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If you’ve ever felt lost and trapped in your career, frustrated with the life you’re living, stuck in a state of struggle and maybe even–like me–haunted by the fear of unfulfilled potential, then you’re definitely in the right place. Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt and then burned it - a few times over.Hi! I'm Alana. I'm a certified Career & Success Coach and Graphic Designer in Canada.
I can’t wait to share stories from my deep dive into personal development work, careers, coaching, energy healing, waking up to toxic societal programming (yes, I’m going there) and the path back to my intuition, the place I desperately needed to be but, of course, resisted.

Ditch The Struggle with Alana Ruoso Alana Ruoso

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If you’ve ever felt lost and trapped in your career, frustrated with the life you’re living, stuck in a state of struggle and maybe even–like me–haunted by the fear of unfulfilled potential, then you’re definitely in the right place. Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt and then burned it - a few times over.Hi! I'm Alana. I'm a certified Career & Success Coach and Graphic Designer in Canada.
I can’t wait to share stories from my deep dive into personal development work, careers, coaching, energy healing, waking up to toxic societal programming (yes, I’m going there) and the path back to my intuition, the place I desperately needed to be but, of course, resisted.

    EP22: The Tiny House Scam I (Almost) Fell For! [Personal Update & Fraud Story]

    EP22: The Tiny House Scam I (Almost) Fell For! [Personal Update & Fraud Story]

    In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:
    A personal update! After uploading my EP21 I realized we almost signed on with a SCAM tiny house builder! How I became obsessed with tiny houses in 2022Visiting a tiny house builder in Mississauga and getting excited about a new home!How to do proper due diligence (beyond a gut check!) when shopping for a house builderWhy we ultimately not decided NOT to buy a tiny houseA FRAUD ALERT STORY!!Links and references ⚡️

    😲 Little Creek Homes (scam) in the Globe & Mail
    🏡 TIny House Nation TV show
    📕 Marie Kondo’s book
    🖋️ My blog post on tiny houses
    📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

    ⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1:
    CareerTransformation 12-wk program and 90-min Power Up Sessions (single sessions)

    🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

    ❤️ Leave a rating and review and let me know what let me know what you would like to see more of on this podcast!Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com to receive awesome freebies and exclusive access to special offers and event invitations.

    Connect with me✨
    Instagram: @alanaruoso
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso
    Alana Ruoso is a Graphic Designer and certified Career & Success coach in Toronto, Canada. She helps those who deep down know that they can do better but keep falling short of where they want to go. With humor and honesty, Alana shows them how to ditch the struggle, own their value and move their career–and life–from vanilla success to spectacular triumph.
    ⭐ Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @_sueruhe
    🌿 This podcast is no...

    • 14 min
    EP21: How Tiny House Shopping (Almost) Cured My Overwhelm [Personal Growth]

    EP21: How Tiny House Shopping (Almost) Cured My Overwhelm [Personal Growth]

    In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:
    How I became obsessed with tiny houses in 2022House shopping up north and finding an adorable “hobbit house” 🏡Why I thought decluttering and downsizing would cure all of my problemsMarie Kondo and how she steered me so wrong 🤣How we need to tap back into our core values in order to make good decisionsBeing honest about what I really wanted in lifeLetting go of what you think you want and finding inner peaceLinks and references ⚡️

    🎥 Minamalism documentary
    🏡 TIny House Nation TV show
    📕 Marie Kondo’s book
    🖋️ My blog post on tiny houses
    📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

    ⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1:
    CareerTransformation 12-wk program and 90-min Power Up Sessions (single sessions)

    🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

    ❤️ Leave a rating and review and let me know what let me know what you would like to see more of on this podcast!Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com to receive awesome freebies and exclusive access to special offers and event invitations.

    Connect with me✨
    Instagram: @alanaruoso
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso
    Alana Ruoso is a Graphic Designer and certified Career & Success coach in Toronto, Canada. She helps those who deep down know that they can do better but keep falling short of where they want to go. With humor and honesty, Alana shows them how to ditch the struggle, own their value and move their career–and life–from vanilla success to spectacular triumph.
    ⭐ Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @_sueruhe
    🌿 This podcast is no...

    • 21 min
    EP20: Eliminate Anxiety, Connect to Your Body and Stop "Pushing" [Interview with Sue Ruhe]

    EP20: Eliminate Anxiety, Connect to Your Body and Stop "Pushing" [Interview with Sue Ruhe]

    In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:
    My interview with Sue Rue, a Registered Massage Therapist of 16 years specializing in Myofascial Release Therapy, as well as a Podcast host and editor.Sue is my podcast editor and producer, FYI! 🎙️How Sue went being a math student (!) to a massage therapy studentThat time Sue got into a car accident on the way to tell her family about her new (secret!) career plansA random job interview from KijijiHow and why your body holds onto emotions and trauma - and we talk about psoas muscles in depth! ❤️Social media, email marketing and disconnecting from things that weigh you downHaving someone in your corner as you build your businessLinks and references ⚡️
    💫 Connect with Sue Ruhe:
    📧 Email: susan@flickit.ca
     📷 Instagram: @_sueruhe
    🌐 Website: www.sueruhe.com

    🎙️Marsha Vanwynsberghe's podcast Own Your Choices Own your Life
    📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

    ⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1:
    CareerTransformation 12-wk program and 90-min Power Up Sessions (single sessions)

    🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

    ❤️ Leave a rating and review and let me know what let me know what you would like to see more of on this podcast!Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com to receive awesome freebies and exclusive access to special offers and event invitations.

