Another Way

In this week’s Pep-Talk, I explore: Why we so often give up on our dreams (and the sneaky stories we tell ourselves) The role of failure, fear, and the “shitty committee” in shutting us down How family history, identity, and even ancestral patterns can make us play small The importance of experimenting, failing, and trying again—without giving up on the bigger vision What it looks like to dust off...

Wow, last week’s Pep-Talk - ‘Are you feeling ready for change?’ - was a popular one! And so this week I decided to follow on from that and talk about the big moment when you stop circling, stop tweaking, stop saying “one day” … and finally decide to take that leap of faith and go after that big dream. I’m right there myself. After 20 years of one-to-one coaching - a career I’ve loved and still bel...

If you’re feeling bored, frustrated, burnt out - or just quietly dreaming of something new, then this week’s Pep-Talk is for you because I am diving into one of my favourite topics: change . We need to bring about change in our lives in order to grow and flourish, but as human beings we are also hard wired to resist change. Our inner Shitty Committee will almost always think it’s a terrible idea a...

Hi there, I’m Selina, a Career and Life Design Coach , author and podcaster. I’ve been helping people create careers and lives they love for two decades…and now I can’t wait to help you! When I’m not writing here on Substack, I’m creating new journals and coaching clients all over the world, from my little green office in South East London. You can check out my coaching programmes here . Is The Wo...

With summer holidays fast approaching, this week I want to talk about something a lot of us say we’re going to do… but secretly struggle with: Switching off on holiday. Not just closing the laptop. Not just putting on your out-of-office. I mean really switching off - mentally, emotionally, digitally. And let’s be honest - most of us know by now that this is way harder than it sounds. Our phones ar...

The Time to Thrive journal is finally out in the world 🥳 and I am so proud of it. BUT… …instead of doing the big, buzzy launch, that I had planned to do, I did something radical instead: I chose to rest. And in this week’s Pep-Talk (back after an unscheduled three week break), I share: * Why I paused instead of launching full-throttle * What this taught me about capacity, overachievement, and my...

Hello lovelies, and happy Bank Holiday Monday (if you're here in the UK).Wherever you are in the world, I hope your day includes at least a few cup-filling moments, whatever that means for you right now. In this week's Pep-Talk, I’m inviting you to dive into the juicy topic of productivity, unpacking what your relationship with productivity is and whether your understanding of what it takes to be...

Hello lovelies, Happy Monday! Excitement levels are running very high here as I get ready to reveal the brand new Time to Thrive journal, in all her colourful glory TOMORROW! There will be a special pre-order offer running for two weeks, so be sure to look out for an email landing in your inbox TOMORROW MORNING! And in celebration of the imminent launch of Time to Thrive , I decided to dedicated t...

If you struggle with self-care - with knowing how to do it, having the time for it or the desire to actually do it - then you are not alone. I struggled with self-care for years. It felt like another thing on my to-do list. Another should. Another chore. And to the part of me that was driven, ambitious and purely interested in me getting the results I wanted, rest and self-care felt like a threat....

I ❤️ BURNOUT. Yes I do. And in this week’s Pep-Talk I’m going to tell you why. And spoiler: it’s not because I think it’s a fun thing to go through - because it’s definitely not. But because I think we are supposed to go through these big breakdowns, at least once in our lives, in order to grow and transform. Burnout is a powerful ring of fire and it often redirects people onto a different path in...

Hello lovelies, The Another Way Monday Pep-Talks are back! And I’m kicking things off with a juicy deep dive into the topic of Burnout Archetypes. Do you know which yours is yet? If you missed it, last week I shared my free Burnout Archetypes Quiz to help you spot how you tend to behave when you head into overdrive (you can take the quiz here ). 🎧 And in today’s Pep-Talk, I’m taking a deeper look...

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure if I was going to bother doing my Work Quarterly Check-in this time round - I figured that with the ‘Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025’ Quarterly Check-in and the Monthly Reflect and Plan session this coming Friday, that would be more than enough reflecting and planning. But I’m so glad I changed my mind and made the time to do it, because it ended up being a really powerful e...

