Rha Goddess

I would say definitely there are going to be places where you're going to want support.

And whether that is a therapist, whether that is a coach, whether that just even is a community, I find that this work is really powerful because

when you're doing it in partnership and collaboration with others, whether that are close professional friends or colleagues.

There's something very powerful about being witnessed as you share your conversations and feeling the sense of not aloneness.

And I think that's one of the biggest things that I want to underscore for people who might be inclined to pick up the book, given where they are right now in their life and their work, is that you are so not alone.

In the book, I talk to everything from essential workers who were working during the heart of the pandemic to multinational CEOs.

And I can tell you that the understandings, the places that they came to, the ways in which they came to their own renegotiation processes, interestingly, were not that different, even though their contexts would seem worlds apart.

There's something about the humanizing nature of what we experienced that had us all asking ourselves the same kinds of questions and had us all looking at the same kinds of opportunities and challenges as we start to consider these new terms.

So doing it with support is wonderful and certainly the way to go.

Wounded ambition really comes from adopting and aligning with standards and terms and conditions that have nothing to do with what you want and have nothing to do even sometimes with who you are.

And many of us have had experiences in various contexts where we've done things to fit in that we've regretted or where we've done things to fit in that we thought were going to benefit us in the long term.

In other words, we made the short term sacrifice.

hoping for the long-term gain that ultimately never arrived.

And so this internal reckoning becomes really important because when we understand that sometimes the playbooks that we've been handed and what we've been taught about what's necessary in order to succeed, not only in what we want, right, in terms of having that dictated to us, but also how we go about achieving what we want,

We can find that unfortunately, there's a lot of harm that takes place in that process.

Harm we do to ourselves, harm we do to others intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

And part of being able to become intentional and become aware and become true about what's important to us is where we begin to gain our sense of self back, where we begin to gain a sense of agency back, where we begin to gain our sense of power back.

It's also where we begin to expand our capacity to be able to contribute in ways that move the needle on the things that we feel most passionate about.

So what is it to show up in organizations excited, turned on, really ready to get to the work at hand?

passionate about wanting to move the ball forward and bringing what you bring.