Leap Like Me
by Lisa Hoashi
Sometimes life asks us to make a bigger change than we expected. Welcome to Leap Like Me, where we offer real stories, inspiration and practical advice on how to make purposeful, brave leaps in life – and sustain them even through challenging times. Life Coach Lisa Hoashi explores the strategies and mindset you need to make brave changes in your life and work. Featuring guest appearances from people who have stretched their sense of what's possible in their own lives, the show will help you to reimagine what's possible for you too.
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Shifting to a More Creative Path with Annie Wong
Many of my clients are interested in taking a new creative direction with their lives. They want to tap into their inner creative and understand how to prioritize their creative and passion projects with making money for the life they want. In today's episode, I'm chatting with one of those...
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How to Know if It's Time for a Radical Reset in Your Life
Even when you know that something in your life—like a job or a relationship or where you live—feels off, it can still feel like a big decision to make a change. And it is. But putting it off only keeps you further from alignment and leads to a level of burnout it can be difficult to bounce back...
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Re-Energizing Your Creative Self
It's easy to let your creative pursuits fall by the wayside when you are focused on your career and making money. However, not prioritizing your creativity can leave you feeling stuck and unfulfilled. In today's episode, I'm talking about why it's important to re-energize your creative self,...
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How to Network with Purpose with Klementina (Tina) Sula
If you're ready to take a leap or at a crossroads moment, do you know where to begin with your networking? Or do you feel overwhelmed with how to create, cultivate, and sustain meaningful relationships? Life is a relationship business. The connections that we build lead to the opportunities that...
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Navigating Crossroads Moments
Have you ever had that moment in your life or career where you feel like you're not quite on the right path? In these moments, you have the choice of continuing on or making a change. This is your crossroads moment, and I'm here to walk you through your options for how to proceed. In today's...
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Taking Brave Leaps at Any Age with Lisa Alfano
What are you waiting for? That's the question Lisa Alfano found herself asking at 50 years old when she decided to take the leap and start training for triathlons. Since then, her entire life has changed, and she's preparing to take an even bigger leap! In today's episode, Lisa Alfano details her...
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Why We Avoid Uncomfortable Conversations, And How to Have them Anyway (Part 2)
This episode is part two on bravely having tough conversations. Click here to listen to part one. If you listened to my last episode, you know that tough conversations like breaking the news about an upcoming job change to your employers and family are necessary for growth, and choosing to have...
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Why We Avoid Uncomfortable Conversations, And How to Have Them Anyway
Have you ever been in a situation where you know you need to have a tough conversation, but you're a little afraid of the response you might get? Whether you're quitting your job, moving across the world, or making a dream a reality, you have to tell the people in your personal and professional...
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How to Build Good Health and Wellness Habits with Ana Alexandre
Long, tiring days of juggling work responsibilities and kids fighting bedtime led to me feeling completely drained of energy and wanting to snack at night before bed. We all have competing demands that take up our time. How do we make time for ourselves and prioritize our health? And what if we...
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How to Keep Going After Your Goals—Even with Setbacks
Setbacks happen to all of us, every day. Whether it's something specific and personal to you, such as a death in the family or not getting the loan you needed to start your business, or something that affects more people, such as a local election or a global pandemic, it seems we are constantly...
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Finding Your Authentic Voice with Elissa Weinzimmer
Finding your authentic voice and using it regularly can be difficult. When today's guest, Elissa, literally lost her voice, she decided to dedicate her life to helping other people not only protect their voices but learn how to use them in conjunction with a regulated nervous system. In today's...
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How to Become an Expert at Managing Your Energy
Energy is important to everything we do … from work to relationships to taking care of kids or pets. Your biggest business asset is your energy. Your biggest life asset is your energy. In today's episode, I'm talking about why you should know where your energy is going, how to determine if you're...
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Season 3 of Leap Like Me!
Considering a career change or pivot? The right career move can improve your life in dramatic, transformative ways. Yet, it can feel too daunting: overwhelming, lonely, and risky. How do you know when it's time to make a career leap, and how do you get through all the obstacles? Welcome to Leap...
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Complete my listener survey for some great prizes!
