Hello, world.

Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 135.

I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

Once a week, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal development, education, career, and life planning, who share experiences, tools, and insights

to help our listeners along their journeys. Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert,

Lisa Gates. Welcome, Lisa. Oh, thank you, Dawn. Nice to be with you. It is our pleasure. Lisa is an

executive coach, negotiation consultant, and co-founder of She Negotiates,

an organization committed to closing the income and leadership gaps for women. Today's topic,

which I think listeners will find very interesting, I hope so at least, is called Career Oxygen,

how to breathe life into your future.

Lisa, you're the expert, so take the floor and talk to us about the topic and what it means and how it works.

Right. Okay. Well, thank you. So, so Career oxygen, I like to define it as the process of being just absolutely intentional about doing that thing we spend most of our time doing, which is working.

Yes.

And being intentional means pausing occasionally to take stock of your whole self. That means your experiences, your accomplishments,

as well as your goals and aspirations. And not only for your career, but for your life, you

need to have all of you with you. So, you know, kind of the bottom line of this is to stop being

knee-jerk and reactionary.

Yes, precisely.

I was just reading a book recently talking about the very topic.

And our stream of thoughts run parallel with our stream of feelings.

But if we don't turn off our thoughts in different modalities from long walks to quiet time, our thoughts just

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