Ditch the Struggle with Alana Ruoso | Career & Success Coaching for Personal Growth

Send us Fan Mail

In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• How the theme of “not being interesting” came up in multiple group coaching sessions in 2023
• The shame, discomfort and unworthiness surrounding this fear
• How you don’t have to live a glamorous, high-profile life to be “interesting”
• Ways to objectively recognize your unique talents and abilities
• Powerful questions you can yourself in order to move through this fear
• When to push out of your comfort zone and create more interesting life experiences

Links and references ⚡️
🖋️ My blog post about the Robin Sharma exercise
📕 Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

The podcast where we dive headfirst into personal development work, career growth and strategies, entrepreneurship, toxic jobs and nightmare bosses (yes, I’m going there), anxiety, self-esteem and confidence, self-sabotage, life coaching, mindset and healing modalities.

📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1
🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
❤️ Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com for free & special offers.

Connect with me: Instagram: @alanaruoso
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso

Hi! I'm a graphic designer and certified career coach in Toronto, Canada. Using humor, empathy, and radical candor, I help clients set new boundaries, build self-esteem, eliminate self-sabotaging behaviors, and implement career growth strategies so they can achieve success on their terms.

Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @suru.productions. This podcast is not a substitute for therapy, medical or financial advice. Listeners take responsibility for their actions.

Send us Fan Mail

In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• When it’s time to set a boundary
• Feeling drained and resentful from lack of boundaries
• How getting a full-time job in 2016 created a necessary boundary in my life
• Managing your bandwidth and your energy
• Being uncomforable saying "No"- ooof!
• My favourite tiny boundary that has led to big wins

Links and references ⚡️

🖋️ My blog post on the challenges I experienced in 2016
🖋️ My blog post on boundaries
✨Learn  more about Mala Ramharose who I quoted as saying, “I bled out energetically”

The podcast where we dive headfirst into personal development work, career growth and strategies, entrepreneurship, toxic jobs and nightmare bosses (yes, I’m going there), anxiety, self-esteem and confidence, self-sabotage, life coaching, mindset and healing modalities.

📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1
🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
❤️ Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com for free & special offers.

Connect with me: Instagram: @alanaruoso
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso

Hi! I'm a graphic designer and certified career coach in Toronto, Canada. Using humor, empathy, and radical candor, I help clients set new boundaries, build self-esteem, eliminate self-sabotaging behaviors, and implement career growth strategies so they can achieve success on their terms.

Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @suru.productions. This podcast is not a substitute for therapy, medical or financial advice. Listeners take responsibility for their actions.

Send us Fan Mail

In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• Reflecting on your previous year and taking time out to think
• A simple exercise you can do to learn what is working in your life–and what isn’t
• Why we forget to celebrate our “wins”
• How we focus on adding to our plate rather than offloading from our plate
• The joy of quitting!
• Permission to let go of people/thing/jobs/experiences GRANTED

Links and references ⚡️

💙 Francesca Amber (Law of Attraction expert)
📕 5 Good Minutes
📕 QUIT by Annie Duke
📕 The Audacity to be a Queen by Gina DeVee
🖋️ My blog post on my morning routine
✨ Jane Ysadora (Nervous System coach & expert)

The podcast where we dive headfirst into personal development work, career growth and strategies, entrepreneurship, toxic jobs and nightmare bosses (yes, I’m going there), anxiety, self-esteem and confidence, self-sabotage, life coaching, mindset and healing modalities.

📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1
🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
❤️ Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com for free & special offers.

Connect with me: Instagram: @alanaruoso
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso

Hi! I'm a graphic designer and certified career coach in Toronto, Canada. Using humor, empathy, and radical candor, I help clients set new boundaries, build self-esteem, eliminate self-sabotaging behaviors, and implement career growth strategies so they can achieve success on their terms.

Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @suru.productions. This podcast is not a substitute for therapy, medical or financial advice. Listeners take responsibility for their actions.

Send us Fan Mail

In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• My weird and intense emotional and physical anxiety symptoms
• Why we need to talk about these symptoms
• Building a toolbox to manage your anxiety
• How I now love my anxiety symptoms
• Your body is talking to you - listen!
• Exploring your anxiety as a way to change and transform your life

Links and references⚡️

🖋️ Blog post on the challenges I experienced in 2016
🎙️ Interview about my acid reflux health crisis on Every Body Holds a Story podcast

The podcast where we dive headfirst into personal development work, career growth and strategies, entrepreneurship, toxic jobs and nightmare bosses (yes, I’m going there), anxiety, self-esteem and confidence, self-sabotage, life coaching, mindset and healing modalities.

📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1
🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
❤️ Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com for free & special offers.

Connect with me: Instagram: @alanaruoso
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso

Hi! I'm a graphic designer and certified career coach in Toronto, Canada. Using humor, empathy, and radical candor, I help clients set new boundaries, build self-esteem, eliminate self-sabotaging behaviors, and implement career growth strategies so they can achieve success on their terms.

Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @suru.productions. This podcast is not a substitute for therapy, medical or financial advice. Listeners take responsibility for their actions.

