Reframe & Reset Your Career: Job Search & Career Development Insights

Episode 8. The Mindset of a Pro Athlete

"Most guys who are playing professionally are good players technically and there’s not a huge amount to differentiate them. So what often is the factor that sets them apart … is what they’re like mentally", Robbie White, kindly shared with me on Episode 8 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.
Robbie is a professional cricketer with one of England’s top cricket clubs, Middlesex CCC. Robbie has been on Middlesex’s radar from the age of 10 and spent three years in their Academy before gaining a full-time contract with the club.
Prior to becoming a full time professional cricketer with Middlesex, Robbie attended Loughborough University, where he studied Psychology as he has always been interested in the mental side of sport.
Robbie is a batsman and wicket keeper and he scored heavily in the 2nd team which helped him into the first team in 2018 & 2019. He also spent a stint on loan at Essex in 2019, giving him yet more valuable experience at a first team level, where he played with Sir Alastair Cook, one of England’s greatest cricketers, and Peter Siddle, one of Australia’s top fast bowlers.
Over the winter Robbie used his time off to start working for David James Wealth as a Client Relationship Manager to start gaining experience in the business world to help him navigate his life after cricket.
I was interested in interviewing Robbie as I played a lot of cricket when I was young, funnily enough, I played for the junior Middlesex and Essex teams,  and found the mental side of cricket fascinating! Cricket is unique in the mental demands it places on the players due to the length of the game, one match may last for five days. Although it is a team sport, there is no place to hide as individual statistics are reported constantly and analysed just like baseball.
I also liked that Robbie took the time over the Winter to explore career options after his cricket career ends. However well he does as a cricketer, there are many years of work to be filled after cricket and it is important to be prepared. Unfortunately, there are many athletes, including cricketers, who have found the transition to life after sport quite difficult.
I had a great conversation with Robbie, it was especially impressive as this was his first podcast and we discussed the following:
 
Studying Psychology at University
Growth Mindset & Sport
How Robbie Uses Psychology in Cricket
Playing and Learning from Great Cricketers
Finding a Way to Succeed
Dealing with Stress & Pressure
Navigating the Team Environment
Maintaining Confidence Despite Constant Setbacks
Coping with Failure and 
Exploring Opportunities Outside Cricket
 
Resources
Mindset – Dr Carol S. Dweck
 
Contact Robbie
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbie-white-8226a7164/
https://twitter.com/rwhitey15?lang=en
 
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It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the the podcast and YouTube channel or anything else, it's always a pleasure to hear from you. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. Thanks so much for your support and have a great week!
 
*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*
 

Episode 7. Luck = Talent + Opportunity!

Lindsey Stewart is an investor engagement expert who works for KPMG's UK audit practice. He has a 20-year career in financial services and holds the CFA and CIMA qualifications in financial analysis and management accounting. An avid communicator, Lindsey has authored many articles and publications on a variety of topics: from technical accounting, to audit and corporate governance, to soft skills, to inclusion and diversity. As a senior Black finance professional from a working class background, he is keen to explore ways to remove barriers - whether societal or psychological - that prevent talented individuals from less privileged groups from reaching their full potential.
I first met Lindsey two years ago when he joined the CFA UK Soft Skills Working Group for whom I had been volunteering for a year. I quickly found that Lindsey had a passion for building on his already considerable knowledge in this area as well as a wide range of interests outside work, which I shared like music, sport and comedy, including Chris Rock!
We quickly became friends and during lockdown last year, Lindsey reached a 20 year milestone in his career and I offered to interview him for a podcast to mark the landmark. The first effort was not bad but we realised that we were capable of better so we recorded again and released the podcast, which generated some positive feedback.
Up to that point, I had not considered podcasting so Lindsey’s interview played a pivotal role in the my starting to consider a podcast. Initially I wanted to host it with Lindsey, unfortunately, he was too busy so I talked myself into starting it myself. Now here we are less than a year later and I have the pleasure of interviewing Lindsey. We had a great conversation talking about the following:
 
Becoming Resilient and Learning From Setbacks
How Lindsey Gained His Big Break into Finance
The Value of Gaining Professional Qualifications
The Significance of Soft Skills In Your Career
Why Emotional Intelligence is Important for Leaders
Potential Strategies for Job Seekers and 
Building Relationships Rather than Networking
 
