#68 Career Equation Author Erica Sosna: Rebounding from Physical Paralysis to New Heights – Part One
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What inspired Erica Sosna's journey of resilience?
But what makes Erica's story unique is her remarkable journey of resilience, purpose, and transformation. In 2022, A life-changing accident left her paralyzed. Facing months of recovery, through immense pain and uncertainty, Erica fought her way back. Back to walking, back to work, and back to a renewed mission. After a year away from her consultancy, Eric Le returned with fresh purpose, balancing her career on a three-day work week, launching a podcast and expanding her reach to create a bigger impact. Today, part one, Eric Le shares her career journey. the twist and the turns and the accident that changed everything. Then in part two, airing tomorrow, she will share the hard-earned wisdom she gained from overcoming paralysis, starting a new chapter, shaping a path to personal and professional growth. Erica will also dive into the career equation she created and how we can all work towards becoming better versions of ourselves in our careers. Good afternoon, Erica. Welcome to our show.
How did Erica navigate her career after paralysis?
Welcome to Chief Change Officer. Thank you so much, Vince. I'm delighted to be here. Erica is also a podcast host, and she covers careers. So does that make us competitors? I don't think so. I see it more like we are part of this big circle, a world where so many people are focused on their future, their life, and their career. I think we're both contributing to something bigger by sharing insights, lessons, and experiences in a human, direct way. Hopefully, this helps someone get inspired or maybe even get unstuck. So Erica, let's start with you. Tell us a bit about yourself, your story, and your experience before we drill down into your insights.
For sure, Vincent. It's exciting to be in a careers community with you. That's how I'd describe that, I think. So I'm Erica Sosner. I'm the creator of a model called The Career Equation and a book and a podcast by the same title. I've I've made it my life's work really over the last 20 years to help people connect their insides, what matters to them, what's important to them, the skills and talents that they're born with their outsides, how they spend time, how they make money, how they create value for themselves and for other people, and how they learn to really enjoy their lives.
What is the Career Equation model?
So I guess on a sort of very simple level, I'm a careers thought leader. I've been a career coach for over 20 years and have coached thousands of people all over the world, all sorts of industries, all sorts of ages and stages to use the career equation to get super precise about what they want, how to work and to make a plan to get towards that and really align that. I also own a careers consultancy that does the same work, but within organisations. So helping the employer and the employee to really align around co-designing a career path that works for the person in front of them and is a win for both sides. And I guess I became interested in this, of course, because of my own career adventures and explorations.
When I left university, I joined the civil service, the FASTREAM, which is the graduate program here in the UK for working with the government. It's actually the most competitive graduate scheme in the UK. And so when I got a place on it, I thought I really ought to accept it. But spending time just in this sort of recruitment process and the home office environment told my gut that I probably wasn't going to find a home there.
How can we redefine success in our careers?
But I had that tension between, hang on a minute, I've got this really prestigious job opportunity and no plan B. And my gut feelings that perhaps the environment and the pace of the place that I was proposing to make my career in wasn't going to be a fit. And indeed, it wasn't a fit. And so that experience made me very curious about what is it that makes work for people?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What inspired Erica Sosna's journey of resilience?
0:55–2:56
2
How did Erica navigate her career after paralysis?
2:56–4:40
3
What is the Career Equation model?
4:40–5:58
4
How can we redefine success in our careers?
5:58–8:09
5
What challenges did Erica face when returning to work?
8:09–10:04
6
How can personal development shape our careers?
10:04–11:36
7
What lessons did Erica learn from her career transitions?
11:36–13:02
8
What is the importance of aligning personal values with work?
13:02–25:56
Speakers
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