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About Tracy Timm
Tracy Timm is the founder of The Nth Degree® Career Academy, the proven career clarity system that helps high-potential professionals discover, define, and drive careers they love. She has a degree in behavioral psychology from Yale University and studied design thinking with the founder of the d.school at Stanford University.
Tracy left a successful but unsatisfying career in finance, traveled once around the world on Semester at Sea, and discovered her ideal career. For more than five years, she has applied these lessons in her career advisory work with hundreds of individuals and over one hundred fast-growing companies. Tracy lives in Dallas, Texas.
What You’ll Learn
In this episode we talk about:
- Tracy’s quarter life crisis while selling stocks and bonds on Wall Street
- Dealing with societal pressure in our careers
- Why people tend to choose comfort over happiness
- How to mentally prepare for making a significant career or life change
- Using a ‘personal life audit’ and identifying your core values
- How to get past the “I won’t make as much money” dilemma
- Taking an entire life perspective on your career choices
- Why the ‘tolerable job’ is so insidious
- The power of regret
- Taking tangible initiative to make the life changes that you dream of
- Why, on top of initiative, you need clarity about your other options
- How you will never feel completely ready and getting past that
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