The Purposeful Career is the go-to podcast for women at mid career who want to elevate or reinvent all or part of their work or life. We do this by first getting clear about what they want and then about the next level person they need to become in order to have it. This is about deep mindset and self-image work. And when you mater it, you'll not only up-level your career, you'll have the power to completely transform your life. Join brand strategist, founder and coach, Carla Hudson, as she shares strategies, tips and tools for helping you create the extraordinary career and life you're dreaming of.
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Do you have a question you'd like to have addressed on the podcast? Want to give us some feedback or suggestions? Click here to send us a text. Follow us on Instagram @thepurposefulcareer. Learn more about Next Level, our monthly membership at https://www.thepurposefulcareer.com/nextlevel.
Do you have a question you'd like to have addressed on the podcast? Want to give us some feedback or suggestions? Click here to send us a text. Follow us on Instagram @thepurposefulcareer. Learn more about Next Level, our monthly membership at https://www.thepurposefulcareer.com/nextlevel.
Do you have a question you'd like to have addressed on the podcast? Want to give us some feedback or suggestions? Click here to send us a text. Follow us on Instagram @thepurposefulcareer. Learn more about Next Level, our monthly membership at https://www.thepurposefulcareer.com/nextlevel.
Do you have a question you'd like to have addressed on the podcast? Want to give us some feedback or suggestions? Click here to send us a text. Follow us on Instagram @thepurposefulcareer. Learn more about Next Level, our monthly membership at https://www.thepurposefulcareer.com/nextlevel.
Do you have a question you'd like to have addressed on the podcast? Want to give us some feedback or suggestions? Click here to send us a text. Follow us on Instagram @thepurposefulcareer. Learn more about Next Level, our monthly membership at https://www.thepurposefulcareer.com/nextlevel.
The pace of change in technology and the world is increasing. Which means businesses and employees must be agile and adaptable. And yet, the trends on workplace engagement and satisfaction aren't great. In fact, they've been trending down for two decades. Almost it seems as a direct correlation to the pace of change increasing. And with the introduction of social media and shifts in the global economy and politics and general unrest across the world, the general happiness of our society is in a ...
Self-Care can be a loaded phrase. But it's important. Because how we take care of ourselves drives how we show up in our life. How we feel about ourselves. How we tackle our job. How we care for our families. The truth is though, so many of us don't practice good self care. We put ourselves last. We tell ourselves that we'll get to it when we have more time. We'll take care of ourselves once we've taken care of our other responsibilities. We do this because we think everything else matters more ...
In today's episode, we're talking about building self-belief. This is the second part of a two-part series on self-belief. And it's important. Because we all have limited beliefs in some areas of our life. If those beliefs go unchecked, they can get in our way. Hold us back from the things we really want to do with our life. In today's episode, we explore: - Where the limiting self-beliefs come from - How they can hold us back And we talk about how what we believe about ourselves is a choice. A ...
When unwanted things happen in our life, we can make them mean things about us that chip away at our self belief. This happens without us realizing it. It's just how the brain works when it's running on auto pilot. But it's important to protect our self belief. To not let things erode that. So in this episode, I'm talking about: - Where negative self belief comes from - How it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy - What to do about it We talk about how to guard against making faulty interpretation...
We all have things that happen in our career or lives that are unwanted. They're either unfair. Or unjust. Or in some way, they're just not welcome. And when that happens, we have two choices. We can either get stuck in why, ruminating on the unfairness or all the ways it doesn't make sense. Or, we can simply move on and focus on the things we want to do next. Getting stuck in why can seem important. We can tell ourselves we have to understand it before we can move on. But here's what I want you...
Have you ever been triggered? Most of us have and it's not pleasant. When we're triggered emotionally, we tend to respond in ways that don't serve us. Plus, it just feels like crap. In today's episode, I share some insight on why we get triggered, how the triggers develop and why it's the default way our brain tends to run. And more importantly, I talk about what you can do about it. How you can get in touch with all the ways that you're triggered. How to go into those potentially triggering sit...
In today's episode, we're talking about boredom. This is important because learning how to shift out of boredom is a bit part of being able to have the fulfilling career and life we all want. Most of us think that when we're bored, it's caused by what's going on around us. By things outside us. But it's not. Boredom is an emotion we feel because of what we're thinking about what's going on (or not) around us. Getting clear on that is important. Because we never want to try top solve the boredom ...
We all have times when we feel unhappy with our work. Whether it's about feeling bored or discontent with our career path or unhappy with the boss or culture, the truth is, our career (and life) is made up of peaks and valleys. The key is finding your way through it in a way that serves you. But most of us try to solve our unhappiness problem by looking outside of us. By focusing on changing the situation. I know I certainly did that for most of my career. I truly believed that there was this ma...
Most of us have a healthy fear of failure. At least in some area of our life. And the thing about that is that it can hold us back. It keeps us from pursuing our goals. It's the driving force behind procrastination, perfectionism, stagnation and so much more. This all came up for me because I've been working on some huge, audacious goals for my business in 2023. And as I was doing some thought work with my own life coach, she asked me a question that blew my mind. She said, "What if failure isn'...
In last week's episode, I shared the coaching methodology I use in my practice. It's based on the Cognitive Behavior approach to psychology and it helps uncover hidden patterns of thought which might be holding you back or keeping you from realizing your goals and fullest potential. And in this week's episode, I'm going to walk you through how to use that methodology in a daily self-coaching practice. I'll walk you through the process step by step so you can start your self coaching today. As yo...
