Most people think overwhelm is a productivity problem. Corrie LoGiudice argues it’s something much deeper.

In this episode, JR speaks with Corrie LoGiudice, author of The Five Overwhelm Culprits, about why so many high performers feel exhausted, disconnected and stuck — even when their lives look successful on paper. Corrie explains why burnout is often misdiagnosed as a time-management issue, and why the real causes of overwhelm usually stem from deeper problems like misalignment, lack of clarity, weak support systems and chronic self-neglect.

Their conversation covers:

• Why overwhelm is more than “having too much to do”
• The five root causes behind burnout and chronic stress
• How work and personal life pressures compound each other
• Why high performers often confuse exhaustion with success
• The difference between burnout and misalignment
• How intuition helps people recognize when something is wrong
• Why women experience overwhelm differently than men
• The role resilience plays in navigating major life changes
• How to recognize overwhelm before reaching a breaking point
• Why meaningful change either happens by choice — or happens to you

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How To Escape Overwhelm And Redefine Success, With Corrie LoGiudice

Overwhelm Is Driven By Five Deeper Root Causes

This conversation is about something almost everybody feels at some point but very few people are willing to name or say out loud, I’m overwhelmed. The kind where to the outside observer your life looks successful but internally, alarm bells are going off. You may be checking all the boxes of career, family, friends, hobbies and interests but you feel like you’re barely holding it all together. My guest Corrie LoGiudice has spent years unpacking that exact experience in her new book, The 5 Overwhelm Culprits.

She argues that overwhelm is more than about being overly busy. It’s driven by five deeper root causes, the lack of clarity, confidence, community, conditioning and consistency. What makes her perspective different is that it doesn’t separate work life and personal life. As she puts it, most people, especially women, aren’t managing one set of demands. They are managing potentially two full lives at once. Corrie’s work is grounded in real experience operating at a high level while also going through some difficult and deeply personal chapters.

She’s turned that into a practical framework that’s now helping thousands of people rethink how they approach success, burnout and change. In this episode, we’re going to dig into those five overwhelm culprits, why so many high performers feel stuck even when things look great and how to start making meaningful changes without blowing up your entire life. I’m J.R. Lowry. This is Career Sessions. Corrie, I am glad to have you here with me.

I’m so excited to be here. Thanks for having me.

You have a new book out. You open your book with a line, “I am so exhausted. I’m pissed off.” What was the moment where you’re overwhelm turn from something that you were managing into something that you had to confront?

It happened for me on the Belt Parkway in New York. I was going through the commute and I’m sitting on the Belt Parkway right outside of JFK Airport. It’s 7:00 AM. My GPS is basically frozen in time. I would get stuck in this section of road so often, I would check into it on Facebook like I was checking into a place. It’s like, “I’m on the Belt Parkway but the GPS is frozen in time.” I’m thinking to myself how I missed my son’s entire morning routine. I’m thinking about the long day ahead and about how maybe if I’m lucky, I’ll get to see him for an hour that night when I get home at 7:00 at night.

I was commuting four hours a day, so two hours there and two hours back. I remember looking around at everybody and all the cars around me. This is New York rush hour. It’s hundreds of cars. It’s thousands of people who are all stuck in the exact same position as me. I remember thinking to myself like, “This can’t be it. We’re all choosing to do this? This doesn’t make any sense to me. Why am I signing up for this?” It ultimately became a topic of conversation I brought to my therapist later where we were talking about my commute.

I had this feeling. I called it weird. something felt off. Ultimately, I learned later. It’s because I was misaligned. I wasn’t busy for the sake of being busy. I was taking action in so many different capacities in so many different ways that it didn’t make sense to me. It’s like, “Why am I doing this?” It became a topic of conversation I brought to my therapist and then later, led to me in the career that I’m doing now. That was the big turning point for me.

