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Lessons from a Quitter — 383 episodes

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The Fear of Failure

2

Getting Good At Feeling Discomfort

3

Your quit plan

4

Handling Difficult Conversations Around Quitting

5

Handling Guilt Around Quitting

6

Managing Fear

7

You are not behind

8

Finding Your Community

9

Replay: The Art of Dreaming Bigger

10

The Process of Going After Your Dream Life

11

Admitting what you want

12

How to Rewire Your Brain for Joy When You've Been Chasing Achievement

13

Procrastination

14

Getting Rid Of That Inner Critic - Part 2

15

Getting Rid of the Inner Critic - Part 1

16

You picked your goal...now what?

17

The side effects of your goals

18

REPLAY: Only pick one goal

19

REPLAY: How to Properly Set Goals to Actually Achieve your Dreams

20

Reflection on 7 years of podcasting

21

Top 10 Lessons From a Quitter

22

Why I'm Taking a Sabbatical (And What Comes Next)

23

Stop Rushing Your Life: The Truth About Goal Setting

24

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Options Make Us Miserable

25

Stop Judging Your Productivity: Understand Your Capacity

26

How to Build a Full Life Without Burning it All Down with Dinesh Melwani

27

Hierarchy of Needs

28

Happy Life of Mediocrity

29

Experimenting with a 3-day workweek

30

How to stop Emotional Outsourcing with Beatriz Albina

31

How to Change the Story You Tell Yourself (and Change Your Life)

32

Why I've offered a guarantee for my mastermind

33

How Ysabella Allard continues to reinvent herself (and why she's joining the mastermind)

34

Mastermind Anouncement

35

Mid-Year Check In

36

Replay: Managing Fear

37

Replay: Arguing with Reality

38

Going All In

39

How a boring job could be a dream

40

What if no one had an opinion on your life?

41

What I learned from my trip to Iran

42

Navigating Career Grief with Laverne McKinnon

43

The shift that made my dreams doable

44

Micro decisions

45

Confidence is built

46

Why I'm closing my membership

47

What if you couldn't make a wrong decision?

48

The way your brain works is fine

49

Looking for Fulfillment

50

How to use ChatGPT for your job search

51

Struggline with your Goals? Here's what to do.

52

How to be a good community member

53

Replay: Thoughts About Yourself

54

Replay: Self-love

55

Your Job Isn't Your Identity: Separating Self-Worth from Work

56

Why You Can't Do It Alone: The Power of Community in Overwhelming Times

57

The Cost of Information Overload (And How to Take Back Control)

58

Trying something new? Here's why it's worth it (even if it doesn't work out!)

59

Lesson from my past self

60

Defining Women's Work with Nicole Kalil

61

Help! But What If I Fail?

62

2024 Year In Review

63

Why learning to regulate your nervous system is just as important as thought work with Victoria Albina

64

What people get wrong about goal setting

65

Help! My family doesn't support my dreams!

66

How to Deal with the Election

67

Help! I'm stuck!

68

Help! I procrastinate all the time

69

Help! I don't have any passions

70

Replay: How to Reduce Anxiety

71

From Engineer to Entrepreneur: How Jannese Torres used a side hustle to help her quit

72

Help! I have too many passions!

73

Eliminate Overworking: how to truly beat burnout

74

The three stages of quitting your Career

75

Why you should take ownership of your career

76

Things you have to unlearn from school to thrive in the workplace

77

Can You Change Your Career in Your 30s?

78

What I Would Do if I Quit Today

79

How to Love Your Job Even if You Don't Like it

80

How to Change Your Life in 5 Years

81

Why You Shouldn't Try to Be Happy All the Time

82

Why You'll Never Feel Ready

83

How Mindset Shapes Success

84

Why I quit being a lawyer & how I changed my life

85

Replay: Self Trust

86

Mastering Self-Perception: How to Recognize and Own Your Competence

87

Reclaiming Your Time: Embracing a Life You Love Beyond the Rat Race

88

Math vs Mental Drama

89

There will always be doubt

90

How to get started when you don't know what you want to do

91

The Paradox of Choice

92

Replay: The Problem with Finding Your Purpose

93

Layoffs, AI, and Your Career

94

Quitter Club Interview

95

Discovering What You Want

96

Replay: Thinking on Purpose

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How to deal with Burnout

98

End of History Illusion

99

It's not too late to start an online business

100

How Adriana Paris launched her coaching business in one month while working full-time

101

How to stop numbing your feelings

102

Replay: Nobody wants perfect

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Stop Letting Your To-Do List Run your Life

104

Rewriting Your Past

105

Understanding Your Own Responses

106

Going Back to Work as a SAHM

107

Lean into Resourcefulness

108

Attaching a Story

109

2023 Year in Review

110

Replay: Short Term v. Long Term Goals (128)

111

What Problem Are You Giving Your Brain to Solve?

