A Change in Story

Being an entrepreneur means wearing many hats, which can somtimes lead to burnout and self-sacrifice. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Chanda Coston, a business and strategy coach, is on a mission to help empower women over 40 to build businesses that align with their lives, not consume them.

With over two decades of experience in business, leadership, and execution strategy, Chanda knows what it takes to get things done—without burning out. Her own journey reflects this approach. After serving in the Navy, she transitioned into the corporate world to spend more time with her family, and eventually found her calling in entrepreneurship and coaching.

Chanda now helps women make the leap into entrepreneurship in a way that prioritizes their wellbeing by embracing authentic self-care, navigating mom guilt and building real community.

Tune in to hear Chanda's story as well as some of her strategies for starting a business with clarity and balance.

For more on Chanda, check out her website.

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If you're a career pivoter or entrepreneur struggling to put your value into words or if you can't quite explain your why, check out takeabeatcoaching.com to learn more about a 1:1 coaching program designed to help you clearly tell your story.

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While they are often exciting and rewarding, career pivots—like any significant life transition—can also bring up feelings of grief.

The act of leaving behind an old identify, coworkers, and familiar structures and routines is a loss, even if we're moving on to something that we are excited about and ready for.

In this episode Shelley McIntyre, who coaches midlife professionals interested in leaving corporate life, shares some of the different ways that grief can surface when making a career change, including a loss of identify, feeling adrift and scattered in the transition phase, loneliness, and more.

Shelley also happens to be trained as a grief coach and shares different strategies to help work through the feelings and experiences of loss that might arise during a career reinvention.

For more on Shelley and Burn the Map, check out her website.

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If you're a career pivoter or entrepreneur struggling to put your value into words or if you can't quite explain your why, check out takeabeatcoaching.com to learn more about a 1:1 coaching program designed to help you clearly tell your story.

Want to reach out, be a guest or have a question? Contact [email protected].

Feeling stuck or overlooked in your career?

In this episode, Rosie Zilinskas, a certified career coach and former Fortune 500 executive who knows what it's like to wait for recognition that doesn't come, shares her experience of taking the lead in her own career.

After feeling passed over for promotion, Rosie began actively campaigning for her next step and eventually landed her dream role as an executive vice president. She now helps other women stop waiting and start taking action toward the roles and opportunities that interest them.

Take a listen to hear more of Rosie's story as well as her strategies for readying yourself to take that next step in your career.

For more on Rosie and her Promotion Readiness Map, check out her website.

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If you're feeling ready to make a change in your current career and don't know where to start or it feels too overwhelming, check out takeabeatcoaching.com to learn more about a 1:1 coaching program designed to help you navigate a career pivot.

Want to reach out, be a guest or have a question? Contact [email protected].

While it might sound counterintuitive, your job is not the only avenue for finding career growth and fulfillment. Just ask Carlee Wolfe, an HR professional with more than 20 years at brands like Under Armour, Hyatt Hotels, and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee.

In this episode, Carlee shares how she's used volunteering with nonprofits and in her community to help foster her own career development. She explains how curiosity, intentionality and a strong sense of self have helped her to seek out opportunities that align with her values and pay dividends in her professional work.

Carlee's also navigated several career pivots, including relocations and jumps to new organizations, sometimes raising questions among loved ones.

Take a listen to hear more of Carlee's story, which illustrates that career growth doesn't stop at work and doesn't always follow a straight line.

For more on Carlee, follow her on LinkedIn.

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If you're feeling ready to make a change in your current career and don't know where to start or it feels too overwhelming, check out takeabeatcoaching.com to learn more about a 1:1 coaching program designed to help you navigate a career pivot.

Want to reach out, be a guest or have a question? Contact [email protected].

Whether you're a leader, a high achiever or simply feeling the weight of unrealistic expectations, you've probably experienced a bit of perfectionism in the workplace. While it can sometimes be helpful, perfectionism can also get in the way of performance and fulfillment.

To help dive deeper into this topic and to share some tangible strategies for managing and moving through perfectionism at work, historian and coach Jodi Vandenberg-Daves joins this episode to share insights from both her professional experience and research.

For example, Jodi explains the power of normalizing perfectionism in the workplace and how acting in service to your values can be the "juice" to your confidence, which then counteracts perfectionism.

