In this short audio segment, Sara announces that she's stepping back from the podcast for the time being to care for her spinal and ergonomic health. In the wake of the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery, she re-shares some listener favorites from her interviews with black women, and she gives gives some suggestions on where to find podcasts from people of color, as well as podcasts that confront racism in America. And lastly, she asks for listener support in finding specific kinds of new guests for the show when she's back on the air.   Sara discusses:

• Taking time to heal from the things she mentioned on the last Sara Solo Show about signs & synchronicities
• Some listener favorites from her interviews with black women:
  • Chef Tanorria Askew of MasterChef Fame
  • Interior Designer Courtney McLeod
  • Environmental Educator Sanaa Green
  • Makeup & Skincare Entrepreneur Adora Drake
• Finding podcasts from people of color via Podcasts in Color
• Listening to podcasts that confront racism in America
• Career Mentor Toni Patterson
• Call for guest nominations to pull from when she's back on the air
• Full guest criteria and nomination form on her website (no nominations accepted by email)

Connect with Sara and Women Who Went for It: Facebook: www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit  Website: www.womenwhowentforit.com  Nominate a Podcast Guest: www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest  Email: [email protected]  Phone: 503.893.2043   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart. 

In this Sara Solo Show, Sara talks about a big sign she recently received about life changes she needs to make and shares intriguing stories of other synchronicities along her journey, thus far. She gets real about the idea that "everything happens for a reason," she outlines how to recognize when all signs point to "yes," and she gives an example of what it looks like when you hit a dead end. And last, but certainly not least, she gives suggestions for how you can set up a two-way conversation with the universe to get the guidance you crave.

  Sara discusses:

• A big question: how do I know which decision is the RIGHT one?
• The inclination to look outside ourselves for answers
• A big sign that Sara got from the universe
• Ergonomics:
• • Ergonomic Desk Height Calculator
  • How to Make Your Space More Ergonomic
  • Best Stretches for Office Workers
• You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
• The belief that "everything happens for a reason"
• What signs and synchronicities are
• Suzanne Giesemann's Messages of Hope podcast
• “Synchronicity – An Acausal Connecting Principle” by Carl Jung
• Signs on Sara's Career Path
• Coach Training World in Portland, OR
• The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
• The benefits of signs and synchronicities
• Masculine vs. feminine approaches
• How subtle signs can be
• “Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see it.” - Carl Jung
• What a sign feels like
• How to set up a two-way conversation with the universe
• What it might look like when something ISN'T your path
• Remind yourself: "Things are always working out for me."
• Giving back to the podcast:
• • Sara's PayPal: [email protected]
  • Sara's Venmo: @Sara-McArdle-Seattle
• ...and more!

Connect with Sara and Women Who Went for It: Facebook: www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit  Website: www.womenwhowentforit.com  Nominate a Podcast Guest: www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest  Email: [email protected] Phone: 503.893.2043   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart. 

  In this episode, Sara chats with Jen Alonso about her journey from the hospitality industry to early learning to essential oils. Jen shares how her oils business gave her a way to contribute to her family and have her own identity outside that of stay-at-home mom; she gives the inside scoop on what it's actually like to do direct sales; and she talks about how she stepped up as primary breadwinner and her husband jumped in to take on the bulk of the household and childcare duties when his chef position was eliminated due to the coronavirus pandemic. Today, Jen owns a business called Lavender Branches, where she offers group classes and individual support for making healthy lifestyle changes through the use of doTERRA essential oils.

  Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.   Sara and Jen Discuss:

• How Sara knows Jen
• Jen always knowing she wanted to be a mom
• Jen studying broadcast journalism and quickly realizing it wasn't her thing
• Growing up as a "military brat"
• Working in Yellowstone National Park
• Working at hotels and restaurants
• Working in early learning
• Meeting her husband and starting a family
• Going back-and-forth between working and being a stay-at-home mom
• Needing more identity than just being "mom"
• Looking into home businesses
• Starting to pay more attention to ingredients in products
• Discovering doTERRA through an ER nurse
• Realizing quickly that doTERRA was the direction that she wanted to move in
• Learning through direct experience
• Her doTERRA business supporting her values of family, continuous learning, travel, contribution, etc.
• What it's like to teach adults vs. preschoolers
• How she knows she's now doing "her thing"
• Her husband getting laid off from his chef position
• Becoming the breadwinner while her husband took over to care for the home and the kids
• How she got her business started, financially
• What she loves about doTERRA as a company
• Stepping up the number of classes she's teaching, reaching out to more people, ramping up
• What it's like to do direct sales with friends and family
• How she got comfortable with selling
• The ways that doTERRA gives back to the community
• Her support system
• What she learned about "career" from her military family
• How Jen lives life on her own terms
• How her life has changed since she changed careers
• Putting up positive, visual reminders around you to keep you on track
• What the day-to-day of Jen's work looks like
• The large network of support in doTERRA
• The Gallup Strengths Finder Clifton Strengths: store.gallup.com/p/en-us/10108/top-5-cliftonstrengths
• Two of Jen's favorite oils: Balance (tree blend) and Adaptiv (emotions blend)
• Sara's love for lavender
• Jen's advice for anyone who wants to become a doTERRA Wellness Advocate
• The low financial investment of getting started
• The pros of using natural products
• ...and more!

Jen's Full Bio: Jen Alonso spent a decade in the hospitality industry and then a decade in early learning before becoming an essential oils wellness advocate.   Jen's interest in natural health began after the birth of her first son. She was suddenly very aware of the things he was exposed to and felt a responsibility to make better choices. She began reading product labels and looking for non-toxic, natural options⁠—not just in the foods she and her family were eating, but in the household products they were using.   In 2014, Jen started using essential oils as a teacher in her preschool classroom, and then she began diffusing at home. She immediately dove head-first into learning all she could about using them safely on her kids, her husband, herself.   When Jen left her position as a preschool teacher to stay at home with her kids, her husband worked as a chef. Still, Jen found that she wanted to contribute financially in a meaningful way. So, she became a doTERRA wellness advocate. When the restaurant that her husband worked for closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Jen's and her husband's roles quickly reversed. Jen immediately stepped in, ramped up her business, and became the breadwinner while her husband jumped in to take on the bulk of the household and childcare duties.   Through her business, Lavender Branches, Jen offers group essential oils classes that cover the basic uses, safety, and many how-to’s. She takes individual appointments to focus on specific health goals, as well. She also hosts free monthly events that cover various health and wellness topics, and make-and-take events where attendees make everything from hand sanitizer to bug spray and take them home to start enjoying the benefits. Jen has a passion for working with people to find natural solutions for everyday situations.   Connect with Jen Alonso and Lavender Branches: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/jetaoils Website: my.doterra.com/jetaoils   Connect with Sara McArdle and Women Who Went for It: Facebook: www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit  Website: www.womenwhowentforit.com  Nominate a Podcast Guest (we do not take nominations over email): www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest  Email (see link above to nominate a podcast guest): [email protected]  Phone: 503.893.2043   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.

In this episode, Sara chats with Amanda Heins about her journey from food service industry sales rep, to serial entrepreneur, to independent grocer. Amanda shares the story of her husband passing unexpectedly in 2018 and leaving her sole owner of the store; discovering detailed notes he'd made about upgrading the business; and carrying out and wrapping up his envisioned remodel the day before construction was halted due to COVID-19. Today, Amanda lives in Roslyn, Washington and owns The Roslyn Grocery, a business operating on the front lines during the coronavirus pandemic.

  Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.   Sara and Amanda Discuss:

• How they know one another
• Amanda attending Evergreen State College
• Working at a restaurant / spa
• Intending to become a doctor, but deciding against it
• Being offered a job with Food Services of America
• Moving to Roslyn, Washington
• Feeling the stress of working a commission-based job and being on the road all the time
• Having her children & her husband becoming a stay-at-home dad
• Realizing that her job wasn't working for her anymore
• Opening a gift shop
• Opening a candy store
• Selling her businesses to employees
• Opening the grocery store with the vision of Roslyn being walkable
• The long hours that they worked to get the grocery up and running
• How they made it work, financially
• Opening a restaurant across the street
• Selling the restaurant and gallery
• Her husband suddenly passing
• Helping her kids navigate grief
• Her store becoming passive income for her
• Taking on volunteer work
• Being her best self for her kids
• Doing a solstice ritual and letting go of her past
• Turning down an offer to move the store into a larger space
• Cleaning her house and stumbling upon old notes from her husband about expanding the store
• Securing the money to remodel
• Finishing up the remodel the day before the governor halted construction during coronavirus pandemic
• Ramping up security and stocking up the store for coronavirus
• Real talk on toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and gloves
• Her supportive mother-in-law
• Her longer term plan
• Her pleas for people who live in Western Washington to stay home
• Her many leaps of faith and refusal to live in fear of the "what-ifs"
• What this pandemic is teaching us
• Why she believes everything happens for a reason
• ...and more!

Amanda's Full Bio: Widow and single mother, Amanda Meck Heins, is owner and operator of The Roslyn Grocery in Roslyn, Washington.   Amanda graduated with a bachelor's of science degree from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington with the intention of going on to become a doctor. Having worked her way through school in multiple restaurant capacities, she was recruited by restaurant distributor, Food Services of America, and she took a sales position in beautiful Kittitas County, Washington.   When Amanda's children were born, her husband Matt stayed home, and she continued working. But sitting at home, caring for two babies every day became too much. So, the couple decided to open a little gift shop in Roslyn, which was just the beginning. Not long after, Amanda decided that her family and marriage were far more important to her than her sales position with FSA, which had proven to be time-consuming and high-pressure. So, she quit her position there, and the couple went on to open a candy store called Roslyn Sweets & Treats, then The Roslyn Grocery, and then The Red Bird Cafe. While she has since sold the gift shop, candy store, and cafe, Amanda still owns the grocery store.   Just two years ago, on her 40th birthday, Amanda's husband Matt died suddenly and left her a solo parent, and sole owner of The Roslyn Grocery. Early on, Amanda struggled with the grief of carrying on the business without him. But, with the love and support of her staff and community, she has continued to bring their shared dream to fruition. In fact, she finished a upgrade and remodel just in time to even better serve her tight-nit little community during the coronvavirus pandemic.   Connect with Amanda Heins and The Roslyn Grocery: Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheRoslynGrocery   Connect with Sara McArdle and Women Who Went for It: Facebook: www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit  Website: www.womenwhowentforit.com  Nominate a Podcast Guest (we do not take nominations over email): www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest  Email (see link above to nominate a podcast guest): [email protected]  Phone: 503.893.2043   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.

  In this Sara Solo Show, Sara shares some of her own, personal struggles during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and how she has gradually warmed to what she knows to be true of this time: it is a huge opportunity. She talks about the power of observing our thoughts, behaviors, and habits in this stay-at-home reality and taking what we learn about ourselves to make little tweaks to our lives that will not only get us through our quarantine, but support us to create our own "new normal" when we reemerge.   Sara discusses:

