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Description
You finally get the break you worked so hard for, and you can't relax into it. Within ten minutes, the voice shows up: you should be doing something, you should be using this time, you haven't earned this yet.
In this episode, Jamesyn looks at why ambitious, successful women push hardest in the space between career chapters, exactly when they most need time, space, and grace. She draws on the documentary Let It Die Here, about songwriter Linda Perry, a woman with a celebrated career who still beats herself up for taking a single day off. Then she lays out where we learned to earn our rest, how one sentence keeps the next chapter from showing up, and why curiosity and joy show you more than pressure ever will.
In this episode
Why driven women treat the in-between season like an emergency, and what that looks like day to day.
Where the rule "you have to earn your rest" comes from, and why it's something many women were taught together.
How the thought "I should be further along" creates the exact behavior that keeps you from moving forward, and the sentence to practice instead.
What Linda Perry's unplanned songwriting shows about letting a next chapter unfold.
Recognize, the first stage of the Career Evolution Framework, and why you can't do it at full speed.
Why curiosity and joy are the real work when you're between chapters.
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About Jamesyn
Jamesyn is a career strategist, author, and the voice behind The Bold Life. By day, she leads learning technology for a robotic surgery education program at a global MedTech company. She's been choosing again her whole career: from classroom teacher to educational publishing, to learning leadership, to building her own companies. On The Bold Life, she shares the stories and strategy behind career evolution, and works 1:1 with ambitious women ready to build what's next.
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