ARCHITECTING Podcast - Career + Lifestyle Mentoring for Architects looking to move beyond overwhelm and make a difference through design

Living Ingeniously: Thriving in the face of radical change

You wouldn't keep throwing money into repairing an old car. So why waste so much of your time and talent into a career that's past it's pull date? Instead of arguing for your limitations and pulling out that practical list of all the reasons to play it safe, start living ingeniously.
Identify the obstacles:What are you avoiding or procrastinating about doing?
How are you compromising to make others happy?
Where are you afraid to lose control?
Who are you avoiding having a hard (but honest) talk with?
Why are you not meeting your own expectations?
Living ingeniously means facing adversity as a challenge to overcome instead of a signal you don't deserve to have an experience.
Think about the possible, not the obstacle
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Tower Moments: Embracing Change and prosperity with Whitney Alexandra

Instead of working so hard trying to maintain, what if you let go? My guest Whitney Alexandra shares secrets to navigating transitions, doing what you love and knowing your worth.
Pay attention to the clues that you need to change. The more you accept change, the less traumatic it is. When it all burns down, what's left is what's worth keeping. What collapses is what wasn't working- even if you were attached to it.
Focus on the good stuff. Celebrate incremental successes and see them as proof points that you are on the right track.
Success in any area of your life uplifts every area of your life.
We often fear change because we worry about how others will view it.
Replace your inner critic with an inner champion. You can make money doing what you love and what feels easy and fun.
Believe you are good enough to try. There is value in persistence and training yourself to feel good about receiving success. It takes time to go from knowing a truth to believing it.
Integrity doesn't go away just because you know your worth. Find the ideal client who will value what you offer.
MORE ABOUT WHITNEY:
Website: https://whitneyalexandra.co/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whitney.alexandra/
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Silence is Compliance: The Art of Speaking Up

Flexers who compete for dominance in a conversation are cringe. However, staying quiet hoping the blank slate you offer will make you likeable is a huge miss. Listen in to hear how to conquer your fear of the spotlight in order to meaningfully contribute to the discussion.
Ask questions instead of making statements in order to keep the focus on the issues, not on your opinions.
If you are a processor, get more comfortable speaking up by having talking points about the issues you care about. Being armed with facts and topics lets you see gaps in a discussion quickly without feeling put on the spot.
Develop your talking points by giving yourself prompts about issues that you want to bring up. Seek to learn more and share what you're learning as much as possible so you have a point of view you feel comfortable expressing.
Share your talking points by tying them into the context of the conversation and invite others to add on.
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Lovin' Life: Dr. Tori Ellis on Creating Your Own Career Lane

How much do you love your life? If the answer isn't a hell yes, then you need to hear this talk with Dr. Tori Ellis. Learn how to be your own advocate and create your own unique path to success based on converging your interests.
Being present is the only way to be attuned to how you're feeling and what you want. Time taken for self care pays huge dividends.
Let having fun be your guide to whether you should prioritize or seek to offload and activity.
Don't follow someone else's career template- create your own lane by finding a way to bring all the things you most love together (no matter how unrelated they seem at first). This frees up your energy as well.
How you do anything is how you do everything. Keep forward momentum and focus on developing each interest. As you learn, you accelerate learning in other areas.  This stuff is exponential!
CONTACT DR. TORI:
Website: https://thesoundofbusiness.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/always_drtorii/https://www.instagram.com/ohiovalleynoma/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tori-ellis-psyd-1a170a166/
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How to Start a NOMA Chapter: Reflections on the Black Architect's Career Path with LeStavion Beverly, Bryant Phares and Ashley Pinkard

Presence has power- so does absence. This chat with the founders and officers of the Ohio Valley NOMA Chapter offers insights into what it's like to navigate a challenging career without a whole lot of role models that look like you. Hear the story of their career paths as well as what's so important to them about creating this chapter.
Belonging and feeling safe to show up as your authentic self are critical career resources many black architects don't have. It takes effort to consciously create them, but it takes more effort (that could be better spent on creative work) to cope without them.
Don't wait for resources to come to you- seek out or form your own network whether through a formal organization like NOMA or an informal one.
Talking about taking action is meaningless unless you actually take action.
Building a pipeline for minority kids to a career in architecture is important. But it doesn't end with getting them in an architecture program. Outreach to students from the profession is critical to keeping them engaged.
Mentorship is crucial. Be willing to ask for it and give it.
Look at the presence of minorities in a firm, including whether those individuals are in leadership roles.
Don't let yourself get pigeonholed into a production role. Ask for opportunities to grow and lead.
CONTACT OHIO VALLEY NOMA:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohiovalleynoma/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ohio-valley-noma/ab
Email: ohiovalleynoma@gmail.com
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Decompartmentalize Your Life

