Leadership Purpose with Dr. Robin

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "Restlessness can be the beginning of clarity. And for me, restlessness became before the decision. It came before I could explain. It came before I knew what I would do next. It was just there, beneath the surface, unsettled, trying to get my attention." Here are 3 reasons why you should listen to this episode: If you've...

This week's At her Career Crossroads insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "Sometimes the hardest decisions are not about escaping something terrible, sometimes they're about outgrowing something partial, something that fits part of you but not the whole of you. And that's not failure, that's discernment, that's paying attention, that's learning how to make decisions from a fuller place, a fuller...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "A good opportunity can still be a wrong fit. That sounds simple, but it's not always easy to accept. A good opportunity can be very convincing. It can come with the title, the salary, and the respect from other people. You tell yourself I should be happy. I worked hard for this. And yes, gratitude matters, but gratitude...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "Somewhere in high school, I made a quiet decision. I decided I wanted to find work that felt meaningful and fulfilling. Again, I didn't say it exactly like that back then. I didn't have the language, but I had the knowing. I knew I wanted to enjoy my work. I knew I wanted to do something that felt connected to who I was....

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "Women should not have to abandon themselves in order to be successful." Here are 3 reasons why you should listen to this episode: If you've been wondering why your next career decision feels so difficult despite being successful, you'll hear a different explanation for what's really going on beneath the surface. You'll l...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "You don't need to have every answer forever and you don't need to become perfect at clarity. You don't need to never wobble again. What matters is that you keep learning how to return to yourself, return to who you are, return to what matters, return to what's true for you. And that's no small thing. That's a way of livi...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "You can make a brave decision and then quietly punish yourself because the new path is not performing well enough by old standards. And that's not freedom. That's old conditioning wearing new clothes." Making the decision is not always the hardest part. Sometimes the harder part comes after — when doubt creeps back in, o...

This week's "At Her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin.  "Sometimes an aligned decision feels deeply right and deeply costly at the same time. True and vulnerable at the same time. Relieving and stretching at the same time." If you've been sitting in the tension between what looks good on paper and what actually feels true to you, this episode will help you think about career...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "Sometimes high-achieving women at a career crossroads think it's just an issue of stress, or maybe they think it's timing or workload. But sometimes the deeper issue is that they're succeeding inside conditions that violate what matters most to them." In this episode, I'm talking about why so many career crossroads feel...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "A woman can be very good at something that is no longer fully right for her. She can be competent, respected, effective, trusted, successful, and still feel the growing sense that something deeper is off." Here are 3 reasons why you should listen to this episode: You'll finally understand why being good at something does...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "Sometimes the future does hold important answers, but very often part of the clarity a woman needs is not only ahead of her, part of it is behind her… Sometimes they're clues. Clues about what has consistently energized you, what has consistently mattered to you, and what felt natural… She stops trying so hard to invent...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from Dr. Robin. She says - "Most women at a career crossroads are not being asked to invent themselves from scratch. They are being asked to reconnect, reconnect with what has been true in them for a long time, Reconnect with the parts of themselves that have gotten buried beneath performance, pressure, roles, expectations, and momentum. That's...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "One of the hardest parts of a career crossroads is that the truth often begins quietly, not as a dramatic breakdown, not as one big revelation, not as a moment when everything suddenly becomes obvious. It often begins as a signal, a shift in energy, a reoccurring question, a growing sense that something about your career...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from me — and it gets to the heart of why strategy alone isn't working. "When a successful or an accomplished woman reaches a career crossroads, one of the first things she usually wants is an answer, a plan, a framework, a next step, something she can do. And that makes sense because when life starts feeling uncertain, action feels comforting,...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "Success can move your career forward and still leave the deeper question unanswered." Here are 3 reasons why you should listen to this episode: You've hit the milestones you once wanted—but something still feels off. This will help you understand why success isn't giving you the clarity you expected. You'll start to see...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "It is not just tiredness. It is tension. It is not just exhaustion. It's misalignment. And it's not just needing a weekend off. It is the growing realization that success is no longer answering the deeper question." Here are 3 reasons why you should listen to this episode: You'll understand why questioning your career ca...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "Sometimes what is happening is that your inner life has evolved. You have evolved, but your outer path has not fully caught up yet. And that can create a kind of tension that is hard to explain to people who only know how to measure success from the outside." Here are 3 reasons why you should listen to this episode: If y...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. " Many of us were taught to think about careers as a straight line. Choose a direction, work hard, advance, continue succeeding. But real careers rarely unfold in such a simple way. As people grow, their sense of identity grows as well. Values start to become clearer, interests deepen, priorities shift, and sometimes the...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin – "Fear is information. It is not instruction. In other words, fear is just giving you some information. It's just telling you what's happening. It's not telling you what to do." If you're standing at a crossroads — wanting the next step but noticing your confidence hasn't quite caught up — this episode is for you. Here ar...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin, as a guest on the Career Breakers podcast — "I knew there had come a point where I was just going through the motions, and I was numb. I had headaches. Sunday night, I would dread it. So I knew, you know, they these were signs. It wasn't like suddenly the light came on. It was just that was the last straw." If you've ever...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. "So reinvention after success isn't about becoming someone new. It's about allowing who you actually are to emerge, to rise. And that takes a different kind of courage. Not the loud courage of ambition, but the quiet courage of alignment." If you've built the career, earned the respect, and created stability — but somethi...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from myself, Dr. Robin. I say — "You may be like so many high achieving women who are accomplished that you might be living in an outdated version of who you are. Versions that were built from who you were, who you used to be, who you have been, and you haven't updated this sense of who you are." If you've been successful, accomplished, and resp...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from me, Dr. Robin. I say – "There comes a moment in your evolution where who you used to be stops being enough to hold who you are becoming. And it's subtle. It's not dramatic. There isn't a meltdown or a breakdown. It's more like a quiet noticing, a soft discomfort, a sense that you're wearing a version of yourself that no longer fits." Here a...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from me, Dr. Robin. "You are not at a crossroads because you're confused. You're at a crossroads because you're ready. Readiness often feels like discomfort, not chaos, but restlessness, not panic, but misalignment, not fear, but a gentle insistence that something more true is calling." Here are 3 reasons why you should listen to this episode: Y...

This week's "At her Career Crossroads" insight comes from Vikita Poindexter. She says – "My health start to suffer, because I was so focused on everything and everybody else till I was neglecting myself. So my health was suffering, and, I had to have a, a heart to heart conversation with myself to say, okay, you're going to have to do things differently." Here are 3 reasons why you should listen t...