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Sustainable Ambition

How do you navigate the inevitable conflicts between work and life? Not just the daily schedules or mounting responsibilities, but the tensions between your ambition for your career and your ambition for life? How do you decide what to prioritize and what to let go of? How do you decide when to speed ahead and when to ease up? These aren’t questions of work-life balance or self-care. They’re questions we can answer when we get serious about intentionally designing a life with work that works for

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180. Why Creating Space Is So Hard (Even When You...

Sustainable Ambition ·

2026/03/18

Most of us are pretty bad at creating space for ourselves. Yet we need space for rest, for metabolizing and connecting experiences and ideas, for making sense of things.Today, I talk about the gap between knowing we need space and actually creating it. And I’m sharing my own failures and stumbles in this area, what I’ve learned from them, and the new strategies I’m putting into place. As part of creating space for myself to process and look ahead, I’m putting the podcast on pause for a bit

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179. Navigating Transitions and Inflection Points...

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2026/03/04

We’re not always in control when or how inflection points happen, but we can learn to navigate transitions with more awareness and intention.Today I’m joined by my dear friend and repeat guest, Philip VanDusen, as part of my Ambition In-Between Series. We get real about listening for signals that we need change, allowing for completion and subtraction, the importance of recognizing that transitions often take longer than we think they will, and why you shouldn’t go through transitions

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178. Rebecca Hinds: The Power of Intentional Work Design

Sustainable Ambition ·

2026/02/18

This month, I’m exploring sustainability through the lens of leadership and how we can focus our effort to make work better for ourselves and those around us.My guest today, Rebecca Hinds, is an expert on transforming the way we work to be more intentional, efficient, and effective. She urges us to resist functioning on autopilot and consider if our systems and environments are actually working for us and our teams.From how we run meetings, to how we collaborate, and even how we use AI,

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177. Margaret Andrews: Becoming the Leader Only You...

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2026/02/04

Leadership is hard right now.Maybe one of your intentions for this year is to grow as a leader. Maybe you’re questioning if you even want to be one.For those who choose to be leaders, it’s important to set our intentions so that we can focus our efforts on making work better for ourselves and those around us. In this conversation, Harvard Instructor and leadership expert Margaret Andrews and I discuss why self-leadership is vital to then leading others, how to intentionally and sustainably

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176. The U-curve of Ambition: Finding Your...

Sustainable Ambition ·

2026/01/21

Intentionally choosing where to put our time, energy, and attention is an essential part of Sustainable Ambition. Today, I’m introducing a concept and tool, the U-curve of ambition, that helps us get clear on our current stage and state when it comes to our ambitions. I find this reflection from my book, Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work, really useful at the start of the year. I invite you to join me in assessing where on the U-curve you are as

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175. How to Move Forward: Lessons from Creativity ...

Sustainable Ambition ·

2026/01/07

Much as we often find ourselves asking “what now” at the culmination of an ambition, the start of a new year is also a time when many of us wonder how best to move forward.For the third episode of our Ambition In-Between series, I want to build on what I’ve shared about the unexpected outcomes and mixed emotions that show up at the completion of a big ambition, and talk about how to move forward when we’re not totally certain what’s next. Over the last year, I’ve been thinking about

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174. How to Deal With Mixed Emotions (Ambition...

Sustainable Ambition ·

2025/12/24

I continue my Ambition In Between series by exploring something many of us experience but don’t always name: the mixed emotions that surface after completing a big ambition. I look at why conflicting feelings show up, what they might be pointing to, and how we can work with them instead of against them.Toward the end of the episode, I offer several sets of reflection questions to help you review your year, make sense of the emotional complexity that may have surfaced over the past twelve

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173. Laura Holson on Inviting Creativity Back Into...

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2025/12/10

What does it mean to live a creative life? How can creative pursuits support us in being ambitious and living sustainably?Fostering creativity, innovation, and visual thinking can boost our ability to see and enact new or different ways of working and living. Laura Holson offers insights on integrating creativity into our lives, why so many of us come back to creative pursuits in midlife and beyond, and how creative practices sustain us for the long term.Learn more about Laura

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172. Ambition In-Between: How to Deal With Unexpected...

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2025/11/26

Since the June release of my first book, Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work, a number of people have asked me how it feels to have achieved this big ambition. Have I checked that box and moved on to something different? Or am I percolating another book idea?Over the last few months, I’ve been mulling over and researching those questions. Today’s episode kicks off a new series exploring how we navigate the ups and downs of our ambitions, and what

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171. Natalie Nixon on Rethinking Productivity and...