 
Resources & People mentioned
Mindset – Dr Carol S. Dweck
Influence – Dr Robert B. Cialdini
Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
Lindsey's CFA UK article - https://www.cfauk.org/pi-listing/inclusion-and-diversity-spotlight-lindsey-stewart-cfa#gsc.tab=0
Lindsey's Medium article - https://link.medium.com/yK2wtY4Gefb
Brené Brown
Dr Sarah Lewis
 
 
Contact Lindsey
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindseystewart/
 
*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*

Episode 6. Think Big - Dr Grace Lordan

Looking for ideas to help on your journey to achieving ambitious future goals? Dr Grace Lordan shares behavioural science based insights and practical steps from her best selling book "Think Big" and much more on Episode 6 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. Hopefully this will inspire you to start taking the steps to your dream future.
In this episode, we will learn about:
Her early education and how she moved from Computer Science to Economics,
Why it’s helpful to think in terms of skills & activities rather than careers,
How you can change your narrative,
Using your time more efficiently,
Taking small steps to achieve your goals,
The impact of emotions on decision making,
Dealing with life blows and being resilient, and
The danger of comparing yourself to others.
Grace is the Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative (TII), Director of the MSc in Behavioural Science and an Associate Professor in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, my former university, but Grace has had a far more impressive career!
Grace has a PhD in Economics, and an undergraduate degree in computer science. Her research is focused on understanding why some individuals succeed in life and others don't. She is an expert on the effects of bias, discrimination and technology changes. Grace is an expert advisor to the UK government sitting on their skills and productivity board. Her academic writings have been published in top international journals in economics and the broader social sciences. "Think Big, Take Small Steps and Build the Future you Want" is her first book. Grace is a regular keynote and panel speaker at corporate events.
I first came across Grace through an excellent discussion on Careers which she was hosting at the LSE and the panel included our good friend Dorie Clark. I found her work interesting and reached out to her and she generously agreed to appear on the podcast.
 
Resources & People mentioned
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Kelly McGonigal
Antonio Damasio
Vincent Walsh
 
Contact Grace
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-lordan-0b88ab115/ 
Twitter - https://twitter.com/GraceLordan_ 
Website -  www.gracelordan.com 
 
Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info
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LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true
E-mail - reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com
Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career, I do appreciate it.
It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or anything else, it's always a pleasure to hear your views. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. 
 
*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*

Episode 5. Playing the Long Game - Dorie Clark

Becoming frustrated that you're not achieving the success that your efforts deserve and looking for long term thinking and strategies to break out of this? Dorie Clark discussed this, her book “The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World” from Harvard Business Review Press and much more on Episode 5 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.
In this episode, we will learn about:
How Dorie bounced back after losing her dream job in journalism,
The importance of content creation to help you stand out and build your brand,
Why you should not be shy about marketing yourself,
Creating multiple revenue streams for your business,
Being proactive and thinking differently when looking for a job,
How interpreting the same facts in a different way generates value,
Focusing on the process and execution, and
Testing your ideas through content creation and interacting with your audience.
Dorie Clark is an adjunct professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the author of Entrepreneurial You, which was named "one of the most important business books of the year" by Inc. magazine and one of the Top 5 Books of the Year by Forbes, Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine. 
A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, the New York Times described her as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, she consults and speaks for clients including Google, Microsoft, and the World Bank. You can download her free Entrepreneurial You self-assessment workbook and learn more about Dorie at dorieclark.com/entrepreneur.
She was named one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50, and the #1 Communication Coach in the World by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards, as well as one of the Top 10 Communication Professionals in the World by Global Gurus.
She is also a producer of a multiple Grammy-winning jazz album and invests in Broadway productions, and am a lyricist in BMI's Tony-Award winning Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop.
Her specialties include: marketing, branding, management consulting, strategy consulting, communications, speaking, keynote speaking, professional speaking, professional speaker, personal branding and executive coaching. 
I first came across Dorie, when I saw a video of one of her talks, five years ago on a personal development course run by Lucy Whitehall and CABA. Dorie's ideas on reinvention and personal branding resonated with me and I reached out to her via her website. This was something that I rarely did, I did not expect to hear back and had no thoughts of starting a podcast at the time. I was amazed when she kindly responded, we started emailing, became friends over the years and I joined her REx group. Now fast forward five years, I had the pleasure of having her on my podcast and we had such a fun interview!
Dorie talked to me about why content creation is important for personal branding and told me "I'm definitely a big believer in that you need at bats because it is very hard to predict. I mean when I was first writing my first book "Reinventing You", prior to coming to that as a topic, I had come up with three different ideas for potential first books that I could create and you know it turns out like pretty much no one was interested in any of them! … "Reinventing You" actually stemmed from a random blog post that I had written for Harvard Business Review that for some reason, I did not think it was special, in any particular way but the market was like “this, we want this” and so it ended up turning into my first book!".
 
