Imagine you're a hard-driving professional with lofty aspirations for your career. You meet the love of your life one day. Only he's a pilot and he's heading back home... To France. My most recent guest on the Lean Out Podcast is Dr. Kelly Katcher. Kelly is a practicing anesthesiologist …
Design Your Life
The other day, one of my coaching clients said to me, “I’m accepting that my path can look different than I envisioned.” When she was a young adult, she had the mindset that if she didn’t meet the vision she had for her life at that particular time point, she’d be a failure. It’s taken her …
Lean Out Podcast: Mini-Retirements with Jillian Johnsrud
What I want for everyone reading: Career sustainability. There are multiple ways to optimize your career sustainability. One is to do your job part-time so you can spend your other time doing things that bring you joy. It might mean less money, it might mean retiring later than you had …
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The Cost No One Talks About
The first part of my book Lean Out is all about how the current "lean in", hustle culture has significant costs for women professionals. Chapter 3 is all about the cost no one talks about. So much so, that I pitched and gave a talk about this topic at a very large physician conference a couple …
Lean Out Podcast: Steps with Seema Desai
Leaning out doesn't have to look like an abrupt, dramatic transformation. After my health scare and wakeup call to get off the Treadmill of Achievement, I began my medical career in a desirable, no-call position. I worked 3-4 days a week clinically, had the ability to take vacations of decent …
Create a Life You Don’t Have to Escape From
After a little break from creating content, I'm baaaaaack! The last episode of Lean Out was released during Christmas week. After that, my family and I had a quiet Christmas and New Year on our property, which was increasingly becoming colder and snowier. Luckily, we had a few trips to …
