The Chantiluke Podcast

I get it, there are responsibilities, and jobs, and loved ones, and Real Housewive...And weeks can go by without you doing the thing that you love.

Well, it's time to change that.

I walk you through the same exact process I used to create a weekly schedule to work on my passion: Chantiluke!

You don't want to miss:

How to reset your mindset about time

The 7 step process to create a routine that allows you to work on your passion

Oh consistency...

Since I've started my business over 6 months ago, I've had to get up close and personal with the limiting beliefs, negative thoughts, and habits that kept me inconsistent.

In this episode, you'll learn

How I've been learning more about the thoughts that kept me inconsistent

Why we give into challenges and stop moving forward

How to take be more consistent as we move towards our dreams

Your body, your body, your body language.

Jesse McCartney anyone?!

But for real, do you know your own body's language? On today's episode, I make a case for becoming fluent in your body language.  I believe it is one of the best ways to get in touch with our truest desires and to finally live the lives we want.

In this episode, you'll learn

How I've been practicing listening to my body

Why our bodies are worth listening to

Three ways to become more fluent in your body language

Today I'm sharing why the past 2 weeks have been some of the best in recent memory. Not because there were major life changes. But because I've changed.

In this episode, you'll learn

What I mean by "alignment"

How it's been changing my everyday

My initial tips on getting into and staying in alignment throughout the day

There won't be a podcast next week. Or emails. Or posts to Instagram.

Why? 

I'm getting married! I'll be enjoying my first few days of marriage sans technology (for the most part).

In this episode, I share some big questions and ruminations about feeling joy and excitement (and a deep knowing beyond rational thought). 

I hope you enjoy!

Callings. What a big, hairy concept. I'm not going to lie though, they are everywhere and each on us gets called to do something.

That's why I'm sharing my thoughts on callings today.

In this episode, you'll learn

How "callings" are invitations to become more of our truest selves

Why an "almost" right job is vastly different from a "right" job

Why callings are so important to living meaningful lives

How dangerous it can be to refuse a calling

Hello Friends! Welcome to Episode 15

Are you struggling to get a job? Are you miserable submitting application after application?

Do you want to know the secret to a successful job search?

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The seeming contrarian advice to a successful job search
• What is alignment and why should you care
• Three steps you should take to have a successful job search

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Are you struggling to get a job? Are you miserable submitting application after application?

Do you want to know the secret to a successful job search?

Get happy.

That’s it. Done. Have a great day.

Just kidding.

Friends, I don’t mean to be flippant but I truly do believe that if you want to get a job you truly want, you cannot be miserable during your job search.

So many of us believe that once we have something we will finally be happy. If we finally get the perfect job, then we will be happy. If we finally get the callback, then we will be happy.

The truth is: If we want to be successful, productive, fill-in-the blank we need to feel well FIRST.

You don’t have to take my word for it. Listen to science! A FANTASTIC book called The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor, is literally all about this. The essential premise of the book is that based on research of thousands of people and companies, the key to being successful (however you define it) is to be happy and engaged first. Happy people are more engaged, productive, and focused. That’s no surprise, but there’s science to corroborate this.

I want you to not only get a job, but I want you not be miserable the entire time you’re searching for that job.

Here are three things I encourage you to do to get happy and successfully get a job:

1.)   Stop all job search activities for two whole days.

Do not even peak at Indeed, LinkedIn. Do not send another email for an informational interview. Do not even lay a finger on your resume. Put a complete halt on the active job searching. I want you to do this because I want you to fill your time in with something else instead.

2.)   During those two days, do as many things that make you feel lit up inside during those two days.

Maybe that means you’re painting, you’re reading a new book, you’re running some formulas in STATA or R. Whatever it is that makes you feel happy and energized, that’s what you’re going to fill your two days up with.

Now, your lizard brain is going to freak out and say no way, I need to be working like a dog on my applications, resume, whatever. That is okay. That’s normal. Recognize those thoughts, interrogate them, and divest. Don’t spend time as much time with them.

Our whole goal is to get you back to feeling good. Because at the very least, there’s no point being miserable over a job search. It is truly unnecessary and unproductive, even if your lizard brain thinks it is. But, we’re also doing this because you’re going to have so much energy, so much gusto to channel into your job search.

3.)   At the end of your two days, I want to make and enact a plan of how you’re going to continue getting into alignment EVERY day forward.

I want you to carve out at least 30 minutes per day where you get aligned. I suggest doing 15 minutes in the morning, 15 at night so that you start and end your day happy. I want you to take this as seriously as you take writing that resume and submitting those applications. Because it is serious. Your well-being is very serious business. You cannot postpone joy until you get something and expect to be able to fully enjoy the outcome. You’ve essentially made that outcome be your savior, your golden calf and no job can ever be that redemptive.

So be diligent. When you want to skimp on the 30 minutes, I want you to re-prioritize. Don’t be obsessive, this is not another thing to do perfectly. But set your intention to prioritize your well-being and make it happen to the best of your ability.

 

I want you to do all these three things because the focus and energy you will have when you’re job searching is going to change. How do I know this? Because you have changed. You cannot both be happy and stay invested in negative thoughts at the same time. They are incompatible.

When you change, when your thoughts change, your feelings change and then your actions change.

And that my friends, is how you will thrive in your job search.

Want more help? Head over to Chantiluke.com/coaching to learn more about how I can help you find more ease and focus in your job search.

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Hi Friends! Welcome to Episode 14

Hello Friends!

I'm starting off the podcast with a big question: “So this, I believe is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”

I wasn't kidding when I said I was starting big!

In this episode, I want to encourage you to consider the importance of creativity and courage when it comes to your career and life.

