Jan 5, 2020
In
this episode, Sara talks with Sharon Podobnik Peterson about
her journey from educator to monthly subscription box creator and
executive leadership coach. Sharon chats about growing up in
poverty and over-achieving to stay safe, about experiencing a
breakdown during her honeymoon that led her to make big changes in
her career path, and talks about how she is still figuring out her
own style of work / life balance and figuring out what to say "yes"
vs. "no" to. Today, Sharon not only owns Go Love Yourself
Box, the #1 rated subscription box for personal growth, but
she's also a leadership coach, speaker, writer, business
owner, and professor of education at Johns Hopkins University.
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Sara
and Sharon Discuss:
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How Sara found Sharon
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Sara and Kristen Jawad's upcoming Ladies' Self-Love Spa Night on Feb. 3 - Tickets
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Sharon learning from her entrepreneurial mother
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What she learned growing up with very little money
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Working hard and overachieving to stay safe
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Studying abroad in Australia and Germany
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Triple majoring at University of Pittsburgh in psychology, sociology, and German
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Getting recruited by Teach for America to be a middle school math teacher
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Her promotion to instructional coach
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"Everything is Figureoutable" book by Marie Forleo
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Becoming a second grade math teacher
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Going back to work for Teach for America, this time teaching teachers how to teach
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Her promotion to instructional specialist
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A shocking discovery
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Leaving and working in her dream job at an arts charter school
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Working as Adjunct Professor of Education at Johns Hopkins University
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Burning the candle at both ends
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Taking Ambien to make it through the night and Xanax to get through the day
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Getting married and having a breakdown on her honeymoon
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Realizing that the success of her marriage depended on better self-care
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How she figured out what to do next
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Starting a "book club," or a book subscription box
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Her idea morphing into the Go Love Yourself Box
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Going back to school at Georgetown University for a certificate in Executive Leadership Coaching
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Pursuing two new careers in tandem to see which would work better
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The difference between coaching in education vs. coaching as defined by the International Coach Federation
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The easing of her anxieties through coaching
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The variety of work she does now
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Creating work / life balance
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Her process of setting goals each year
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Two recommendations:
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Learning how to be bored
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Doing tiny experiments to figure out what's right for her
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Noticing the ideas that keep coming back to her
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Getting going on an idea so you don't fall in love with the plan, itself
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How the Go Love Yourself Box works and what was in the November 2019
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Her loudest naysayer
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The advice she'd give herself if she had to do it all over again
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...and more!
Sharon's Full
Bio:
Sharon
Podobnik Peterson is a values-driven, multi-passionate, serial
entrepreneur. Sharon founded The Go Love Yourself Box, the #1 rated
subscription box for personal growth, where she delivers
self-directed coaching to women monthly. She is the editor-in-chief
of Go Love Yourself Magazine, a monthly publication for-and-by
women. She also founded The Center for Conscious Leadership, where
she empowers game changers and change agents who are moved to
combat systemic inequality and existing privilege structures
through workshops and executive leadership coaching.
As a
leadership coach, speaker, writer, business owner, and professor of
education at Johns Hopkins University, empowerment and
self-actualization are at the heart of everything she does. She
feels most alive when she’s reading, writing, creating, connecting,
and coaching. When she’s not facilitating in-person workshops,
she’s exploring the world with her husband, Mark, or reading with
her spunky kitty, Annie, in Seattle, Washington.
Connect
with Sharon Podobnik Peterson and Go Love
Yourself:
Her
website: www.sharonpodobnikpeterson.com
Go
Love Yourself Website: www.thegoloveyourselfbox.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/thegoloveyourselfbox
The
Center for Conscious Leadership: www.thecenterforconsciousleadership.com
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to make your own career change?
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