I have one kid who she and her husband, both commuted every day from New Jersey and in New York. I think New York’s got its own special form of rat race. The commutes are harder. There’s nothing easy about managing that day-to-day existence. It brings up something that you talk about in the book, which is that everybody talks about personal life and work life.

Often, they talked about the fact that they’re distinct from each other but you have to confront all of this stuff collectively. The idea of bringing also your professional and your personal sense of being overwhelmed together. Why do you think this gap exists? Why are we getting this point wrong in the way that we’re looking at this problem?

For so many years, it was separate. What ultimately has happened and has been in the last couple of decades. Our workplace has changed so quickly that work and life used to be separate. You had one parent that was working outside the home. One was taking care of kids or one was responsible for the home. It’s very distinct. You had work and you had personal. Now, it’s more common to be dual income than it is to be a single income and dual responsibilities across the board. What’s happened is expectations have compounded. Not reduced. At the same time, traditional advice still treats them separately.

It’s inconvenient for employers to acknowledge that your personal circumstances are having an impact on you and some are more in light than others, obviously. It doesn’t contribute to the company’s bottom line to worry about how long your commute is or how much stuff you’ve got going on. Whether you’re the parent in charge of your kids PTA or soccer team or whatever that case may be. it’s this systemic form of denial willful ignoring of it all.

I couldn’t agree with you more on that.

For you, as you were working this through with your therapist and starting to figure out what this meant. What did you feel like you were missing up until that moment of realization? What do you think other people are missing when they are having one of those moments where they are drowning? It ought to be more visible to them and to the people around them.

Apart with the drowning that’s exceptionally frustrating. Ultimately, it’s a misdiagnosis. What everyone’s telling us, it’s like, “You’ve got a time management problem. It’s a productivity problem. If you color code this and get this calendar and whatever else, then things should be able to work.” That’s not the problem. The problem is mental load across roles. When you look at women in particular in leadership roles when you think just about their responsibilities at work.

Usually, they’re responsible for themselves and their direct reports, then carrying into that. Again, the personal side, you can’t take out of it. There are also responsible a lot of times for scheduling things for their spouse, children and all the other things in addition to that. It’s an overall mental load problem. There’s also expectations in society now. When you look at, you know the Pinterest era, things having to be perfect and being at every single event. Not saying no to things because you’re expected to be there.

Women are in this position where you feel that we’re drowning because we have all these expectations that keep coming on us that we didn’t necessarily raise our hands and say, “That sounds fun. Let’s do this.” Also, the solutions in the way people are trying to sell it for them is through a calendar. That’s ultimately not going to work. You have to find the root of why they are feeling this way to be able to address it.

Five simple hacks won’t solve anything and having a color-coded calendar. It’s probably one of those things. This small step in the right direction but nowhere near sufficient. How much of this do you think is personal? How much is structural given what you’ve just said?

I believe it’s both. One plays into the other. The challenge is we treat overwhelmed like it’s a personal problem and all the solutions are personal. Especially in this day and age, a lot of the issues are structural. Best example I can think of off the top of my head and again, I’m going to bring it back to the caregivers. The standard workplace works 9:00 to 5:00 but school drop off is at 8:00 and we pick them up at 3:00. That’s a structural problem. It is both. You can’t solve the structural problem by giving them a personal solution. Depending on what the situation is.

The Five Overwhelm Culprits: Clarity, Confidence, Community, Conditioning, And Consistency

Let’s get to your book. You’ve got five overwhelm culprits that you talk about in your book. Do you want to run through them? The clarity, confidence, community, conditioning and consistency. That’s the list but you can put the color around all that for us.

The thing that’s great about the overwhelm culprits in particular because we were talking about structural versus individual. These work for individuals, as well as teams and organizations. It works across the board and you’ll see how I describe them. The first one is lack of clarity. It’s not so much knowing what it is you want but having alignment and understanding why you want it. For individuals like me and the car all those years. The reason I was going through the four-hour day commute was because I wasn’t aligned with my why. I was working for my family’s business. I was heading it up after fifteen years.

