What would your next 15 years look like if you designed them on purpose? And what if you have so many options for your next chapter that you can’t decide which one to choose?

For many women in a career or life transition, the challenge isn’t a lack of options. It’s never having had the time to picture what they want clearly enough to choose. Continuing the visioning step of the Pyramid of Reinvention, Kavita’s six-step process for moving from confusion to clarity, this episode takes the Odyssey Plan from the bestselling book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, and stretches it across your next 15 years, part of what Ikigai co-author Francesc Miralles calls an ocean of time. With layoffs and AI reshaping work, those years are coming either way, so who decides what they look like, you or your circumstances?

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why the next 15 years of your life may be the ones most worth designing on purpose, and why they don’t have to look the same as the first part of your career
• How to use the Odyssey Plan, a way of sketching three very different futures, to picture the life you’re living now carried forward, what you’d do if that path disappeared, and the life you’d choose if money and other people’s opinions didn’t matter
• How your Ikigai, your reason for being, and the lift of positive, anabolic energy can help you decide which version is right for you, plus how Kavita blended all three versions into her own plan at 60

Press play to picture three versions of your next 15 years and start designing the one that’s right for you, on purpose.

To go one step further, email kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com for the free Inner Mentor Exercise, a guided visualization where you meet your future self, and share what your three versions look like. And if you’d like to picture your next chapter alongside other women doing the same work, join the waitlist and share what you’d love to see in Kavita’s group program and community opening in January.

Ready to talk through your next chapter one-on-one? Book your Complimentary Clarity Call

Episodes mentioned:

Episode 346: The Pyramid of Reinvention overview

Episode 350: What Staying May Be Costing You, with Carol Lin

Episode 351: How You Want to Be Remembered

Episode 277: Ikigai Explained: How Purpose Evolves

Episode 278: Francesc Miralles, co-author of Ikigai

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If you could choose the words people will use about you one day, would they match the life you’re living right now?

Most of us assume we’ll be remembered for our title, our years of service, or the roles we held the longest. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday’s episode 350 with former CNN anchor Carol Lin, that assumption gets turned around. When Carol describes her legacy, she doesn’t mention a single job, and Ikigai co-author Francesc Miralles names a greatest success that has nothing to do with selling millions of books. Their answers continue visioning, the second step of the Pyramid of Reinvention, where you begin to picture what you want your next chapter in a career or life transition to truly mean.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why one simple question can cut through everything that looks impressive from the outside and brings career clarity to what matters most to you now
• What Carol Lin and Francesc Miralles each hope to be remembered for, and what their answers may reveal about your own
• A simple exercise to write the words you’d love to be remembered by, and one small step to start living your way toward them this week

Press play to write the words you’d love to hear about your life, and start living your way toward them in your next chapter.

Kavita would love to send you the Inner Mentor Exercise, a guided visualization where you meet your future self, the wisest version of you, and hear what she wants you to know about your next chapter. Email her directly at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com to request it.

And if you’d like to picture your next chapter alongside other women in transition, Kavita is opening a group program and community in January. Join the waiting list and share what you’d like to see.

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Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment.

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This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

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Are you torn between staying in a career that no longer fits and leaving without a plan B in place?

Most of us only count the risk of leaving. Former CNN and ABC News anchor Carol Lin, the first national anchor to break the news of 9/11, faced a different calculation when her husband was diagnosed with a fatal cancer while she was six months pregnant. Walking away from a career that had asked everything of her, with no financial safety net, led to three more careers she never could have predicted. Her story opens visioning, the second step of the Pyramid of Reinvention, where you begin to picture what you truly want your next chapter to look like, even when a life transition makes it hard to see anything new.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• The one question that may help you decide whether to stay or go in a life transition
• The surprising everyday habit Carol says can train your brain to picture a different life
• What to ask yourself when you’re redefining ambition in your next chapter

Press play to weigh the real price of staying against the price of leaving, and give yourself permission to picture what comes next.

Ready to take those first steps alongside others in transition? Join the waiting list for Kavita’s new group program, opening in January, and share what you’d love to see in the community. And if you’d like to talk through your own next steps one-on-one, book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita.

About the Guest

Carol Lin is an award-winning journalist and former anchor and correspondent for CNN and ABC News, best known as the first network journalist to break the news of the 9/11 attacks. Her honors include an Emmy, a Peabody, an Alfred I. duPont Award, and three Los Angeles Press Club Awards. After leaving CNN, she served as an entrepreneur in residence at SRI International, taught journalism at USC, and led strategic communications for Los Angeles County government. Her memoir, When News Breaks: A Memoir of Love and War, is available wherever books are sold. On her Substack, she shares stories of how 9/11 shaped the lives of everyday people.

• Website: https://www.CarolLinNow.com
• Substack: https://WhenNewsBreaks.Substack.com
• Instagram: @carollinnow
• Facebook: @carollinnow

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Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment.

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New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

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