By February most New Year’s resolutions will have fallen by the wayside. But what if you could think about your year in a way that felt motivating, exciting, and aligned - and set you up so that you could not fail?  My friend Jen Lewis has been developing and implementing a goal setting tool for eight years that has transformed her life - from leaving her marriage, coming out as gay, starting her own business, and buying a home. Jen credits the big changes she’s made to her goal setting...

Uncertainty is uncomfortable. And yet it’s a normal part of the transition process as you remake your career identity. You have to spend time not knowing what the next step is, before you’re clear on where you want to go.  But uncertainty feels untethering. Our culture values clarity and certainty - having a plan and executing against it. And so the tendency is to try to get out of uncertainty as quickly as possible. Relieving the uncertainty becomes more important than really figuring out...

Do you ever feel attached to your career looking a certain way? This is what was happening with my next podcast guest, Yui Hashimoto, when we first started working together. She was a postdoc at the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows; and after having spent the first decade of her career in academia getting a PhD, the only model of ‘success’ she knew was continuing on the path to becoming a professor. The fear of stepping off this path when she’d ‘already invested so much’ was...

I consider the week between Christmas and New Year’s to be the best week of the year. The festivities are over, the socializing has calmed down, work is typically slower and we have these precious few days to be a bit quieter and reflect - on the past twelve months and the next twelve months.  A coach doing a podcast about reflection and goal setting is pretty obvious but I’m doing it anyway. This episode is meant to be used as a structure to support you in taking advantage of this time of...

Part of what I wanted to do on this podcast is introduce you to everyday people who are thriving professionally and personally. To show you that feeling energized and aligned at work isn't just for the celebrities or titans of industries that are often featured on other podcasts. It's available to every single one of us - including you. In this episode I speak with Damien Neva, a former client of mine. Before we started working together Damien felt at sea - unsure how to define his...

Part of what I wanted to do on this podcast is introduce you to everyday people who are thriving professionally and personally. To show you that feeling energized and aligned at work isn't just for the celebrities or titans of industries that are often featured on other podcasts. It's available to every single one of us - including you. My guest is Isabelle Vandenbroucke. Isabelle is a former of client of mine who I met and became friends with in 2016 while we were both doing our MBAs...

Learning how to manage my urges to procrastinate has been one of the biggest hurdles in creating an energizing career I love. And if I can do it - so can you. Too often we see ourselves as fixed - as someone who just IS a procrastinator. As if it’s the lot we were dealt with in life and we have to learn to live with it. In reality, anyone can learn to be the person who does what they say they’ll do when they say they’ll do it. It does require learning how to be OK with experiencing...

In this episode I discuss why feelings are a superpower and how to tune into them and use them to your advantage. Too often we try to resist, ignore, or fix our feelings, creating unwanted results in our life like procrastination, addiction, misalignment, and physical pain. When instead we learn to embrace our feelings - the good as well as the uncomfortable - we’re able to reset more quickly and avoid unwanted emotional reactions, we improve our connection to our gut - and thus our...

I share my own journey to create an energizing career I love and the insights I’ve gleaned along the way that are fundamental to the work I teach at The Career Studio. From starting out in beauty and sports to landing a job in advertising in London at 25 despite knowing no one in the industry and having a tiny network in London. I discuss how I loved the adland job - until I didn’t - and how I panicked when I felt lost and made a series of decisions from a place of panic that led me off...

Do you know how to structure your days and your weeks to support your energy and therefore productivity and impact? And are you able to set, communicate, and maintain the boundaries on your time that allow you to thrive? This isn't about being dogmatic and obsessive about time management with minute-by-minute plans, loads of apps, and a variety of to-do lists. This is about having OWNERSHIP over your time in a way that supports your energy and priorities. And it’s an essential component of...

People are the lifeblood of your career. And what I mean by people is essentially learning how to have intentional, insightful, strategic conversations about whatever you need help with.  This is the skill will help you move through the inevitable discomfort of confusion and uncertainty that comes along with transitions. Learning how to have conversations will open doors, it will introduce new ideas you hadn't thought of before, and it will uncouple you from a reliance on job postings (which...

When you’re stuck in your career you’re stuck in your mind. But did you know you have agency over the thoughts in your head? You get to choose the narrative and this choice will impact how you feel, how you act, and the results you create for yourself.  In this episode I walk you through the three biggest mindset errors I see that prevent people from going after the things they’re excited about and creating an energizing career they love. We’ll discuss the impact of these perspectives and how...

At the heart of creating an energizing career is getting in touch with your own brand. And I mean brand in the most authentic sense of the word. Not who you think you should be or what other people ask you to be, but who are you at your core? This is all about authenticity. The reason this is so essential is because it takes less energy to be yourself. If you design your career around, you this is when you can really thrive and create the most impact. The thing is you waste a lot of your...

Career fulfilment is possible for anyone, it's just a matter of knowing what to focus on. But there's a lot of noise out there - so when work stops working, where do you start? What do you pay attention to and what do you ignore? How do you navigate the transition points in your career and life with intention, focus, and grace? Hi, my name is Anne Benveniste, and I started The Career Studio to make it easier to build an energizing, fulfilling career you love - one that is simply an extension...