Jodi has many years of experiencing working in higher education and is now a leadership strategist, coach, consultant, facilitator, editor and author. Her latest book Leading With Courage: A Career-Long Guide for Idealistic Women focuses on helping women align their work with their values and create real impact.

Find out more about Jodi here.

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If you're feeling ready to make a change in your current career and don't know where to start or it feels too overwhelming, check out takeabeatcoaching.com to learn more about a 1:1 coaching program designed to help you navigate a career pivot.

Want to reach out, be a guest or have a question? Contact [email protected].

Could you go 24 hours without your phone?

That's a question and a challenge Kelsey Green is presenting to folks as part of a passion to help people reduce the distractions of screen time in daily life.

As an entrepreneur and someone who is helping other women achieve big goals, Kelsey advocates for a more mindful, value-centered approach to technology, or digital minimalism, to help increase opportunities for improved focus, creativity and mental health.

In this episode Kelsey shares her take on reducing screen time and how implementing more digital boundaries in her own life has impacted her relationships, work life and overall wellbeing.

Find out more about Kelsey and Summit in Six here.

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If you're feeling ready to make a change in your current career and don't know where to start or it feels too overwhelming, check out takeabeatcoaching.com to learn more about a 1:1 coaching program designed to help you navigate a career pivot.

Want to reach out, be a guest or have a question? Contact [email protected].

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While building self-confidence does take work, it doesn't have to be complicated. Small, simple steps over time can lead to significant changes and a greater sense of self-belief.

Today's episode is an interview with Scott Hardiman, a men's transformational mindset and confidence coach who personally overcame crippling anxiety and low confidence and now helps other men to do the same.

In sharing more of his story, as well as some of the strategies he used—and now uses with clients—Scott helps to break down the process of overcoming fear, negative thinking and self-doubt.

Find out more about Scott here.

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If you're feeling ready to make a change in your current career and don't know where to start or it feels too overwhelming, check out takeabeatcoaching.com to learn more about a 1:1 coaching program designed to help you navigate a career pivot.

Want to reach out, be a guest or have a question? Contact [email protected].

Career transitions—whether carefully planned or unexpected—can shake our sense of identity and direction.

This episode explores both the planned and unexpected types of transitions through the lens of Meggi Rombach, who over the course of her career has navigated several career pivots, including a move from the private sector into the humanitarian field and moving from the world of marketing into fundraising and now education and coaching.

Take a listen to hear more of Meggi's career journey and how she's navigated through all of these transitions. She also shares advice for creating and shaping your own version of career success.

Find out more about Meggi here.

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If you're feeling ready to make a change in your current career and don't know where to start or it feels too overwhelming, check out takeabeatcoaching.com to learn more about a 1:1 coaching program designed to help you navigate a career pivot.

Want to reach out, be a guest or have a question? Contact [email protected].

Stepping into a leadership role, whether that's leading others or taking the lead in your own career, requires a certain level of commitment and accountability. Plus, many of us are not taught how to be effective leaders, so we may burn out quickly.

In this episode, Walter Dusseldorp, aka the Dutch Mentor, shares strategies to help counteract the burnout and make leadership sustainable and enjoyable, including:

• the difference between doing and leading,
• what to look for in a mentor,
• how to differentiate yourself and more.

After years as a flight paramedic turned health care executive, Walter now uses his experiences as a leader to help mentor others as they either step onto or expand their leadership path.

Find out more about Walter here.

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If you're feeling ready to make a change in your current career and don't know where to start or it feels too overwhelming, check out takeabeatcoaching.com to learn more about a 1:1 coaching program designed to help you navigate a career pivot.

Want to reach out, be a guest or have a question? Contact [email protected].

After climbing the career ladder fast–moving from editorial intern to managing editor in a year and employee to vice president in four–Brianne Rush is now helping other women to do the same.

In this episode, Brianne shares how she learned to decode unspoken workplace dynamics and capitalize on soft skills to advance in her career. She also shares her career journey and how she's translating her experience to help Gen Z women transition from college to career with confidence as part of the Independence Lab.

For more information on Brianne and the Independence Lab, check out her website.

Download the Mastering Emotional Intelligence Guide here.

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If you're feeling ready to make a change in your current career and don't know where to start or it feels too overwhelming, check out takeabeatcoaching.com to learn more about a 1:1 coaching program designed to help you navigate a career pivot.

Want to reach out, be a guest or have a question? Contact [email protected].