ARCHITECTING Podcast - Career + Lifestyle Mentoring for Architects looking to move beyond overwhelm and make a difference through design

You know what's a huge time waster? Anxiety. That paralyzed state you get into where you judge based on past failure and worry yourself through endless future scenarios. Clearly no way to be creative. Anxiety locks you out of your flow state because it keeps you from exploring possibilities. Start riding that flow state wave again by: Learning how to embrace the endless possibilities of the presen...

Do you feel like you have to accommodate everyone's need- except your own. This kind of people pleasing take a heavy toll on you body, mind and spirit. Chronic stress is literally at the root of physical and mental disease. Protect yourself by making the time needed for self care: Make time to restore and reset your system after a stressful event priority1 Understand that rest involves more than j...

Many people joke that they wish could clone themselves so they could be twice as productive. Well,...you kinda can. Learn how to redirect your brain's editing system to filter for inputs you need to solve a problem, without the painful iteration. By it's very nature, creativity requires we journey into the unknown. Yet, by its very nature, our brain really likes repetition. In fact, there is a who...

We pine and long for some fabled state of balance, when what we really want is freedom. Freedom to choose how we spend our time, freedom to prioritize what matters. As we continue to explore time and how we spend it, we're gonna park today on this whole myth of balance and how it keeps us stuck in some cosmic juggling act where everything has equal importance. Top takeaways: Get help if you need i...

Nose to the grindstone gets you a paycheck. But you are so much more than that. Today, you start saying yes to life, to the things you want to do not just the ones you have to do. I'm so excited, we are on the eve of the launch of my second book. Time Builder is the book I didn't know I would write, but this topic called to me precisely because I see so many architects shutting down the possibilit...

Time, we never seem to have enough of it. We stay busy so we can avoid the scary stuff. Today, we put a stop to the busyness cycle and reclaim the time we need for impactful, heart led work This episode puts a mirror to your soul to reveal why choosing the path of least resistance to avoid the stress of forging ahead just leads to stagnation.  Let's explore your growth edge and get you on it by Fi...

Set it and forget it is not a catchphrase that should ever be applied to your career. Complacency and competence won't get you anywhere, unless putting your career in zombie mode just to earn a paycheck is your goal. This episode puts a mirror to your soul to reveal why choosing the path of least resistance to avoid the stress of forging ahead just leads to stagnation.  Let's explore your growth e...

Freedom..to reach our fullest potential, to do the work we love, to be all that we can be, is both exhilarating and terrifying.  Let's talk about why you, and only you, are holding yourself back and do something about that already. We like to blame others for placing limitations on us, but the truth is that freedom is an inside job. You always have choices, and it's time to stop choosing to stay s...

Are you ready to finally do this?  The work you were built to do?  The work that is impactful and makes a difference? When you think about all the reasons you feel you can't, they all boil down to one thing: freedom. Freedom from expectations and obligations. Freedom to choose what makes your heart happy. On this episode, we explore iconoclasm- that questioning of the premise and breaking of the i...

Hey you white knuckling the steering wheel of life: it's time to stop trying to control everything. Time to care...less. That doesn't mean you don't take time to get clear, or follow you passions.  What it does mean is you don't get invested in the outcome looking a certain way.  Be open to all possibilities by doing the following: Empower others to share your story- their way, to their audience R...

Oh, we've all had our buttons pushed a few times. In those moments, when our anger has bubbled to the surface, we feel justified being terse and critical. Because we're right, right? Anger is a very powerful emotion. It can take over and our mighty wrath can do a whole lot of collateral damage. In this episode we explore the root causes of anger and how to leverage all that agitation to foster a s...

We dream big dreams, then maybe give ourselves permission to try them on oh, once. The minute we hit a whiff of resistance or failure, it's peace out.  Today is the day you try again, and again, and again because winning- you got it in you! The very worst form of betrayal is self betrayal.  Yet we do it to ourselves all the time when we play small and don't seek the life and the work we were put h...

