Wouldn’t it be great to feel like you’re not alone? Like you’re not the only one who struggles to create success AND fulfillment in your career?

Following a traditional career path (or at least trying to follow one) hasn’t worked out very well for you. You feel different from everyone else. Other people don’t seem to be tormented by their work, the way you are.

It’s proving virtually impossible to find work that is both inspiring and that pays the bills. How do other people do it? They create goals and make them happen. How come every time you set a goal, you fall short and can’t create the results you want?

You care deeply about what you do and want to make a difference in the world. You want to express your authentic self and have that mean something.

The question is: Should you keep trying to be successful, if it means fitting into the norm and acting like everybody else? Or is it possible to do things your own way and feel good about yourself AND have it lead to real-world results?

These are the questions we’re going to be grappling with on the upcoming teleconference. These are the complex and sometimes scary or even shameful experiences, which you’ve probably never heard anyone talk about openly and which you most likely hide from others — even from yourself many times.

Well, it’s time to get honest and real about what you feel, so that you can do what it takes to express more of who you are and experience more of what you’re yearning for.

During this hour, we’ll be discussing:

• Why the traditional and accepted notions of making a living and choosing a career cause you so much pain and are a fast track to feeling unfulfilled — even broken and alone.
• The unique and powerful desire you have to experience fulfillment through your work — which means getting more than just a paycheck. And why it’s such a struggle to get those both going at the same time.
• How you function differently from the rest of the world, and why the traditional approach to setting goals and taking action may not be a pathway to your success, as it is for other people.

Join us! This will be an interactive call, where you’ll get to ask all of your most burning questions or share your most frustrating experiences. We’d love to hear from you and we look forward to talking with you then!

The call will take place April 15th at 5pm Eastern (2pm Pacific). If you can’t make the call, then sign up anyway and you’ll receive the recording. Enter your email below to receive teleconference details.

See you on the call!
- Kelly and Sarah

More info on your hosts for this call:

Kelly Montgomery

Sarah Malik

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In this third and final conversation of our series, Ane Axford and I talk a lot about money and debt issues.

As a highly sensitive person, you realize a lot about life on a very deep level, which means that you sense how it’s possible to run out of money and other resources. And this can be a tough realization when you’re wanting to:

• Follow your desire to express yourself authentically.
• Experience your innate value through the work you do.
• Not necessarily take the fastest road to money or the most direct route to financial security.

Ane also shares how it can be difficult to deal with such a concrete thing as numbers, but that it can be something you learn to interact with in an effective way. We also touch on the question: Is debt good or bad? Does having debt make you a good or bad person?

Another important theme that came through was getting in touch with your financial situation, as well as, your feelings, as the way to move forward — as in avoidance doesn’t work!

Again in the video, I refer to being HSP or a “Highly Sensitive Person”. If you want more information about what that means, then go here. And also go here, to visit Ane’s website.

If you have technical issues watching the video, you can also view it here on Vimeo or here on the blog. If you watch it on the blog, be aware that it may take extra time to load.

In my second conversation with Ane Axford, we go deep into complicated and intimate aspects of what it’s like not knowing what you want to do with your life. We go into both the practicalities of life, like making money and feeling safe, as well as, the soulful or spiritual urges that drive us to seek meaning, purpose and inspiration.

• We talk about why there is so much resistance to creating what you want and about what the experience of creation is like for people who are highly sensitive.
• Ane offers a unique perspective on how to find your life purpose, and we talk about why the yearning for a place to belong may never go away (but there’s a beautiful and creative reason why, which could potentially be inspiring).
• We also talk about the fear of not being able to take care of yourself and the very real need to feel safe.

This is an emotional hour we spend together, but an honest one. And in the end, it is my hope that by hearing the intimate details of my own trials and tribulations, that you will come away with a renewed permission to think and feel ALL of your thoughts and feelings — even if they’re not pretty or inspired. For it is my experience that when you connect with what you really think and feel, that is when you realize what your own true desire really is .

One other important note –

In the video, I mention several times about being “HSP”. HSP is an abbreviation for “Highly Sensitive Person”. You can find out more information about being highly sensitive here.

And if you haven’t seen the first video, watch it here first.

Here is the second one:

If you have technical issues watching the video, you can also view it here on Vimeo or here on the blog. If you watch it on the blog, be aware that it may take extra time to load.

I recently sat down for a series of raw and unscripted conversations with my ever-supportive mentor, psychotherapist and highly sensitive person expert, Ane Axford. In the first of our 3 conversations, we talk about my own experience struggling to create a career that feels good and to find my rightful place in the world of work.

We talk about the logical conclusion I reached — that there must be something very wrong with me and how I naturally am. Or else why would this career stuff be so hard?

Ane goes on to explain a very different way of viewing the situation, a very different way of understanding and interpreting these kinds of experiences, which can totally turn them around.

We also go on to explore where that sense of wrongness can lead –

To questions like: Am I crazy? Am I insane? Is that why I can’t get myself to function well in traditional environments? Is it sane to choose another path, to choose an unclear, risky, creative, authentic path? What should I do to make myself be successful and fit into a traditional path?

And we end our conversation with how it is essential to:

• Express what you are going through and experiencing.
• Articulate all of the questions moving around inside of you, for that is how you move towards the answers you are seeking.
• Receive support from people who are willing to listen and be okay to stay with you in the messiness and not rush quickly to try to find neat and tidy answers to these deep, challenging, unfolding questions.

Click the play button to watch it here:

If you have technical issues watching the video, you can also view it here on Vimeo or here on the blog. If you watch it on the blog, be aware that it may take extra time to load.