#413: Trapped in a Job By "Golden Handcuffs?" How to Break Free....
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Feeling trapped in a high-paying job you hate? 😔💸 Welcome to the golden handcuffs dilemma, where financial success comes at the expense of your happiness and mental well-being.
In today's episode, we dive deep into the emotional and practical challenges of breaking free from a lucrative but unfulfilling career. You'll learn how to reclaim your freedom, reignite your passion, and find true fulfillment without sacrificing financial security. 🚀✨
Specifically, we’re discussing:
00:00 Breaking the Chains: Intro to Escaping Golden Handcuffs
00:20 The Golden Cage: Understanding Why High Pay Can Trap You
05:08 Real Stories, Real Struggles: Listener Questions and Insights
08:02 The Silent Suffering: Emotional and Psychological Costs
14:26 Conquering Fears: How to Tackle Anxiety and Doubt
32:06 Roadmap to Freedom: Practical Steps for a Career Transition
46:36 Your Next Chapter: Actionable Takeaways and Final Thoughts
It's time to escape the golden cage and design a life that truly makes you happy! Don't miss this transformative journey—hit play now! 🎥🔓 #GoldenHandcuffs #CareerChange #FindYourPassion #WorkLifeBalance
Xoxo,
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
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| 0:00.0 | Do you feel like you're trading your freedom for a paycheck? |
| 0:03.7 | Are you deeply unsatisfied with your career, but feel like you make too much money to walk away? |
| 0:10.3 | If any of this is sounding familiar, you may be shackled by golden handcuffs, my friend, |
| 0:16.7 | but today we're talking about how you can break free. |
| 0:19.6 | Wake up and you undress, it always is the same. |
| 0:25.6 | The sunrise and the sunsets, you're lying while you confess, keep trying to explain. |
| 0:33.6 | The one, the only bright eyes with their cover of Sunrise Sunset, which I chose for probably obvious reasons. |
| 0:42.7 | But I love that song, first of all. |
| 0:44.3 | And I think it conveys the experience of just feeling so trapped in your life and not really knowing yet how you're going to get out. |
| 0:52.9 | But there are brighter days ahead. And |
| 0:56.1 | looks like Bright Eyes is still having a good time. They are on tour. Apparently this fall |
| 1:00.5 | and you want to catch up with them. You can check out their bandcamp page, brighteyes.bandcom. |
| 1:04.8 | If this is your first time on love happiness and success with Dr. Lisa, I'm so glad you're here. |
| 1:10.6 | I'm Dr. Lisa Marie, |
| 1:11.6 | Bobby, your host. My background, I'm a psychologist, I'm a marriage and family therapist, a board |
| 1:16.9 | certified coach, and the founder of growing self-counseling and coaching. And this is love happiness |
| 1:23.2 | and success where every week we're talking about how to grow and do the work that will help you |
| 1:30.1 | attain everything that you want. Better relationships, feeling good about yourself and your life, |
| 1:35.9 | and achieving your definition of success. And it's that success part that we're diving into |
| 1:42.9 | today. Why we're talking about this phenomenon of golden handcuffs, meaning that it is real easy to get trapped into a job or in a career that pays well, but that is basically slowly killing you because this is not a place that you want to stay, but it can be hard to break |
| 2:03.4 | free unless you know what's going on and how to extract yourself. So today we'll be learning |
| 2:11.0 | about a number of things together. First, the false beliefs that trap you into situations like this, and then how to change the mindset |
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