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Shameless Leadership

638: Sometimes Quitting Is Upleveling

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7800 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Quitting is often synonymous with failure or laziness or not enoughness. But the truth is… sometimes quitting is upleveling.   Recently, I was on a call with a coaching client and she was sharing some of the shame she was carrying around changing jobs 4 times in one year. As we talked through each job, she shared how her titles and roles became bigger and carried more responsibilities. She had made significant jumps in each new position. Then she charted out her salary in each position to see that she increased her salary with each new role, and over the course of the year, she doubled her salary. Doubled! So, I asked her this: Is it true that each job you quit allowed you to up-level in the next job? When she realized this to be the truth, she became emotional, explaining that she never knew she could carry the title she now carries, nor support her family with this level of income.  Sometimes quitting is upleveling. In fact, sometimes the only way to up-level is to quit something.   When you quit one thing, you make space for the next thing. With every conscious choice to say NO to one thing, you make space for a YES somewhere else.   Whether you are quitting a job, a relationship, a task/chore, a role, spending your time or energy in a certain way, you are making space to move into jobs, roles, relationships, time & energy in a way that is more aligned with your values and who you are becoming. This is upleveling. This is growth. This is power.   Tune into this episode to learn more about the power of quitting and how to reframe quitting in your mind in order to step into growth in a more intentional way.  Link mentioned: Join my business training: Build Your Courageous & Confident CEO Blueprint: shamelessmom.com/ceo Sponsor info and promo codes: Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/ Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 638.

0:04.1

Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 638.

0:16.5

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean.

0:20.5

I'm here to give you and other

0:22.0

passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead

0:28.2

more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the

0:33.6

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0:44.0

forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.

0:52.7

Hello, Shameless moms. Happy Monday. Oh, I'm excited to be here today because we're going to talk

0:57.6

about quitting, which might be one of my favorite topics. So I think that when it comes to quitting,

1:02.0

we often shy away from things that we quit. And I want to encourage us to share the things that we quit

1:07.7

because I think that we have given quitting a really bad rap and we've

1:12.3

made it seem like quitting is something that renders us powerless when oftentimes quitting is an

1:19.4

indication that we are becoming more powerful. And I want to invite you to really see the

1:25.4

significance of that and I want to invite you to do some mental

1:28.3

refrains around quitting in your life. So of course, there's times where we might quit something

1:33.8

and shy away from it because we're nervous or scared and we don't feel ready. And then we might

1:37.7

carry guilt or shame around that. And that might just be where we need to be in the moment.

1:41.3

Or it might be like we catch ourselves and we're like, oh, that wasn't the right choice in that moment. And sometimes that can absolutely be the case.

1:47.9

And also, there are so many times that we quit things because it allows us to make space for our

1:53.7

future, because it allows us to take the next step in growth, because it is an opportunity

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