Ep 217: Unlocking Happiness in Your Career and Life Through Inner Leadership

It's about having the clarity , self-confidence and unstoppable belief to go after and get everything you want . If you'll come with me , I'll show you how Well . Hello friends . I hope you had an amazing week . Today we're going to talk about happiness , and specifically happiness in your career , or maybe the lack thereof .

I'm going to share with you a bunch of statistics on happiness and satisfaction in the work arena and we're going to apply that to your life how you're feeling every day and I'm going to offer you up four things that you can do to generate the happiness that you're seeking , maybe from your job or from your life . Generate them from the inside out .

We call that concept in my business inner leadership , and it's real and , in my opinion , it's the only thing really that's sustainable , because trying to count on something outside of yourself , like the quality of your boss or the workplace culture or how much money you make or even the quality of the work that you're working on trying to generate your feelings of

satisfaction and meaning from that . That's tough because it's outside of your control . You do not know what's going on in the C-suite of your business and what they might be getting ready to do . That could throw a grenade into your little bubble of happiness that you're in right now .

And I want , in this episode today , to talk about what it means to be a great leader to yourself . Yes , it's great if we have a great leader at work . I've had some great leaders .

I've had some terrible leaders , but the truth of the matter is that when the leadership that you need is coming from yourself , when you feel good about yourself , when you believe in yourself , when you're showing up in that way , when you're advocating for yourself , when you're controlling proactively all the things in your life , in your career , that you can control ,

you're pretty bulletproof . You're pretty good , no matter what kind of crazy is going on around you , and we all know we are living in a world today that is stirred up .

It's stirred up in the social arena , it's stirred up in the cultural arena , it might be stirred up in your home life and it's definitely stirred up , or probably about to be , in the business that you work in . So this is an important episode .

I think it's going to be one that makes you feel empowered that is my hope for you and we're going to talk about some interesting things that you can get involved in in my business to help you generate that feeling of empowerment , that feeling of belief in yourself any time that you choose .

So enjoy this episode on inner leadership and finding happiness and satisfaction at work .

I'm going to share some statistics with you and then , before I get into the meat of the episode , I want to have a conversation around philosophy and what I feel like is going on , and so let's dive into some of the stats , because they do tell a story , so they're important .

I'm not just going to rattle off these numbers , they're part of what I want to talk about . The first stat is that 60% of us are emotionally detached at work , and that's a high number , but 19% of us are downright miserable , and this is from a Gallup survey . So almost 20% of all the people who are going to work every day feel miserable in their job .

So that's not great , right ? It's not great for the company and it's definitely not great for the employee or the culture the way that employee contributes to the culture of their workplace .

If you're miserable , you're not at your best , and the survey goes on to say that just a third of us 33% are engaged with our work , and that number is even lower than it was in 2020 , in the heart of the pandemic , when we were all working from home and the world was topsy-turvy and nobody knew what was going on with anything right .

It's like so to have fewer people now engaged with work than were engaged in 2020 , that's a disturbing trend , in my opinion , and in the US , 50% of us feel stressed every day , 41% of us feel worried and 40% of us feel sad or angry in our job every day . So you might be thinking well , why is that ? There are many reasons .

First , there's the multi-generational workplace . And also, managers of people play a key role in making sure that they're doing their best to keep their people engaged and happy .

A lot of times , that doesn't happen , and it can , on the surface , seem like well , everybody just needs to go out and get a new job , and that's what the great resignation was all about , right , I mean , even now , 65% of us are actively looking for a new job .

Millions of people leave their job every month , and I think it's easy for the media or it's easy for leadership and companies to say , well , you know , people just are looking to get ahead , they're looking for a salary jump or they want to work a hybrid or remote job and I'm not offering that anymore and that's why they're leaving , right , and I think for the

worker , it's easy to talk ourselves into the fact that we just want to make more money . Think for the worker , it's easy to talk ourselves into the fact that we just want to make more money .

I mean , we do all work for money and I am a big believer , by the way , in taking risks and showing up in new ways and putting yourself out there and taking on new challenges .

