#138 - Feelings Are Information, Not Problems

As a woman and a mother in a profession like accounting, it can be challenging to own your feelings and not make them a problem. With a limited number of women in leadership roles and the messaging that women often get about not being "too emotional", it can seem like the formula for success is to sweep your feelings under the rug. The unfortunate thing about the assumption that feelings have no place in business, or that having feelings or emotions make you "weak", is that it's incredibly short sighted and actually creates an unnecessary struggle for a lot of working women. In a data-focused, analytical profession like accounting, allowing yourself to own how you feel can often be frowned upon. Of course the job of an accountant focuses on numbers and analytics, but if you want to achieve more success and have more balance as both an accountant and a mom, your feelings are hugely important. While your male colleagues might dismiss feelings as having no place in a business setting, I want to help accountant moms to see how to make your feelings a powerful fuel to help you achieve whatever you want in your career and in your life. This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast I discuss why your feelings matter and how to use the information you get from your feelings in order to get what you want. For a helpful list of feelings that I discussed in this episode, you can go to https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Practices-FeelingsSensations.pdf