112

Wasting Time and Money

113

Setting Yourself Up for Career Success

114

Lessons from my 90K Month

115

Living in the 'And'

116

Replay: How to React to the World Around You

117

Lessons from romance novels

118

The importance of learning to delegate

119

Replay: Side Effects of Going After Your Goal

120

Arguing with Reality

121

Sensitive Strivers in the Workplace with Melody Wilding

122

A panel discussion with Quitter Club members

123

Deciding its worth it, beforehand

124

1 Year building blocks

125

The Power of 90 Day Goals

126

The Messy Middle

127

3 First steps when you're unhappy

128

Exploring entrepreneurship

129

The thing causing most of your stress

130

Stripping your identity

131

What to do after you quit

132

How to start a consulting business with Amy Rasdal

133

There is Nothing Wrong With You

134

BONUS: Day 3. Love it or Leave it Challenge- Deciding to Leave it

135

BONUS: Day 2. Love it or Leave it Challenge- Deciding to Love It

136

BONUS: Day 1. Love it or Leave it Challenge- How to make a decision

137

The Secret to Getting Clarity

138

Bonus Ep: Decision Debt

139

Indulging in Confusion

140

Let Your Job be an Investor in Your Life

141

The Secret to Getting the Life You Want

142

How to Deal with Layoffs

143

Picking Your One Goal

144

Accepting What Is

145

Vacation time is non-negotiable

146

Your Employer's Problems Are Not Your Problems

147

Replay: A tribute to Dave Hollis

148

My Story on The Get Paid Podcast

149

It's Not Easier Here

150

The Power of Communities

151

How Focusing on 1 Thing Changed Everything for Betty Dao

152

Self-love

153

It's Not About the Money

154

Following Through with Your Goals

155

Pick One Goal

156

Changing your Self-Concept

157

2022 Year in Review

158

How Dielle Charon went from social worker to million-dollar coach

159

Be Open to Possibilities

160

Thoughts on the Recession and Layoffs

161

Feel Your Feelings

162

Replay: How Kristina Barile Went From MIT Rocket Scientist to Living Off The Land In Panama

163

The Quitter Club

164

The Power of Knowing What You Want

165

Believe It Will Happen

166

How to Do Less

167

Parenting & Careers

168

Imposter Syndrome

169

Replay: From Lawyer to Chocolate Maker: How Shawn Askinosie Found His Calling

170

How To Make Better Decisions

171

Quiet Quitting

172

Toxic Jobs

173

Toxic Bosses

174

Toxic Coworkers

175

Past v. Future You

176

Learning to Have

177

5 Year Plan

178

Throw Your Own Damn Party

179

Be Selfish

180

Lessons From My Dream Life

181

How Kathryn Finney Went From Being A Yale-Trained Epidemiologist To A Venture Capitalist Helping BIPOC Entrepreneurs Do Business Their Own Way

182

How Zubin Pratap Went From Lawyer To A Software Engineer

183

Emotional Maturity

184

Student Panel - What It's Really Like In Pave Your Path

185

Normalize Changing Your Mind

186

The Real Reason You Should Go After Those BIG, SCARY Goals

187

Thinking On Purpose

188

Boundaries

189

Thoughts About Yourself

190

Wanting To Make Lots Of Money

191

The Law of Polarity And How It'll Help You Deal With Negative Emotions

192

Replay: A Look Back At How Blogging Helped Leslie Samuel Get And Then Quit His Dream Career

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How To Use Comparison And Jealousy To Your Benefit

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How Deepa Purushothaman Quit Corporate America In Order To Help Change It

