Clarity on Fire

A few weeks ago, one of Rachel's clients asked a GREAT question (well, series of questions) that was immediately deserving of its own podcast episode. We love when that happens.   When is it okay to NOT have goals? Is it ever acceptable? If so, under what circumstances??   So, listen in as we chat about…   How to figure out if feeling aimless/directionless is actually a problem, or maybe something...

Welcome to another episode of Dear Krachel, our monthly advice segment where we answer listener questions about life, career, relationships, existential angst, and anything that helps you become a more whole, fulfilled version of yourself.   This month we answered questions from:   Guilty Thriver, who's 4 months pregnant with her first baby and wants to be a stay at home mom. Her husband makes ple...

Calling all fellow bookworms, library nerds, and general lovers of literature — it's time for another book club episode of the podcast!     Whenever there are five Fridays in a month, we devote the extra Friday to a book that we can't get enough of.   It was WAY overdue for us to dedicate a book club episode to attachment theory, considering how much we've talked about it on the podcast in the las...

Need a little clarity, guidance, or just a fun pick-me-up?   Then today's your day, because we're back with another Message from the Universe episode!    We pulled a few cards from The Enchanted Map deck by Colette Baron-Reid. One or all has a message for you — come find out what it is!   Annnd we also took a little tangent at the end to discuss Rachel's new obsession with Love Is Blind . 👀   Aft...

A while back I was scrolling on Instagram and came across a post by a well-known personal development guru. What I read ENRAGED me.   So much so, in fact, that my ensuing rant lasted for almost an hour – and now you get to hear it on the podcast. 👀😅   Buckle up for this month's brand-new Side Chat, where Kristen and I break down (and take down!) this post , and allllll of the reasons why advice...

I was on the phone recently with my and Kristen's friend Joanna (who's appeared on the podcast a time or two before!), who was telling me about exhausted and demoralized she's been about her career lately.     Joanna's Passion Profile is Collaborator, which means the thing she values above everything else is connection and, well, collaboration. Except she's been trying for 5 years to run a busines...

Welcome to another episode of Dear Krachel, our monthly advice segment where we answer listener questions about life, career, relationships, existential angst, and anything that helps you become a more whole, fulfilled version of yourself.   This month we answered questions from:   Pondering in CA, who's worked in corporate marketing for 15 years and dreads going to work every day. She wants to pi...

If you're looking for a job right now, there's no way it's escaped your notice that it's rough out there.   We keep hearing stories from friends and clients about how the current job market is unlike anything they've ever seen before.     From applying to hundreds of jobs and getting ZERO interviews, to being completely overlooked despite being incredibly qualified, to seeing literally thousands o...

It's quite possible you saw the title of this episode and immediately started to sweat. 😅   Our perspective on the whole concept of a career – what it even is, how to have an enjoyable one, what it takes to keep one going – has evolved SO much over the last decade and beyond.     What we believe now versus what we believed when we first started out as career coaches … whew , it's completely diffe...

I've loved every minute of every interview with a normal person I've ever had the pleasure to do – there's something so gratifying about getting to share the trials and tribulations that everyday people have overcome, as well as the revelations and breakthroughs they've had (that can hopefully help inspire other people on a similar journey).   But every once in a while a normal person interview co...

Welcome to another episode of Dear Krachel, our monthly advice segment where we answer listener questions about life, career, relationships, existential angst, and anything that helps you become a more whole, fulfilled version of yourself.   This month we answered questions from:   Sabrina, who wants to have a better, more trusting relationship with the Universe, but who's struggling with a lot of...

Need a little clarity, guidance, or just a fun pick-me-up?   Then today's your day, because we're back with another Message from the Universe episode … the first in 8 months!   We pulled a few cards from The Enchanted Map deck by Colette Baron-Reid. O ne or all has a message for you — come find out what it is!    As usual, by the end of this episode we were laughing and a little dumbstruck by what...

