Episode 134 - Claire Fitzsimmons - The moment you are ready to hear it, the answer will come to you

#134 The moment that you are ready to hear it, the answer will come to you

"The whole time I could have left but I just wanted to believe so much that it was the right thing for me."

What happens when you don’t get joy from your job anymore? I’m talking to Claire Fitzsimmons, co-founder of ‘If lost start here’. She shares her journey of closing a door on what was perceived as a ‘dream job’ in the art world and following her heart into the well-being world. We also talk about her Mum’s struggle with mental health and how it led Claire to starting a business where they create a unique "well-being prescription" designed to navigate life with creativity and joy. She also opens up about her struggles fitting into traditional roles and redefining what is important. Her story offers us invaluable lessons on embracing change and finding fulfilment.

“I just love the feeling of walking through a gallery and then being around the art and I still love that. I think that's why it was so hard to let go of because it felt really good, but what I hadn't understood was what my role in it would be, and who I had to be in that environment.”

Claire’s Another Door go-tos

The things that helped Claire navigate change.

Book: "Tiny Beautiful Things", by Cheryl Strayed

Music: "My Favourite Coffee House" playlist on Spotify

“Feel your way through change and I say that because I often do work around emotions with people and it's often the missing piece.” Claire Fitzsimmons

More about Claire

Claire Fitzsimmons helps people to have more good days by developing an everyday life practice that meets them wherever they are, with whatever it is they need. Claire draws from positive psychology, transactional analysis, somatics, neuroscience, Positive Intelligence, emotions coaching, and the science of well-being to help people understand what it means to be a person in this world, and how we can possibly do life with all that life now needs to contain. Claire also works with women in mid-life, particularly negotiating shifts associated with (peri)menopause. She is one of the world’s first certified Emotions Coaching Practitioners (with In Good Company), an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), and earned her Certificate in Counseling and Psychotherapy from London’s CCPE.

Find out more: https://www.ifloststarthere.com/

Connect with Claire:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-fitzsimmons

Substack: https://moregooddays.substack.com/

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