I love the work that I did, but the thing that changed, my real why was my son. By saying yes to that career, I was saying no to my son. My clarity was the big one for me on that. The second one is lack of confidence. It’s not so much knowing what you want and why you want it. You have to believe that you could do or have it. For a lot of folks that got stuck in cycles of imposter syndrome and things like that, that is the reason for this. Even in terms of teams. Looking overall at a team. If a team doesn’t believe a goal is possible, you have to do something to bridge that belief gap before you’re going to see them perform.

The third one is lack of community. The famous motivational speaker Jim Brown once said, “We are the average of the five people we spend the most time with.” If the people we are spending the most time with don’t know how to do what it is we want to do or don’t believe it’s possible or don’t support you in doing whatever it is you’re going to do because it’s not going to benefit them in some way, shape or form. You’re going to stay stuck and you’re going to stay overwhelmed. You’re being exact same place that you’re in now. That’s a big one.

The fourth one is lack of conditioning. When I say conditioning, it’s your physical and mental health and wellness. By the point you reach burnout, it’s too late. What we’re looking to do is to identify where in your health and your wellness are you drinking enough water. Are you getting physical activity? Are you taking care of your mental health? What time and space do you have to be able to meditate, journal or talk to a therapist?

Especially high-performing women. This is the first one that gets snot to the side because we’re so busy focusing on everybody else’s needs that we put our own last. The problem with lack of conditioning in particular in leadership is if you’re not paying attention to your physical, health and wellness, you become the bottleneck in every single system that you’re in. It’s because you’re not running at your top capacity. It’s important.

Lastly, it’s lack of consistency. In order to achieve what it is you want from where you are now, you have to be able to take action over and above what you’re currently doing to get it. Consistency is one of the easiest ways to do this. It helps with things like the mental load like we are talking about before. A lot of this comes down to systems, habits, routines, and organizations. How are your systems supporting you to be able to take action on your worst days? Not necessarily your best days.

All of these of course are interrelated as well. For somebody who’s overwhelmed, can they pick up and try and focus on one first or do they have to confront them in a holistic fashion?

Usually, you can determine which one is your culprit based on where you’re stuck. If you’re not sure on what your next step is, it might be clarity. If you don’t believe that you could do something, it’s probably confidence. That’s a good place to start. I do have an overwhelmed corporate quiz, which is great. That’s definitely very helpful. Even just in describing the five culprits, a lot of times, when people are listening to it, they’ll hear one and they’re like, “That resonates for me.” That’s usually the best one to start with.

I do recommend starting with one which is clarity. It’s the foundation will culprit. It ties into a lot of different ones. The system is designed in a way that you do pick it up where you need it. I’ve done keynotes where I’ve had people in the audience come up to be saying that they saw me at an event six months ago. They had a completely different set of takeaways hearing the exact same content because their culprit was different or their seasonal life was different.

That’s interesting. Having worked on this with people and deliver these keynotes and done your coaching work. Do you find that any one of them is misunderstood by people that requires the most going deeper?

I would say lack of conditioning because it’s the first one that pretty much anybody puts on the side. If you’re a high performer, you’re always putting everybody else in front of you. You got to view it almost like an athlete. If you’re not fine tuning that physical and mental element, you’re not performing at your talk capacity. This is very much the case for women in a lot of the interviews featured in the book. They say variations of the same thing where they feel like they’re not fully 100% in one place.

Escape Overwhelm: High performers spend so much time taking care of everyone else that they forget the truth: if you’re not fine-tuning your mind and body, you’re limiting your own potential.

They’re like, “I’m not fully at home when I’m at home. Mentally, I’m checked out and think about stuff at work. I’m not fully at work because I’m mentally checked out and thinking of things there.” That’s a direct reflection of you need to work on lack of conditioning. You need to create that time and that space for your brain to find down to be able to process so you can be fully present.

