Choosing the Happiness Mindset Zone with Ana Melikian

Ana Melikian is a keynote speaker, a board-certified coach and consultant, and the host of The Mindset Zone podcast, a show that has been selected for The Huffington Post’s “15 Podcasts That Will Leave You Pondering Life’s Big Questions.” For over 10 years, Ana has been a successful online business owner, working with hundreds of coaches, consultants, and diverse organizations. She is the Director of Education for Book Yourself Solid® and the co-author of several articles and book chapters. Ana holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Sunderland, UK, and is a proud member of the International Coach Federation and the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches. Having overcome two bouts with cancer, Ana is an optimist who has learned that pursuing happiness is a fallacy, but choosing happiness is the key to tapping into our highest human potential.

 

Ana joins me today to share what it was like growing up in Portugal and how her sense of curiosity motivated her to explore the academic world. She explains why she moved from Portugal to the U.K before setting roots in the United States and why she decided to pivot her career away from academia to explore a new entrepreneurial career. We discuss the challenges she experienced when setting up her business as a life coach and the marketing strategies she used to attract clients. We discuss how her life and career were impacted by an unexpected health crisis, what the ‘When, Then’ habit cycle is, and how to break the cycle to achieve happiness and satisfaction finally. We also discuss what toxic positivity is and why it’s impossible to force happiness.

 

“Happiness doesn’t need to be a goal, it can be a way of being.” - Ana Melikian

 

This week on Moving Conversations:

 

●     What Ana’s life was like growing up in Portugal

●     What motivated Ana to start a career in academia

●     Moving from Portugal to the U.K. and U.S.

●     Pivoting away from academia to explore a new career path

●     How she differentiated her life coaching services from her competitors

●     How Ana’s perspective and mindset about marketing and sales shifted after participating in the Book Yourself Solid® system

●     Facing – and overcoming – breast cancer… twice

●     The “When, Then” habit cycle and choosing happiness

●     Understanding toxic positivity

●     Why you can’t force happiness

 

Resources Mentioned:

 

●     Book Yourself Solid®

●     Book: Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling by Michael Port

●     Book: I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro

●     Book: Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy by Whitney Goodman

 

Connect with Ana Melikian:

 

●     Ana Melikian’s Website

●     Podcast: The Mindset Zone

●     Keynote: The happiness Fallacy: Uncovering the mindset’s blind spots that hold us back

●     Ana Melikian on LinkedIn

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