Warm > Cool: Melina Peterson on Effort in Effortless, Career Sabbatical, Pivoting & More

LET IT OUT

Katie Dalebout

Fashion & Beauty, Mental Health, Love, Arts, Self-help, Wellness, Katie Dalebout, Health & Fitness, Well Being, True Crime, Self-care, Society & Culture, Personal Growth, Health

4.9 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, I spoke to my good friend Melina Peterson about the hidden effort behind appearing effortless, human design, astrology, leaving a full-time job after navigating the corporate matrix, burnout, and more. Melina started her own digital marketing agency called Cornerlight Digital and recently made the challenging decision to pause it to take a sabbatical. We recorded this while she was in the midst of her career pause, so she shared what’s been coming up for her, including: exploring synchronicities, reconnecting with her inner child, and reevaluating her values post-pandemic. She still lives in NYC but recently visited LA, so we recorded this in person at my kitchen table while she was in town. Let us know if you listened.

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0:00.0	Oftentimes I think the scariest decision can be the one that's actually just quitting or ending something.
0:07.0	I think starting something is honestly can be easier because you're excited about this,
0:11.2	knowing, okay, this is this current path needs reworking.
0:15.4	Do I keep the business running and try to work out my own shit on the side?
0:20.1	Or do I just do a hard stop and I just decided
0:23.4	I need to take like a hard pause.
0:41.3	Let it go back in. Let it go.
0:51.3	Hi, welcome to the podcast. You're about to hear a conversation that I really enjoyed recording.
0:55.5	It's with my friend Melina Peterson. She lives in New York and that's where we met, but she came to visit and we recorded an episode.
1:06.1	She's come to visit a couple times, which you'll hear us talk about in this. And this time, we got out the microphones
1:14.2	and sat down and that's the conversation you're about to hear. She's in a really interesting
1:19.7	point in her career, in her life. She just turned 30 and she's taking a career sabbatical. And
1:26.7	we talk about how we've both been pivoting
1:30.6	our work and navigating all of it. You'll hear. And we also talk about something that I think about
1:41.1	a lot, which is being cool and being warm and the anxiety and self-acceptance
1:48.9	of wanting to appear effortless, yet that taking effort, and that's something that we had some
1:57.0	really good conversations on. And I wanted to try to recreate one of them here and so we
2:02.6	sort of did that I read some well you'll hear here is my conversation with Molina Peterson
2:07.9	stick around at the end if you want to know an announcement. Hi Melina. Hi. How are you?
2:18.4	I'm good.
2:20.0	We have been hanging out for the last 40.
2:23.9	No.
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