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10/09/2026

Happy Friday! I used to feel completely spent by Friday afternoons. Bone tired with nothing left to give. I remember not making plans for Friday nights bc I knew I wouldn’t have the energy. Couch, w**e and Netflix was about all I could manage.

And I remember the familiar feeling when I commuted home on Fridays - I knew I wanted something different but I didn’t have a clue how to make a change. I had zero headspace to think what was next, and I was exhausted.

I now help others navigate inflection points like this. If you are feeling stuck, maybe it’s time for a new approach. And coaching can help.

Book a free clarity call - because clarity and motivation come from taking the first step. Not the other way around.

10/07/2026

Today, I forgot how to tell time. And I missed a meeting I was really looking forward to. Check out my Substack on time flying when the mental load is high. Link in comments below and I would love to hear from you. How are you giving yourself grace today? Ever misplaced an hour? -compassion

10/05/2026

09/14/2026

Five years ago: HR executive, blazer, calendar full of back-to-backs.

Today: sound baths in my backyard, essential oils in every bag I own, and nieces who call me “the witch” with total affection.

I didn’t see any of this coming. I just kept following the questions I couldn’t stop asking myself about what a career and a life were actually supposed to feel like.

Substack is where I write about that whole shift — spirituality and career, together, because I’ve stopped believing they were ever meant to be separate.

First post is live. Link in bio. Come join me there.

09/11/2026

I recently heard a George Lucas quote that I can’t stop thinking about: “We are all living in cages with the door wide open.”

Read that again.

Nobody’s locking you in. Nobody’s standing guard. The job you’ve outgrown, the relationship you’re performing, the version of yourself you’re still dragging around because it used to fit — the door on all of it has been open the whole time. You just have to notice it.

I think about how much of my life I spent assuming there were bars where there weren’t any, how much energy I put into surviving a cage that would’ve swung open the second I pushed on it.

This is the question I keep circling back to on ThriveWorthy: where in your life are you calling something a cage when it’s actually just a door you haven’t walked through yet?

Where are you sitting in an open cage right now? Tell me below.

09/09/2026

Nobody hands you a memo that says “start dimming your light today.”

It’s smaller than that. It happens one polite silence, one swallowed opinion, one “that’s fine, whatever works” at a time.

I spent a long time being fluent in everyone’s expectations except my own. Corporate taught me how to read a room before I ever learned how to read myself.

If you’re somewhere in the middle of unlearning that, you’re not behind. You’re just finally paying attention.

New post on Substack. Link in bio.

08/13/2026

What would your 85 year old self tell you right now?

Not the version of you that played it safe. Not the one who waited until everything felt certain before making a move. The one who actually lived the life that was pulling at them, who went after the things that mattered and who stopped letting fear make the decisions.

That version of you has a lot to say.

This is one of my favorite practices I guide people through and I wanted to share a piece of it with you today.

Your future self already has the wisdom you are searching for right now. The clarity you have been waiting for, the permission you keep looking for from the outside, the certainty that the next step is the right one — that version of you has all of it because they’ve already lived it.

And they are available to you anytime you get quiet enough to listen.

This is a short clip from my Future Self Visualization, one of three guided meditations in my free bundle designed for the professional who needs to reconnect with themselves and where they are actually going.

If something in you needed to hear this today, the full meditation is waiting for you.

Comment MEDITATE to get the full meditation in your inbox.

08/12/2026

Karolina Rzadkowolska | Alcohol-Free Coach Certification said something in our episode on The ThriveWorthy Podcast that I want you to hear:

Your environment is seeping into your subconscious whether you realize it or not.

The people around you are quietly shaping what you believe is possible. And if you have been surrounded by people who have never done the thing you want to do, of course it feels delusional. Of course it feels like a long shot. You have no evidence that it works because nobody in your immediate world has done it yet.

But when you start surrounding yourself with people who are already living the version of the life you want? The question stops being “is this even possible?” And it starts being “how long until this is inevitable?”

That shift is everything.

The path is going to be loop de loopy. It is going to bring all the feelings. It is going to be some of the hardest and most rewarding work you have ever done.

And it is going to be so worth it.

Full conversation with Karolina Rzadkowolska on the ThriveWorthy Podcast. Comment PODCAST to get the episode delivered straight to your inbox.

08/10/2026

Last weekend I had a gong in my backyard.

Two years ago that sentence would not have made any sense to me. And honestly? I would not have wanted it to.

I was still living a different kind of life then. One that looked precisely perfect from the outside and left very little room for the things that actually fill you up. Alternative healing, energy work, slowing down long enough to feel anything... none of that had a place in the version of success I was building toward.

The change didn’t happen in a single moment, it was a gradual, honest unraveling leading me to come face-to-face with what I actually wanted my life to feel like. And once I started taking that process seriously, the answers started surprising me.

So last weekend I hosted a floating sound bath in my backyard with the incredibly gifted Vinni Taneja from Chakra Wellness. Vinni is my healer. She does chakra balancing and reiki work that I have come to believe is some of the most important work I do. Because so often we need to heal our energy first before anything changes on the outside. We need to release what we have been carrying before there is room for what we actually want.

ThriveWorthy has always been about more than career strategy. It is about new ways of being and living. About realizing that the inner work and the outer results are not separate things.

The gong in my backyard is proof of that.

Living from the inside out looks different for everyone. This is what it looks like for me right now.

08/03/2026

More information is not what is going to get you unstuck.

The next steps you’re looking for are already inside of you. The key to unlocking them is getting quiet enough to hear your soul.

Most professionals have been so busy consuming input from the outside that they have completely lost access to their own inner guidance. The clarity they are searching for has been there all along. It just needs space to surface.

My free guided meditation bundle was designed to help you create that space.

An evening reset. A seven minute clarity reset. A future self visualization.

Comment MEDITATE to download for free.