Radical Redirection

Is it possible to burn out doing what you love? In the previous episode (27), we talked about what to do when your job no longer feels aligned. In this episode, let’s explore the other side: what to do if you love your job, it’s satisfying and giving you purpose, but you find yourself exhausted and drained. You're constantly thinking about it, and maybe you're only feeling good when you’re...

You’re successful, but something’s missing. What is it? You’re doing everything right, and life’s really good, but for whatever reason, you’re not fully happy. Or maybe you realize that a big part of your life - your job - is slowly depleting you. Maybe you can tell that something needs to change, but you’re not sure what. This episode will help you answer questions like: Why am I unhappy at a rea...

If you’ve been feeling low, empty, uninspired, overwhelmed by everything you have to do and at the same time a little lost in life, take a few minutes to come back to yourself with this meditation.  Follow along anywhere, anytime: walking, sitting, laying down, pausing at work. Just make sure that you’re somewhere quiet and won’t be interrupted for 6 minutes. Listen to Episode 26: “Reclaiming Lost...

When you get so stuck in the same routine that every day starts looking the same, slowly, over time, it starts to drain you. It starts to feel like you’re just a “doing machine” getting through the day’s to-do list. And despite being busy, despite all of it being important things, you start feeling empty. Have you been there? And if so, have you heard the advice: switch up your routine? Take a dif...

When you’re going through a particularly challenging period of life, and NOTHING seems to be going well, here’s a simple and quick practice to get you feeling better immediately, and see things in a new light. Before we problem solve our life, we need to raise our emotional baseline. This is the Energy-First Approach. And today, we’ll talk about the Anchoring practice: how to find balance and feel...

Part 2 of the latest feminine rage conversation! (Check out episode 23 for part 1.) In the last episode, I shared some strategies for how to create better conditions in our lives to allow for more focus, more uninterrupted meaningful work, and have more space for rest. In this episode, we’re adding another layer: the “this is harder for a woman” layer. We’re going to dive into some frustrating pat...

Let’s get into some righteous feminine rage today! And talk strategy, too: strategy of how to create better conditions in our lives to allow us to do more focused work, more meaningful work, and have more space for rest and for ourselves. In this episode, I talk about why it’s harder to get things done now than it was 100 years ago and earlier. I also share our plan for how we, my husband and I, a...

Sometimes you get to a point where you feel dissatisfied, frustrated, stressed, and you wonder: how did I GET here? You’re doing everything right, you’re doing great at your job, taking care of your household and family, taking care of your health - and yet you still get to this point when life just feels off. Let’s talk about how to prevent that. How to get back into your flow, and how to make li...

When your partner is going through a stressful time - whether at work, with family, with too much to do, etc. - or a sad spell, or an episode of anxiety - it’s SO hard to watch them be in this sucky place and NOT know how to help. We TRY to help: we offer solutions, we want to fix it for them, we try to distract them, but ultimately, we just hope that the next therapy appointment will make everyth...

I used to believe that self care is something I’ll do closer to retirement. Maybe when my career slows down a bit. Maybe after kids… and honestly, I thought that self care is something only the rich and the privileged had time for. Now I believe that self care is possible 24/7 - when you make it a natural part of your life. In this episode, I share the mental shifts that helped me see self care di...

I’m a natural planner. It comes with being in leadership at a big company, working closely with project managers, and being used to planning everything to a T all throughout school and college.  So, of course, I used this skill to plan out my life.  And that’s when things went sideways.  I spent many years planning my life direction, my career path (and then business path), my finances, when to ha...

You want to rest, but your mind just can’t turn off. Even if you relax with a show or a night out, as soon as it’s time to sleep, your mind keeps you up. Or worse: maybe your mind keeps coming up with things you need to do before you rest. Like Cinderella: get through ALL the chores, the whole to-do list, and then MAYBE you can relax… Either way, let’s talk about what to do when your mind won’t le...

