GROWTH & REDIRECTION: A journal

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What does it take to find your purpose?

Whether you feel strong about your sense of purpose, or you feel like you haven’t quite found it yet, we all have moments (days, weeks, months) when we feel a little lost in the dark.

What does it take to find, follow, and keep coming back to your purpose? How do you stay on your true path?

Read to find out the 3 things that help you find your way and stay true to it, even if you're unsure about your purpose or if you feel like you're far from where you want to be.

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RR Podcast Ep 1: What is radical redirection?

What is Radical Redirection? Who is it for? How do you know if you really need one? 

So many of us find ourselves, in our late 20s and 30s, soul searching: What am I meant to do? What makes me special and unique? Am I needed? Valuable? Is all of my work worthwhile?

And - how do I find that elusive happiness that I’m supposed to have by now?

This first episode sets the stage for the step-by-step process, which I call “Radical Redirection,” that can help you find answers to all of these questions.

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Radically Changing your Life Direction

I was heading in the wrong direction, and I didn’t even realize it. This is how midlife crisis happens. Read to find out how to avoid a crisis by changing your life direction: reevaluating your reality, creating a vision, and strategizing to make it happen. Plus, what to do if your vision seems impossible or you talk yourself out of changing.

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Radical Redirection: The Steps Towards the Life You Want

It’s never too late to change your life direction! If you’ve been stuck, lost, or dissatisfied with life, or feel like you have untapped potential waiting in you - the Radical Redirection method helps you find that bright, shining “lighthouse” goal and pivot yourself towards it. Learn the steps to creating your ideal reality.

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New Year, More Energy!

Why I’m focusing on MORE NOURISHMENT to achieve my 2024 physical health goals. Learn how to improve your health in a balanced way (without burning out!) and how to increase your energy levels in 2024 without diets, hours at the gym, strictness, or self-deprivation.

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BIGGER THAN FEAR

If you struggle with procrastination, if you have some big goals that it’s been hard to make progress on, if you find yourself facing the same big challenge again and again - I see you, I was you, and I wrote this for you. Find out one of my favorite ways to rise ABOVE fear.

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Supporting Energy in Summertime

For some of us, summer is a time to relax, enjoy the outdoors, slow down a bit, take vacations, hang out with friends and family. For others, it’s a really busy season, with tight deadlines, lots of extra work, personal projects, and social obligations. Whichever way your summer goes, it’s important to prioritize our energy. Find out how best to do that for all 4 energy types.

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4 Energy Types & 4 Levels of Burnout (II)

How to start recovering from the four types of burnout: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Why we should maintain healthy energy levels of all four types. How to learn to feel your different energies, when they’re low, and when you’re approaching burnout.

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4 Energy Types & 4 Levels of Burnout (I)

It’s all energy. But thinking of it as an all-encompassing, generic term is not helpful when we’re trying to troubleshoot our energy: make it more stable, figure out why it’s low, or make it stop crashing every so often. In order to properly diagnose and heal burnout, it’s important to be able to distinguish between the 4 types - and know what to do for each.

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Career Longevity: What it’s About

To quit or not to quit? What is career longevity, and how to achieve it? What four aspects are important to career longevity, avoiding burnout, and living in alignment with your life’s mission.

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What you “DO” vs who you “are”

The way we talk about ourselves reinforces what we believe about ourselves. A thought that gets repeated gets cemented in the brain. The more we use “what we do” to describe “who we are,” the more our brain gets used to that idea being the truth. But it’s not. Not the full truth.

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A Letter to a Lady Leader

You love all the responsibility, the things you’ve achieved, the projects you get to be in charge of. You want to keep growing, help more people, earn more, create more! It’s exciting. You know that there’s nothing you can’t do. As long as you have the energy to do it all, that is. As long as you have the physical and mental resources for all of it, and as long as the stress and the weight of the work isn’t too overwhelming…

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