Time We Discuss: Find Your DREAM Job with a Coach's Guidance!

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This episode of Time We Discuss features Alice Yeh, a Career Clarity Coach. Alice discusses her work helping mid-career professionals navigate career transitions and find fulfillment in their jobs. Alice emphasizes guiding clients to align their values and passions with their professional goals, fostering confidence, and addressing mindset challenges. She describes the typical process of working with clients, which begins with understanding their struggles, goals, and whether there's a good fit between them. This involves a discovery or vision call, during which Alice evaluates compatibility and gains a deeper understanding of the client's needs.

Alice explains that many of her clients feel stuck due to value misalignments or lack of purpose in their current roles. She helps them identify their priorities, uncover their unique definition of success, and tackle fears, such as leaving comfort zones or starting over. A significant focus is placed on mindset coaching to manage fears and build confidence, enabling clients to embrace new opportunities.

She shares her personal career journey, which includes stints on Wall Street, at Google, and in tech startups. Despite apparent success, Alice often felt unfulfilled, struggling with burnout, a lack of purpose, and difficulties achieving promotions. After being laid off from Google, she took a year off for self-exploration, later working with a coach herself, which helped her uncover her passion for mentoring and coaching. This transformative experience inspired her to launch her own coaching business. She shares that her coaching certification program was instrumental in building her skill set and credibility.

Alice discusses common challenges her clients face, such as dissatisfaction with work environments, misaligned values, or fear of change. She illustrates her impact through a client success story: a burnt-out individual who struggled to find interest in new jobs. Alice guided the client to identify a common thread among their passions, redefine their priorities, and shift their mindset from focusing on negatives to exploring possibilities. As a result, the client successfully started their own business.

Alice highlights the rapid growth of the coaching industry, comparing its increasing acceptance to the normalization of therapy. She stresses the importance of vetting coaches for qualifications, such as certifications and client testimonials, due to the lack of regulation in the industry. She also explains how coaching timelines typically span two months, with weekly sessions to maintain momentum.

Towards the end, Alice reflects on how her education at Princeton and Wharton developed her analytical, leadership, and teamwork skills, which she continues to leverage in her career. She also notes that after achieving initial goals, many clients return as their priorities shift due to life changes, like starting families.

Alice closes by promoting her free career checkup guide, which helps individuals assess alignment between their values and professional roles. She encourages listeners to reach out if they resonate with her coaching philosophy and seeks to help more individuals find fulfillment in their careers.

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