Adulting with Vicky Victoria (Vicky) D. Nguyen

If you've ever decided to NOT try something out of fear of "failure," you might have experienced analysis paralysis. If you're a perfectionist and you get anxious when things don't go how you envisioned, you might have a fixed mindset. These are a couple topics Career Coach Lisa Lewis and I explore this week on Adulting with Vicky. We get into perfectionism and compare fixed mindsets vs. growth mindsets. Lisa explains how to ease yourself into a potentially huge career change, going into new situations with courage vs. confidence and how even though perfectionists want to do everything so it's done "right," they need to learn to ask for help.

It's pretty common to find yourself working in an environment with toxic personalities, unhealthy work-life balance, problematic leadership or complicated office politics at least once in your career. It's easy to feel stuck in that workplace when you're fresh out of college, have little experience and desperately need the paycheck. However, I suggest you jump ship if the situation isn't going to improve after giving it a solid chance. This week's guest, Katrina Honer, says she turned around her reputation from "office b****" to office boss by giving herself an attitude check and finding ways to effect positive changes at work. Tune in to hear how she made her workplace work for her, what it's like becoming a supervisor your work friends and learning to be a leader.

Doing the right thing isn't always easy, but what's "right" in the first place? This is a big question Nicole Devereaux answers in the context of her marriage. She opens up about the steps she and her husband have taken to work on their relationship, seeking help and mental health.

Imma let you live your life, but first, I’m going to share Susie Trujillo’s concept “But first, the end” with you. Rather than getting caught up in the fact that significant events in life are finite, Susie developed this idea to help herself and others live intentionally and find comfort in unpredictability. Millennials are made out to be a flighty, idealistic generation, but why is that? Are we chasing passions that previous generations didn’t have? Why, compared to other generations, are we so anxious about our path? Susie and I discuss all of this. Tune in to find out her perspective.

Leaving your full-time-financially-stable-benefits-covering job to pursue your passion is not as easy as putting in your two weeks and immediately living this free-flowing, creative, zen-ass lifestyle. That’s a bit too idealistic (and unrealistic) for me. For Lisa Friedman and myself, it took a lot of financial planning, working side gigs, developing ideas only to eventually scratch them and start over, being brutally honest with ourselves and working at random hours of the day. We’re still figuring it out, but tune in to hear what we’ve learned so far. You won’t regret it!

Depression is a mental illness that affects 16 million American adults every year. And though that number is high, many people affected may feel pretty alone. I know I have. This week, I sit down with Shelley Armenta to discuss our experiences living with depression and anxiety. We hope this episode will give you some insight on how both impact the way we think, act and ask for help. Let's destigmatize mental illness so that more conversations can be had between you, your loved ones and your community.