Curate the Future

For many people, career changes start in a place where you know you want something different, but you have no idea what it is. It's a hard place to be (been there!) and we want to get out of there quickly. But resisting it makes it worse, so here are some ideas for how to approach it without pressuring yourself to come up with the perfect idea right away (hint: pressuring yourself also makes it worse).

Wendy Leung went from graphic designer to project manager to now acupuncturist and holistic health practitioner. She shares how following her intuition helped her recognize the right path when she was searching for something new, and guidance for how to reconnect with our intuition when we feel blocked and the "shoulds" have taken over.

So often, we're waiting until we feel more "ready" to pursue our career change goals. Sometimes that does make sense, but very often it's a sneaky way of protecting ourselves from moving forward in spite of fear and uncertainty. Life hardly ever hands us a "right time." You've just got to do the thing anyway. Here are 3 ways to move forward when you don't feel ready.

We tend to think of self-care as separate from the steps we need to take to start a business or change careers. Wellness entrepreneur Amanda Lee shows us how self-care is actually an integral part of it. On this episode we chat about how the two fit together, and how to get started without our high-achieving, perfectionistic selves getting overwhelmed with feeling like it's another thing we "should" be doing!

On the one hand, we feel excited about starting a new chapter. On the other hand, we're scared witless to go after it. Fear and excitement are two sides of the same coin, and one of them is going to win. But the good news is that you don't need to be fearless.

Kaylie Simmone knows how to reinvent. She closed her first business to start her second, and even though that second one was wildly successful she reinvented again. She describes how this new chapter was like coming home to herself, but only after a long time of feeling "in between" and not knowing what was next.

We all know that feeling of being stuck, but sometimes find it hard to articulate what's really going on. Here's one way of looking at what it can mean to be stuck and how to sort through it.

Jackelyn Dacanay is a digital marketing and branding consultant and the founder of The Art of Fate. She has carved her path every step of the way. She shares how her freelance career came about through creating opportunities, as well as how she iterated her way to finding the right business model for The Art of Fate.

Knowing what drives you and having a clear "why" for what you're pursuing will help you get started and persevere.

Nagina Abdullah is a powerhouse who started her business on the side. She chats about her early days, including the steps she took, ways she needed to push herself, how she approached learning how to start a business, changes she had to make, and what kept her going.