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Destination Unknown: A Field Guide
by Linda Rossetti: expert on transition and its impact on our lives
Has your identity ever gotten upended? A variety of life's circumstances can deposit us at these moments; a job loss, a divorce, sudden success, the birth of another child, a geographic move, changes in gender identity or sexual orientation, sobriety, health crises, a miscarriage, a global pandemic!!! and much more. Destination Unknown explores these moments and how to navigate them successfully.Our host, Linda Rossetti, an expert on transition and its impact on individuals and organizations, helps us learn how to turn moments of uncertainty into positive inflection points in our lives. Join us for inspiring, honest and practical conversation that is sure to help you live - fully!
Episodes
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Operations Exec and Coach Kamrin Huban on Voice and Moving Beyond Crushing Workplace Conflict
Join Linda and her guest, Kamrin Huban, as they explore damaging workplace conflicts and the power of our own voices in navigating such obstacles. Discover how to respond differently by reframing emotions and turning up the volume on our own voices. Learn how our initial response is not the only...
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Trauma-Informed Leadership Consultant Carolyn Swora on Identity and Possibility
Join Linda and her guest, Carolyn Swora, as they discuss identity through the lens of love, loss, and the expansive gifts that await each of us in transition. Discover how our beliefs about who we are play a role in our response to upheaval in our lives. Learn how to reframe our experiences of...
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Purpose-driven Leader Lauren Goldberg on Belonging and Unlearning Shame
Join Linda and her guest, Lauren Goldberg, as they explore the opportunity to move beyond 'learned shame' and the pressure 'to be' a certain way. Discover how we can revolutionize our sense of belonging by reframing our understanding of who we are. Learn about forgiving ourselves and the…
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Collaborative Attorney Joy Rosenthal on a New Lens into the Pandemic's Tragic Loss
Join Linda and her guest, Joy Rosenthal, as they explore the life-changing loss of Joy's spouse in the early days of the pandemic. Discover how understanding change and transition creates an opportunity to be with the layers of grief and fear differently. Learn about reinvention and its influence...
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Author & Social Innovation Advocate Abby Davisson on Possibility & Choice at Life's Crossroads
Join Linda and Abby Davisson, co-author of Money and Love, as they talk about making choices that align with what really matters. Discover how Abby applied her book's methods to a decision about a geographic move for her and her young family. Learn how to reframe our choices and how this path can...
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Author and Care Giving Expert Connie Baher on The Secret Sauce to Life's Crossroads
Join Linda and Connie Baher as the two talk about reframing and its usefulness at life's biggest moments. Discover how Connie's role as a long-haul care giver to her 105-year-old mother transformed her thinking about herself and about her relationship to her mom. Learn how to reframe from real…
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Care Provider and Author Connie Baher on Embracing Uncertainty & Joy
Join Linda as she continues her conversation with Connie Baher, author of the new book, Family Care Givers: An Emotional Survival Guide. Listen to how uncertainty envelopes care giving and how it impacts our energy, our identity, and our emotional well-being. Discover the joy and peace that can...
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CEO And Innovation Expert Karen Williams on Reframing Our Emotions
Join Linda as she talks with her life-long friend, Karen Williams, about the role emotions play in our experience of upheaval. Learn how reframing emotions can help us occupy the world differently. Discover the power available to you as you begin to ask yourself new questions. Get a sneak peek…
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CEO and Innovation Expert Karen Williams on Finding your Superpower
Join Linda as she talks with Karen Williams about what it means to have someone say, "I got you," at times of upheaval in our lives. Discover the value in turning up the volume on your own truth and the possibility it can create as you share it with others. Get a sneak peek into 'how to' respond...
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Innovation Expert and CEO Karen Williams on Permission & Possibility
Join Linda as she talks with guest Karen Williams about the risk we incur when we miss seeing the possibility in ourselves. Learn about the role our story plays helping us unearth our superpower. Discover more about Linda's own story from an isolating personal crisis to a place of strength and a...
