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Hi, it's Mariana. I'm the co-founder of Summer Fridays and hosts of The Life with

Marianna podcast. I loved listening back to this episode when I was editing it because I felt

like I even learned so many things listening it back from myself and just my own career

and just how I think about decisions and my own career path. And I was thinking of a few friends

that I wanted to send it to. And so I hope you find it really helpful for you. Megan is a career

coach. And in this episode, we talk about unlocking your career fulfillment, finding your

career path, aligning with your true self, and how to embrace directional

thinking. And she really explains what that is. If you guys want to learn from Megan, keep listening,

and also check out her book. And don't forget to subscribe to my podcast because I got new episodes

every Tuesday. Before being a career coach that you are now, I really want to learn more about

that. But you had a really successful

career at Google before transitioning to this. But you mentioned that despite your success in your

career, you just were unfulfilled and not happy. So what were some of those key signs or moments

that made you think, okay, I thought this was my dream, but maybe it's not really. Yeah, it's such a

wonderful question. and it looks

different for everyone, and part of my work is starting to figure out what that looks like

for everyone, so you can start to learn how to detect it and get ahead of it. For me, in the end,

it became very obvious. I was severely depressed. I was having trouble getting out of bed in the

morning. I was having almost daily panic attacks. I was really anxious. I felt very ashamed,

and I was pulling away and sort of keeping secrets in relationships. When I say secrets,

I mean not sharing how unhappy and how scared I really was. And so I think those were

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