Susan Bianchi has run three different businesses. A restaurant. A performance and wellness practice that's worked with NFL teams and Wimbledon players. Women's workshops and open water swim retreats. On paper, none of them look alike.

Underneath, they're the same business. Human potential — helping people be all of who they can be — is the thread Susan keeps pulling, no matter what she's calling the work that year.

It didn't start that way. Susan graduated ready to climb the corporate ladder, landed in food manufacturing, and within a year knew it wasn't right. The restrictions. The glass ceiling. Watching her father tolerate a job he didn't love, year after year, and knowing she didn't want that same life decades from now.

So she jumped — first into a restaurant she co-owned for a decade, then into wellness coaching and Intrinsic Health Systems when the restaurant stopped growing her the way she needed. Each leap distilled her down closer to the core of who she actually is.

In this episode, Susan talks about the confidence it took to run a business at 25, the people who assumed a man must be in charge, and the necklace she still touches when she needs to find her way back to why she started.

If you've ever changed jobs and still felt like something was missing, this one's for you. Sometimes it's not the job that needs to change. It's getting honest about what you're actually building toward.

Connect with Susan: Website: https://www.intrinsichealthsystems.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intrinsichealth/?hl=en Email: susan@intrinsichealthsystems.com

Learn more about Move to Joy Coaching: MoveToJoyCoaching.com

Kristy Darby spent almost twenty years in the legal field — the DA's office, private practice, and three attempts at the bar exam that never worked out. She stayed anyway, holding onto a reason bigger than the job: her brother was killed by a drunk driver when she was a baby, and prosecuting cases like his was supposed to be her way of making that mean something.

Then her body started keeping a different kind of record. Hives, all over her body. Every test came back normal. Meanwhile her mom got a third cancer diagnosis, her husband cut three fingers on a table saw, her uncle died without warning, and two of their senior dogs passed within that same short stretch of time. Her boss asked for consistency at the office. She didn't have it in her to give.

So she quit that 20 year career. Within two weeks, the hives were gone.

What came next was a year of not knowing — meditation, Reiki, a strange recurring pull toward "the spine" she couldn't explain. Then a Facebook ad for something called SpinalFlow stopped her cold: "This is exactly what I've been meant to do." She signed a three-year lease on a building before she'd even finished the training, flew to Barcelona for the immersive, and came home to open The Sacred Center of Healing, where she now helps high-achieving women get their nervous systems out of survival mode.

If you're sitting in a job that's making you sick, maybe giving you hives, and telling yourself it's just stress so you should just push through it, this episode is for you.

Connect with Kristy:

Email: kristy@thesacredcenterofhealing.com

Website: https://www.thesacredcenterofhealing.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesacredcenterofhealingyorkpa

Kristy’s “Wake Up Rested Tomorrow” free guide: https://thesacredcenterofhealing.com/page/wake-up-rested-tomorrow

Elizabeth Mathieu graduated with an accounting degree. She spent five years at PwC, buried in Excel, working busy-season hours that ate her whole life.

She didn't quit. Not yet.

Her first pivot happened inside the same company. She moved from audit to human-centered design consulting. Same paycheck. Same office. Completely different work.

"I didn't study accounting to think I was going to end up being a life coach," she says.

Five years later, a second pivot found her. This one was scarier: leaving the corporate safety net entirely to build her own coaching and yoga business.

In this episode, Elizabeth breaks down the difference between the warm-up jump and the big leap. She also gets into what actually kept her going when people asked, "are you sure?"

Her answer: celebration. Not the big, showy kind. Small wins, noticed and named, shared with the people who'd cheer for her.

If you've got blinders on right now, if you can't quite see what's possible on the other side of your job, this conversation is for you.

Elizabeth now combines coaching with yoga in a six-month immersive program, and offers 1:1 coaching too, movement optional. Find her at http://elizabethmathieu.com and Linkedin.com/in/elizabethamathieu

Your career GPS says recalculating? That's not failure. That's your path finding you. Come find me at MoveToJoyCoaching.com.

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