The Career (Life!) Breakthrough Academy

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A new year is almost upon us. As a Next Chapter Coach, this time of transition is exhilarating. So many possibilities lie ahead.

However, if you are at a true crossroad moment, then making resolutions, sending a letter to your future self, vision-boarding, time management courses, advice from respected colleagues or even career and life coaches, just don’t reveal the missing self-intel needed, don’t test unspoken assumptions or limiting beliefs that hide in plain sight, and don’t create action plans unique to… you.

Those tools – while fun and helpful in normal times – don’t help shift and launch you into a Next Chapter.

What are your hopes for your life or career in 2025?

— Are you feeling a “pulling” toward something more, and you’re done feeling burned out, unfulfilled and undervalued for the work you do?

— Do you keep thinking about making a change of some kind, but don’t know how, when or – or even IF it is actually possible, and what your best next steps should be?

I am here to help. As a Next Chapter Coach, I teach a proven process that has helped over 200 amazing humans curate their unique work-life scenario: of ease, financial sustainability, joy and impact.

  • You may find my BLOG Archives helpful. Try searching on “resolutions” or “next chapter.”
  • As a catalyst for your LEAP into 2025:

The Career (Life!) Breakthrough Academy – includes a 5-week LIVE weekly Mastermind!  

—>IS THIS PROGRAM FOR YOU?<—

Is your answer “yes” to TWO of the questions below?

  • Are you at a “crossroads moment?”
  • Are you “successful” and wanting something “more?”
  • Do you feel like you’re at an important crossroads in your career or life?
  • Are you searching for a new job or role and getting ready to write cover letters, do interviews, negotiate offers?
  • Are you in a new leadership role and want to put your best foot forward?
  • Are you ready to start something new and exciting – like launching a business or writing a book – and don’t know how to “take the leap,” or what your best next steps should be?
  • Are you DONE with feeling burned out, unfulfilled and undervalued for the work you do,
  • Are you ready to find your voice, know your value and monetize your impact – so that you can curate a life of success and joy?

If so, then rather than investing time and resources into strategies that are NOT designed for Crossroad Moments, I invite you to invest in something designed specifically for you.

I’ll help you find the missing and foundational self-intel so key to creating a path and plan that makes sense for YOU and creates the possibility for a life at the wonderful intersection of joy and impact (That “sweet spot” is how I have come to define Purpose).

THE FORMAT OF THE ACADEMY PROGRAM & MASTERMIND

  1. The Career (Life!) Breakthrough Academy is a proven process that coaches you through a crossroad moment into your self-defined Next Chapter, by using a unique methodology to unlock and quickly reveal the foundational and often missing self “intel” and language needed to differentiate yourself, make the “right” next-step decisions, and curate your dream scenario. A mix of mindset and leadership practices & results-driven consulting strategies, and…
  • ME! (via 10 videos and 12 worksheets) On demand 24/7
  • ME! (via the Academy’s on-line forum) Providing personal coaching to you via replies to your posts at the end of each worksheet and module.
  • Life-time access to the coaching and training videos.
  • Final 1:1 Coaching Session via ZOOM to lock-in your Go Forward Plan.
  • To give you a taste of what this unique interactive and integrated coaching support “looks like” CLICK HERE to watch the actual Welcome video Academy participants see. I have been told by those in the business that this is one of the most comprehensive and thought-provoking programs they have ever experienced. Some participants complete the program in two weeks, others choose to make it a longer process as they take time to reflect.
  1. BONUS: 5 week LIVE Mastermind included! This offer is designed as an optional companion piece to your lifetime access in The Career (Life!) Breakthrough Academy. Each week we will go deeper into the Academy modules, and you’ll be able to ask questions and receive live group and spotlight coaching. You can still go through The Academy at your own pace and receive the same on-line interactive coaching via responses to your posts, PLUS be a part of this additional live weekly leadership group to lock in strategies and receive support and insights for your “real-life” scenarios.
  • WEEK ONE: Establish your goals for 2025; align them with your unique superpowers – for ease, success, impact, joy, financial sustainability, Q&A on Coaching videos #1, 2 and 3
  • WEEK TWO: Drill down on your specific goals, and then how to articulate and communicate them. Q&A on Coaching video #4
  • WEEK THREE: Gather data on your past to reveal the specific external causes & conditions that must be present in your Next Chapter for you to thrive. Q&A on Coaching video #5
  • WEEK FOUR: Test your assumptions. Choose your internal embodied actions that create the possibility for you to get what you (really) want. Q&A on Coaching video #6 & 7
  • WEEK FIVE: Use your new clarity in “real life.” Build your updated Toolbox of elevated language & positioning statements for interviews, staff meetings, negotiating, social media presence and decision-making. Q&A on Coaching video #8

REGISTER BY MIDNIGHT, TUESDAY, MARCH 11 (your first optional Mastermind session is March 12):

HAVE QUESTIONS?

