Shelley Paxton: ...that you can have both success AND fulfillment

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Is the COVID-19 pandemic forcing you to take a sabbatical? Our guest on this episode, Shelley Paxton, says there’s always a gift in upheaval, pain and discomfort.

As Shelley sees it, this time offers us a chance to reflect, reset and redirect our lives. Shelley is the author of the new book, Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel’s Guide to Finding Your Best Life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. Is the COVID-19 pandemic forcing you to take a sabbatical? Our guest on this episode, Shelley Paxton,
0:23.0	says there's always a gift in upheaval, pain, and discomfort. As Shelley sees it, this time offers us
0:29.7	a chance to reflect, reset, and redirect our lives, and we couldn't agree more.
0:34.5	Shelly is the author of the new book, Soul Batical, a corporate rebel's
0:38.7	guide to finding your best life. Shelly, thank you so much for joining us today. This is so timely.
0:44.6	Oh, ladies, thank you for having me. I'm super excited to be on here. Yes, it is timely as well.
0:50.4	You know, the subtitle of your book is so interesting where you talk about yourself as a corporate
0:55.2	rebel. How did you become a corporate rebel? And what really is one?
0:59.5	Well, let's be honest. I think I was born a rebel, period, before I was a corporate rebel.
1:04.3	I think I came out of the womb just rebelling against all different, you know, just rebelling against everything.
1:11.6	My parents and authority and tradition and religion and you name it, the list is really,
1:16.3	really long. And so what I realize in hindsight is that rebellion shifted over time from
1:24.1	rebelling against so many things, including a traditional corporate path. Now, the reality is,
1:30.7	I spent 26 years in corporate America. So I followed a pretty traditional path. But the rebel part of it
1:37.5	was in how I led, you know, in honestly, like what Brunay Brown talks about today, wholehearted
1:43.3	and courageous leadership,
1:45.0	bringing my own humanity and messiness to my leadership. And the other piece of the rebellion was
1:52.3	I really chose, well, maybe these jobs chose me. I chose moves that were different, that were like
1:59.7	blanks, you know, blank white pieces of
2:01.9	paper, things that no one else had done. Like at 26 years old, they said, well, you go start
2:07.2	the, run the McDonald's business over in Istanbul Turkey. And at 26, I was single. And I was like,
2:13.5	why not? Send me to the place where no one else wants to go. And I think that's been a bit of a
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