As we close out the year, I'm sitting down to share my highlights and lessons from the past year. From marrying my best friend to running my first in-person workshop at the InView conference, to working with incredible clients, it's been a year of growth, development, and deepening self-trust.
Towards the end of this episode I look to 2024 and what my plans are and I give you a cheeky insight into something special I'm creating.
Thank you for tuning into The Career Confidence Podcast this year and I can't wait to be back with more episodes in the new year.
Work with me in 2024
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Mindset Shifts Free E-Lessons HERE.
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Website: https://marijaduka.com/
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As we close out the year, I'm sitting down to share my highlights and lessons from the past year. From marrying my best friend to running my first in-person workshop at the InView conference, to working with incredible clients, it's been a year of growth, development, and deepening self-trust.
Towards the end of this episode I look to 2024 and what my plans are and I give you a cheeky insight into something special I'm creating.
Thank you for tuning into The Career Confidence Podcast this year and I can't wait to be back with more episodes in the new year.
Work with me in 2024
Click HERE to find out more about The Unbound Lawyer.
Click HERE to book a discovery call.
Resources
Mindset Shifts Free E-Lessons HERE.
Connect with the host:
Website: https://marijaduka.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marija-duka/
Instagram: @marija.duka
Welcome to the Career Confidence podcast, the podcast for driven lawyers wanting to step out of the traditional path and build fulfilling and purposeful careers. I'm your host, maria Ducar, legal counsel and career coach, helping you navigate your career with intention and confidence. In this podcast, we don't show away from having real conversations about topics that matter to us. Driven AF go-getters From manifesting your dream career, negotiating the salary you deserve, creating your personal brand, knowing when it's time to pivot. We cover these topics and so much more. You ready, let's dive into today's episode. Hello, welcome to the final episode of the Career Confidence podcast for the year. This is honestly, it's come too quickly for my liking. I can't believe I'm recording the final episode for the year. It's still early December as I'm recording this. It's a beautiful day in Melbourne, which seems unlikely, right, because we don't have the best weather. It's always raining here, but today it is sunny. It's beautiful. I am sitting here with my water, with some lemon in there. It's a bit fancy. I've got my puppy next to me. She's sleeping. Took her to the vet today, the poor thing. She's all good though. Yeah, I just want to record a wrapped episode, sharing with you the highlights, the lowlights, the lessons and my goals for 2024.
Speaker 1:As I just said before, to be honest, I do not feel ready for this episode. I do not feel ready for the end of this year. Since getting engaged in 2020, when was it 2022? I feel like my life has been a whirlwind. Things have just been so busy because, once I got engaged, I was like okay, straight into wedding planning, because I've been waiting for this for 16 years. At that time, I am planning this bloody wedding. I'm so excited. It took a whole year to plan the wedding which brought us to getting married early this year in March, which was the most beautiful day. I shared about that in early episodes this year. I just can't believe that I have gone through all of that in the last couple of years. I feel like I'm just catching my breath at the moment.
Speaker 1:I've been married for nearly a year. It's been incredible. It's been a really amazing year. My husband and I we've been together. Well, this year March 17 years. We've been together for 17 years since we were 15 years old, little babies. It's such a blessing to be married. I know this is going to sound cliche. You're going to be like, okay, maria, just calm down. But honestly, to be married to your best friend the last year. It doesn't feel new as in being married to something completely different because we've been living together for, I think, six years now. I've been together for so long. It doesn't feel new, but it's just beautiful to step into that next stage of your relationship and your life and to be building your future together.
Speaker 1:I honestly wish I could redo my wedding every single year, because it goes way too quickly that one day, no matter how much I was trying to be so intentional and savor every moment, it is a lot happening all at once. It's really hard to take it all in. I wish I could redo my wedding every single year to just relive that moment with my husband and my family and friends. Something that I haven't done yet and I really need to get to. It's more of an administrative thing, but also I've been not wanting to rush it and just pondering a bit on it is changing my surname. I will change my surname. I did make that decision. I want to have the same surname as my husband. I feel like he unites us as a team and he never put pressure on me to change it.
