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WOC and Allies: Business and Career Realtalk
Struggling with what to do next? Need honest realtalk cause you're tired of the curated highlight reels on the socials? And want strategies to get out of your own way?
Your host, Elaine Lou Cartas, a first-generation Filipino immigrant, is an award-winning Business and Executive Career Coach for women of color and allies. Elaine is like you - she’s been fired, quit jobs, changed careers three times, and been in debt. Elaine’s success story? She’s always done what’s true to herself and wants you to know it’s possible too. She’s a former grassroots organizer and nonprofit fundraiser who raised $11 million.
LA Weekly awarded Elaine as the #1 Thought Leader in 2023, and MSN recognized her as the Best Leadership & Executive Coach in 2024. Elaine has online courses with LinkedIn, Duke, Brown, Penn and USC.
On the WOC and Allies: Business and Career Realtalk™ Podcast (formerly known as the Color Your Dreams podcast), Elaine reminds you that your definition of happiness in work and life can evolve. Elaine's podcast guests include team members, clients, friends, and even family members who discuss real challenges and how they honored their own voices. As a business owner and career leader, this podcast is here to help you overcome overwhelm, while protecting your peace. So bring your coffee, tea, or boba for some realtalk every other Thursday! @elainelou_ // www.elainelou.com
WOC and Allies: Business and Career Realtalk
94: How to Embrace Anxiety to Work for You
I’ve been noticing my clients, community and myself including feeling anxious maybe cause it’s August and the end of the year is creeping up.
I’ve challenged my clients and myself -- what if anxiety can be good for us? What if we can embrace it.
See…anxiety gets a bad rap.
But this past summer, we’ve seen how anxiety can be (not always) good for us.
- Getting into a difficult conversation with a loved one, but how it helps us understand the other person.
- Inside Out 2 shows how anxiety can be good to help us plan for the future, and how it does protect us
- Watching the Olympics, we can see how athletes deal with anxiety. Whether it’s saying affirmations like what we see Suni Lee do, or meditating like Simone Biles.
So how can anxiety help you -- what if I told you to stop ignoring it.
That whenever anxiety shows up:
- DO NOT pick up your phone and scroll
- DO NOT put your headphones and start listening to music or a podcast
What if anxiety is helping us uncover what we need to work and improve on?
In this episode, I want to discuss how anxiety can be embraced. Not all aspects of anxiety are great; that's when you seek a therapist. But let's see what we can do about it. I have five tips, and five questions you can use when anxiety creeps up.
What We Cover in This Episode:
- Defining Success for Yourself, and Overcoming Burnout
- Reflecting on Personal Growth
- 5 Powerful Questions You Can Ask Yourself with Anxiety Creeps Up
If you would like to see how to work with me to create a more sustainable life where you can be more present with yourself and create your own checklist of success that’s not created by society and loved ones, then schedule a complimentary legacy business and career review at elainelou.com/call
Resources Mentioned:
Psychology Today
Related Podcast Episodes
Episode 57. How to work when you or a friend is neurodivergent (ADHD, Bipolar, Anxiety) with Monica Schrock
Episode 66. 4 Steps to Reduce Financial Anxiety with Claudia Rucker
Episode 25. Coaching vs. Therapy: Which One Do You Need? with Dr. Nazanin Moali
Where We Can Connect:
Apply to the Business & Career Mastermind: elainelou.com/mastermind
Schedule a Business & Career Audit call with me to see if it’s a good fit to work together: elainelou.com/call
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