Celebrating one year of my podcast with Jay Jasmine Herman, an award-winning storyteller and media consultant with 20 years of experience. Her support in shaping my book was transformative. We discuss Jay's entrepreneurial journey and the importance of embracing opportunities. We explored the concept of being your own boss and prioritizing personal goals. Finding our "beacon" and staying true to our values.

What’s on the other side of that change that you’re going after? What’s the feeling you want? What are you REALLY craving in your life? What would you want if you didn’t have to worry about the ways you would get there or the things you would need to do?

We all want quantum leaps. It’s our human nature, our Western work ethic, to move further faster; to 10x our business instead of 1x’ing it. We want to grow and earn without needing time to grow and learn. We want to take pills to lose the weight tomorrow instead of changing our habits and taking a little off each day.

Imagine the gift of giving someone else the chance to feel inspired. Not by what you say, but by how you lead. There’s a scene (spoiler alert) in this exceptionally written show, where Richie (played by Ebon Moss-Bachrach), is driving his car home from work. He’s driven home from work before, depressed and burned out. But this time he’s blasting Taylor Swift and singing at the top of his lungs.

Sara Llopis is the CEO and Founder of Senses and Beyond. A beautiful handcrafted botanical skincare brand which contains only natural and organic ingredients.

Shemaine Doyle is the Founder and Managing Director of Brave, a creative marketing agency that unlocks brand opportunities and brings them to life in a Brave and Bold way.

Somewhere in our past, something happened that started our self-sabotage. Someone or something, made us feel that we weren’t good enough. And it planted itself deep. We got used to looking to others to define our success or failure. Stopping self-sabotage is hard when we don’t even know we’re doing it.

It might feel unrealistic at first, figuring out how to find work you love. Especially if you’re secure and comfortable in your current job. Finding work that feels purposeful and impactful might feel like a luxury or unrealistic; particularly for someone that just relocated to a new country (and culture) without a network.

Transformation is a big word that starts with a small step. It’s not something that hits you like a bolt of lightning. Transformation happens over time. One day you wake up, lift your head up and realize that you feel different. Lighter. More focused. Present. Connected. That’s transformation.

I know how difficult it is to be in the throws of burn-out, unable to see the forest for the trees. I was there, arguably for most of my career. I put work first, not on purpose, out of habit, and I lost connection to myself, and to my values. I wasn’t sleeping well, eating well, or spending time with the people who mattered most to me.

Did you use the Covid times to think about what you really want to do, googling, “how do I find my purpose?” Do you feel ready to start a business but aren’t sure how? There’s only one way to start. Start with your mindset. But don’t I need a business plan? A website?

Career change (or career transition) can be tough. Particularly if it’s forced through a lay-off or firing. It can feel scary and overwhelming to start over. You may be full of self-doubt. But if you allow yourself to feel excitement and expansion at this new opportunity, the job you’ve always dreamed may just be possible.

There is one thing that all of my clients have in common. I believe in them. Wholeheartedly. If I didn't believe they could achieve their most ambitious goals, I wouldn't work with them. Period. But often THEY don't believe.

PTO is a privilege in the U.S. and a requirement in all other parts of the world. It’s one of the things Americans talk a lot about, how other countries get more vacation time than they do. Why then did only 27% of employees in the U.S. use their paid vacation time in 2021?

I realized today that I'm pretty inflexible. Not in my mindset; I'm literally inflexible, like in my legs. And today, when I tried to become more flexible, I got myself into a position that was super uncomfortable.

When we reset something, we give it a fresh start. We hit the reset button and our computer, or modem, starts again, with a clean slate. We clear the browser cookies or our history and we create space. We go back to normal. When we want to figure out what’s slowing down our computer, first we close all currently running applications, in particular, the ones that require a lot of memory.

Self-sabotage is something we all do because we don’t feel worthy of feeling amazing. How could we? The world is full of war, hatred, racism, poverty, greed, and grief…why should we be allowed to feel good? It’s a noble idea, a way of furthering empathy for other humans, and it makes perfect sense to want to feel bad on behalf of others.

I love old timey words like ‘heed’. I could say “listen to the call”, but instead I like “heed”, a word that means not only ‘listen’, but ‘pay attention’, careful attention, and then do something about it. This ‘heeding the call’ thing is something of a super power of mine.

This is quite possible one of the things my clients hate the most and resist the most and defend the most. “Jaime trust me, it’s because of my job that I’m miserable.” “Jaime, seriously, the only reason I’m depressed is because of the pandemic.” “Jaime, I’m scared, not because of my thoughts, but because I got laid off and I am not going to find a job in this market.”

And stories aren’t facts, they are just things we’ve chosen to believe. Think about stories that may have held you back. “I’m terrible with money.” “I am super disorganized.” “I am so lazy.” It’s likely your brain has gone searching to find evidence to support these claims, and since you found evidence, you continue to believe the stories.