full show notes from this episode with big ideas, personal takeaways, and photos are shared on Substack. You can find Kathleen at Knucklehead Adventure Tours. Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

  2. Jul 8

    Is It Too Late to Try Something Different?

    What if you could try the life you’ve always wanted…for free? I cold called my way into building a yoga retreat's marketing strategy and it's the reason why I got to live at their residence for free. This is about the permission I didn't know I was waiting for: to test out a completely different version of my career on a different definition of a normal day. In this episode: 🧪 how work exchanges allowed me to play with my career 🥖 how I traveled and lived in France for free 👩🏻‍🌾 what happened when I discovered the farm life fantasy wasn’t for me. This one's for you if you've ever assumed the interesting version of travel needs money or a plan you don't have. More resources and information on every platform I mention - plus how to actually find or pitch your own work exchange - are in this week's Substack companion newsletter at youdlikeher.substack.com. If you're seriously considering this, this is where the how-to lives. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow @youdlikeher on Instagram and Substack for more ways to expand and create the life you want. Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

  3. Jul 1

    Nothing You Try and Quit Is Ever a Waste — Dinara in Kazakhstan

    Dinara was in the middle of a work crisis when I spotted her Yosemite water bottle sticker at a café in Kazakhstan and asked if she wanted to hang out. She said yes. What I didn't know then was that she was dismantling everything she'd built her sense of worth on — her job, her body, her identity — and figuring out who she was without any of it. As part of that process Dinara started a film festival in Kazakhstan and built a rock climbing shop from scratch. But neither of those is what this conversation is really about. In this episode: what happens when you realize you've been using your career to prove you're worthy, how nothing you try and quit is ever a waste, and why spending evenings translating films from English into Russian was the best use of Dinara's time. Follow the show on Instagram ⁠@youdlikeher for more stories like these. Full show notes, including photos, on Substack. Find Dinara on ⁠Instagram for more stories like these. New episodes every Wednesday. Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

  4. Jun 24

    Build A Compound with Your Friends: Why Where You Live is The Most Important Life Choice You’ll Make

    My girlfriends and I have been joking about buying a compound together for years. Except it’s never really just a joke. What if housing wasn't just a box to check on the adulting list, but instead a life design choice? What if instead of filtering for commute time and square footage, you optimized for proximity to the people you love? Because it turns out, living near your friends might do more for your happiness than living close to your office ever could. In this episode: the research that shows why living close to friends increases your happiness, the three ways of co-living with friends people are actually using, and why you should get a prenup for your home. This one's for you if you've ever sent a Zillow listing to your group chat and offered to go splitsies. Episode references: Architectural Digest article: architecturaldigest.com/story/brooklyn-town-house-mood-ring-ownersPlucking Up with Liz Bohannon — How to Live Near Friends (podcast episode): https://open.spotify.com/episode/18ug0ccSt650Prxxv7RXmWFramingham Heart Study — Fowler & Christakis, BMJ 2008: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2600606Phil Levin — "What the Research Says About Living Near Friends": supernuclear.substack.com/p/what-the-research-says-about-living Full download of companies & resources — and real-life examples I didn’t get to share! — on Substack: youdlikeher.substack.com. New episodes every Wednesday Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

  5. Jun 17

    What If You're Still You On The Other Side — Lexi in Glacier National Park

    Lexi cancelled her wedding, bought an empty van, and spent nine months building it from scratch with no construction background, no blueprint, and absolutely no guarantee it would work. Then she and her husband drove it across America for six months and came home exactly the same people they left as. We took the same path for years. Same university, same business school, same consulting job and even the same firm. Yet Lexi was the last person I would have predicted would do something like this — and I mean that as the highest compliment. Because if she could build a van from nothing and drive it across America, it quietly makes you wonder what you've been telling yourself isn't for someone like you. In this conversation: what it actually feels like to live a dream trip day to day when your body refuses to be amazed on schedule, the moment she realized the trip wasn't going to transform her, and what she did the week she got home that says everything about who she actually is. Come find me on Substack at mayyojane.substack.com — it's where I go deeper on everything this show opens up. New episodes every Wednesday. Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

  6. Jun 10

    Fear Is Guaranteed. Staying Stuck Isn't.