People & Resources Mentioned
Influence – Robert B. Cialdini
The EMyth Revisited – Michael Gerber
TEdX Lugano - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6leLPN8ipI
 
Contact Dorie
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dorieclark
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doriec/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dorieclarkauthor/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dorieclark/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DorieClark
Website: www.dorieclark.com 
Clubhouse: @dorieclark
 
Other Resources provided by Dorie
Entrepreneurial You self assessment workbook: dorieclark.com/entrepreneur 
Stand Out self-assessment workbook: dorieclark.com/join  
Recognized Expert Evaluation Toolkit: dorieclark.com/toolkit
Entrepreneurial You self-assessment: http://dorieclark.com/entrepreneur
 
Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info
YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/c/ReframeResetYourCareer 
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true
E-mail - reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com
Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career, I do appreciate it. It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or anything else, it's always a pleasure to hear your views. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. 
 
*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*
 

Episode 4. Career & Life Insights from Tennis - Ivana Petrich

How can playing tennis at an elite level help you succeed in your professional career? Ivana Petrich talked about this and much more in Episode 4 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.
In this episode, we will learn about:
Self-discipline and what it takes to be great,
How talent only takes you so far,
Dealing with pressure: how professional exams feel like a tennis match,
Resilience and learning how to lose but bouncing back,
Reconnecting with your 'why?' when the going gets tough,
The importance of preparation,
Redefining success: when winning isn't everything,
Teamwork and finding ways of bringing people together, and 
Developing new skills and trying new things throughout your Career.
Ivana is currently working with a leading energy SaaS company in the ESG Research area. Prior to that she was a client management professional at PGIM Fixed Income. She worked closely with institutional investors, including defined benefit pension schemes and fiduciary managers, across a broad range of active fixed income strategies.
As part of her role, she acted as a central point of contact to help deliver customised investment solutions and provide high quality service to clients. Having seen her grandparents dedicate their lives to securing their pensions, she applies the same dedication to helping clients achieve their investment objectives and secure the financial futures of pension scheme members. 
Ivana comes from a high performance sporting background, having played tennis from a young age and competed at an international level. When she was 5, her dad built a tennis court in their backyard and became her full-time coach for several years, travelling to tournaments across Canada and Europe. She was consistently ranked in the Top 4 in Alberta, Canada and regularly competed at national tournaments, reaching the quarter-finals of the U14 Canadian Outdoor Nationals.
She was recruited to play on the NCAA Div. 1 women's tennis team at the University of Delaware, where she broke the school record for all-time career singles wins. Ivana is passionate about the links between sporting excellence and the workplace and is a firm believer that career paths are highly influenced by formative years dedicated to training.
Ivana holds a B.Sc. in Finance, International Business from the University of Delaware. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and the Investment Management Certificate (IMC) from the CFA Society of the UK. She was a team captain at the Cumberland Lawn Tennis Club in London, UK and regularly competed in the Middlesex and National Club leagues.
I met Ivana whilst volunteering for the CFA Society of the UK and we found that we both had a background in high performance sports, in my case it was cricket. We both realised that there were a number of lessons from sport that we were able to apply from our sporting experience to our careers and life in general. We had an enjoyable chat and Ivana was generous with sharing her stories and experience.
 
Resources mentioned
Playing Big - Tara Mohr
The Serendipity Mindset - Dr Christian Busch
 
Contact Ivana
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ivana-petrich-cfa
 
Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info
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LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true
E-mail - reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com
Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career, I do appreciate it. It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or anything else, it's always a pleasure to hear your views. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. 
 
