This week's episode features Val Nelson, a career and business coach for introverts and highly sensitive people who want meaningful work without the overwhelm. She enjoys helping people clarify their career or self-employment decisions.

🌱 In this episode, you'll learn:

• How Val realized she'd outgrown the cubicle life.
• The ways that Val second-guessed whether self-employment was for people like her.
• Val's journey from the cubicle to her current business, including her bridge job!
• How Val shifted her mindset from an employee mindset to a self-employment mindset.
• Val's experience of the "Christmas-morning-like-magic of what's possible."
• Val's biggest fear in self-employment.
• What Val had to say no to and the strong words of advice she received along her journey.
• How she allowed herself to be and share even more of herself along the way.
• Val's advice for anyone in the cubicle grind and what you need to listen to.
• How happy Val was to have freedom, even with a pay cut.*
• *Val told me she knows that's not feasible for everyone. Paying the bills is important too.
• Val's advice for you if you're someone who counts yourself out before trying something new.
• About Val's favorite plant is and the sweet reason why it's so special to her.
• Your reflection questions for this episode: 1) Where in my life am I taking myself out of the game before even trying something new? 2) What else is possible instead of what feels like a barrier?

🌱 Seeds planted in this episode:

• Connect with Val through her website. Sign up to learn more about her upcoming new course, Bridge to Self-Employment here.
• Are you curious about what possibilities that coaching could uncover for you? Schedule a 30-minute sample coaching session with me here: https://bit.ly/samplecoachingsesh.

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