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Elevate your career changing journey with a growth mindset. Join host Valerie Mekki on the latest episode of Mindful Life Changes (formerly known as the Mindful Career Change Podcast) as you’re guided through the exploration of the growth mindset. 

Discover how to turn setbacks into stepping stones, failures into opportunities, and challenges into brain-boosting exercises. Learn more about the studies and findings behind psychologist Dr. Carol S. Dweck's groundbreaking theory about mindsets and how it can reshape your career pivot experience. Tune in to unlock the affirmation and insights that will be a helpful guide for your journey toward career reinvention and growth.


Show Notes and Timestamps:

[00:00:33] Intro: 

[00:01:02] Talk about setbacks after setbacks. 

[00:01:57] What is a growth mindset?

[00:02:18] Growth vs. Fixed Mindset

[00:03:23] The neuroscience behind a growth mindset

[00:04:25] You have a growth mindset 

[00:05:18] Start of the affirmation with a bodyscan. 

[00:05:56] Memorizing the affirmation 

[00:06:35] Say the affirmation outloud

[00:07:21] Visualize this affirmation 

[00:08:10] End of affirmation

[00:08:37] Making your affirmations sticky

[00:10:05] End

Want to learn more about Dr. Dweck's Harvard studies on mindsets? Check out this article from Mindset Health. 

Curious to learn how to make your affirmations sticky? Listen to episode 1 and I’ll walk you through how to make your affirmation practice a more effective and transformative tool for your career changing journey.

You’re listening to the right show, formerly known as the Mindful Life Changes or Mindful Career Change Podcast. We’ve made some pivots through the years, but we’ve finally landed on the right path: producing content for moms seeking calm within the chaos of midlife changes.

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This podcast explores patience, meditation, confidence, presence, and overcoming resentment while cultivating calm, peace, mindfulness, clarity, mantras, and addressing loneliness and burn out; it covers boundaries, caregiving, guilt, affirmations, working moms, self-care, midlife crisis, empty nesters, empowerment, people pleasing, compassion fatigue, family caregiving, stress relief, self-worth, stress management, and how to shift from reactive to centered when feeling short tempered, offering tools for self acceptance, easing mental exhaustion, building emotional resilience, harnessing inner strength, and preventing caregiver fatigue for those in the sandwich generation through expert advice on boundaries setting.

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