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Careers

Career transformations: Six powerful lessons from my own journey

January 26, 2018

Five years ago, I made some pretty significant changes to my life.

I created a new pathway that vaguely had an endpoint, but really all I knew was the next 6-12 months of milestones. Bigger dreams were forming day by day they looked nothing like the dreams I’d previously dreamed. They were better and for the first time they felt more like the real me.

I had closed the door (most certainly forever) on my professional career as a practising Architect.

Possibly one of the scariest things I’ve ever done, but I so badly wanted to know what was on the other side. What else was possible for this beautiful, wild, life?

With this journey (which will never be at its end) I have learnt a thing or two around fear, courage, joy, tribes, authenticity, passion…you name it, it’s come across my path.

If you’re feeling called to take a leap, I suggest you watch below.

The lessons I touch on deal with:

>> Learning about your heart vs. your head, balancing the masculine of goals and structure vs. the wise softness of your feminine (both are necessary to move you forward)

>> Fear will always be with you even when you follow your passion – unfortunately passion doesn’t cancel it out. But learning tools to understand it has become powerful for both myself and helping others go through the same

>> Knowing when to call on support, build a team and have an accountability partner

>> Experiment, assess, then double down on what gives you the biggest return

>> Getting your money story in order and creating practices to make money work for you

>> Finally, the beginning might not be the same as the middle or the end