Speaker 1:I've taken my time with it because I've just been really reflective around how much I've achieved in my life with my family name and how proud I am to hold that name close to my heart, and how many things I did. I was the first in my family to go to university. I was the first in my family to become a lawyer All of these milestones that I'm so, so proud of and that are attached to my family name. It has taken me time to process and it's not a bad thing. I think that it's okay. There shouldn't necessarily be any rules. If you want to change your name the next day after you get married, go do it. If you want to take some time to change it, go do it. If you don't want to change it at all, then that's fine as well. There's no right or wrong at all. To be honest, I've really enjoyed taking my time and reflecting on my family name and also the culture behind it. I'm Macedonian by background. I'm very proud to be Macedonian and my heritage. That represents my ancestors and all of that that's important to me. Family, my culture, all of these things are important to me. That is why I'm so proud of the things that I have been able to achieve holding my family name. That's why it's just taken some time for me to process and make that an intentional decision to change the name when I'm ready. I did think about hyphenating, but it will be way too long and I'm not going to do that to my future kids and even myself as well. That's a little bit of an update on that.
Speaker 1:I really have been reflecting as well on how supportive and incredible my husband is. He is my biggest fan. He has supported my big, crazy dreams and goals since day one. We've been together since 15 years old and he's never held me back. I think that is our secret to a long and beautiful relationship is that we always cheer each other on and we always ensure that we're both growing individually but then also growing together and supporting each other's goals and never holding each other back. I think that's really important. There's been moments where I've been doubting my own goals or I've been doubting myself, and just having him there believing in me when I haven't believed in myself has been really important for my growth and to continue on with my goals, my big, scary goals. I'm super grateful for that.
Speaker 1:We went to Europe as well. If the year wasn't already big enough, we had our wedding. We had a mini honeymoon in Baruch Bay. We then went to Europe in August. That was, to be honest, very much time to connect with my family and George's family overseas, as much, as it was our honeymoon as well. It was really beautiful to celebrate our marriage with our family over there that just weren't able to make it to Australia. It was just so nice to be able to just get on a plane and to go on an adventure and not have any schedule, not have any plans, just pretty much go with the flow.
Speaker 1:I really let myself be on this holiday. I really did fully switch off. I switched off from, I switched off from business, I switched off from the achiever Maria in me and I just allowed myself to truly let go and just be, because it has been before that. You know, the last time we went overseas was six years ago and that's crazy. But then you know COVID happened and all of that. So it's understandable why we haven't been able to go overseas and just holding onto all of the things that came with COVID and like the burnout of just you know, working from home constantly, not really taking a proper break. Even if we didn't realize it, it took like a massive toll on us in different ways.
Speaker 1:So I feel like this holiday in Europe was the reset that I needed, because before that, I did start to feel quite depleted and not as motivated and, yeah, I just wanted to connect back to myself, connect back to my family, connect back to my heritage where my family is from in Macedonia, and George to connect to his heritage and family in Greece where his family is from. It was the holiday that I truly needed and since getting back from Europe, it has been go, go, go. To be honest, I have tried to like catch up with all my friends as soon as possible. It's hard to do all those things, because at first I was getting over gel and then I got sick and then just getting back into your day to day routine. It really does take it out of you, something that I am reflecting on after coming back from Europe.
Speaker 1:I spoke at the InView conference and I ran my first in-person workshop on modern stakeholder management, and I'm really proud of this highlight and I want to share this with you as an encouragement to you to also put yourself out there in whatever way, whatever form that looks like for you. I'm really proud of this because I personally reached out to the event organizers of InView and pitched this idea for this workshop and I thought it would fit in really nicely with all of the other workshops and speakers that they had going on that day For them to turn around and say, yeah, we're actually really interested in doing that. That fits in really nicely. I was super proud of that and, although it was a bit stressful in terms of I had to get everything pretty much ready before my holiday to that when I came back, because it was literally the week after I got back from Europe. Then I went straight to Sydney the following week and I was jet lagged and exhausted. But it was amazing to be able to overcome all of that because I could have easily said oh no, I'm going to be jet lagged and we're tired. There's no point in putting my hand up for this. I could have thought of all of the excuses in the world, but I was like no, the timing isn't perfect, but I feel like I really want to run this workshop on this topic. I feel like it will fit in really nicely with the overall event.
