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Self-Helpless
How to Make Film and Art That Inspires Generations with Shaun Monson
Delanie Fischer chats with filmmaker and creator of Earthlings Shaun Monson about his creative process, evolving as an artist and activist, and balancing meaningful, niche storytelling with commercial work. He shares candid advice for filmmakers on staying true to your voice while building a sustainable creative career. Episode Highlights: Rejection to Virality: Inspiration + Word of Mouth Shaun’s Favorite Tools & Inside His Creative Process Powerful Advice to Shaun from James Cameron Editing: How Much to Show in Non-Fiction Film 2 Genres That Support Small Budgets & Visibility Have You Tried the Opposite of Your Usual Approach? 4 Powerful Quotes for...
2026-02-26
1h 02
Self-Helpless
Can Ambition Be Sustainable? How to Prioritize What Matters in Life and Work with Kathy Oneto
Delanie Fischer chats with Kathy Oneto, strategy executive and author of Sustainable Ambition, challenging what we've learned about ambition, productivity, and success. They explore how to avoid burnout, create life-work sustainability, and prioritize focus, fulfillment, and manageability in career and personal life—so you can achieve what you want, when you want, and actually enjoy yourself along the way. Episode Highlights: The Myth of Work-Life Balance Right Ambition, Right Time, Right Effort Ambition as a State, Not a Trait Constraints as a Catalyst for Creativity 3 Questions to Ask at Your Next Party Making Your World Smaller Whe...
2025-12-22
1h 10
The Positive Persistence Podcast with Ian Bowen
78. Mindset for Sustainable Ambition with Kathy Oneto
What if chasing success didn’t have to mean burning out?In this deeply insightful episode, Ian Bowen sits down with Kathy Oneto, an executive and life-work coach, speaker, and founder of Sustainable Ambition. Kathy brings a refreshing and realistic approach to ambition, one that aligns high achievement with personal well-being. Drawing from her experience as a former triathlete and marathon runner, she shares powerful lessons on pacing, resilience, and the art of thriving without sacrificing what matters most.Kathy opens up about the misconceptions of “work-life balance” and introduces her practical framework for managing ambiti...
2025-12-10
40 min
Somatic Wisdom
S7 E11 Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work with Kathy Oneto, Founder of Sustainable Ambition
Hello Lovelies, Here's the link to a machine-generated transcript of our conversation via Descript. Did you know you can use my Descript referral link to get 50% off on your first two months of this tool? You also will let me earn some rewards if you do this as well. Check out this affiliate link to learn more: https://descript.cello.so/GFmJGtvzQSK *** To check out more from Kathy Oneto, go to her website at Sustainable Ambition. Kathy's podcast can be found via podlink at: https://pod.link/1546561845 an...
2025-11-21
51 min
Great Mondays Radio
The Ambition Trap: Why High Performers Burn Out (and What to Do Instead)
As burnout becomes the badge of modern success, high performers are stuck in a cycle of striving—without asking whether the goals they’re chasing actually belong to them. On this episode of Great Mondays Radio, host Josh Levine sits down with Kathy Oneto—work strategist, author, and founder of Sustainable Ambition—to explore how we can redefine ambition to thrive in both work and life.This is a conversation about breaking free from the myth of work–life balance, why burnout often stems from unexamined “shoulds,” and how a simple method—right ambition, right time, right effort—can help...
2025-10-13
30 min
Get Your FILL, Financial Independence and Long Life
Master Work/Life Balance with Kathy Oneto
In the latest episode of "Get Your Fill: Financial Independence and Long Life," host Christine McCarron chats with executiveand life-work coach Kathy Oneto about mastering "sustainable ambition" – a fresh approach to pursuing goals without burnout. Kathy shares her journey from pondering college majors in a physical book to authoring her own guide on blending strategic thinking with personal fulfillment. She emphasizes that true success stems from aligning "rightambitions" at the "right time" with balanced effort,acknowledging life's messiness and the need for ongoing practices like self-reflection to foster joy, peace, and ease in both professional and personal realms....
2025-09-29
34 min
Change Work Life
Ambition that lasts: pursuing success without losing yourself - with Kathy Oneto of Sustainable Ambition
Questions? Comments? Episode suggestions? Send us a text message!#213: Kathy Oneto is a life-work strategist, author and founder of Sustainable Ambition. She explains what makes an ambition sustainable, the different influences that drive ambitions, and the difficulty of predicting what will make us happy. What you’ll learn[01:50] The difference between traditional ambition and sustainable ambition. [03:33] What unsustainable ambition looks like. [05:24] The difference between a challenging ambition and a misplaced ambition. [07:28] The different influences that drive ambitions. [11:17] How to avoid shiny object syndrome. [13:23] The physical signs your ambitions are misaligned with your self. [16...
2025-08-26
44 min
The Virtual Campfire with Tony Martignetti
Sustainable Ambition: How To Grow Without Burning Out With Kathy Oneto
What does it take to stay ambitious without burning out? In this warm and insightful conversation, Kathy Oneto—author of Sustainable Ambition and host of the podcast of the same name—joins Tony Martignetti to explore the flashpoints that shaped her journey and her philosophy. From swimming the length of a pool as a kid to working in high-powered roles in New York, Kathy shares how her curiosity, courage, and conscious risk-taking led her to redefine success on her own terms. Together, they dive into what sustainable ambition really means, how to honor different life stages, and why ambition doesn’t h...
2025-08-25
42 min
Big Freakin' Change
Ambition with Intention | Ep. 027 w/ Kathy Oneto
In this episode, host Cara Moeller Poppit is joined by Kathy Oneto, an executive and life-work coach. Kathy shares insights from her book 'Sustainable Ambition’, unpacking how our relationship with ambition evolves over time and how societal perceptions shape that experience. Cara & Kathy connect over the challenges of writing a book and reflect on the significance of pacing and energy management in achieving sustainable ambition.Kathy’s Links:Website: https://sustainableambition.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sustainableambition/ Cara’s Links: Book: https://bigfreakinchange.com/ Website: https://carapoppitt.c...
2025-08-20
35 min
Brian Bogert - Flipping The Lid
Sustainable Ambition: THRIVE Without Burnout and Hit Bigger Goals NOW w/ Kathy Oneto (E126)
Many people often struggle to keep their ambitions alive while making space for their lives. However, you can achieve your goals without sacrificing your wellbeing. Discover how in this episode featuring Kathy Oneto, an executive & life-work coach, founder of Sustainable Ambition®, host of the Sustainable Ambition podcast, and author of Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work (June 2025).In this episode, Kathy shares her journey into coaching and the vision behind Sustainable Ambition®. Additionally, she highlights how she integrates her unique gift for navigating complexity into her coaching to help others ov...
