Redesign Your Life - One Imperfect Step at a Time

This week I'm sharing my personal story about how I quit my job without another job lined up. Even though it was scary to not know what was next, it was by design. I wanted to free up mental space and energy to explore what I wanted to do with my life without immediately jumping into the next thing. I ultimately started my own coaching practice, but I wasn't sure that's where I was...

This week on the Courageously Unconventional podcast, I'm joined by Naomi Rose. Naomi is a food business strategist and baking coach who helps people achieve baking success. She is the former owner of an award-winning café, bar, and bakery. She is now on a mission to help as many people as possible build successful baking businesses, as well as become confident home bakers. What I found strik...

There are so many things I loved about my conversation with Kricia Palmer, but one standout is how open and vulnerable Kricia is about sharing what it was like to switch from medicine to interior design mid-career. She talks about feeling unhappy in medicine and being brutally honest with herself about that, and really listening to what she wanted to try next in life. In particular, we talk about...

One of the reasons we don't pursue our dreams in  life is that we shut them down before we even let ourselves have them. Why do we do this? When we don’t go after what we want, it’s often because we want to avoid potentially painful emotions or situations. Staying where we are means we get to feel in control. We don’t have to feel vulnerable, and we don’t put ourselves in new situations where...

How do you live true to yourself vs. what everyone expects of you? Especially if the direction you want to go is outside of the normal way you usually do things? If you've always had a roadmap or blueprint to follow, it can be scary to stray from convention, especially if there's no tried and true path to follow where you're going!   While I can’t give you a roadmap, but what I can...