• Her well-timed break from the podcast
• Vacationing during the onset of a pandemic
• Her own COVID-19 fears
• Softening to the idea that we can learn from the situation we're in
• What this pandemic is teaching us about presence, the illusion of stability, and our values
• Adapting the 7Cs of Successful Career Change to success during COVID-19
• Sara's companion worksheet: COVID-19 Self-Reflection Questions
• Links:
• • Down Dog Yoga app
  • Insight Timer app
  • 7-Minute Workout app
  • Ordering groceries for pickup or delivery:
  • • Amazon Prime Now
    • Amazon Fresh
    • Instacart
    • Hellofresh
    • Blue Apron
  • Zoom Video Conferencing
  • Honey of the Heart Hive
  • Victorious Lives
  • Parklandia podcast
  • Homemade Wanderlust YouTube Channel
  • Sara and Jen Turnbull's Earth Day Essential Oils Online Class
  • Sara's Facebook page
  • Career Mentor, Toni Patterson
  • Sara's companion worksheet: COVID-19 Self-Reflection Questions
  • Sign up for a free call w/ Sara during April or May & design a stay-at-home life that's aligned with your values
• ...and more!

Connect with Sara and Women Who Went for It: Facebook: www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit  Website: www.womenwhowentforit.com  Nominate a Podcast Guest: www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest  Email: [email protected]  Phone: 503.893.2043   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.

In this episode, Sara chats with ChristinaMarie Cooper about her journey from fashion design and marketing to scalp micropigmentation. ChristinaMarie talks about how personal brand and presentation have always played a big role in her life, the moment she realized that marketing wasn't a fit for her anymore, and the circumstances that led her to her new, lesser-known but highly fulfilling field that fits so many aspects of her personality. Today, ChristinaMarie is the owner and lead scalp micropigmentation, or hair tattooing artist, at Precision SMP Hair Solutions Clinic in Lynnwood, Washington in the United States.   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.   Sara and ChristinaMarie Discuss:

• How Sara knows ChristinaMarie
• ChristinaMarie honing her "personal brand" early in life
• Growing up in Missouri
• Always being known for her fashion sense
• Her love of music
• Realizing Missouri wasn't a long-term fit for her
• Going to school for fashion in Miami, sight unseen
• Help from her father
• Styling for musical events
• Helping pick artists for a Latin music festival
• Completing her two year associates program and wondering what to do next
• Moving back to Missouri
• Starting a hip hop + rock record label
• Creating a business plan and borrowing money from parents
• Working at a clothing store
• Meeting her husband
• Working as an admission coordinator
• Her husband going back to school for aviation
• Having kids
• Feeling overwhelmed managing her young kids and work life
• Being let go from her job
• Moving to Washington in 2008
• Feeling like she was home, immediately
• Her education not transferring well to the Seattle market
• Fashion not feeling right for her anymore
• Going back to school for marketing
• Working in marketing & PR after graduation
• Noticing her pattern of looking for white saviors
• Her husband's hair loss and how it impacted his self-confidence
• Learning about scalp micropigmentation and her husband receiving the treatment
• ChristinaMarie being inspired to learn how to do scalp micropigmentation, herself
• How SMP fits so many aspects of her personality
• Going to school for scalp micropigmentation
• What scalp micropigmentation is and how it works
• What she loves about being her own boss
• Her own fears of failure and money fears
• Support from her husband and family
• How her background in marketing supports her business
• Business startup taking longer than expected
• The benefits of temp work
• What she'd do differently if she had to do it all over again
• Advice she'd give to fellow career changers
• ...and more!

ChristinaMarie's Full Bio: ChristinaMarie Cooper earned a bachelor’s degree in Integrated Strategic Communications at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, as well as an associates degree in fashion communications and merchandising at Miami International University of Art & Design. She then went on to become a digital marketing specialist in Seattle, Washington.

