Episode 81 How Loss can help motivate you in your career

In this episode I talk loss in your career and how a personal loss can help motivate you in your career. 

*Trigger warning if you have been affected by loss the themes spoken about here may be upsetting for some of you. Just so you are mindful as I care about you as a listener. Especially because loss has been a big theme since the pandemic. 

Please see a summary of the main points I spoke about in this episode 

• Loss of a loved one and how this can change your career. 
• Childhood loss and how that can impact on the choices you make. 
• Loss around divorce, separation and losing finances etc. 
• Grief and why it's individual journey for everyone. 
• How can loss help you with your career. 
• Redundancy and how this opens doors for you.  
• Job loss and how this can be turned into a fresh start.  
• Personal Loss and the pandemic.  
• Recovery period and loss.  
• How can your loved one inspire you in your career to keep going. 
• Therapy and counselling for loss and why it can help.  
• Loss can be a personal driver for us to think about the kind person we really want to be. 
• What lessons have you learnt from loss.  
• How can you move forward to living a full life now. 
• Repurposing your career whilst you can.  
• Embracing fear and what you would really love to do. 

Please see episodes below that were mentioned in the podcast and could also be helpful to you. 

Redundancy episode - https://anchor.fm/careerhappiness/episodes/Episode-49---How-to-recover-from-redundancy-and-move-on-eil0ap

Job loss episode - https://anchor.fm/careerhappiness/episodes/Episode-45---3-tips-to-help-you-prepare-for-possible-job-loss-efjc9k

My story episode - https://anchor.fm/careerhappiness/episodes/Episode-11---My-Story-e45qvt

Lessons we can learn from the pandemic - https://anchor.fm/careerhappiness/episodes/Episode-67---What-lessons-have-we-learnt-in-2020-and-from-the-Pandemic-enu4mu

If you want to find out more about how to work with me 1-1 please get in touch with me by emailing at soma@thecareerhappinessmentor.com