The Emily Eliza Moyer Show

Emily Eliza Moyer
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Real talk? Most career advice is garbage. It tells you 'find your passion' (as if you haven't tried that) and you'll never work a day in your life. Here, we talk about what it takes to build a career & business that actually makes your life better, instead of drowning in the Sunday scaries. I'm Emily: Executive Coach, former Head of Sales, new mama and a woman who believes loving your work is key to loving your life. Tune in for honest conversations about what it means to outgrow a career you worked hard to build and what it takes to figure out what's next.

  1. 11h ago

    72. How I got my spark back: burnout, career reinvention & finding my ambition again

    Earlier this week, I saw a post on threads by Marina Middleton (co-owner of Create & Cultivate) talking about how she lost her spark and the overwhelming number of messages from people feeling the same. And it made me realize that while the internet is on fire right now with stories of highly ambitious women experiencing founder burnout, career reinvention and business pivots--taking sabbaticals, feeling like they've lost their spark and wondering what they actually want to do next.   After what feels like two years of burnout, a challenging pregnancy that made me question absolutely everything about work, and a postpartum experience that has surprisingly brought me back to life...   I realized...holy shit. I think I got my spark back. 🥹 I feel like my ambition is finally online again. I have dreams that I'm so excited to be going after. Ideas are flowing like the faucet has been turned on. Most days I'm waking up so excited about what I'm going to create.   Do I have every single thing figured out?  Absolutely not. I have tons of unanswered questions about what I'm building. And I definitely still have moments (and days) where old stories, fears, wounds come up and shake me around a bit.    But, overall, I actually do feel like I'm heading in the right direction again and it feels really f*****g good.   This week's podcast episode is about exactly this: burnout recovery, career reinvention, meaningful work and getting your ambition back after a season where you might have lost it.   I shared a few things that have been so helpful on my journey to getting my spark back that I just felt like aren't talked about that much:  why accepting that something isn't working has to come before figuring out what's next what "I want to burn it all down" really means and what to try BEFORE shutting everything down, quitting or pivoting the difference between your gifts and your strengths and why being good at something doesn't mean you should build your entire career around it the 4 things I'm using to make career decisions right now so that what I build continues to keep my spark alive   Enjoy this episode and if you want some more help getting your spark back, get on the waitlist for my newest private audio series The Pivot Portal. It's free to join the list & you'll get it sent straight to your inbox as soon as it's ready.

  2. 6d ago

    71. Am I burned out or am I just DONE?

    Am I burned out...or am I just done? Burnout is often treated like a simple equation: you worked too hard, took on too much, need better boundaries, or just need to rest. But what if burnout is trying to tell you something deeper? In this episode, I’m unpacking what burnout can reveal about your work, why it can make you feel like your entire career or business needs to change, and how to tell the difference between needing rest, needing a shift, and being ready for a completely new chapter. We’re talking about: why burnout doesn’t necessarily mean you worked “too hard”what burnout may be trying to tell you about your workwhy burnout can make everything feel wrong, even when only a few things need to changewhy it’s so hard to trust yourself after burning outhow to start rebuilding that trusthow to move toward your next chapter without being terrified you’ll choose wrong and end up burned out all over againIf you know something needs to change but you still don’t know what you want instead, I’m also creating PIVOT, a private audio series for successful, ambitious women figuring out their next great career or business chapter. Join the early-listener waitlist here.

  3. Aug 6

    70. Panic attacks, intuition and the power of one right next step with Radhika Bansil

    Radhika Bansil had the "it girl" job. She was an SVP at a fast-growing luxury startup with a prestigious title, a salary to match, and half the company reporting to her. But behind the scenes, she was waking up in the middle of the night sweating, unable to breathe, and wondering why she couldn’t make the role work. Radhika initially came to me for help becoming a better leader. Instead, our coaching helped her admit the truth she’d been avoiding: this chapter of her career was complete. In this episode, Radhika shares how she stopped treating her unhappiness as a personal failure, learned to separate anxiety from intuition, and left her job without knowing exactly what would come next. One month later, she landed a role as Senior Director of Growth at Playboy, a job that matched almost everything she had written about how she wanted her work to feel. We talk about: Why a successful chapter can still be completeHow to distinguish anxiety from intuitionWhy she focused on how she wanted to feel instead of chasing a specific titleWhy you don’t need the full plan, only one right next stepHow, looking back, everything makes sense in reverse If your career looks successful from the outside but no longer feels right on the inside, this conversation will remind you that you’re allowed to evolve, and that wanting something different doesn’t make your previous chapter a mistake.

