Sustainable Ambition

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Crafting a fulfilling life and career is the work of a lifetime.

My guest today is Karyn Flynn. Karyn has built a varied resume, stepped back from her career to focus on her family, and pivoted in and out of multiple fields and roles. Her trajectory hasn’t been straight, but considering her purpose and values and continually leveraging her skills has allowed her to create a more fulfilling, sustainable career and life.

She shares how building confidence through your skills and not your title can bolster you through major transitions and why getting clear on your values and holistic goals can help you create a well-rounded life.

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In this episode, I’m joined by author and journalist Rainesford Stauffer.

We discuss her new book, All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive, what happens when ambition defines us, the conversations we should be having about ambition, and getting curious about ambition with a more expansive, holistic view.

Learn more about Guest

• Website
• Instagram: @rainesford_stauffer
• All the Gold Stars
• An Ordinary Age

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Overwhelm can happen to anyone, even me.

We can set goals and priorities, and they can be the right ambitions, but managing a packed schedule takes intention and thought if we want to avoid burnout.

Today, I’m sharing some strategies that helped me make conscious decisions about how I was spending my time in pursuit of my goals during an active few months.

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How can we craft our goals in ways that actually support our well-being? How can we reduce frustration and, in turn, increase fulfillment as we pursue our goals?

Today, I’m thrilled to be joined by Valerie Tiberius. Valerie’s work explores the ways in which philosophy and psychology contribute to the study of well-being and virtue.

Her most recent book, What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters has been especially relevant to the way I think about Sustainable Ambition, pursuing our goals, and navigating conflict around them.

Learn more about Valerie Tiberius:

• Website

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Today, I’m in conversation with Ayelet Fishbach, an award-winning psychologist and prolific researcher on the science of motivation.

We discuss how motivation connects to both ambition and how to manage our goals. You’ll hear how we can make choices about where we want to pull ourselves and how to create the circumstances that best support our efforts. We also delve into the idea that it’s okay to be ambitious and try to do a lot in our lives, while also needing to hold our goals and ambitions lightly so that we can offer ourselves more kindness around the pursuit of our goals.

Learn more about Ayelet Fishbach:

• Website

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What lies at the intersection of ambition and expectation? 

On today’s episode, I’m welcoming back Wade Brill to discuss just that. We start first by getting clear—what are definitions of ambitions, ambitious, and expectations? And how do we manage when expectations are present? 

Expectations are tricky to manage and can cause a lot of suffering. Wade shares practical advice for noticing when expectations are present and how we can have more compassion for ourselves as we navigate these intersections, and we talk about learning to work with expectations to bring more ease into our lives. 

If you’ve been struggling with managing expectations of yourself or from others, this episode is for you.

Learn more about Wade Brill

• Website
• Centered in the City
• Centered in the City Podcast
• Instagram: @OneWade
• Connect with Wade on LinkedIn

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How do we help the next generation define success on their own terms?

My guest, Irena Smith, offers wisdom and advice from her years of experience working with college applicants and her own life experience in her memoir, The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays.

Her book explores the college application process from the perspective of a parent, college counselor, and admissions officer. She challenges the societal expectations of success, especially for young people, and encourages parents to meet their children where they are and not to force them into pursuing a passion just because it's expected.

Many of Irena’s insights don’t apply solely to young people. In fact, from my perspective, many of the college application questions in her book are good self-reflection questions for us older folks, too, and the questions Irena raises are important for us to consider as we continue to shape and grow our notions of success throughout our lives.

In our conversation, we explore the impact and consequences of well-intentioned expectations, be it if they are parental or societal, and we cover the topics of ambition, striving, finding one’s spark, and more.

Learn more about Irena Smith:

• Website
• Sierra Admissions Consulting
• Facebook
• Twitter: @irenawrites

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What can we learn about Sustainable Ambition from amazing women who are changing the world?

Today I’m talking with Lauren Schiller and Hadley Dynak about their new book, It's a Good Day to Change the World: Inspiration and Advice for a Feminist Future. 

The women in the book are taking on the seemingly intractable problems of our world and creating change one step at a time and there is so much we can learn from these stories and from the women who brought us the book.

Learn more about Lauren Schiller:

• Inflection Point
• Instagram: @inflectionpointradio
• Facebook: @inflectionpointradio

Learn more about Hadley Dynak:

• Peak86

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It’s easy to get caught in the loop of looking to external markers of success and constantly striving toward ever-moving goalposts of what it means to be successful.

Today, I’m in conversation with the CEO of Hello!Lucky, Sabrina Moyle.

Sabrina shares her journey through founding the company with her sister, redefining success on her own terms, and the inner work she’s done to support creating a sustainable, creative, joyful life for herself and her family. We discuss finding our purpose in our day-to-day and she shares valuable insight about managing time and nurturing the community around us.

Learn more about Sabrina Moyle:

• Hello!Lucky
• Instagram: @helloluckycards @helloluckykids
• Escargot for It: A Snail's Guide to Finding Your Own Trail & Shell-ebrating Success

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What is performance and what does it mean to perform?

For many, performance implies being inauthentic. But what if we defined performance as being wholly present, uninhibited by our fears, and unrestrained in expressing our instincts?

In today’s episode, I’m reflecting on my conversations with D’Arcy Webb and Charles Gilbert and on what it really means to perform, how it intersects with our goals and doing our best work, and how it impacts the way we show up for others.

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