Melody Mack, an neurodiagnostics business owner turned project manager shares her thoughts on jobs feeling a bit like relationships, letting go of a business you created, and taking an honest look at who you are. I also share a few examples from my own career when I dragged some of my own issues around from job to job.

Career Relaunch®

Joseph Liu

Being Honest With Yourself with Melody Mack- CR88

SEP 29, 202251 MIN
Career Relaunch®

Being Honest With Yourself with Melody Mack- CR88

SEP 29, 202251 MIN

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What happens when the initial excitement of your new job starts to wear off? Or the work you’re doing becomes misaligned with the person you want to be? In episode 88 of the Career Relaunch® podcast, Melody Mack, an neurodiagnostics business owner turned project manager shares her thoughts on managing your relationship with work, letting go of a business you created, and taking an honest look at who you are. During the Mental Fuel® segment, I’ll also share a glimpse into a few of the issues I seem to have dragged around with me from job to job.

Key Career Takeaways

  1. Divorcing yourself from your professional identity is extremely difficult, which is one reason why saying farewell to your job can be so difficult.
  2. When the challenges and frustrations you’re feeling in your professional life seem to follow you from job to job, the issue may have more to do with you than your employer or work itself.
  3. While professional transitions and gaps in your CV can feel uncertain and stressful, those periods of transition are a part of the journey. Slowing down and taking the time to figure things out is not only okay but also necessary to make the right career choices moving forward.
  4. If you focus too much on what other people are saying, thinking, or doing, you can lose track of yourself. It’s important to stay true to yourself in order to feel at peace in your career.

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Resources Mentioned

  • I talked briefly about Attribution Theory, which you can read more about here.

Listener Challenge

During this episode’s Mental Fuel segment, my challenge to you was to take an honest look at one of the persistent issues you’ve been struggling with in your career for quite some time. How much of your work struggles are a result of the specific environment you’re in at this moment? How much of them actually have to do with you—your expectations, your beliefs, your blueprint of how things should be.

Take 1 action over something you can control to help you manage those things you can’t control at this moment in your career.

About Our Guest Melody Mack

Melody MackMelody Mack left a successful career in healthcare as a provider and business owner so she could  focus on project management in a different industry. One thing she’s learned is that working hard in a job that doesn’t give you joy is simply not sustainable. I caught Melody in the middle of her transition, and in spite of facing some tough challenges along the way, she’s still hopeful for the future.

I first crossed paths with Melody when she sent me a note on LinkedIn after being a long-time listener of this podcast. She mentioned feeling burned out by her last job, the challenges of walking away from a lucrative role, and the complications of transitioning into something else–all universal challenges many career changers face. I was really excited to get her onto the show so she could share in her own words what I think is a very relatable career transition journey.

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