  4. Jul 27

    69. You're good at it. But is it what you're meant for?

    What do I want now? It’s the question so many accomplished women are asking as they reinvent their businesses, question careers they’ve spent decades building, or find themselves at a crossroads they never expected. But underneath it is a more important question: How did I end up here? You built the thing. Achieved the goal. Did everything you were supposed to do. So why don’t you feel the way you thought you would? The fear isn’t simply choosing the wrong next move. It’s spending another five or ten years building something that makes money, earns recognition and checks every box… but still doesn’t light you up. I know because this was me last year. I kept trying on different ideas, but I wasn’t truly moving forward. I didn’t trust myself to commit because I was terrified of ending up right back where I started. It wasn’t until I understood why the previous chapter had stopped working that I could finally see where to go next. Because clarity about your future often begins with understanding your past. In this episode, I’m sharing four places to look when you’re trying to understand what no longer fits: • how your environment affects your aliveness • whose template for success you’ve been following • the difference between what you’re good at and the gifts that make you feel alive • the questions you’ve been using to make career decisions And if you’re ready to understand what brought you to this crossroads and choose a next chapter that holds both success and fulfillment, I have two founding spots left for a private Crossroads Session. Apply here for one of two spots left!

  5. Jul 20

    68. The 4 Ingredients of Meaningful Work

    Your career looks great on paper. Your business is doing well. And yet, in your journal or a conversation with your best friend, you know something's off. You just can't tell whether to leave, pivot, rebuild, or stay and change how you're working. In this episode I'm taking you behind the scenes of a framework that I've been working on around what actually makes work meaningful. Turns out purpose is only one piece of it. I break down all four: → It matters to you→ It uses your gifts→ It feels good to do→ It fits the life you want now I also get honest about burning out of my own business, the moment I realized I'd been chasing someone else's definition of success, and why I no longer believe we have to blow it all up to build the work we actually want. If even one of those four feels off right now, this one's for you. P.S. I'm officially opening Crossroads Sessions: 90-minute private deep-dives for the woman standing at exactly this kind of fork. Five founder spots at 50% off, and a couple are already gone. Apply for a spot here--it takes under 2 minutes.

  6. Jul 13

    67. "Just believe in yourself" doesn't work. Here's what does...

    An interesting phenomenon I see (and have experienced myself) when badass, high-achieving women are going through a career transition is this: we start to lose belief and confidence in ourselves. Even though we have YEARS of a track record of achievement: grades, money, titles, a resume to die for, we hit this point when our careers (be it a job or business) are no longer making us happy where we think--is it me? After years of not achieving the massive goals you set out to achieve in your business (where the goal post always moves) , you start to think: am I just not capable of achieving the success I want? After finding yourself yet again unhappy in a job with the big title and paycheck to match, you think: is it just not possible for me to be happy in my work? If you've ever felt either of those things, this episode is for you. In it, I'm sharing why the typical advice when you've lost confidence of "just believe in yourself" doesn't work and what I focus on (and tell my clients) when we hit this moment instead. >> If you'd love someone to help you untangle the mess in your mind, help you get clear on what you want next & build a strategic transition plan without blowing up your entire life or burning out your savings account, email "crossroads" to support@emilyelizamoyer.com. >>If that's not you, but your bestie is unhappy in her job or business, send this episode to her 3