195

Listener Q&A

196

Pave Your Path Q & A

197

Student Spotlight: How Cynthia Went From Overworked And Burned Out To Creating Her Dream Life

198

Student Spotlight: How Lisa McFadden Quit The Job She Hated To Create A Business She Loves

199

Reducing Anxiety

200

The Problem With Finding Your Purpose

201

Self-Trust

202

You Don't Have To Hate It To Leave

203

100% Responsibility

204

How You View Your Work Matters

205

Replay: A Look Back At How Peter Glatz Went From Retired Dentist To Working With The Best Chefs In The Country

206

Replay: A Look Back At How Shinah Chang Went From High-Powered Attorney To A Million Dollar Calligraphy Business

207

2021 Year in Review

208

How To Deal With Overwhelm

209

Guilt

210

Replay: Life Is Both Good And Bad

211

How to Use Mini Experiments to Figure Out What You Want to Do

212

Lessons From My Photo Booth Business

213

How to Never Regret a Decision Again

214

How Christina Went From Anxiety Medication and a Fear of Public Speaking to Improv Classes and Showing Up Fully in Her Life

215

Be Delusional

216

You're Not Confused. You're Scared.

217

How Tragedy Fueled Bevin Farrand's Determination to Take the DAMN Trip

218

Shifting Your Paradigm

219

How Vishesh Chachra Left His Successful Career in Business to Pursue His Love of Acting

220

Stop Trying to Be Better

221

Don't Quit Your Job... Yet

222

Mom Guilt

223

Living Your Dream Life Now With Jordan Ramsey

224

3 lessons from 3 years of podcasting

225

Catastrophizing

226

Handling Criticism

227

Getting over the need for other people's approval

228

A conversation with my husband about my quitting journey

229

How to make a decision

230

Taking Responsibility

231

Living a fulfilling life right now

232

Destination Addiction

233

How the Compound Effect Will Change Your Life

234

How Trial And Error Can Lead To Your Dream Life With Janelle Christian

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Clean Pain v Dirty Pain

236

The Fear of What Other People Think

237

Nobody Wants Perfect

238

Let It Be Hard

239

Finding Clarity in Your Next Career Move

240

Coaching Call Replay

241

My mom's quitter story: How Ziba Farzaneh used a layoff to build her dream life

242

Getting Finances In Order To Quit

243

Thoughts About Money

244

Seasons of Rest

245

How Tricia Cusden Started Her Beauty Line At Age 65 And Proved That You're Never Too Old To Start Over

246

How All Or Nothing Thinking Is Keeping You Stuck

247

The Most Important Work You Can Do

248

Investing In Yourself

249

From Morgan Stanley to Sustainable Fashion: How Vanessa Barboni Hallik is Saving The World Through Fashion

250

Stop Searching For Your Passion

251

Setting Better Goals

252

The Art of Dreaming Bigger

253

How Damona Hoffman Went From TV Executive To Building Her Own Brand

254

My Year In Review

255

A Holiday Message for You: 2020

256

The Story of Your Past

257

Short Term v. Long Term Goals

258

How Jamie Kutchman Wynne Left A Big Paycheck To Follow A Dream

259

Overcoming People Pleasing

260

Creating a Vision For Your Life

261

The Opportunity Costs of Staying Stuck

262

How to React to The World Around You

263

How The Sunk Cost Fallacy Is Keeping You Stuck

264

Lawyer to Baker: How Sarah Truesdell's Business Began to Boom During COVID

265

How Perfectionism is Ruining Your Life

266

Side Effects of Going After Your Goals

267

How Kristina Barile Went From MIT Rocket Scientist to Living Off The Land In Panama

268

None Of This Is Natural

269

Life Will Always Be Both Good and Bad

270

Part 3: Emotions

271

Part 2: Learning How To Manage Your Mind For Success

272

Part 1: The Most Important Tool In Your Career Change

273

How Dawn Kelly Reinvented Herself After Being Blind-Sighted By a Layoff From Corporate America

274

Figuring Out Numerous Pivots With Raman Sehgal

275

Book Review: Deep Work by Cal Newport

276

How Emily Giffin Went From Lawyer to 10x New York Times Best Selling Author

277

How Cher Hale is Using Entrepreneurship to Fight Racial Inequality

278

How Deborah Chambers is Showing That You're Never Too Old

279

How Naja Hall Went From The Entertainment Industry to a Coach For Stepmoms And Blended Families

280

How Being Laid Off During The 2008 Recession Changed Alexis Michaud's Future

281

Push Through Fear and Do it Anyway

282

Atomic Habits Book Review

283

How to Quit Being a Racist

284

Lessons from 100 episodes!