If you want to swap a "mundane" existence for "an enchanted" one, then I suggest you take a listen.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why everyone should consider creativity in their careers
• How important courage is in living an "enchanted" existence
• What you can start doing to live a more meaningful life...today

 

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I have a question. Do you have the courage?

Let me explain. One of my favorite book’s is Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. It’s fantastic. If you have not read it. Go ahead and read it.

One of my favorite sections of my favorite book is truly a section full of questions. It goes like this: “So this, I believe is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”

Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?

I want to first explain what creativity, treasures, and all that jazz have to do with jobs and careers.

If you haven’t noticed by now, this whole Chantiluke thing is not really about sharing job searching strategies or tips. If that’s what you need or want, there are some really great resources for it.

What this is about is something that I see as the FIRST part of job searching and is really critical to having not just a nice career, or a prestigious career, but a meaningful one. A meaningful life really. It’s the deep inner work, the psychological work, and the dare I utter the s-word, spiritual work.

So much of conversations about careers begin with strengths and interests. Or passions. But what I think people are referring to when they say “passions” are really uber-interests. “I’m passionate about art, so I should be an artist” or “I’m passionate about saving money so I should be an accountant.”

There is a passion below those passions. And that what we are truly after. Gregg Levoy describes it as “metapassion” or “the needs your passion satisfies.” The need to solve puzzles may be behind your love of math, or your need to feel the satisfaction of getting to the core of an argument is satisfied through writing.

There is a difference between interests, uber-interests, and passions. And passions my friends turn mere careers to vocations. Following those passions are what gives our lives meaning.

Why? Not just because we get to experience the satisfaction of creating. But we get to experience the rich feelings that come along with following that passion. And the results of the following, that’s what give our lives a whole new color, expands it in ways we never could have predicted.

This is why asking yourself “Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” is so important.

If you want to have a “successful” career, a good job, there is nothing nothing nothing wrong with that. But if you want to swap what Gilbert describes as a “mundane existence” for an “enchanted one” you’re going to need to ask yourself some hard questions.

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Hi Friends! Welcome to Episode 13

Hello Friends!

In honor of college graduation season, I’ve decided to share the three pearls of wisdom that I wish I could have shared with myself on my college graduation day.

In fact, these are hard lessons learned that I'm still learning.

Check it our now.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why there is no substitute for joy
• How overthinking has gotten in my way...and still does
• Why holding things "a bit more loosely" may be the best way forward

 

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In honor of college graduation season, I’ve decided to share the three pearls of wisdom that I wish I could have shared with myself on my college graduation day.

Let me start with a story: It’s senior week 2013 and I’m driving with a few of my fellow seniors to a dinner one of the departments is holding for us. We’re doing what all seniors are doing at that point and sharing our post-graduation plans.

I share that I’m going to UCLA for a Phd in Sociology. And one of my classmates go: “Whoa, how do you know that’s what you even want to do?!”

I remember thinking to myself: “What in the world are you talking about? I am absolutely certain that this is what I want to do. Why don’t you know what you want to do?!”

I laugh now because I know that I changed my mind about that little Phd program completely.

But I appreciate that younger version of me for her tenacity, yes some naivety, but also a strong conviction in loving something, having an interest, and throwing herself whole-heartedly into it.

This is not to say that there aren’t lessons or bits of advice I wish I could whisper into her ear. Which is what I’m sharing today.

1.)   There is absolutely no substitute for joy. Not even “almost joy” can cut it for the long-haul. Mark Twain has a fantastic quote that encapsulates this sentiment. He says:

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

The same is true for your job. Almost joy is miles away from true joy. In fact, I would add to this by saying that you, Danielle, should be most weary of almost joy. You can sniff out a horrible job very easily. But an almost right job, an almost joyful job, now that one is dangerous. Your mind intervenes to talk your body out of what it knows on a visceral level is just not good enough. But your mind is trying to fill in the difference with explanations, equivocations. And then you get to experience the lightning, when you’re coaching, writing the podcast, doing research for your courses. And you feel the lightning and it is absolutely unmistakable. Don’t try to substitute joy.

2.) Baby, you will never know how it goes, UNTIL IT GOES.

Oh gosh. If there were a Nobel Peace Prize, a National Medal, a prestigious guild for over-analysis and overthinking I would be the first winner. No doubt. I tried to map out a singular, safe path for myself, and tried to both clear the path for myself ahead of actually taking the path. Obviously that doesn’t work. But oh how I ache to know what the heck will happen next because I swear that’s what I need. (I’m whispering to my former self but really coaching my current self through this too). You do your best in this moment, but you can only serve this moment. And then you do the same in the next. And in the next. And in the one after that. Because you can never ever know how it goes until it goes.

3.) Hold it all a bit more loosely.

You show up, you do the work, but you cannot cannot cannot white knuckle your way to success. Actually I guess you could, but by the time you get “there” (wherever that there is), you’ve spent the entire time in fear, anxiety, and struggle when it could have been enjoyable. Holding things more loosely does not mean you don’t care, that you’re not consistent. All it means is that you are as invested in enjoying the experience now as you are in the outcome in the future. The path unfolds without your incessant intervention anyways; if you hold it more loosely, then you get to enjoy the unfolding while you’re doing the work. Hold it all a bit more loosely baby girl.

 

 

Well friends, those are my lessons to my former self. What are yours?

Head over to chanti_luke on IG to share.

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Hello Friend!

Today's episode is high on the woo-woo scale.

And I kindly request that you stay open and consider the possibilities of what I'm talking about.

In this episode:

- I dive into what I mean by the term "universe"

- Explain how the universe is generating opportunities for our own growth

- How to start embracing the responsibility and honor that we have the universe conspiring on our behalf