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Sustainable Ambition Kathy Oneto
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How do you navigate the inevitable conflicts between work and life? Not just the daily schedules or mounting responsibilities, but the tensions between your ambition for your career and your ambition for life?
How do you decide what to prioritize and what to let go of? How do you decide when to speed ahead and when to ease up?
These aren’t questions of work-life balance or self-care. They’re questions we can answer when we get serious about intentionally designing a life with work that works for you.
Join Kathy Oneto, executive and life-work coach and founder of Sustainable Ambition, for conversations with experts, authors, and friends to explore sticky questions around navigating ambitious careers while integrating life with work, practicing sustainable work practices, and building resilience.
Most people assume that ambition and sustainability are mutually exclusive. Not so! Keep listening, and Kathy will make you a believer in Sustainable Ambition, too.
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130. Embracing How Our Ambitions Shift and Evolve
Do you have a hard time allowing your ambitions to shift and change? Do you feel uncomfortable when at times you don’t feel as committed to your ambitions?
I want to challenge these dominant narratives about success and ambition. So today, I’m digging into why evolving ambitions are inevitable, and even desirable, and offer three alternative ways to reframe ambition so it is sustainable over the course of our lives.
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129. The Life Brief: The Creative Practice to Create the Life You Really Want with Bonnie Wan
Are you afraid to ask yourself what you really, really want?
Today’s guest presents a compelling example of what it looks like to live boldly, with intention and imagination, from the inside out.
Bonnie Wan joins me to discuss the journey of developing The Life Brief and expanding it from her own personal practice to something she now teaches others and brought to life in her new book, why you have to get messy to get clarity, and how to courageously create the life you want.
Learn more about Bonnie Wan:
The Life Brief WebsiteInstagram: @bonniewanofficialFacebook: @livingthelifebriefConnect with Bonnie on LinkedInThanks for Listening!
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128. Creating Sustainable Support Structures with Arianna Taboada
Having support structures in place is vital to sustaining our life and work ambitions particularly as we transition through different life stages.
Entrepreneurs and people who are self-employed have an acute need for strong support structures because they tend to wear all the hats and stretch themselves too thin. Add in pregnancy and childbirth, and the need for strong support systems is even more intense for women entrepreneurs managing and running their businesses while also caring for new life and recovering from birth.
As part of my periodic series where I invite guests across disciplines and experiences to share their insights into shifting narratives of work and life, I spoke with Arianna Taboada. She shares her unique perspective on the need for support systems, particularly for expecting entrepreneurs.
Learn more about Arianna Taboada:
The Expecting EntrepreneurInstagram: @theexpectingentrepreneurConnect with Adrianna on LinkedInGet the Postpartum Eco-MapThanks for Listening!
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127. From Academia, to Diplomacy, to Bourbon: Ashley Donahey’s Journey to Entrepreneurship
We all have ambitions for both our personal and professional lives. The question is how do we pursue them sustainably and with resilience so we can get fulfillment and joy from both.
In this new post-pandemic environment, we need new ideas, narratives, and models to consider and to test for ourselves.
As part of a new periodic series, I’m speaking with people from a variety of disciplines about how they live and work. In today’s conversation with Ashley Donahey, we’ll touch on how personal and professional dreams enrich our lives, how our ambitions evolve and take shape as we grow, and why it’s so important to find ways to enjoy ourselves along the journey.
Learn more about Ashley Donahey:
Two Worlds WhiskeyInstagram: @twoworldswhiskeyConnect with Ashley on LinkedInThanks for Listening!
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126. Building Resilience: Practical Strategies for Personal and Professional Well-Being with Marie-Helene Pelletier
If you’re feeling exhausted, overwhelmed or burned out, you’re not alone. But rather than push or grind through it as so many of us try to do, today’s guest offers a different approach: a resilience plan.
In this conversation, Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier and I talk about consciously building a resilience plan so that we can operate at our best and achieve our goals and ambitions without burning out.
Learn more about Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier:
WebsiteConnect on LinkedInThe Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental HealthThanks for Listening!
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125. Strategies for Navigating Ambiguity and Finding Clarity in Life and Work
As we leave January behind, many of us are still in the process of figuring out what we want out of this year. And it’s not uncommon to long for a clear path forward as we do.
That desire for clarity can put us on a path of aiming for what we should be doing or pursuing. But if our ambitions are going to be sustainable, we have to make them our own.
Living with the ambiguity as we define our own ambitions can be a challenge. Today, I want to offer some ways of navigating the uncertainty with a bit more ease.
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Customer Reviews
Great podcast!
Kathy’s ability to articulate provides nuggets of insight and actionable items. I enjoy her thought process as she unwraps revelations and gives practical aha moments. Her pace is soothing and her authenticity provides a comforting space to feel seen and heard. I highly recommend!
Logic meets inspiration
Kathy’s insights and the topics she covers with her guests not only gives a voice to the inner dialogue that ambitious people hear - she also helps you process the chatter into supportive and helpful action. It’s through these relatable conversations and stories that you begin to find ways to sustain your ambition that’s relevant and applicable to you. Brava!
Actionable tools and reminders
Kathy is an accountability partner preparing you for not only the busy times but the everyday “chaos” that can come from an ambitious life if we aren’t intentional about loading our plates. Thank you for the critical reminders!