Quit Happens | How (and why!) to strategically quit your job, leave your relationship, or part ways with toxic mindsets.

There is no single quitting topic I've had more requests for than quitting your family. Today I tackle just one part of it: quitting your parents.

Sometimes podcast guests come along and they drop so much knowledge about so many quitting topics that I don't even know where to start for the show description. This is one of those shows.

Conner Moore, host of the Realness Podcast, talks quitting small towns and small-town mindsets, quitting cities he'd just moved to, quitting owning a crossfit gym, quitting working for Onnit, quitting deep loving relationships, and basically anything else that was no longer serving him…even if he still really liked it.

The big takeaway is that once you do the work to know who you truly are, sometimes you have to quit things, even though you like them, if they're not serving your highest good.

Many of us have wanted to quit our job at some point, because we knew something surrounding work wasn't right. But sometimes it isn't the job that's not working, it's something within us.

This week's guest, transformational leadership coach Lindsay Sukornyk, has helped many people quit the mindsets and limiting beliefs that were leading to their perceived discontentment at work. That internal growth allowed them to stay in what they previously viewed as a toxic environment and led to them becoming agents of change in their original companies. Lindsay often advises that before you quit your job, see if you can start again at the same job with a fresh new outlook and mindset.

What do a police officer, a law student, and a Hollywood filmmaker have in common? This week's guest, Jay Menez, has been all three…among other things!

Some of the careers he quit because he grew restless, but others he was forced to quit due to economic factors, and in those situations, he learned, through both in-person and virtual mentors, how adopting a growth mindset can change how you see what others may consider 'failures.'

I'm trying out putting my facebook live Quit of the Week series out as podcast episodes. Here's the first of those episodes: Quit feeling as though you have to do ALL the things!

Have you ever called and thanked your parents for being quitters?

Do I now have your attention? Well this week's guest, filmmaker Skip Kelly, certainly had mine when he told the story of how he realized that his parents' willingness to divorce, in the face of the numerous difficulties that came with separating his family, had set the best example for him as a child of how to not settle and how to persevere until you find what truly fits for you.

It's a touching and poignant story you have to hear.

We're all familiar with the "we'll be happy when" mindset. But what happens when you've got the job, the money, the condo, and you realize that all along you were living other people's lives and not your own?

This week's guest, Emilio Palafox, hit just that spot. At which point he strategically quit anything that wasn't in line with who he knew he was, which required years of self-worth that led him to realize the importance of fostering resilience in being able to handle whatever life throws your way.

We know the drill all too well - you meet someone new and they ask you what you do, as if what you do gives them a great idea of who you are. The idea of equating job with identity is so pervasive that the fear of losing an identity can keep people stuck in jobs that aren't right for them for years.

But it doesn't have to be that way. This week's guest, Kirsten Asher of the Feminine Embodiment Method, describes how part of the self-work she did through the course of several career transitions was to realize that who she was didn't depend on what she did, it was instead a reflection of her morals and values.

Have you ever had that feeling that something was off? That somehow your thoughts and words and actions weren't aligning with who you knew you were?

This week's guest, Mike Sherbakov of the Greatness Foundation, calls that feeling "divine discomfort." And he suggests that instead of suppressing that feeling, take note and ask what you could do to get more in alignment, which requires refining your ability to listen to your body and follow your intuition...and then quitting whatever isn't working for you!

The number of physicians reaching burnout is staggering, and it's no surprise, as medical schools only recently began teaching students how to be well and take care of themselves. But another reason is that the pressure put on doctors to fulfill society's expectations of why they *should* have gone into medicine is often a very heavy burden to bear.

This week's guest, Dr. Kien Vuu, was headed down a less-than-healthy road himself when he realized part of why he went into medicine was to treat his "not enough-ness." It took quitting that mindset and cultivating an attitude of success and gratitude to be able to turn his life around and become the true healer he knew he was inside.