Design Your Career Around Your Life (Not the Other Way Around)
Discover how lifestyle-centric career planning helps you design a career around the life you want—not the other way around. Learn how my 1-month intensive coaching can help you create a clear, actionable plan.
One of the biggest patterns I see as a leadership coach for women in tech is this:
We work so hard to climb the ladder, hit the next level, prove ourselves in a male-dominated environment…
…but so often, we never pause to ask what we actually want our lives to look like.
We assume our career decisions are strategic. But sometimes they’re built on unexamined assumptions, fear, or just momentum.
It’s not our fault. Most of us were taught to focus on:
We rarely ask ourselves if these choices actually help us design the life we want to live.
A Client Story That Perfectly Illustrates This
Recently, I was working with an incredible client through a program at her company, where I coach senior individual contributors to help them reach the highest levels of the IC track.
She wanted to discuss the classic question:
Should I stay on the IC path, or switch to management?
We explored the usual considerations:
- Skills she’d need to develop
- Changes in day-to-day work
- Company expectations and culture
But I paused and asked:
If you could wave a magic wand and have exactly what you want in six months, what would that look like?
She went quiet.
And then she said something she hadn’t even mentioned before:
“I want to move to Europe.”
She’d been exploring the management path not because she really wanted it, but because she thought she’d need the extra money to make her dream of moving to Europe possible someday.
In her mind, Europe felt distant, expensive, complicated.
But instead of defaulting to the IC vs. management debate, we stepped back and asked:
Why Lifestyle-Centric Career Planning Matters
This story is such a clear example of what I see all the time in coaching.
We make career decisions around guesses, assumptions, and fears.
We pick the “safe” path.
We aim for the next title.
We try to fit our life around the job we happen to have.
But what if we flipped that?
What if you asked first:
What kind of life do I want to live?
Where do I want to be? How do I want my days to look and feel?
And then designed your career to support that?
That’s what lifestyle-centric career planning is all about—something I first encountered through Cal Newport’s work on creating a deep life.
It’s not about ignoring practicalities or pretending money doesn’t matter.
It’s about actually knowing what it will take.
Making a plan that aligns with your values.
Owning the fact that your career is supposed to serve your life—not the other way around.
Why I Created My Lifestyle-Centric Career Planning Intensive
I created my Lifestyle-Centric Career Planning Intensive because of conversations exactly like this one.
Too many talented, high-achieving women in tech get so focused on the next step on the ladder that they never pause to ask whether that step even gets them closer to the life they want.
They’re often the exhausted overachiever:
This intensive is designed to change that.
It’s not about busy work or cookie-cutter advice.
It’s about working together to define the specific actions, mindset shifts, and real-life research that will help you make the career and life you want possible.
What’s Included in the Intensive
Here’s what the Lifestyle-Centric Career Planning Intensive includes:
This intensive is designed to deliver real, actionable outcomes—so you can stop making career decisions on autopilot and start intentionally designing a career that truly supports the life you want.
Investment & Special Offer
The Lifestyle-Centric Career Planning Intensive is priced at $2200 USD.
However, I want to make this work even more accessible to those who are ready to take this step.
✨ If you’re one of the first 5 people to sign up for my newsletter and email me to say you’re interested, you’ll receive $500 off this intensive—bringing your price down to just $1700.
This is my way of saying thank you for joining my community—and for committing to investing in yourself.
Ready to Design Your Career Around Your Life?
If this resonates with you:
My newsletter is where I share personal stories, practical leadership strategies, and guidance for women in tech who want to lead intentionally and build careers that truly support the lives they want to live.
I’d love to help you design a career that truly supports your dream life.
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