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Anxious about next steps in your career? Treading water financially? Can’t seem to achieve the right balance between personal and professional success? Frustrated over student loans accrued for that degree that was supposed to prepare you for life and everything else? Life can be unpredictable. Jobs can evaporate. After we’ve reached one pinnacle, there seems to be yet another challenge ahead. Break Concrete is kicking off Season 3 with the brilliant Dr. Natalia Peart, who is also the author of the powerful book, Future Proofed: The New Rules of Success in Work & Life for our Modern World. Dr. Peart presents a roadmap to gain clarity and thrive in a fast paced world. Leave that “I will be happy when ___” thinking behind and start living a life of true happiness, fulfillment, and self-defined success today. Listen to the episode to learn how you can schedule one complimentary session to get “future-proofed” with Dr. Peart today.

Topics Covered: 

• What it means to be future proofed
• Understanding the old blueprint for success and why it failed us
• How women and people of color are disproportionately impacted by changes in the professional landscape
• How we can adapt to a rapidly changing world to become more autonomous
• Important skills to cultivate in a rapidly changing world
• Understanding the “I’ll be happy when. . . .” syndrome and finding happiness in the now
• Embracing success as a lifestyle
• Integrating professional and personal success
• Dr. Peart’s new blueprint for success
• How to develop an agile mindset
• Understanding “both/and” thinking – seeing the challenges and the opportunities
• How the stories we tell ourselves shape our success
• Defying limiting beliefs

Highlights:

• “You should always see yourself as the boss of your career.”
• “The insecurity of job security says that you can have a job today and then tomorrow it all falls apart.”
• “You can’t rely upon happiness or anything to define you that somebody else can take away.”
• “When you define your very existence, your identity, and your happiness by things that somebody can give and take away from you, you are living in a house of cards.”
• “The stories that we tell ourselves about ourselves are the most important stories that there is. You’ve got to hold your story. The limits are determined by what you decide your story is.”

Connect with Dr. Peart: 

On her website: https://drnataliapeart.com/

On Twitter: @iamdrnatalia

On Instagram: @iamdrnatalia

By E-mail: natalia@nataliapeart.com

Other References: 

• Natalia Peart, PhD, Future Proofed: The New Rules of Success in Work & Life for our Modern World 
• Livia Gershon, Covid-19’s Impact on Working Women Is An Unprecedented Disaster, Smithsonian Magazine, Oct. 2020. 

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