The Liz Moody Podcast The Secret To Making Hard Decisions: Minimize Regret & KNOW You’re On The Right Path
Jul 23, 2025
In this engaging discussion, Megan Hellerer, a Stanford graduate and former Google executive, shares her insights as a world-renowned career coach and author of Directional Living. She introduces decision-making frameworks that help individuals embrace uncertainty and minimize regret. Megan discusses the importance of a directional mindset, transforming life's choices through curiosity instead of fear. Listeners learn practical tools for aligning short-term pleasures with long-term goals, refining their personal navigation systems for a more authentic and fulfilling life.
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AOC's Directional Career Journey
- Megan Hellerer shares how she helped AOC shift from bartender to influential congresswoman by following curiosity over a fixed destination.
- They used a directional mindset involving small, low-stakes steps based on curiosity which led to her successful political career.
Take Aligned Directional Steps
- Always take steps that feel directionally right and aligned to you since each step leads you to a fulfilling place.
- Think of life as a scientific experiment; wrong answers provide valuable information to adjust your path.
From Destinational to Directional Mindset
- The old destinational mindset focuses on fixed goals and external 'shoulds,' which often leads to misaligned decisions.
- Shifting to directional thinking means moving towards what feels warmer without needing certainty about the destination.
