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

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In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

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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.

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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.

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An important follow up to my 3-part Toxic Boss Story series. Here I share exactly HOW I took leave from work and ways you can plan your own toxic job exit.

In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

💄That time in 2021 I left my job as a Creative & Graphics Manager at a cosmetics company after I got a new toxic boss who:

🚩Was a covert narcissist
🚩Was threatened by me and any woman who was competent
🚩Wanted me out of my job and deliberately set me up to fail
🚩Retaliated against me for taking a leave of absence
🚩Was unable to do her own job
🚩Lied, lied and lied - and then lied some more

🎙️PART 1: FEB 5 (EP59), 🎙️PART 2: FEB 12 (EP60), 🎙️PART 3: FEB 19 (EP61)

🎙️ EP14: How Toxic Bosses Hide in Plain Sight
🎥 DoctorRamani
🎥 Sensitive the movie
📕 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
🎥 Me Too’s Mis-Step or Me Too’s Mistake | Heather Monahan
🎙️ The Toxic Boss You Never Saw Coming - Interview With Alana Ruoso
🎙️ Alana's Story - Escaping My Toxic Boss Nightmare Hell

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
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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.

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In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• A conversation with Lisa Jeffs, Founder of Purpose Academy Pro
• Lisa's work as an intuitive life and career coach for business leaders and entrepreneurs
• The courage to take up space and be seen as an authentic high-achiever
• The difference between confidence and self-worth
• How to build a career fueled by passion, success, and purpose

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.

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In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• My new (second-hand) spin bike purchase and how that has affected my mental and physical health
• Why the internet told me NOT to do cardio
• Why I decided NOT to listen
• Trusting your intuition and what is right for YOU

Links and references ⚡️
🎙️EP49: Chronic Pain, High Cortisol and Low Patience

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.

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In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• A conversation with Georgie Darling, Freelance Travel Writer & Business Strategy Coach
• Working under tremendous pressure at her corporate job and not being able to do it anymore (cue crying in the bathroom)
• Not having any more to give and realizing you just "can't see the light at the end of the tunnel"
• That time Georgie an away to an Indonesian island and started a freelancing writing business
• The logistics of living abroad for a digital marketing agency
• Honoring your true desires and building an authentic career-consciously
• The benefits of freelancing and the lifestyle it provides
  
  Connect with Georgie ⚡️
  🌐 Website
   📷 Instagram
  💙 LinkedIn

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.

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PART 3 of 3

In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

💄That time in 2021 I left my job as a Creative & Graphics Manager at a cosmetics company after I got a new toxic boss who:

🚩Was a covert narcissist
🚩Was threatened by me and any woman who was competent
🚩Wanted me out of my job and deliberately set me up to fail
🚩Retaliated against me for taking a leave of absence
🚩Was unable to do her own job
🚩Lied, lied and lied - and then lied some more

🎙️PART 1: FEB 5 (EP59), 🎙️PART 2: FEB 12 (EP60), 🎙️PART 3: FEB 19 (EP61)

🎙️ EP14: How Toxic Bosses Hide in Plain Sight
🎥 DoctorRamani
🎥 Sensitive the movie
📕 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
🎥 Me Too’s Mis-Step or Me Too’s Mistake | Heather Monahan
🎙️ The Toxic Boss You Never Saw Coming - Interview With Alana Ruoso
🎙️ Alana's Story - Escaping My Toxic Boss Nightmare Hell

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

PART 2 of 3

In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

💄That time in 2021 I left my job as a Creative & Graphics Manager at a cosmetics company after I got a new toxic boss who:

🚩Was a covert narcissist
🚩Was threatened by me and any woman who was competent
🚩Wanted me out of my job and deliberately set me up to fail
🚩Retaliated against me for taking a leave of absence
🚩Was unable to do her own job
🚩Lied, lied and lied - and then lied some more

🎙️PART 1: FEB 5 (EP59), 🎙️PART 2: FEB 12 (EP60), 🎙️PART 3: FEB 19 (EP61)

🎙️ EP14: How Toxic Bosses Hide in Plain Sight
🎥 DoctorRamani
🎥 Sensitive the movie
📕 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
🎥 Me Too’s Mis-Step or Me Too’s Mistake | Heather Monahan
🎙️ The Toxic Boss You Never Saw Coming - Interview With Alana Ruoso
🎙️ Alana's Story - Escaping My Toxic Boss Nightmare Hell

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

PART 1 of 3

In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

💄That time in 2021 I left my job as a Creative & Graphics Manager at a cosmetics company after I got a new toxic boss who:

🚩Was a covert narcissist
🚩Was threatened by me and any woman who was competent
🚩Wanted me out of my job and deliberately set me up to fail
🚩Retaliated against me for taking a leave of absence
🚩Was unable to do her own job
🚩Lied, lied and lied - and then lied some more

🎙️PART 1: FEB 5 (EP59), 🎙️PART 2: FEB 12 (EP60), 🎙️PART 3: FEB 19 (EP61)

🎙️ EP14: How Toxic Bosses Hide in Plain Sight
🎥 DoctorRamani
🎥 Sensitive the movie
📕 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
🎥 Me Too’s Mis-Step or Me Too’s Mistake | Heather Monahan
🎙️ The Toxic Boss You Never Saw Coming - Interview With Alana Ruoso
🎙️ Alana's Story - Escaping My Toxic Boss Nightmare Hell

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.

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In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• A conversation with Nicole Richards, Personal Reinvention & Human Potential Coach
• Nicole's story of being downsized from her corporate career--and how grateful she was when it happened
• Building her multi-six figure makeup artistry business
• Trusting your intuition and following the signs that everything will be ok
• Being a high achiever and experiencing burn out
• The importance of play and hobbies

Links and references ⚡️
Connect with Nicole:
🌐 Website
 📷 Instagram

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.

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In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:

• Purging and clearing your space to create abundance
• The concept of the "law of use" and using what we have
• Getting out of struggle mode and believing "nothing will go my way"

Links and references ⚡️
📕 The Game of Life and How to Play It free ebook
📺 Minimalism documentary
📺 The Pez Outlaw movie (trailer)

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.