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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