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Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! a podcast hosted by career strategist and board-certified holistic health practitioner Vennessa McConkey. This podcast is dedicated to helping you uncover hidden obstacles that are holding you back in your career.

Whether those be physical conditions and symptoms, emotional blocks such as unresolved trauma, or mental blocks such as confidence and limiting beliefs. With each episode we will be sharing practical strategies, tips, and insights to help you gain clarity, build confidence and advance your career. From job searching and networking to resolving fatigue and burnout, we will help you tackle the toughest challenges in your journey that help you Design the Best YOU!

Designing The Best YOU‪!‬ Vennessa McConkey, FDNP, FNC

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Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! a podcast hosted by career strategist and board-certified holistic health practitioner Vennessa McConkey. This podcast is dedicated to helping you uncover hidden obstacles that are holding you back in your career.

Whether those be physical conditions and symptoms, emotional blocks such as unresolved trauma, or mental blocks such as confidence and limiting beliefs. With each episode we will be sharing practical strategies, tips, and insights to help you gain clarity, build confidence and advance your career. From job searching and networking to resolving fatigue and burnout, we will help you tackle the toughest challenges in your journey that help you Design the Best YOU!

    How Depression Shows Up in Lab Results and What to Do to Get Unstuck

    How Depression Shows Up in Lab Results and What to Do to Get Unstuck

    Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU!  In today’s episode you will hear about:
    Depression and it’s role in survival mode
    Signs on how depression is impacting your job or job search
    How depression shows up in labs
    How to uncover the root cause and tips to help come out of depression


    Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you ready to figure out the HIDDEN blocks keeping you STUCK in your career so you can advance and be all you were designed to be?
     
    BOOK a CALL: https://calendly.com/vmc-health-career  
    NEWSLETTER Sign-Up: https://vennessamcconkey50156.ac-page.com/vm-newsletter 
     
    —> Download the Survival Mode guide: https://vennessamcconkey50156.ac-page.com/survival-mode-guide 
     
    LINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/in/vennessa-mcconkey
    YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX7uzqjys9TWdsskiAI_0Kw 
     
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    • 39 min
    Our Nervous System and Why Regulation Matters

    Our Nervous System and Why Regulation Matters

    Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU!  In today’s episode you will hear about:
    What our nervous system does Why nervous system regulation is important to your career, health and life Causes of nervous system dysregulation and tips to help! Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you ready to figure out the HIDDEN blocks keeping you STUCK in your career so you can advance and be all you were designed to be?
    BOOK a CALL: https://calendly.com/vmc-health-career  
    NEWSLETTER Sign-Up: https://vennessamcconkey50156.ac-page.com/vm-newsletter 
    IG: https://instagram.com/vennessamcconkey 
    LINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/in/vennessa-mcconkey


     
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    Whoop (https://join.whoop.com/73B5B1) - helps optimize your sleep, performance, strain and recovery
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    Primal Trust: https://www.primaltrust.org/

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    • 40 min
    The Hidden Obstacle of Mental Health

    The Hidden Obstacle of Mental Health

    Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU!  In today’s episode you will hear about:
    - What mental health IS
    - What myths and truths are around mental health
    - Major threats to mental health


    Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you ready to figure out the HIDDEN blocks keeping you STUCK in your career so you can advance and be all you were designed to be?
     
    BOOK a CALL: https://calendly.com/vmc-health-career  
    NEWSLETTER Sign-Up: https://forms.gle/eL5ov7Cawu5JxGDj8 
     
    IG: https://instagram.com/vennessamcconkey 
    LINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/in/vennessa-mcconkey


    Discounted nervous system devices:
    Whoop (https://join.whoop.com/73B5B1) - helps optimize your sleep, performance, strain and recovery
    Apollo (https://share.apolloneuro.com/x/DGTAsx) - wellness device intended to help manage stress, challenging life transitions, and to promote a healthy lifestyle


    Sarah’s blog article: https://setapart.net/2024/05/04/a-response-to-john-macarthurs-statements-on-mental-illness-from-a-family-it-hurts/
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    Adaptagen, gut-friendly drink: https://everydaydose.superfiliate.com/VENNESSAMCCONKEY

    • 40 min
    Imposter Syndrome and Your Career

    Imposter Syndrome and Your Career

    Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU!  In today’s episode you will hear about:
    - Characteristics and symptoms
    - Imposter syndrome “types”
    - Client statements on imposter syndrome at work
    - Tips to help overcome imposter syndrome


    Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you ready to figure out the HIDDEN blocks keeping you STUCK in your career so you can advance and be all you were designed to be?
     
    BOOK a CALL: https://calendly.com/vmc-health-career  
    NEWSLETTER Sign-Up: https://forms.gle/eL5ov7Cawu5JxGDj8 
     
    IG: https://instagram.com/vennessamcconkey 
    LINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/in/vennessa-mcconkey
    Discounted nervous system devices:
    Whoop (https://join.whoop.com/73B5B1) - helps optimize your sleep, performance, strain and recovery
    Apollo (https://share.apolloneuro.com/x/DGTAsx) - wellness device intended to help manage stress, challenging life transitions, and to promote a healthy lifestyle
     

    • 40 min
    FEAR and How it Manifests in Your Body

    FEAR and How it Manifests in Your Body

    Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU!  In today’s episode you will hear about:
    - What pushing through means
    - Hard work and harmful patterns
    - How trying harder hurts our body and what we should do instead
    - The list of how to heal that I WON’T give you


    Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you ready to figure out the HIDDEN blocks keeping you STUCK in your career so you can advance and be all you were designed to be?
     
    BOOK a CALL: https://calendly.com/vmc-health-career  
    NEWSLETTER Sign-Up: https://vennessamcconkey50156.ac-page.com/vm-newsletter 
     
    IG: https://instagram.com/vennessamcconkey 
    LINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/in/vennessa-mcconkey


    Discounted nervous system devices:
    Whoop (https://join.whoop.com/73B5B1) - helps optimize your sleep, performance, strain and recovery
    Apollo (https://share.apolloneuro.com/x/DGTAsx ) - wellness device intended to help manage stress, challenging life transitions, and to promote a healthy lifestyle

    Allergy-friendly, gluten and grain-free, egg-free treats: https://eatgangster.com?p=H1yyY_1yY Use code: VENNESSA10
    References
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230324/ 

    • 40 min
    The Fear of Ghosting

    The Fear of Ghosting

    Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU!  In today’s episode you will hear about:
    - How avoiding the sharing feedback is disorienting and discouraging for candidates
    - the feelings of abandonment, worthlessness, rejection, not being good enough in the ghosting process
    - The Fear Factor
    - How To Get Your Confidence Back After Being Ghosted
    - and so much more!
    Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you ready to figure out the HIDDEN blocks keeping you STUCK in your career so you can advance and be all you were designed to be?
    BOOK a CALL: https://calendly.com/vmc-health-career  
    NEWSLETTER Sign-Up: https://forms.gle/eL5ov7Cawu5JxGDj8 
     
    For extra support and information!
    IG: https://instagram.com/vennessamcconkey 
    LINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/in/vennessa-mcconkey


    Discounted nervous system devices:
    Whoop (https://join.whoop.com/73B5B1) - helps optimize your sleep, performance, strain and recovery

    Apollo (https://share.apolloneuro.com/x/DGTAsx) - wellness device intended to help manage stress, challenging life transitions, and to promote a healthy lifestyle

    • 40 min

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