Livelihood

The pandemic has been a global time of adversity. It has upended our ways of life as we know it and that includes our careers. Working from home, having no social life, and the threat of a deadly virus have revealed to us some incredibly important values that we might not have realized or have been too stuck in our ways to live by.

In this week’s episode, we talk about why the pandemic has forced us to change the way businesses and employees work and what that means for our careers.

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Why is it that we love helping people when they’re down, stuck, or lost? But when we’re the ones that need help–we don’t ask for it.

This week, we talk about why asking for help is imperative to having a successful career and business.

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What if doubting your career was actually good for your career? And what if not questioning your career choices was working against you?

In this episode, we talk about how even I, a Career Coach, doubt and question my career path and how I use it to propel my career and business forward.

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How do you leave an already successful career to go chase your dreams?

In this episode of Livelihood, I want to share with you exactly how I left behind my successful career with my perfectly constructed life in San Francisco to step into the unknown and go after my lifelong dreams. I'll take you through the fears, doubts, and dysfunctional beliefs that I had to overcome along the way and how I became a better, truer, more confident, and more authentic self because of it. Join me on this journey and spiritual awakening through the lens of your career to becoming the person you've always been. 

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You have a successful career. You get paid, you get good benefits, you even get paid time off. You have it pretty damn good, right?

But what happens when you know how good you’ve got it and you’re still unhappy, unfulfilled, and frustrated with your career?

Should you be grateful?

No.

You know how fortunate you are to have a job during a global pandemic; a successful career even. You still have the ability to pay your bills, and continue to make money during a time when so many people struggling to pay their bills and going out of business or losing jobs.

But knowing your blessings doesn’t mean you have to love your job and it doesn’t mean you have to stay in your career. And wanting to leave doesn’t mean you’re being ungrateful.

Real gratitude is the antidote to dissatisfaction. But toxic gratitude is when you use it against yourself. It’s when you deny how you really feel about your career and attempt to shame yourself into feeling real gratitude.

Toxic gratitude is a rejection of negative emotions and keeps us stuck in careers that don’t allow us to design a career that makes us feel alive. And no amount of shaming will ever make anyone feel better about their career.

Listen to this week’s Livelihood podcast to learn how giving yourself radical permission to feel ungrateful leads to real feelings of gratitude and how to utilize this practice so that you can design a more fulfilling, joyful, and aligned work life.

Viewing your career through rose-colored lenses isn't something that comes naturally to us. It takes work.

Most of the time, we view our careers, work, and jobs through some pretty smudgy lenses that obscure the reality that's right in front of us. And it's ruining our lives and crushing our happiness. 

In this episode, we'll learn about what negativity bias is and how it distorts our perceptions and causes us to make rash decisions that we later regret.

Does accepting your career trigger some resistance? What would it mean if you accepted where you are, who you are, and what you want? 

In this episode, we'll explore the myths around acceptance and what it actually means to accept yourself and your career.

Learn how true acceptance is the key to moving forward and finding meaning and fulfillment in any career. 

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When so much is riding on a big career decision, how can you be certain that you're making the right decision?

What if I told you that you don't need to be certain and in reality, your NEED to be certain is actually holding you back from realizing your dream career.

In this episode, we'll talk about how to recognize the behaviors that are keeping you stuck and how to let go and trust when you can't find certainty. 

Most of us know what we would if success was guaranteed.

But what would you do if you knew that success was NOT guaranteed? 

Because that's the reality--there are no guarantees.

Not in life, not in careers, not in success. There is never any promise that things will work out and stay that way.

So how do you deal with the uncertainty of success? 

That's what we'll be diving into on this episode. Learn why you don't need your dream career to be "successful" in order to be a success. 

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They say seeing is believing. But what if the thing you need to see isn't in existence yet? How can you see something before it ever manifests in real life?

Your dream career doesn't exist yet because you haven't created it yet. And all creations start with a vision.

Learn why visualization is the key to turning your dream career into a reality, and how to use it effectively when designing your dream career.

Have you ever waited until something was COMPLETELY unusable before replacing it? In the process, you endured a ton of annoying issues and headaches before you were forced to replace it.

Have you ever wanted something simply because you wanted it, despite having something else that works just fine?

Whether you want to upgrade your queen-size bed to a king or your just-fine career to the dream career, we're going to be talking about what happens when we resist our desire to upgrade our lives.

We'll explore what it looks like to simply want something better and why making decisions from this place is the best way to design your dream career.