285

How Erin Wade used her layoff in 2009 to go after her dreams

286

How the 2008 recession propelled Lindsey Schwartz into entrepreneurship

287

How Paula Pant quit in the beginning of a recession and went on to create an empire

288

Book Review: Brene Brown's Rising Strong

289

Air BnB Super Hosts: How Sarah & Annette created a business out of a completely new industry

290

From Wall Street to Entrepreneur: How Emily Sexton Has Mastered The Art of Pivoting

291

Why Erika Gerdes quit a dream career at Google to undo everything society had taught her

292

Big Magic Book Review

293

From Bankruptcy to Baker: How Janelle Copeland Built an Incredible Brand and Business in The Face of Adversity.

294

Thoughts on How to Deal With the Coronavirus Crisis

295

How Mary Eberle Quit Two Careers Before Finding Her Passion For Solving DNA Mysteries

296

What Author Sara Bliss Learned From Highlighting The Stories of People Who Have Taken The Leap to New Careers

297

Why You Should Quit and Start an Online Business with Gemma Bonham-Carter

298

Book Review: Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck

299

How to Use Personality Tests to Find Your New Career With Christine McAlister

300

How Traci Connell Used Divorce and Death to Fuel Her Drive to Build a Multi-Million Dollar Business

301

How Tasha Cochran Built a Multiple Six Figure Side Hustle While Working as an Attorney

302

Book Review: The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris

303

Tackling Your Financial Plan So You Can Quit With Rob Bertman

304

From Lawyer to Master Coach: How Kara Loewentheil is Helping Women Unf*ck Their Brains

305

How to Reinvent Yourself with Marc Allen

306

Dr. Maria Phalime: The Doctor Who Walked Away

307

From Lawyer to Chocolate Maker: How Shawn Askinosie found his calling

308

Modeling Greatness In Everything You Do with Shunta Grant

309

How being a people-pleaser keeps you stuck

310

Finding Creativity in the Chaos: How Will Day went from Wall Street to becoming a painter

311

From Accountant to Wedding Photographer to Brick-and-Mortar business owner- How Kim Le Pham constantly pushes the boundaries of success

312

From Pastor to Athiest: Changing your identity with Geoff Kullman

313

How Jenna Irvin became a successful entrepreneur at 21 with zero experience

314

How Julian Mather Perfected The Art of Reinvention

315

How Luke Tonge went from employee to funlancer

316

How Kayse Morris, a former school teacher, has a multiple six-figure business empowering other teachers

317

EP. 66 Live Podcast Recording With Laurie Rowen, Pye Jirsa, Shinah Chang, and Sara Rezvanpour Rose

318

How Tara Laferrara followed her passion and is creating a fitness empire

319

You're never too old to start over with Paul Tasner

320

How Kelsey Murphy walked away from a great career to build an even better life

321

How AI is changing work and how to own the AI revolution with Neil Sahota

322

How Lindsey Schwartz quit the corporate world to become a Powerhouse Woman

323

How Peter Glatz quit his dental practice at 65 to start a second career in one of America's Best Restaurants

324

How Kelsey Chapman Built a Brand and Found Her Passion While Serving Coffee

325

How Michelle Schroeder-Gardner makes millions blogging while traveling the world

326

How Steve Trang Quit Engineering to Build a Real Estate Empire

327

Why you don't need passion to scale a successful creative business with Pye Jirsa

328

10 lessons I've learned from podcasting for 1 year

329

How Josh Zloof quit the corporate world to disrupt the coffee industry with Sudden Coffee

330

How Elle Drouin quit the financial industry and took entrepreneurship head on

331

All your financial questions about quitting answered by Erin Lowry from Broke Millennial

332

How Chef Jenny Dorsey quit her MBA program to create social change through food

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How blogging helped Leslie Samuel get and then quit his dream career

334

How Kevin Ha from the Financial Panther paid off $87k in student loans and quit law with the help of the gig economy.

