Are you feeling stuck and unfulfilled in your current career? As a busy professional with a track record of success, it's not uncommon to wake up one day wondering if you’ve really reached your potential or not. It’s okay to feel like you've hit a dead end in your current role and the idea of starting over or changing careers at 40 can seem overwhelming.  But what if I told you that it's not only possible to make a career change at 40, but it's also never too late to pursue a career that brings you energy and purpose?  In this post, I'll share actionable tips and insight ..read more

  Stop trying to figure out the rest of your life. Scene: A rockstar high-performer who’s felt pretty stuck at work and wants to take back control of their career finds themselves chatting with me to try to figure out where they’re getting stuck and what their next steps could be. High-performer: I really want to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life. Erin: That’s awesome that you’re at a stage where you really want to take back control of your career. High-performer: Yeah! If I can just figure out what to do for the rest of my life, what that one perfect thing is, I’ll be ..read more

  Stop trying to figure out the rest of your life. Scene: A rockstar high-performer who’s felt pretty stuck at work and wants to take back control of their career finds themselves chatting with me to try to figure out where they’re getting stuck and what their next steps could be. High-performer: I really want to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life. Erin: That’s awesome that you’re at a stage where you really want to take back control of your career. High-performer: Yeah! If I can just figure out what to do for the rest of my life, what that one perfect thing is, I’ll be ..read more

If you’re anything like my mid-career high-performing clients who are stagnating in your role, you’re probably feeling overwhelmed about where to start. The thought process for me went something like this, “But what’s next? I know it’s not this. But if not this, then what?! I don’t even know what I’m good at.” In this post and video, I share 5 simple prompts to uncover your natural talents and the aspects of work that energize you so that you can jump-start your career change and/or… even make your current work way more engaging.    As a high-performer, it’s 100% normal to not know w ..read more

For the first part of my career, I took a total, “Jesus take the wheel,” approach. It worked. Until it didn’t. Maybe you’re in the same boat right now. In this post and video, I share some of my biggest takeaways from that experience and offer insights and inspiration to take back control of your career. Not being in control of where your career is headed sucks. Of all of the feelings I felt when I realized I was on the achievement treadmill chasing someone else’s dream that I didn’t even want, the worst was a sense that I’d completely lost control of my career, of who I was (way too much iden ..read more

A few months back, I reread Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection. All of the way back in the before-before times in 2013, it wildly changed my career and my life. Now it’s the essence of how I coach and support high-performers in reaching their goals. In this post and video, I share some of my biggest takeaways from this book and how us high-performers can apply these insights to get out of their own ways in taking back control of their careers. It’s not about “how to” find another job. Career change can mean a lot of different things. For some people, it means finding a new job. If you wan ..read more

When we're feeling stuck at work and trying to figure out what's next in our careers, there's usually one massive obstacle that’s bigger and more crippling than any other. OURSELVES. Us and our massive overachieving, high-performing brains. Us with our hardwired negativity biases. Us with our finely-aged perfectionism still calling the shots. In this blog and video, I break down the 5 mindsets you’ll need to figure out your next career move. It's time we get out of our own ways so that we can find and do more of the stuff we actually enjoy doing. Here are five mindsets that my most suc ..read more

  Hey, I’m Erin Allett! I am a Professional Career Coach and Gallup-trained Strengths Coach and owner of Allett Career Coaching. I help mid-career high-performers uncover what they do best so that they can take back control of their careers and their confidence. For the first part of my career, I took a total, “Jesus take the wheel,” approach. It worked. Until it didn’t. Maybe you’re in the same boat right now. In this post and video, I share some of my biggest takeaways from that experience and offer insights and inspiration to take back control of your career.    Of all of th ..read more

   Hey, I’m Erin Allett! I am a Professional Career Coach and Gallup-trained Strengths Coach and owner of Allett Career Coaching. I help mid-career high-performers uncover what they do best so that they can take back control of their careers and their confidence. Sometimes when we feel stuck in our careers, we look around and see others performing at such a high level, that we wonder, “Am I the only one? Is there something wrong with me?” In this post and video, I share my experience of feeling completely stuck in my career and how I knew it was time that I had to make a pretty mass ..read more

  Hey, I’m Erin Allett! I am a Professional Career Coach and Gallup-trained Strengths Coach and owner of Allett Career Coaching. I help mid-career high-performers uncover what they do best so that they can take back control of their careers and their confidence. Experience/advice In this post and video, I share   Are you trying to figure out the rest of your life? Scene: A rockstar high-performer who’s felt pretty stuck at work and wants to take back control of their career finds themselves chatting with me to try to figure out where they’re getting stuck and what their next st ..read more