From Lawyer to Master Coach: How Kara Loewentheil is Helping Women Unf*ck Their Brains
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On this podcast, we\\u2019ve talked to tons of people who have quit careers that they hated in order to find something that they loved. The general premise is that this outside circumstance, namely their stressful job, is causing them to be miserable and so they make the leap in search of a circumstance that won\\u2019t cause them to feel that way.
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Well, on today\\u2019s episode, I am honored to talk to the incredible Kara Lowentheil, Master Certified Coach, and ex-reproductive rights litigator, about why that approach is the wrong way to go about it.\\xa0
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Kara\\u2019s own journey is not unlike a lot of our previous guests. Kara received her B.A. from Yale and J.D. from Harvard. She went on to create an impressive legal resume including a clerkship for a Federal Court of Appeals and various jobs in academia. However, when she realized that no amount of accomplishment was going to bring her inner peace and happiness, she turned to life coaching and thought work.\\xa0
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Thought work teaches how to bring awareness to and actively engage with your own thinking in order to help retrain your brain. Kara found that the more thought work she engaged in, the happier she became in her life regardless of the outside circumstances.
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After realizing the power of thought work in her own life, Kara decided to become a life coach in order to help other women unfuck their brain from all of the patriarchal programming. As we talk about in-depth, Kara didn\\u2019t leave because she hated her job. In fact, she discusses how she could have stayed and loved what she was doing. But seeing the impact that she could make on women\\u2019s lives with thought work was more of an exciting opportunity.\\xa0
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In the last three years after pivoting from a legal career, she has grown her life coaching business from 0 to 7 figures. She\'s the host of the iTunes top-rated self-help podcast Unf*ck Your Brain which has been downloaded over 6M times, and she has been featured in outlets like Marie Claire, Mind Body Green, MSN.com, and The Huffington Post. Kara lives in New York City. Basically, she\\u2019s starting a feminist revolution.\\xa0
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In this episode, we discuss:
- Why you should learn to be happy in your career before making the decision to leave\\xa0
- Why even if you\\u2019re happy, change will feel uncomfortable
- How being happy in your current situation is different than feeling ready to make a jump
- How thought work can help in any situation\\xa0
- Why we feel stuck in careers that offer prestige
- And so much more.\\xa0
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