*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*

Episode 3. Exploring Growth Mindset and Positive Psychology - Lucy Whitehall

What is growth mindset and positive psychology and how can it help enhance your job search and career development? Lucy Whitehall, the founder of Transform and Thrive, discussed this and much more on Episode 3 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.
In this episode, we will learn about: 
Fixed versus Growth Mindset,
Developing a Growth Mindset,
Dealing with Failure,
Neuroplasticity and its implications,
Reframing and looking at the reality of the situation,
Strategies for job hunting in the current climate,
Networking in a virtual environment,
Content creation and developing your brand,
Dealing with difficulties in work related scenarios and
Improving working from home.
Lucy is a Masters level coach and employee wellbeing specialist. As a Positive Psychologist Lucy uses evidence-based approaches to help people tackle unhelpful assumptions and behaviours in order to enhance levels of psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing. Lucy is an accredited senior coaching practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and works one to one with C-suite leaders, partners, managers and entrepreneurs.
She is adept at creating psychological safety for her clients through a compassionate, non-judgemental style which empowers her clients to create solutions that work effectively for them. Lucy offers over 20 years of experience in employee wellbeing and has experience working with companies in the commercial and third sector, establishing wellbeing strategies that help employees flourish and businesses succeed.
Lucy holds a BSc in Life Sciences, MSc in Human Resource Management, and is a chartered member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD). Lucy is a qualified Mindfulness guide and holds the world recognised Masters in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology from the University of East London.
Clients are at the heart of Lucy’s work and her lifelong commitment to learning includes continued professional development in areas including: Thinking Environment Coaching, Mindful Self-Compassion, Trauma informed coaching, At My Best Strengths facilitation and Coaching Psychology.
I first met Lucy five years ago on a “Managing Personal Change Effectively” course organised by CABA, the Chartered Accountants Benevolent Association, which Lucy presented. It was the first time that a personal development course resonated with me as she introduced me to Carol Dweck’s work on the growth mindset and neuroscience concepts. This inspired me to start my personal development journey, which helped bring about the “Reframe & Reset Your Career” podcast so thank you Lucy!
Lucy is also a big fan of Dorie Clark and she showed one of Dorie’s talks on the course. This was the first time that I had heard of Dorie’s work, which inspired me to reach out to Dorie, we connected and Dorie kindly agreed to be a future guest on the podcast!
Lucy told me "this work by Carol Dweck was essentially postulating that it's the way that we approach challenge and difficulty in life that really leads to the outcome. So are we going to approach it with a mindset that is what she calls fixed, this idea of really not seeing the opportunity. Also this concept of seeing failure as the end … people with a growth mindset they will also feel disappointed, hurt and sad when they fail but what they do differently is to pick themselves up and say yes this hurts this feels really uncomfortable, I don't want to fail but they then start asking themselves I wonder what I can do differently next time, who can I talk to, what resources can I draw on, what can I learn and who can I learn it from"
 
People & Resources Mentioned
Mindset – Dr Carol Dweck
 
Contact Lucy
http://transformandthrive.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-whitehall-990549a/
https://www.instagram.com/lucyswhitehall/
 
Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info
YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/c/ReframeResetYourCareer 
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true
E-mail - reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com
Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career. It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or anything else, it's always a pleasure to hear your views. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. 
*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*

Episode 2. The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck - Dr Christian Busch

Would you like to know more about potential strategies and mindsets that can help bring more luck and serendipity into your life? Dr Christian Busch and I discussed this, his bestselling book and much more on Episode 2 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.
In this episode, we will learn about:
Casting your net as wide as possible when applying for jobs as it’s a numbers game,
The process of creating opportunities for serendipity to potentially arise,
Developing a process to deal with the unexpected,
Building meaningful not transactional relationships,
Reframing situations and looking for potential opportunities,
Setting serendipity hooks when meeting new people to find common interests,
Following his passion for serendipity to write his book and
Taking calculated/ managed risks when managing your career similar to a company using a portfolio approach.
Christian is a business professor at USC Marshall and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE). He served as Inaugural Co-Director of the LSE's Innovation Center, directed NYU’s CGA Global Economy Program, and is the co-founder of Sandbox Network, a global community of young innovators, as well as of Leaders on Purpose, an organization convening leading CEOs.
Christian's bestselling book, The Serendipity Mindset (Penguin Random House), has been highlighted as a "wise, exciting, and life-changing book" (Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post); a "bracing and hopeful antidote to a world addicted to efficiency and control" (Daniel Pink, Bestselling author of Drive); "highly recommended" (Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder, LinkedIn); and offering "excellent practical guidance for all" (Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever). The book has been updated and is now called "Connect The Dots: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck."
He describes in his book that he was rebellious as a teenager and this resulted in a life changing event when he ended up in a serious car accident, which made him question the meaning of his life. He developed a keen interest in serendipity from that day onwards and this also helped him to start turning his life around and focus on his academic career, which clearly paid off resulting in his PhD from the LSE!
His research has been published in leading journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, and was featured by Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Guardian, Fast Company, BBC, Forbes, GOOP podcast, WIRED, Handbook of Inclusive Innovation, among others. In 2016, he received the 'Best Paper Award' (Entrepreneurship) of Emerald Publishing, and the 'Best Social Entrepreneurship Paper Award' of the Academy of Management.The way in which I first came across Christian might have been a story straight from his book. I was watching YouTube in July 2020, saw a talk on The Serendipity Mindset and found it resonated with me. Then I cheekily reached out to him through LinkedIn and he kindly agreed to participate in a webinar that I was organising. The webinar went well and he was kind enough to be the first guest to commit to the podcast. 
 