2025-08-07
59 min
Sustainable Ambition
164. Kathy Oneto and Neha Mandhani on Endurance, Exploration, and Evolving Goals
I’m flipping the mic again and being interviewed by my friend and past guest, Neha Mandhani, about the journey of writing and publishing my book, Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work. In this conversation, I reflect on the vulnerable, imperfect process of writing and releasing the book because Sustainable Ambition isn’t a magic wand that will give any of us all the answers, it’s a journey of ups and downs that I am on right alongside all of you.Learn m...
2025-08-06
49 min
Above The Business
Episode 485: Sustainable Ambition with Kathy Oneto
Today on the podcast, Kathy Oneto - Author of "Sustainable Ambition" joins Bradley for today's episode. Kathy Oneto is an executive and life-work coach, speaker, and facilitator whose mission is to help ambitious organizations, teams, and individuals explore how to live and work differently for more success, satisfaction, and sustainability. She bridges two worlds as both a strategy executive and coach, bringing strategic thinking to life and work planning. Work-life balance is a myth. We need a better, more sustainable way to achieve our life and work goals through what Kathy calls "Sustainable Ambition" - a transformative...
2025-08-04
34 min
The Lindsey Elmore Show
Sustainable Ambition: Redefining Success Without Burning Out with Kathy Oneto
Is ambition driving you—or draining you? In this powerful episode, Lindsey welcomes Kathy Oneto, author of Sustainable Ambition, to unpack how we can pursue our goals without sacrificing our well-being. They explore how ambition operates on a curve, how to balance drive with rest, and why our motivation doesn’t always have to come from within.With practical tools and a refreshing take on success, this conversation invites you to slow down, reflect, and align your ambitions with what actually matters. Listen in to learn more: Ambition operates like pressu...
2025-07-24
18 min
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
1075: The Sustainable Path to Achieving Success and Finding Meaning with Kathy Oneto
Kathy Oneto offers a sustainable path to achieving your goals in work and in life.— YOU’LL LEARN — 1) The major myths surrounding ambition2) How to overcome inertia to achieve your goals3) How to keep your energy up for the long termSubscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1075 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT KATHY — Kathy Oneto is a consultant, facilitator, and coach who is passionate about helping ambitious organizations, teams, and individuals explore how to live and wor...
2025-07-14
36 min
Work From The Inside Out
278: Sustainable Ambition: Shaping Life and Work on Your Terms with Kathy Oneto
In this episode of Work from the Inside Out, I’m so excited to welcome back Kathy Oneto. Kathy is the founder of Sustainable Ambition, a coach, speaker, and now the author of Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work. Her new book is a thoughtful and deeply practical guide for redefining what success and ambition can look like on your own terms. In our conversation, Kathy shares how the idea for the book was born out of years of reflection, coaching, and personal experience. We talk about what it means to honor yo...
2025-07-09
37 min
Sustainable Ambition
162. Dawn Graham Interviews Kathy Oneto (Part 2): Inside the Journey to “Sustainable Ambition”
As of this recording, Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work has been out in the world for two weeks and I’ve been so gratified to hear from readers and reviewers that the book and its principles are resonating and that they’re already putting it to use.This episode is a continuation of my conversation with Dr. Dawn Graham about Sustainable Ambition. Here we dive deeper into the practical aspects of the method and how you can apply them in your own life. ...
2025-07-09
28 min
Manufacturing Greatness
Sustainable Leadership in Manufacturing for Plant Leaders: Building Energy That Lasts and Preventing Burnout with Kathy Oneto #147
Welcome to Manufacturing Greatness with Trevor Blondeel, where we work with organizations to manufacture greatness by leveraging resources you already have to achieve greater retention, productivity, and profits. To learn more, visit www.manufacturinggreatness.com and click here to subscribe to Trevor's monthly newsletter. Now, let's jump in! In manufacturing, leaders are constantly balancing productivity, performance, and rapidly changing technology. For many, it can feel impossible to meet goals while also setting boundaries, managing energy, and avoiding burnout. In this episode, Kathy Oneto, consultant, executive coach, and author of Sustainable Ambition: How to P...
2025-07-09
23 min
Getting Work To Work
“Sustainable Ambition” with Kathy Oneto (GWTW826)
How would you define your level of ambition? Are you pushing yourself to change the world or maybe you’re on the other side of failure wondering if you’ll ever be ambitious again? Today’s guest is on Getting Work To Work to talk about a new way to approach our goals, not just in work, but in life. It’s called Sustainable Ambition®. Kathy Oneto is a coach, author, and podcaster whose mission “is to help people craft a life with work for more joy, fulfillment, peace, and ease.” Definitely sounds like something most of us need. In this conve...
2025-06-21
46 min
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
AGL 422: Kathy Oneto on Sustainable Ambition
About Kathy Kathy Oneto is an executive and life-work coach, speaker, and facilitator who helps ambitious individuals and organizations explore how to live and work differently for greater success, satisfaction, and sustainability. With a portfolio career, she is also a strategy executive who bridges her two worlds applying strategic approaches to life and work decisions and practices. Kathy is the founder of Sustainable Ambition® and host of the Sustainable Ambition podcast. As a strategist, Kathy has had a twenty-five-year career working across business, branding, innovation, and talent. In her work today, she partners with ambitious organizations and leaders to i...
2025-06-20
37 min
A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world
AGL 422: Kathy Oneto on Sustainable Ambition
About Kathy Kathy Oneto is an executive and life-work coach, speaker, and facilitator who helps ambitious individuals and organizations explore how to live and work differently for greater success, satisfaction, and sustainability. With a portfolio career, she is also a strategy executive who bridges her two worlds applying strategic approaches to life and work decisions and practices. Kathy is the founder of Sustainable Ambition® and host of the Sustainable Ambition podcast. As a strategist, Kathy has had a twenty-five-year career working across business, branding, innovation, and talent. In her work today, she partners with ambitious organizations and l...
2025-06-20
37 min
Live Greatly
Overcoming Status Anxiety with Kathy Oneto, Author of Sustainable Ambition
On this Live Greatly podcast episode, Kristel Bauer sits down with Kathy Oneto, author of Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work. Kristel and Kathy discuss navigating status anxiety, suggestions to avoid burnout culture, tips to support youself in work and life and lots more. Tune in now! Key Takeaways From This Episode: A look into Kathy's book, Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work Tips to navigate status anxiety Ideas for goal setting Ideas if you lack ambition ABOUT KATHY ONETO:
2025-06-17
22 min
Centered in the City
Episode: 242: Making Ambitions Sustainable with Kathy Oneto
In today's podcast, Kathy shares with us many different frameworks to think about how to create life and work ambitions that fit your life at this moment. Ambition is something we can own that doesn't have to be directly correlated to our careers. Life ambitions matter too! Kathy inspires us to: Create a horizon map to help you get clear on what you want to focus on now versus what is further off on the horizon Have systems and structures in place to support ambitious goals Coordinate goals so there is less friction Listen to...
