Navigating Your “What Am I Doing?” Era
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Jennifer Chaiken, LMFT and Emmalee Bierly, LMFT
4.9 • 755 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen talk about navigating the “what am I doing with my life” era, those moments when your path, career, or identity no longer feels as clear as it once did. Whether it’s a career pivot, life transition, or just a general sense of uncertainty, this stage can bring up doubt, anxiety, and a lot of second-guessing.
They explore the difference between burnout and being in the wrong career, how the sunk-cost fallacy keeps people stuck, and why feeling lost in the middle of something is more common than we think. Listener questions cover career changes, grad school panic, losing motivation after major life shifts like having kids, and the pressure to find a “passion.”
The conversation also gets into imposter syndrome in adulthood, trusting yourself versus being in denial, and how to make decisions when you don’t feel 100% certain.
Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! PS: Fast forward to around 9:30 to skip the intro and get straight to today’s content.
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| 0:00.0 | I swear every time you start something new, there's that moment where your life should someone |
| 0:04.3 | be supervising us right now. |
| 0:06.1 | And that was definitely us when we opened up our therapy practice, the therapy group, |
| 0:09.4 | and when we started this podcast, there were so many what if thoughts running through our heads. |
| 0:14.1 | What if no one listens? |
| 0:15.3 | What if we're completely in over our heads? |
| 0:17.4 | And honestly, I think every entrepreneur has that phase. |
| 0:22.2 | But what makes this process so much easier is having tools that actually support you while you're figuring things out. And that's |
| 0:26.9 | why platforms like Shopify are so incredible. Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of |
| 0:32.5 | businesses worldwide and about 10% of all e-commerce in the U.S. From huge household brands to people just getting their first idea off the ground. |
| 0:41.2 | And one thing that's really cool is how simple it is to build your store. |
| 0:44.7 | Shopify has hundreds of ready-to-use templates so you can create a site that actually |
| 0:48.9 | looks polished and reflects your brand. |
| 0:51.1 | And they've packed it with AI tools that help write product descriptions, |
| 0:54.8 | page headlines, and even improve your product photos, which saves so much time when you're |
| 0:59.3 | running a business and doing approximately 47 jobs at once. Plus, everything lives in one place, |
| 1:05.0 | inventory, payments, analytics, shipping. So you're not bouncing between a bunch of different |
| 1:09.8 | platforms trying to keep track of |
| 1:11.7 | everything. |
| 1:12.6 | And if you ever get stuck, Shopify has 24-7 customer support so you're never left totally |
| 1:18.8 | on your own trying to troubleshoot at midnight. |
| 1:21.1 | It's time to turn those what-ifs into with Shopify today. |
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