123. From Stuck to Clear: How a Vision Coach Helps High Achievers Find Their Next Chapter with Lois Weinblatt

In this episode, Kimberly sits down with Lois Weinblatt — vision coach and founder of True North Visionaries — for a conversation that goes far beyond the trendy advice to "write down your goals." Lois breaks down the real work of visioning: what it actually takes to get clear on your next chapter when you're a high-achieving professional who's been grinding without a real direction, and why trying to do it alone is one of the biggest reasons people stay stuck.

Lois has taken herself — and hundreds of clients — through a structured visioning process that starts not with the future, but with an honest look at the past. Her approach challenges the idea that visioning is fluffy or abstract. Instead, she treats a vision as your definition of success at a specific point in the future, and she walks clients through a 13-week process (or an intensive three-day immersive in Madrid) to get there.

Whether you've never built a vision or you wrote one years ago and have no idea where it went, this conversation will shift how you think about clarity, direction, and what it means to truly move intentionally in your career and your life.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why visioning is "important but not urgent" — and why that's exactly the reason most high achievers never do it
• The difference between doing visioning alone versus doing it with a guide (and why the gap between those two experiences is massive)
• Why Lois starts the process by looking backward — and what happens when clients try to skip that step
• How to acknowledge past choices without over-explaining, justifying, or being talked out of your feelings about them
• What it means to "release the how" and why that's the hardest part for action-oriented professionals
• The "goalkeeper" concept — why some of your goals have gatekeepers outside your control, and why that matters for your vision
• How to think about visioning like an accordion: expanding it to five years or contracting it to use right now, even in the middle of a hard season

About Lois Weinblatt: Lois Weinblatt is a vision coach and the founder of True North Visionaries. She works with capable, motivated, self-aware professionals who are on the cusp of their next chapter and need help getting out of their heads and into clarity. Her structured visioning process helps clients move from swirling thoughts and competing options to a clear, grounded vision for their personal, professional, financial, relational, and spiritual lives. Learn more at truenorthvisionaries.com and follow her on social media:

• https://www.tiktok.com/@lois.weinblatt
• https://www.instagram.com/truenorthvisionaries/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lois-weinblatt/

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