THE ABUNDANCE PSYCHE

Wondering about the next step in your career? Get the FREE Career Change Blueprint here: https://www.theabundancepsyche.com/get-insider-tools Your professional brand is the biggest asset you have in your career and business. And one of the open secrets of personal and professional branding is - what's your niche? Who do you want to be, what do you want to influence and why?   In this short ep...

Wondering about the next step in your career? Get the FREE Career Change Blueprint here: https://www.theabundancepsyche.com/get-insider-tools   A lot of us corporate strategists and consultants think of starting up our own businesses and with that comes the worry of "I don't have enough capital". In this episode I speak to a former Accenture, KPMG, and EY consultant who scaled and managed tea...

Everyone wants to create a side hustle and let's be honest, there are 1001 side hustle ideas that you can start today after a Google search. But I am all about efficient scaling here because a side gig that requires more of your time, energy, and money over time isn't the smartest business to be setting up in 2021. Of course, if you want a quick cash injection, be my guest, but in this episode, I...

Want my cheatsheet on beating burnout and being confident in 2 minutes? Download here: www.theabundancepsyche.com/hidden-tools   “Am I burned out or just lazy and dumb? I don’t see my other colleagues so disarray! Maybe it’s just me… I’ve Googled burnout too many times and now it’s my head. I should stop being lazy and get shit done!”   "For ten years, Isabelle worked in corporate,...

How to plan your financials for retirement in your 30s? If you are wondering how to plan for retirement or an early retirement, here's the counterintuitive truth- investing in yourself is the quickest way forward. In this video I talk about the FIRE movement- fat FIRE, lean FIRE and the 4% rule.  

I always felt like lawyers, and most of the folks that I tend to work with, who are consultants, both tend to have quite intense careers. But also, if I may use this word, we also tend to be “insecure overachievers”. Sarah, the Former Lawyer, speaks about her journey into and out of an intense career in a Big Law firm. If you are looking for inspiration with Career Change, download the career chan...

Like it or not, work politics is something you have to deal with. In this video, I share how to deal with work politics gracefully, drawing out the nature of politics in society and life.  Download the career change blueprint here: theabundancepsyche.com/insiders

How do you navigate corporate politics and position yourself for growth? I speak to Monique Ruff-Bell, Event Director of Money 20/20 Vegas, one of the world's largest Fintech shows, and find out how she has grown her career. Go give her a follow on her YouTube Channel- Everyday Career Coach.

Now, tell me honestly, when you think of career development, what do you think?  While managing people and also working with my students, I have seen a systemic pattern- most of us, when we think about career growth, development and change, instinctively think about career progression. And that's great. Except, career progression and career development are completely different things. Both co...

In today's episode, I talk about the convergence of Science and Spirituality that led me to The Abundance Psyche . If you are interested in biohacking your confidence, download this and get started in 2 minutes .  We talk about yoga, meditation, neuroscience, biochemistry and how all of those fit in to get you to peak performance in your career and life.  #yoga #meditation #spirituality...

I have with me a very special guest, my former colleague from Strategy& Ram Soundarajan. Ram is the CEO and founder of Quber Tech, after having 17 years of industry and consulting experience across continents. He has teamed with a highly accomplished group of entrepreneurs, manufacturing industry veterans, technologists and consultants to launch a SaaS venture focused on serving the manufactur...

Doing less requires you to prioritize, to strategize. It’s rarely about “time management”.  But most of us are so busy in our day to day lives, in our careers, in our jobs, that we just don't have the time to look at things strategically because we are trying to “manage time better”.   Stop and ask yourself- What is the direction of travel? Where are we going? Where are we headed to...

How to be a successful corporate entrepreneur within Big 4 consulting?  Today's episode is with Sarah Agbantou. And she is the true corporate entrepreneur if you will.   Sarah is a senior manager in product and tech innovation at PwC. She founded Design Thinking for Good, a volunteer-based community, which helps social enterprises to scale with design thinking techniques. Prior to j...

These are very topical questions in March!  Let's break it down into a few steps in this episode. And if you're feeling stuck in your career, sign-up for the 10 day Career Alignment Bootcamp starting 15th March. Link: https://www.theabundancepsyche.com/corporate-career-change

I have with me, Svenja Tegtmeier. She founded Senguine Suits. She is a fashion and tech entrepreneur. She used to be a management consultant… in fact quite a lot of people, I tend to speak to are former management consultants who are on their entrepreneurship journeys.   Svenja is really passionate about women in leadership. And she wants to bring that to the forefront using her current...

It’s a question I used to regularly ponder over and have spent countless numbers of hours researching. And what I found was it is good to be the CEO of a company but actually, far more important than that, is how do you become the CEO of your career?  This is a topic that I have been talking quite a lot about this of late because I believe in owning our careers, being the directors of our car...

McKinsey consulting to disrupting London's start-up scene - today I have with me, a very special lady who has actually been an inspiration to me without probably even realizing that she was. She is an ex McKinsey consultant turned startup CEO. And she runs one of the coolest, and yet, I think, most valuable of London startups. She run s Koru Ki ds , which basically, is a technology company that he...

Career gaps!   Are career gaps common?   How do I explain career gaps in my CV and interviews?   Do employers care about career gaps?   These are some questions about career gaps I keep getting asked on repeat! And in fact, these are questions that I used to obsess with before I had a career gap in my career.  So I have a few pieces of advice with hinds...

Today, we are answering why former PwC Partner, David Lancefield left Big Four.  This is a really special episode. I was in awe of David through my Strategy& (PwC) days. I have with me the very special David Lancefield.  He is a former Strategy&, and PwC partner. David helps leaders improve their performance and deliver extraordinary results by using his expertise and experience...

  Should I quit my job right now, at the peak of a pandemic? When is the right time to quit? How do you know when to leave your job? Do you have to hate your job to start thinking of leaving?  One of my readers asked me last week, “Should I quit my job because quite a lot of my managers and seniors who she adores and respects are leaving the company?  She joined the company to...

How do you leverage your skills to build a business? It doesn't always need to be the coolest tech start-up. Meet my friend Dan from PwC who built a business on top of his excellent Excel skills. Are you a reader like me? Here's the transcript. And if you love this stuff, get on my insider's list . Dan's details: Website: https://www.claritix.co.uk   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-...

So many of us ask these questions over and over again to ourselves on repeat, assuming that the powers that be won't answer our prayers. But more often than not, we assume without asking. Is that you? Then you need to listen to this episode and understand why asking is enormously more powerful than assuming. We also touch upon why praying works instead of hoping for the best. Because we are all ab...

If you're here on the new year, HAPPY NEW YEAR. If you're here because you're contemplating on breaking new year resolutions, get a piece of pen and paper and do this exercise with me. It will work whether it's a new year or not!  We always tend to look at new year resolutions through shoulds and musts. In reality, what we would rather do is to flip it on its head and be curious about what we...

This year has been hard on all of us. But Christmas isn't cancelled. In fact, it is even more important to celebrate this year.  Celebrations are not about religion or meaningless rituals. A celebration is about feeling the joy and abundance in your heart. A celebration is about letting the dopamine flow so that you keep doing the things that have gotten you here in life.   In fact,...

How to beat consulting burnout? Start meditating!  How do you exit consulting and become a meditation guru?   Download the free consulting exit guide from https://www.theabundancepsyche.com/get-insider-tools   I bet you've probably never asked yourself that question. Yet here I am with my very special guest, Neomal Silva who used to be a Consultant at Accenture and now initiates peo...