Disrupting Yourself and Your Career

The Anxious Achiever

Morra Aarons-Mele

Mental Health, Management, Careers, Health & Fitness, Business

4.7 • 600 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Disruption is the name of the game in so many businesses today, and that’s the case for many high performing individuals as well. But how do we think about drastically changing our life and our career, without letting anxiety and fear take hold? Whitney Johnson is an author who formerly worked with Clayton Christensen, and who has chased her dreams through a winding and unexpected career path. She shares lessons on disrupting yourself while trying to manage the anxiety that might come with that.

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0:00.0	LinkedIn Presents.
0:10.3	I'm Maura Aaron's Mealy, and this is The Anxious Achiever, the show that looks at the intersection of mental health and work and how we can all do both better.
0:34.4	Disruption. It's a great word. And if you work at a company, especially one that cares about innovation, you're probably familiar with the idea of disruption, creating
0:38.8	a new technology or new services or a new product in a way that truly changes an industry.
0:45.2	Think Blockbuster video to Netflix. When you disrupt yourself, says my guest, you're stepping
0:52.2	back from who you are today to slingshot into who you want to be.
0:57.6	Disrupting yourself is a mechanism of growth and change. But like trying to enact change at an
1:04.4	organization or trying to change the direction of a large ship, disrupting your own career in your
1:10.7	life comes with
1:11.8	struggle. How do you free yourself from anxiety in order to make big change? That's why I'm so
1:19.0	excited to talk to our guest, Whitney Johnson. I've known her for about 15 years. We've shared
1:25.4	our own journeys with anxiety, and I followed her own personal
1:29.0	disruption and her amazing career. Whitney is the author of books like Smart Growth, How to
1:35.0	Grow Your People to Grow Your Company, and she's the CEO of the Consultancy Disruption Advisors.
1:41.0	I speak with Whitney about how she thinks about personal career disruption, the lesson she's learned,
1:47.1	and what to do when some of your dreams are a bit anxiety-inducing.
1:58.0	I was reflecting, you and I have known each other a long time. When we met, you had just left New York City. You had, I think, recently left Wall Street and were working for Clayton Christensen. And you had a vision for your life. I'm just curious, like, looking back on that 15 years,
2:20.2	from my perspective, like, you totally did it.
2:27.0	Did I? Did I? Well, you did. I did? I did. I remember you saying at lunch, like, you know, I've been this finance person and I've
2:36.3	been this business person, but you, your first book was called Daredream Do, right? Yeah,
2:41.2	that's right. And you wanted to give people the tools to make big pivots in their life,
2:47.3	to make change. I love that reflection, Maura. You know, it's, yes, that's exactly
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