1007: The Overachiever’s Guide to Finding More Fulfillment at Work with Megan Hellerer

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Megan Hellerer reveals the simple shifts that make your career and life feel more meaningful.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why many overachievers feel underfulfilled

2) The mindset that leads to fit and fulfillment

3) The key questions to ask before any decision

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— ABOUT MEGAN —

Megan Hellerer is a career coach and the author of DIRECTIONAL LIVING: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life. She has led hundreds of women, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to transform their lives by transforming their careers. After checking all the traditional boxes of success—graduating at the top of her class from Stanford University and spending eight years as a Google executive—and still deeply unhappy, she quit her great-on-paper job with no plan. Now her mission is to provide others with the support and guidance that she needed when she herself was struggling.

• Book: Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life

• Instagram: @meganhellerer

• Quiz: Are you an Underfulfilled Overachiever?

• Website: MeganHellerer.com

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• Article: “U.S. Engagement Hits 11-Year Low” by Jim Harter

• Book: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What I've found is that most of us who get stuck in our careers and frankly in our lives,
0:11.2	it's because we focus on the destination.
0:14.2	We are being outcome-oriented.
0:16.4	We think we need to know exactly where we're going
0:19.4	before we start moving.
0:21.7	We spend so much time, what is my purpose? What am I meant to do here? We're not
0:25.3	going to be able to necessarily figure out the answer to that. I don't think we have to have some
0:28.8	broad mission statement. The best thing we can do is figure out what our curiosity is telling us and know that that is going to lead us somewhere.
0:37.0	These are the breadcrums, these are the clues that are telling us this is where the meaning is, this is where the fulfillment is,
0:45.6	and we're so used to ignoring it. That's Megan Heller.
0:55.0	Megan Heller.
0:56.2	She's a Google Executive turned career coach
0:58.2	who's helped hundreds of impressive women,
1:00.2	including a member of Congress,
1:02.1	transform their lives by transforming their careers.
1:05.0	She's also the author of the book Directional Living,
1:08.0	A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life.
1:11.0	Siolo One, why many overachievers feel underfulfilled.
1:15.0	Two, the mindset that leads to fit and fulfillment.
1:18.0	And three, the key questions to ask before any decision.
1:22.0	And if you want to get a quick written recap of these takeaways,
1:25.0	I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter
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