This season has come to a close. What an amazing journey, friends. In this season we talked to 8 different guests and put out 14 episodes on what it takes to make a career leap. Recently, I met with my podcast production manager Caroline of Wild Home Podcasting to talk about this season and...
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How Her Healing Journey Led to Her Career Leap with Camille Ali
If you've ever been in a toxic work environment, you know how it wreaks havoc on your mental and physical health. It can be difficult to find a way out, and it's common to leave one job and jump right into the next. For today's guest, taking a sabbatical was something she had never really...
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Follow Your Interests to Your Next Career with Farah Kauffman
What do you do when you're years into a career path, having invested in an advanced degree in your field, and you're no longer happy? Making a career leap feels risky in the best of circumstances. And it can be easy to feel stuck or overwhelmed or unsure where to start when you realize that you...
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Job Burnout: What It Is, Why We Feel It, & How to Overcome It
Are you considered a job or career change because you're exhausted by work, unmotivated and unfulfilled? Is burnout a factor in your desire for change? Unfortunately, job burnout has only become more common since the start of the pandemic. Here's my advice for how to improve or redesign your...
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Leaving Teaching for a New Career in EdTech with Raven Wilson
Teaching is often viewed as a career that people stay in for, well, the entirety of their working years. But what if teaching isn't right for you? What if you want to take a leap into a new career? Where do you start? In today's episode, I'm talking with Raven Wilson about her transition from...
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Taking Time Off to Plan for a More Conscious Career with Annie Jameson
When you take a leap, there's a lot of uncertainty. For today's guest, that uncertainty revolves around figuring out how to serve in a leadership role without being full-time, allowing more time for other parts of life and being a mother of two, and navigating a world where conversations around...
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3 Tactics for Getting the Job When Making a Career Pivot
So you've decided to make a career leap. Now, how do you land that next position? Sure, you can go the traditional route by applying for openings on job boards, but that's not the only way (or the best way) to get a job. There are plenty of effective job searching methods, so let's find the right...
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Facing Your Fears & Going For Your Dream Job with Jack Mengel
Have you ever had an idea that you just couldn't get out of your head? A dream that, no matter how hard you tried to ignore it, just kept popping up. If so, honor that inclination. As today's guest says, if you can't stop thinking about it, you should probably go for it. In this episode, I'm...
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Why You Should Define Your Vision Before Your Career Leap
Do you know what you want out of your next career move? It might seem like an impossibly big question, but defining your vision for the future is the best thing you can do for your life and career. Not only does it give you a map for your next move, but it also helps you identify the right...
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Forging Your Own Path with Sika Stanton
Sika Stanton describes herself as a photographer turned filmmaker. That's the super simple version of this reinvention story. On the podcast this week, we dig into complexity behind that her two leaps: What it took for Sika to leave a 9-to-5 to make her way as a freelancer. And then,...
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The Biggest Mistake You Can Make in Your Career Leap
So you want to make a career change, but what's the first step? Updating your resume? Networking on LinkedIn? Scrolling Indeed? Actually, the first step in your career leap comes long before these, and it's the best way you can set yourself up for success in your new role. In this episode, I'm...
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How to Make an Intentional Career Leap with Carolina Cobo
Your career takes up a pretty big chunk of your life. Do you enjoy what you do? Would you go so far as to say you are happy? If you know for sure that your job isn't a good fit, where do you start? A career change can feel daunting. But it doesn't have to. When you focus on what makes you happy…
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Feeling Stuck? How to Regain Confidence to Make a Career Change
If you've ever reached your breaking point with a job, you know the feeling: You're totally drained, lacking confidence, but desperate to escape. Unfortunately, this negative energy doesn't make the job search–or the courageous career leap–any easier. It's a Catch 22 that keeps many people…
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A Total Career Change at 50 with Jennifer Dillan
Making a major career change is never easy, but that's especially true for someone who's worked their way up to a well-paid position in their current industry. But as you'll hear from Jennifer, sometimes your mental and emotional wellbeing is more important than a fancy title or huge paycheck. In...
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The Career Leap: What It Is, How It Happens, & What Keeps Us Stuck
For many of us, our work is the source of our stability–both financially and emotionally. But when our work isn't fulfilling, it's easy to get caught in a cycle of burnout and frustration, only to end up thinking, "Something has to change." At this point, you have two options: Stay stuck, or make...