People & Resources Mentioned
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Dr Robert B. Cialdini
 
Contact Christian
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianwbusch/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cbusch
Website: https://theserendipitymindset.com/
Twitter: @ChrisSerendip
 
Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info
YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/c/ReframeResetYourCareer 
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true
E-mail - reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com
Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career, I do appreciate it.
It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or anything else, it's always a pleasure to hear your views. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. 
 
*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*

Episode 1. The Neuroscience Behind Change - Dr Gabija Toleikyte

Want to gain insights into the neuroscience behind creating change, habits,  decision making and gain a better understanding of some of our actions? Dr Gabija Toleikyte discussed this and much more on Episode 1 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.
In this episode, we will learn about:
Habits -  why we form them, what needs they serve, why it’s so difficult to change them and potentially looking for alternatives to those habits. Forming new habits takes time and repetition.
Emotions - The role of emotions and learning how to understand our emotions and their underlying cause. Activities such as meditation, physical exercise, and time with loved ones may help to calm emotions.
Motivation versus Inspiration – finding those activities and work which inspire you may help to increase motivation.
Procrastination – it’s important to understand the root causes of procrastination and then tackle the cause to improve productivity.
Decision making – when we have too many decisions to make, we may become stuck in analysis paralysis, and eliminating the decisions that don’t matter may help. 
The “Amygdala hijack” may lead to us saying or doing things we regret so it’s best to not make any important decisions at this time!
Overwhelming levels of stress are not good for performance but there are certain levels of stress which may help focus.
The importance of sleep, exercise, and nutrition for brain health.
Finally as an extra bonus, insights into personal relationships and why we are attracted to certain people.
Dr Gabija Toleikyte is a neuroscientist, lecturer, and performance and wellbeing coach.  She is currently a lecturer in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University and her first book, “Why the F*ck can’t I change?”, will be published in January 2021.
There were two significant events that helped develop Gabija’s interest in neuroscience, Firstly, when she was around 8 years old, she went to see a neurologist to deal with some migraines and he explained to her in detail how the brain worked, which fascinated her. There was a second slightly more sad event as her father had a stroke which severely affected him, fortunately, after intense therapy for three months he made a good recovery. 
Gabija completed her PhD at University College London and her PhD findings were published in one of the highest impact research journals, Nature Neuroscience, in 2017. Prior to that, she undertook award-winning research on Parkinson’s disease at the University of Helsinki.
During her PhD, Gabija also qualified as a business coach and coached UCL academics and administrative staff. Combining her neuroscience background with coaching experience Gabija started her own consulting company, providing coaching and seminars for organizations and the general public. Gabija is also a TEDx speaker and her work has been featured in the Guardian.  
I first met Gabija in 2017 at one of her evening lectures and quickly became a huge fan of hers and neuroscience and have attended a number of her lectures and workshops since then. I was so pleased when she agreed to appear as the first guest on my podcast and we had such a fun conversation.
Gabija discussed the importance of motivation or inspiration in relation to personal productivity and told me "I like to move from motivation to inspiration. So motivation is pumping yourself up to do the task you don't want to do which requires constant energy in order to do so. Now if you really get clear what things you really enjoy doing, what things are truly important to you and link that task to those things … you would naturally feel more inspired to do that task and being motivated would just follow naturally from it. So I find that a much more long-lasting effect."
 
People & Resources Mentioned
Daniel Kahneman – “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
Antonio Damasio – “Descartes’ Error”
 
Contact Gabija
Website: http://www.mybrainduringtheday.com/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/phd-gabija-toleikyte
Twitter: https://twitter.com/supergcoaching?lang=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/supergabija
 
 
 
Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info
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LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true
E-mail - reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com
Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career, I do appreciate it.
It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or anything else, it's always a pleasure to hear your views. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. 
 
*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*