Character with Anne Benveniste

Anxiety can block you towards an energizing career you love if you don’t know how to move through it. It’s like a defense mechanism. Learning how to be with it, work with it, and learning how to not make it worse will help you take control and operate from a more grounded, neutral place. In this episode I take you through the typical reactions to anxiety that keep you stuck and how to process it effectively so you can operate from ...

It’s natural to want to choose the ‘right’ path for yourself professionally. And when people feel lost it feels hard to know what’s ‘right’. I see a lot of people get stuck here, often because their definition of right is leading them wrong. It’s focused on what will look good or what people around them know and accept. When you define ‘right’ with qualities that are grounded in external validation you’re disconnecting to yourself....

Are you worried that you’ll say yes to the wrong job? This is a common concern when we feel lost and stuck professionally. This can happen for three main reasons:

• You’re scattered - you don’t have a solid foundation based on the levers of career fulfillment to generate your hypotheses and assess opportunities.
• You’re rushing - you’re so desperate to get out of your current environment that you grab at anything that’s different in...

Confidence is something everyone wants more of. And the good news is - it’s a muscle you can strengthen. As with everything, it’s just about knowing what to focus on. Confidence comes from three places: the stories we tell ourselves about the struggles in our life, our belief in ourselves to navigate the unknown, and our willingness to feel any feeling. Ultimately this is about accepting your own imperfections and learning to be wi...

Redundancy is on everyone’s lips. Have you recently been made redundant? Is your company threatening redundancies? Are you considering leaving your job and restructuring your career? Then you’ll want to listen to this episode. In it I walk you through the typical mistakes I see people making post redundancy and how to use your time more effectively so you can create great opportunities that are right for you. We discuss application...

Have you ever had a sense that you shouldn't do something ... and yet, you did it anyways. And then you kicked yourself afterwards when the result isn’t what you wanted because you felt like you had a sense that you shouldn’t do whatever is it that you did? We somehow know our gut is right and important and that connection to it can really help us… but how to hear it and trust it and know when it's right, this can feel el...

I spent years thinking mentorship had to be bestowed upon me. That if I worked hard enough and got lucky some benevolent titan of industry would grant me the privilege of being their mentee. As you can imagine, I spent many years without any kind of real mentorship.Sure, maybe I had some helpful chats with the head of my department or my boss or someone a bit more senior than me in another department, but I was pretty much going th...

When you’re in transition you’re thinking about what could come next. And in this moment it’s easy to focus on everything that could go wrong. It’s easy to look at an idea that’s interesting and then write it off because it sounds ‘too risky’. But if you look for the risk you will find it in everything that is new. Usually anything worth having comes with a degree of risk. If this resonates with you you’ll want to check out this ep...

I felt stuck in my business recently. Confused, tired, and overwhelmed. Everything felt hard and annoying and all the things I usually found energy in were draining me. But then it dawned on me. Wait, I literally have a system for fixing this. It's what I talk about every single day to my clients and audience. Why don't you use your own medicine, Anne? So I used my own program to diagnose and address my issues. I mitigate...

When we strive for an A in everything, when we want everything to be perfect, we are either unable to keep up with life’s competing demands or we burn out. So what if I told you the secret is striving for B- work? If you’re a chronic over-achiever that is going to feel deeply uncomfortable. And that’s exactly why you’ll want to listen to this episode.

I discuss: 

• The economic principle behind my recommendation to focus on B-...

Find your passion, follow your purpose are two of the biggest red herrings when it comes to creating an energizing career you love. I explain why this is and what you should focus on instead in this episode. 

I discuss: 

• Why find your passion and follow your purpose is a trap
• The importance of interests in creating an energizing career you love
• How to re-orient your career around your interests
• How orienting around my interests...

When our career stops working the way it once did it can be overwhelming. The confusion and ambiguity is uncomfortable. What do we pay attention to and what do we ignore? That’s why I started my business, to help people move through these moments of evolution with intention and structure. And the good news is, when you boil down the noise there are actually four fundamental things to focus on to build an energizing career you love....

I consider getting fired one of the best things that’s ever happened to me. And even though it’s certainly inconvenient and uncomfortable, I consider it a blessing in disguise for most people. In this episode I share my own story of getting fired plus those of people I know and have worked with to help you see why in most cases, it’s an opportunity to re-design your career in a way that better suits who you are and what matters to ...

We live in a culture that is embarrassed by tears. So we resist and repress our tears when we feel them triggered. In this episode I dive into why this is a mistake and all the health and growth benefits we get from crying. 

In this episode I discuss: 

• How our culture shames us into resisting our tears
• The way that tears help us get into alignment
• Tears as a tool to keep our body healthy
• How to approach tears when they come up ...

After nine months of maternity Sarah was looking towards returning to work with trepidation. There had been some significant changes while she was out and she had had a history of parachuting out of jobs quickly when things weren’t exactly perfect. She was worried she’d do that again and potentially end up in the wrong place. She wanted to be thoughtful and considerate about the next phase of her career but she wasn’t sure exactly ...

Too often we have a narrative that work should feel like work. That fun is something that happens outside of our job. But operating from this belief creates a reality where work is indeed not fun. What you think you create. The simplest way to describe the process of creating an energizing career you love is to follow the fun. 

In this episode I discuss: 

• How I define fun - it’s not at odds with impact or salary
• How to figure...

Oftentimes the reason we aren’t taking action is because we’re worried about what could go wrong and how we will feel when it does. But if we accept that life is a 50/50 split of comfortable and uncomfortable emotions - no matter if we stay where we are or go for the goal - then it starts to shift the way we perceive doing new things. In order to achieve any goal we have to welcome the uncomfortable feelings that come with doing so...

Oftentimes the reason we’re stuck in our careers is because we’ve been building it against someone else’s model for success and fulfillment - and this model often comes, inadvertently, from the spaces where we were raised. If your parents have a lot of opinions, or if you find yourself anxious about pleasing your parents, you won’t want to miss this episode. As letting go of what they think you should do is essential to creating a ...

When I met Nick he felt like he was treading water, clocking in and clocking out, looking up the corporate ladder without any real enthusiasm.

He felt like there was something missing.

After six months together Nick landed his dream job working in sports betting. He's stepped off the "career ski lift" and has created a career at the intersection of what he's naturally good at, what he's interested in, and his...