After the pandemic made her job in hotel sales redundant, Sasha Eburne decided to start her own thing and embarked on a new career as a virtual assistant. Sasha achieved quick success booking her first client within 24 hours and becoming fully booked within three weeks. Now Sasha coaches other women how to move beyond the 9-5 and create a business and lifestyle on their terms. 

Take a listen to hear more of Sasha's story as well as her advice for starting and then scaling an online business. 

In this podcast interview, I talked with Ken Webb, who has managed multiple career transitions and is now following his passion for writing. He's currently working on his debut novel while also becoming fluent in Spanish and embarking on a doctorate degree in his spare time.

Take a listen to hear more of Ken’s career journey and how he transitioned from starting out as a substitute teacher, to becoming an Army reservist while also juggling a civilian job at American Airlines, to now becoming a published author.

Welcome to Take a Beat in three minutes where we explore a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds. 

Today we’re exploring what-if thinking and how these thoughts, if they start to get out of control, can take us down a rabbit hole of worry and overthinking. 

Today’s episode explores one woman’s journey to reframe her relationship with fear in order to become more courageous and live life more on her terms. 

That woman is Bernice McDonald, who is a professional coach helping women navigate life transitions with courage, or what Bernice calls one tiny brave step at a time.

Take a listen to hear Bernice's own journey of finding courage during pivotal life moments, like being the first in her family to go to university and later dropping out, dating again after divorce and becoming a published writer.

While it's definitely not easy, failure can have some upsides. Listen to almost any graduation speech, and you'll hear stories of how people turned their biggest failures into success or pivotal life moments.

The more we can embrace the idea that failure happens, we become less afraid of it and more open to what it can show us. 

Have you ever struggled to "promote" yourself in a job interview or on a resume?

In this episode certified resume write and career coach Amy L. Adler shares some tips and strategies for how to effectively communicate your expertise and skills to recruiters. Amy also dispels some job-search myths, like the advice to apply for jobs even if you don't have 100% of the qualifications. 

Have you ever wanted to start a journaling practice but didn't know where to start? Explore some of the benefits of journaling as well as some different journaling strategies to help get you started. Hint: You don't even have to write if you don't want to.

Starting new habits and staying consistent with them can be a struggle. In fact, there's research that suggests only 25% of people will stick with a New Year's resolution beyond 30 days. 

In this episode Amy Lenius, a speaker and director of group coaching at Next Level University, shares her five-point method to help stay consistent with new habits.

Today's episode explores how self-compassion, or being kinder to yourself, can actually help to motivate you. This is counter to the idea that the harder we are on ourselves, the less likely we'll fail or never get anything done.

Find out why a kinder approach to yourself can actually help to build resilience and self-confidence.

Does the thought of taking a standardized test send you into a panic?

In this episode, test anxiety expert Tina Wiles shares some of her expertise in helping others to transform the way they approach test taking, not only through proven test-taking strategies, but also through shifting their mindset and learning how to calm the body to enhance mental performance.

Today’s episode is an interview with Dr. Kristen Williamson, a licensed professional counselor and neurodivergent advocate who herself experienced a later-in-life diagnosis of both ADHD and autism.

Dr. Williamson now has a passion for speaking and teaching on the topic of neurodiversity to help normalize and humanize what it can mean to be neurodivergent in today’s world. 

Career transition can be a challenging experience, especially moving from a decades-long military career into civilian life. 

In this episode Josh Daniel, a retired military service member with more than 20 years in special operations, shares his experiences moving into civilian life and how he is now giving back by training and mentoring others in the skills he learned as a special forces soldier. 

Ever find yourself focused on the negative or wondering about all the things that could go wrong?

As humans, it's hardwired into our brains to scout for danger, or negativity, in order to survive. But this instinct can sometimes get in our way, affecting our mood, outlook and even our sense of confidence. 

This episode explores why we sometimes tend toward the negative as well as some strategies to help counterbalance the side effects of this inclination.

With so much to do and consume and feeling like there’s not enough time in the day, many of us are multitasking for some or most of the day. 

While it can feel productive, multitasking can have downsides for our wellbeing and even our efficiency. This episode explores some of those downsides as well as how to try and cut back on doing everything at once. 

When you think of self-care, what's the first thing that comes to mind? For many of us, self-care has become synonymous with treating ourselves, but caring for ourselves can run deeper than that.

This episode explores how to take your self-care practice a level further by aligning it with your values.

While they may be easy to discount, small wins can have a big impact on our ability to work toward goals and make change, especially those goals or changes that feel intimidating or a long way off.

Burnout is something that a lot of us may struggle with at some point or another.

To help explore some of the causes of burnout, as well as some strategies to help counteract it (and feel better), Daniela Wolfe, a licensed master social worker and burnout prevention specialist, shares her own experience recovering from burnout as well as how she now helps others to productively manage their time and daily tasks with ease.

After being hit with a series of challenges and loss, followed by the discovery of chronic illness, Heidi Blackie realized that her only lifeline was her—and her belief in her ability to heal. 

In this episode, Heidi, who is also an occupational therapist, coach and speaker, shares her story of transformation and how self-compassion was a key tool for helping her move from rock bottom to a place of empowerment. 

Ever wonder what true confidence is?

In this episode, Jenny Evans, a performance coach, resilience expert and speaker explores several common confidence myths as well as some strategies to help build a strong sense of self-belief. 

In this episode, speaker, trainer and coach Dr. Danny Brassell explains how a well-crafted story can be a gateway to building rapport and leaving a lasting impression with an audience. He also explains how a well-crafted story can be a key to finding your authentic voice.