2025-06-12
34 min
Sustainable Ambition
160. Dawn Graham Interviews Kathy Oneto: Inside the Journey to “Sustainable Ambition” (Part 1)
In this special episode of Sustainable Ambition, I’m doing something different. I’m stepping out of the host seat and into the hot seat!To celebrate the launch of my new book, Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work, Dr. Dawn Graham — corporate psychologist and career coach — joins me as guest host to flip the mic and interview me about the ideas behind the book, my personal journey, and what it really means to pursue ambition sustainably.This conversation is a personal and heartfelt look into why I do...
2025-06-11
22 min
Embrace This Thought-Provoking Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.
Sustainable Ambition by Kathy Oneto
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/7328to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sustainable Ambition Author: Kathy Oneto Narrator: Kathy Oneto Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins Release date: 06-10-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Career Success Publisher's Summary: You want to pursue meaningful work and succeed professionally, and you know that personal pursuits matter and fuel your happiness, too. But in today's world, the pressure to do it all can leave you stretched thin and questioning everything—your direction, your choices, and even your ambitions themselves. Time-management techniques and productivity hacks aren’t enough. The endless search for balance feels like...
2025-06-10
8h 31
SPARKED
How to Cultivate Sustainable Ambition in Life and Work | Kathy Oneto
Have you ever felt like your ambition was unsustainable? That drive to achieve and succeed was slowly draining you, leaving you unfulfilled despite your accomplishments? What if there was a way to align your ambitions with your deepest motivations and capacity for a lifetime of thriving?Today, we're turning our attention to the concept of sustainable ambition. We'll explore a fresh perspective that liberates ambition from its narrow professional confines and redefines it as a fluid force that ebbs and flows across all domains of life. Get ready to shed the toxic notion that ambition requires endless...
2025-06-10
23 min
Before Breakfast
Make life more sustainable, with Kathy Oneto
Kathy Oneto, author of Sustainable Ambition, shares how to make work and life work togetherSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-06-04
22 min
The Visibility Factor
169. Sustainable Ambition (with Kathy Oneto)
169. Sustainable Ambition (with Kathy Oneto) In this episode of the Visibility Factor podcast, guest Kathy Oneto talks about her book, Sustainable Ambition. We explore the concept of sustainable ambition, emphasizing the importance of pacing one's ambitions, defining personal success, and the need for self-reflection in career development. Kathy shares her sustainable ambition method, which focuses on aligning the right ambitions with the right effort at the right time. The conversation also touches on overcoming societal norms around ambition, fostering a future-oriented mindset, and the importance of curiosity and experimentation in career transitions. In this episode:
2025-05-29
41 min
Disrupt Your Career
Author Chat: Sustainable Ambition by Kathy Oneto
In a world where striving for success often leads to overwhelm, Kathy Oneto offers a refreshing new approach. Sustainable Ambition redefines how we think about work and life—not as a balancing act, but as an opportunity to align our goals with what truly matters.In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Kathy Oneto about her book, Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work (Greenleaf Book Group, June 2025). Kathy introduces a practical framework—Right Ambition, Right Time, and Right Effort—to help individuals pursue meaningful goals with clarit...
2025-05-15
12 min
Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job
What Do You Want To Do Next?, with Kathy Oneto
Check out the podcast on Macslist here: (https://www.macslist.org/?post_type=podcasts&p=15982&preview=true) How do you determine what to do next in your career? That depends on your situation, says Find Your Dream Job guest Kathy Oneto. But if you have time to figure it out, Kathy suggests beginning with self-reflection. Examine peak moments in your work and personal life to determine what’s important to you. Then, Kathy says, ask yourself a series of questions to clarify what you’d like to learn, where your passions lie, and what motiv...
2025-05-14
25 min
SFC Radio Presents
TGFM Kathy Onetoa
Brother Greg sits down with Kathy Oneto - author of Sustainable Ambition - speaks about her book, and how to prioritize what matters to thrive in work and life.
2025-05-13
31 min
Wellbeing & Career World Podcast.
Rethinking Success with Kathy Oneto
Welcome back to Wellbeing and Career World Podcast. Today, I'm thrilled to welcome someone who lives at the intersection of ambition and intention — Kathy Oneto. Kathy is an executive and life-work coach, a dynamic speaker, and the founder of Sustainable Ambition® — a platform dedicated to helping individuals and organizations thrive sustainably in today’s fast-paced world. With over 25 years as a strategy executive working across business, branding, innovation, and talent, Kathy brings a rare blend of big-picture thinking and practical wisdom. She’s also the host of the Sustainable Ambition podcast and author of the upcoming book, Sustainable Ambition: How to Pr...
2025-05-11
52 min
Career Can Do
Burn Bright, Not Out with Kathy Oneto
Is work-life balance real, or just an elusive myth? In this episode of Career Can Do, guest host Chris Sandland speaks with Kathy Oneto—founder of the Sustainable Ambition Movement and host of the Sustainable Ambition podcast—about how we can align our ambitions and energy to create a fulfilling and sustainable career. Kathy shares practical insights from her upcoming book, Sustainable Ambition, and offers a fresh, realistic alternative to the outdated notion of work-life balance. Kathy challenges traditional thinking: “The challenge that I have with work-life balance is... it sets the wrong expectations.” Instead of striving for perf...
2025-05-01
19 min
Leanne on Demand Daily with Leanne Hughes
🌴 19. Driving Sustainable Ambition with Kathy Oneto (Weekend Rewind)
In this episode, Leanne Hughes chats with Kathy Oneto, branding expert and host of the Sustainable Ambition podcast. Kathy shares her philosophy of crafting fulfilling work while living a meaningful life, using a decade-to-decade lens. She challenges the concept of work-life balance and offers a more sustainable framework for aligning career ambitions with personal values.Kathy reflects on her own career transitions, explores why curiosity matters more than passion, and explains how tuning into yourself is the first step to navigating change. This conversation is packed with practical advice...
2025-01-18
30 min
Business Breakdown
S1 E8: Kathy Oneto, and Building a Business with Sustainable Ambition
Kathy Oneto is a solopreneur, podcast host, and Founder of the Oneto Agency. After working in branding and marketing for large companies, Kathy decided to go off on her own, and to pursue a portfolio career that better aligned with her interests, values and aspirations.During this conversation, Kathy reveals her thoughtful approach to business model design, emphasizing how solopreneurs can find alignment between their values and business strategy. She also discusses building a portfolio business and the importance of relationships in entrepreneurial success. Kathy also shared her insights on branding, sustainable ambition, and...
2024-10-27
25 min
Women Changing The World
EP 72: Sustainable Ambition with Kathy Oneto
In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition and Host of the Sustainable Ambition Podcast. Kathy discusses how she has redefined ambition, built self-trust, and navigated transitions, both for herself and her clients. Kathy’s work focuses on the practice of using ambition as a guidepost along your career path and life journey. She supports entrepreneurs and creatives of all kinds, especially those entering a transition period. Kathy describes how ambition is like a U-curve, as well as her method for determining where one wants to exist on that spe...
2024-08-13
55 min
Career 101 Podcast
76. Goal Setting 101: Goal Setting for Your Career with Kathy Oneto
Goal setting is crucial for navigating your career path and achieving long-term success. Yet, many professionals struggle with effectively setting and adhering to their career goals. Are you actively shaping your career, or does it feel like you're merely reacting to circumstances?In today’s episode of our podcast, our host and CEO, Porschia, is joined by Kathy Oneto, a renowned strategy executive and life-work coach, to explore the power of goal setting in your career. They delve into how intentional goal setting is essential for professional growth and fulfillment....
2024-07-25
34 min
Smashing the Plateau
How to Craft Long-Term Success with Sustainable Career Strategies Featuring Kathy Oneto
Kathy Oneto is an executive and life-work coach committed to helping individuals find success on their terms in both their professional and personal lives. As the founder of Sustainable Ambition and the host of the Sustainable Ambition Podcast, she guides clients to discover motivation in their careers, construct their future life and work arcs, and manage their efforts towards greater resilience and sustainability. In her diverse portfolio career, Kathy also serves as a strategy executive, aiding organizations in cutting through ambiguity and gaining the clarity needed to progress and take sustainable actions.In today's episode of Smashing...
2024-06-17
26 min
Second Breaks
220. Sustaining Our Drive and Ambition as We Get Older with Kathy Oneto
Do we stop being ambitious as we get older? What happens to the drive we've always had once we retire? In this episode of Second Breaks, I explore ambition with Kathy Oneto, the founder of Sustainable Ambition and host of The Sustainable Ambition podcast. Kathy shares the results of her research and insights from numerous interviews on this topic. We explore the concept of maintaining ambition over time without self-sacrifice, the negative connotations of ambition, societal pressures, and the trap of ambition comparison. We talked about the application of ambition beyond a career and the s...
2024-02-01
46 min
Second Breaks
220. Sustaining Our Drive and Ambition as We Get Older with Kathy Oneto
Do we stop being ambitious as we get older? What happens to the drive we've always had once we retire? In this episode of Second Breaks, I explore ambition with Kathy Oneto, the founder of Sustainable Ambition and host of The Sustainable Ambition podcast. Kathy shares the results of her research and insights from numerous interviews on this topic. We explore the concept of maintaining ambition over time without self-sacrifice, the negative connotations of ambition, societal pressures, and the trap of ambition comparison. We talked about the application of ambition beyond a career and the s...
2024-02-01
46 min
MBA Insider
#214: Sustainable Ambition with Kathy Oneto
Kathy Oneto is a UC-Berkeley-Haas MBA Graduate, and the Principal Strategist at the Agency Oneto. She is also the host of the Sustainable Ambition Podcast. After starting her career in advertising, Kathy decided to pursue an MBA to continue learning and growing and finding other opportunities to explore new paths and explore more opportunities.During our conversation, Kathy spoke about how after graduating from business school she went from working in the consulting and CPG industries to eventually pivoting to a path in solopreneurship and entrepreneurship. Kathy also shared h...
2023-10-03
36 min
Centered in the City
Episode 163: Permission to be Ambitious While Navigating and Challenging Expectations
Expectations are sticky and can feel icky. On today's podcast, Kathy Oneto and I explore how to be ambitious without getting trapped by expectations of self, others and society. In this conversations we explore expectations from many angles. We explore, what does "ambition" mean? What does "expectation" mean? We share mental and somatic practices of how to notice and work with expectations in a helpful way. Take a listen and share your takeaways with us on Instagram @OneWade and @sustainableambition Previous episodes mentioned: Solo Episode: Expectations are a B*tch Episode 105: Sustainable Ambition w...
2023-08-03
52 min
Pivot with Jenny Blake
Sustainable Ambition with Kathy Oneto
How ambitious are you? More importantly, how ambitious do you want to be in different areas of life and work? Today’s guest, Kathy Oneto, takes the long view on goals, especially for those of us who are naturally inclined to overwork until we burn out. Instead, we can be more intentional by toggling the dials of right ambition, right effort, and right time up and down as we move through different seasons.In this conversation, Kathy and I discuss managing ambition anxiety, how to know if you’re bumping up against what Gay Hendricks calls an “Upper...
2023-04-30
49 min
Sustainable Ambition
Can Ambition Be Sustainable?
Introducing The Sustainable Ambition Podcast. Host Kathy Oneto talks with experts, authors, and friends with insight on her philosophy to life and work focused on three concepts: Right Ambition, Right Time, and Right Effort. On the podcast, Kathy shares ideas for navigating your career at different stages of life and work. You’ll learn to define your own success. You’ll embrace a consciously ambitious approach to better align life and work. And no matter what you choose to take on, you’ll have the resilience to tackle the challenge and the practices you need to...
2023-03-06
03 min
Somatic Wisdom
S2 E6 Sustainable Ambition and Using Curiosity as Our Compass with Kathy Oneto
I loved this conversation with fellow coach and podcaster, Kathy Oneto of Sustainable Ambition. Kathy Oneto is an executive and life-work coach who is passionate about helping people succeed on their terms both at work and in life. She is the founder of Sustainable Ambition and host of The Sustainable Ambition Podcast. Her mission is to help people attain more joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment in their careers from decade to decade, helping them to be ambitious with more ease and without burnout. Kathy and I talk about how we see ambition, how our lives have...
2023-02-12
39 min
Sustainable Ambition
97. On Feeling More Alive Choosing Ambition on Your Terms with Neha Mandhani
“I feel very ambitious even though on the outside my ambition may look very different, but it feels like ambition on my terms.” Yes! That sounds like Sustainable Ambition—ambition that’s rooted in you and on your terms.Today I’m joined by Neha Mandhani, a certified executive leadership coach, for an open, honest conversation on what it’s like to listen and honor oneself, to move through the discomfort of choosing self-authorship, and to step out of the norm onto a path that aligns to your integrity and purpose. Neha is someone who has explored her multiple...
2023-02-08
47 min
Sustainable Ambition
96. On the Power of Pause ⏸️ with Kathy Oneto
When we pause, more is happening than we think. Host Kathy Oneto shares three examples to inspire you to practice your own pauses. When and where will you allow yourself to take a break of any length?Resources MentionedI’d love to hear from you! Send me a voice note, ideas for what you’d like to hear on the podcast, or a question that might be read and answered here on the podcast! Go to https://bit.ly/sapodcast-askDr. Rick Hanson and his HEAL Method: https://www.rickhanson.net/possible-heal/
2023-02-01
13 min
Sustainable Ambition
95. On What It Is Time for Now ️ with Kathy Oneto
Today host Kathy Oneto jumps back into time and how the concept of time factors into Sustainable Ambition. We can’t do it all at once across life and work, so what it is time for now? Kathy offers three concepts and explorations considering the Future, Past, and Present to help you determine what it is time for now in your life and work.Resources MentionedI’d love to hear from you! Send me a voice note, ideas for what you’d like to hear on the podcast, or a question that might be read a...
2023-01-25
17 min
Sustainable Ambition
94. On Be a Skateboarder with Kathy Oneto
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2023-01-18
07 min
Sustainable Ambition
93. On Dialing in Your Ambitions with Kathy Oneto
Inspired by the ambition of astronauts, host Kathy Oneto invites you to consider what it might look like to dial in your ambitions. Do you have big ambitions? Small ambitions? Just right ambitions—just right for you? Explore what it might look like to play with dialing in your ambitions to be the right aspiration for you and aligned to the right effort.Resources MentionedI’d love to hear from you! Send me a voice note, ideas for what you’d like to hear on the podcast, or a question that might be read and an...
2023-01-11
08 min
Sustainable Ambition
92. On Blast off! or Push Off with Kathy Oneto
In this first episode of 2023, host Kathy Oneto talks about how you might want to start your year. Are you someone who wants to blast off or would you rather push off? What will support you best as you step into the new year?Resources MentionedI’d love to hear from you! Send me a voice note with a topic of interest or a question that might be read and answered here on the podcast! Go to https://bit.ly/sapodcast-askNASA and the James Webb Telescope: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/...
2023-01-04
07 min
Sustainable Ambition
91. On A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year: 12-Month Review with Kathy Oneto
In this episode, Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition, closes out the yearlong series on planning and living a more sustainable+ambitious year.In this episode, it’s time for the 12-month review. How did your year go? How did you do with your ambitions and making your life+work more sustainable? Kathy offers prompts and shares her own experiences as she guides us to think about what we’ve learned and what’s next for the new year.A reminder that these episodes are good ones to do while out on a walk or making...
2022-12-19
32 min
Sustainable Ambition
90. On Ambition, Optimism, and Holiday Cheer with my Bestie Carol Best
Today I’m happy to be in conversation with one of my besties, Carol Best! Carol and I have known each other for almost 15 years, and I wanted to have an informative yet fun conversation about how Carol keeps herself engaged in her work, how she’s learned to both step into her ambitions and navigate them across both work and life, and why she prioritizing stepping into being an upbeat, passionate, and optimistic leader.Carol is a champion of personal purpose and lives it. We hear about that in this episode and how she is someone who...
2022-12-14
41 min
Sustainable Ambition
89. On Closing Out the Year & Welcoming 2023 with Kathy Oneto
In this solo episode, host Kathy Oneto asks you to give yourself permission to pause and reflect to honor the past year. Join her for 11 questions to close out the year and welcome 2023.You may want to listen while out on a walk, pausing to note observations, or sit down with your favorite beverage and a journal at hand. Or, check out the Google document provided to capture your reflections and insights (refer to the Resources in the Show Notes).Here’s to creating space for whatever is needed in the moment and all the po...
2022-12-07
32 min
Sustainable Ambition
87. On Finding Purpose Where You Are with Kathy Oneto
In this Sustainable Ambition (SA) Quick Tip, host Kathy Oneto talks about finding purpose in your work and in your life where you are, rather than look for it externally outside of yourself. She also offers a more accessible definition of purpose and provides examples that can broaden our view of what it can mean and how we can achieve it. It just might be easier than we think.Resources MentionedFind Your Purpose article: https://bit.ly/sapurposeE66 - On Smart Strategies to be Fulfilled at Work with Art Markman: https...
2022-11-29
17 min
Sustainable Ambition
83. On Hybrid or Remote Worker? Double-Down on Work Relationships with Kathy Oneto
Are you a hybrid or remote worker? And, did you know that in today’s remote and hybrid work environments that many of us are feeling disconnected from each other?- 72% of employees say they aren’t able to socialize enough when they’re remote (Workplace Intelligence)- 60% of remote workers say WFH (working from home) makes them feel less connected to their colleagues (Pew Research)That’s a problem. Why? Because having friends, relationships, and a community at work has huge benefits! That means each of us needs to be proactive in making c...
2022-10-26
21 min
Sustainable Ambition
80. Part 2: A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year Q4 Planning - How to Avoid the End of Year Crush with Kathy Oneto
This episode builds on the series that kicked off the year on planning and living a more sustainable+ambitious year. Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition, is back with Part 2 of the Q3 Review to now focus on Q4 planning.Here she talks about dialing in your ambitions for the end of the year, creating a sustaining plan to avoid the end-of-year crush, and has you focus, despite her own resistance, to looking ahead to 2023 to make initial plans for making it all more sustainable if you expect the fourth quarter to be demanding.A...
2022-10-06
24 min
Sustainable Ambition
79. Part 1: A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year Q3 Review & Learning - Discerning Between This and That with Kathy Oneto
In this episode, Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition, builds on the series that kicked off the year on planning and living a more sustainable+ambitious year. In this episode, we check in on your Q3 progress. Then in Part 2, we’ll look at planning for Q4 to avoid the end-of-year crush and make our end to the year more sustainable.A reminder that these episodes are good ones to do while out on a walk or making time for quiet reflection. You’ll likely want to pause the episode, think, take notes, and then hit play agai...
2022-10-04
38 min
Sustainable Ambition
78. On Building a Values-Aligned Career and Life with Stephanie Movahhed
Joining me today is Stephanie Movahhed, a leadership coach based in my hometown of San Francisco. In this conversation, Stephanie talks us through her career journey and offers learning and tips from her personal and coaching experiences.Stephanie has had an interesting career full of pivots that have kept her challenged and growing. Her experiences are a great illustration of staying engaged and in action to help identify one’s next career arc. What comes through is how Stephanie has always been guided by what was important to her and her values, interests, curiosities, and what was ca...
2022-09-28
41 min
Sustainable Ambition
76. On Finding the Courage to Step Back to Go Forward in Your Career with Kathy Oneto
In this solo episode, host Kathy Oneto builds on Episode 75 with Dr. Dawn Graham where they talked about building confidence to make a career switch. Hear Kathy answer a listener question that builds on that prior conversation: “How does one find the courage to take a step back in their career to then move forward onto a new path? And what are smart ways to do that?”Kathy shares six smart actions to consider from her research, the podcast, and what she’s personally learned over the years that can help build your courage and give you the co...
2022-09-20
24 min
Brand Design Masters - Personal Branding, Creative Entrepreneurship, Small Business Marketing & Career Success for Designers and Content Creators
Kathy Oneto - Leaving Corporate, Part 5: Getting Your New Business Going
Kathy and I share how we each started our businesses and announced it to our networks. We also discuss visibility as one of the critical aspects of a successful launch. And finally, to wrap up this final episode of the “Leaving Corporate” series, we discuss some of the best marketing and branding advice we have to offer from our personal experience in the trenches of solopreneurship to those of you who are considering the “big leap”. We discuss:How I announced my new brand and business to the world.How o...
2022-09-19
50 min
Sustainable Ambition
74. On Why I Love & Hate Arthur Brooks’ “From Strength to Strength” with Kathy Oneto
In this episode, host Kathy Oneto talks about how age should not be viewed as a limiter. If we want to be ambitious in our second stage, “Go for it!” Despite what Arthur Brooks writes in his recent book, “From Strength to Strength,” decline is not inevitable. Sure, our intelligence may shift, as he claims, but there are more types of intelligence than he references, and there’s plenty of evidence that bucks the claim that older workers don’t perform as well as younger workers.Frankly, this is what gets us fired up. These are the types of cla...
2022-09-13
26 min
Brand Design Masters - Personal Branding, Creative Entrepreneurship, Small Business Marketing & Career Success for Designers and Content Creators
Kathy Oneto - Leaving Corporate Part 4: Getting Resourced and Building Your Business Infrastructure
In this episode, Kathy and I share how we started building our business with the resources that were available to us at that time. From planning on which social media platforms to leverage, to considering our physical office spaces and technology setups. We discuss:How Kathy started her brand ecosystem.What Kathy did to plan every detail of her brand strategy.How outsourcing is a smart move for a startup.How Kathy chose which social platform to focus on.Why it's okay not to be on all the social media platforms.How Philip c...
2022-09-12
45 min
Brand Design Masters - Personal Branding, Creative Entrepreneurship, Small Business Marketing & Career Success for Designers and Content Creators
Kathy Oneto - Leaving Corporate Part 3: What To Do Before You Pull The Plug
We discuss:What happened after I decided to take a break.The realization Kathy had along the emotional journey from the transition.What was Philip’s business plan after leaving.Kathy’s business plan and business model.What Kathy learned starting up her consultancy.How to consider business scope and positioningHow Kathy wants her audience to see her brand.How to keep things light and not get overwhelmedTo connect with Kathy Oneto:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-oneto/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/koneto12/Podcast: https://sust...
2022-09-05
39 min
Sustainable Ambition
72. On Career Arcs with Adventure, Grace, & Courage with Kathy Oneto
In this Sustainable Ambition (SA) Quick Tip, host Kathy Oneto talks about career arcs with adventure, grace, and courage. Often when people are at a career inflection point, they can feel angst and guilt and be cautious. Why? Because there’s a lot of well meaning, yet inaccurate, work and career advice out there that sets the wrong expectations. When we aren’t able to live up to those expectations, stress manifests. Instead, Kathy talks about reframing towards adventure, grace, and courage to help reduce the stress associated with such transitions and, most importantly, redirect our energy to help us e...
2022-09-02
17 min
Brand Design Masters - Personal Branding, Creative Entrepreneurship, Small Business Marketing & Career Success for Designers and Content Creators
Kathy Oneto - Leaving Corporate Part 2: Recognizing It’s Time To Go
In this episode Kathy and I share our own experiences in leaving corporate and the decisions we faced and the signals we received before we decided to leave and strike out on our own. We discuss:How did we realized it was time to leave corporate.What contributes to wanderlust.My personal experience in leaving the corporate world.What our body tells us contributes to our decisions.What was the last straw.Some internal signals to consider before deciding to leave.Some external workplace signals you need to look for.How maintaining workplace n...
2022-08-29
40 min
Sustainable Ambition
70. SA Quick Tip! On Why to Always Be Thinking about Your Next Play with Kathy Oneto
This Sustainable Ambition (SA) Quick Tip builds on the last Quick Tip in Episode 67: On Don’t Know? Get Into Action. Many of us often get caught off guard when our life and work algorithm shifts. How can we avoid being surprised, leaving us standing in the messy middle of a career transition not knowing what’s next? By being proactive and consistently exploring and investing in our next play. Thinking about what’s next as a practice can help us avoid feeling angst on the journey and being overly cautious along the way.This concept is rooted...
2022-08-24
14 min
Brand Design Masters - Personal Branding, Creative Entrepreneurship, Small Business Marketing & Career Success for Designers and Content Creators
Kathy Oneto - Leaving Corporate Part 1: Owning Your Personal Brand Narrative
Kathy Oneto, host of the Sustainable Ambition podcast, and founder of Sustainable Ambition has spent 20 years in the “big corporate” and “big agency” worlds as a brand strategist and senior marketing executive; she's worked in large companies and small, as well as entrepreneurial companies, both as a co-founder of start-ups and as the chief of staff to founders.In this series, Kathy and I talk about how to leave the corporate world for greener pastures. For this first episode, we discuss how to take stock of your personal brand while you are still employed.
2022-08-22
41 min
Sustainable Ambition
69. Part 2: On Intentionally Living & Working with Pace with Kathy Oneto & Wade Brill
In this episode, I’m joined by my friend, Wade Brill, who was on the podcast with me early on in Episode 5. Wade is a Mindfulness Coach, Podcaster and Speaker.Wade and I got together to discuss Pace, a topic we’re passionate about as it shows up in the work that we both do. If you’ve been listening to the podcast, you know that I’ve talked about pace on a few other episodes in the past year: Episode 52: On Setting Your Own Pace and Episode 39 on Rethinking & Shaping Your Time.We thought it would...
2022-08-10
47 min
Sustainable Ambition
68. Part 1: On Intentionally Living & Working with Pace with Kathy Oneto & Wade Brill
In this episode, I’m joined by my friend, Wade Brill, who was on the podcast with me early on in Episode 5. Wade is a Mindfulness Coach, Podcaster and Speaker.Wade and I got together to discuss Pace, a topic we’re passionate about as it shows up in the work that we both do. If you’ve been listening to the podcast, you know that I’ve talked about pace on a few other episodes in the past year: Episode 52: On Setting Your Own Pace and Episode 39 on Rethinking & Shaping Your Time.We thought it would...
2022-08-03
48 min
Sustainable Ambition
67. SA Quick Tip! On Don’t Know? Get Into Action with Kathy Oneto
In this Sustainable Ambition (SA) Quick Tip, host Kathy Oneto offers an antidote to not knowing what you want to do. When you don’t know, get into action.Kathy shares how one of the most common phrases she hears from coaching clients and those in a career inflection point is, ”I don't know what I want to do!” It’s usually said with angst and frustration. She found the same having done research with those who made career transitions; they often start the process in a state of not knowing. If you are in a career or life...
2022-07-27
14 min
Leanne Hughes' Work and Live Large
WALL 27: Getting Unstuck and Driving Sustainable Ambition in your Work and Life with Kathy Oneto
On last week’s episode of Two by Tuesday, we talked about the 2x2 matrix of competence and joy with regards to our work. The top left of that box – the trap quadrant – says a lot about us, being highly competent in something, but that something doesn’t give us the joy that we need in life.So today, I invited someone who can help us out if we’re stuck in doing a lot of work in that trap area. Join us today as we learn to live with more fulfillment, joy, and ease while still being ambi...
2022-07-13
33 min
Sustainable Ambition
65. Part 5: On Building a Work Life after Corporate Life with Kathy Oneto & Philip VanDusen
In this episode, I’m excited to be joined by my good friend and mentor, Philip VanDusen, whose been on the podcast with me two times before. Philip comes back to join me for this 5-part series on Building a Work Life after Corporate Life. How do you leave corporate and move into self-employment or starting a business? Our intent with this series is to create a guide to going out on your own.This became a topic for The Sustainable Ambition Podcast based on a listener request, and I thought who better to discuss this with th...
2022-07-13
58 min
Sustainable Ambition
64. A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year: Q2 Assess & Adapt with Kathy Oneto
In this episode, Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition, builds on the series that kicked off the year on planning and living a more sustainable+ambitious year. This episode is about checking in on your Q2 progress. How have things gone? What worked? What didn’t work? What do you want to practice next? It’s time to Assess and Adapt to help you both stretch and sustain yourself in your life+work in the months ahead.The series coincided with the launch of the Sustainable Ambition 12-Month Workbook+Planner: Your Life+Work Resilience Rx. The workbook+plan...
2022-07-06
40 min
Sustainable Ambition
63. Part 4: On Building a Work Life after Corporate Life with Kathy Oneto & Philip VanDusen
In this episode, I’m excited to be joined by my good friend and mentor, Philip VanDusen, whose been on the podcast with me two times before. Philip comes back to join me for this 5-part series on Building a Work Life after Corporate Life. How do you leave corporate and move into self-employment or starting a business? Our intent with this series is to create a guide to going out on your own.This became a topic for The Sustainable Ambition Podcast based on a listener request, and I thought who better to discuss this with th...
2022-06-29
54 min
Sustainable Ambition
61. Part 3: On Building a Work Life after Corporate Life with Kathy Oneto & Philip VanDusen
On Episode 61, I’m in conversation with Philip VanDusen, whose been on the podcast with me two times before. Philip comes back to join me for this 5-part series on Building a Work Life after Corporate Life. How do you leave corporate and move into self-employment or starting a business? Our intent with this series is to create a guide to going out on your own.This became a topic for The Sustainable Ambition Podcast based on a listener request, and I thought who better to discuss this with than Philip. Both of us have had 25+ year ca...
2022-06-15
46 min
Sustainable Ambition
59. Part 2: On Building a Work Life after Corporate Life with Kathy Oneto & Philip VanDusen
In this episode, I’m excited to be joined by my good friend and mentor, Philip VanDusen, whose been on the podcast with me two times before. Philip comes back to join me for this 5-part series on Building a Work Life after Corporate Life. How do you leave corporate and move into self-employment or starting a business? Our intent with this series is to create a guide to going out on your own.This became a topic for The Sustainable Ambition Podcast based on a listener request, and I thought who better to discuss this with th...
2022-06-01
45 min
Sustainable Ambition
58. SA Quick Tip! On Sustaining through Energizing with Kathy Oneto
In our first episode in the series of Sustainable Ambition (SA) Quick Tips, host Kathy Oneto talks about sustaining ourselves through energizing.Oftentimes we think that recovering and building resilience come from rest. But what if that’s not the case? What if instead we actually need to get our metabolism going? We need a shot of adrenaline?That’s what I learned over the last year during the pandemic, both through my own experiences and also through coaching and talking with friends.How can you put this quick tip into action? If you...
2022-05-25
13 min
Sustainable Ambition
57. Part 1: On Building a Work Life after Corporate Life with Kathy Oneto & Philip VanDusen
In this episode, I’m excited to be joined by my good friend and mentor, Philip VanDusen, whose been on the podcast with me two times before. Philip comes back to join me for this 5-part series on Building a Work Life after Corporate Life. How do you leave corporate and move into self-employment or starting a business? Our intent with this series is to create a guide to going out on your own.This became a topic for The Sustainable Ambition Podcast based on a listener request, and I thought who better to discuss this with th...
2022-05-18
47 min
Centered in the City
Episode 105: Sustainable Ambition with Kathy Oneto
On today's podcast, we talk to Kathy Oneto about how to create sustainable ambition in our lives. We explore how noticing our personal pace, practicing pauses and letting go of perfectionism are key ingredients to create sustainable ambition in our own lives. Take a listen and share your takeaways with us on Instagram @OneWade and @SustainableAmbition Do you want support building more mindful pauses in your life? Are you wanting to create a sustainable ritual in your life? Build your own unique ritual by using the Centered Method on Centered in the City Sign up for your 7 d...
2022-05-12
36 min
Sustainable Ambition
53. On A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year: Q1 Assess & Adapt with Kathy Oneto
In this episode, Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition, builds on the series that kicked off the year on planning and living a more sustainable+ambitious year. This episode is about checking in on your Q1 progress. How have things gone? What worked? What didn’t work? What do you want to practice next? It’s time to Assess and Adapt to help you both stretch and sustain yourself in your life+work in the months ahead. This series coincided with the launch of the Sustainable Ambition 12-Month Workbook+Planner: Your Life+Work Resilience Rx. The workbook+plann...
2022-04-06
48 min
Sustainable Ambition
52. On Setting Your Own Pace with Kathy Oneto
In this solo episode, host Kathy Oneto shares her personal experience with setting the pace in her life to not fall into the “I’m so busy” frantic narrative that often surrounds us. You’ll learn 5 tips that have helped Kathy create boundaries around how she experiences her time. This has been a topic that has held Kathy’s attention for months now, and she continues to play with her own practices to not let the external world command her personal, day-to-day experiences.How do you want to experience time? What pace do you want to set?Than...
2022-03-30
25 min
Sustainable Ambition
50. On Celebrating #50 and 10 Guest Wisdom Themes for Sustainable Ambition with Kathy Oneto
I can’t believe I’m already at Episode 50 🎉. It’s really been such a joy to be in conversation with experts, authors, and friends over the last 15 months. I’m so grateful for all my guests who have been on and shared their knowledge, insights, and experiences. And I’m so grateful for all of you listening in! In honor of my guests and all of you, in this solo episode I’m sharing 10 themes and common wisdom insights we’ve heard from all these wonderful guests and what I’ve learned over the last year about living and wor...
2022-03-16
50 min
Sustainable Ambition
45. On Planning a More Sustainable+Ambitious Year: Part 4 with Kathy Oneto
Join Kathy Oneto, host and founder of Sustainable Ambition, for a 4-part series to help you plan a more sustainable+ambitious year ahead. We’ll explore what will be stretching for you and what will sustain you.This series coincides with the upcoming launch of the Sustainable Ambition 12-Month Workbook+Planner: Your Life+Work Resilience Rx. The workbook+planner offers inquiries, exercises, and planning tools to help you lead a fulfilling, sustainable, and ambitious life+work. Learn more at: sustainableambition.com/planner2022First, Sustainable Ambition is aspirational. It asks us to hold two opposing ideas—sust...
2022-01-24
24 min
Sustainable Ambition
44. On Planning a More Sustainable+Ambitious Year: Part 3 with Kathy Oneto
Join Kathy Oneto, host and founder of Sustainable Ambition, for a 4-part series to help you plan a more sustainable+ambitious year ahead. We’ll explore what will be stretching for you and what will sustain you.This series coincides with the upcoming launch of the Sustainable Ambition 12-Month Workbook+Planner: Your Life+Work Resilience Rx. The workbook+planner offers inquiries, exercises, and planning tools to help you lead a fulfilling, sustainable, and ambitious life+work. Learn more at: sustainableambition.com/planner2022First, Sustainable Ambition is aspirational. It asks us to hold two opposing ideas—sust...
2022-01-17
31 min
Sustainable Ambition
43. On Planning a More Sustainable+Ambitious Year: Part 2 with Kathy Oneto
Join Kathy Oneto, host and founder of Sustainable Ambition, for a 4-part series to help you plan a more sustainable+ambitious year ahead. We’ll explore what will be stretching for you and what will sustain you.This series coincides with the upcoming launch of the Sustainable Ambition 12-Month Workbook+Planner: Your Life+Work Resilience Rx. The workbook+planner offers inquiries, exercises, and planning tools to help you lead a fulfilling, sustainable, and ambitious life+work. Learn more at: sustainableambition.com/planner2022First, Sustainable Ambition is aspirational. It asks us to hold two opposing ideas—sust...
2022-01-10
46 min
Sustainable Ambition
42. On Planning a More Sustainable+Ambitious Year: Part 1 with Kathy Oneto
Join Kathy Oneto, host and founder of Sustainable Ambition, for a 4-part series to help you plan a more sustainable+ambitious year ahead. We’ll explore what will be stretching for you and what will sustain you.This series coincides with the upcoming launch of the Sustainable Ambition 12-Month Workbook+Planner: Your Life+Work Resilience Rx. The workbook+planner offers inquiries, exercises, and planning tools to help you lead a fulfilling, sustainable, and ambitious life+work. Learn more at: sustainableambition.com/planner2022First, Sustainable Ambition is aspirational. It asks us to hold two opposing ideas—sust...
2022-01-03
42 min
Sustainable Ambition
41. On Closing Out the Year & Welcoming 2022 with Kathy Oneto
In this solo episode, host Kathy Oneto asks you to give yourself permission to pause and reflect to honor the past year. Join her for nine questions to close out the year and welcome 2022.You may want to listen while out on a walk, pausing to note observations, or sit down with your favorite beverage and a journal at hand. Or, check out the Google document provided (see the show notes) to capture your reflections and insights. Here’s to acknowledging 2021 and starting fresh in 2022!Thanks for Listening!If you liked thi...
2021-12-08
23 min
Sustainable Ambition
39. On Rethinking & Shaping Your Time with Kathy Oneto
In today’s modern world with its never-ending demands, we can be left feeling like time controls us more than we control our time. But what if time is an illusion as Albert Einstein said? What if we can rethink our time to support us rather than control us? What if we shift our modern perspective of time and see it as simply a construct that can be reshaped? Because our current ways of working with time can often shackle us to unproductive ways of being and living our lives.That’s what host and found...
2021-11-16
27 min
Work From The Inside Out
150: Follow Your Curiosity with Kathy Oneto
At 15, Kathy Oneto was going through those big, thick college guides trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life. Now, she thinks she was just trying to understand herself. Yet, how many of us started on that path thinking we had to figure out what direction we wanted to go in, what major to declare in college, or even what we were passionate about? Kathy told me, “I don't think the best advice is to tell people to follow your passion. Most of us do not have a singular passion. Some of us do...
2021-11-10
53 min
Sustainable Ambition
37. On A Challenge to Grant Yourself Permission with Kathy Oneto
In this short episode, Kathy Oneto, host and founder of Sustainable Ambition, talks about the concept of permission and how it has been showing up a lot for her of late. It inspired her to jump on and share a challenge with you for the coming week and/or holiday months. That challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to ask yourself and act on: What permission do you want to grant yourself? And: What permission might you grant yourself to stretch yourself? What permission might you grant yourself to sustain yourself?Thanks for...
2021-11-03
09 min
Sustainable Ambition
33. On Get Done What You Want to Get Done (AKA GSD!) with Kathy Oneto
Are you an ambitious person who gets inspired to do a lot? You have multiple ideas, get excited about a lot of projects, and can’t help yourself but take them on? It can easily happen when you’re engaged and motivated. But often in those situations, you might start to feel frustrated when you find yourself not making as much progress as you’d like, because your plate is so full. So in that situation, how do you Get Done What You Want to Get Done? Join Kathy Oneto, host and founder of Sustainable Ambition...
2021-10-06
24 min
Sustainable Ambition
28. On Where Did My Ambition Go? with Kathy Oneto (A Solo Episode)
Are you like me and wondering this summer, “Where did my ambition go?!” Ugh. Perhaps we are still in the pandemic’s “languishing” fog, as Adam Grant brought to our attention earlier this year. Some of us may simply be exhausted and need to restore ourselves. Or, maybe life is rightly pulling your attention towards other pressing personal matters. And yet, there can be other reasons why our ambition might wane. In this solo episode, host Kathy Oneto offers tips on ways to help find your way back to your ambition and flourishing.This might be a perfec...
2021-09-01
27 min
Sustainable Ambition
26. On Re-Writing Your Work Re-Entry with Kathy Oneto (A Solo Episode)
As we start to look out past the end of this month and think about heading back-to-work (as kids head back-to-school, too), Kathy Oneto, Founder of Sustainable Ambition, wanted to provide some thoughts on how to step into this “new normal,” when it comes to going back to the office. Of course, the Delta variant is throwing some kinks into our re-entry plans, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be thinking about how you want to structure your work-life going forward. In this episode, Kathy offers tips to help you re-write your re-entry on your terms an...
2021-08-18
23 min
Sustainable Ambition
24. On Cutting Back on Demands & Expectations with Kathy Oneto (A Summer Solo Episode)
In this solo episode, I offer 3 challenges to help you cut back on demands and expectations so you can create more space in your life for summer and going forward.I read an article on burnout from The Economist’s 1843 magazine by Josh Cohen who is a psychoanalyst, academic, and writer. And he had this to say at the end, “Burnout is not simply a symptom of working too hard. It is also the body and mind crying out for an essential human need: a space free from the incessant demands and expectations of the world…. The amelio...
2021-07-28
17 min