Setting Boundaries in your Career: When and How to Say NO

Aaaaaand...I'm back! I hope you enjoyed last week's message from Lisa and Josh to celebrate our 200th episode of the podcast. (I still cannot believe it's already been four years of podcasting. We covered a lot of ground in those episodes!!!) And don't worry: there are still plenty of topics that we could do 200 (or more) episodes on. For example: do you recognize any of yourself in this story? "If you are someone who is a rule follower, a successful person, we are brought up in these systems and taught if you do the right things, do well in school, pick the right major, follow all these steps then you will be happy. The world doesn't work like that. It's like this big insight that hits you. I felt like I had done everything right and ticked all the boxes. Went to skill, got my undergrad degree, top of my class, and got my masters, ready to conquer the world. I took a job with a salary that was less than I could live and commute on. I was commuting back and forth to New York City two hours, each day, to a job that was not a fit for me at all. It was a small environment in a room with three other people, not a lot of autonomy, but I intellectualized it away instead of listening to what I knew about myself - that I needed a high degree of being self-directed in my work. "I was giving my life, time, power, and energy away. I sat there and was so burnt out - physically, mentally, emotionally. A hair-trigger event could set me off. One piece of bad feedback, a surprise email. I was so low anything could send me into that tailspin. That was my lightbulb moment of saying 'this is not who I am,' and that person deep down, that kid that was ambitious filled with hope and positivity and being so excited about the world ahead of me spoke up and said, 'This is no longer acceptable. You have to start making changes.' I had to look at all the ways I had let my identity, power and self-worth get wrapped up in someone else approving of me. My boss or sending someone my work, I had become so dependent on my work to make me feel good that I sacrificed everything else. My friendships, relationships, my body. I had to make changes." - Melody Wilding If anything about this experience resonated with you -- and you're ready to re-claim your own power in your work and life -- then I'm ridiculously excited to share this week's podcast episode, #201 with Melody Wilding. Melody is a licensed clinical social worker and career coach who is an expert on the mindset and psychology behind successful careers, and knows that taking a hard look at your life and deciding what you need to say "yes" to and what you need to say "no" to makes all the difference. In this episode, you will learn...: The signs to help you identify emotional versus physical burn-out -- and the steps to take to fix it The three emotional triggers to know where your boundaries need to be repaired How to have difficult conversations to establish (or re-establish) boundaries and gain control over your life How deciding who to bring into your life makes you happier...and more profitable ...and so much more!