The Career Studio

Oftentimes the reason we’re stuck in our careers is because we’ve been building it against someone else’s model for success and fulfillment - and this model often comes, inadvertently, from the spaces where we were raised. If your parents have a lot of opinions, or if you find yourself anxious about pleasing your parents, you won’t want to miss this episode. As letting go of what they think you should do is essential to creating a career and life on your terms.

In this episode I cover.

• The model I was raised in and how this influenced my opinions about what I did early on in my career.
• The reactions that my parents had to my decision to become a coach 
• The reactions my clients’ parents have had to their own career reinventions
• What to remember and focus on if your parents’ second-guess the professional or personal decisions you’re making.

Related episodes

• Wisdom from my career path
• Career Cornerstone 2: Mindset

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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When I met Nick he felt like he was treading water, clocking in and clocking out, looking up the corporate ladder without any real enthusiasm.

He felt like there was something missing.

After six months together Nick landed his dream job working in sports betting. He's stepped off the "career ski lift" and has created a career at the intersection of what he's naturally good at, what he's interested in, and his life priorities.

Nick and I discussed: 

• The value of constantly checking in on how you’re feeling
• Being true to yourself about what you’re good at and what you like to do
• How he created the perfect role for himself through networking
• The importance of going for things that really align with your interests
• What to focus on if you’re someone who avoids networking 

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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The process of building an energizing career you love is similar to the process of building a healthy, thriving, romantic relationship. This is good news. Because you have already had practice understanding yourself and building romantic relationships and so this experience can be applied to many of the core challenges you face professionally when you feel lost, demotivated or burned out.

In this episode I cover.

• The five ways these two things in life are similar
• How to take the wisdom you’ve developed through dating and building relationships and apply it to your career

Related episodes

• Wisdom from my career path

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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We hate the discomfort of feeling lost. And when we’re lost we don’t know where to start to fix it. This is why so many people reach for another degree - I did this, I did an MBA. Another degree feels like a socially-sanctioned way of addressing your lost feelings. But then why do so many people graduate no more wiser as to where they’re going and what they want? Why are there so many post-MBA students frustrated and lost in the 5 years after graduation? It’s because the MBA was selected in panic as the solution for feeling lost. I recommend avoiding this costly mistake.

In this episode I cover.

• Why we tend to reach for secondary-degrees when we’re feeling professionally lost.
• The impact of panic MBAs on what you’re able to get out of the educational program.
• What to do instead when you feel lost professionally.
• How to decide on a secondary degree in a productive, intentional way.

Related episodes

• Wisdom from my career path
• Navigating uncertainty
• Your People: Career Cornerstone 3

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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Most people pleasers don’t realize they’re people pleasers. Because people pleasing is more nuanced than telling people yes when you really mean no. In fact, it’s a way of operating that can actually get you quite far professionally - that is, until you burnout or reach a level of screaming discontentment because you realize the environment you’re in does not fit with the person that you are.

If you consider yourself a high-achiever and you’re also struggling with burnout or feeling lost professionally, let me offer that you might be people pleasing. 

In this episode I cover.

• The people pleasing qualities that make you successful
• The flip side of the success people pleasing creates
• The origins of your people pleasing
• How people pleasing gets in the way of professional and personal alignment
• How to begin to unwind from people pleasing tendencies 

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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The natural place to start when you feel like you might want a new job is to head over to a job board and start scanning opening roles or open up that old resume and start adding new information. But this is the wrong place to start if you’re feeling lost professionally. It’s likely to cause you to spin out into a black hole of despair as you send your applications out and wait to hear back. 

There is a much more effective, informative, and energizing way to spend your time if you’re feeling lost professionally. Join me as I walk you through the approach I take all my clients through to go from confusion to clarity.

In this episode I cover: 

• Why updating your resume is the wrong place to start 
• The statistics behind applying to jobs online
• What to spend your time doing instead of job applications (and why and how this works)

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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By February most New Year’s resolutions will have fallen by the wayside. But what if you could think about your year in a way that felt motivating, exciting, and aligned - and set you up so that you could not fail? 

