Welcome to the Career Design Talks Interview Series where I speak with successful professionals across industries to uncover their unique strategies and lessons learned on their journey to building a successful and fulfilling career.
In this interview, I speak with Patrice Keitt, JD, PCC, Executive Coach, and Partner at Clear Path Executive Coaching based in New York City. Her clients include executives, emerging leaders, and entrepreneurs who want to develop their leadership skills in order to make meaningful changes in their organizations and lives.
We talk about her career path from big law associate, to the luxury fashion industry, to becoming an executive coach and certified mindfulness, meditation, and yoga instructor. And more specifically how her mindfulness practice helped her successfully navigate her career pivots.
In this interview you will learn:
Why her choice to go to law school was not a mindful choice and what questions you should ask yourself before going to law school.
How to recognize the signs that you don’t want to be a lawyer anymore.
How to notice which job activities energize you and which ones drain your energy.
How meditation helped her deal with the stress and anxiety caused by her legal career.
How her mindfulness practice helped her to separate from fearful thinking and allowed her to clarify her thinking.
How a career coach helped her leave big law to pursue her passion for the luxury fashion industry.
How her mindfulness practice helped her navigate the self-doubt and uncertainty of changing careers.
How knowing her strengths, researching new career paths, and networking helped her land her first role in fashion.
How putting together her passions, experience, and skills in learning, acting, mindfulness, business, leadership, and helping others led her to executive coaching.
You can learn more about Patrice Keitt, JD, PCC at https://clearpathexecutivecoaching.com/
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mo Chanmugham, Esq., CPCC, ACC is a former entertainment lawyer turned executive career and leadership coach and the founder of MGC Coaching. He helps ambitious professionals who are feeling stuck gain the clarity and confidence they need to create more fulfilling careers and become better leaders.