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Resumes, job hunts, cover letters, and even your current job are all distraction actions that are keeping you stuck and preventing you from going all-in on your dream career or business. Listen to this week’s episode and learn why resumes and cover letters aren’t the solutions to your career problems. Sign up for a free career strategy session with me at christytowns.com. Follow me on Instagram @christyltowns.

The pandemic has been a global time of adversity. It has upended our ways of life as we know it and that includes our careers. Working from home, having no social life, and the threat of a deadly virus have revealed to us some incredibly important values that we might not have realized or have been too stuck in our ways to live by. In this week’s episode, we talk about why the pandemic has forced us to change the way businesses and employees work and what that means for our careers. Visit christytowns.com to sign up for a free career strategy session with me. Follow me on Instagram @christyltowns

Why is it that we love helping people when they’re down, stuck, or lost? But when we’re the ones that need help–we don’t ask for it. This week, we talk about why asking for help is imperative to having a successful career and business. Visit christytowns.com to sign up for my monthly newsletter. Follow me on Instagram @christyltowns

What if doubting your career was actually good for your career? And what if not questioning your career choices was working against you? In this episode, we talk about how even I, a Career Coach, doubt and question my career path and how I use it to propel my career and business forward. Visit christytowns.com to sign up for my monthly newsletter. Follow me on Instagram @christyltowns

Search the word "success" in Google and take a look at what images come up. People climbing mountains, money raining on men in business suits, upward trajectory, and a whole lotta wealthy old white men.  Clearly, there is a collective vision of what success looks like. That definition seeps into our personal lives and influences the decisions we make about our careers. In this episode, we dive into why this outdated and exclusive definition sets you up for failure and prevents you from experiencing your true success. Learn how to expand your vision of what a successful career looks like. Sign up to get more career design content at www.christytowns.com. And come connect with me on Instagram @christyltowns.

How do you leave an already successful career to go chase your dreams? In this episode of Livelihood, I want to share with you exactly how I left behind my successful career with my perfectly constructed life in San Francisco to step into the unknown and go after my lifelong dreams. I'll take you through the fears, doubts, and dysfunctional beliefs that I had to overcome along the way and how I became a better, truer, more confident, and more authentic self because of it. Join me on this journey and spiritual awakening through the lens of your career to becoming the person you've always been.  Find out more about Christy at www.christytowns.com or on Instagram at www.instagram.com/christyltowns Sign up for a free Strategy Session at www.christytowns.com/minisession

You have a successful career. You get paid, you get good benefits, you even get paid time off. You have it pretty damn good, right? But what happens when you know how good you’ve got it and you’re still unhappy, unfulfilled, and frustrated with your career? Should you be grateful? No. You know how fortunate you are to have a job during a global pandemic; a successful career even. You still have the ability to pay your bills, and continue to make money during a time when so many people struggling to pay their bills and going out of business or losing jobs. But knowing your blessings doesn’t mean you have to love your job and it doesn’t mean you have to stay in your career. And wanting to leave doesn’t mean you’re being ungrateful. Real gratitude is the antidote to dissatisfaction. But toxic gratitude is when you use it against yourself. It’s when you deny how you really feel about your career and attempt to shame yourself into feeling real gratitude. Toxic gratitude is a rejection of negative emotions and keeps us stuck in careers that don’t allow us to design a career that makes us feel alive. And no amount of shaming will ever make anyone feel better about their career. Listen to this week’s Livelihood podcast to learn how giving yourself radical permission to feel ungrateful leads to real feelings of gratitude and how to utilize this practice so that you can design a more fulfilling, joyful, and aligned work life.

The only control we have is in the choices we make. And everything we do is a choice. We don’t have to go to work. We don’t have to do our jobs. Quitting and never working again is always an option. We choose to work because of what it provides. Our work serves our life in the form of a paycheck, stability, or in other ways that we have decided is worth choosing to work each week. But most people don’t see it that way. Most people see their careers as something they have no control over. They feel as though they’re being forced or trapped in a life that they didn’t choose. They are at the mercy of fate, luck, and other people. And it’s in this dysfunctional belief where we give away our true power—the ability to create our dream careers. Listen to this week’s Livelihood podcast on what happens when we allow external forces to run our lives and dictate our careers. Learn how resentment quickly festers and grows into toxic workplaces, misunderstandings, and burnout. Discover how to take back control of your career to create real job satisfaction and fulfillment. 

Viewing your career through rose-colored lenses isn't something that comes naturally to us. It takes work. Most of the time, we view our careers, work, and jobs through some pretty smudgy lenses that obscure the reality that's right in front of us. And it's ruining our lives and crushing our happiness.  In this episode, we'll learn about what negativity bias is and how it distorts our perceptions and causes us to make rash decisions that we later regret.

Does accepting your career trigger some resistance? What would it mean if you accepted where you are, who you are, and what you want?  In this episode, we'll explore the myths around acceptance and what it actually means to accept yourself and your career. Learn how true acceptance is the key to moving forward and finding meaning and fulfillment in any career.  Connect with me at ChristyTowns.com or on Instagram @christyltowns.

When so much is riding on a big career decision, how can you be certain that you're making the right decision? What if I told you that you don't need to be certain and in reality, your NEED to be certain is actually holding you back from realizing your dream career. In this episode, we'll talk about how to recognize the behaviors that are keeping you stuck and how to let go and trust when you can't find certainty. 

Does your career support your life? I'm not talking simply financially. Does your career allow you to prioritize the people and events in your life or are you constantly missing out because of work? In this episode, we'll talk about why a dream career is so much more than what you do and the importance of prioritizing what you value most. Sign up for my email list at christytowns.com