In this episode, career coach Hannah Kissel discusses holistic goal setting and the importance of considering all aspects of life when setting goals. She shares personal experiences and examples to illustrate how focusing solely on one goal can lead to burnout and neglect of other areas. Hannah emphasizes the need to align goals with values and create a sustainable and meaningful plan. She also provides tips for overcoming self-sabotage and cognitive dissonance when working towards goals. Takeaw...
Sep 10, 2024•23 min
In this conversation, career coach Hannah Kissel discusses imposter syndrome and debunks some common myths surrounding it. She emphasizes that imposter syndrome is not limited to women and that many men also experience it. Hannah identifies two patterns of imposter syndrome: the triggered high performer and the skills gap. She shares personal experiences and examples from her coaching practice to illustrate these patterns. Hannah also introduces the concept of internal family systems therapy as ...
Sep 03, 2024•18 min•Ep. 15
In this episode, career coach Hannah Kissel discusses the discipline of self-care and the importance of prioritizing one's needs. She shares a personal story about burnout and the concept of energy debting. Hannah emphasizes the need to take care of one's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. She also addresses the misconception that self-care is selfish and explains how self-compassion can increase resilience and performance. Also, The Life & Work Transformation is now open...
Aug 27, 2024•23 min•Ep. 14
Career coach Hannah Kissel discusses the importance of salary negotiation and financial literacy. She shares her personal experience of missing out on stock bonuses and emphasizes the need to be financially literate and understand one's worth. Hannah provides practical tips for negotiating a salary increase, including self-awareness, benchmarking, and preparing for the conversation. She also advises on what to do if the company says no and suggests alternative options such as requesting professi...
Aug 21, 2024•16 min•Ep. 13
In this episode, career coach Hannah Kissel discusses the concept of manifesting and creating your ideal life. She shares her personal update on reading Cal Newport's book on slow productivity and the importance of doing fewer things. Hannah explains the concept of self-energy and how it is essential to be in your self-energy before shaping your ideal life. She guides listeners through an exercise to visualize their ideal life and emphasizes the importance of feeling good and finding joy in life...
Aug 13, 2024•22 min•Ep. 12
Summary In this episode, career coach Hannah Kissel shares a personal update about getting engaged and her reflections on being in a healthy relationship. She goes over three principles for having a healthy relationship and choosing the right partner. Principle one is understanding your patterns, which involves doing an inventory of your toxic relationship history and identifying red flags. Principle two is knowing your non-negotiables and deal breakers, such as intelligence, values, and respect...
Aug 06, 2024•21 min•Ep. 11
Summary In this episode, life coach Hannah Kissel shares her personal update on writing her novel and the importance of taking action. She then dives into five productivity hacks, including mise en place, deep work, sparkly heart stickers, joining groups, and scheduling dead time. She also gives a bonus hack of paying people to accelerate transformation. Hannah emphasizes the importance of productivity to create a life where you can enjoy the things you love. Takeaways Taking action is key to ac...
Jul 30, 2024•25 min•Ep. 10
In this episode, Hannah Kissel discusses the differences between a coach, a therapist, and a mentor. She explains that coaching is more about acceleration and taking action, while therapy is more about stabilization and healing. She emphasizes that therapy is necessary for addressing big T trauma and major mental health issues, while coaching is focused on moving forward and creating the life you want. She also mentions that mentors are people who have already achieved what you want to achieve a...
Jul 24, 2024•28 min•Ep. 9
In this conversation, life coach Hannah Kissel interviews popular podcast host Erika De Pellegrin. Erika is the host of The Balance Theory Podcast, a podcast that is a platform to start the conversation around finding this sense of balance in the topics and areas that matter to the modern woman: mindset, female health, career, growth, and self awareness. Hannah and Erika discuss the concept of work-life balance and how to create balance in different areas of life. They emphasize the importance o...
Jul 17, 2024•34 min•Ep. 8
In this episode, life coach Hannah Kissel discusses what she calls the seeking high performer, someone who feels lost in their career and seeks alignment, passion, and financial success. If you are lost in your career, this conversation will give you: an understanding of what you are optimizing for in your life and the danger of living up to other people's standards. A decision-making process and the need to prioritize values, seasons of life, and risk tolerance. A reason to avoid comparison as ...
Jul 10, 2024•21 min•Ep. 7
This is a special episdoe between life coach Hannah Kissel and her client, Becca Culbertson. Listen to this podcast epsiode as Becca, a client of Hannah's, shares her transformational journey through coaching. She discusses how coaching has helped her change in terms of self-esteem, relationships, and career. Becca emphasizes the importance of awareness, tools, and processes in managing challenges and showing up as the best version of oneself. Becca has done 1:1 coaching with Hannah as well as g...
Jul 03, 2024•36 min•Ep. 6
In this episode, host & life coach Hannah Kissel discusses the topic of confidence and shares five unexpected benefits of becoming more confident. She defines confidence as a belief in one's abilities and judgment and highlights its importance in income, relationships, and self-esteem. Hannah also emphasizes that confidence is a skill that can be developed through learning and practice. The four unexpected benefits she explores are: having fewer people in her life, not being afraid to be dif...
Jun 26, 2024•21 min•Ep. 5
In this episode, life coach Hannah Kissel discusses the four types of high performers: exhausted high performers, triggered high performers, seeking high performers, and healthy self-actualized high performers. She explains the characteristics, beliefs, and challenges of each type and shares her coaching methodology for helping high performers move towards becoming healthy and self-actualized. Hannah emphasizes the importance of non-negotiables, emotional regulation, values, purpose, and healthy...
Jun 17, 2024•21 min•Ep. 4
In this episode, life coach Hannah Kissel discusses how to set boundaries without feeling guilty or selfish. She explains that boundaries are limits we set between ourselves and others to protect our well-being and preserve our self-esteem. Hannah outlines a six-step process for setting boundaries, which includes identifying your inner leader, determining the type of boundary (internal or external), making the boundary known, introducing consequences, taking a stand, and regularly reassessing th...
Jun 17, 2024•21 min•Ep. 3
Giving up alcohol has been the single greatest thing I have done for my self-esteem, relationships, and career. In this episode, I dive into my top seven lessons from my seven years sober. Follow Hannah Kissel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannahmaekissel/ Connect with Hannah Kissel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahkissel/ Big Dreams Episode Show Notes: www.hannahkissel.com/blog/7yearssober...
Jun 17, 2024•20 min•Ep. 2
Self-sabotage is one of my favorite topics to explore as a coach. If self-sabotage presents, there is always a deeper issue or something in the client’s subconscious that we need to understand to help them move forward. This pervasive issue manifests in various forms, from procrastination to fear of success, often preventing people from getting the career, relationship, or health they really want. In this episdoe, I explain my favorite topic to address self-sabotage: Internal Family Systems Ther...
Jun 17, 2024•16 min•Ep. 1