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Longevity Author Susan Golden on Your Renaissance
Join Linda as she talks with Susan Golden about the stages we are invited to explore as our lives extend to 100 years. Discover the non-negotiables, like community, that enable successful identity shifts to occur at any age. Learn about the new normal as it relates to redefining who we are and…
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A Gift of Joy & Light
Join Linda for a special episode featuring the incredible gifts resident within our experience of transition and renewal. Learn how to reach beyond common misconceptions about the crossroads of our lives. Explore how to lead with 'who you are' and unlock more of your untapped potential. Discover...
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Care Provider and Author Connie Baher on the Power of Naming
Join Linda as she talks with Connie Baher about Connie's transition to caregiving for her 105-year-old mother. Learn how our growing awareness of change and our willingness to name our evolving circumstances can translate into a game-changing shift in our lives. Discover how reframing emotions,...
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Fashion Stylist and Entrepreneur Elysha Lenkin on Tackling Fear
Join Linda for her conversation with fashion stylist and entrepreneur Elysha Lenkin as they explore entrepreneurship as a vehicle for self-expression and personal growth. Discover the real story on how great things happen as we make our way forward to live our dream. Learn about the risk of…
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Botanical Artist Ratna Dalal: Leading with Head and Heart
Join Linda and her guest Ratna Dalal for an inspiring conversation about identity shifts in adult life. Learn how 'being open to change' can serve as a precursor to living our fullest life. Discover how Ratna's embrace of her heart helped her learn, adapt, and greet uncertainty with unparalleled...
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Parenting & Ambition Expert Yael Schonbrun: Unlocking Our Happy
Join Linda and her guest Yael Schonbrun as they talk about thriving as parents and as people. Yael and Linda talk about the roles we accrue over our lives - from sibling to employee/colleague to parent and more - and how shifts in our values invite us to rethink how we occupy each one. Learn a...
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Mind-Body Expert Ashley Betz: Normalizing Uncertainty
Join Linda and guest Ashley Betz as they talk about personal transitions and their impact on the body and mind. Learn about the important role awareness plays in our experience of stress. Discover how we reflexively apply 'meaning' to challenging moments, including that which works with us and...
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Food for Free CEO Sasha Purpura: Connections that Matter
Join Linda and guest Sasha Purpura, CEO of food-rescue organization Food for Free, for their discussion on transition and its role in catapulting you from a place of discomfort to one of joy. Learn about the role connections played in Sasha's journey from corporate America to a place of…
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"Mutual Rescue" Author Carol Novello: How to Change the Trajectory of Your Career and Life
Join Linda and guest Carol Novello, author, animal advocate, and documentary filmmaker. Carol shares her story of transition from the corporate arena to the not-for-profit sphere. Discover how the unexpected can lead to an entirely new trajectory, both personally and professionally. Learn what is...
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Ironman Athlete Patty Kolias: The Hidden Gifts in Major Life Changes
Join Linda and guest, Patty Kolias, as they talk about how a transition to full-time motherhood led to a new career as an elite athlete. Learn about the real battles that occur, not the miles-to-run or laps-to-swim but the challenge hidden in how to greet debilitating emotions, such as fear and...
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Changes that Change Everything with Jessie Harrold
Join Linda and her guest, Jessie Harrold, for an uplifting conversation about the shifts that rock our world. Discover what Jessie learned about personal transformation through the lens of motherhood. Learn how sadness, grief and 'not knowing' are normal steps in a process of expansion and growth...
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Reinventing Ourselves with Lai Han Sam
Reinventing Ourselves with Lai Han Sam features corporate veteran and leadership coach, Sam, whose reinvention journey started with a blank slate and now is described with words like, "I cannot remember before..." Learn what to do when our hearts unexpectedly move in another direction. Discover…
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Entrepreneurship as the Answer to Uncertainty with Emma Bates
With the pandemic and the great resignation, many are turning to entrepreneurship. Join Linda and her guest Emma Bates, founder of DM, as they talk about the transformation to owning your own business. Discover how you make the decision to finally take that step. Learn about identifying your…
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A Celebration of Unplanned Directions with Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui
Join Linda for her conversation with Sumbul Siddiqui, Mayor, Cambridge, MA as they explore transition and the possibility hidden in our non-linear, difficult life moments. Learn how the Mayor's failures, like not passing the bar exam on her first try, enabled her to ignite passions and reframe...
