Joy From The Start

In today's episode we speak with Guddia Singh. In this conversation we learn about how Guddia went from a professional in the financial world to becoming a chef, health and wellness professional. We take an inside look at how Guddia listened to her mind and body along a multi-year journey of personal transformation.

I am particularly excited about this episode because Guddia is our first "first-hand" expert. She's not a coach, but someone who's lived experience has volumes to teach.

Together we explore:

How long did it take?

What was the self talk like?

How she created space to listen - day by day.

How did she thought about the massive change prior to making it

How she spoke to her spouse and family.

And of course...what about the financial impact of a career and life change with kids, expenses and family.

You can find her at: https://www.healthandwellnesschef.com/ (https://www.healthandwellnesschef.com/)

Before getting into the conversation, a bit about Guddia's impressive professional bio:

A top graduate of the Culinary Management and culinary Arts programs at the Institute of Culinary Education. Chef Guddia Singh is a Licensed Wellness Coach and she found her culinary voice in the Health and Wellness Arena.

Advocating a healthy and balanced lifestyle has become Guddia’s mission. She is a chef advocate for the American Diabetes Association and was a finalist for the Women in Culinary Leadership competition, founded by the James Beard Foundation. Chef Guddia has worked in the test kitchen of Everyday with Rachel Ray and presently has her own culinary and Wellness Consulting Business.

Julie a seasoned progressive policy leader and leadership coach. She is the founder of https://letsthrivecoaching.com/ (Let's Thrive Consulting.)

What I love about Julie is encapsulated in the following snippet from her website:

You: Feeling stuck in your career, like you want something else but are not sure what; or you know what you want but don’t know how to get there. Me: Filled with the questions that will help you find the answers. Supporting you with humor, gentle firmness and without judgement. And holding you accountable to making forward progress. She launched her own consulting and coaching business, Let’s Thrive, LLC, to promote gender justice through public policy and also support individuals in their leadership development, career transitions and work-life ease.

Julie brings her personal experiences to her coaching. She has over two decades of experience in the government and nonprofit sectors. She has helped to develop several major pieces of federal legislation and her policy development, strategy and coalition work have contributed to the enactment of several federal and state bills into laws.

Most recently, she worked with the National Domestic Workers Alliance to develop the recently introduced Domestic Workers Bill of Rights to guarantee rights and protections for nannies, home care aides and house cleaners. As Policy Director at the Make It Work campaign she developed a federal child care proposal that influenced the development of the Child Care for Working Families Act. As a policy adviser to the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Julie helped launch the national paid sick days movement, introducing the first national paid sick days legislation. She also helped enact the second state paid family leave program in the country as deputy policy director to Governor Jon Corzine in New Jersey.

Julie currently coaches individuals, and serves as a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation as well as an advisor to the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Julie holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor’s with highest honors in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She has served as an adjunct lecturer on work and family issues and poverty in the U.S. at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is a coactive coach, certified by the Coactive Training Institute, and has participated in the Conscious Leadership Forum.

You can find her at https://letsthrivecoaching.com/ (https://letsthrivecoaching.com/)

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

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Hello and welcome to my podcast, Joy From The Start. I'm Paul Kuehn. This podcast at heart is about how to find a happier life. I'm making this primarily for myself and hoping that what I learn will be helpful to you as well. It's for people who feel stuck, sitting maybe in an open plan office doing yet another meaningless email and thinking "is this is what my life all about."

Or in the quiet moments of your daily commute thinking, "what's wrong with me that I can't find the passion and break free of all this?" You know, the kind of passion that they talk about in university graduation speeches, if only finding were as simple as saying it. I often wonder if the industry of books on finding passion and purpose ever wants me to succeed and like weight loss I tried all the plans.

This show is for people who've had enough and want to finally find that thing or things that make them happy. The initial format will be self exploration for two reasons. One, my path to being a more joyful person has led me back to conducting interviews, an old love. And two, I don't have the answers to give you. I'm not a guru, but I have a lot of questions and a lot of people I want to talk to.

I wanted license to go and talk with everyone.

So I hope as this show grows, we can add your voice as well. So. I'm here to share my journey with you. Our first season is going to be about 10 people who I think have something to share their friends, family, and people I've just heard about in my travels.

So how do you live for yourself? How do you find joy in your everyday work? How do you find your own voice? How do you overcome the fear and the blocks? I hope we'll find out that in sharing my journey, maybe I can not only move myself forward. But help you my fellow travelers as well.

Thanks for listening.