    I spent an entire summer convinced I was about to suddenly die of a rare heart disease. Even though the diagnosis was wrong, the fear had already moved in. Fear isn't the hard part. It's what happens after, when you know you should move forward and you can't — that's the part nobody talks about. At some point, the "just do it" mentality to push through fear stops working. This one's for you if fear has been louder than everything else. In this episode: how the hardest work is the soft work, why some people come out of hard things more expansive and others contract, and the secret for flowing through fear (hint: you already know it, you just need a friendly reminder). New episodes every Wednesday. For additional honest conversations about fear and how to manage it, feel free to follow me on Substack. My Word to the Wise interview is here. If you want to learn more about Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG), you can find more research here. Please note I am not a licensed mental health professional — I am only sharing my experience and what has worked for me. Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

  7. Jun 3

    Ordinary is Amazing — Satori from Japan

    Satori was thirteen when the 2011 tsunami destroyed her hometown in Sendai, Japan. She went to volunteer in the aftermath. It left her with something most people spend their whole lives trying to find: a bone-deep sense that life is short, failure doesn't mean much, and ordinary is amazing. I met Satori on a tour in Kazakhstan and we kept crossing paths after that across Central Asia, before I visited her in Japan. A year later, we reconnected in Australia. In this conversation: why she does things without being qualified for them, how she's been quietly building toward her dream one small step at a time, and getting naked in the milky hot springs of Japan. Find Satori on her travel blog: https://www.youtube.com/@shijimi_travel New episodes every Wednesday - follow so you don't miss them! Find May at @youdlikeher. Discover more through the newsletter. Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

  8. May 27

    The Audacity to Want It All

    For most of my career I followed other people's scripts without realizing that's what I was doing. Consulting in New York because it was the prestigious path. A croissanterie in Sydney because baking was my hobby. Teaching yoga because instructors’ lives looked so free. I kept seeing what other people had and thinking: that equation works for them, so it must work for me too. It didn't. This is about what I found when I stopped looking at everyone else and got radically honest with myself. In this episode: why I kept making the same mistake in two completely different phases of my career, what working at a bakery taught me about romanticizing, and why I'm finally giving myself permission to pursue big audacious goals — even with all of the uncertainty. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Follow the show so you don’t miss out on meeting women who expand your idea of what’s possible. Discover more on Substack https://mayyojane.substack.com/ and find me on Instagram @mayyojane Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

  9. May 20

    Good Guess — Jaime in the Alps

    Jaime has quit a lot of things. A commerce degree she hated, a corporate job, an interior design career, a yoga teaching business. Not because she's flaky — because she kept making perfectly logical guesses with her head and landing somewhere that almost worked. I met Jaime while hiking in the Alps back in 2022 when she told me the craziest story about losing her engagement ring. She loves growing sweet potatoes and writing sustainability communications. Her home is full of stunning artwork — most of it she made herself. In this conversation: the pattern she noticed across every leap, why she'd rather downsize her house than compromise her days, and why she was completely fine with her partner spending three weeks in India while she was pregnant. Find Jaime at https://www.jaimelaird.com/. New episodes every Wednesday - follow so you don't miss out! Follow the show on Instagram @youdlikeher. Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

  10. May 13

    Burning the Script at 33

    If you've ever done the math on your life — working backwards from the age you were supposed to have it together, and then spent years making decisions from the fear of falling behind it — this one's for you. I turned 33 this week, and it definitely does not look like what I had planned out when I was 22. For most of my twenties, every birthday was a quiet report card against a timeline I’d invented in private. This birthday I recorded out loud and put on the internet. This one’s personal - it’s the moment I realized I'd been waiting for permission I could have given myself the whole time. In this episode: the timeline I built my twenties around, what Antarctica taught me about giving yourself permission, and why I celebrated turning 33 by putting this on the internet. New episodes every Wednesday. If you want to celebrate my birthday with me, please subscribe, review, and share this podcast with a friend. Follow the show on Instagram @youdlikeher and Substack: https://youdlikeher.substack.com/ Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

  11. May 6

    Everyone You Admire Is Also Figuring It Out — Anna in Antarctica

    Anna booked a last-minute cruise to Antarctica from a random WhatsApp number on a Sunday night. No plan, no backup — just a hostel in Ushuaia and the beginning of a year-long career break that would change what she believed she was worth. We ended up as bunkmates at the bottom of the world — two women who each thought the other had it completely together. I saw her as confident and self-possessed. She saw me as someone who had it figured out. We were both wrong, and that was the most reassuring thing. Anna is from Germany, and she spent a year traveling solo through South America, Asia, and Australia — and is now renovating a 157-year-old house entirely by herself. In this conversation: what it actually feels like to leave everything behind, how a year of traveling and living differently changed her sense of self, and discovering a new love for penguins. New episodes every Wednesday. Discover more on Substack at youdlikeher.substack.com. Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

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    Introducing You’d Like Her

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You'd Like Her is a podcast about people who imagined a different version of what their life could look like — and chose it. Your host May Chang spent most of her career in the corporate world, then left. She began meeting people around the world living in ways she had never imagined. You'll meet women who made the "unconventional" choice, whether in their career, how they live, or what they decide a good life actually looks like. You’d like her. Season 2 is in production! Catch up on all episodes of Season 1, from Antarctica to Kazakhstan.

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  • Creator
    May Chang
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © May Chang
  • Show Website
    You’d Like Her

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