Upon realizing the marketing industry was no longer feeding her spirit, she know she needed something more. For years, she struggled to find a new career direction that not only helped to achieve financial freedom and success, but also one that fit her personally. Her search ultimately led her  becoming a certified scalp micropigmentation technician, which fulfilled her passion of empowering people to be the best version of themselves.   Today, ChristinaMarie is the owner and lead scalp micropigmentation, or hair tattooing artist, at Precision SMP Hair Solutions Clinic, specializing in all forms of hair loss, including male pattern baldness, receding or non-existent hairlines, female densification or alopecia treatments. ChristinaMarie and her company believe that scalp micropigmentation is an effective treatment to hair loss and thinning hair without surgical restoration, or other invasive procedures.   Connect with ChristinaMarie Cooper and Precision SMP Hair Solutions: Her website: www.precisionsmphairsolutionsclinic.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/precision_smp_hairsolutions Facebook: www.facebook.com/smphairsolutionsSeattle   Connect with Sara McArdle and Women Who Went for It: Facebook: www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit  Website: www.womenwhowentforit.com  Nominate a Podcast Guest (we do not take nominations over email): www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest  Email (see link above to nominate a podcast guest): [email protected]  Phone: 503.893.2043   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.

  In this Sara Solo Show, Sara discusses the relationship between career change and self-care, and asserts that changing one's career from doing work we loathe to doing work we love is the ultimate act of self-care. Sara talks about the realities of work dissatisfaction spilling out into other areas of life and shares compelling data illustrating the psychological, emotional, and health risks associated with continuing to do work that's detrimental to one's well-being. She also offers strategies for getting by before taking the big leap into something new.   Sara discusses:

• The connection between self-care and career change
• Her previous episode on the Myth of Personal vs. Professional
• Temporary self-care fixes while working in a less-than-ideal job
• When having an "attitude of gratitude" and holding out for the weekend just doesn't cut it anymore
• The difference between job change & career change
• Reasons why people continue doing work that isn't working for them
• Mindset & conditioning that make us stay put
• The privilege and responsibility that go along with career change
• When work dissatisfaction spills over into other areas of life
• The very real psychological, relationship, and health risks associated with doing work that makes us miserable
• The psychological, relationship, and health benefits associated with doing work we love
• What you can do in the short-term to make your work situation more tolerable
• Book recommendation: Nonviolent Communication a Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg
• App recommendations:
• • Down Dog (yoga)
  • Insight Timer (meditation)
• Laughter recommendation: Jim Gaffigan
• Her previous episode on Commitment, Time Tracking, and the Power of "No"
• TED Talk about the benefits of being in a state of awe
• Sign up for a free strategy session phone call with me on my website at www.saramcardle.com
• Her upcoming vacation and decision to take an episode off
• ...and more!

Connect with Sara and Women Who Went for It: Facebook: www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit  Website: www.womenwhowentforit.com  Nominate a Podcast Guest (we don't take nominations over email): www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest  Email (see above link to submit a podcast guest nomination): [email protected]  Phone: 503.893.2043   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.

In this episode, Sara talks with her former client, Susan Goodkind Wideman, about Susan's journey from elder law attorney to life design coach for Mid-Lifers and Baby Boomers. Susan shares that, after she burned out from investing almost every once of energy she had in her law practice, she discovered the Women Who Went for It! podcast, connected with Sara for career coaching, and pivoted her path at age 62. Susan is a mom, an elder law & estate planning attorney, an entrepreneur, a widow, a divorcee, an empty-nester, a Yooper, a dog lover, a cross-country skier, a mountain biker, a baby boomer, and now a life design coach running her own coaching business, Goodkind of Life.   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.   Sara and Susan Discuss:

• Susan's original intentions of pursuing figure skating and fashion design
• Getting her degree in design and environmental analysis
• Moving to New York City and working for a design magazine
• Going on to work directly for a designer
• Working in marketing for Herman Miller in Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Her team getting laid off when Herman Miller changed directions
• Deciding to go law school
• Getting into elder law & estate planning
• Moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
• Working for an elder law firm
• Deciding to open up her own firm
• What she loved and didn't love about owning her own business
• Becoming a widow at age 52, with a 12 year old son
• Throwing herself completely into her work and becoming "super mom"
• Irritability impacting her relationships
• Burning out and being exhausted
• She and her second husband divorcing
• Stepping away from work to rest and refresh
• Selling her law practice to her partner
• Spending 4 months healing
• Her fears about career change at her age
• Realizing the imbalance in her life and her lawyer identity
• Deciding to become a coach and pursuing training
• Starting her Goodkind of Life coaching business to support Mid-Lifers and Baby Boomers
• Recognizing the power of her legal background and how much she enjoys connecting with clients
• How her understanding of what coaching is has evolved
• How she recognized coaching was right for her
• Transitioning her identity from lawyer to coach
• Not being ready to retire
• Feeling her spark of creativity reignite
• The value of a niche
• How Susan's experience of coaching turned out to be an "industry experiment"
• The importance of aligning her life with her values
• Putting herself out there as a coach
• How she responded to someone else's unsupportive sentiments
• The benefits of being older in her career change
• Figuring out her own sequencing for announcing herself as a coach, taking clients, and getting coach training
• How she picked a coach training program and what she learned
• The piece of advice that she'd give to someone who's thinking about changing careers at midlife or beyond
• ...and more!

Susan's Full Bio: At 62 years young, Susan Goodkind Wideman is a mom, a life design coach, an elder law & estate planning attorney, an entrepreneur, a widow, a divorcee, an empty-nester, a Yooper, a dog lover, a cross-country skier, a mountain biker, and a baby boomer.   Susan graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Design and Environmental Analysis and went on to work as Editorial Assistant at Industrial Design Magazine. From there, she was hired by Herman Miller, Inc. as a marketing communications specialist. When her department at Herman Miller was eliminated, she spent time as a pharmaceutical rep—work she did not enjoy. So, motivated by the promise of prestige and stability, Susan decided to go to law school at 33. Three years after finishing law school, she opened a successful Elder Law & Estate Planning practice. Her practice grew, she took on a partner, and they became well-known and respected.   About five years ago at the time of this recording, Susan was finding herself angry, irritable and short-tempered. She worked more, slept less, and in 2018, she burned out. While law was lucrative and she provided a valuable service to her clients, it didn’t make her happy.   When she started exploring her options, she found Women Who Went for It! and was so inspired that she reached out to me (Sara McArdle) for one-on-one coaching. As a result of the work we did together, Susan realized the imbalance in her life, and decided to train to be a coach, herself.   In 2019, Susan founded Goodkind of Life, a life design coaching business supporting baby boomers & midlifers who are struggling in the second half of life like she did. She understands their grief, loneliness, hopelessness, anxiety, and depression because she’s been through it. Through Goodkind of Life, Susan helps her clients understand and manage their thoughts and feelings, connect with their core values, and create a life worth living.   

Connect with Susan Goodkind Wideman and Goodkind of Life: Her website: www.goodkindoflife.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/goodkindoflife Instagram: www.instagram.com/goodkindoflife   Connect with Sara McArdle and Women Who Went for It: Facebook: www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit  Website: www.womenwhowentforit.com  Nominate a Podcast Guest (we do not take nominations over email): www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest  Email (see link above to nominate a podcast guest): [email protected]  Phone: 503.893.2043   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.

In this episode, Sara talks with Jeanie Kendall about her journey from medical administration to real estate. Jeanie chats about her hesitation in leaving a career that wasn't everything she longed for because she had an amazing supervisor; she gets real about the impact that stepping down as primary breadwinner for her family had on her self-esteem; and she shares the realities of finding clients and self-promoting in real estate. Today, Jeanie is a real estate agent and broker for Keller Williams Realty in the Greater Seattle Area.    Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.   Sara and Jeanie discuss:

• How Sara found Jeanie
• F Bomb Breakfast Club
• Jeanie attending Humboldt State University with the intention of getting into literature and writing
• Working at a nonprofit health clinic on campus and working multiple positions there
• Moving to Florida and continuing to work in healthcare administration
• Getting transferred to Seattle
• Having a hard time leaving medical administration because of a fantastic boss
• Recognizing that she wanted to be her own boss
• Reevaluating her future as her 45th birthday was approaching
• Saving to cushion her career transition
• Remembering her good and bad experiences purchasing homes
• Experiencing her own foreclosure (and shame)
• Longing to make a difference in people's lives
• Appreciating the low startup costs of real estate
• Taking her real estate agent to lunch and asking about the industry
• Making the decision to become a real estate agent
• The challenge of finding her own clients
• What she's learned about self-promotion
• Support from her wife, and her mother
• The impact of temporary low-income on her self-esteem
• Slowly building her business for two years, keeping her eye on the prize
• Feeling the pull back into her previous, "known" career (but not going back)
• The challenges of real estate
• The power of mentors and networks
• Her "baby steps" approach
• Choosing not to confide in others until she was already invested in her career change
• Earning the trust, as a real estate agent, of her former colleagues in the medical field
• The similarities between the process of home buying and career change
• Helping change the minds of people who don't think home buying (or career change!) is possible
• Jeanie's passion for volunteering and Camp Ten Trees
• Something to consider: what would you like to do if you had more financial resources to give?
• Jeanie's advice for people looking to get into real estate
• ...and more!

Jeanie's Full Bio: Jeanie Kendall is a residential real estate broker with Keller Williams, who has been described by clients as “ride or die." In 2018, she left a successful 20-year career in medical administration to pursue a career as a real estate agent with the intention of helping people successfully navigate, and more importantly enjoy the process of buying and selling their homes. Jeanie approaches all of her professional interactions with an objective to assist and empower, and is a fierce advocate for her clients before, during, and after their real estate transactions. Jeanie not only develops strong and long-lasting relationships with her clients, she is respected by her peers who know they can rely on her to be responsive, reliable, and ethical during negotiations and escrow. While her background makes her uniquely qualified to partner with medical professionals for their real estate needs, she is also passionate about working with the LGBTQIA+ community, and makes a donation to Camp Ten Trees (where she serves as a Board Member and volunteer each summer) each time she earns a commission.     Connect with Jeanie Kendall: Her website: jeaniekendall.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/jeaniekendallRE LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jeanie-kendall-a104031a Instagram: www.instagram.com/jeaniekendall.realestate   Connect with Sara McArdle and Women Who Went for It: Facebook: www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit Website: www.womenwhowentforit.com  Nominate a Podcast Guest (we do not take nominations over email): www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest  Email (see link above to nominate a podcast guest): [email protected]  Phone: 503.893.2043   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.

In this Sara Solo Show, Sara discusses the workplace gifts and challenges of being an Empath, as defined by Dr. Judith Orloff. She gives examples of ways that Empaths can take on others' emotions and feel them as if they were their own; she discusses how to distinguish which emotions belong to you vs. which feelings you're picking up from others; and she supplies strategies for shielding from and shaking off others' feelings inside and outside of work.   Sara discusses:

• Her upcoming Ladies' Self-Love Spa Night at Ladywell's Spa in Greenwood on the evening of Monday, Feb. 3
• The importance of bolstering one's satisfaction level now, even when planning a career transition
• The definition of a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)]
• The definition of Empath
• Online tests:
• • Highly Sensitive Person test by Dr. Judith Orloff
  • Empath test
• What it means to feel someone else's feelings
• Why it's harder for Empaths to not care what others think or feel
• Noticing when you feel a feeling that isn't yours
• Strategies for shifting the energy in the moment
• Boundary-setting to shield oneself from triggers
• Tech tips for Empaths
• Self-care strategies to fill one's own cup and create resilience
• • Meditation - Insight Timer App
  • Affirmations - ThinkUp App
  • Yoga - Down Dog App
  • Exercise - 7 Minute Workout App
  • Reading - Audible Audiobooks
  • Journaling - Penzu App
• Book recommendation:
• • The Empath’s Survival Guide by Dr. Judith Orloff
• Her upcoming Ladies' Self-Love Spa Night at Ladywell's Spa in Greenwood on the evening of Monday, Feb. 3
• ...and more!

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