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Curate the Future

Sumayya Essack•curatethefuture.podbean.com
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Curate the Future is for multi-passionate high achievers to get clarity on your dreams, get unstuck, and design and launch your new career or business. If you're a purpose-driven, creative soul ready to reinvent, but need to push past perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and self-doubt, this is for you. I'm Sumayya Essack, an educator and coach who helps creative, high achieving women to design their career changes and businesses and get the confidence and strategy to launch. I'll share the paradigm shifts, actions, frameworks, and tools to forge your path and tackle the mindset blocks so you can start your fulfilling new chapter. In addition to solo episodes, I interview women who have made their own reinventions and started businesses, to give listeners an intimate and real-world view at navigating the journey.
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When You Have No Idea What You Want

For many people, career changes start in a place where you know you want something different, but you have no idea what it is. It's a hard place to be (been there!) and we want to get out of there quickly. But resisting it makes it worse, so here are some ideas for how to approach it without pressuring yourself to come up with the perfect idea right away (hint: pressuring yourself also makes it worse).

Nov 09, 2020•8 min

Making Intuitive Decisions, with Wendy Leung

Wendy Leung went from graphic designer to project manager to now acupuncturist and holistic health practitioner. She shares how following her intuition helped her recognize the right path when she was searching for something new, and guidance for how to reconnect with our intuition when we feel blocked and the "shoulds" have taken over.

Nov 02, 2020•40 min

There's No Such Thing as "Ready"

So often, we're waiting until we feel more "ready" to pursue our career change goals. Sometimes that does make sense, but very often it's a sneaky way of protecting ourselves from moving forward in spite of fear and uncertainty. Life hardly ever hands us a "right time." You've just got to do the thing anyway. Here are 3 ways to move forward when you don't feel ready.

Oct 26, 2020•7 min

Self Care is Part of Career Change

We tend to think of self-care as separate from the steps we need to take to start a business or change careers. Wellness entrepreneur Amanda Lee shows us how self-care is actually an integral part of it. On this episode we chat about how the two fit together, and how to get started without our high-achieving, perfectionistic selves getting overwhelmed with feeling like it's another thing we "should" be doing!

Oct 19, 2020•30 min

Fear & Desire Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

On the one hand, we feel excited about starting a new chapter. On the other hand, we're scared witless to go after it. Fear and excitement are two sides of the same coin, and one of them is going to win. But the good news is that you don't need to be fearless.

Oct 12, 2020•16 min

Coming Back to Yourself, with Kaylie Simmone

Kaylie Simmone knows how to reinvent. She closed her first business to start her second, and even though that second one was wildly successful she reinvented again. She describes how this new chapter was like coming home to herself, but only after a long time of feeling "in between" and not knowing what was next.

Oct 05, 2020•36 min

What it Means to Feel Stuck

We all know that feeling of being stuck, but sometimes find it hard to articulate what's really going on. Here's one way of looking at what it can mean to be stuck and how to sort through it.

Sep 28, 2020•9 min

Creating Your Own Career Path, with Jackelyn Dacanay

Jackelyn Dacanay is a digital marketing and branding consultant and the founder of The Art of Fate. She has carved her path every step of the way. She shares how her freelance career came about through creating opportunities, as well as how she iterated her way to finding the right business model for The Art of Fate.

Sep 21, 2020•29 min

Starting With Your "Why"

Knowing what drives you and having a clear "why" for what you're pursuing will help you get started and persevere.

Sep 14, 2020•6 min

Focus on the Process, Not the Emotion - with Nagina Abdullah

Nagina Abdullah is a powerhouse who started her business on the side. She chats about her early days, including the steps she took, ways she needed to push herself, how she approached learning how to start a business, changes she had to make, and what kept her going.

Sep 07, 2020•37 min

You Can Change Your Mind and Quit

We want a change, we want to quit, but we also feel overwhelmed or scared by them at the same time. Let's chat about how to look at these in a new light and how to manage the conflicting feelings we have about them that make us hesitate to leave a situation that isn't working and pursue what we want instead.

Aug 31, 2020•16 min

Finding Clarity Through Design Thinking

Most of us are trying to find clarity about what business or path to pursue by thinking it over endlessly (which is normal!) but it usually lands us in analysis paralysis. Here's a quick intro to using a Design Thinking approach to getting clarity.

Aug 17, 2020•17 min

Shifting Identities from Corporate to Creatively Self Employed, With Rachael McBay

Rachael McBay and her family were on track to live the life they had been striving for, when unexpected events took her on a new path and eventually to starting her own web design business. Rachael shares about the major identity shift that came with transitioning from her corporate career to striking out on her own.

Aug 10, 2020•46 min

4 Myths About Finding Your Passion and Purpose

We all want to know what are passions and purpose are, but it can all feel pretty elusive for many people. It might be that we need to think about it differently. In this episode I cover the 4 myths I see most often that keep us stuck, and the truths about it that will take the pressure off.

Aug 03, 2020•20 min

A New Paradigm: Creating Your Path

As more of us seek meaning and fulfillment in our work lives, we are trying to "find" our passion, our purpose, our callings. But what if the "finding" approach is tying us into existential knots because we're treating our purpose like a needle in a haystack? It's time for a new paradigm. It's time to create your path and purpose, not find them. This concept is the foundation of the podcast. It reflects real life and will show you that you don't need to find anything - you'll create it all as yo...

Jul 20, 2020•22 min

Ep. 0: Intro

Welcome to Curate the Future! In this quick intro, Sumayya shares the 3 things that helped her go from stuck to professionally happy, and how that has all become the basis of her coaching work today and for this podcast. After years of trying to "find" her passion and purpose, like so many others, she came to believe that these are created, not found, and that there are beliefs and patterns keeping us from going for what we really want: new careers and businesses with success on our terms. It's ...

Jun 29, 2020•4 min
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