Personal Experience Of Surviving Trauma Shaped The Framework

Framework is practical and certainly clear. I know you also draw in some pretty deeply personal experiences. How did those shape the five categories for you more generally?

It was through life experience. The way it ended up happening, it was from having to survive while I was leading. I was leading as a corporate SVP. In the timeframe I was looking at, I left this abusive marriage. Later on, I had experienced this suicide loss. I had a therapist who was like, “You should figure out how you were able to do this and apply it here.” It was very much like a workshop process going through it. In looking at different situations but in a way similar in terms of them through line, in terms of trauma, there were different situations but they were the same patterns that showed up over and over again.

Each time I was starting off, I didn’t have any clarity on what I wanted next or for the next phase of my life. In each situation, it was showing up that I wasn’t necessarily confident in certain areas or I didn’t have the right support people. It became very clear that those were the five to go after. I ended up using it in like a trial and navigating my suicide loss.

Through that experimentation, within months of having lost by then partner, I found the man that I ended up marrying. I started my business and I did a whole bunch of other things that most people would have taken years to be able to unpack and figure out. It’s because I had the right support systems in place. I knew exactly what I needed to allow myself the space to be able to heal and process. Also, to still continue to perform.

It sounds like a fast timeframe to have worked through everything you just described.

It was very fast. That’s the reason, too. I had gone through this same thing when I had gone through my divorce. My therapist at the time was like, “I have other patients that can’t do what you’re doing. If you could figure out how to teach people how to do it, you can impact a lot of lives.” At that point, I was still in my family’s business. I was expected to take it over. The seed had been planted that I started thinking about, what would it look like if I did do this work? After my suicide loss, that’s when I decided, “Let me go all for it,” because I didn’t want to sit in the car for hours every day.

Let’s come back to that car and sitting in the car for four hours every day. A lot of people are chasing what you call the illusion of success. The idea of having things that look perfect on paper in terms of profession, family, kids, partner, hobbies and friends. All of that stuff that creates this sense of success but they know inside something is wrong. You described feeling off early in our conversation. How do you tell the difference between, “I just signed myself up for too much and I got to start saying no more to know something more deeply is wrong here?”

The biggest way to look at it is depletion versus misdirection. When you’re burnt out, you have no desire to do anything. You want to get away from it all. You want to run. You want to escape. You don’t have any excitement in regards to the future. Where when you’re a misalignment, the energy is there but there’s friction. For me, sitting in the car, that energy was there. I love the work that I did. I love working for my family’s business. I build a career. I enjoy the work that I did, but there was friction. There was friction in that commute and sitting there. It didn’t sit right. It’s through that misdirection of energy that you could tell me difference.

For somebody who is feeling that sense of things, it’s often hard to break away from the status quo. You get into the cycle. You’re on the hamster wheel. Why is staying stuck so often more appealing than confronting change, even when we’re deeply unhappy?

It’s much easier to stay unhappy that it is to face our fears. A lot of times, you’re dealing with fear of the unknown or fear of disrupting different relationships. You don’t want upset people. For me, I didn’t want to upset my dad. “You’ve been preparing me for many years for this. I don’t think this is for me.” Predictability also feels safer. When you go into the unknown you make a big change. You don’t know what’s going to ultimately end up happening. People choose what feels safe for them and a lot of times, not necessarily what makes them happy. That requires a lot of internal clarity and self-awareness to figure out.

The Process Of Breaking Inertia And Trusting Intuition

How do you when you’re working with your clients coach them through that process of breaking the inertia?

One of the biggest things that I do with my clients when first starting with them is getting them to trust their intuition. The way that we do that too is when we’re exploring a topic. Let’s take values. It’s one of the first things that will go through. We determine personal values. I asked them to pick four out of a list of say 105. You would think I asked them to commit to a 3-year life plan. They put so much time and attention into it.