Speaker 1:I genuinely want to connect with other in-house lawyers as well. I'm so glad that I didn't allow the timing to stop me from putting myself out there. I just wanted to share that with you as a bit of an inspiration. If you're wanting to go for something and you feel like it's not the right time or you're not sure or you feel the fear, just do it anyway and don't allow your excuses to stop you, because we can all make up excuses. We can all make up excuses to stop us from taking action, from doing something that we really want, because we all have that urge and motivation to do something that those that inkling to start something, to make this move or to put our name forward for something, whatever that may look like. But we can easily stop ourselves and stop that intuitive urge if we listen to our fear and our excuses.
Speaker 1:That was a really big highlight for me this year and it was really great to connect with lots of in-house lawyers and also some friends that I made at the previous in-view conference. It was really good to see them after a year and to reconnect with them too. I really love the in-house community and I love the in-view conferences because everyone is just so open to connecting. I really feel like the common thread is that everyone has this growth mindset and they really crave in community and they're just so open to speak to you and to be open and vulnerable and connect. I think that says a lot about the in-view community as well and the event organizers for really bringing together diverse people that are just craving that sense of community and to be talking about different topics that are not usual in the legal space, whether that be career or mental health. It was a really amazing panel on mental health and burnout and one of our previous guests, molly Trigales, was a speaker on that panel and she shared about her burnout and how she has dealt with that. I think it's so important to be speaking about these different topics because it does affect us. We are human. We do face all of these different challenges that anyone else does, and I think that this is why the in-view conference is incredible, because they're not afraid to bring on speakers to talk about these topics that each of us are interested in and challenges that we are going through.
Speaker 1:That was a really big highlight for me this year and then, from then on, I had this energy and this excitement and motivation. I felt and I feel in such alignment with my business and the work that I'm doing as a career coach and in supporting my clients to design their career in their own way, whether that's to move into a different path completely or go to a very private practice in-house, or move into a different industry, whatever it may be, or to up-level and to get a promotion, whatever that may be. I feel really excited the fact about the work that I get to do with my clients as a career coach. As I said before, I feel like that holiday in Europe was really my big reset and then, from then on, felt really connected to my purpose and my mission and to support my clients get the results that they want so that they can truly build that career that fits with them, their personality, their lifestyle, the goals that they want to achieve and rune to.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I feel like that was a really pivotal moment for me, coming back from Europe doing the in-view conference. It really gave me that momentum that I was truly craving before I went to Europe and that I was lacking, unfortunately, but well, human, and I did have a big year of planning a wedding and all of that, and I do need to cut myself some slack at times too. So it has been incredible and I just want to share with you some lessons that I had this year, throughout the year, before I move into sharing with you my goals for next year. And so the lessons I think a big one for me, a big lesson for me this year, is having deeper trust in my own value, in my skill set, in my coaching ability, in really the person that I am. Now I'm moving in well.
Speaker 1:I am in my 30s of 31, this year, moving into 32 early next year, and I feel like a big transition that has happened from moving out of my 20s into my 30s is just this really grounding feeling in who I am as a person. I feel so much more confident in not just my abilities in work and business, but just in who I am as a person and deeply valuing the person that I am and my soft skills that I bring to the table, that I get to intertwine in at work, in my career as a lawyer and in my business as a coach. That I get to bring in those personal skills in any interaction that I have with anyone, whether that's friends, family, clients, the community, anyone. I really do as much as I can bring those personal skills, the personal, the soft skills in my authentic self, to every single dynamic that I have, and something that has really helped me build that deeper trust in myself and my abilities has been the challenges that I have faced this year.
