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465. Coaching Hotline: Hating Your Career Choice & Feeling Empty Inside

Feb 10, 2026
A coaching hotline tackles hating your career choice, heavy student debt, and the regret that follows big decisions. The conversation digs into how beliefs trap you and offers ways to rewrite the story you tell yourself. It also explores feeling numb or disconnected and why that emptiness can make thought work feel pointless.
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INSIGHT

Feelings Are Created By Thoughts

  • Your dislike of a career is created by your thoughts, not the circumstance itself.
  • Kara Loewentheil emphasizes that beliefs like "I ruined my life" are optional and shape your experience.
ADVICE

Retell Your Career Story On Purpose

  • Do rewrite the story you tell about why you made your career decision to change its emotional impact.
  • Kara advises actively choosing beliefs that the degree added value and opportunity rather than loss.
ANECDOTE

Law School Reframed As Asset

  • Kara shares her own reframing about law school becoming useful to her coaching career.
  • She contrasts possible regretful thoughts with her deliberate choice to see law school as beneficial.
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