Rachel Spekman, Her Mom, and Finding Alignment and Doing Work That Lights You Up

Host: Nicole Donnelly

Guest: Rachel Spekman — Career Clarity Coach, Therapist, and Founder of Made for More Coaching

What if the stress you're feeling at work isn't burnout — and the fact that you've been calling it that is exactly why nothing has changed?

For Rachel Spekman, a career clarity coach and licensed therapist who spent years in the startup world before rebuilding her career from scratch, the answer starts with one honest question: what percent happy are you, really? Because if your answer is somewhere around 30% — you're not alone. And you're not broken. But you do need to tell yourself the truth.

In this episode of Hello Moxie, Rachel shares what she's learned from helping 100+ high-performing professionals stop performing happiness at work — and start building careers that actually fit who they are.

🌟 Rachel and Nicole dive into:

• Why depression and anxiety at work are almost always a values problem — not a personal failing
• The good hard vs. bad hard framework: the single question that tells you whether your stress is building you or breaking you
• The three emotional blocks keeping smart women stuck — and the one nobody talks about
• What Rachel asks every new client that most people can't answer honestly
• Why the people closest to you might be the thing keeping you most stuck
• How to know whether you need to leave, pivot internally, or just stop hiding under the covers

Rachel also shares the woman who inspires her most — her mom — a deaf woman who scuba dives at 72, redirects groups of 14 people down sewer canals without blinking, and has built her entire life on her own terms. A living example of what it looks like to stop caring what people think and start caring about your own quality of life.

This episode is for you if:

• You've been telling yourself you're just burned out — but something still feels off
• You're successful on paper and quietly miserable in practice
• You're ready to stop performing okayness and finally tell yourself the truth about where you are

This is the work underneath the work. Not another framework for performing better — but the conversation that helps you come back to who you actually are. It's the Moxie Method in action: from Stillness to Spark, from Spark to speaking your truth out loud.

💡 Memorable Quote

"It would have been hard for me to stay. But it was really hard to leave — and let go of the security of it, the prestige, the reputation of it all." — Rachel Spekman

✨ About Rachel Spekman

Rachel Spekman is a career clarity coach and licensed therapist who helps high-performing professionals trade soul-sucking careers for soul-aligned work — without sacrificing their income. After three pivots of her own, including leaving a venture capital-facing career to earn her MSW and build a private practice, she founded Made for More Coaching, where she's helped 100+ clients stop dreading Mondays and start building careers that fit who they actually are.

📬 Connect with Rachel

• Website: madeformorecoach.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rachelspekman

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