This Changes Things

Dorie Clark came to reinvention the old-fashioned way: by being laid off. As it happened, she was laid off on Monday, September 10th, 2001 - a terrible time, and a terrible job market. It was around that time that she realized that whether we like it or not, reinvention was going to be a necessary element our lives and how we live in the world. Fast forward to now, and Dorie Clark is a globally-recognized expert on reinvention and helping others make change in their lives, as a bestselling author, professor, and sought-after speaker and consultant - but even with all that, she has felt her own pull to reinvent herself and how she lives her life. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," Dorie speaks with host Shoshanna Hecht about turning dreams into long-term plans so you can reinvent yourself on your own schedule, accounting for your own shifting priorities, and why if you create a long runway for yourself, you can do almost anything.

Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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Who are my teachers when they're not assigned to me? What is the curriculum I choose to follow when it's not in the book? These were the questions that Abby Falik challenged high school graduates to answer when she founded Global Citizen Year, a non-profit that supported students in taking a "gap year" after high school. Abby was a decade into Global Citizen Year when the pandemic ground everything to a halt. Abby realized that this had never happened before, this collective, shared pause in life as we knew it. She made a conscious effort to find the power in that pause. In 2022 she joined the Emerson Collective as an Entrepreneur in Residence to incubate new models to transform how young people learn, launch and lead. Part of that mandate meant examining the default, assumed pathways not just for students, but for us all - and, Abby realized, for her. She and her husband had always dreamed of traveling the world with their children, so they packed up and took off for their own pause, and a return to her own fundamental questions about how we choose to learn, and live. In this episode of “Your New Life Blend,” Abby dials in from Nepal to talk to host Shoshanna Hecht about tuning out “the noise of everybody else's expectations" and finding your own path, because if the road is comfortable, you're on somebody else's road. 

Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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Is your workplace toxic? Benish Shah is an in-demand lawyer and marketing executive, used to ambitious projects with punishing timelines, and she didn't mind hard work. But in the wake of the pandemic, she  started to question not just the work, but the workplaces. Was her work making the world a better place? And were her workplaces measuring up to that same standard? Benish had noticed a pattern in workplace culture: big talk about diversity and inclusion, but little actual follow through for the employees who took the risk of showing up at work with their full selves. As a marketer, Benish recognized the pitch: Big talk about doing great work that's valued. As a veteran of some of those workplaces, she recognized the con: gaslighting, HR doublespeak and a playing field that was never meant to be even. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," host Shoshanna Hecht talks to Benish about how to recognize toxic workplaces, and what tools we can use to navigate them with open eyes, or get out.  

Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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When the pandemic upended our lives in March 2020, Cindy Gallop was one of the few people who did not experience personal or professional upheaval, or even inconvenience. Cindy loved spending time alone in the apartment she loved, she was a sought-after speaker and consultant who was equally in demand online - and she ran a startup that was predicated exclusively on users and customers being online. That company was MakeLoveNotPorn, a social sex platform, with a goal to normalize sex and promote consent, communication, and good sexual behavior. User submissions tripled during the pandemic, and Cindy knew why: people wanted intimacy, love, connection and authenticity. Cindy also saw this in her coaching clients - especially women. Brilliant, accomplished women were hungering to be seen and heard and supported in the full actualization of their goals, lives and selves. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," host Shoshanna Hecht talks to Cindy about how to thrive in the face of what life throws at you, how to exit environments that don't serve you, and how to turn every obstacle on its head to find the opportunity that comes from your unique voice, skills and vision. Oh also, she wants you to have great sex and more money. Happy Valentine's Day from a very special episode of Your New Life Blend!

SHOW NOTES 

MakeLoveNotPorn.tv
Dear Cindy
Cindy's TED Talk: Make Love, Not Porn
@CindyGallop on Twitter
Cindy Gallop on Linkedin
@CindyGallop on Instagram
Bossy Lipstick - "Cindy Gallop Is Unstoppable"


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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A few years ago, Emily Lynn Paulson didn't think she had a problem with drinking. She'd quit cold turkey for her pregnancies, after all. But there always seemed to be a reason to drink, an opportunity, an excuse. And, soon, a constant. And her kids noticed. So she made a decision, found a sponsor and a 12-step program, and quit. Now Emily is the founder of Sober Mom Squad, a Certified Professional Recovery Coach, a Facilitator of Addiction Awareness and the author of "Highlight Real: Finding Honesty and Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life." But there was something else she needed to be honest about: her complicit relationship with a predatory multi-level marketing outfit (MLM). Drinking had helped make Emily a sales juggernaut, but she didn't like what she'd bought into. So for the second time inside a few decisive years, she intentionally pivoted away from something central to her life. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," host Shoshanna Hecht talks to Emily about her upcoming book, "Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing," and her path away from the slippery-slope culture of casual drinking and MLM payday, and towards making amends, and changes.