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Revising Our Life's Journey with Elena Breese
Join Linda as she talks with Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor and mental health advocate Elena Breese. Learn about healing and the milestones that are a part of our journey in the aftermath of a crisis. Discover what roles letting go and tapping our wisdom play in the incredible opportunity...
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Transitioning Beyond Toxic Work Environments with Kayla Gross
Join Linda and her guest, Kayla Gross, former member of the coaching staff for the Oregon State University's Football team, as they talk about decoupling from a negative work environment and reigniting our own truth. Learn how anger and profound loss give way to possibility! Understand the phases...
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The Expansive Power of Your Voice
Join Linda as she talks with Nina Goswami (@NinaTheScoop) of the BBC about the life-changing power available to those willing to trust their own voices. Learn about Nina's groundbreaking work with the BBC's 50/50 Project and its impact on bringing the voices of underrepresented populations into…
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The Miracle in You
Join Linda for the second of a two-part interview with Katie Mahon and Joan Louise Hill, authors of The Miracle Collectors, as they explore the enlivening experience of owning it and stepping into our own voices. Learn about Katie's and Joan's experience and how they struggled to get a grip on...
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The Miracle of Transition
Join Linda as she talks with Katie Mahon and Joan Luise Hill, authors of The Miracle Collectors, about the courage of engaging our voices and saying yes to who we are. Learn about the importance of connections and the role they play as we navigate empty nests, invasive breast cancer, and other…
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The Courage to Expand Who We Are!
Join Linda and Elise Buie, family law attorney, as they discuss major life changes and the courage to be more. Learn how Elise navigated multiple transitions, including Hurricane Katrina, geographic moves, serious illness, and her own divorce and remarriage. Discover the gifts available to those...
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Transition Is an Opportunity for More
Join Linda and Kavita Ahuja, founder of the Power Purpose Play community, as they talk about midlife reinvention. Discover the magic that can emerge when we trust the little voice inside, a voice that gave Kavita a sense that there was more for her after a successful twenty-year career in the...
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The Courage to Rethink Our Labels
Join Linda and Elizabeth MacWhinnie, instructional designer and lay minister, as they talk about navigating transition in the face of two simultaneous HUGE triggers. Discover how new superpowers emerge from grappling with being alone and from addressing labels that no longer fit. Learn how...
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Identity's Unplanned Shifts and the Courage of Transition
Join Linda and Massachusetts State Senator Cindy Friedman as they talk about life's identity shifts and finding your voice through multiple transitions. Learn about Cindy's journey from teaching to engineering to politics, the unplanned nature of transition, how her voice has changed. Discover…
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Emotions, Vulnerability, and Expanding Possibilities
Join Linda and Esther Crawford, CEO of Squad, which was recently acquired by Twitter, as they talk about the emotional toll of life's pivots and the enduring possibilities that emerge from vulnerability. Learn about 'Day Zero', the importance of connections, and the promise hidden in letting go…
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Growing Through Transition
Join Linda and Stacey Freeman, an entrepreneur and life-change veteran, as they talk growing beyond self-doubt and the emotions that accompany transition. Learn how staying open to life's shifts - including divorce, co-parenting, entrepreneurship, and loss - can serve as reinforcement in the face...
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Choosing Transition
Have you ever had that feeling in the pit of your stomach that something wasn't right? Join Linda and midlife courage coach Sheree Clark as they talk about those moments and what to do about them! Learn about the protective responses we all deploy - like keeping busy, busy - to distract ourselves...
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What do you have in common with a Nobel Prize Recipient?