It’s a matter of when you look at the words on paper. Which one gives you a gut feeling? You can either feel it in your stomach. Some people feel it more in their chest, but there’s a feeling before your brain starts going, “This is so-and-so’s valuable or this is a line with my partner’s. I should choose this.” Usually, your tuition is whatever the first thought crosses your head before your brain starts spiraling. The more that you can learn to trust that very first answer, the more an alignment you’ll be with your intuition overall.

Is that how you get people to separate out what they want from what they feel like other people expect from them?

Yes. A lot of times, too, we’ll also explore why is this your value and having them explain it. If it ties into, somebody else shares it. Why is that important? If this person wasn’t part of the equation, would this still be your value? Help them gain clarity from there. Asking why is an excellent question in terms of coaching to get you four levels deeper to the root of what you’re looking to uncover.

Do you think this is a harder process for women than it is for men?

I do it for a couple of different reasons. In general, women aren’t necessarily nurtured to trust their intuition. We’re nurtured to be exceptionally safe. Even little girls versus little boys. We praise the little boy. They jump from the top of the stairs. You’re like, “He’s daring.” The little girl does it and we’re like, “What are you doing? You’re going to break your leg.” Women, in general, were encouraged to be helpful. We’re encouraged to be kind and take care of people. None of that has anything to do with your intuition.

Where little boys, is this a good idea? Basically, trying to train them to be leaders through making decisions, trying and failing. Little boys get more flexibility with versus girls. I do think that intuition is much harder for women to grow and nurture. Women do tap into it and I don’t necessarily want to say it’s because of empathy, but because of other ways that women process emotion and feelings. As well as situations and problems that they’re intuition becomes very powerful compared to the way that men may process the same situation.

Even for people who are coming into adulthood now. There’s probably still gender norms that are being imposed on kids growing up that affect how they behave as adults and confront some of these things when they run into them as adults. Come back to the idea of success in the hamster wheel. What are some of the other lies that we often tell ourselves about success?

The biggest one that I see is this belief that success is tied to sacrifice. You can’t have one without the other. This is something that was modeled for me. I’m a 4th-generation entrepreneur. I learned everything I learned from my father and my uncle who learned from my grandfather. Watching how they ran our family businesses was work hard and play hard. It was 70-80 hours a week in the office. It was a long commute. That’s why I thought it was normal. It was a lot of missed school concerts and things like that on my side that my dad might be on a business trip.

That’s what I thought the definition of success was because my family is successful. What I’ve learned since then because I wasn’t going to sit in a car for four hours a day. You can still have your own version of a line of success. There’s a big difference between being successful for the sake of success as well as being aligned with what it is that you’re working towards. When you design it intentionally, it’s possible. I run my business now 20-hours a week. Everything is designed around my kids. It is entirely possible to have that level of success. I would say I’ve been more successful in my career since I’ve left and started my own thing than I was before. That’s the biggest lie that I’d be telling my kids, for sure.

Change Either Happens By Choice Or You Are Forced Into It

You talk about the fact that change can happen in two ways. Either you choose it or you’re forced into it. How do those two paths choosing it versus being forced into it tend to lead to different types of outcomes?

It’s the same outcome but different experiences. You have two ways. The first one is you can make a conscious choice like, “I’m going to change. I’m going to quit my job. I’m going to apply for this other job that I’m not sure if I’m qualified for, but it would be great if I got it.” You could be forced into it through what I call a pivotal life moment. Pivotal life moments are things like I described before such as divorce or suicide loss. It could be you losing your job or any number of things. That’s your life after the event is different than it was before. That’s a force change.

There’s so many people who will not change their job until they’re laid off. That’s a force change. You’re ultimately leading to the same thing. You could either choose to get a job and change your job or you could be laid off and then have to go and find a job. The experience is very different because through the choice, there’s a certain level of empowerment. There’s a certain level of confidence that you build by taking the chance, going through and doing things that have it go according to plan.