When I first met Mary, she was at a near-breaking point.     She'd pivoted from one industry to the next, over and over again, and was no closer to career satisfaction.     She was incredibly burned out from a job that expected her to handle more than one person's workload in a day (and where she never, EVER took a lunch break).     And she was scared of everything, even reasonable things––taking...

Surprise! After a 7-month hiatus, we're back today with a brand-new episode of the podcast! 🤩   And wow … a lot can happen in 7 months. So much so that we took almost 90 minutes just to update you on everything that's happened since June of last year.     So, listen in as we get into:   How Rachel's foray into change management went   Rachel's major shift in relationship status (!!!) Kristen star...

In case you missed it, last week we announced that we're taking a podcasting hiatus !     If you're new-ish to Clarity on Fire – or have been around for a while but want to introduce new people to us – that gives you an excellent opportunity to catch up on our almost-400 episodes.     Buuuut we also know that's a LOT of content and you might be overwhelmed! 😅 So, we're making it easy for you (or...

Yep, you read that subject line right — starting today, we're taking another hiatus from the podcast. 😲   We've been podcasting for 5 years now, with only one significant break (late last year) during that entire run! Honestly, we're impressed with our stamina.   There's a lot that went into our decision to take another hiatus — it's about soooo much more than just podcasting.     So, listen in a...

For most of her life, Amanda Johnson excelled at being "the good girl."     She was a stellar student who knew how to play by the rules, whether that was in school, at church, or with friends or family.     She implicitly understood what was acceptable, and what wasn't, so she followed the prescription for a successful life: Go to college, major in something respectable and useful, get a good job,...

Welcome to another episode of Dear Krachel, our monthly advice segment where we answer listener questions about life, career, relationships, existential angst, and anything that helps you become a more whole, fulfilled version of yourself.   This month we answered questions from:   Carley, who's tried several jobs that promise the Thriver lifestyle, but don't fulfill her or allow her to work on he...

Need a little clarity, guidance, or just a fun pick-me-up?   Then today's your day, because we're back with another Message from the Universe episode! ✨👀🔮   We pulled a few cards from The Enchanted Map deck by Colette Baron-Reid. One or all has a message for you — come find out what it is!    And we started this episode with a little sermon from Rachel about a very hot, dare we say controversia...

Back in March we hit you with a major episode about our new favorite book, Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy .   On the surface, the book is about parenting. But as we were reading, we couldn't help but notice just how much what we were learning applied to WORK, too.     So, in this brand-new Side Chat we sat down to talk about one pattern, in particular – something that's probably affecting every...

A couple of years ago, my client (who we're very mysteriously dubbing) "V" felt quite literally trapped.   The pandemic was still raging and she was working for a company whose workload and hours were so demanding that the only time she went outside every day was for her dog. Otherwise, it was a wake up/work/eat sometimes/work until midnight or later/repeat kind of situation.   She dreamed of a li...

Welcome to another episode of Dear Krachel, our monthly advice segment where we answer listener questions about life, career, relationships, existential angst, and anything that helps you become a more whole, fulfilled version of yourself.   This month we answered questions from:   Supportive but Struggling, who's been struggling with her mental health while watching close friends move on to new p...

If there's one thing literally everyone has in common, it's the desire for something in your life (maybe many things) to be different.     Humans aren't satisfied (cue Hamilton: I will never be satisfied!! 🎶 ) by nature. As much as we might resist change, we also deeply crave it.   But we're also not great at making change! We have a lot of assumptions about how to do it, most of which don't actu...

A few weeks ago I was on a call with one of my current clients, Danielle, who's actively looking for new jobs so that she can finally get out of a job that's been draining her for a long time.   Like a lot of people in her situation, Danielle is a little worried that she's going to lose sight of what matters – that she'll be perusing job postings and get confused about what makes sense for her and...

Just a couple years ago, Austin was working in a job that he always thought he wanted, but turned out to be all wrong for him. Even though he'd been preparing for this job for years, he trusted his gut and ultimately quit.   Since then, Austin's life has been like a choose-your-own-adventure novel: he's lived in a Buddhist monastery, worked as a ranch-hand with cowboys in South Dakota, dug up dino...