Speaker 1:My word for the year was expansion and I really did feel expanded in all aspects of my life this year, particularly in my role as a lawyer. I stepped into essentially a soul in house council role for one of our clients at Legalite and that has been a big step for me in stepping into that leadership side and that's something that I really was craving from my previous role at Cook High to this new role at Legalite and I've been there for a year, so it's not really new anymore but I really was craving that sense of leadership skills that I wanted to develop and I got that. I was thrown right into the deep end, with support, of course, but I was thrown into the deep end in the most beautiful way, in that there was that trust and support from my team that I could do this and even though there was moments where I'm like I don't know, I don't know if I could do this, but there was that deep sense of trust from my team and I have really leapt into this role in managing this amazing, incredible client and being able to serve them really well and getting positive feedback from them and just building this beautiful relationship with our client and being able to bring my previous skills as an in-house lawyer and merging them with my unique gifts and my unique skills and what I get to bring to the table and fully owning this role. So that has been something that has been challenging at times, but I feel like that cemented that deeper trust in my own ability that I can lead, that I can take on these big roles and that I can succeed and I can do an amazing job at that. So it builds that self-trust and I think that's really important for us to trust ourselves, to know that we are able to move through big challenges, that we are able to expand and grow. And I'm human, just like anyone else.
Speaker 1:So when I am faced with the challenge, I naturally at the start I do get scared. I go, oh, can I do this? And I tend to shrink immediately and I'm like, no, I can't, I have to keep moving forward. I know that I can do this and I coach my way through it and I think it's really important that when you are faced with a challenge and your immediate reaction is to shrink, that's okay if you have that momentary reaction of wanting to shrink and run away, but I think it's important to stay the course and to dig deep and to build that trust that you are able to move through that and trust me. Once you do, then on the other side you get to reap those rewards and you get to look back and say, oh, not only can I do it, but actually learn this new skill. I grew in this way. If it wasn't for that situation, I wouldn't have gotten this next opportunity.
Speaker 1:So I feel like there's just so many beautiful things that do come from challenging situations and being expanded. And also I have felt expanded in my business as well, taking on more clients, working with incredible clients and just obviously managing that with my job as a lawyer as well. There are those natural challenges that come up of trying to juggle both and putting on your coaching hat and putting on your lawyer hat, and then also you have life. So I have felt that expansion come from all sides of my life, but something that I've really and again this goes to self-trust I have built a lot more confidence this year than ever before of my ability to take on more clients and to hold my clients at their highest whilst also having my career as a lawyer. That is a lot and, I'm not going to lie, it takes a lot of my capacity to do both. It really does. So I'm not going to sit here at Sugarcoater and lie to you, but I feel like other years I might give in to more of that fear of like, oh, maybe I can't do this, maybe I just have to pick the one thing and move on with my life. But I'm so glad that I've stayed the course because I have found different ways and tools of managing.
Speaker 1:I guess the volume of what I'm doing to be able to succeed in both and like a lot of that, has been retreating when I need to resting, when I need to letting go of that perfectionist mindset of feeling like I have to do everything all at once. So, for example, in my business, rather than focusing on every part of the business all at once, I'm focusing on okay, what am I going to do? What am I going to focus on the next few months? All right, well, my goal is, for example, to build out my email list. So I'm going to release a freebie, which, by the way, download it is the three mindset shifts before you make your next career move, and that's in the show notes. Yeah, so that was a goal that I worked on. So I built that freebie for my community and promoting that, that was the goal of mine. So I worked on that. So that is how I'm starting to structure my business a lot more of like focusing on that one bigger goal for the business, working towards that and then setting that next goal, and then everything revolves around that, rather than trying that whole scattergun approach of all. Right, I'm going to grow my email list, I'm going to launch this new course and I'm going to do this.
