Lessons from a Quitter

It's my 200th episode!! WHAT?!?! It blows my mind to think about the fact that I've been putting out a podcast every single week for 200 weeks.  It got me thinking about what I had to have believed 4 years ago in order to jump blindly into this project that ended up changing my life.

This week I want to talk to you about your money mindset. I actually did an episode on this before but I realized I had a lot more to say so I needed to do another episode. In our society, we've been made to think that wanting a lot of money is bad and rich people are bad or evil. I thought this too, until I worked on those thoughts, and now I feel completely different. So this week I want to talk...

This week I want to talk to you about the law of polarity, also called the law of duality. It's the idea that the only way you can experience something is because you have experienced the opposite of it. And if you've been around for awhile, you know I always talk about life being 50/50 - you can only experience the good, if you've experienced the bad. So this week I want to talk to you about how...

This week's episode is a replay of Episode 50: How Blogging Helped Leslie Samuel Get And Then Quit His Dream Career. It's hard not to smile while listening to today's guest talk about his journey and you'll see why. Leslie's story is something we can all learn so much from. Through determination and a genuine love of teaching biology, he managed to land himself his dream job as a biology professor...

This week I want to talk to you about the compare and despair cycle so many of us find ourselves in, myself included. We scroll through Instagram, envious of what we see others post, forgetting that social media is a highlight reel. However, comparison and jealousy aren't always bad. If you learn to harness it correctly, it can lead you to the life you want. In this podcast, I detail how to stop t...

On this week's episode, I talk with Deepa Purushothaman, a former partner at Deloitte turned author and speaker. In her book released earlier this month, Deepa draws on conversations she had with hundreds of women of color about their experiences in the workplace. I think her work is so important and is just the beginning of the change we can create in Corporate America. In this episode, we talk a...

This week on the podcast, I'm answering your questions! As you may know, I have a button on my website that lets you leave me a voice message--any burning question you have, any topic I haven't yet covered-- you can record it right there and I'll answer it on the podcast. Today's episode is our first listener Q&A! I'm taking a few of the questions that I haven't answered on the podcast yet and div...

This week I want to talk to you about my six month group coaching program, Pave Your Path. I'll tell you all about the program - who it's best for, who it's not best for, all the things. I'll also answer some of the commonly asked questions I get during each launch. Doors are currently open now through Friday, March 18th. Join me, I'd love to have you! Sign up at lessonsfromaquitter.com/paveyourpa...

This week on the podcast, I have my former student, Cynthia. Before joining the program, Cynthia had been working at the same company for five years, was over-worked and stressed all the time. She worked nights and weekends and was missing out on time with her family. Right before the program began, Cynthia's mother suddenly passed away and she was scared to email her boss to ask for time off. Tha...

This week on the podcast, I have my former student, Lisa McFadden. From a young age, Lisa knew she wanted to be a writer but let other people talk her into a more stable career path. Burnt out and at her wits' end, she was absolutely miserable when she signed up for my 6 month program. During the program, Lisa had a major a-ha moment that changed her life completely. Since finishing the program, s...

Anxiety seems to be more present in our modern lives than ever before. But I think that is partly due to the fact that we fundamentally misunderstand anxiety, which prevents us from reducing it. In this week's episode, I break down what anxiety actually is and what steps to take to help you manage it.

This week I want to talk to you about finding your purpose. Most of us have this notion that there is one purpose to our lives and we should be deeply fulfilled and if we're not, then something is wrong. So we go out and try to find our purpose, but how do you even know if you've found it? This week, I explain the problem in finding your purpose and offer my thoughts on how to reframe this major i...

This week, we're talking about self-trust. This is the foundation of where our self-confidence comes from. And, yet, along the way, we adopted the false belief that we can't trust ourselves. So we run around asking everyone else to make decisions for us, hoping they have the answer. Because if it doesn't work, now we have someone else to blame. I don't have to tell you that is a terrible plan. And...

One of the biggest misconceptions about quitting is that you can only do it if you're miserable.  After all, if it's not terrible, why leave?  Don't be ungrateful. Other people would kill for this job. Don't risk all of the uncertainty, regret, and judgment. Suck it up.  And if these are the thoughts you're operating under, you're going to sabotage your own life in an attempt to have an "excuse" t...

This week, we're going to dive into how we can take 100% responsibility for our lives. Even when we've been dealt a bad hand, even when things aren't turning out the way we wanted, even when other people won't just act the way we think they should. Ultimately, only you are responsible for your own happiness. If that triggers you into wanting to resist or reject this notion, then today's podcast is...

This week I want to talk to you about how you view your work and why it matters. If you've been around for a bit, you know that life is always 50/50 and that's true about work too. Your thoughts create your reality and impact your experience. So many of us are adding to our own unhappiness simply because of our own expectations. Today we dive into why that is and what we can do about it.

This week's episode is a replay of Episode 60: How Peter Glatz Quit His Dental Practice At 65 To Start a Second Career In one Of America's Best Restaurants. How many times have you wanted to start over? How many times have you started thinking about the possibilities only to follow them up with the thought, "but it's too late in my life to do this"? If you're human, then you've probably had this d...

This week's episode is a replay of Episode 31: How Shinah Chang quit the straight path of law for Crooked Calligraphy. And stick around for an update from Shinah at the end! Shinah is a whiskey-loving, curse-word slinging, Harvard-trained former corporate attorney who left everything behind to find her passion. Shinah spent her entire life on the straight, "proper" path. She went to an Ivy League...

As we're coming close to the end of 2021, I spend this episode doing a recap of my year. While we tend to wait and start the new year with goals and resolutions, I'm excited to share the goals I've set for myself (that I started on a random day in December). As always, I want you to see that you can set big goals and not meet them but still accomplish something along the way. I hope my year is an...

We're all overwhelmed. All the time. And we think it's just the way it is.  "There is just too much to do."  That's a lie.  For the past year, I've delved into how to overcome my own overwhelm...in building a business, in raising my kids, in surviving a pandemic.  And it's been the most eye-opening experience.

This week I want to talk to you about guilt. As we're heading into the holiday season, I'm sure that we're all feeling obligated to do certain things. And I just want to offer that you don't have to do anything. So today I want to talk to you about where that guilt comes from and how to reframe those thoughts so you're not saying yes out of obligation but rather choosing what you want to do intent...

This week's episode is a replay of Episode 115: Life Is Both Good And Bad. On this week's episode, we talk about the duality of life, the good and the bad. Life is always going to throw curveballs at us and we need to deconstruct the idea that we need to be happy all the time. Owning our dissatisfaction and working toward goals that allow for small wins will help us be more fulfilled.

This week, we're talking about mini-experiments. So many people come to me because they have no idea what they want to do. They either stay stuck forever or decide to go all-in on the next thing that they pick. Both can be a disaster. I'm going to teach you how to start test driving a new job, hobby, or industry, before you jump in.

On this week's episode, I'm sharing the lessons I learned from my photo booth business. While I knew this business wasn't what I was passionate about, I'm so grateful to my past self for starting it because I learned so much and it eventually led me to exactly what lights me up.

"Do you regret going to law school?" I get this all the time. Why would I waste a single second regretting something I can't change?  No matter how much I replay it, beat myself up, blame other people, think about how much better my life would be if I didn't go... It won't change the fact that I went to law school.  So instead of wasting my time on something I can't change, I focus on what I want...