Navigating Heartbreak: Coping with Unexpected Career News

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Chan with a Plan, Max Speaks with Liz St. Jean, founder of The Mint Ambition, a website in growing leadership skills and advancing careers. In this conversation Liz discusses overcoming obstacles, navigating layoffs, and her 3 question framework to handle gut-wrenching news.

QUOTES

• “I do hard work. I should be rewarded for it. And sometimes that can really trip us up because to move into a supervisory position or a management position, it's not about doing good work of what you're doing at the individual level. Like it's a whole new role.” – Liz St. Jean
• “The foundation piece is like being kind to ourselves, giving ourselves that space and the grace and the compassion to essentially feel the feels.” – Liz St. Jean
• “We all love to do it. And one of the challenges with advice is that most of the time we're giving advice from our experience and our lens and our life and our personality and how we would approach things. And that may or may not be helpful for the other person.” – Liz St. Jean

 

TIMESTAMPS

• [00:50] Liz St. Jean and Mint Ambition
• [04:17] Coping with gut-wrenching news
• [07:15] Clearing your mind
• [08:45] Having a support network
• [10:16] Venting and listening well
• [13:58] Getting the right advice at the right time
• [15:33] Speeding up the healing process
• [17:15] 3 question framework for gut-wrenching news
• [21:51] Real life scenario for the framework
• [26:12] Giving yourself enough time vs procrastinating moving on
• [30:23] Getting passed up for promotions
• [33:02] Not just about working hard
• [34:34] 3 question framework during job hunting
• [39:34] Creating the framework and using it herself
• [42:18] Liz’s big career challenge and how she overcame it

 

RESOURCES & RELEVANT LINKS

• Liz St Jean on Social Media:
  • LinkedIn
  • Mint Ambition
• Chan With A Plan
• Max Chan on Social Media