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Season 2 of Leap Like Me!
Considering a career change or pivot? The right career move can improve your life in dramatic, transformative ways. Yet, it can feel too daunting: overwhelming, lonely, and risky. How do you know when it's time to make a career leap, and how do you get through all the obstacles? Welcome to Leap...
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A South African Economist Takes the Leap: Busi Radebe
Bonus episode: A Leap Like Me listener who was inspired to take her own sabbatical leap. Busi Radebe is a South African economist who had been working for the same bank in Johannesburg for a number of years when she started thinking about how she wanted something different for her life. After...
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From Corporate Burnout to World-Traveling Nomad: Sherry Ott
Sherry Ott planned to take a 12-18 month career break from her corporate IT job in New York City. She was 36 years old and felt like she needed a break. Then, once on the road, she realized she didn't want to stop traveling. She loved having so many new experiences every day. The next step then…
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To Travel the World and Publish a Memoir: Kim Dinan
At age 30, Kim Dinan gave up everything she'd worked for to chase a dream. She convinced her husband to uproot their comfortable life in Portland, Oregon, to go after something she really wanted deep down inside: to travel the world, and to write. They sold their house, got rid of most of their...
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Larger-Than-Life Overland Adventures on Very Little Money: Dan Grec
Dan Grec's first big adventure was to quit his engineering job in Calgary, Canada, to drive his Jeep from Alaska to Argentina on a budget of just $10,000. In this interview, host Lisa Hoashi catches up with Dan on his second big overland adventure to circumnavigate Africa solo, a trip that he...
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A Parallel Universe After a Leap: Laura Tobaruela
While many people would dream of taking their sabbatical in Barcelona, Laura Tobaruela left that city because she felt that if she stayed put, living this typical urban life, with a comfortable office job and apartment, she would regret it later. So Laura planned and set off on a sabbatical trip,...
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A Wake-Up Call to Change Careers: Sumitha Bhandarkar
Originally from India, Sumitha Bhandarkar was a software engineer in her mid-30s. She was living the American Dream in Austin, Texas, with her husband and young daughter, when a family health crisis served a wake-up call. Sumitha realized how unhappy she'd become, and how much it was damaging her...
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A Love Story from Barcelona to Patagonia (and Back): Lisa Hoashi, Part 2
When you finally open yourself up to life's possibility, amazing things can happen. This week, host Lisa Hoashi shares the full story of what happened on her own sabbatical -- what unfolded after her last day of work. She's given up everything: her career, her apartment and most of her…
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Facing Your Biggest Fears to Take a Sabbatical Leap: Lisa Hoashi (Part 1 of 2)
"Every good sabbatical story can be divided into two parts: Everything that happens before your last day of work, and everything that happens after." In this episode, Leap Like Me host Lisa Hoashi shares the first half of her sabbatical story. She candidly speaks about why she took her one-year...
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A Career Break to Take A Sailing Adventure: Judy Lin
By all appearances, Judy Lin's life and career were going just fine. A business-school graduate, she was quickly building a successful career in strategic planning at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta. Yet she couldn't shake the sense that she was on a corporate conveyor belt, and needed to be...
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A New Place to Live: One Family, Three U.S. Cities
Sitinee Sheffert and her husband are on a very unique family sabbatical, with a very clear goal. They recently sold their house in a Chicago suburb to spend 15 months testing out three cities: Park City, Utah; Austin, TX, and Denver, Colorado. Afterward, they'll sit down as a family and decide...
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When a Sabbatical Reveals Your Mission in Life: Sarah Williams
In Sarah William's case, a sabbatical led to the discovery of her true calling -- and a new mission-driven business venture. After eight years working in banking in London, Sarah realized that she didn't want to spend the rest of her life in that career. Though initially hounded by feelings of...
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Sometimes life asks us to make a bigger change than we expected. Welcome to Leap Like Me, where we offer real stories, inspiration and practical advice on how to make purposeful, brave leaps in life – and sustain them even through challenging times. Life Coach Lisa Hoashi explores the strategies and mindset you need to make brave changes in your life and work. Featuring guest appearances from people who have stretched their sense of what's possible in their own lives, the show will help you to reimagine what's possible for you too.
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