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

When Stress is Givin’ Ends: What You Should Know About Eustress and Distress

As a high performance person, you'd get bored reeaaaalll fast of a completely stress free life. Learn more about eustress, the kind that keeps you curious and motivated. I also share how to spot when distress starts creeping on your happyland and how it fools you into a downward spiral that makes you susceptible to burnout.
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Eustress is good stress. It keeps us motivated and focused- that hit of adrenaline that makes us excited.
When external burnout conditions are present like work overload, lack of support and too many meaningless tasks, we can slip into distress and rely on our addiction to stress hormones to push through.
Distress creates a physical response in the body that is harmful to our physical and mental health unless we have a physical response soon after it is activated.
When distress is chronic, it harms our well being and leads to burnout. As we deal with this overtime, we become "wired and tired," and unable to relax and rest.
Signs of burnout show up in the body as becoming overly controlling impatient and irritable, brain fog, extreme fatigue, resorting to "comfort habits" to numb out or stimulate ourselves, losing motivation.
To reset, you need to identify the root cause, implement boundaries, and reconnection to self with salutogenic activities.
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Qualified! Ways to Chase your own Mastery

What makes you qualified to be a leader? It's way more than years of experience and credentials. Listen in to learn how to chase true mastery and lead from where you are today. I answer a question from our community about why she's a leader in professional organizations, but being told she's "not ready" to lead at her firm.
Unconscious bias can exist when you get pigeonholed in a role you are good at performing that you don't want to or need to change. Even if you've grown professionally and developed leadership skills, you may still be perceived the way you were when you began work.
Notice whether your willingness to lead changes depending on the setting. Think about how you show up differently in settings where you feel you are not being seen as a leader.
Have the hard talks. Ask for the opportunities you want and for a timeline and bridge learning/roles to get there.
Demonstrate how the things you are about professionally add value to the firm. Seek mastery in these areas not just credentials.
Leaders take people somewhere they can't get on their own. From whatever level you are, you can share knowledge inspire action and implement positive change.
Know that you're not for everyone. Criticism that helps you make changes for the better is different from criticism that aims to shut down your effort. If you accept that there will be negativity, you can be prepared to adapt and make progress instead of shutting down.
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Work as Play? Seismically Shift Your Career

Living to work or working to live? If you think of work as just another 4 letter word, no wonder it feels like such a heavy lift. Overwhelm stress and burnout set in when the "have to do" parts of the day overshadow the "get to do" parts. Listen in for ways to reset and find your heart in the work.
Living to work means your heart is in it. You love what you do, have a growth mindset and enjoy the process of discovery. Work is play.
There is a difference between a job and a vocation. If you are trading time for dollars you need to seek out more opportunities to bring your purpose into the things you do.
Joy comes from doing meaningful work.
Mastery of the process only comes from iteration. Find the fun in the making and the learning and stop making the end result so precious that getting there is fraught with stress.
Do it messy. But do it. Chase mastery.
You know what you know when you know. Trust your instincts and expertise and the opportunity they give you to reallocate your time to exploring other things.
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Career Beige Flags: Your Cause for Pause

It's more than just a TikTok trend. Beige flags are signs that the halo around any type of relationship has dimmed.  In the workplace, it looks a lot like disengaging and can signal the beginning of the end of a working relationship. It doesn't have to be this way- listen in to learn how to recognize when a beige flag is being thrown and what to do about it.
Is work feeling way more like a bunch of stuff you have to do (sigh) than things you get to do (yay)? When monotony sets in, you know it's time to change things up.
Feeling like not much is worth the effort because nothing you do seems to make a difference anyway? You need to reset your risk vs. reward expectations.
Always exhausted, and too busy but defensive about being asked to do more or a different kind of work? Seek out more meaningful tasks that align with your purpose.
Ask for the opportunities you need based on these things from your leadership. Offer recognition, appreciation and realignment opportunities to those you lead.
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The Crooked Path Leading to Your Biggest Breakthroughs

