The LiftOff Project with Coach Pamela | Confidence | Career | Well-being | Productivity | Happiness

In Tales From the Coaching Front, I share my secret strategy for how you can accomplish your goals in life without relying on willpower. (It works for both personal and career goals!) And in Ask Coach Pamela I outline a reinvention plan for listener Nikki who, by wondering if it's time to pursue her passion, asks that perennial question "What should my career be?"

In Tales From the Coaching Front, I share my secret strategy for how you can accomplish your goals in life without relying on willpower. (It works for both personal and career goals!) And in Ask Coach Pamela I outline a reinvention plan for listener Nikki who, by wondering if it's time to pursue her passion, asks that perennial question "What should my career be?"

Today's eye-opening topic is how our brain's natural aversion to uncertainty can cause us to take the familiar—yet riskier—path. In Tales From the Coaching Front. I focus on useful strategies to overcome that roadblock so you can maximize your opportunities in career reinvention. And in Ask Coach Pamela, I answer a question from two separate clients feeling drained by regrets, and offer them a recipe designed to reclaim personal power and move forward.

Today's eye-opening topic is how our brain's natural aversion to uncertainty can cause us to take the familiar—yet riskier—path. In Tales From the Coaching Front. I focus on useful strategies to overcome that roadblock so you can maximize your opportunities in career reinvention. And in Ask Coach Pamela, I answer a question from two separate clients feeling drained by regrets, and offer them a recipe designed to reclaim personal power and move forward.

The topic of 'cerebral congestion' is fresh on my mind this week as I share some interesting research about how downtime is required for healthy brain functioning and optimal productivity.

In today's moving and powerful interview, Kim Wise joins me to share how a shocking life event inspired her to step out and recreate her life around her long-time passion. The story of her journey shows us why it's so important to get started on our dreams and how accountability is the catalyst for making them happen.

Leading functional medicine expert Dr. Pamela Wartian Smith joins us again on the show to discuss something we generally take for granted until we start losing it-- our memory. She shares secrets for keeping our mind sharp along with proven techniques for strengthening (and even restoring!) our mental acuity.

I deal with a curveball this week-- my sound engineer taking a last-minute vacation-- by sharing three simple strategies that help you unleash the strength of "going with the flow" when life hands you unexpected events.

Things get really "real" this week, as I bring you into the unfiltered conversation Dina and I had after last week's interview. We pull back the curtain to talk about downside of our goals-- the personal toll they take, the sacrifices we make-- and what strategies help us maintain our boundaries and find time for ourselves.

There's plenty of motivation on tap in our two-part interview with real-life Reinventor Dina D'Alessandro. In today's episode, Part 1, Dina shares the practical tactics and strategies that have allowed her to shape her career to her passions, from publishing to event planning to her latest reinvention as a registered dietician. Get ready to be inspired!