Please CLICK HERE to set up a complimentary & confidential Strategy & Scholarship Call

Let’s toast to what you will create in 2025, and the ripples of impact that THAT will make possible!!

Kathryn

Your Next Chapter Coach Creator of The Career (Life!) Breakthrough AcademyTM

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” —T.S. Eliot

Be Grateful for Yourself (and know WHY)

You are creating big ripples of impact around you. I know this to be 100% true.

If you are wanting to create a Next Chapter or make a big decision of some kind, this fact is essential for YOU to know as truth. Even if – especially if – your current situation is not what you want.   

Don’t let your but’s be barriers

When I coach people to break out of cycles of frustration and indecision and create a Next Chapter, they often don’t recognize or value the impact they are currently having. Conversation often begin with:

  • “but I’m not…xxx”
  • “but I haven’t…xxx”
  • “but I don’t…xxx”  
  • “but my situation won’t let me…”

Instead, the exploration and resulting strategies are informed by testing the internal assumptions they are making, and revealing the impact they love having, and are having. The surprise comes in realizing that nothing can prevent us from having the impact we love having. While external forces are real, they do not prevent us from having the life or career of our dreams.

“The invitation is to curate a life and career at what I call the “sweet spot:  the wonderful intersection of our own full body joy, with the impact that occurs in others – often in the same moment. This is what I have learned to call Purpose.”

Knowing what to “do next,” requires knowing yourself

The challenge – or rather the essential tool – is to sleuth out these “sweet spot” moments, observe and gather data about how you create them, and then nurture, embrace and honor them… so that you can create the possibility to have these moments every single day.  You feel great, and others are being positively impacted in some way.  A true win-win!

And yet, the reason I created this process, and now teach it in the Career (Life!) Breakthrough Academy, is that getting to this foundational self-knowledge is harder than it seems.

Think differently. Your uniqueness is key.

You have likely been trained to value skills and experience (all important) rather than think of what occurs to others when you apply those skills and experience.

Also missing – in fact often completely dismissed with a wave of the hand or shrug of the shoulder – is an understanding and appreciation for the unique “secret sauce” that you bring along with your skills and experience to create impact.

In job searches, I often found myself interviewing people who all had the same skills and experience. Often, they also all had the same “results” (increased revenue, etc.). I had to work really hard to try to pull out the unique attributes that would make them a great match for the hiring organization.

It’s easy to spot superpowers and impact when you’re thinking about people you know. It may be time for you to know it about yourself.

How YOU create impact when YOU feel joy… is the core of who you are!

We all have limiting beliefs about what our unique value is. Our unique superpowers are often unknown and unnamed. Do you have an ability to:

  • connect others to resources that help them do their best?
  • enroll and engage others on a path forward that they couldn’t imagine at the time?  
  • make someone feel seen, or an ability to diffuse conflict?  You do all this in your own, perhaps even quirky, way.  You’ve likely been doing “this” since a child. No one taught you how to do it, and it comes so easily to you, you may not even know you’re doing it.

Yikes!

The very thing that you love doing – or said another way:  the very thing that occurs when you simply show up fully, that doesn’t require any effort, that has the most impact on others is… yet unnamed?!

An Invitation

This weekend, as you express gratitude to others, take a moment and make a list of all the ways you think you are making a difference in someone’s life – whether at home, in your network, or in your career.  Divide your impact list into 2 columns: the impact that depletes you, and the impact that energizes you. The more you know about yourself, the easier it is to make Next Step decisions to live in your personal “sweet spot!”

To your success,

Kathryn

Your Next Chapter Coach
Creator of The Career (Life!) Breakthrough AcademyTM

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I coach people to break out of cycles of frustration and indecision and curate lives of impact and clarity of purpose – with ease, joy and financial sustainability.

If you’re new to my emails, you can find hundreds of past articles and exercises HERE.

If you’re at a “Crossroad Moment” and want to make a change of some kind,  HERE’s a link to get on my calendar for a confidential, complimentary and compassionate Strategy Call to see if we’re a good match!

Need to Answer Big Questions? Start Here.

“Your purpose is not a business or a cause – those are just “vehicles” for delivering your impact. Your purpose is the impact you have on others when you are feeling joy. Find that sweet spot, know it, nurture it, share it.”

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