Our lives are run by paradigms. They were planted into our subconscious early and control our experience and results throughout our life.

Your paradigms are the multitude of fixed concepts controlling your habits and behaviors. Some are good, some not so good; like the messages about your value, capabilities, capacity and self image that are attached to the report cards you got throughout your education.

Listen to this episode as Elissa dives into how paradigms are created and how you can change them.

• Identify the paradigms that have you stuck
• Establish a new way of thinking so that you can change them

It takes repetitive conditioning to create paradigms and deliberate, repetitive and intentional thinking to change them. But change them, you can!

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Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

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• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

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What if you didn't have to follow your bliss? Or do what you love so you never have to work a day in your life?

I'm not a fan of those statements because they're a little fluffy for me but mostly because I believe doing hard things like overcoming obstacles and feeling the discomfort and doing it anyway is where the magic is.

Instead of avoiding the messy, uncomfortable stuff in your work life because you think it means something is wrong, embrace it.

That's how you tap into the abundance in your own brain, figure things out and give yourself something to celebrate when you feel the discomfort and do it anyway.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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Just before I sat down for this episode, I was on the phone with a client who had just received a job offer. It was such a celebration. She overcame career disruption! And not only that, she still has interviews in her pipeline which she fully intends to see though.

Who knows? She might get a better offer. While we were talking, I suddenly remembered the Billy Squire song, and said to her "Everybody wants you!"

What a power sentence!

Whether your outward circumstances match or not, thinking "Everybody wants me" is an affirmation that can only help you navigate the craziness that comes with a job search.

So, for this episode, I'm throwing back to one from late 2022 about how to overcome career disruption. It's one of my favorites because the techniques I teach you are tried and true for me and the hundreds of clients I've helped land jobs and make career pivots.

Enjoy!

We're all facing some kind of challenge.

• landing a new job
• a difficult talk with your boss
• job performance reviews on your team
• ideas, aspirations and goals that feel far off

You hear lots of advice to grit, hustle, and grind your way through. But what if it was much easer than that? As easy as feeling good.

Many of us have been taught to avoid our feelings. Even if we haven't been taught to avoid them, we not taught how to manage them and certainly not trained on how to leverage our feelings to get what we want.

Feeling good results in "inspired action." The kind of action that takes the pressure off and opens your eyes to the "how" to get it done.

In this week's episode, Elissa shares how to tap into feeling good as a choice you can make anytime you want.

And how it's not just woo woo stuff.

The neuroplasticity of our brains supports us in this feel good way of doing the hard stuff and making getting what we desire easier and faster.

Listen now. Find the good feeling. Put yourself on the path to achieving everything you want in your work life :)

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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What do we have in common with the rest of nature as carbon-based life forms and what does that mean for your career?

In this week's episode, Elissa shares some intriguing facts about the nature of carbon and the implications it has for how you can reframe your approach to work life.

What if the ability to overcome adversity and the impossibility to get it wrong was already baked in? What if you automatically have the right stuff?

Having the right stuff means complexity, versatility, abundance and stability is already in your nature at a molecular level.

That means we can handle a lot and have the same sense of awe and reassurance looking forward as we feel when we look back and see how it all came together for good.

Even the adversity, disruptions and made-made disasters we experience in not-so-healthy workplace ecosystems.

The "science guy" Elissa mentions... Here's his YouTube video about why all life is carbon-based. Enjoy!

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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When we hear the word "stubborn" we often think of the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. But there is a good kind of stubborn.

It's the tenacity, dedication, and commitment that comes from deep inside you. This week, Elissa talks about that good stubbornness, and compares healthy vs. unhealthy stubbornness.

Be stubborn enough to believe that what you want is possible, and stubborn enough to invest in yourself. Sometimes that stubborn streak is just the thing you need to give it one more chance, to go one more day, to take one more small action.

When you decide to leverage this good kind of stubbornness -- to achieve the things you set out to achieve -- you are going to win.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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Whether you realize it or not, you are in a value exchange with your job. How you feel at work is a direct reflection of that exchange. Feeling not-so-hot? That's a good sign that the value exchange is not equitable.

In this episode, Elissa walks you through the following steps to take if you're not feeling great about your job:

>>> list what you are receiving/want to receive in exchange for what you're providing in your job

>>> write out what each thing on the list means to you

>>> ask yourself: are you receiving what you want?

>>> ask yourself: what is the story you're telling yourself about what you're getting/not getting?

Finally, Elissa shares how to manage inequity in your job while you look for something different.

Remember, your work is value that you are putting out into the world. It's worth something. It's valuable. It has an impact.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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It's that moment when you are sitting at the computer and you've got the document open and the cursor is blinking -- you are about to do something new.

Last week's episode was about how to stay motivated. Well, consider this week the prequel as Elissa dives deeper into the process and the way we can face that blank page. It's all about answering the question, "Who am I to do this?" with 3 better questions:

1) What am I good at?

2) Why should I try?

3) Who am I NOT do to this?

Our brains are powerful. We all have a blank page. We all have doubts and fears and questions. Change the narrative.

When you give yourself permission to go for what you want and fill that blank page, you can achieve amazing things that you never imagined possible.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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Have you ever wanted to do something and at first, you're really excited about it -- but then you just start losing momentum, you're not really motivated anymore, and the desire just sort of dissipates?

It is possible to not only stay motivated, but to leverage the way your brain works so that you're excited to keep going, the ideas and creativity keep flowing with ease, and you're having fun doing it. In this episode Elissa shows you the best way to achieve sustained motivation: from within.

By advertising your new life to yourself with imagination and vividness, you can envision and achieve the bright future and all the possibilities you have in mind. Remember, change happens from the inside out, not the other way around!

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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We have a relationship, so to speak, with our jobs. We want it to be fulfilling and joyful. We want to have impact and make contributions.

But we also want something in return.

We want to feel heard and have opportunities. We want to grow.

We want our jobs to participate in the health of this "relationship".

In this episode, Elissa shares what you can do when you find yourself disagreeing with a policy or direction, or some cultural element happening at your workplace. There are four concepts you can use to help you handle it--

1) Give your brain equal airtime

2) Pay attention to what operating manuals you have

3) Align your expectations

4) Be a change agent

Don't let workplace misalignments through you off your game. You've got this!

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!