Hello lovelies, today’s pep-talk comes to you from Argentina! I’m here with my mum (who is from here) visiting family - we were literally one of the last planes out of Heathrow on Thursday night! Very grateful we made it. My original plan was to record a fresh new Pep-talk about embracing chaos because at the time of recording this pep-talk I was knee deep in chaos. But in the end I decided that t...

Hey lovelies, Have you ever thought that to really enjoy life - or achieve your big dreams - you have to become some super-evolved, ultra-productive, green-juice-drinking, perfectly-balanced version of yourself? Well, I’m here to tell you: you don’t. In today’s pep talk, I’m diving into why you don’t need a total life overhaul, a flawless routine, or some next-level personal transformation to actu...

Another Way is the club dedicated to helping you design your life and career so that you thrive! Sign up for a free or paid subscription! Hello, my loves, and welcome back to another Pep-Talk! Spring is finally very much here in London and it is making me very happy ☀️ The other thing putting a big smile on my face is the new Project You journal that I’m working on: Time to Thrive . I am SO excite...

Hello, my loves! Oh, it feels GOOD to be back with these Pep-talks. If you’re new here - welcome! These weekly pep talks are short, snappy, and designed to give you a boost of inspiration, motivation, and practical tips to help you design a life and career you love. And if you missed my latest deep-dive episode on reframing menopause from fear to power with the brilliant Jo Fiddy - go and have a l...

The Another Way podcast is BACK! And this time, it’s here to stay! From now on, on the first Saturday of every month, you’ll get to deep dive with me and a special guest, into a topic that will have you looking at life or work in another way . And every Monday you’ll get a 15 minute Pep-Talk from me to help you kickstart your week with some inspiration, motivation and practical tips to help you de...

Today’s episode is a loooong one, but a magical one. My guest is Tiu de Haan - a ritual designer, creative facilitator, and idea doula who has worked with an incredible range of clients over the past 20 years - from Google and the UN to L’Oréal and the Ministry of Justice. Her work involves creating transformative rituals and experiences that help people play, get creative, and shift their perspec...

In this final episode of series #1 of Another Way I’m talking with..err…well, me! Yes, I’m flying solo for this episode because I wanted to talk about the topic that I have dedicated the past two decades to: how to create a career you love, particularly when the traditional world of work doesn’t work for you. And if you think you might be one of those people, then trust me, you are not alone. Stag...

This episode of Another Way is a particularly special one. It’s with my incredible friend Cordelia Taylor who has, in the past five years, since she was diagnosed with brain cancer and given 18 months to live, taught me so much about how to embrace life, how to savour every moment and the incredible power of sisterhood. We have been holding sister circles together for more than six years. It has c...

Ooh you are in for a treat this week, because we are diving deep into exploring another way of living with none other than the legendary - one of the leading guides of our time. If you don’t know Donna, then you just wait - she is the wisest of souls. Fearne Cotton agrees with me and calls her ‘ the wisest woman I know ’ and Emma Watson says ‘ she has helped shape the woman I have become’ . Donna...

If you or anyone you know is struggling in their relationship then this podcast episode is for you. In fact, even if you’re not struggling in a relationship right now, but you want to enjoy a long-lasting nourishing relationship, full of love and intimacy, then this episode is also for you. Because this week we dive deep into the topic of relationships with my special guest, the amazing Relationsh...

Are you a woman who works too much? Are you fed up with feeling over-stretched, exhausted and trapped on a treadmill of never-ending to-do lists? Then this episode of Another Way is dedicated to you and all the women out there who find themselves working too much. I’m joined by transformational coach, speaker and author, Tamu Thomas, , who is on a mission to show women that there IS another way wi...

Welcome to… Another Way! My brand new podcast where I explore and unpack the collective narratives and limiting beliefs that seem to be keeping so many of us trapped on a treadmill of daily grind and exhaustion and stopping us from living the lives we really want to be living.  Over the next six episodes I’ll be joined by an amazing line-up of guests who are each dedicated to shining a light on th...