Lessons From A Quitter Podcast

Get insight, inspiration, tools, and resources to help you quit
what you hate and figure out what it is that you love

It is never too late to start over. No matter how much time or money you’ve spent chasing degrees and jobs to get to your current position, if ultimately you’re unhappy, then it is time to quit. Each week, Goli Kalkhoran, a fellow quitter, will interview inspiring guests who have quit lucrative careers to forge their own path and create a life they love.

Coaching Call Replay

If you’ve listened to the podcast for a while now, you’ve likely heard me talk about the free coaching calls I do every month. I always love having new people join the calls because I’ll inevitably get messages afterwards like: “Wow, that was…

Getting Finances In Order To Quit

Last week we spoke about the thoughts we form around money. This week I want to talk about the equation that you need to think about when you want to quit your job.    I hear from so many people saying that they can’t quit because of…

Thoughts About Money

This week we’re going to dive into your money mindset. One of the biggest blocks for people from changing careers is finances. But they don’t realize that most of their problems arise from how they think about money and not how much money they…

Seasons of Rest

This week I want to talk to you about rest. We rarely talk about it. It’s not the type of topic that lends itself to an illustrious career or living your dream life, but it is so important. Today we’re going to talk about seasons of rest: How to know…

How All Or Nothing Thinking Is Keeping You Stuck

Last week we talked about having a healthy self-concept and the need to give ourselves room to stumble, learn, and grow into our full potential. And while we are worth the investment in growth, we need to also manage our expectations of how that will…

The Most Important Work You Can Do

This week’s episode covers the most important thing I can teach you. I think it is the root of everything. The root of all of your problems. I want to talk to you about self-concept. This includes how you think about yourself, how you feel about…

Investing In Yourself

This week, we are talking about investing in yourself. Typically, society has programmed us into believing some investments are good while others are “too expensive”. I see so many people who feel stuck in their careers jump into getting yet…

Stop Searching For Your Passion

Why are you searching for your passion? Really think about it. You try to find it because you think that once you find it, you will love your work and finally be happy. What you’re searching for is that happiness or fulfillment. Not the…

Setting Better Goals

I am in the thick of my goal setting workshop and I love it. It has gotten me into the groove of talking about goals, so let’s keep doing it. We talked last week about not dreaming big enough, not having big enough goals, and really not going after…

The Art of Dreaming Bigger

This week, I wanted to talk about the art of dreaming bigger and why it is so important. The reason you aren’t clear about what you want in life stems from the fact that you’re constantly limiting yourself. You’ve stopped dreaming. You’ve settled for…

My Year In Review

With this being the week entering the New Year, I spend this episode doing a recap of my 2020 year. While we tend to tout all of our successes (and there are plenty of those in this episode), I’m more excited to share all of my failures. As always, I…

A Holiday Message for You: 2020

Happy Holidays! I’m taking this week off from the podcast but I’ll be back next week. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

The Story of Your Past

This week we’re talking about the story that you have about yourself and your capabilities. There is a narrative that you have formed based on your past experiences. And, too often, we believe that this narrative is based on facts.  It is not….

Short Term v. Long Term Goals

If you’ve been a long-time listener, then you know I am running a goal-setting workshop in January and it has gotten me thinking about all things goal-setting. So this week, I wanted to do an episode on the difference between your short-term goals and…

Overcoming People Pleasing

In this week’s episode, we are tackling people-pleasing. I figured this topic would be perfect for the week of Thanksgiving. As we know, the United States is experiencing a massive surge of COVID cases, and many of us are stuck facing the dilemma…

Creating a Vision For Your Life

In this week’s episode, we talk about the importance of having a vision for your life. So many of us are walking around aimless, living the same year over and over again. In the words of Robin Sharma: “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a…