Define ambition and success on your own terms
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Define ambition and success on your own terms 〰️
What if you didn’t have to light yourself on fire to keep your mission warm?
You might be here because…
You love and identify with what you do and still wonder if you can get your weekends back.
You do the work of three people in the name of being “mission-driven”.
You put the mission first, yet your needs are somewhere buried on your priority list.
You can’t tell if you need a hug, a drink, a hobby, or a new career.
You don’t have the answer yet, but you know there has to be a more sustainable way.
And I get it. I’ve been there.
I’ve managed the million-dollar budgets.
I’ve led the high-stakes organizational change projects at scale across government and tech.
I’ve held the Chief of Staff and Director titles, often as one of the youngest and Black people in the room.
Yet, even at my most respectable, Black-excellence version of myself, my nervous system was fried, and I felt stuck.
I couldn’t lock in and grind my way out. I couldn’t nap or retail therapy my way out of it.
Working with a coach finally gave me the space to answer:
Who am I without the titles or proximity to power?
What are my values, and what am I willing to trade off to live by them?
What does success mean to me, specifically?