Speaker 1:I think it's really important to just focus on the one thing and then everything that you create, you create around that one thing and it just helps make your life so much easier, especially if you are someone that is running a business alongside your career as well. So and I just want to share that with you, to share that one like it is so hard. It is really hard and I do have my moments of like geez, can I even do this? But I am also living proof that you can do this and you can do both of them and you can do both. Well, it's just some things you have to let go of for the moment.
Speaker 1:And there are tradeoffs that you do make. There are there really are Like I wish that I had my whole weekends to myself. I really do. I wish I had both Saturday and Sunday to just completely chill out and see my friends and do nothing or whatever it may be. I just wish that I had that, but at the moment in this season of my life, I don't. Sundays are my only day where I don't work on my business, and at the moment, that's how it looks like and that's okay. I've made peace with that.
Speaker 1:I think it's really important that you know, when you're setting goals, that you make peace with the tradeoffs and I don't like using the word sacrifice because it's like it has this negative connotation where, as tradeoff, it's like okay, this is temporary tradeoff that I'm making for this bigger gain that I'm going to get and it's all going to help at the end of the day. So that is my tradeoff at the moment that I don't have as much time as I would like to just essentially just be to chill out. But that's not to say that I don't rest and I do ensure that you know throughout the week, like if I have a big day at work, I'm not going to then be working on my business that night. If I need that rest, I'll take that rest and I finish work on time. I take the dog for a walk, I make dinner, enjoy the evening, just chill out with my husband, and yeah. So what I'm trying to say is that there's no one size fits all approach to life, to business, to career. You do things how it suits you, you work it out along the way it's not going to look perfect and that you got to make peace with the tradeoffs that you have to make temporarily so that you can achieve that goal of yours, whatever that goal looks like for you.
Speaker 1:Another lesson is I've really gotten better at not making myself feel wrong or bad or guilty when I have off days. You know there's days that I don't feel motivated. There's days that I don't feel creative and I really would love to, you know, because I have finite time on when I do work, on my business, for example. I wish all of those single days. I felt super motivated and charged up.
Speaker 1:But the reality is that I don't always feel amazing, but I do have tools that I implement in my own life, especially when I have those down days. So if, for example, I'm having a day where I just woke up like on the wrong side of the bed, I'm not going to jump straight into creating content, you know, or any of my business work first thing that morning. I'm going to do the things that are going to alleviate that negative feeling, that heavy feeling. So I'll move my body, I'll go for a walk at the dog, I'll work out I love doing Pilates, so I'll do my Pilates workout at home and then slowly I'm starting to de-layer the heavy feeling that I was feeling and I might not feel amazing like it's not a magic potion that you just feel amazing straight away after, for example, walking the dog and then exercising and doing your morning routine. But I feel much more softer and in a better place to approach my work for the day. So I feel like I've got it better at being okay with not being 100% or supercharged up and motivated when I am working on my business and I've gotten better at implementing those things in my day that helped me to feel less negative and less heavy, so that I can get my head in the zone of what I need to do for the day.
Speaker 1:So I feel like there's so much power in just letting go of the guilt of feeling crap. Honestly, sometimes, if you just say to yourself you know what, today I don't feel my best and I'm probably not going to be performing at 110%, I'm just going to. I feel like I only have 60% to give or 70% to give, whatever that looks like, and that's okay. I accept that for today. That's fine. Trust me, you will move through the day with so much more ease than if you say to yourself oh my gosh, no, why can't I give 110%? What is wrong with me? Why can't I be motivated all the time? I guarantee if you start getting into that negative thought loop and thought pattern and you're going to go from the 60% you are feeling in the morning to probably like 2% at the end of the day because you've berated yourself, you've made yourself feel inadequate, you've literally bullied yourself and you're not going to feel any better at all. So yeah, I just wanted to share that with you because I feel like we all go through waves and especially as lawyers, that we have big careers, we've got big demands. You're not going to be showing up 100% every single day, it's okay. Don't make yourself feel wrong for having an off day. Let it be accepted for what it is and tomorrow is a new day and you'll have fresh, new energy. And if you don't, and if it takes a week or whatever, that's okay. Again, it's just accepting rather than pushing up against how you're feeling. Just accepting how you feel is so much more. It's so much easier, essentially, to move through the day that way.