This is the number one question people ask career coaches. They know they're not happy in their current state, but don't know what their future state could look like, let alone how to negotiate their desired state. In this episode, I'll walk you through two examples from clients of mine and how I helped them not only decide if they should stay or go, but how to negotiate their next move. You'll le...

With so much FOMO out in the world, you can feel like whatever decision you make, it was wrong, especially if that decision meant saying no to someone who expected you to say yes. Episode 36 is all about showing you how to get out of the endless loop of iteration and second guessing and in tune with your intuition. How to tell the difference between iteration and intuition Getting past your author...

Living life on your terms means getting to do the work that you love. And you can't attract that to you if you're afraid to show up and ask for it. My Girlfriend Renee shares the big facts on living your best life, being authentic and sharing your story including how to leverage social media to work for you.  Renee is a force of nature and lets nothing stop her. Among the inspirational nuggets you...

You work hard, are super motivated and are playing the long game to career success. But the world needs you now- and you need to start leveraging the power of being a subject matter expert, not waiting to accumulate experience. If you'd like to add a little rocket fuel to your career trajectory and have more impact now, listen in.  I'm sharing what you need to focus on and how my new class The Tho...

Are you harnessing your innate skill set or still struggling to be good at things other people think you should be doing? This episode looks at ways to connect what you are naturally good at and love doing back to how you do your job. Discover how the things that bring you the most joy in life (not work, although they might overlap) are areas where you can have the most impact Find your innate ski...

You won't get far as a lone voice.  Even better, you don't have to. Get expert tips to be the visionary leader everyone wants to follow. Inspire your teams to amplify your mission and put their own spin on the message to maximize your impact: Work with, not against, personality archetypes to keep everyone engaged and inspired to bring it. Understand the role emotional intelligence techniques play...

It's no fun being a human movie screen for someone else's story. In this episode, I'll help you see how your own story might be setting you up to accept unfair criticism. I'll also explain what to do once you stop taking it personally to effectively get to the root cause. We will cover emotional intelligence techniques to help you show empathy: Understanding your personal triggers and how they mak...

Time is something you might wish you had more of. Big fact: you'd just fill it up with more unproductive work.  Instead, let me teach you how to better use the hours you do have getting more done better while still making room for fun. No time machine required. The real reason you feel like you don't have time revealed Life hacks to help you get time back by asking more and doing less Learning to...

You have big dreams, but those aren't for right now, are they? For all the reasons why...if you find even more reasons why not, you might just be uncoachable. This Episode drills down into all the resistance you have to change and shows you just how painful that status quo you've invested so much in maintaining really is. Things like: Why being afraid to ask for more because it feels easier is act...

Feeling overwhelmed and overextended much? I get it.  Our modern world is designed to deplete your bandwidth- but you don't have to let it. Just like a computer, if you have too many programs running in the background, you don't have enough bandwidth left to operate the ones you really need to use at full capacity. In this episode, I walk you through all the ways you are filling up your bandwidth...

Maybe you aren't a parent, but I bet you still need to cultivate some other humans being their best self.  And we ALL need to parent ourselves from time to time. This episode features my kids' (raw and unscripted) telling their stories about how being independent, thinking critically and following your passions is working out for them.  It's how I know the stuff I coach on really works. You might...

The struggle is real. But it's also unnecessary. Today, we look at five radical changes you need to make right now to get yourself out of the hard times and into a fulfilling, impactful career and balance life. I am for real here- so many things you are probably doing unconsciously, that everyone around you probably is doing need to stop.  Let's find a different way with these five shifts: Stop ex...

As a recovering perfectionist, I know all about that little voice inside your head telling you you're not good enough. But you know what's really not good enough?  The way you hold yourself back when you listen to that voice. Perfectionism is insidious and is goes hand in hand with people pleasing.  If we can;t win, we don't want to play, but if we don't play we will never win.  Yeah- time to esca...