Let’s create change from a place of curiosity and joy
…but first let me tell you where I took a more stressful path.
I started out my work-life making all the “responsible and rational” decisions. Graduating with a degree in Accounting led to working at a big accounting firm.
Cut to 4 years and a CPA license later I’m sitting at breakfast in an NYC diner across from my mom as she says, “Wow, you look translucent.”
It wasn’t a compliment.
The lack of alignment between my career as an auditor and my truer desires had teamed up to drain the color from my face. I was stressed, burned out, and not really living my life.
So what did I do?
I accounting-ed harder!
My firm sent me to the literal underside of the world, surely, I could find joy in accounting with a change of scenery. To which my body said, I see what you’re doing here. And in a few short weeks, that’s how I ended up in an emergency room in Sydney, Australia at 3am assuming I was dying and in actuality having my first ever panic attack.
As firsts go it was a pretty spectacular one.
This was 14 years ago, both my body and mind were conspiring to tell me I was headed down an untenable path. While I was able to make a side-step to a different accounting job shortly thereafter, it would be another 7 years before I took a big leap of faith and jumped the corporate ship.
While I became more and more willing to turn my life in a direction that felt more truly me, I did not handle change cycles gracefully.
Learning how to truly listen to my body, break down limiting beliefs and unhook my self-worth from the work that I do would all come after I moved across country, changed careers completely to become a Film Producer, came out to myself/family/friends, made two more big country-country moves, and completely lost myself in a difficult relationship.
I do not recommend this crash-course in personal change management. Being on the other side I will say that I have evolved to a better way of handling change and have tapped into curiosity to view life and dream outcomes in ways I never had before.
Now I am able to navigate life’s great changes with equanimity, confidence, and joy.
I want this for you. Do you want it for you?
Let’s dig into all your “should’s” and “but I have to’s” and “I could never just’s”.
Let’s reconnect you with your essential knowing of the life you’re here to live.
Let’s get you to a place where the life you’re living is better than you’ve ever dreamed it could be.
Let’s work together.
Why “Nine Lives Coaching”?
It’s an invitation for all of us to keep iterating and growing and becoming. We never stop evolving as long as we’re listening deeply and embracing curiosity.
Since my last name means “cat” in Italian, I like to describe myself as a literal cat person.
There’s an idiom that I’ve possibly taken more than personal offense with; “Curiosity killed the cat,” but did you know there’s a second part to this proverb?
“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.”
What has most often been thrown about as some foreboding warning about the dangers of exploration and experimentation in actuality in its full form holds an incredibly uplifting message.
If we’re following our truest curiosities in life they may take us far afield of where we’ve “expected” to be. Those expectations may die a little death and what grows up in its place can be more vibrant and beautiful and right for us than we could have imagined. And then we can let it happen again. And again. And again. As far and through as many lives as our curiosities will carry us.