Sustainable Ambition ·

2025/11/12

What if the future of work isn’t about technology but about being more human?That’s the question at the heart of my conversation with Dr. Natalie Nixon, creativity strategist and author of Move, Think, Rest: Redefining Productivity & Our Relationship with Time.Natalie believes we’re not in a technology revolution. We’re in a human revolution. In this new era, imagination, curiosity, and creativity aren’t luxuries or “nice to have.” They’re strategic advantages. But to access them, we

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170. Susan Barber: Be Visible, Be Valued

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2025/10/29

Hard work isn’t a bad thing, even when we’re seeking sustainability. The trick is to put hard work into what actually matters to make progress and meet our goals.If you want to advance in your career, focusing on performance metrics alone won’t lead to success. In today’s conversation, leading visibility coach Susan Barber shares how visibility is an essential piece of making the impact you want to make and offers practical steps for shaping how you show up at work.Learn more about Susan

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169. Wes Adams and Tamara Myles: Creating Meaningful...

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2025/10/15

If we want work to work better for us, we need meaningful work. But that doesn’t mean we have to choose between what’s good for individuals and what’s good for our organizations.In this episode, Wes Adams and Tamara Myles dig into why meaningful work matters, why we need to shift away from downstream metrics like engagement, and three essential focus areas for fostering meaningful work. And as they share, becoming meaning-driven leaders doesn’t have to be overwhelming, rather it invites us

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168: Dana Miranda: The Intertwined Realities of Work,...

Sustainable Ambition ·

2025/10/01

Our work and our finances are inextricably linked. Our financial wellness impacts how we view our work and shapes the choices and trade-offs we make, whether we’re aware of it or not.Return guest Dana Miranda joins me to discuss how embracing the link between financial wellness and our work can actually help us find more flexibility and peace in our choices as we navigate the inevitable ebb and flow of energy and ambition in our lives.Learn more about Dana Miranda:Healthy RichSubstack:

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167. Mark C. Crowley on Why the Way We Manage People...

Sustainable Ambition ·

2025/09/17

A “popular” metric people like to look at is employee engagement. But I’ve always thought this data isn’t that useful and have wondered if this is the best data point to focus on to understand how people really feel about their work. But if not this metric, where do we focus instead? My guest today, Mark C. Crowley, argues that we need to “lead with both mind and heart” to create environments where employees feel supported and like they belong. And why the way we manage people today is

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166. Zach Mercurio: The Power of Mattering at Work...

Sustainable Ambition ·

2025/09/03

Knowing that our work matters is a fundamental human need. But so many organizations and leaders struggle to help people feel that their work is worthy of the effort they put in.My guest today, Zach Mercurio, invites us to explore the fundamental role of work in our lives. In this crisis moment when more and more people feel negatively about work, mattering is an essential antidote to apathy and disconnection.Learn more about Zach Mercurio:WebsiteConnect On LinkedInInstagram:

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165: Bree Groff on Making Work Fun

Sustainable Ambition ·

2025/08/20

When we ask ourselves, what is the role of work in our lives, there are often two camps: Work is just work or find your passion in your work. But most of us want to find the middle ground between those extremes. Today, I’m revisiting the question of the role work plays in our lives, and how we can make work work better for us. Workplace culture expert Bree Groff joins me to talk about how we can bring more humanity and fun to our work. After all, we spend so many hours of our lives working,

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164. Kathy Oneto and Neha Mandhani on Endurance,...

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2025/08/06

I’m flipping the mic again and being interviewed by my friend and past guest, Neha Mandhani, about the journey of writing and publishing my book, Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work. In this conversation, I reflect on the vulnerable, imperfect process of writing and releasing the book because Sustainable Ambition isn’t a magic wand that will give any of us all the answers, it’s a journey of ups and downs that I am on right alongside all of

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Right Ambition, Right Time, Right Effort: Three...

Sustainable Ambition ·

2025/07/23

In this episode, I share conversations that informed the Sustainable Ambition method and appear in my book, Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work. I wanted to revisit these segments with Heather Ainsworth, Dr. Sahar Yousef, and Jack Hsueh because they are wonderful examples of the pillars of Right Ambition, Right Time, and Right Effort and how they align to create Sustainable Ambition.Thanks for Listening!If you liked this episode, please rate,

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162. Dawn Graham Interviews Kathy Oneto (Part 2):...

Sustainable Ambition ·

2025/07/09

As of this recording, Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work has been out in the world for two weeks and I’ve been so gratified to hear from readers and reviewers that the book and its principles are resonating and that they’re already putting it to use.This episode is a continuation of my conversation with Dr. Dawn Graham about Sustainable Ambition. Here we dive deeper into the practical aspects of the method and how you can apply them in your own

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161. Reclaim Personal Success and Ambition as Your Own

Sustainable Ambition ·

2025/06/25

Before we can step into Sustainable Ambition, we first have to challenge what we’ve been taught to believe about success and ambition.Today I’m sharing an excerpt of the audiobook for Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work. Chapter Two, “ Reclaim Personal Success and Ambition as Your Own,” breaks down why you need to define success on your own terms and offers a broader, more freeing way to think about ambition.Thanks for Listening!If you liked this

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