  7. Jul 6

    66. What it actually takes to create big change

    Yesterday, I was talking with a former client turned friend who is also rebuilding his business so that he can finally leave his 9-5. As we talked, I realized something: I've become someone who's pretty good at changing.   I've reinvented my career majorly from teacher to head of sales for a startup to running my own personal brand as a coach.    I've gone from a traditional nonprofit job in Chicago to spending nearly eight years working remotely around the world to living in the mountains in Malibu.   I've rebuilt my business offers more than once, evolving from career coach to intuitive business coach to now executive coach for women navigating major professional transitions.   I've gone from believing I'd be the single, traveling aunt forever to finding my husband.    I've gone from never wanting kids because of my own childhood to becoming a mama and loving motherhood far more than I ever expected.   I don't know exactly what this next chapter of my business will become.  But I do know how to build something new. I've done it enough times now that I trust my process even when I can't yet see the outcome.  And I thought that might be helpful for you too.  In this episode, I share:   the bigggggg thing we need to get honest about in terms of why the previous change didn't stick (or why we didn't get the result we wanted)   how we can show up differently so that we can actually experience something different (like, actually find your person or build an offer that pops or lose the 20 lbs or find a job you enjoy waking up for) the simple framework for making a big change whether in career, business, health or your love life that I've used in every part of my life and that I'm using now to rebuild my business after becoming a mama   ➡️ Navigating a big professional change yourself that you'd like me to coach you on through the podcast?   Email support@emilyelizamoyer.com with subject line "Dear Emily" and a few sentences about the professional changes & challenges you're navigating (I'll always keep it anonymous).    ➡️ Want to work through your professional crossroads or career transition privately with me?   Email support@emilyelizamoyer.com with subject line "Crossroads" and I'll share more details about my Crossroads Sessions--potent one-off coaching sessions that will help you untangle the mess in your head and get clear on where you're going next in your career or business in less than 90 minutes.

  8. Jul 3

    65. When finding purpose isn't enough

    For most of my life, I believed the key to a happy career was finding my purpose. That belief sent me on 12-year journey, from teaching in low-income Houston, to booking a one-way ticket to Bangkok, to working for a travel startup I absolutely loved, to building my coaching business helping hundreds of people discover their purpose and create more meaningful work (and later, scaling their impact through business). For a long time, it worked. Until one day last year, my husband looked at me on our morning walk and said, "You don't seem happy in your business anymore." In that moment, I realized I'd become the very person I'd spent my life trying not to become: someone bringing my work misery home. In this episode, I'm sharing how my understanding of purpose has completely changed over the past year and why I no longer believe purpose is just about finding meaningful work. In this episode, I'm sharing: how I discovered my own purpose 12 years ago for the first time and what I've learned since then why I think knowing your purpose is still so incredibly important for an overall satisfying lifethe role purpose plays in building a career (and business) that actually fulfills you what many of us are missing in our search for our 'true purpose' in lifehow i define purpose now and the 'purpose framework' i'm using to create a meaningful life I wouldn't trade with anyone  ➡️ Navigating a big professional change yourself that you'd like me to coach you on (anonymously!) through the podcast?   Email support@emilyelizamoyer.com with subject line "Dear Emily" and a few sentences about the professional changes & challenges you're navigating (I'll always keep it anonymous).    ➡️ Want to work through your professional crossroads or career transition privately with me?   Email support@emilyelizamoyer.com with subject line "Crossroads" and I'll share more details about my Crossroads Sessions--potent one-off coaching sessions that will help you untangle the mess in your head and get clear on where you're going next in your career or business in less than 90 minutes.

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Real talk? Most career advice is garbage. It tells you 'find your passion' (as if you haven't tried that) and you'll never work a day in your life. Here, we talk about what it takes to build a career & business that actually makes your life better, instead of drowning in the Sunday scaries. I'm Emily: Executive Coach, former Head of Sales, new mama and a woman who believes loving your work is key to loving your life. Tune in for honest conversations about what it means to outgrow a career you worked hard to build and what it takes to figure out what's next.

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  • Creator
    Emily Eliza Moyer
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    72
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Emily Eliza Moyer
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    The Emily Eliza Moyer Show

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