During the summer of 2024, I am re-running the most popular client conversations based on downloads, shares, and direct feedback. Make sure to catch a career update at the end of each episode.

Amanda Burma, a powerful sales engineer within growing start-ups, my client, and my friend, shares her brave story about finding a career she loves while also thriving with a brain that includes ADHD and learning disability.

Listen in to how Amanda is choosing to shift her assumptions and behavior to support her own growth, hold better boundaries, work less with more impact, and leverage the superpower of neurodiversity for herself and others.

Amanda shares her process for how she identified where she thrives and how she continues to ensure that she grows. We finish off the episode with Amanda’s perspective on how coaching has changed her daily experience.

Spoiler Alert: Grateful tears at the end of this episode.

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Original episode: E80: Amanda Burma - Why Neurodiversity is a Superpower, Being a Great Sales Engineer, Asking Questions and Taking Action for Career Growth (Client)

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During the summer of 2024, I am re-running the most popular client conversations based on downloads, shares, and direct feedback. Make sure to catch a career update at the end of each episode.

Caroline Santinelli, a former teacher and now woman in tech, shares her brave career story of – as Brene Brown says – choosing to ‘belong to herself first.’

Caroline’s story includes moving from burnout-driven medical leave as a teacher, to embracing her innate strengths, choosing her health, and allowing her brave career to move through different phases.

At the start of her career transformation, Caroline lost her voice (for real) due to stress, experienced her first panic attack, developed insomnia, kept getting sick with aches and fevers, and finally began having significant nerve pains.

Caroline shares how she chose messy, deeply personal work of building her brave, searching out support from professionals. Her first significant step was giving herself permission to take medical leave. Then, over many weeks, she slowly gave herself permission to belong to herself and choose her innate talents. The next big step was allowing others to be disappointed.

If you’re ready to learn how to belong to yourself, embrace your innate talents, and break free of the rules and judgments holding you back, this is your episode.

Hot topics from this episode:

• Introducing Caroline Santinelli - educator to business owner
• What it means to belong to yourself, one step at a time
• Why it’s important to disappoint others instead of yourself
• How we’ve been indoctrinated to not belong to ourselves
• “Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.” ― Gloria Steinem
• Repeating a lesson until the knowledge breaks through into wisdom
• Rejecting standards that are inhuman and unprofessional, like 24-hour email turn-around time for all emails
• Caroline’s brave role models and how women empower women who then empower other women
• Learning to lean into your innate talent, listen to the way (not the obstacle), and then allow the open up

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Original episode: E99: Caroline Santinelli - Embrace Your Innate Talent to Return from Burn-Out & Transform Your Career (Client)

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During the summer of 2024, I am re-running the most popular client conversations based on downloads, shares, and direct feedback. Make sure to catch a career update at the end of each episode.

Have you ever felt underappreciated and undervalued in your workplace, even after making an effort to ignite change?

Jackie Podoll, a Data-Obsessed Senior Analyst with a passion for continuous improvement, and also my client joins us to share a brave career story. Her story focuses on her process of giving herself permission to choose herself, to stop allowing herself to be underappreciated, and then grow her career.

In our conversation, Jackie shares how she identified what she actually wanted, how she made small tweaks to re-design the next phase of her life and career, and how she continued her strong financial habits to build financial freedom.

Hot topics from this conversation:

• 
  Introducing Jackie Podoll
• Jackie’s deep realization and her choice to leave
• Jackie’s break and her biggest surprise
• Jackie’s brave role model and the power of ‘slug life’
• How coaching supported Jackie live and work more authentically

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Original episode: E86: Jackie Podoll- Learning to Choose You, Stop Accepting Being Underappreciated and Undervalued, and Grow Your Career (Client)

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