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I designed the 4-Step Career Reset with corporate millennials in mind, chiefly because that’s my generation and my experience. That said, this program is for anyone who:

• Has been in the workforce for several years and wants to make a big change
• Is bored, stressed, anxious, exhausted, burnt out… but has no idea what they’d rather do
• Puts everything else before their own happiness — which is why they’ve been stuck here for so long
• Isn’t getting the support they’d like from friends and family when they talk about making a career pivot

This program is NOT for you if you:

• Love or like your current job, or just want to tweak a few things
• Plan to stay at your current job for several more years
• Are looking to improve your current situation, not change jobs
• Already know what career you want to pivot to
• Are just starting out in the working world
• Are looking for advice or a predetermined path
• Aren’t much of a talker and don’t like to share what’s on your mind
• Aren’t really sure if you want to change careers
  • Is this you? Start with my free Career Fit Checklist or affordable Career Clarity Workbook instead!

The 4-Step Career Reset can help if you:

• Know you want to change careers, but are too burnt out to really think about it
• Aren’t getting the support you’d like from friends and family when you talk about changing careers
• Don’t know how to figure out a better career idea
• Are afraid you’ll still be at the same job in 1, 5, 10 years — but can’t see a way out
• Are absolutely certain you don’t want to do this forever, but keep questioning it anyway — “Am I being ungrateful?”
• Rely on the accountability of paid appointments to get things done (ex. you work out way more when you’ve signed up for nonrefundable group classes)

The biggest difference between traditional support of friends, family, and even mentors vs. coaching? Advice — rather, the absence of unsolicited advice.

Whether you want it or not, you’ll get a lot of advice from friends, family, and mentors. When listening to someone’s challenges, we often try to relate to them, which comes out like this:

“Here’s what I would do.” “When I was in your shoes, I did this.” “This is what you should do.” “Your dad had the same problem! Here’s what he did.”

We mean well! But if you’ve ever received advice you didn’t want, you know it can be annoying, unhelpful, or even offensive.

That’s why in our coaching sessions, you won’t often hear what I think you should do. Instead, you’ll be supported to explore your own thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and values.

I’ll typically ask more questions than give answers.

If you’ve never experienced coaching, I know that this might sound confusing. “I’m paying you to ask me questions?” But the result is that you’ll understand yourself better, learn to distinguish your own opinions from the opinions of others, and come to realizations and conclusions that are uniquely yours — all leading you to discover careers that you’ll truly enjoy, instead of just another job.

I’m not going to say you absolutely HAVE to have your camera on. And I respect any disabilities and extenuating circumstances that make video calls difficult or impossible.

But please know this:

As a coach, I can’t do my best work if I can’t see you. And as a paying client, you need to know that that poses a big risk toward you getting the most out of our work together. 

Here’s what I mean:

There are tons of energetic advantages to coaching in-person! Your coach gets to feel your energy and mood, observe your body language and facial expressions, and factor the unspoken and unseen into our sessions. This means we can make bolder, more insightful observations, which can lead to more honesty and bigger breakthroughs for our clients.

In a COVID-19 online-business world, we’ve learned to squeeze as many of these benefits as possible out of video calls. We do lose the sensations of in-person energy, though. And, since we can usually only see you from the shoulders up, we miss out on many body language signals. But we can still interpret facial expressions, eye contact, and when you shift in your chair.

Once you remove that next layer — a live, moving image of you — all that we have to go on is audio. We get some nuance from pauses and tone of voice, but the insight ends there. And in a pause, it’s much more difficult to figure out the reason you’ve stopped talking: are you having a realization? Is the connection buffering? Or did your cat walk across your keyboard and close the call? 

Pauses can be incredibly powerful and telling moments during a session — missing them can mean missing a truly golden realization. (Cool, right?)

So no — I won’t force you to have your camera on. But, I can’t be liable for any loss of insight and ability to best support you as a result.

I’m from the great State of Washington, and there’s a chance you are too! Or maybe one of our neighbors — Oregon, Idaho, BC… 

But even if we happen to be in the same town, we’ll still conduct all our meetings over Zoom*. This helps me serve each client equally and keep my costs down, both by time commitment of travel and by the exorbitant costs of an office space (‘cause this gal works out of a home office).

*After a 2023 panic about Zoom’s use of customer data, the company clarified that it doesn’t use audio, video, or any other comms from your meetings to train AI (Source) — your privacy is critical to me, so I wouldn’t use it if they did. I have disabled both of Zoom’s optional AI features, Zoom Meeting Summary and Zoom IQ Team Chat.

The 4-Step Career Reset tackles a highly specific problem, so I’ve designed it to be inherently low-risk while we both determine if it’s right for you.

That’s why I’ve built in 3 key ways to prevent wasting your time or money:

1) This comprehensive page and FAQ section describes the package, its target audience, its expected outcomes, and what it doesn’t cover, in full detail. So, it should give you a good idea of whether the program is a fit. Either way, there are more opportunities to decide…

2) Our free Discovery Call, with no payment info required and zero obligation to sign up for the 4-Step Career Reset before, during, or after the call. I also learn more about you on this call, so if I don’t feel it’s a good fit for you, I’ll let you know upfront.

3) I offer a full refund when you cancel anytime up to 2 days AFTER your “Now vs. Ideal Future” kickoff session! That means you’re refunded for that first completed session ($167 value). In return, I just ask that you please let me know what led you to cancel. That way, I can make improvements to best serve future clients.

