A Path That Fits - Career Coaching and Life Coaching

08/25/2025

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02/12/2024

What happens when you make a big decision but still have lingering doubt, fear, and even despair? How do you know when an idea/feeling/calling/"download-from-the-universe" is worth following? And what happens when a pivot is taking far longer than planned? Jenny Blake and I explore all of these questions by openly examining our own career pivots. This is our last an final episode of the Pivot podcast while Jenny takes a sabbatical (which she explains during the podcast). Listen here: https://pod.link/pivotmethod/episode/3c9fd660ecb9d1b9684984eb3fe53328

01/12/2024

How do you know when you need to pivot versus chasing shiny objects? Jacqueline Fisch asked this great question on the most recent episode of the Jenny Blake's Pivot Podcast. It's a classic pathfinding dilemma - how do you know when to make a pivot, and which move is the right one? Listen to how Jenny and I tackle this question and several others from live callers here:

How do you “un-rut” yourself? If you want to say yes to exploring a pivot, what do you need to say no to? What’s the secret dream? These are just some of the questions that recurring guest host Adrian Klaphaak and I answer in today’s live Pivot podcast taping.

01/09/2024

What's the connection between your career and your health?
Palmer Kippola and I talk about how each of us found a career path that fits and the role our career choices played in healing and vice-a-versa. Palmer shares about her healing journey with MS and I share about my healing journey from chronic back pain. This is an especially touching podcast because Palmer was a former client and it's amazing to see where she is now doing truly meaningful work! If you experience any health challenges that you think might be connected to your work, please give this a listen here: https://palmerkippola.com/podcasts/adrian-klaphaak-find-your-path-that-fits/

Joan Rosenberg, PhD is an expert in helping people master difficult emotions in order to become more confident, resilient, and authentic.

07/20/2023

So many of us feel trapped in our never-ending work cycles, unsure of how to take the leap into something more authentic and meaningful. Caught up in the pressure to achieve financial stability or prestige, we often neglect our core values and skills — the things that make us feel most vibrantly alive.

Sandra Possing, Life Coach and I talk about how to find your calling and channel it into a successful career on her most recent Podcast episode. Her podcasts always emphasize practical tools that listeners can put into action so I demonstrated a tool for discovering your gifts. I also shared a handful of client case studies that illustrate how they made successful career pivots. Check it out: https://ohhiself.com/podcast/episode-13-using-your-core-gifts-to-find-career-fulfillment-w-adrian-klaphaak/

06/28/2023

Have you heard of Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS)? I have found it to be one of the most powerful tools to help clients get unstuck and connected to their deepest confidence and wisdom.

I joined Jenny Blake on the Pivot podcast to talk about how I use Internal Family Systems to help coaching clients build more successful careers. We talked about the IFS model of therapy/coaching and how it helps us work through conflicting parts of ourselves to get to our wise and confident true self.

The following example highlights the power of parts work...

Would you rather listen to your inner critic saying, "I don't think you're ready to take this step forward in your career. I think you need to take another certification program, get more experience, wait until the economy is better, etc."

-or-

Would you rather listen to your true self saying, "You know you want this. Trust your instincts. You are strong and capable. You've done hard things before and you always rise to the occasion. I believe in you and it's okay if you do your best and it doesn't work out as planned. You'll grow so much from doing this."

You can listen to the full episode, including our live IFS coaching demo here: https://pod.link/pivotmethod/episode/72f0222fbee23aebb2173750010c8c63

What’s next for your career and creative projects? Pivot with Jenny Blake launched in 2015 to help us better embrace fear, insecurity, imperfection, and intuition as the superpowers they are while pivoting. Join Jenny Blake, award-winning author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next On...

04/26/2023

Eeeeek. That was vulnerable. And exactly the type of conversation I love to engage. Jenny Blake had the edgy idea to coach each other live on the Pivot podcast as we identify the "board members in our brain" aka "the competing voices in our head" and navigate our way toward more inner alignment and clarity. This is one of our favorite coaching activities and easy for anyone to do as they follow our conversation as a guide. Check it out!
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Who is sitting in the boardroom of your brain? Who is sitting around the table, challenging your decisions, making noise, and offering critiques? Today Adrian and I are walking through one of our favorite coaching exercises by offering up (and coaching each other through) identifying and describin

02/13/2023

What if you want to make a career change but you aren’t ready to quit your current job?

