Amina Change Your Life
EP 20: AOC's Career Coach, Megan Hellerer, on Unlocking Career Fulfillment
30 May 2023
Megan Hellerer the founder and CEO of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers, and the author of the forthcoming book, Directional Living: The Underfulfilled Overachiever's Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life, which outlines a framework for a brand new paradigm for career fulfillment in the 21st century. Megan has led hundreds of Underfulfilled Overachievers, including AOC, to transform their lives by transforming their careers. After checking all of the traditional boxes of success—graduating at the top of her class from Stanford and spending 8 years as a Google executive—and still finding herself deeply unhappy, she quit her "great-on-paper" job with no plan. Now, her mission is to provide others with the support and guidance that she needed and couldn't find when she herself was struggling. In this episode, you will be able to: Learn how focusing on the direction instead of the destination leads to greater happiness and fulfillment. Decode the secrets of the Four Horsemen technique for better clarity on what you truly desire. Unlock the potential of small steps in driving significant change and exploring new directions. Strengthen your ability to face fear and develop a more responsive approach to the world. Learn to "true" your direction and your career. The key moments in this episode are: 00:00:05 - One Right Action at a Time 00:01:33 - From Unfulfilled Overachiever to Career Coach 00:07:26 - The Gift of Desperation 00:13:03 - Directional Living 00:17:57 - Changing the Narrative Around Work 00:13:43 - Entry Point into Exploration 00:18:58 - Directional Living vs. Destinational Living 00:22:47 - Curiosity as a Proxy for Purpose 00:25:29 - Broken Productivity Brains 00:27:32 - The Four Horsemen of Fulfillment 00:30:48 - Perfectionism in Decision Making 00:32:35 - Decision Making in Times of Uncertainty 00:35:29 - The Lily Pad Approach Quotes "The key thing that most of us inherited is the belief that success equals fulfillment. But the reality is it's the inverse." - Megan Hellerer "There is no universal fulfillment or one objective right way to do or live life. This is about aligned achievement." - Megan Hellerer Connect with Megan Hellerer Website: meganhellerer.com Instagram: @meganhellerer Connect with Amina AlTai Website: aminaaltai.com Instagram: @aminaaltai TikTok: @theaminaaltai Linkedin: linkedin/in/aminaaltai
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