Thrive Solo The One Where I Talk To Executive Coach & Thrive Solo Member, Pooja Venkatraman
My guest on the podcast this week is the brilliant Pooja Venkatraman.
Pooja is a double Harvard graduate, ex-management consultant, and former stressed-out over-achiever turned life coach, who helps high-stress, high achievers get clear on what they want to do next, take the next steps, and create the lives they actually want. She is also a member of my Thrive Solo membership.
Pooja lives in New York City and is single and childfree.
Topics that we cover are:
- how she has always been a high achiever;
- how she has always had a strong internal sense that she didn’t want to have kids;
- how despite knowing she didn’t want children, she assumed she would have to have them;
- how it took Pooja 30+ years to realise she could choose to remain childfree;
- the vision she always had for her life that involved a romantic partner;
- the conclusion she came to that there aren’t that many men who she would be excited to be with, and that she might never meet one;
- how she’s started to get to a place where she’s happy with — or without — a relationship;
- how Pooja’s friends still insist on ‘helping’ her date despite her telling them she’s no longer dating;
- why she’s come off the dating apps;
- her great love of writing, and how it makes her feel connected;
- how Pooja ended up becoming a life coach;
- the framework of her coaching and why it’s so important;
- why circumstances don’t have any inherent meaning, only the meaning we project onto them;
- why it’s so important to distinguish between thoughts and facts;
- becoming aware of the various ‘circuits’ in our brain and how they are, or are not, serving us;
- the ways in which our brain can work for or against us;
- Pooja’s thoughts on manifestation;
- her take on what it means to thrive solo.
Check out Pooja’s website: https://poojavcoaching.com/
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Listen to her podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4115SuxkOtcIAXhVblhi4q
Listen to her podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/less-stress-more-flow-with-pooja-v/id1591272309
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