The Finding Your Freedom Podcast
The Finding Your Freedom Podcast
Podcast Description
Welcome to the Finding Your Freedom Podcast, where we help high-achieving professionals thrive with freedom and purpose. I'm your host, Nat Baldwin. In each episode, we explore transformative journeys, practical strategies, and inspiring stories to help you create a life aligned with your true values. Whether you're seeking to optimise your current role or explore new paths, this podcast is your guide. Each episode concludes with our signature "Freedom Challenge" –a practical task designed to help you take steps toward your own transformation. Join our community as we redefine success.
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The podcast focuses on personal transformation, career transitions, and aligning with one's values, with episodes exploring topics like navigating change after long corporate careers, the significance of life-altering experiences, and the importance of coaching frameworks. For example, it highlights how a guest's personal loss aided their career pivot towards coaching and finding true purpose.
Welcome to the Finding Your Freedom Podcast, where high-achieving professionals discover how to lead with authentic confidence while creating genuinely fulfilling success. I’m your host, Nat Baldwin.
In each episode, we explore the pivotal moments that shape professional careers—from partnership decisions to sector transitions, from stepping into leadership to redefining what success means to you. Through candid conversations with accomplished lawyers, accountants, consultants, and other leaders, we uncover practical strategies for navigating crossroads with intention.
Kasia Gajos spent 15 years climbing from Deloitte management consultant to senior director at EE telecoms, maintaining high performance throughout a pandemic.
Then her body shut down completely and sleeping for two straight weeks when given medical leave.
In this conversation, we explore why burnout looks different for high achievers (watch social withdrawal and weekend Netflix binges, not declining work performance), the real cost of consulting's ”compulsory drinks” culture, and why belonging matters more than prestige for career satisfaction.
Kasia shares practical frameworks including the lifeline exercise for spotting energy patterns, how to reclaim 10 hours per week by confronting why you need to be constantly needed, and her reframing that changed everything: your calling isn't about what you do, it's about how you do it.
Topics covered:
High-achiever burnout recognition and physical symptoms
Why belonging and psychological safety predict job satisfaction
Management consulting culture and the always-on treadmill
Parenthood as catalyst for career change through modelling
Sustainable productivity without leaving your job
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