Ep 88: How Directional Living is the Antidote Underfulfilled Overachievers Need with Megan Hellerer

Megan Hellerer the founder and CEO of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers, and the author of the new book, Directional Living: The Underfulfilled Overachiever’s Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life, which outlines a framework for a brand new paradigm for career fulfillment in the 21st century. After checking all of the traditional boxes of success—graduating at the top of her class from Stanford and spending 8 years as a Google executive—and still finding herself deeply unhappy, she quit her “great-on-paper” job with no plan. Megan has led hundreds of Underfulfilled Overachievers, including representative AOC, to transform their lives by transforming their careers. Now, her mission is to provide others with the support and guidance that she needed and couldn't find when she herself was struggling.

The key moments in this episode are: 

00:04:57 - Universal Experience of the “Bathroom Floor Moment” 

00:11:29 - Introducing Directional Living

00:18:06 - The “Not That” Experiment 

00:21:57 - The Myth of Certainty 

00:29:16 - The Illusion of Fixed Passion and Purpose 

00:30:45 - The Power of Curiosity in Decision-making 

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