Speaker 1:And one more lesson I want to share with you before I move on to my goals for 2024 is it's actually a two-part thing. So one is great things take time and investment in your growth so that you can be excellent at what you do. Now we all have social media, right Like we all, you know, might see someone and they're killing it and they're doing all these amazing things. And then we start to compare ourselves and we go, oh, why am I not doing that? Why am I not there yet? Or why XYZ, whatever, why, question we pose on ourselves? I really want to just remind you all, as I am reminding myself, because this has been a big lesson for me too this year is that great things take time and they take investing in your growth, whether that's through time or money and you know, with coaches, mentorship, whatever that investment looks like for you.
Speaker 1:And I think that that's a good thing, because with time you get to refine your skills, you get to go deeper into your craft, is what I call it like your craft. You know that could be your craft, being your legal career, being an expert in a specific industry. For me, my craft is in my business and with that time and refining your craft, you start to become better at what you do and you reach for that excellence. And I know that you all know what I mean when I say this, because you didn't become a lawyer just to be average. You are driven. Naturally You're driven, you want to do well, you want to be the best that you can be. You became a lawyer so you can be excellent at what you do, not mediocre, not average. You can be who you are. It's not ingrained in you to just be mediocre and with that you know to be excellent at something. It takes time, it takes commitment, it takes that investment in yourself as well and again, I think it's about being okay with that.
Speaker 1:We do, unfortunately, live in a society where we want the results straightaway. We look at that person on Instagram that made their first million dollars and we're like, oh, why am I not making a million dollars? And we start to grab onto other people's goals without even asking ourselves are these true for me? Are these goals reflecting of what I actually want in my life, or are we just taking someone else's goals because they look cool? We live in a society where we just want the results straightaway, without looking behind the curtain and actually seeing all the steps and failures and lessons that someone has gone through to achieve that goal. We see the end product on social media, but there is so much behind the scenes and you know things are hard. Like business is hard and especially this year, I feel like it has been a really tricky time for all businesses and also being a lawyer being amazing at your craft also is hard and takes time and is tricky.
Speaker 1:And yeah, it's like navigating the different challenges that come up for you and knowing that it's not this linear process and being okay with that and there's no final destination. There's no spot, especially as driven people. I don't think we'll ever get to that spot of going oh yeah, I've achieved everything I want to achieve. Yep, that's it, I'm done. Yep, cool, I could just float now and chill out. No, like you're always going to want the next thing, you're going to want to achieve something else. You'll set new goals for yourself.
Speaker 1:So just you know, being in it for the right, essentially being in it for the long term, knowing that things take time. And this is why I spend a lot of time with my clients at the beginning of our sessions really envisioning what they want their career to look like, because I don't want them to just apply for any job and do that scattergun approach of not intentionally thinking about where they want to be and just applying for something just for the sake of it. And I know that this is why they invest in me as their coach, because I go really deep with them on their goals. It's not just about I want to make my next career move and that's it. You know, whatever that looks like, I don't care, I'm just going to apply for whatever and so be it. No, like the reasons why my clients hire me is because we get really clear on that vision, what that looks like for them that they can deeply connect to, and then we set actionable steps around that big goal so they can achieve that goal. That is in true alignment for them, and I feel like that is the best approach, because you are building your career for the long term. You're not just going to apply for anything and then be like, oh yeah, whatever, whatever it is, I don't care, no, like you want it to be something that is incredible and worthwhile and an opportunity where you get to grow and learn and expand. Whether that's your job forever or your job for the next year or two, it doesn't matter. I think it's really important to take that intentional step, to be intentional about what that is, what that looks like and knowing, and for it to be intentional. You got to know that. You know your career is this long and exciting journey and you're in it for the long run. So you got to make it worth your while and each season of your career will look different depending on where you're at in your life but really investing in yourself and taking your time to be excellent at what you do so that you can have a fulfilling and meaningful career.
