Ep. #5: Knowing Your Values, Being Future-Focused and Creating a Better World for our Children, with Career Coach Annie Nogg
In this episode, I interview my my former coach and friend Annie Nogg. As a career coach for clients around the globe, Annie shares some of the most powerful concepts and tools that help her clients dream bigger and start taking action towards creating the life and career they want .
Annie made her own career shift into coaching from the non-profit world when her daughter was born 7 years ago. We discuss what that looked like, and why going slow when making big career shifts is often undervalued in a world that focuses on quick, “rip-the-bandaid-off” action.
The value of knowing your own values cannot be overstated, and Annie explains in practical terms why it can be so helpful for working mothers to take the time to figure out what their own values are, as a means to create more fulfillment in their lives and careers.
Annie discusses her own work coming face-to-face with privilege and how her career continues to evolve as she asks herself and her clients what it looks like to let your values guide not only the work you do on yourself, but the work you take into your community and the world.
You’ll get a glimpse into some of the things she and I worked on when I was her client 3 years ago, including how to be future-focused and coming face-to-face with those mean voices in your head.
I hope you enjoy this conversation with Annie!
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
How Annie’s love of client-centric work led her from a career in non-profit to life coaching.
Her gradual transition into coaching after her first daughter was born. How even though she had a dream schedule, she wasn’t feeling challenged and wanted more from her career.
The value in letting yourself go slow when building a business, which goes against our natural tendency to rush.
How focusing just on “what is” can be extremely hard when we’re trying to make a change, and how focusing on what you want to create in the future can help open things up.
How working with a coach can help you cultivate your own future vision (and why coaches always have coaches!)
The dissonance that can exist when you’re seeking mentors or teachers in a career or job that isn’t actually aligned with your values.
Why taking the time to figure out your core values can get you out of analysis paralysis and be the lens through which you make decisions.
Applying your own values to your community and the world at large. How to move past guilt into action to examine your own privilege and support causes like #BLM.
How it’s necessary to question the “impossibility” of a situation, and ask yourself instead “why can’t it be possible for me?”
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About Me
Catherine Ferguson is a Life Coach for working moms. She helps high-achieving, high-vibe women create careers they truly care about, using simple concepts and tools she explores on her podcast and in her personalized coaching program.
She believes that doing work you love as a mother doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming, and that there are simple shifts you can make right now to help you move closer to your dream career by applying universal principles that you’re probably already teaching your children. She is the host of the One Badass (Working) Mother podcast and a mom of two cute but psycho kids.