24. when your career is built on proving yourself

24. when your career is built on proving yourselfWhen your career is built on proving yourself, you're chasing external validation, addicted to achievement, and your worth is tied to your performance and productivity. You need the recognition, the praise, people to see how good you are. Because without that external validation, you're not sure you're enough. In this episode, I share three messages: how to know you're trying to prove yourself, what that's causing, and a step to take. Your career can be built on authenticity, not proving. ---Full Notes: Today's episode is about when your career is built on proving yourself. If that phrase landed for you - if you felt something shift or tighten when you heard it - this episode is for you.Here's what a career built on proving yourself looks like: You're chasing external validation. You're addicted to achievement. Your worth is tied to your performance and productivity. You need the recognition. You need the praise. You need people to see how good you are, how hard you work, how much you accomplish. Because without that external validation, you're not sure you're enough.And so you keep pushing. You keep performing. You keep achieving. Not because the work lights you up. Not because it's deeply fulfilling. But because you're trying to prove that you're qualified, that you're valuable, that you deserve to be here.And it's exhausting. Because no matter how much you achieve, it's never quite enough. There's always something coming up short. There's always a way you could have done it better. There's always someone who might find out that you're not as good as they think you are.I received three messages for you. Here's what came through.--IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL HEAR:00:00 Introduction to The Unraveling Achiever00:46 When Your Career Is Built on Proving Yourself02:35 Message One: How to Know You're Trying to Prove Yourself04:57 Message Two: What Trying to Prove Yourself Is Causing07:29 Message Three: A Step You Can Take - Shift to What Lights You Up10:41 Bringing It All Together12:27 Soul Reading--THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:You're chasing external validationYour worth is tied to your performance and productivityYou need constant recognition and praiseYou're your harshest criticYou fear being found out as unqualifiedThe work doesn't bring you joyYou're obsessed with being recognizedYou do work to be admired, not fulfilledYou're exhausted from constantly proving yourself--RESOURCES MENTIONED:No external resources mentioned in this episode.---READY TO GO DEEPER?If what you heard today resonated, I'd love to support you in going deeper.Soul Reading is a 75-minute one-on-one session where I open your Akashic Records and help you reconnect with what your soul already knows about your path, your purpose, and what's next.Learn more: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.angelamckayllc.com/soul-reading⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠---LET'S STAY CONNECTED:Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.angelamckayllc.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@angelamckayllc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Angela McKay⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Career Revival⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠---ABOUT THE PODCAST:The Unraveling Achiever is for the person who's done everything "right" and is questioning what that even means. Host Angela McKay - former SVP of HR turned intuitive career coach and soul reading practitioner - helps accomplished folks stop defaulting to what looks good and start building what feels true. You don't have to turn your life upside down. Just point your achiever energy toward a soul-led career and life you'll love.