I love timeless wisdom and deep inner work – and often both are necessary to successfully change careers. So it should come as no surprise that one of my biggest pet peeves is how often misunderstood spiritual principles are repeated in the career space – sometimes with terrible consequences. If you have been trying to…
Why Am I Stuck?
It’s a Wonderful Life
I grew up watching the classic movie by Frank Capra, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and last week I watched it again, this time as an adult who helps individuals change careers. Ha! The film struck me in a very different way in 2018. And yet there is one message that is timeless… What is not…
Lack of Trust: How to Overcome it
I wrote this post about overcoming lack of trust to get ready to collaborate for Equallet – an online platform to discover women-owned businesses. You can read the original post here and find more about me by reading this interview on their blog. In my work helping individuals change careers, I often bump into a…
Three Steps to Recognize True Intuition
I strongly believe we all have an inner compass to guide us through life. One way we receive this guidance is through intuition, but it takes some learning to properly distinguish it from mere thoughts, emotions or fear. So how can you recognize true intuition? Until I discovered how to nurture and recognize true intuition,…
Heal Your Relationship to Giving and Receiving
On the giving and receiving spectrum, you probably fall somewhere between believing everyone owes you something and feeling that you are undeserving of even the most basic help. One of the most striking experiences I had as a young photographer was having people ask me to do things for them for free – they often…
Jobs That Pay Well: How to Deal with Money Worries About Changing Careers
The #1 concern, by far, that I hear from people who are thinking about changing careers is finding jobs that pay well. You are not alone if you worry about making enough money while doing what you love: according to the U.S Bureau of the Census the annual real median personal income of Americans in…
What Books Can’t Teach You About Changing Careers
I love reading books, not just one book, but multiples all at once. Some are new, some are books I read every few years. One book has been a constant for the past 3 years, and one classic has become a yearly tradition. And as a career coach, I read lots of books on changing…
Find Your Purpose and Then Look for Your Career
Are you looking for your purpose or are you looking for a job? A job, including being a business owner or freelancer, is what you do to generate income. Your job can be awesome or boring, lucrative or underpaid, inspiring or soul sucking. Your purpose, on the other hand, is much bigger than any job or business…
Unhappy at Work? Here’s How to Tell Whether the Problem Is Your Job or Your Company
Do you want to change careers? Are you absolutely sure your career is what is making you unhappy at work? I wrote this post about changing careers for Glassdoor Blog, you can read the original here and find more of my advice featured on Glassdoor Blog here. From my own career change to the stories I hear from my…
How to Trust Again
Working with career changers, I often hear questions that betray a lack of trust. Sometimes the person stuck in a career they don’t like does not trust that there will ever be a right fit. They might ask: “What if nothing I like pays enough?” or “What if I just don’t fit in, ever?” or…