I’ve been hearing a lot of clients ask this question given the tech layoffs and uncertain economic climate.

I’m back on the Pivot Podcast to talk with about how to redesign your current role by “pivoting in place.” Listen here: https://www.pivotmethod.com/podcast/adrian-klaphaak-pivoting-in-place

11/15/2022

Has your willingness to pursue your passions changed in this year's economic uncertainty/recession? Jenny Blake and I explore the question of how to keep your passion alive while making a career change in a recession. Check out the latest episode of the Pivot Podcast to hear the strategies, examples, and personal stories we share. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gux46QTK

When times are uncertain should we be playing it safe? We all have a different relationship to risk—and recession-talk tends to turn the dial up on anxiety about what the future has in store. Today, I’m back in conversation with Adrian Klaphaak, talking about how to be pragmatic, taking the econ...

08/31/2022

I just received a notification that we reached 1,000 enrollments in the Career Pathfinder Coaching Program. What!?!? I never thought that would happen when I created the online course back in 2013 when e-learning was just starting to ramp up.

It took me a year to develop the content for the first version (videos, step-by-step career change guidance, coaching activities, career assessments, case studies, interviews, templates, and a downloadable workbook). I’ve since updated the entire course at least 5 times until landing on the current format that seems to strike the right balance of deep inner work and practical results. Our clients want to do work that is meaningful and lucrative and our coaching program balances both of those goals.

It’s been amazing to watch the coaching program evolve over the last decade and to digest the reminder that it takes time and ongoing commitment for things to grow. It gets me excited when I think about where it will be in another 10 years, and what else I could start now that will grow into something beautiful if I stick with it for a decade.

What about you… what idea/calling/project/dream are you sitting with that could grow into something beautiful if you were to commit to creating it and nurturing it? Let me know in the comments because sharing your intention deepens your commitment to it.

I’m grateful to all of the clients that trusted me and the A Path That Fits coaching team to guide them to discover their calling and build more authentic and meaningful careers. Thank you. I’m flooded with countless memories of career changes and pivots, new businesses started, passion projects turned into successful careers, and the central theme of people bringing more of their gifts and passions to life.

I’m also endlessly grateful to the team of coaches and collaborators that have helped to launch, administer, promote, and support the Career Pathfinder Coaching Program. I owe a massive thanks to Daniel Fine who has been my longtime coaching partner, advisor, collaborator, and dear friend. Thank you to Emily (Stanek) Pollak who currently does an amazing job of co-leading the program with me. Thank you to Gracie Miller, Nicole Sheikh, Lisa Lewis Miller, Audrey Chrisler, Matti Bautista, Iris Charabi, Eileen Chang, Markell Morris 마켈, and Frank Ma who have all either coached clients directly or helped to administer the program. Thank you to Jenny Blake and Horst Govin, Career Coach for all the people you’ve referred to the program over the years.

I’m excited to coach the next 1,000 people to discover what they are built to do :-)

08/29/2022

We just turned the tables and I interviewed Jenny Blake on her very own Pivot Podcast:)

I walked away from my first interview on the Pivot podcast feeling like I had a million questions about Jenny's career that I wanted to ask her. So she agreed to let me turn the tables and interview her in this "Mic Flip" episode.

Jenny talked about why she left Google so many years ago and how she navigates the biggest challenges and pain points in her career. Her career journey is an inspiring example of how to listen deeply and muster the courage the follow your calling, even in the midst of a recession.

Check it out here:

‎Show Pivot with Jenny Blake, Ep Embracing Uncertainty — Mic Flip with Adrian Klaphaak - Aug 21, 2022

08/04/2022

Is it possible to recession-proof your career?

We’ve been getting an increasing number of questions from clients about what the looming recession means for their careers, and how to navigate it. Questions like:

“I’m unhappy with my current career but I’m starting to worry that this is a risky time to make a change. Should I stay in a job I don’t like or try to find a better one?”

“Is this a bad time to follow my calling? Should I put my dreams on hold and be more practical?”

“How do I recession-proof my career?”

I wrote an article that answers those questions and shares some strategies for how to manage your career in a recession. Check it out here: https://apaththatfits.com/blog/how-to-recession-proof-your-career/