Join Linda and Ouided Bouchamaoui, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in Tunisia following the Arab Spring, as they talk about transition on a national stage and in our own lives. Learn about the importance of trusting ourselves, having dreams, and taking one step at a time.…
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A Season for Transition and Renewal
Join Linda for a special episode featuring her recent Women's Exchange talk on Transition and Renewal! Linda shares her personal journey while debunking common misperceptions about transition and renewal. Learn about opportunity of transition and the emotions that accompany us on the journey.…
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Redefining Ourselves in Transition
Join Linda and Robin Nelson, a biological anthropologist and professor at Santa Clara University, as they talk about transition in the many - and sometimes conflicting - facets of our lives. They discuss risk and how it expresses itself as we consider major life changes, like moving…
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The Big Shift: Our Identity
Join Linda and Bruce Howell, accessibility services manager at the Carroll Center for the Blind, as they discuss what may be the most important, and the most difficult, part of transition - the shift in our identity. Bruce shares wisdom from a 16-year journey through loss, fear, and hope as he...
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The Transition to Motherhood
Join Linda and Dr. Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco, a clinical psychologist and author of the upcoming book, Mom Brain, as they talk about the challenges of crafting new identities during all stages of our lives. Dr. DiMarco and Linda explore the chronic stressors of motherhood and strategies moms deploy in...
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Trusting Yourself in Transition
Join Linda and Maia Bittner, entrepreneur and start-up founder, as they talk about listening to ourselves in transition. Maia pursued her passion and made the difficult choice to step away from something very important to her and to those around her. Linda and Maia explore what it means to move...
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Bringing Your Whole Self to Transition
Join Linda and June Angelides, a venture capitalist, parent, and entrepreneur, as they talk about transition with its dips in confidence, its need for self-reflection, and its transformative powers. June shares unexpected milestones like a new sense of purpose and the need to do things…
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When Our Expectations Become Undone
Join Linda and Harvard Business School Prof. Laura Huang as they talk about those times in our lives when we see a gap between our expectations and our lived experience. These gaps prompt decisions that can be terrifying and empowering. We touch on transitions in career, culture, and language and...
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Transition: Pushing Through Our Fear
Join Linda and Parul Singh, a venture capitalist, startup veteran, engineer and parent, as they talk about leaning into the fear that cloaks our desire to move away from something familiar. Your 'familiar' can be a comfortable job, a relationship, something about your health/well-being, or more....
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Geographic Transitions: Secrets and Strategies
Join Linda and Rachel Leng, an entrepreneur, investment manager and former Miss Singapore, as they explore the life-changing and stressful transitions of moving and starting new careers. They talk about waning confidence and how to find the courage necessary to handle all of the unknowns…
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When Stopping Means Succeeding
Join Linda and writer/therapist Kathleen Smith as they explore moving forward in the presence of anxiety. They talk about how transition is in conflict with our hard-wired desire to get everything back to normal in uncertain times, even in a pandemic! Together we discuss Kathleen's mother's…
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How to Re-set in the Face of Uncertainty
Join Linda and guest Denise Shull, a former investment banker and decision making expert, as they explore the uncertainty that blankets major life moves, like divorce or career pivots. They examine the role of core beliefs and narratives. Find out if you have the courage to use the single best...
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Transition & Growth
Join Linda and guest Maria Santiago Valentin, an educator, PhD candidate and parent, for a conversation about repeatedly transitioning. Maria shares her experience with uncertainty, resilience and adaptability. Like so many of us during this pandemic, Maria recognized early on the role of her own...
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Embracing the Unknown
Join Linda and guest Audrey Beaulac, style-strategist and veteran transitioner, for a conversation about personal pivots and what it means to face uncertainty. Listeners will be encouraged to shift their focus away from the specifics of the pandemic and onto the power available to anyone willing…
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Has your identity ever gotten upended? A variety of life's circumstances can deposit us at these moments; a job loss, a divorce, sudden success, the birth of another child, a geographic move, changes in gender identity or sexual orientation, sobriety, health crises, a miscarriage, a global pandemic!!! and much more. Destination Unknown explores these moments and how to navigate them successfully.Our host, Linda Rossetti, an expert on transition and its impact on individuals and organizations, helps us learn how to turn moments of uncertainty into positive inflection points in our lives. Join us for inspiring, honest and practical conversation that is sure to help you live - fully!
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Destination Unknown: A Field Guide is created and hosted by Linda Rossetti: expert on transition and its impact on our lives.
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