So I'm not dissing looking for another job , but what I'm saying is that there's more to this than how much money someone makes and whether or not they've got the flexibility they want . I'm not going to lie . I think those two things are contributors .

But we spend in our lifetime 90,000 hours at work , right , and that's one of the reasons I wanted to start this business . Is that because I'm well into my career . I'm still very much in it and I've got huge plans . I'll probably be running one or two , maybe three businesses . I'm working on the plans for all that , really for the rest of my life .

Like I get a lot of satisfaction from what I do and right now I'm still working in corporate because I'm not ready to let go of what I've really enjoyed my whole career , which is brand marketing .

I love it and I know that when I leave to do these other businesses , yes , I'll still be building my own brand and all this stuff , but I will not be doing it at scale right . Most of my career I've done it for Fortune 500 , Fortune 10 . Now I'm at a company that's not quite that big but is in an area of passion for me in the entertainment field .

So you know I'm not ready to give that up , but I've managed so many people , hundreds of people , at this point in my career and I see what goes on inside companies in the reorgs and the poor leadership and the continual boundary creep into people's personal lives and just all of the stuff that's gone on Probably always but really has been exacerbated with

technology , especially over the past couple of decades .

I just decided , you know , three or four years ago , when I discovered this cognitive-based coaching , I thought I want to use everything that I learn to give back to people who are still very much in their career , who are either at the beginning of their career , at the middle point of their career that's kind of my sweet spot is the midpoint , but I help

people at all spectrums and I want to do that because there is nothing worse than saying , hey , I'm going to spend 90,000 hours of my life at work and I'm going to spend all of those miserable right ? 50% feel stressed every day . 41% feel worried every day . 40% feel sad or angry . Right , that's not good .

And so , as I was like looking at all these stats , it really made me wonder if there wasn't something bigger going on , because I am the first one who's going to say listen , people's leader , people's manager , plays a central role in this , and we'll talk about that .

And it's tough , right , if you're in an environment that's already challenging , as most industries are right , companies are always under pressure , companies are always having to reorg or make changes or lay off or whatever they have to do .

And we are the ones the workers are the ones who have to kind of rally right , who have to be resilient and get through it , and that's not easy . So I get where those stats on stressed and worried and angry or sad or whatever every day come from .

But the truth of the matter is , if it was just playing out at work , I would say , well , let's figure out how to handle that . But I have a theory . And you think about social media , and I'm not bashing social media because I'm on it myself .

I don't spend a ton of time on it anymore except for my business , and even then I'm probably not as active as I want to be .

But I will say , if you just look at some of the threads running on X or even on LinkedIn , now that's become a place where people are bashing a lot and I think even especially on Facebook initially was just this happy place of connection when it all started up in the mid 2000s .

And it's not saying it's terrible , like there's pockets of happiness and stuff like that , but it's a great place for people to just bash each other and hide behind the veneer of anonymity . And so I had this theory . I thought is it just the workplace ? Why is it going up ?

And I looked at another survey called the World Happiness Report and there's a three point scale , the happiness report , and one represents not too happy and three represents very happy , and Americans on average are a 2.18 , which is just a hair above pretty happy . But you might think , oh well , that's not bad .

But that's a significant decline from the peak happiness that the survey caught in the early 1990s , and the change in the decline is driven by the people who say they're not too happy . So in 2018 , it was 13% of respondents said they're not too happy , just with life in general , and 8% . In 1990 , just 8% said they weren't too happy .

So that bottom number has doubled in the past . Call it 30 years , right ?

So when you look at all of that , it isn't just the workplace Like I'm going to talk about leaders here in a minute and some of the things that we can do in the workplace to Like I'm going to talk about leaders here in a minute and some of the things that we can do in the workplace to try to shore up our own approach

. But what I will say is that society in general is like stirred up , and there's lots of reasons for that .

I I think the connections on social media and the volume of information flying around , and just it's just a time in the world , I think , where there's a lot of changes happening , and change is unsettling , and change can make us afraid and we want to maybe cling to the past , but the truth of the matter is like the past is has gone away .

You know , what we need to do is look towards the future and take an active role in shaping that . When I look at that Gallup poll , it's easy to look at it and say , well , leaders just need to get their act together . Companies and they do they do .

I'm not saying that they don't , that there's not work to do there , but I think there's something bigger going on . And so when I talk about this today , I want you to always keep in mind that the things that I'm sharing are not just happening in the workplace .

And I also want to say if 60% of people are emotionally detached at work across all businesses and 20% are miserable , you can go ahead and look for that new job , but to be honest and my own experience has proven out you're going to probably encounter just a different flavor of the same thing at the next stop .

I don't believe anymore that there's a perfect place and I don't believe that you can just walk into a role and even if it's got that right combination of things for you on day one . It probably won't stay that way . Not trying to be a downer , but I want to be a realist today and I want to talk about so .

Now what If that's true , if what I'm telling you is true , now what ? And how do you solve it if changing a job isn't going to solve it ? And so I want to talk about today inner leadership , and that is the term that I give to what I do in my business , what I help clients with . And you know cause ?

Some people will look at me and say , oh , you're a mindset coach , and I don't position myself that way , and it's only because of when I think about mindset . For me , for whatever reason , mindset conjures up an artificial sort of temporary state of being .

I'm not saying that's the definition of it , but that's where my mind goes , and so I don't think that's helpful . Inner leadership to me means you are learning a way , a sustainable , bulletproof way , a way that you can control , that is not dependent on anything going on in your personal life or your professional life .

It is 100% coming from you , and that is what I teach . And there are three things behind that in terms of methodologies , and they stem from proven scientific fields . So one of them is the cognitive-based coaching approach that I'm trained in .

So that approach to coaching is derived from the cognitive behavioral therapy approach , which is a part of psychology right Around uncovering hidden patterns of thought and training your brain to purposefully work in a new way , not relying on stored away patterns of thought to move you where you want to go . You have to be very purposeful and intentional about it .

So that's one approach . The second one is also an area that I'm certified in , which is positive psychology , and that is another discipline within the field of psychology , and I got my certification from the University of Pennsylvania , and that has many different things that it teaches , but it really , I think , complements the cognitive based approach really well .

Like , cognitive based approach is about awareness and staying aware , so you can choose something different . Very important . Everything starts with awareness , and then positive psychology has a lot of tools in its bag around things that you can do in terms of pivoting your mindset and directing your thoughts more positively . And then neuroscience .

So I'm a continual student of neuroscience and I follow a lot of neuroscientists and I've taken courses from them and things like that a lot of neuroscientists and I've taken courses from them and things like that , and there's a lot there too in terms of just how the brain works from a functioning perspective , right .

So behind inner leadership are those three things , and what my business is trying to teach is that I'm not against changing jobs . I've done it myself and I think there are lots of reasons to do it in terms of a skill set . I think you learn so much .

I think you stay motivated and charged , and it's a great way to climb the ladder faster than most companies will let you do . So I'm a big fan of it , but this is a big but too . But this is a big but too . Don't ever do it thinking that you're leaving a misery and that you're going to find happiness somewhere else .

You might , but what happens when the boss leaves ? What happens when , three months in , there's a major reorganization ? What happens if you get there and you like your team , but you're faced off with a super difficult client and every day feels like World War III ?

Right , there are so many things that you can't know when you're looking for a job , so I'm not trying to talk you out of it if you're looking .

What I want to do is help you understand things that you can do to stay strong when you're meeting with challenges , because the way we feel at work affects our life and the things that we experience in our life affects our work .

We are one person experiencing both things and we do not flip on and off when we move from our personal life to our work and vice versa .

So I want to teach you this approach because it is going to help you understand , like , how to stay strong no matter what's going on , and I believe , especially with the way society has changed and the way that the workplace has changed , and just the pace of change within the workplace and the things that we're all going to experience if we're working for someone

else . Learning how to be impervious to that or strong despite that , to not allow that to shape how you feel about yourself or how you feel about your life or anything else , is super , super important . So let's talk a little bit about , though before I get into what you can do , I want to talk a little bit about the workplace itself .

