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Conversations with Cam320: Solo: The Summer I Turned 34In this solo episode, I reflect on turning 34 and share the key life lessons I've learned this past year. From focusing on my mental health to embracing imperfection, I dive into how these lessons have shaped my approach to motherhood, relationships, and self-acceptance. I explore the importance of female friendships, letting go of perfection, and focusing on what truly matters in life. Excited for the year ahead and continuing to make all of these lessons a priority!Key Takeaway / Points:Prioritizing mental health is crucialFocusing on joy and things that actually matter to...
2025-08-2743 minConversations with Cam320: Solo: The Summer I Turned 34In this solo episode, I reflect on turning 34 and share the key life lessons I've learned this past year. From focusing on my mental health to embracing imperfection, I dive into how these lessons have shaped my approach to motherhood, relationships, and self-acceptance. I explore the importance of female friendships, letting go of perfection, and focusing on what truly matters in life. Excited for the year ahead and continuing to make all of these lessons a priority!Key Takeaway / Points:Prioritizing mental health is crucialFocusing on joy and things that actually matter to...
2025-08-2743 minConversations with Cam318: The Underfulfilled Overachiever: Redefining Success with Life Coach Megan HellererIn this episode, I sit down with my life coach, Megan Hellerer, and author of "Directional Living," to explore the meaning of the "Underfulfilled Overachiever" and discuss strategies for finding true career and life fulfillment. Megan shares her personal journey from working at Google to becoming a transformative coach, and introduces us to concepts like directional living and productivity hoarding. We talk about why so many high achievers feel unfulfilled despite outward success, and how to break free from the cycle of compulsive achievement.Key Takeaway / Points:What is an "Underfulfilled Overachiever"?Megan's...
2025-08-131h 13Conversations with Cam318: The Underfulfilled Overachiever: Redefining Success with Life Coach Megan HellererIn this episode, I sit down with my life coach, Megan Hellerer, and author of "Directional Living," to explore the meaning of the "Underfulfilled Overachiever" and discuss strategies for finding true career and life fulfillment. Megan shares her personal journey from working at Google to becoming a transformative coach, and introduces us to concepts like directional living and productivity hoarding. We talk about why so many high achievers feel unfulfilled despite outward success, and how to break free from the cycle of compulsive achievement.Key Takeaway / Points:What is an "Underfulfilled Overachiever"?Megan's...
2025-08-131h 13
The Liz Moody PodcastThe Secret To Making Hard Decisions: Minimize Regret & KNOW You’re On The Right PathIn this episode, I sit down with one of the top, most highly sought after career and executive coaches, Megan Hellerer. We dive into exactly how to live the most authentic and fulfilling life possible. She shares key tools we can all start using today such as the four omens, the aligned action formula, “haywalts”, and an inner navigation system calibration exercise.
This episode will help you tune out the noise and get clear on what’s actually right for you. Plus, we’ll share how to practice making aligned choices in small ways, how to embrace uncertai...
2025-07-231h 23
Bossed UpDirectional Living for Aligned FulfillmentWhat would happen if you stopped pursuing a career destination and focused instead on the best direction? Too often, we find ourselves checking the “right” boxes to get the best degree and climb the corporate ladder, only to find ourselves unfulfilled as we near the top. There’s something wrong with that picture.Megan Hellerer, the author of “Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life,” joins me to talk about the approach she has adopted and the one she now teaches. Directional living is about recognizing that human beings change over time. It’s about esch...
2025-06-1044 min
I'd Rather Be ReadingMegan Hellerer on Directional Living and How That Can Lead to Fulfillment in Both Work and LifeSo excited to be back with you and our guest today, Megan Hellerer, author of Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life, which came out last September 24. In this book, Megan introduces us to the concept of the underfulfilled overachiever—and I bet there are many of you listening, like myself, who will completely resonate with that term. Underfulfilled overachievers, Megan writes, have been taught the concept of destinational living—but through her book, as the title suggests, Megan is introducing a new way forward, a more fulfilling way forward: directional living. Of course, Megan talk...
2025-06-0734 min
Amina Change Your LifeEp 122: The Ambition Trap: Amina and Megan Hellerer Unpack the Core Wounds Behind AmbitionMegan Hellerer, the Founder and CEO of Coaching for Under Fulfilled Overachievers, is an accomplished career coach and author of "Directional Living," a comprehensive framework for career fulfillment in the 21st century. With a strong professional background, including eight years at Google and features in esteemed publications such as New York Magazine and Vogue Australia, Megan has garnered recognition for her expertise in personal and professional development. With her own body of work on aligned ambition, she is the perfect conversation partner to go deeper around The Ambition Trap. The key moments in t...
2025-05-2038 min
Signal with Mory & MelissaDirectional Living with Megan HellererIs your job aligned with yourself? Are you prepped for the future? Should Melissa live on cheesecake for a week? To answer these burning questions and much much more, we’ve got the brilliant Megan Hellerer to guide us through her approach to directional living. If you’ve chased achievement your whole life only to feel empty at the finish line, you're not alone! Watch in real-time Megan's method dismantle our co-host's limiting beliefs—and discover how it can do the same for you.Find Out More About Megan’s Work:https://meganhellerer.com/https://www.instagra...
2025-04-0254 min
Power HourDirectional Living with Megan HellererIn this conversation, Megan Hellerer, a career coach and author of 'Directional Living', discusses the concept of living directionally rather than destinationally. She emphasizes the importance of fulfillment over mere achievement and explores how societal pressures can lead to feelings of unfulfillment among high achievers. Megan encourages listeners to embrace curiosity and make decisions based on what feels right for them, rather than what they think they should do with Megan and Adrienne exploring the concept of directional living in contrast to destinational living. The book is available in stores and online. And you can follow...
2025-01-141h 04
Get Hired with Andrew SeamanHow to Get Un-StuckOn this week’s episode of Get Hired, Editor at Large Andrew Seaman speaks with Megan Hellerer, career coach and author of Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life. Megan discusses her journey to becoming a career coach, which began when she made the decision to quit her job in tech in order to pursue more meaningful work. Today, she helps fellow “underfulfilled overachievers” do the same.Follow Andrew on LinkedIn to join the Get Hired community by clicking here.Follow Megan Hellerer on LinkedIn by clicking here.
2024-12-1121 min
Behind the DataHow to inspect data about your own life to find fulfillmentHow do we know what career/path/decision is right for us? How can data science help? In this special season 1 finale, we are joined by Megan Hellerer, career coach to luminaries such as AOC, as well as the author of Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life to discuss why traditional career advice doesn't work, why instead we should treat our daily decisions and behaviors like data to be studied, and how, once we collect that data, to conduct hypothesis tests to find further clues about what a uniquely fulfilling life might look like...
2024-12-0954 min
Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious AdviceBest Books We Read in 2024This week, Nicole is back! Patricia and Nicole talk a bit about what has been keeping them grounded post-election and then they talk about some of the best books they read in 2024. Tons of book recommendations in this episode! Small correction: Tomes & Tea is a quartet. In the show we say it is a trilogy. Now we’re even more excited! Mentioned on the show: Bookshop Affiliate Storefront (links below are affiliate) Gift our Patreon! patreon.com/eedapod/gift Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the Wo...
2024-11-2742 min
Life with MariannaUnlock Career Fulfillment: Find Your Career Path, Align with Your True Self, and Embrace Directional Thinking with Holistic Career Coach Megan HellererIs your career leaving you unfulfilled? In this episode, career coach Megan Hellerer shares her unique framework for Directional Living, helping you recognize the signs of dissatisfaction and guiding you to make meaningful changes through small, aligned actions. Megan explains how to trust your inner navigation system, shift from destination thinking to directional thinking, and break free from the myth that success equals fulfillment. Tune in to learn practical steps for aligning with your true self, experimenting with shifts, and creating a more purposeful and authentic career path.
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2024-11-1935 min
Mentally Stronger with Therapist Amy Morin159 — The Achievement Lie: Why Success Doesn't Equal Happiness with Megan HellererDo you ever fall into the trap of thinking you'll feel better if you achieve more? According to Megan Hellerer, founder of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers, believing the "achievement lie" is common.Fortunately, we can change that by shifting the way we view success. When we start focusing on the process rather than the outcome, we learn how to enjoy the journey. Some of the things we discuss today are:
Why success does not automatically lead to achievement
How to focus on actions rather than outcomes
The benefits of shifting away from achievement outcomes only
How...
2024-11-1150 min
How to Be Awesome at Your Job1007: The Overachiever’s Guide to Finding More Fulfillment at Work with Megan HellererMegan Hellerer reveals the simple shifts that make your career and life feel more meaningful. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) Why many overachievers feel underfulfilled 2) The mindset that leads to fit and fulfillment 3) The key questions to ask before any decision Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1007 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT MEGAN — Megan Hellerer is a career coach and the author of DIRECTIONAL LIVING: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life. She has led hundreds of women, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to transform their lives by transforming their careers. After checking all the traditional boxes...
2024-10-3142 min
How to Be Awesome at Your Job1007: The Overachiever’s Guide to Finding More Fulfillment at Work with Megan HellererMegan Hellerer reveals the simple shifts that make your career and life feel more meaningful. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) Why many overachievers feel underfulfilled 2) The mindset that leads to fit and fulfillment 3) The key questions to ask before any decision Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1007 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT MEGAN — Megan Hellerer is a career coach and the author of DIRECTIONAL LIVING: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life. She has led hundreds...
2024-10-3142 min
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking723: Living a Fulfilled Life (with Ex Google Executive, Megan Hellerer)Welcome to an interview with the author Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life, Megan Hellerer. In this episode, Megan shares her experience as an executive at Google and how she realized the misalignment in her career path, which led to physical and mental health issues. She also discusses how she navigated through it by listening to her inner voice and experimenting with new paths. Additionally, Megan explains how she built her coaching practice, how to find clients that are a good fit for you, the common issues clients face, and how...
2024-10-2854 min
I Think I Like YouHow overachievers shoot themselves in the foot with their careers, and what we can do about it | Ep 124How in touch are you with your curiosity? How much do you listen to it and let it guide you? In life, but especially in your work?Like many of you listening, I spent years in work and careers that I did out of obligation. A tried and true under fulfilled overachiever (who this book was made for), I moved towards anything and everything that looked good on paper. Many of us stay there — both out of necessity (I mean, we have to earn an income), but also because we get really stuck. We don't know where el...
2024-10-251h 00
The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving491: Ex Google Executive, Megan Hellerer, on Living a Fulfilled LifeWelcome to Strategy Skills episode 491, an interview with the author Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life, Megan Hellerer. In this episode, Megan shares her experience as an executive at Google and how she realized the misalignment in her career path, which led to physical and mental health issues. She also discusses how she navigated through it by listening to her inner voice and experimenting with new paths. Additionally, Megan explains how she built her coaching practice, how to find clients that are a good fit for you, the common issues cl...
2024-10-1455 min
This Is the AuthorS9 E33: Christy Osborne, Dr. Nicole Cain, and Megan HellererIn this episode, meet sobriety coach Christy Osborne, naturopath clinician Dr. Nicole Cain, and career coach Megan Hellerer. Tune in to hear how each of these authors wrote the books that they themselves needed. Plus, find out who recently loved listening to All the Colors of the Dark.
Love Life Sober by Christy Osborne
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736905/love-life-sober-by-christy-osborne/9780593913499/
Panic Proof by Dr. Nicole Cain
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737883/panic-proof-by-dr-nicole-cain/9780593913475/
Directional Living by Megan Hellerer
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/674866/directional-living-by-megan-hellerer/9780593942178/
2024-10-0812 min
Courageous WellnessMegan Hellerer Talks “The Gift of Desperation,” Getting “Unstuck” and Directional Living, A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and LifeCareer coach Megan Hellerer has become known as the “Conscious Career Coach,” working with clients including journalists, lawyers, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, a Fortune 30 Under 30 tech founder, the editor-in-chief of a major lifestyle magazine, and Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She offers a culmination of over a decade of learning, training, and coaching in her new book, DIRECTIONAL LIVING; A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life, released on September 24th. Hellerer’s unique framework comes from her innovative premise that a fulfilling, purpose-filled career, and life are built by cultivating your inner sense of dire...
2024-10-021h 10
The Next Big Idea DailyA Guide to Finding Fulfillment in Work and LifeMegan Hellerer graduated from Stanford at the top of her class, landed a dream job at Google, and dutifully climbed the corporate ladder. So why was she so miserable?📕 Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life🎟️ Grab a ticket to our Oct. 10 event with Daniel Pink and Adam Moss here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-09-3017 min
All the Books!New Releases and More for September 24, 2024This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss A Sky Full of Dragons, Directional Living, All Our Ordinary Stories, and more great books!Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.Join Book Riot's editorial staff and expert guest writers at The Deep Dive, your destination for deep thoughts on all things reading, behind-the-scenes insights, informed takes, and so much more. Whether we're analyzing...
2024-09-2448 minAmina Change Your LifeEp 88: How Directional Living is the Antidote Underfulfilled Overachievers Need with Megan HellererMegan Hellerer the founder and CEO of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers, and the author of the new book, Directional Living: The Underfulfilled Overachiever’s Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life, which outlines a framework for a brand new paradigm for career fulfillment in the 21st century. After checking all of the traditional boxes of success—graduating at the top of her class from Stanford and spending 8 years as a Google executive—and still finding herself deeply unhappy, she quit her “great-on-paper” job with no plan. Megan has led hundreds of Underfulfilled Overachievers, including representative AOC, to transform their lives by t...
2024-09-2444 min
Keen On AmericaEpisode 2198: Megan Hellerer exposes the "achievement lie" of how we think about our careers and livesWorking on Sheryl Sandberg’s team at Google, Megan Hellerer - who had just graduated top of her Stanford class - was on the fast track to become a young Silicon Valley superstar. A few years later, however, she had a breakdown and quit. Describing herself as an “underfulfilled overachiever”, she writes about this traumatic experience in her new book, Directional Living. Hellerer - who now runs her own career coach consultancy and includes Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a client - confesses that at Google she wasn’t living her life and thus was miserable. Her answer to what she call...
2024-09-2241 min
Amina Change Your LifeEP 20: AOC’s Career Coach, Megan Hellerer, on Unlocking Career FulfillmentMegan Hellerer the founder and CEO of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers, and the author of the forthcoming book, Directional Living: The Underfulfilled Overachiever’s Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life, which outlines a framework for a brand new paradigm for career fulfillment in the 21st century. Megan has led hundreds of Underfulfilled Overachievers, including AOC, to transform their lives by transforming their careers. After checking all of the traditional boxes of success—graduating at the top of her class from Stanford and spending 8 years as a Google executive—and still finding herself deeply unhappy, she quit her “great-on-paper” job with n...
2023-05-3038 minAmina Change Your LifeEP 19: How to Pivot Your CareerAre you a career changer who feels lost in the process of pivoting your career? Have you heard these common myths that are holding you back? Myth #1: You need to start from scratch. Myth #2: You can't switch industries. Myth #3: You have to take a pay cut. Let’s debunk those right now. In this episode of the Amina Change Your Life podcast, I explore the principles of a powerful career pivot. I stress the importance of living directionally (a la Megan Hellerer), seeking clarity and information at each step of the journey. I highlight the sign...
2023-05-2317 minI Think I Like YouEpisode 53: How achievement does not lead to fulfillment and so much more w/ Megan HellererThis conversation with brilliant career coach Megan Hellerer was so rich, I found myself having to hold back from scribbling notes whilst recording. Megan specializes in helping under-fulfilled overachievers build work and lives that are deeply aligned. In this episode she takes us behind the scenes of her own story and journey which is rife with so much wisdom!In this episode we get into:The way something can get hard before it gets better—and how that's okThe power of following our curiosityMegan's signature approach of directional living versus destinational living (it's going to feel lik...
2023-03-281h 25
Good Enough For NowLet Life Be A Rough Draft, Feed Your Curiosity with Megan HellererIn this episode of Good Enough for Now, we hear from Megan Hellerer, founder of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers and the author of the forthcoming book, Directional Living: The Underfulfilled Overachievers Guide to Work and Life. She talks about her journey through shifting her life path from being “achievement ambitious” to “process oriented.” Tune in to hear Megan explain that your curiosity can create more impact in your life, tips to figure out where to place your focus, and how to get out of your head and into your body. Here are three reasons why you shou...
2022-12-0745 min
The Best Advice ShowQuestioning Promotions with Liza Wyles
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2022-01-2608 min
The Well+Good PodcastWhy We WorkAfter over a year of much of the workforce operating remotely, we are entering a period of time that many experts are calling “The Great Resignation.” According to The US Labor Department, nearly four million people have quit their jobs... some with back-up plans and others without. For many workers, the future is still uncertain: some companies have opted for permanent hybrid models while others continue to push back the return-to-office date month after month. Regardless of their profession, more and more workers are taking stock: Is it possible to finally kick burnout to the curb? Is a work-life bala...
2021-09-1519 minThe Best Advice ShowForgetting Your Purpose with Megan Hellerer
Megan Hellerer is the founder of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers.Inside the career coaching program AOC used to help her go from bartender to CongressDIRECTIONAL THINKING WITH MEGAN HELLERERTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTToday's episode was edited by Ronia Cabansag Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
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2021-08-3006 min
The Best Advice ShowForgetting Your Purpose with Megan HellererMegan Hellerer is the founder of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers.
Inside the career coaching program AOC used to help her go from bartender to Congress
DIRECTIONAL THINKING WITH MEGAN HELLERER
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2021-08-3004 minThe Best Advice ShowDirectional Thinking with Megan Hellerer
Megan Hellerer is the founder of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTToday's episode was edited by Ronia Cabansag Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
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2021-08-2507 minThe Best Advice ShowDirectional Thinking with Megan HellererMegan Hellerer is the founder of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers.
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2021-08-2507 min
Get Your Glow BackFinding Aligned Ambition as an Underfufilled Overachiever with Megan HellererMegan Hellerer, a conscious career coach left her career as a Google executive in 2014 on a search for something more. Fast forward to today, she now works as a conscious career coach guiding fellow underfulfilled overachievers, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez towards their aligned ambition. We spoke all about how to stop self sabotaging, why curiosity is key to finding purpose and the check in we should all be doing daily to hear our inner compass. For shownotes visit madeleineshaw.com/episode47
2020-02-181h 05
Medium Well1: But Seriously, WTF Am I doing with my life? with Megan HellererIn the first episode of Medium Well, I talk to Megan Hellerer, coach for “unfulfilled overachievers,” and creator of the course WTF am I doing with my life? In this episode, Megan helped me take inventory of where I am at, teaches me a bunch of tools and things to be mindful of when discovered my next steps, and gives me the pep talk and the push I need to take action.
2018-11-071h 32
Ladies Get PaidHelp! I'm Feeling Stuck at WorkAre you an under-fulfilled overachiever? This episode is perfect for you. We talk edto career coach Megan Hellerer about how to find a job that fills you up rather than fill you with dread. This subject is very personal for Megan since she worked at Google for eight years before she realized that she'd gone down the wrong career path. This isn't just talk therapy: Megan teaches you techniques that will hopefully lead you to make positive changes in your life.
2016-10-2400 min