Rockstar Moms Edition: The Trickle Down Effect - Reevaluating Success, Happiness, & Your Career with Coach Becca Carnahan

About Becca: Becca Carnahan is a mom of two, writer, and career coach from Massachusetts. She is the founder of Becca Carnahan Career Coaching & Communications where she specializes in helping women find more joy and fulfillment in their work. She also writes and manages the working mom blog, With Love Becca, which helps women manage motherhood, manage careers, and manage to laugh through it all. Becca gained her expertise in the career development field over a 13 year career at Harvard Business School, where she still works as a career coach, and while earning her Masters Degree in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In addition to her career coaching work, Becca is also the author of Belinda Baloney Changes Her Mind, a fun and inspiring “when I grow up” children’s book and When Mommy Grows Up: A Guide to Parenting Yourself to a More Fulfilling Career (coming spring 2021).Find Becca: https://beccacarnahan.comShow Notes: Somewhere between women between 28 and 40 begin to reevaluate all of the choices they've made to this point. This is a transition point where women ask, 'What do I want to do and who do I want to be now?'Women in careers begin to question what success really is. This is a normal and common experience! Becca guides moms through specific steps to figuring out what comes next. She initially asks women to: Identify overlap between interests and passions, skills and strengths and value add to others.Make a list of your skills.Ask: Who can you help? Who would hire you to help them?What specific amount of money do you need to make?Before you change careers, it’s critical that you go through a process of evaluation so you don’t end up swapping one career that doesn’t make you happy for another.Sometimes you have to give yourself permission to ask the tough questions and change direction.Doing the introspection isn't necessarily easy to do alone or to even carve out the time we need to do this important processing but, it's important to get the support we need.Our happiness and satisfaction in our career directly impacts the quality of every other aspect of our lives. Success is different for everyone. You can consider:What does it look like for you?What are the goals for your future self?And, are the decisions I’m making aligned with my goals?It’s also important to check your goals and make sure they are still taking you in the direction you want to go. You can change your mind along the way.FIND BECCA:  https://beccacarnahan.comFind Robin: www.quittingculture.comTake the Parenting Archetype Style Quiz here and find out which of the 8 Archetypes you are!  If this episode resonated with you, you might enjoy our free People Skillz community — a structured space to practice steadier, more intentional communication. We also created a short Communication Patterns Quiz to help you identify how you respond under pressure. You’ll find both here.