Outgrow The Grind

🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• What's underneath what makes being a deeply caring high achiever difficult and why it isn't your fault.
• Why I have a big place in my heart for deeply caring high achievers.
• My story about what my grind was like in my last job and how I began to outgrow it.
• About my brand new offering: the Outgrow the Grind Heart Centered Women's Circle. It's a six month program where you'll go from round-the-clock groundskeeper of someone else's dreams to master gardener of your own. In the program, you'll get support from a small circle of other like-hearted women, 1:1 coaching, and a variety of practices to empower you. The program's curriculum is guided by four growth phases: Seed, Sprout, Grow, and Bloom.

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• If you're ready to trade the grind and the guilt for growth in a small and supportive community of six women, check out my brand new Heart Centered Women's Circle! (bit.ly/tradethegrindforgrowth)

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🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• About how Carlyn was freed from corporate America after 25 years in advertising.
• What four values Carlyn brought to our first coaching session together in May 2020.
• Carlyn's monumental shift that she had never done before!
• What riding ATVs in the jungle in Mexico has to do with outgrowing the grind.
• How our inner resources clarify our yesses and our no's.
• The wisdom Carlyn carries today by being intentionally connected with her inner 7-year old and what she admires about her idol, Dolly Parton.
• Carlyn's advice for how to outgrow the grind (in a JOY-FULL way!)
• Your two reflection questions for this episode: 1) Who are your inner resources? 2) Is there a situation in your life right now where you can tap into the wisdom of that inner resource? Share your insights from your reflection questions with me in a DM to my Instagram account!

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• Want to hit the trails and become a wildling? Sign up for more information at backtowildadventures.com.
• Read all about Carlyn's ATV adventure in Mexico (and see the muddy pics!) here.
• Connect with Carlyn on Facebook, Instagram (@backtowildadventures), and Twitter.
• If the idea of outgrowing the daily grind and the guilt when you tend to your own needs resonates with you, I'd love to invite you to join the waitlist for my upcoming small group coaching circle. Click here to be first to get all the details!

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Are you resonating with what you're hearing on Outgrow the Grind? If yes, make sure you follow and leave a five-star review at Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts!

🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• About my surprise diagnosis this week!
• A recent moment when I was judging myself for what I was needing after a jam-packed week.
• Your needs are beautiful, not a burden.
• Why honoring what you need isn't extravagant or luxurious, it's self-loving.
• How when we deny our own needs, it's even harder to get in touch with what we want.
• Reflection questions: 1) What do I need right now; and 2) How can I nurture that need by weaving in what I want?
• How our five senses can give us some clues about what we want.

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• If the idea of outgrowing the daily grind and the guilt when you tend to your own needs resonates with you, I'd love to invite you to join the waitlist for my upcoming small group coaching circle. Click here to be the first to get all the details!

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Are you resonating with what you're hearing on Outgrow the Grind? If yes, make sure you follow and leave a five-star review at Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts!

🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• How, after working full time for 16 years in arts organizations, various freelance projects, and starting her own artistic practice, Sheetal decided to quit her last full time job in 2018 and start her own business, Lohar Projects the following year.
• How the conflict between her values and the organizational practices of the nonprofits she was working for pointed her towards creating Lohar Projects.
• The way Sheetal brings her values to life every day in her current work.
• About how Sheetal learning about and honoring her values and skills helped her realize the value she brings to her clients.
• About Sheetal's project with the Times Square Alliance - Rumors of War, a large-scale sculpture by Kehinde Wiley in Times Square!
• The ways that Sheetal is able to make a difference in a new way as an external consultant instead of an internal employee.
• How Sheetal has learned not only how to say no, but when and why to say no.
• Sheetal's advice for anyone still in the daily grind.
• Your reflection question: which value of mine do I want to honor more?

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• Connect with Sheetal on her company Lohar Projects' website, her website, or on Instagram (@loharprojects).
• Hear the song that inspired the name of my company Compass Rose By Chris Pureka
• Create a To Do List that lights you up instead of bums you out - check out the workshop.

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Are you resonating with what you're hearing on Outgrow the Grind? If yes, make sure you follow and leave a five-star review at Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts!

🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• What fills up my tank when I'm on empty.
• A clip from Senator Cory Booker's remarks acknowledging Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing last week.
• Reflection invitation: create your own "Replenishment Reminder" list so it's ready when you need it. It can be so hard to remember what replenishes us when we're feeling especially depleted!

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• Schedule a 30-minute sample coaching session with me: https://bit.ly/samplecoachingsesh
• Create a To Do List that lights you up instead of bums you out - check out the workshop.

