If you quit your job, got laid off, fired, or if you have no clients in your pipeline, this episode is for YOU! Most of us were never taught how to be in limbo with grace and with ease. We’ve been conditioned to work nonstop, to fill every gap, and to treat career pauses like failures instead of the natural part of life they really are.
In this week’s episode, I invite you to see the seasons between jobs, clients or opportunities as a chance to stop rushing and finally breathe. I walk you through eight ways to navigate this space with more ease and hope, from honoring your emotions and celebrating endings, to releasing the pressure of figuring it all out right away. Pauses don’t come often, but when they do, they can open the door to something better than you imagined.
Episode Highlights:
8 tips for navigating the uncertainty of being in-between
Why pressing pause and normalizing career breaks are important
How to care for yourself and shift the story you tell about this season
Quotables:
[00:00:03]
"You are where you're meant to be, nothing is wasted, life is happening for you and not to you. So how can you release the pressure that you're putting on yourself?"
[00:08:24]
"When I say taking a true pause, I mean that you're not focused on what's next quite yet. That will come but this pause is so critical after something has just ended because there's a lot of work to be done in that pause. A lot of celebrating and a lot of just being."
[00:25:26]
"Part of this in between time is to really find out about your natural rhythm. Likely your natural rhythm has been put on the back burner or beaten out of you over the years or over the course of your life, because of how you were conditioned to be. And there will be times that you find your rhythm in this journey, and there will be times where you realize you need a different approach."
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Theme music by Adrian DiMatteo https://adriandimatteo.com
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