Master Your Mindset to Find Fulfillment in Your Career – New Time to Thrive Podcast Episode

My name is Blake. I’m a mom of three kids who spent 18 years in Corporate America building, growing and turning around 8 and 9 figure businesses, including a $600 million dollar business at Target corporation & building a business from scratch at Stitch Fix that launched with over 75,000 women on a waitlist.

Despite enjoying parts of my career & having a lot of success, I would find myself going through cycles of feeling energized followed by feeling frustrated and unfulfilled.

I seemed to be constantly searching for how I could do fulfilling work while having time for a more fulfilling, less stressful life. As the years progressed and I had kids, I felt myself getting more frustrated and exhausted with the constant demands of my job & the amount of work I had to do that either didn’t line up with my values or wasn’t work I loved.

I came to realize that the career I was in no longer fit.  Despite that, I sat in my job for years knowing that I should be doing something else, something “MORE” but I just didn’t know what it was or how to make it happen without taking a big risk.

I felt overwhelmed, drained & stuck — I began to feel like I didn’t have control over my life. Work was bleeding into every part of my life.

As the breadwinner, I felt responsible for making sure whatever decision I made would be right for my family…and I felt guilty that I wasn’t happy in a career that everyone else thought was the epitome of success.

At the time, I believed that I could figure it out on my own & that the only way was by sacrificing the lifestyle I had worked so hard to achieve. What I came to learn and realize is that I was missing the CLARITY & PLAN to feel like I could move forward with my life, I didn’t understand my secret sauce transferable skills or how to align my strengths, skills, & passions to do work that ultimately would allow me to have everything I wanted.

My 20-year personal journey through three career changes, multiple cross-country moves, years of going through the cycle of searching LinkedIn & job boards trying to find the next path for my life is the basis for the work we do every day.