So we talked about I don't think all this stuff is just going on at work

. I think it's going on in social media . I think it's going on in our culture , it's going on in society . It's just we're all stirred up , but there's a lot that goes on in the workplace and it isn't great sometimes , right . So I want to share some more stats with you .

And the number one cause of dissatisfaction so let's see if this rings true for you and the reason I want to share these is sometimes I feel like we can be feeling something and we can feel really alone , right , and I don't want you to feel alone if you're going through a difficult time , because the stats that I'm going to share will prove many , many , many

other people feel exactly the same way , right ? So the number one cause of the really dissatisfied , miserable thing at work is this feeling of being treated unfairly , right , so that's the biggest thing . And when they pulled that apart , it's when you feel that you're not respected or you're treated with blatant disrespect .

This feeling of a lack of community , right , like maybe you don't belong , that you're sort of on the outside looking in , so that's another .

You know , I've felt like that in some of the environments I've been in myself and a lack of acknowledgement , right , so you may be giving it your all and you just don't feel like you're ever acknowledged for it , either just in words , praise or whatever , or maybe an opportunity or compensation right , or maybe an opportunity or compensation right and some other

contributing factors are if you're being , like , bullied or mistreated . I think that is an emerging trend that is very disturbing , that I've witnessed in some of the environments I've been in , and that some of my clients have talked about Inconsistent compensation , maybe across genders or just even within a team and role .

I know , like I've heard a stat like the younger , gen Z and stuff . They're very open about their compensation and I think that's a good thing . I do , like I think the secrecy around what we earn or even what companies are willing to pay for a position needs to .

It's just a very antiquated thing and I know I can't remember what state , but it might be Colorado Like there's one state where there's laws now and you'll see , like some job postings I think it is Colorado and some other states have just adopted it too , or other companies have adopted it , especially if they're like have employees in Colorado .

Sometimes they just do it across the board but they're starting to say , hey , this job will pay between this and this .

That's very helpful because you know you can check last or whatever , and you may or may not be getting the best information , but when we go into a job , I feel like they should be paying what they want to pay for that job , regardless of gender or ethnicity , or which college did you go to , or whatever .

Like , if you're hiring the person for the role , pay them a fair market wage , right . So compensation is a big thing . And then if you have a culture on the team where there's like biases or favoritism , that's a big contributor too . But there's other things as well that I think have been around a lot longer than some of these newer things .

One of them is unmanageable workloads , so they're laying people off and not replacing roles , and people have more on their plates than they can manage . Unclear communication from a manager right , manager's central to this happiness thing . Lack of manager support there's manager again and unrealistic time pressures associated with the things you want to do .

So , according to the Gallup poll , there's lots of contributing things , some of which the company in general can control around compensation and transparency and creating a good , respectful , you know , culture at work .

But managers have a central role and unfortunately there's some amazing ones but there's probably more not so amazing ones and this Gallup poll and other HR polls say that 70% of the variance in how people feel about their job or how engaged they are in their work is a direct reflection of their immediate leader supervisor right .

So for those of you who manage people out there , you might be in the middle of chaos , and if you are , I get it Like I've been there . I've managed people in most of the roles that I have , but I will say this to you roles that I have .

But I will say this to you that you may not be getting what you need from your manager , but I believe it is still your responsibility to try to give what you're looking for yourself to the people who report to you , and I have found personally that when you're focused on trying to clear things up for them , trying to solve the problems on your team , trying

to make everyday work , um , not only more tolerable but ideally more fun , like I think business is fun . I think I mean marketing . I think what I do can and should be incredibly fun and it has a direct impact on how well the business is doing .

But too many times I see leaders who feel , I think , largely marginalized by their leadership and so they give nothing to their own direct reports and they feel completely fine with that . And I'm not going to tell you it's easy , it's not . But what is the answer ? It's not to just opt out . Not to just opt out .

