How to Design Your Life and Career | Podcast Episode

The personal compass is ABOUT HELPING us discover what we are about how we want to get to what we're about to help helps us really understand our ideal selves

This is a special episode where we take you behind the scenes to create your personal compass.

One of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves in the pursuit of living an intentional life is getting clear on how we want to feel. You’ve probably heard me talk about a personal compass before - think of it as a soul map, blueprint and self-made guide to design your life and create a plan to stick to it.

Kattie Thorndyke (host of “The Otherwise Intelligent Woman” podcast) invited me back on her podcast to share the steps to building your own personal compass. Prior to this episode, I guided Kattie through the process to create her own and she shares her insights and roadblocks along the way.

The personal compass is for….

People pleasers - who have lost connection to theirselves and what they want
Overachievers - who find themselves doing too much and feel exhausted from trying to do it all
Entrepreneurs - who need to achieve the next level version of themselves to transcend in their business
Spirtual beginners - who don’t know where to begin to live an intentional, fear-less life

If you’d like to hear the episode and see the show notes with direct links, click here. The episode includes the steps to build your own personal compass and the why/what/how behind it. Thanks for tuning in!

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