I Spent 6 Months Feeling Lost. Here's What Actually Fixed Everything.

Six months ago, Kara Preston's life felt completely out of control. She was successful on paper but miserable in reality, stuck in that awful space where nothing felt right but she couldn't figure out what to change. Turns out, the solution wasn't another self-help book or life coach. In this episode, Kara shares the counterintuitive approach that actually worked: learning to get comfortable with strategic failure. Here's the thing most people get wrong about feeling lost. We think we need to find our "purpose" or follow someone else's blueprint for success. But research shows that 70% of people feel their job doesn't match their values, and the average person changes careers 5-7 times. Maybe the problem isn't that we're broken. Maybe we just need to get better at experimenting. 🎯 What You'll Learn: • Why following other people's advice keeps you stuck (and what to do instead) • The 3-step process Kara used to test her way out of confusion • How entrepreneurs who fail first have 18% higher success rates on their next attempt • The specific mindset shift that turns uncertainty from enemy to ally 👤 Perfect for: entrepreneurs and creative professionals who feel stuck despite looking successful from the outside. 📍 Chapters: [00:00] Kara Preston opens up about her "lost" phase [01:45] Why most advice about finding purpose is backwards [03:20] The experimentation framework that actually works [05:50] How to fail fast without burning everything down [07:30] The uncomfortable truth about career changes [09:15] Three questions to ask when everything feels wrong [11:00] Key takeaways you can use this week 🔔 Never miss an episode: Follow Kara Builds on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and turn on notifications. New episodes drop daily, and next week we're diving into the founder who pivoted 7 times before finding product-market fit. 🔍 Topics: career change, entrepreneurship, finding purpose, life transitions, business strategy Get new episodes at Midnight Builders ----------- Keywords: entrepreneurial disasters, failed business podcast, entrepreneurial failure, business disaster recovery, startup reality check, business failure analysis, startup bankruptcy, entrepreneur burnout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices