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Take a weekend this October to design your journey so you can step up and stand up at work without taking joy out of the equation. Join us for the Designing Your Life Mastermind on October 17, 24, or 31
Are you missing out on your own brilliance?
Early in my work coaching women, I started to notice something: so often, my high-achieving women clients simply couldn’t see their own brilliance. They didn’t see how ready they were to go for their aspirations, to do the work they most longed to do, to bring their vision into reality.
I was quite attuned to this because I was in the same struggle myself. I’d been a high achiever in my career so far, and a good student in school, yet I found myself holding back out of fear and self-doubt in my work – tentative about my ideas, quiet with my voice.
The discomfort of that feeling – of hiding, of being on the not-right-path-for-me – started to grow.
Your resistance is going to lead to more discomfort.
Slowly, with lots of support and inner work, I uncovered some buried dreams. I learned to quiet my inner critic enough to start writing for larger audiences, and trained myself as an executive and leadership coach so I could do the work I felt called to, at the intersection of personal growth and women’s empowerment.
But I found that even as I moved into the right work for me – writing, coaching, and leading – yes, there was more joy, but those same inner challenges got in my way: self-doubt, perfectionism, a kind of hiding. I could see I needed to learn new ways of being if I wanted to truly share my voice and have real impact.
So, my own journey and my coaching practice became laboratories to discover: what tools and changes really make the biggest difference in helping women speak up and take charge of their own lives?
I spent a long time studying and living that question. I learned there are essential stepping stones on that journey: the inner work of learning to manage fear and self-doubt, nurture a growth mindset, and develop a relationship with my future self.
And there’s also the practical learning – about how to:
communicate more powerfully,
launch and test ideas more effectively,
increase balance and energy, and
integrate work with life.
These and other key elements are what I now share and support women in moving through, using the Designing Your Life model from Stanford University’s Design Lab, which has now helped thousands of people around the world achieve the impact they want to have.
As a Designing Your Life certified coach, these are also the tools that have helped me personally step into writing and publishing, public speaking and creative work, and doing what I most love to do.
In the Designing Your Life Mastermind, I share what I’ve learned with a community of practitioners – women executives, managers, academics, mentors, leadership development professionals and others – who feel called, as I do, to advance women’s leadership in this remarkably historical moment.
If you join us, you’ll learn tools and skills to dramatically expand the impact of your work. And you’ll find yourself welcomed into our community of like-minded women. To learn more and register, check out
https://earlycareerwomen.com/designing-your-life