Real luxury isn't what you can buy. It's what you refuse to sacrifice. I spent years in the "just one more year" trap. Sacrifice now, live later. Grind today, rest tomorrow. Except tomorrow kept moving. And when I finally arrived, money couldn't buy back what I traded to get there.
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Susan Chen
Ex-Wall Street Exec → Founder of Superlative | Discreet in-person Vedic Meditation for high performers who can’t switch off | 1,400+ trained | Forbes, Nasdaq, Yahoo
We read 245 of their posts. Here is what they actually do.
linkedin.com/in/susan-s-chen ↗Engagement over time
Average likes per post, by month.
That puts them in the 95th percentile of the 1,210 creators we track in the 50K to 100K follower band. Reach is not the same as resonance, and this is the ratio that separates them.
Their hooks, word for word
The opening line of their best-performing posts. This is what stops the scroll.
- Real luxury isn't what you can buy. ↗11K likes
- Failure isn't final. ↗10K likes
- When everything collapses. ↗9.4K likes
- Progress looks like failure. ↗8.1K likes
- Careers can give you purpose. ↗7.4K likes
- When everything collapses. ↗7.3K likes
Content pillars
What they post about, with a line from a real post as evidence.
- Burnout, identity, and the illusion of success
Top post on trading life for career targets hits 10,516 likes.
- Vedic meditation and nervous system recovery
Recent posts consistently pitch deep rest and meditation over mere relaxation.
- Career transitions and reframing adversity
Posts detailing leaving Wall Street and navigating layoffs drive massive historical engagement.
Signature moves and voice
The repeatable moves that show up across their best posts.
- Open with a two-line paradox contrasting hustle against peace.
- Contrast past toxic work habits with present healthy boundaries.
- End vulnerability narratives with structured, numbered mindset reframes.
What works for them
Patterns that separate their top posts from the rest.
- Universal vulnerability about career burnout vastly outperforms direct course promotional pitches.
- Contrasting 'before vs now' lifestyle lists drives peak virality and saves.
- Curated actionable framework lists generate exceptionally strong comment section engagement.
When they post
Every post, grouped by day of week.
Best day is Wednesday at 3.3K average likes. Saturday is their weakest at 2K.
What format works
Text, image, video or carousel, ranked by what actually lands for them.
| Format | Posts | Avg likes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image | 242 | 2.8K | |
| Video | 1 | 993 | |
| Text only | 2 | 256 |
Steal this
Moves you can apply to your own posts this week.
- Frame personal career anxiety as a universal executive struggle to build trust.
- Use bulleted 'Before vs Now' contrasts to illustrate personal transformation clearly.
- Provide numbered reframe exercises so readers can instantly apply mental shifts.
Best-performing posts
Ranked by likes, across everything we analysed.
Failure isn't final. Giving up is. People wait for luck to find them. But luck isn't given. It's created - every time you stand back up. When I left Wall Street at 37 to start from zero, I didn't feel lucky. I felt terrified.
When everything collapses. Look closer. The deal that fell through. The job you lost. The separation. In the moment, it feels like the end. But look back at your own life. How many times did the "worst thing" lead to something better? Two layoffs in three months once had me spiraling.
Progress looks like failure. Only if you expect a straight line. We've all been through enough to know: the path from A to B is rarely straight. Yet every time we start something new, we default to wanting it easy, fast, stress-free. But when going river rafting, no one picks the lazy river.
Careers can give you purpose. They can also erase you. A client came to me recently, wrestling with a decision to leave a job he loved but no longer felt aligned with. The hardest part wasn't the uncertainty. It was letting go of who he'd become because of that title, that team, that role.
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Comparable follower counts, analysed the same way.
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Built from public LinkedIn posts, last refreshed 2026-10-31. Follower counts and engagement change over time. Susan Chen is not affiliated with 2pr.io.