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Are you resonating with what you're hearing on Outgrow the Grind? If yes, make sure you follow and leave a five-star review at Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts!

In today's episode, you'll meet Madeline Schwarz, Communications Coach Extraordinaire!

🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• All of the expectations that Madeline was juggling when her son was born eight years ago
• More about her work journey after her son was born - including that one time when she was laid off just a few days after spraining her ankle at a job site
• How Madeline outgrew the grind of getting another corporate project management job and decided to start a business instead
• All of the expectations she unlearned and let go of both for her and her family
• Madeline's advice for parents and non-parents while in the process of outgrowing the grind
• The role that creativity and childlike inspiration has played in Madeline's life
• Your three reflection questions for this episode: 1) What expectations are impacting your growth? 2) Are they yours, someone else's, societal conditioning? 3) What small shifts could you make to create an even better experience for yourself?

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• Get Madeline's tips for how to talk about your job when you've already outgrown it here.
• Connect with Madeline on LinkedIn or on her website.
• Schedule a 30-minute sample coaching session with me here: https://bit.ly/samplecoachingsesh

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We're joined today by Obehi Alofoje. Obehi is a psychologist, stress management consultant, and productivity coach who shares how she's outgrown two different grinds in her life.

🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• How Obehi was "making do" in her underpaid nonprofit job and feeling guilty about wanting to earn more money
• The assumption that she'd "always be in the red" because she chose to work in nonprofits
• Obehi's process of making peace with her hard-of-hearing status and what her journey to choose to wear hearing aids has been like
• That the areas where we're pretending that what we're tolerating is "enough" is a great place to dig deeper and imagine what else might be possible
• Obehi's advice for listeners who are making do in one or more areas of their lives
• Two reflection questions: 1) Where are you making do in your life and pretending like it's enough? 1) How would you like it to be instead?

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• Connect with Obehi on LinkedIn.
• Completely transform your To Do List so that it reflects what matters most to you AND what brings you energy. Purchase the workshop here.

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Are you resonating with what you're hearing on Outgrow the Grind? If yes, make sure you follow and leave a five-star review at Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts!

🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why it's easier for so many of us to give instead of receive
• Why opening yourself up to both receiving and giving is important
• How two friends asked me for help recently and what I learned about giving and receiving from them
• The growing conditions for asking for help and what it can make possible
• How sometimes asking for help can benefit BOTH the receiver and the giver
• Four reasons why I sometimes hesitate to ask for help

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• Two reflection questions: 1) Who do you feel safe asking for help and receiving from? 2) What's one ask that you could make from them today?
• Curious about my upcoming group coaching circle for deeply caring, high-achieving women? Add your name to the announcement list here.

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Are you resonating with what you're hearing on Outgrow the Grind? If yes, make sure you follow and leave a five-star review at Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts!

Today's guest is Kelly Haller, the founder of Tidy Rebel. Kelly is a professional organizer, taking down the patriarchy by teaching us how to prioritize ourselves over the myth of perfectionism.

🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• How Kelly grew her business when the pandemic started and what shifted when she decided she wanted to have kids
• About the tension between the external pressure to prove our perfectionism vs. the internal feeling of utter exhaustion when deprioritizing your own needs
• The doubts and fears that tried to block Kelly from following her calling
• What helped Kelly learn to trust herself and what's truly important to her
• The patriarchal pressure to worry more about how things look than how they feel
• Kelly's advice and permission to prioritize YOU!
• Here are your reflection questions: Where in your life are you focused on what looks good instead of what feels good? How can you shift it to prioritize you and your own experience so it feels good on the inside?

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• Want more Kelly in your life? Find her at her website and on Instagram (@thetidyrebel).
• Get 10 exercises to ground yourself in five minutes or less here.
• Download Kelly's Tidy Enough Guide and get organized (for good) in a way that aligns with you!
• The book Kelly mentioned that helped inspire the launch of her business: Lisa Sasevich's Meant for More

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Are you resonating with what you're hearing on Outgrow the Grind? If yes, make sure you follow and leave a five-star review at Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts!

🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• The highlights of my recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area
• Our conditioning to value DOING over BEING
• Why we tend to trust effort, struggle and hard work more than ease
• About two eye-opening moments when I questioned that ease was as "legitimate" as effort
• The magic that happens when we give ourselves permission to let it be easy + trust ourselves + show up fully

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• See what's blooming at Filoli right now (Thank you, Michael!)
• Two reflection questions: 1) Where are you currently choosing effort over ease? 2) How could you infuse a little more ease (even just 5% more)?
• Share your reflections with me on Instagram or on Facebook

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Are you resonating with what you're hearing on Outgrow the Grind? If yes, make sure you follow and leave a five-star review at Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts!