How to have your career fit your new identity as a mother

“We need to look at your new criteria for happiness. To find this, we start at what you really want to contribute with your skills and what you want a workplace to look like. From these we start to look at jobs outside the box, outside of what your resume can get.”

In this episode, Laura Berman Fortgang, Career Reinvention Coach, joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about how she helps her clients to gain clarity and direction in their career, leverage their experience and skills towards something new, and solidify a strategy personalized to them.

Tune in to this episode for insights on career choice, reinvention, how to grow and sustain a service bases business, and more.

Laura Berman Fortgang is a pioneer in the personal coaching field. She has written five books, has a TedxTalk with 1.6 million views and has appeared on numerous morning shows. She has raised her own family, with three artistic and entrepreneurial children as a business owner. Connect with Laura at https://laurabermanfortgang.com/ or https://nowwhatcoaching.com/.
 
0:00 Intro

0:56 Meet Laura

1:48 Laura’s experience in a job that no longer aligned with her identity

2:55 Looking at your life story will help give you clues to discover your life purpose

8:00 Questions to ask yourself when you are looking at other opportunities

13:15 How do you approach making a drastic change in your career?

16:21 Staying positive and encouraged about your transition

17:43 Laura’s journey through being a working mom

22:44 Laura’s tips and tricks to achieve your full potential

24:50 Laura’s 25-year vision

30:49 Being flexible is the most important thing to learn in today’s day and age

34:01 Connect with Laura

35:34 Endnotes

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Kinia Romanowska, BA, MA, is a well-traveled award-winning journalist turned entrepreneur, maternity leave strategist, and working parent whisperer. A wife and mom of three passionate about making sure the next generation doesn’t experience the “Motherhood Penalty,” she is the founder and CEO of Pros&Babes and creator of the MoMBA (Mom MBA), the pioneering 360-leadership and personal development program for the busy, ambitious mom in Canada. She is the host of the “Engineer Your Success, Leadership, and Life Harmony #likeamother” podcast.