I think the answer is inner leadership , and this applies to both the manager , who manages people , and the individual employee .

Inner leadership is where it's at , and there are four things that I want to offer up that you can do and , I think , should do , whether you're an individual contributor or a manager , and they can significantly change how you feel about your job . First one is make sure that every day , you're working on your own self-concept .

Now , this is something that is very central to what we work on in my monthly membership .

You are the product of how you think about yourself , and when your self-concept is high , when you feel good about yourself , when you are working on how you think about yourself , when you show up at work reflecting in how you're presenting yourself , you know if that's aligned with your own self-image , which is high , and you go into your workday every day believing

in yourself and doing your best , no matter what's going on around you , no matter how uncertain things are , it's going to be a lot better for you , right ? You're not only going to show up and do better work , you're going to feel better when you do it .

And it's important how we feel every day , because all of the behaviors we have that we feel are self sabotaging or undermining things like procrastination , perfectionism , overeating , over drinking , over Netflixing , over spending , all of the consumption behaviors that are , you know , sort of over we over index on all of that comes from how we feel , right .

And so if we are in an environment where either the larger culture of a company is a problem or our direct manager is a problem , or both right , or maybe the employees that we work with are a problem , we can't count on the things outside of us to be fixed or to always be working in our favor , and we can't allow the course of our life to be redirected

or impacted in a negative way because of what a bunch of other people are doing . The answer is to stand firm in the face of that , and I'm not going to say that it's easy , but it does start inside . It's not going to be fixed by the job change .

Again , I think and we'll talk in a minute about doing something new I'm a big believer in the job change , but I do not ever want you to do that to make yourself happy . Even if it's about more money , do it to make more money , but money alone is not going to make you happier . You might think .

It is , just like we sometimes think , that if we lose the 25 pounds we'll be happier . I promise you you won't right or you won't . It's very temporary , very fleeting . You're going to be happier when you feel better about yourself .

So , self-concept first , and anything that goes wrong , any failure you have , any questionable feedback you might get , any difficulties that arise at work . Don't let any of that sink in and attach to how you feel about yourself or what you think your own self-worth is . Do not wonder whether you're good enough .

You are good enough and if you have any doubt about that , I need you to join me in next level , because that is what we work on first how do we feel about us , right , and then we start working on all the other stuff .

So , if you're interested in that , the purposefulcareercom forward , slash next level and sign up for the waiting list , because the doors are going to open soon and in 2025 , I'm thinking about just keeping them open all the time , because I'm always getting messages from people asking me if they can join , and I just want to make it easy .

So I think I'm going to make it evergreen in 2025 and you can join for 57 a month and the doors are opening soon , so keep your eye open for that . So , self-concept first , and that way it doesn't matter what anyone else says or even what happens . You know you're good , right .

The second is when you feel good about yourself , it's easier to advocate for yourself . So in a tough environment this is number two you have to advocate for yourself . You cannot wait for your boss to do it and that you can advocate with your boss . You can advocate for yourself with other hiring managers within that company .

You can advocate for yourself with HR if you need to , if you have a problem working with your boss or if there's a problem that needs to be addressed by HR . Number two advocating for yourself is critically important .

Too many people stay silent and put up with it and shrink down into misery and make the problem about them , make it be like , well , this wouldn't be happening , if it must be my fault or whatever . Advocating for yourself is incredibly important . If you have a great leader .

They'll just do it because they're a great leader , but you can't count on it and I don't want you to wait for it . So it's important , and it's easier to do that when you're coming from a place of a strong self-concept , when you believe in yourself . Right , so that inner work is incredibly important , and that's where inner leadership comes up too .

It's just even knowing that . Okay , I'm having this problem and I can't seem to solve it myself . Advocating for yourself is about asking yourself the question now , what do we need to do next ? Right , if it's a problem that you try to solve yourself and you can't now , it's time to enlist the help of others .