*Please Note: I do not offer any refunds when you cancel more than 48 hours following our “Now vs. Ideal Future” kickoff session.*

Here’s why:

1) This is a service-based solution, not a product — so you can’t “return” it like a physical product. I’m confident that everyone who signs up will experience new insights, reflections, points of view, or perspective shifts during the course of the program.

2) In coaching, you get out of it what you put into it. That means it’s up to you to apply what you learn during the 4-Step Career Reset. I will support, guide, provide observations, and offer insights during the course of your transformation, with the goal of helping you achieve your dreams with more confidence, structure, and accountability.

However — I can’t complete your exercises, decide your best future career, or put in the work to achieve it for you.

Shortly after your Now. vs. Ideal Future session, I begin the behind-the-scenes work to create your customized Virtual Career Offsite agenda and more — and whether you commit to change or not, you will receive value from what’s to come. That’s why I’ve chosen not to offer refunds after this point.

Our work will include suggested resources that can help you use what you’ve learned about yourself to discover industries and career paths that could be a great fit for you.

Will I suggest that you should be a teacher, a zookeeper, a CFO… or any specific career? No.

Will I hand you a list of Top Careers For Empathetic People and ask you to choose one to focus on? No.

But will I follow threads and patterns from our sessions, making observations that can help bring you closer to discovering your ideal career? Absolutely 100%.

TL;DR: You will not get career advice or lists of “suitable careers” from our sessions. But together, we will collect insights, observations, resources, and patterns — all clues to discovering your ideal career.

Since the aim of the 4-Step Career Reset is to provide you with clarity and direction, I purposefully designed it as a 1-on-1 coaching package. These private, closed sessions let us focus on your unique situation — without getting hung up on what anyone else has done, is doing, or wants to do.

While each session is structured to help you move from stuck to forward-thinking, the 1-on-1 format also lets you take charge of getting the clarity and direction you’re looking for. So during any session, are you confused? Stuck? Unsure? These sessions are exclusively for your benefit, so please — let me know, and let’s talk through it!

I’m also trained to look for unspoken cues, so if I notice something feels off, I’ll ask about it. If I’m right, we can work through it together; if not, we move on.

The focus of the 4-Step Career Reset is on helping you find a more fulfilling career away from the burnout, exhaustion, and always-on culture. You already know that coping strategies aren’t the right solution for you — instead, you want to get away from this industry altogether. So in our targeted time together, that will be our focus.

That said, we won’t ignore anything that’s stopping you from moving forward — including burnout and demanding expectations. We’ll tackle mindset, challenge beliefs, and troubleshoot challenges along the way. But remember, the ultimate goal of this specific package is to help you discover, picture, and plan for a new career path.

The 4-Step Career Reset is the best choice for you because you’re ready for a big change! You aren’t just looking for ways to manage this career for the rest of your life. You’re looking for clarity and direction to get out ASAP.

Because of that, I designed the package to be highly focused on moving you from “IDK what I’d rather do — anything but this,” to “I can see my future career, and I’m taking steps toward it now.”

So rather than focusing on strategies to manage your current career, we’re looking to the future. Along the way, you might gain insights to help you set boundaries and challenge mindsets and beliefs that add to your stress!

But since troubleshooting your current stressors isn’t the primary goal of our time together, I haven’t designed our sessions around that.

I’ll start by saying that work-life balance means different things to every single person. So, this coaching package will help identify what your top priorities are, what work-life balance means to you, and what work-life balance could look like in your unique ideal career.

It won’t center on creating work-life balance in your current career. You may pick up some insights and strategies to help with that, but it’s not our focus.

As for career fulfillment and satisfaction — now that’s the name of the game. By spending hours together determining what those things look like to you and how important they are for you, we create momentum toward discovering a more fulfilling, more satisfying career path ahead!

Again, this is all focused on that future career. We will not spend the bulk of our time discussing how to make your current, exhausting, anxiety-ridden, soul-sucking job any more fulfilling and satisfying — because you’ve already figured out that just won’t be possible.

No — and here’s why.

If you’re looking for growth opportunities and promotions within your current industry — firstly, congratulations on having found the career path that fits your future! That’s a huge accomplishment, and you should be so, so proud.

But secondly — if that describes you, I’m not the coach for you! Traditional career skills coaches or career training programs can be incredible resources for “hard skills” like strengthening your resume, networking, negotiating, and much more.

But Lucy Todd Coaching and the 4-Step Career Reset are laser-focused on self-inquiry: discovering a fulfilling career beyond what you’ve explored or can even muster the strength to imagine. We’re about self-exploration, self-confidence, and brand-new possibilities. Not growing along your current path, but leaping off the path entirely.

So if your aim is to rise up in the ranks of your current job or industry, the 4-Step Career Reset isn’t a good fit for you.

A huge focus of the 4-Step Career Reset is on overcoming self-doubt — which, by the way, is a common factor in procrastination (APA, opens in new tab). So we’ll work on understanding your self-doubt, learning to recognize it, starting to challenge it, and using those techniques to keep you moving forward at times you would usually stay stuck.

When it comes to procrastinating on action, the program also includes strategies for:

• Setting realistic goals
• Creating small action steps toward those goals
• Building accountability systems
• Gaining awareness around what’s getting in your way

Together, these tools help to identify and challenge procrastination.

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