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How Dona Bumgarner designed a business based on what she needed most

336

You should never stop reevaluating your career choices: How Phil Black went from Navy Seal to Harvard Business School to Firefighter and more

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How Steve Chou of My Wife Quit Her Job blog created multiple 7-figure businesses while keeping his day job

338

How Dave Hollis quit a dream job at Disney to create a dream life with the Hollis Company

339

How Annie Jensen Chapur quit law to create her own home accessories company

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How Dawn Lewis followed her passion for crafting and became a professional

341

How to go from employee to successful business owner by focusing on the niches with Nicole Osmer

342

How Dr. John Pham focuses on his 'why' to navigate his career from Engineer to Orthodontist to Startup Founder

343

Why we should stop focusing on happiness and build resilience instead with Dr. Zelana Montminy

344

How Allison Lancaster went from executive assistant to 6-figure business owner in under 2 years

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How a life coach can help you with Montine Blank

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How Erin Hatzikostas walked away from her CEO position to help shape the next generation of leaders

347

How Jennifer Berson quit law and became a Public Relations powerhouse

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From Teacher to Pinterest Strategist: How Jena Liat developed a new skill, started a business and replaced her income all within 2 years

349

How Ali Boone quit the corporate 9-5 as an aerospace engineer to start her real estate investment company

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How to stop being nice and start being your authentic self with Dr. Aziz Gazipura

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How Elie Mystal quit practicing law and wrote about it instead

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How Shinah Chang quit the straight path of law for Crooked Calligraphy

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Dentist & Marketer: How Joanne Bourgault is building her business on the side while still working as a dentist

354

How Joe Hansen walked away from Big Law to travel the world with his family

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How to Gain Financial Independence with Paula Pant

356

How Anna Lundberg reimagined success by taking one step outside of her comfort zone

357

How to set goals you'll actually achieve

358

How Daniel Prince quit his career in finance in order to travel the world with his wife and 4 children

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Ep. 24: Lawyer to Actor/Comedian- How Kelly Nugent turned her creativity into a career

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Ep. 23: Corporate World to Author: How Mamta Jain Valderrama quit the business world to become an Amazon Best-Selling Author

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Ep. 22: Lawyer and Interior Stylist- How Sara Rezvanpour Rose created her dream job as Creative Counsel at the Jungalow

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Ep.21: How gratitude can fundamentally change your life

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Ep.20: How Drew Morgan went from lawyer to stand-up comic

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Ep. 19: Actor, Lawyer, CEO and more: How Isaac Lidsky created his reality by living Eyes Wide Open

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Ep. 18: How Alli & Matt Owen gained financial independence, quit their 6-figure engineering jobs, and now travel the country working remotely

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Ep. 17: How a tragedy helped Christine McAlister live her Life With Passion

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Ep.16: How Ann Masciarotte turned her passion for art into a business

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Ep.15: How Lauretta Ihonor quit numerous careers, including as a doctor and journalist, to finally find her true passion

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Ep. 14: How David Lat went from lawyer to editor and founder of Above the Law

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Ep. 13: How to grow any business through Instagram with Tyler J. McCall

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Ep. 12: How Nick J. Murphy never lets fear or failure get in his way

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Ep. 11: How Pleasance Silicki navigated multiple career changes by staying true to herself.

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Ep.10: How Steve McCready made the jump from IT to therapist by pushing past his own false narratives

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Ep. 9: How Laurie Rowen disrupted the legal profession to create the career she wanted

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Ep. 08: How Maria Granovsky made the jump from Ph.D. to J.D. to Entrepreneur

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Ep. 07: How to create a business on your own terms with Jenny Eden Berk

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Ep. 06: Why you don't need passion to scale a successful creative business with Pye Jirsa

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Ep. 05: How Melissa Wolak made the transition from employee to business owner through baby steps

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Ep. 04: How Sarah Williams went from climbing the corporate ladder to climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro

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Ep: 03: How being fired as a lawyer led Erin Wade to become a widely successful restauranteur

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Ep. 02: How Steve Trang quit engineering to create a real estate empire

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Ep. 01: How Kaveh Mostafavi went from bankruptcy lawyer to starting a million dollar supply company

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