There’s a side of us that comes out only when we’re exhausted: physically, mentally, emotionally drained, overstimulated, overwhelmed. This side of us can be mean, self-critical, anxious, paralyzed with fear, angry, feeling helpless or hopeless about where the world (of your life) is going. No matter what this side of you looks like (and sounds like in your head), it’s always driven by the same th...

Stuck in a rut? When your days start to look the same, life feels boring, you’re not proud of yourself, and start feeling melancholy, the first thought is: “I just need SOMETHING, ANYTHING to happen!” And that’s the thought that tells me: it’s time to take matters into my own hands. This episode lists my favorite tools to get unstuck, get out of my head, find motivation again, get inspired, and on...

“How do you get so much done and not burn out?” It’s a good question! So I’m diving into this one today. Ambition, big goals, living life to the fullest - we all want to “do it all.” And while I don’t believe in “doing it all,” I think you can get close. At the very least, you can design your life to spend most of your time on needle-moving things that are truly important to you and feel rewarding...

You actually have SO much energy - enough for everything you want to do in life. It’s just a matter of taking it back from the things that drain it. In this episode, I explain what your energy is (it’s not just your health, and it’s not a “woo” thing that you have no control over). I explain why it’s so easy to lose energy and why reclaiming it is essential to a fulfilling life. And, most importan...

Can goals and dreams have a dark side? We thought we were doing the right thing by concentrating on our future: the life we want to build, the businesses that would support us, the reality that would make us really happy. And yes, this is important. But what happens when you take it too far? In this episode, I share how we realized that we’ve been putting most of our energy into the “elsewhere” -...

When your life is perfectly good on the outside, but you constantly feel miserable, what do you do? When everything is technically fine, but all you can think is: “why am I like this, when will this end, will life ever get better” - how do you get out of this emotional funk? For me, part of the problem was basing my happiness on outside factors: success at my job, making money, my relationship, ad...

Sometimes, when you’re tired, you feel worse after resting and have no idea why. Sometimes giving yourself a break leaves you more exhausted than before. And even if you know how to stay healthy, even if you’re eating well and sleeping enough, some days you feel like you just can’t get off the couch, and it takes all of your discipline to make yourself do anything at all. Why does this happen? Bec...

A personal update of what's been shifting for me in 2025! This year, I threw the "plan" out the window. It wasn't working. Turns out, I do NOT know best. Turns out, life wants me to go in a different direction - when I open up and let myself be led instead of trying to control everything. In this episode I talk about how my coaching business has been difficult and slow to build,...

A meditation for when you're going through a tough time: a difficult life event, breakup, conflict at work, extreme overwhelm, or simply when you're feeling like you're dealing with a lot. Try this meditation to regain a sense of calm, safety, and agency. Listen to Episode 9: "When You're Going Through a Crisis" for a step-by-step to get yourself out of survival mode and...

It’s early November 2024, which means: 1) Hurricane Helene just devastated Asheville and Western North Carolina (where we live), 2) the elections just took place, and 3) the world is in an unsteady state. What an appropriate time to have an episode on dealing with a crisis! In this episode, I give a brief update on what happened to us (and why I haven’t released any episodes for 1.5 months) and ho...

You have an incredible vision of your ideal future, you feel called to pursue your passion, you know what you want in life - but why, why, why is it SO hard to actually get there? In this episode, we explore the brain’s hidden mechanisms: how what keeps us safe and outwardly successful is actually keeping us stuck and hurting on the inside. Your soul is very unique and special, but your limitation...

When you think about your life as a whole, what are some of the most important things you want for yourself? The BIG things? Owning a home one day, going through life with a loving partner, traveling, having a family, retiring early?  And now, be honest - how many of those things are on autopilot right now? We tend to put the most important things on autopilot. “They’ll happen somehow, I just need...

Let’s be real. There’s DEFINITELY something that separates the people who do remarkable and inspiring things from the rest of us. What is it, and how can ALL of us cultivate it? Tune in to find out. In episode 5, we discussed how self-judgment stops us from changing our lives. In this episode, we’ll talk about self-doubt - the other major force that gets in the way when we aim higher. Also: how se...