Speaker 1:Now let's move on to my goals for 2024. At this point, I'm going to be honest. At this point, I only have One goal and something that's in the works at the moment. I'm not going to share too much just yet because it is early days, but I have the one goal. So I want to bring together a container of incredibly intelligent, ambitious lawyers, and it's going to. I don't know exactly what it's going to look like just yet. I do have it envisioned in my mind, but from a practical perspective, I'm still working on the finer details.
Speaker 1:But my goal is to bring together these ambitious, incredibly intelligent lawyers that think differently, that are a bit different to the typical traditional lawyer that just wants to climb the corporate ladder all the way to partnership. That's not the container I'm creating this from Creating this container for the rebel lawyers that are a bit different, that want to challenge the status quo, that want to build their career that is unique to them, that want to build their career outside of just the law. They want to attract opportunities that are beyond what they thought was possible for them. So this is what I'm manifesting for 2024, this container of lawyers, and I want this to be a really safe and empowering space where my clients will work together to really support one another, where I get to facilitate that environment and to really bring each other up so we can all achieve our goals and to reach highest potentials that we could not see for ourselves before entering this beautiful container. So that is my vision for next year.
Speaker 1:I am in the works. I am starting to take steps to creating this, so watch this space on what that will look like in the new year. If you listen to our podcast, I'll be sharing more about it, and on socials as well. But this is my one vision for next year and I'm really excited about this because I've been thinking about this for a long time and I feel like next year is the year for this, where I introduce this new program, where it is group focused and it is going to be unlike anything you've seen before in the market, because I want to be different, I want to stand out in the best possible way and I want to provide something that a lot of lawyers are craving, but it just isn't out there just yet. So watch this space for that and otherwise, I am looking forward to next year. Ok, this is going to be my work. You heard it here live, not live. But you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Next year I want to be, rather than always be, like go, go, go, doing, doing, doing, achieving, achieving, achieving. I want to be in receiving mode. I want to surrender, I want to be more confident in surrendering to the process. That doesn't mean not taking any action and just sitting on my ass, no, but to surrender, trust the process and to be in receiving, to be OK with receiving. I'm a natural giver. I love to help, I love to solve problems, I love to step in and do all of those things which come naturally to me. But, yeah, I want to be in this space of receiving, a softer space. That's my word for next year receiving. And I'm really excited for it.
Speaker 1:I feel like I'm stepping into a new phase of my life next year. I don't know what next year is going to exactly look like or entail, but I feel like, yeah, I'm just so excited. I have this inner excitement and trust that it's going to be a beautiful year and that doesn't mean there's not going to be any challenges. I'm sure there will be heaps of challenges, of course. That's life. But I feel like I'm going deeper into again who I am what I bring and having that self trust and self awareness around that, I hope that also provides you with some motivation to set your goals for next year.
Speaker 1:And if you are looking to move into a new role or if you're looking to up level in your current role and you want to work with the career coach to bring that into reality, I am taking on five new clients in 2024 in my program, the Unbound Lawyer. I've got the link in the show notes so you can find out more about the program there. And also the best way to work out if this is the right program for you is to book in a 30 minute discovery call. We'll have a chat and we can go deeper into what your goals are for 2024. And I can chat to you more about my program and how that will support you in achieving your goals.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much, fam. Have an amazing rest of your year, merry Christmas, happy new year and I'll see you in 2024. Bye, thanks for tuning into the Career Confidence podcast Like what you learned today. Why not share this episode with your work, bestie, and leave us a five star review on wherever you listen to your podcast on? We'd absolutely love to get into more years and help more women, just like you, build fulfilling and thriving careers. Until next time.