Emily’s website: https://www.emilylynnpaulson.com/
instagram.com/emilylynnpaulson
linkedin.com/emilylynnpaulson
twitter.com/emilypaulson facebook.com/emilylynnpaulson

Sober Mom Squad: https://www.sobermomsquad.com/
instagram.com/sobermomsquad

"Highlight Reel: Finding Honesty & Recovery Beyond The Filtered Life, and Addiction"
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/highlight-real-emily-lynn-paulson/1133930990

"Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing"
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Hey-Hun/Emily-Lynn-Paulson/9781955905251


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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Sehreen Noor Ali did not plan to start a venture-backed company in the pediatric health care space. But her child had started missing her milestones and she had too many unanswered questions. After taking time off work and spending hours upon hours in Google rabbit holes and parent Facebook groups searching for clues and trading information, Sehreen decided to create a tool to surface this information directly to parents like her. Together with her co-founder, Sehreen built Sleuth, a childhood health recommendation engine, powered by crowdsourced insights from parents and machine-learning. (Think: Waze for childhood health.) Sleuth has been building in beta alongside Sehreen's own sleuthing about her daughter's health, and the opaque and time-consuming health care system. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," Sehreen reflects on that time with host Shoshanna Hecht, including the higher purpose of protecting kids, supporting families facing atypical health conditions, and marveling at her daughter's capacity for resilience...and, her own. 

Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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Daisy Auger-Dominguez is passionate about inclusion on a deep, personal level, drawing on her own experiences being othered and unheard work for change through empathy. As the Chief People Officer of Vice and the author of “Inclusion Revolution: The Essential Guide to Dismantling Racial Inequity in the Workplace” she takes that empathy to work every day - and wow is her work cut out for her in this COVID/post-COVID/we-are-so-not-post-COVID era. Working through the evolving needs of a workforce and the evolving requirements (demands?) of employers and employees - against the backdrop of volatile market conditions - presents new challenges for HR professionals. In this episode of “Your New Life Blend,” host Shoshanna Hecht speaks to Daisy about the challenges of making sure all voices are heard, fostering a sense of belonging, and navigating this new era with empathy for others... along with the challenge of prioritizing her own well-being. 

Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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Christina Wallace led a hard-charging life before the pandemic. She was a multi-hyphenate's multi-hyphenate, a musician-entrepreneur-marathon-runner-speaker-author-road-warrior who was flying a hundred thousand miles a year for work. Then she quit her job, because she had a new baby and it was time for a change. She was mapping out her book proposal and multiple income streams when the pandemic closed everything down - including her almost-income streams - and her world shrank into her Brooklyn apartment with just her, her baby, her husband, and her husband's phone voice - "a separate being in our relationship" - all day, every day. She realized change was going to have to come from her, so she reached out about a long-shot dream job - and became the newest faculty member of Harvard Business School. After a stint of zoom teaching, Christina and her family decamped for Boston and a life that, while still full and busy - had been designed on her terms, with a flourishing professional life at, she freely admits, "the first job that I have yet to cry at.” Now the mother of two, a three year old and a nine-month-old, Christina is the author of a new book, "The Portfolio Life," and a passionate advocate for designing a life that makes you happy. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," host Shoshanna Hecht talks to Christina about finding her way to her own Portfolio Life, and how we should all aspire to be happy in our own unique and personal version of success.

Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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The through-line of Umbreen Bhatti's career has been helping people tackle, as she says, "big, complex, sticky challenges." As the Director of the Athena Center for Leadership at Barnard College, and in her previous work as a lawyer and Director of the Innovation Lab at KQED, Umbreen looks at these challenges from all perspectives and then zooms out and kicks the tires on the underlying frameworks, paradigms and default assumptions to find new, and better, pathways forward. (She does not have time for "this is how we've always done it" and still less for "this is why it can't be done.") Umbreen had been at the Athena Center for almost a year when the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in March 2020, and she got her wish: "this is how we've always done it" was no longer an option, and "this can't be done" never was. It was, ironically, a perfect crucible for learning about leadership - which, for Umbreen, meant equipping her students to move forward an uncertain world, and find ways to seize challenges and turn them into opportunities. In this episode, host Shoshanna Hecht talks to Umbreen about how leadership means looking at challenges as new possibilities, and moving beyond them to envision the world we want to live in, and then build it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ub14
https://www.linkedin.com/in/umbreenbhatti/

Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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Yoga educator Chrissy Carter left her high-intensity job as a trader on Wall Street to pursue her passion for wellness. Then in March 2020 her yoga practice suddenly switched from the studio to her home which became the place for everything else, too, including her husband and baby, as boundaries completely disappeared, along with her sense of control over her life. Chrissy had always approached her teaching, her business, even her relationship asking, how do I simplify this? and turned to simplicity again in this moment, looking to rebuild her boundaries, refocus her practice and zero in on the one thing she could control: herself. As a "perfectionist and control freak" now learning to "go with the flow," Chrissy worked to find that control in her practice, returning to the Yoga Sutras to remind her that the point of her practice was truly to practice - focusing on the effort and showing up every day with wholeheartedness, and also discipline. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," Chrissy examines this journey with host Shoshanna Hecht, and how when "simple" doesn't mean easy, "practice" means showing up for yourself.

https://chrissycarter.com/
https://www.instagram.com/yogachrissy/


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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