    Connect with me✨
    Instagram: @alanaruoso
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso
    Alana Ruoso is a Graphic Designer and certified Career & Success coach in Toronto, Canada. She helps those who deep down know that they can do better but keep falling short of where they want to go. With humor and honesty, Alana shows them how to ditch the struggle, own their value and move their career–and life–from vanilla success to spectacular triumph.
    ⭐ Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @_sueruhe
    🌿 This podcast is no...

    • 1 hr
    EP19: Are “Other People’s Goals” Ruining Your Career? [Personal Growth & Tips]

    EP19: Are “Other People’s Goals” Ruining Your Career? [Personal Growth & Tips]

    In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:
    Why Other People’s Goals (OPGs) can have a dramatic impact on our careersHow a 30-min coaching session with a Data Analyst was transformationalDiscerning between OPGs and YOUR goalsHow OPGs send us out of alignment lightning fast ⚡️Why we convince ourselves that we want things we actually don’t wantWhat you want now is likely totally different than what you used to want-or what your friends/family want for you 😬New priorities=new goalsLinks and references ⚡️

    🖋️ Stop Glorifying “Busy” and Sabotaging Your Goals
    📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

    ⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1:
    CareerTransformation 12-wk program and 90-min Power Up Sessions (single sessions)

    🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

    ❤️ Leave a rating and review and let me know what let me know what you would like to see more of on this podcast!Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com to receive awesome freebies and exclusive access to special offers and event invitations.

    Connect with me✨
    Instagram: @alanaruoso
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso
    Alana Ruoso is a Graphic Designer and certified Career & Success coach in Toronto, Canada. She helps those who deep down know that they can do better but keep falling short of where they want to go. With humor and honesty, Alana shows them how to ditch the struggle, own their value and move their career–and life–from vanilla success to spectacular triumph.
    ⭐ Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @_sueruhe
    🌿 This podcast is no...

    • 16 min
    EP18: I Joined Toastmasters and Here’s What Happened [Stories & Tips]

    EP18: I Joined Toastmasters and Here’s What Happened [Stories & Tips]

    In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:
    My experience as a Toastmasters club member (and serving as a VP of PR)Behind the scenes of the Toastmasters public speaking circuitMy top 6 tips for making Toastmasters a positive experienceHow Toastmasters is NOT just about speaking and speaking–it is so much moreWhat I learned from “putting myself out there” on the regHow I began to find my voice–and use itLinks and references ⚡️
    🌐 Toastmasters International
    📍Find a Toastmasters Club near you
    📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

    ⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1:
    CareerTransformation 12-wk program and 90-min Power Up Sessions (single sessions)

    🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

    ❤️ Leave a rating and review and let me know what let me know what you would like to see more of on this podcast!Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com to receive awesome freebies and exclusive access to special offers and event invitations.

    Connect with me✨
    Instagram: @alanaruoso
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso
    Alana Ruoso is a Graphic Designer and certified Career & Success coach in Toronto, Canada. She helps those who deep down know that they can do better but keep falling short of where they want to go. With humor and honesty, Alana shows them how to ditch the struggle, own their value and move their career–and life–from vanilla success to spectacular triumph.
    ⭐ Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @_sueruhe
    🌿 This podcast is no...

    • 24 min
    EP17: A Health Crisis, Total Panic and Ditching Coffee [Health Story]

    EP17: A Health Crisis, Total Panic and Ditching Coffee [Health Story]

    In this episode of Ditch the Struggle we dive into:
    My physical/mental health crisis in 2019 that let to me ditching coffeeWhy you don't have to give up coffee, but questioning our habits can be life-changing ☕Getting triggered having to take the same medication as my dadBreaking free from family health patternsDoing the 'work' and the healing process including energy healing, emotional trauma release and homeopathyHow I weened myself off coffee slowly over 3 weeksLinks and references ⚡️
    ✨ Heal Your Body meditation
    ☀️ Not mentioned in the episode, but this supplement was extremely helpful in dealing with digestion issues: DGL
    ☕ CafLib coffee substitute
    📣 Download your FREE guide How to Build a Brilliant Career: 6 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed No Matter Where You Are Right Now

    ⚡️Looking for career help? Work with me 1:1:
    CareerTransformation 12-wk program and 90-min Power Up Sessions (single sessions)

    🎙️Follow Ditch the Struggle on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

    ❤️ Leave a rating and review and let me know what let me know what you would like to see more of on this podcast!Subscribe to my mailing list at alanaruoso.com to receive awesome freebies and exclusive access to special offers and event invitations.

    Connect with me✨
    Instagram: @alanaruoso
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanaruoso
    Alana Ruoso is a Graphic Designer and certified Career & Success coach in Toronto, Canada. She helps those who deep down know that they can do better but keep falling short of where they want to go. With humor and honesty, Alana shows them how to ditch the struggle, own their value and move their career–and life–from vanilla success to spectacular triumph.
    ⭐ Show edited and produced by Sue Ruhe: @_sueruhe
    🌿 This podcast is no...

    • 32 min

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