Clarity on Fire

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:   Corina, who's struggling at the moment to make enough money to cover her basic needs. What's our advice for how someo...

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.   And wow, we REALLY cannot get enough of Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy.   This book is incredibly popular for the best of reasons — there's a rapi...

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 (plus some bonus cards from our new Tosha Silver deck!). One or all has a message for you — come find out what it is!    We started this episode with a little ~dream in...

If you've heard us say it once, you've probably heard us say it a million times:   Your career doesn't have to be linear.   It doesn't even have to make logical sense!     When you think of your career more like life — something that unfolds in a winding, often mysterious, hopefully joyful, but sometimes difficult path — then it's easier to make peace with the journey.   The two of us walk our tal...

My former client Kara is one of those women who was good at doing what she was "supposed" to do.     She went to college, studied engineering (just like her dad), and became an engineer. She also got married and had kids, all while progressing in a very demanding field.     But eventually, as life tend to do when it isn't built on the sturdiest, most authentic foundation, things started to fall ap...

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:   Anonymous, a sensitive and empathic person who people at work often pick on (sometimes very publicly) because she's a...

Did you know that the median age of a woman being diagnosed with ADHD is 38 years old? Wild, right?!     Not only are so many girls with ADHD overlooked as kids and teenagers, but the boys who get a diagnosis at a young age are expected to "grow out of it" once they become adults.     There are countless misinterpretations about this disorder. So it's no wonder that most adults with ADHD feel conf...

Last month we did an episode many of you told us you really liked where we dove into our newest thoughts on some big ways to have a career you love .   One of the tough-but-true points we made in that episode was that your ability to have a healthy career (or relationship, or anything ) that you love hinges upon your emotional maturity … or lack thereof.   We promised we'd be back with a full-leng...

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:   Allie with the ADHD, who recently got an ADHD diagnosis and is wondering … how much of the things that stress her out...

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! And oooh, it's a good one. ✨👀🔮   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, mini spoiler (but not really): We ended the episode by talking about...

Back in May of last year we did an episode that quickly became a classic: 6 ways to love (and keep) your job for years and years . It hasn't even been a year yet, but we've been mentally adding to that list ever since! So, in this month's brand-new Side Chat, we're back with a sequel to that conversation. No need to listen to last year's episode first, though you'll definitely want to after hearin...

A year ago, Kim Scott found herself in an all-encompassing funk.   Nothing was going right. Issues with family were popping up, friendships were coming apart at the seams, and she was totally unsatisfied with her job.     She vaguely remembered a time, too long ago, that she had mojo — when she was vibrant and alive and full of energy — but hadn't connected with that version of herself in so long,...

We're baaaack! Did you miss us? 💁🏼‍♀️   We feel refreshed and ready to dive back into podcasting after our little hiatus, so let's start with a brand-new episode of Dear Krachel!   If you're new to Clarity on Fire, Dear Krachel is a monthly advice segment where we answer listener questions about life, career, relationships, existential angst, and anything that helps you become a more whole, fulf...

Yep, you read that subject line right — starting today, we're taking a hiatus from the podcast! 😲   We've been podcasting for 4.5 years now, if you can believe it, with verrrry few short breaks (mostly time off around the holidays).     The urge to take a longer break has been creeping up on us slowly-but-surely for a while, and as people who walk our talk, we can't very well encourage others to...

Like many of us, Jamie Hillman spent years following the typical life roadmap that was supposed to lead to happiness.     Go to school? Check. Get a job? Check. Generally figure out how to be a functioning adult? Check.     But somewhere along the way, she started to question… Where is this roadmap even taking me. Who created it in the first place? And (most importantly), if I'm doing everything "...

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:   Early Entrepreneur, who's torn between taking it slower in her business-building efforts so that she can enjoy her li...

Calling all fellow bookworms, library nerds, and general lovers of literature — it's time for part TWO of our book club conversation about Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily & Amelia Nagoski.     In part one (listen to this first!) we learned about where burnout comes from, how to process stress in a never-heard-before way, and how to navigate the controllable AND uncontrol...

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 … except you'll notice that today is Tuesday. 🙃 We had so much to say about this book that we split it into two episodes! Part one is available today...

If you have no idea what you want to do with your life and career, well, you've come to the right place.     Our specialty is helping you go from stuck, overwhelmed, and confused to clear, confident, and full of direction and fulfillment.     But once you have that direction, you might need help with the technical details — especially if what you want next is a new job.     That's where our friend...

Sometimes something becomes such a hot topic that it even reaches Millennials in their 30s who don't have TikTok. 👵🏼   Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard the phrase "quiet quitting" floating around the Internet for the past couple of weeks.   We're dropping in with a special bonus episode today because, after being career coaches for a decade, how could we not weigh in...

One of Kristen's clients came to her recently in a bit of a frenzy, saying:   "I have SO many things that need work — my career, my marriage, my health, my friendships — and they're ALL important. How do I pick one thing to focus on? And what if it takes forever and then the other things start to suffer even more?? Or I miss out on opportunities because I was too fixated on one thing?!"   If just...

Have you ever felt so distraught about your life that you had no other option than to don a sweatshirt, throw the hood up, cinch it tight, and lie on the floor and proceed to sob uncontrollably?   I call it The Hood of Despair. Try it out sometime! I highly recommend it. 🙃   My former client Tiffanie is well-acquainted with THOD, which is why I invited her to be this month's "interview with a nor...

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:   Coach Curious, who's attracted to the possibility of becoming a coach (like some of you might be, if you've been foll...

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! 🔮   Today 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!     We also started out this episode with a wild story a listener submitted after hearing our last Mess...

A couple months ago, we told you the best way to successfully make it out of your comfort zone is with a slow-and-steady approach.   Annnd because we love to contradict ourselves (but not really, because didn't someone say once that the best way to understand life is through paradox? 🙃 ), now we're going to tell you the exact opposite … and somehow, both are still true!   In this month's Side Cha...