You wouldn't recommend that a client duplicate costly services and processes when they could centralize and streamline. Soooooo...why are you putting all of your interests and roles in life into compartments?  Let's reclaim your energy (and find some synergy) already.
Compartmentalizing happens when you misplace priorities, abandon your dreams and are afraid of being vulnerable.
Curating how you show up in different life situations is exhausting. It takes more effort than you think to only let a fraction of your whole self be present. Plus, there might have been value in the stuff you edited out.
Harness the value of convergence by bringing all of your interests into everything you do- even if they don't seem to be related.
Get started by choosing the five things that interest you the most and asking "what if" they could show up in every part of your life.
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Surfin' the Algo: How to Act on Life's Possibilities

This episode is for all of you so focused on getting to a destination that you didn't notice that at some point you stopped really wanting to go there. Much like an algorithm, new choices arise based on where you currently are. When you explore them, you're not diverging from the path to success, you're blazing a new one.
Calling all control freaks- time to let go and start trusting that things will work (or that if they don't, they weren't meant to). Allow opportunities in, live spontaneously, and watch what magic happens when you let go.
The possibilities popping up in your life algorithm are clues to what you really want to be doing. Start following them.
Look at where you are thriving, not just completing tasks. What bores you has become irrelevant.
Take small steps that challenge you every day.
Revisit your goals on the regular to make sure achieving them still matters to you.
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Workism is a Joy Killer

Working really hard and being super invested in reaching your goals is NOT the path to your dream career. That's just some bad Kool Aid you've been drinking. This ethos, also known as Workism, is a fast track to burnout. If you really want to feel fulfilled, try these tips to add more joy to your life and watch your career (finally) take off with your quality of life intact.
Eliminate tasks that don;t have a high ROI for your time investment. Remember that self care is also a high ROI investment.
Care less. Leave your ego and its hyper-vigilance for anything that might threaten you behind. Assume positive intent and get more positive responses back.
Reframe situations to see lessons learned or clarity gained instead of focusing on what you might lose.
Stop defending your perspective and let everyone be right. Arguing wastes energy that could be spent on creative pursuits.
Ask yourself what the most fun thing you could do- and give yourself permission to do it. This resources you and helps you maintain healthy boundaries.
CHECK OUT LEADERSHIP FOR INTROVERTS HERE: http://architectingpodcast.com/index.php/leadership4introverts/
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How to Stop Outsourcing Your Power

We all got big energy! But if you outsource it to other people, their real (or imagined) reactions influence your choices and behavior.  Sacrificing your agency and identity like this is exhausting. Listen in to learn how to reclaim clarity, purpose and fun and start shining your bright light.
Practice the self care ritual of tapping into your preferences. Knowing what you want gives you clues on how to spend your day.
Expect to be well received for being you and doing what you love. Assume people are happy with you unless someone tells you otherwise - it will transform your interactions.
Meet resistance with curiosity instead of defensiveness.
Every bright light has a gray cloud. Negative thoughts are a normal part of staying safe, but noticing them instead of accepting them as true lets you reclaim your power.
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Make 2024 Your Year of Inspired Living

Inspiration doesn't come from following some prescriptive career roadmap. If you're ready to energize your life and career this year, tune in for my guide to put joy seeking in the driver's seat and leave your burnout and overwhelm baggage by the side of the road.
Embrace exponential success as your new normal
Stop doing things out of obligation or for validation. Making your highest excitement your priority allows you to make the greatest contribution to your loved ones and the community.
Instead of focusing on setting goals and achieving outcomes, focus on how you want to feel instead. Choose a word for this year to represent that feeling. This will lead to the opportunities you really want.
View success as achieving joy.
Make your happiness non negotiable.
CHECK OUT LEADERSHIP FOR INTROVERTS HERE: http://architectingpodcast.com/index.php/leadership4introverts/
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