Like a lightning bolt cutting a jagged path across the sky, your career can experience disruptions disguised as derailments. The most successful people know how to embrace the opportunities to course correct and explore new directions that lead them to exactly where they were meant to be.
Being at the top of your game career-wise is not a linear trajectory. Embrace the aligned opportunities even when they seem to take you off course.
Unrelated is relative. What seems like a zigzag on your path might actually be getting you where you were meant to be faster
Disruption is not something to be feared- it is a moment of reckoning that helps you gain clarity.
Your sense of what's possible and image of success is limited by your experiences. Have more experiences and expand what you believe is possible.
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Off Course? Your career riptides and undertows may be exactly what you need

There you are plodding along your perfectly planned career. Doing the things you're supposed to do, even when they feel soul sucking. Putting off the dream (or abandoning it altogether) until you feel established enough to take a risk. Time to stop avoiding the riptides and undertows. They pull you under, take you off course- and make you think about what you really want to be doing. Let's explore how these "disruptors" actually keep you on the right course.
Know the difference between a distractor and a disruptor. A disruptor will tug at you- notice yourself saying "I'd love to but..." "I'll do it when..." "I can't because..."
Take inspired action and watch opportunities magnetize to you, even if they feel off course.
Make get to do things non-negotiable
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Stress Remodelling using EFT: Interview with Kelly Howe

Stress is your body's danger response. Too bad your body doesn't know the difference between physical danger and being emotionally triggered by experiences that dredge up past traumas. Good thing there is a technique out there that let's you remodel the stress triggers in your body and mind. My guest Kelly Howe discusses why we experience stress and how to release it using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) aka tapping.
We don't always recognize the low level stressors that keep us in a chronic state of stress. Stress not only leads to physical and mental disease, but it shuts down rational thinking and creativity.
EFT or tapping stimulates acupressure points while voicing psychological prompts to release past traumas. It creates a sense of safety for the body which then can turn off the stress response. It clears stress when you encounter a triggering event, and also clears the root cause trauma issues associated with the trigger.
Traumas keep stress activated and leak our energy. EFT unplugs those energy vampires so you feel good more often.
Connect with Kelly:
website: https://kellyhowe.co/
podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-manifestation-lab/id1620595090
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellyhowecoaching/
 
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Plug in the Toaster: 3 Ways to Activate Your Potential

Are you so busy qualifying yourself that you've lost touch of why it matters? If you want to have greater impact, get that prized role, raise or promotion, think about your energy. Listen for three ways you can activate your why and get more career traction!
While staff is the most valuable asset at any company, you have to activate your specific value.
Value is not the sum of your accomplishments, it's the magnetic energy you bring to activate them.
Trying to have mass appeal dilutes your value.
Your purpose is your differentiator
Apply your purpose like a photo filter to everything you do
The success equation is the three thing you stand for consistently. Tell your story - make it clear to people what they get when they work with you.
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Your Internal Legal System is Criminalizing Your Potential

Your internal legal system is a set of rules that consciously or unconsciously governs your life. Then you're left wondering why it feels so much easier to self abandon instead of self promote. Say buh bye to all the ways you are judging and holding yourself back
The internal legal system governs your behavior based on cultural, religious or personal beliefs.
This system creates rules for how you show up in the world and react to people and situations you encounter.
There is the letter of the law that leads to transactional behaviors (if I do this, I get that) or judgements of others (because they did this, I will/won;t do that).
Even deeper is the spirit of the law which is the motivation behind the rules of engagement and rooted in keeping you safe and accepted within your community.
Our laws are based on external validation and people pleasing, which can make them restrict behavior based on achieving what would make us successful on our terms.
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Navigating a Multipassionate Career: Interview with Kate Cherichello

Multipassionate people get a bad rap. You're drawn to many seemingly different things because you are so creative. My guest Kate Cherichello helps you find the throughline in it all and shows how to leverage your skills and interests to get better at everything.
One passion can help you introduce innovation or bring mastery to a different career, so take the time to build skills even if they seem unrelated to your primary career.
Pursuing multiple career arcs pushes you out of your comfort zone 
Don't be afraid to embrace change- nothing is ever wasted. Who you were informs who you will be.
Start small but be consistent about the path you want to follow.
Don't compare yourself to others because you don't know the work that went into the "overnight success," or the pain behind a flawless public facade
Your definition of success will evolve over time, but it's always rooted in doing things that make you feel good.
Connect with Kate: https://www.katecherichello.com/
Instagram Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/positively_kate/
Instagram Fitness: https://www.instagram.com/be.bykate/
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