This is the first in a two-part series on how to change your career and life through the power of self-coaching. In this episode, I introduce you to the cognitive-approach to coaching that I use in my practice. It's based on the Cognitive Behavior Therapy (called CBT) approach, a method of psychological treatment that helps you uncover hidden patterns of thought and the role they're playing in your life. It helps you identify the thoughts that are the source of your problems and replacing those ...
In today's demanding, always-on world, most of us are telling ourselves stories around time. We're too busy. We don't have enough time. There's not enough hours in the day. It's easy to believe that story. Because in truth, most of us are legitimately, quite busy. With emails and IM's and days packed with meetings and a personal life filled with loved ones and houses and other obligations, it's all to easy to believe that there's no cure for the busyness. And that there's no way to get it all do...
Well hello friends. I hope you had an amazing week. Today we're going to talk about how to stop comparing yourself to others. And I don't think that's an accident in today's social media-driven world. But what originally inspired the episode was a quote I saw from Teddy Roosevelt, which said that “comparison is the thief of joy.” And that made me want to talk about it in this episode because our careers (and our lives for that matter) are full of opportunities to compare ourselves with others. S...
Last week I re-shared one of my Most Valued Podcast episodes called Soothing Your Inner Critic. It was originally episode 6 and now I shared it again as episode 85. I did that because I have new listeners joining the podcast all the time and now that there’s more than 80 episodes, I know you guys don’t always have time to go back that far to listen. So, I thought I’d share again because most of us have at least occasional flare-ups of our inner critic in whatever form it takes. And it’s good to ...
I like to say that my business sits at the intersection of brain science and your career aspirations. Because our brain is what gets in the way of what we really want. It’s usually less about the things that happen to us or our lack of opportunity or the mistakes we make or the skills we have or don’t have and more about what we make those things mean or what we believe it possible for ourselves. And one of the most important aspects of this is developing an awareness and self-command over what,...
Today we’re going to explore what work means to you. Because I think that’s an interesting way to think about it, don’t you? Looking at what you do every day in terms of meaningfulness or fulfillment vs. viewing it as a means to an end? Because based on my clients and the stats I’ve read on all the job satisfaction surveys and even if you just look at the volume of resignations over the past year or so, I think it’s safe to say that FEELING GOOD about how we spend our work life is something we w...
Sometimes we find ourselves in environments (or relationships) that aren't aligned with what we want. Those instances can range from mildly upsetting to incredibly toxic. When that happens, it's easy to let our subconscious patterns of thought kick in and make that situation or environment mean something about us. Usually something not very good. This episode shares five steps to staying clear and strong when you're in a place that isn't serving you. When you follow these steps you'll be able to...
So today, I want to talk about the choices we make when it comes to our career. Specifically, how to get (or maybe STAY) clear on what we want. There are a few reasons I wanted to discuss this today. First, in my experience as a coach and as a leader of people in my career, most of us spend a good amount of our career “not knowing” what we really want. Sometimes it’s because we’re not in touch with what we’re good at. Sometimes it’s because we’ve never taken the time to really get clear on the t...
As happens many times with this podcast, today I want to talk about something that’s coming up for a lot of my clients right now. And that is, what to do when something does not work out as planned. I think this is topic is relevant for most working people because for the past few years, we’ve been in an exceptionally strong job market. And you know what THAT has meant. They called it the Great Resignation because so many people – more than 47 million in the U.S. alone – have changed jobs. For w...
We’re almost at midyear. So, this is a time when people tend to look back at the year so far and evaluate – whether formal or informally – what they’ve managed to get done this year. And that’s especially true for people who are looking for change in some part of their career or life. Whether that’s about changing jobs, making more money, starting a business, losing weight, finding a relationship or anything else that’s calling to you. Mid-year is a natural time to evaluate how we’re doing again...
So today we’re going to talk about something important and that is, how we handle it when things don’t work out as planned. Because that’s a big part of life, right? It’s always fun to talk about goals and possibilities. But the truth is, as important as it is to know how to go after and get the things you want in life, it’s equally important to get good at dealing with it when things don’t work out. Because as we all know, no matter how much we plan and no matter how hard we work at things, som...
We're almost at mid year and it's the perfect time reflect. To look back on the year so far and evaluate whether you’ve made progress on the things we wanted to get done this year. And even better, it’s a chance to look at the year ahead and make any adjustments needed so you can either stay the course if things are going well or maybe get things back on track if you don’t feel you’ve made the progress you wanted to make up to now. When most of us think about goal setting and personal developmen...
So, today is the last episode on our series, “Lies We Tell Ourselves.” This series is foundational to everything we teach in my business. Because we’re never really taught in our career that our ability to achieve our goals doesn’t come from good breaks or great bosses or networking or even being great at what you do. Sure, those things are important. But you can HAVE those things and STILL find yourself stuck and miserable. Why? Because you can work as hard as you’d like but if you don’t learn ...
In the last three episodes, we’ve focused on the “Lies We Tell Ourselves.” Specifically, how negative, or false thoughts get stored away in our brain without us knowing it. Then we think those things over and over again until they become beliefs. And then, without us realizing it, we’ll find ourselves in a situation that triggers that old belief. And we’ll find ourselves thinking that same, familiar, and somewhat negative thought. And because that thought is so familiar, we’ll just accept it as ...