My friend Jen Lewis has been developing and implementing a goal setting tool for eight years that has transformed her life - from leaving her marriage, coming out as gay, starting her own business, and buying a home. Jen credits the big changes she’s made to her goal setting approach: goals that feel good. It all comes down to focusing on one word and then building off of that. 

Every day I think about how to make it easier to build an energizing career you love. And a big part of that is learning to tune into yourself, trust yourself, and take actions towards building against that. Jen’s approach to goal setting facilitates that - it’s a simple way to get into alignment with what’s most important to you.

Jen is British and has lived in New York for eight years. She started her career in marketing and advertising and today is the COO of Lex - an app that helps you find LGBTQ+ friends & community - as well as an advisor to other businesses in the sexual, wellness, and dating spaces. On the side Jen is a painter, a writer, and an avid traveller who is always on the move. 

Find her on Instagram @jenlewis27

Download her tool here.

In this episode we discuss:

• How to create one word that is your anchor point for the year.
• How to set aligned goals
• How to take incremental actions against those goals
• Expanding what you see as possible through conversation
• How to unblock limiting beliefs
• What to do when you fall off the wagon with your goals

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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Uncertainty is uncomfortable. And yet it’s a normal part of the transition process as you remake your career identity. You have to spend time not knowing what the next step is, before you’re clear on where you want to go. 

But uncertainty feels untethering. Our culture values clarity and certainty - having a plan and executing against it. And so the tendency is to try to get out of uncertainty as quickly as possible. Relieving the uncertainty becomes more important than really figuring out what is the best next step. Which is a recipe for professional and personal misalignment.

In this episode I shine a light on uncertainty and reposition it in a way that feels normal and actionable so you can welcome it into your life and make intentional decisions that get you on the best path forward for you.

In this episode I discuss:

• What happens when we make decisions to get out of uncertainty
• Reframing uncertainty in a way that supports the transition work you’ll need to do
• The most important thing to do to move through uncertainty
• How to explore your uncertainty in the most productive way 

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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Do you ever feel attached to your career looking a certain way? This is what was happening with my next podcast guest, Yui Hashimoto, when we first started working together.

She was a postdoc at the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows; and after having spent the first decade of her career in academia getting a PhD, the only model of ‘success’ she knew was continuing on the path to becoming a professor. The fear of stepping off this path when she’d ‘already invested so much’ was significant.

But as her postdoc was nearing to a close she felt depleted, stressed, and uncertain - academia wasn’t feeling great but she had no idea what life would look like outside of the career she had planned on for so long.

Yui ended up leaving academia and feels lighter, clearer and more energized as a program evaluator at Public Health Seattle & King County. 

As a ‘recovering academic’ she continues to keep her toe in the academic world, mentoring students, writing, and thinking with her collaborators. She's also written some great reflections on her career transition out of academia which you can find on Medium. 

When she's not working, Yui is playing with her niblings (the children of her siblings), running, practicing yoga, catching up with friends, or looking for the next restaurant or café to try.

Yui and I had a rich conversation where we discuss: 

• Shedding the shoulds that ruled her life and taking the leap into the unknown
• The power of showing up and being yourself, how it impacts your relationship to work and your stress levels
• The importance of talking to people outside your industry to get fresh perspectives on how to approach your career
• How reimagining your career effectively requires you to look at your life holistically.
• What happens when we ignore our feelings and only rely on our brain.
• The impact of listening to our body's signals on our productivity and energy levels.
• Where to start if you want to learn to trust your gut
• The importance of taking your time to make career moves
• How to take control of your time if you feel like there's never enough
• The surprising benefits of putting yourself first
• And much more

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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I consider the week between Christmas and New Year’s to be the best week of the year. The festivities are over, the socializing has calmed down, work is typically slower and we have these precious few days to be a bit quieter and reflect - on the past twelve months and the next twelve months. 

A coach doing a podcast about reflection and goal setting is pretty obvious but I’m doing it anyway. This episode is meant to be used as a structure to support you in taking advantage of this time of year in a simple and intentional way. 

In this episode I cover: 

• How to manage your mindset for growth and goal setting
• What questions and setting I use to reflect and set intentions
• How to set New Year’s Resolutions that actually stick
• The Japanese principle of ‘kaizen’

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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