When you go through the pivotal life moment or forced way, the experience isn’t as bright and shiny. You’re having to learn as you go. You’re scared you didn’t want to do this. There’s a lot more fear involved with it. You can lead change. You could decide like, “I’m going to make this change proactively,” or you can end up recovering from it. Either way, you can get the same outcome but they’re two very different experiences.

Resilience comes into play here as well. Giving some of the stories you shared about yourself and you share in the book. How does that factor into this whole notion of confronting your overwhelms?

Resilience to me is evidence that you’ve built the capacity to be able to handle hard things. For each and everything that I personally went through and there was a lot in a five-year timespan. Every single time that I successfully navigated it, it built my confidence. I vividly remember this to the day that I lost my partner to suicide. I was the one to find him. I remember standing on the lawn of his apartment and thinking to myself, “You’ve been through hard things like this before. You’ll get through this.”

There was a certain level of confidence that I was going to be able to navigate it. It had I not gone through the other situations before that were not the same situation but had similar undertones and lessons. I never would have had that level of confidence going into it. It’s that moment where you know deep down I can do this again. That’s true resilience.

To your point, every challenge that you face makes you a bit stronger. It gives you a sense of pattern recognition of, “I know what this feels like. I’ve been here before. I’ll get through it.” Having those challenges in life, painful as they are in the moment, they do help you get through lesser situations in the future more readily than you would have otherwise.

I’d also probably add to that. We were talking before about deciding to make a change or waiting for a pivotal life moment. When you’ve gone through situations like that in the past and you’ve successfully survived in and built that confidence. It makes making those proactive decisions so much easier because they seem like nothing in comparison to what you went through. It’s helpful too in terms of what risks you take to be able to better yourself moving forward.

How do you recognize the signals when you’re feeling a sense of overwhelm sooner so that it doesn’t hit a breaking point?

Most of the time we know that we’re overwhelmed. There’s that moment that you’re like, “It’s just too much.” The way I like to describe it is like a computer having too many tabs on. You open up too many tabs on the computer and it starts to run slow and then eventually it freezes up. We all have that moment when it comes to your own personal overwhelm.

You have to do a shutdown to get it to work again.

I tell everybody to do a brain dump because it’s the same thing. You take what’s in our head and put it on paper instead so it doesn’t have to live there. That would be the first sign. You feel yourself because overwhelm erodes your performance, your productivity, and your presence. It happens with time very slowly. It’s hard to know when you’re in the moment, but you do know that breaking point when you just can’t process.

From what you’ve said, intuition plays a role here, too. You’ve got to trust you into your interaction more than some people are comfortable doing.

Intuition is so important for all the things that we’re talking about.

For somebody who feels like they’re in a breaking point moment, what’s the first piece of advice you give them in terms of where to start?

To shift from a future focus vision, which a lot of us high performers were always thinking about like next quarter or next year or a five-year plan. It’s to shift from that future focus vision to shifting to today. This is something too that I could speak to. My capacity currently is very low because I experienced family lost and this was the very first thing I did. It was from, “We’re going day by day.” Instead of monthly or weekly. Even my team knows. Everybody knows we’re shifting day by day because your overall capacity is lower. You need time and space to be able to process what’s going on.

This is helpful and it removes pressure from you. It gives you that space. You naturally know when the time is to start shifting back to that future focus because you’re going to start to get excited. Once you finally have the time to cross and move through whatever it is you’re moving through that’s overwhelming. You’re going to naturally start to shift forward again. That’s when you just go back to business as usual. To start and take all that pressure off yourself and shift to what would make today a successful day and leave it at that.

I’m sorry for your loss. When you’re confronted with something like that, it’s probably a bit easier to downshift. When there isn’t something that slams you in the face like an illness or a death or some other catastrophic thing that happens in your life. It’s harder to call the moment and say, “We’re downshifting.”

You can’t expect yourself to be able to perform at 100% if you’re experiencing something like that. It’s also a good mindset shift to know that you’re 50% now, if that’s 100% of what you can give. It’s still 100%.

