Push Yourself Podcast

Push Yourself Podcast 🎙️ Exploring motivation, resilience & career journeys
🎧 Real stories. Real challenges. Real growth.

05/20/2026

You can’t want change more than the person in front of you.

Dr. Sam Lookatch - - said it while talking about recovery, but I kept thinking about career guidance too.

It’s not about telling someone,
“You should do this job.”

It’s about asking better questions.

The kind that help someone notice what they value.
What they avoid.
What drains them.
What keeps calling them back.

Advice can point someone somewhere.

But self-understanding is what helps them keep walking.

ProfessionalGrowth PushYourself

05/13/2026

A career pivot can look clean from the outside.

Private practice.
Flexibility.
More control.
More time with family.
A schedule that finally fits your life.

But the part people often miss is the pressure underneath the freedom.

You are not only doing the work.

You are building the business around the work.

Licensing.
Networking.
Financial risk.
Referrals.
Visibility.
Learning how to “sell yourself” when that may not come naturally.

That is what stood out to me in this part of my conversation with Dr. Sam Lookatch

Meaningful work still needs structure.

Freedom is not the absence of responsibility.

Sometimes freedom means choosing which responsibilities you are willing to carry.

05/07/2026

In my conversation with Dr. Sam Lookatch - - we got into something that applies far beyond therapy:

helping someone does not always mean giving them the answer.

Career counseling isn’t about telling you,
“You should do this job.”

It’s about asking questions.

Because real clarity is rarely handed to us fully formed.

It is uncovered through reflection, conversation, and noticing the patterns in our own story.

Advice can point you somewhere.

But self-understanding teaches you how to keep walking when no one else is there to tell you what to do.

CareerGrowth PushYourself

04/20/2026

You can’t want the change more than the person who has to live it.

That applies in therapy, career counseling, coaching, mentoring, and more.

The guide can care.

But the work still belongs to the person in front of you

Not every detour is confusion.Sometimes it is self-recognition.A lot of paths only make sense in hindsight.What feels of...
04/01/2026

Not every detour is confusion.

Sometimes it is self-recognition.

A lot of paths only make sense in hindsight.
What feels off, delayed, or uncertain can also be the beginning of a more honest direction.

New episode with Dr. Sam Lookatch 🎙️
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