Send us Fan Mail

In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• An overview of my design jobs from post-graduation to present
• How I bounced around jobs and freelance gigs
• Making $320/week at my first “job job” at a record label
• The best job in my design career (so far)
• How your resume should not dictate your career choices
• The cosmetic industry job I REALLY, really wanted - and got
• How a non-linear career has been fulfilling to me and just what I needed (and wanted)

Links and references ⚡️

🖋️ My short time at The Shopping Channel in 2018 and how it affected me

🎙️DIve deep into my toxic job at the cosmetics company in these podcast interviews:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-toxic-boss-you-never-saw-coming-interview-with/id1442472040?i=1000537534234

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s2-ep7-alanas-story-escaping-my-toxic-boss-nightmare-hell/id1552018167?i=1000551369698

The podcast where we dive headfirst into personal development work, career growth and strategies, entrepreneurship, toxic jobs and nightmare bosses (yes, I’m going there), anxiety, self-esteem and confidence, self-sabotage, life coaching, mindset and healing modalities.

📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1
🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
❤️ Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com for free & special offers.

Connect with me: Instagram: @alanaruoso
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso

Hi! I'm a graphic designer and certified career coach in Toronto, Canada. Using humor, empathy, and radical candor, I help clients set new boundaries, build self-esteem, eliminate self-sabotaging behaviors, and implement career growth strategies so they can achieve success on their terms.

Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @suru.productions. This podcast is not a substitute for therapy, medical or financial advice. Listeners take responsibility for their actions.

Send us Fan Mail

In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• How an interview at a big Canadian bank helped me understand my value
• The pressure of job interviews and how to navigate the stress
• How I almost laughed out loud in this very serious job interview
• The pressure to take high-paying corporate jobs
• Building a strong mindset and belief in your own talents/value
• The reminder that yes, “You know more than you think you know.”

Links and references ⚡️

🖋️My blog post about this job interview

The podcast where we dive headfirst into personal development work, career growth and strategies, entrepreneurship, toxic jobs and nightmare bosses (yes, I’m going there), anxiety, self-esteem and confidence, self-sabotage, life coaching, mindset and healing modalities.

📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1
🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
❤️ Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com for free & special offers.

Connect with me: Instagram: @alanaruoso
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso

Hi! I'm a graphic designer and certified career coach in Toronto, Canada. Using humor, empathy, and radical candor, I help clients set new boundaries, build self-esteem, eliminate self-sabotaging behaviors, and implement career growth strategies so they can achieve success on their terms.

Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @suru.productions. This podcast is not a substitute for therapy, medical or financial advice. Listeners take responsibility for their actions.

Send us Fan Mail

In this (inaugural!) episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• How struggle was part of my origin story
• The super boring networking event that changed the trajectory of my career–and life
• How I became conscious of my addiction to struggle
• The concept of a "ventilated calendar"
• How being busy and overcommitted kept me feeling productive and worth
• The process of giving yourself permission to live with more ease
• Questions you can ask yourself in order to get off the struggle bus

Links and references⚡️

🎤 Kate Walsh interview with Maria Menounos
🖋️ My Positively Positive article on struggle

The podcast where we dive headfirst into personal development work, career growth and strategies, entrepreneurship, toxic jobs and nightmare bosses (yes, I’m going there), anxiety, self-esteem and confidence, self-sabotage, life coaching, mindset and healing modalities.

📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1
🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
❤️ Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com for free & special offers.

Connect with me: Instagram: @alanaruoso
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso

Hi! I'm a graphic designer and certified career coach in Toronto, Canada. Using humor, empathy, and radical candor, I help clients set new boundaries, build self-esteem, eliminate self-sabotaging behaviors, and implement career growth strategies so they can achieve success on their terms.

Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @suru.productions. This podcast is not a substitute for therapy, medical or financial advice. Listeners take responsibility for their actions.

Send us Fan Mail

Welcome to Ditch the Struggle with Alana Ruoso, the podcast where we dive into career building, personal development, coaching, energy healing, waking up to toxic societal programming (yes, I’m going there) and connecting back to your intuition✨

Join me and together, let's ditch the struggle💥

📣 Visit my blog to read more about me and my journey

📕 Read my 1st article on Addicted2Success (overextended and tired of it?)
📕 Read my 2nd article on Addicted2Success (stop glorifying busy)

The podcast where we dive headfirst into personal development work, career growth and strategies, entrepreneurship, toxic jobs and nightmare bosses (yes, I’m going there), anxiety, self-esteem and confidence, self-sabotage, life coaching, mindset and healing modalities.

📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1
🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
❤️ Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com for free & special offers.

Connect with me: Instagram: @alanaruoso
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso

Hi! I'm a graphic designer and certified career coach in Toronto, Canada. Using humor, empathy, and radical candor, I help clients set new boundaries, build self-esteem, eliminate self-sabotaging behaviors, and implement career growth strategies so they can achieve success on their terms.

Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @suru.productions. This podcast is not a substitute for therapy, medical or financial advice. Listeners take responsibility for their actions.