That's about reaching out and knocking on doors and telling people you need help , whether they're peers , managers , other managers that don't directly manage you , or even HR . Very , very important . And I can promise you , even if you have a really bad boss , the company is not looking to have you leave .

It is very expensive for them to lose employees , and so I'm sure that they would want the opportunity to fix whatever the problem is or to help with that , to make your workday more tolerable , so that you stay right . So advocating for yourself is number two .

Sometimes I've just noticed with my clients and even the people I've managed a lot of times , like you know , other people from other departments sometimes will seek me out and I'll have a mentoring relationship with them .

When I'm in a company and you know a lot of them just feel like it's pointless , like this is my lot in life and I'm just going to be miserable , and so they don't even think about something like , hey , have you talked to your boss ? And if you get a no , have you talked to their boss ?

Or have you talked to someone in another department who might be hiring ? Right , get out there and advocate for yourself . Like this is about your quality of life . Right , if the boss says , no , great , go find someone who doesn't you know very , very important . And number three is building connections with others .

Like feeling like you belong in a place is really important and sometimes we get that naturally from you know the dynamics of a team that we're in or we are lucky and just sort of make some quick connections on the job people to go have lunch with or people to confide in or go have cocktails with after work or whatever .

But it's really important to have a sense of belonging and community . And so if you don't have that where you are , I encourage you to go into work this week and look around and ask yourself who are the people that you could introduce yourself to . What are some of the organizations or the teams or the employee resource groups ?

Those are a great place where there are people who are interested in the same things or pursuing the same things that you are , whatever , and that could become a source of feeling connected , more connected to that workplace .

So try to figure out , if your culture is a challenged one , how you can give yourself a stronger feeling of belonging in that workplace right , and if you don't , if you're a hundred percent remote or whatever , to look for ways , when you're a hundred percent remote or whatever , to look for ways , when you're virtually connecting with people , to to be more creative

with that . To take a second right before you dive into the agenda , if it's a one-on-one thing , to get to know them a little bit more , to find out who they are and what they care about . Like little things like that can help you feel like you know you've got a little bit of a thread connecting you in to the vibe of the workplace .

It's nothing worse than feeling like you're just sitting outside of it and that you're being there doesn't matter . You don't care about it , right ? So that's number three , and then number four is one that I'm going to talk about more next week , but I'm just going to hit on it here , and that is consider exploring something new .

More than half of US workers in 2020 , so in the middle of the pandemic , when the world was kind of , you know , all of our life cards got tossed up in the air by that little virus more than half of us considered making a career change in 2020 .

Now you would think that , now that the world has settled down a little bit a little bit at least the pandemic has that the number would be going down . Now the number is closer to 60% . 60% of us this year are thinking about doing something completely different than what we're doing right now .

And we don't usually , because when we get to mid-career , we've got life , we've got obligations , people counting on us , things like that , and so you know we don't do it because we're worried about financial security , or really , 40% of us say we don't even know what we'd want to do . We know we'd like to do something else , but we don't know what .

That is Right , and so I just want to introduce you to the idea that if this is you and you feel like the job that you chose or the career path that you chose when you graduated from school has just run its course and that you're kind of over it , it's time for something new , then right , and you don't have to just quit your job and take this ginormous

risk . You don't have to put your family's wellbeing in jeopardy or your own . You could pursue something new and explore it and make some decisions through that exploration about what you might want to do next , and go into it with your eyes open and with a plan .

And that is why , when I saw these stats , I decided a couple of months ago that I was going to introduce a second offering . So you know , I talk about it all the time . My core membership is a monthly membership 57 a month and it's called Next Level and I teach inner leadership and I'm still going to have that because it's very important .

But there are 60% of us that want to do something else . So I'm introducing a new program that I'm calling the mid-career edit in June , and it is going to be specifically about figuring out what you don't like about what you're doing , what you might want to explore , and then figuring out a plan for how you might go do that right .

It could be about changing career paths . It could be about starting a side hustle or your own business . Those are going to be kind of the three career paths I think people will probably choose .