True. For your kids who might be reading this book but at some point, in their future. What do you hope has changed about the way that we think about success and are overwhelmed by the time that they hit adulthood?

I dedicated the book to my kids and the dedication is for my children. You never learn to confuse exhaustion with success. I would love for them to stop equating exhaustion with success the same way that I did. To move away from tracking and basing their performance on output and more shifting to alignment. Whether or not these actions were taken are aligned and having an impact. That they don’t feel that they are two people, employee versus a human or one whole human.

Overall, overwhelm is recognized a bit earlier than it is now. I feel we’re in a scenario where everybody is talking about the burnout crisis. Unfortunately, once you get to burn out, it’s too late. We have the ability to be able to solve this by looking at how we handle overwhelm. My hope for my kid’s generation is, success doesn’t end up costing them their lives and their health.

We all want our kids to be happy first and foremost. It’s hard to be happy when you’re exhausted. I know your book comes out on May 12th, 2026, The 5 Overwhelmed Culprits. I wish you the best with the launch. It’s an exciting time when you’ve got a book about to be birth into the world. Thanks for joining me and for sharing your story with some of its deeply personal moments. Also, your framework and help people apply it to help them break out of the cycle that they might find themselves in.

Thank you so much for having me. It’s been great.

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What should we take away from the discussion with Corrie? First of all, being overwhelmed isn’t a time problem. It starts with clarity. What stood out for me is this idea that it’s more than about just having too much going on. It’s often a sign that something deeper is off. It could be clarity, consistency, conditioning or any of those five things. If you don’t know what matters most or why you’re doing it or you’re not taking care of yourself or you’re not able to do things as consistently as you want to be able to do them. It creates this slippery slope.

It’s a non-linear slippery slope. Burnout is non-linear. The longer you let it go, the worse it gets. The longer you let misalignment go, the worse it gets. It’s harder in an almost exponential way to recover from that if you let it go on too long. The second thing was our conversation about success and this idea that success and exhaustion should be the same thing. You can have a life that looks great on paper and still feel completely drained by it. A gap between the external perception of success in our internal alignment and happiness is where a lot of overwhelm lies.

If there is that misalignment, that can be a real signal to you that something in your life needs to change. The last thing is this point around the fact that change either happens by choice or it happens to you. You may ultimately get to the same outcomes as Corrie was saying, but the process to get there will be different and will feel different if you choose it. Such as choosing to leave a job versus if it happens to you, such as getting laid off or waiting until you get laid off.

Again, coming back to what I said a second ago. The earlier that you learn to listen to your intuition, your energy and your body signals, which can show up in a variety of ways. The more likely you are to make changes on your terms, versus having them first on you. I invite you to subscribe to Career Sessions on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or YouTube. If you found this discussion enlightening, sign up for my membership community, which is called PathWise and our newsletter PathWisdom. Thanks.

Important Links

• Corrie LoGiudice
• Corrie LoGiudice on LinkedIn
• Corrie LoGiudice on Instagram
• Corrie LoGiudice on YouTube
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About Corrie LoGiudice

Corrie LoGiudice is a keynote speaker, high-performance coach, and entrepreneur who helps high-achieving women turn their overwhelm into a catalyst for confident leader- ship. After navigating a series of life-altering events—including divorce, loss, and walking away from a senior executive role—she rebuilt her life one intentional choice at a time. Her signature Overwhelm Culprit framework was born out of that season and has since helped thousands of women clarify their next step, speak up powerfully, and lead fulfilling lives.

She’s been featured on TEDx and in outlets like Forbes, Thrive Global, Business Insider, Girlboss, and more. Through her company, Corrie Lo & Co, she delivers keynotes, workshops, and coaching to powerhouse women and the companies that want to retain and grow them. Her client roster includes organizations like Michelin, Vonage, Impossible Foods, SHRM, Na- tional Grid, and dozens of women’s leadership associations across the country.