And the beauty of this is it's going to be a six-month structured program where we're going to go within and do a lot of inner exploratory and you're going to do a lot of inner work and some strategizing and you're going to come out the other side with some answers and I think it's going to be really exciting .

So I'm doing the mid-career edit because I think there's nothing worse than having your inner self tell you that you've checked all the boxes you need to check in this one career path and that you still keep yourself stuck in that career path .

I want people to feel empowered and confident trying something new , and you can't just do that at mid-career without a plan .

Most of us right , most of us need a plan and we want to be sure that the thing that we're spinning up if it's a new business or whatever , or even if it's just hey , I'm shifting from this functional area to this other one , or if I'm going back to school to become an attorney .

Whatever I'm doing that , I'm doing it because I know that's what I want to do next and that that will carry me for a while , a good while , in my career .

So I'm super excited to be helping such a large percentage of people who might feel stuck and I can help them move into a different phase of their life , because I feel like mid-career is where we have . Most of us have that calling . We're kind of over it and we want to do something new .

And if we say no to that , we start shutting down , we start settling Our career stalls , our earning power stalls , you know , and we just , I think , shrink down and become more miserable and more miserable because we're doing something we don't even want to do anymore .

So listening to that is key and there's nothing about that that your manager can help with , right , like you know . Maybe they can . If you know the other career path , maybe they could help you network . You know for that , but it this is all .

All four of the things that I've talked about today are things that you can control , and that's what I like to talk about in this podcast , because you can hop around and change as many jobs as many times as can control . And that's what I like to talk about in this podcast because you can hop around and change as many jobs as many times as you want .

And I can promise you because I have changed jobs I have moved across the country more times than you would ever want to know and I can promise you that you kind of have the same version of the problem somewhere else .

The answer is if you want to change jobs for a set of good reasons , do it , but don't do it because you think you're going to be happier or that your problems are going to be solved , because even if you walk in and things are better , they probably won't stay that way for very long .

The world is changing too fast and companies have to respond to that , and so that means that layoffs , reorgs , bosses leaving , like the whole team's being laid off , like that is .

That's the world we live in , and the only way to be resilient enough to go with it and to thrive despite that is by learning how to lead yourself through these times right , and the side benefit is , when you learn to lead yourself , you're going to be a better leader to others , and if you're not already a leader to others , when people recognize how resilient

and gritty and focused you are , despite the crazy that goes on in most businesses , trust me , you'll be tapped to lead , and that's good for your your career trajectory as well .

So I wanted to talk about inner leadership and just some of the challenges that I see going on , because I do think it's important , and I think it's important to know that , even though your brain will tell you that it's easily solved by just going out and sending out some resumes and getting a job , I can promise you that's not the answer .

Look within , strengthen from within , and then you will have the grit and the resilience to not only weather any storm , but to thrive , maybe because of the storm . Right , strong people , weather downturns very , very well and they see the opportunity in every situation that comes . So that's what I want for you .

So , if everything we talked about in this episode sounds like something you need , I've got a very special announcement to make , and that is I am getting ready to launch a course called Inner Leadership that will be available in March .

So I'll have more information on this on my social media this week , so if you don't already follow me , go to at the purposeful career on Instagram . I'm going to be talking about the course that's coming and if you would like to get on the wait list , there will be special discounts and bonuses available to people who are on my list already .

So I hope that you'll join me for that .

Believe me when I tell you that course will change everything about how you feel about yourself and your ability to control your world around you and make it be something that resembles what you're looking for , because if we wait for other people to deliver that to us , we're going to be waiting a very long time and just by changing the way you think about

yourself and what you believe your possibilities are , believe me when I tell you everything around you starts to shift to bring that about . So be on the lookout this week in my social media and join me next week , because we're going to talk about how to go after that something new . And until next time , make

it a great week . My friends , do you have a life coach ? If not , I'd be so honored to be your coach . I've created a virtual coaching program and monthly membership called Next Level Inside , we take the material you hear on this podcast , study it and then apply it . Join me at ThePurposefulCareercom backslash Next Level .

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