Made for Change with Dr. Janny Chang: Recent Episodes
Dr. Janny Chang
Are you facing a major life or career change or you're at the crossroads wondering whether you should make a change in your life? Whether it's chosen or not, change can be stressful and hard. That's where Certified Life Coach Dr. Janny Chang comes in. As someone who has faced many life changes and continues to make changes that improve her life, she understands the struggles that come with seismic change. She knows what it's like to face career and job changes, relationship changes, becoming a parent for the first time, making geographic moves, and other changes that can cause stress and anxiety in your life. Even amid changes, she learned to find resilience, meaning, and purpose in her life and she will help you do the same thing. This podcast includes psychology, neuroscience, storytelling, thought work, somatic, anthropology, life coaching, interviews, and advice from your trusted friend who will always have your best interest at heart. For more information and notes, visit www.jannychang.com.
Join me as I interview Andrea Sasha Ortiz as we talk about ALL the things, including parenting, self care, how to treat yourself well, boundaries, toxic workplaces, and how to know when to leave your job.
Andrea Sasha Ortiz is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in clinical psychology and is the reigning International Ms. Texas 2021, a role in which she serves as an ambassador, speaker and advocate. Her primary purpose is to inspire and empower women through her community service initiative, E^3: Economic Empowerment through Entrepreneurship. While studying at UNT, she collaborated with members of the UNT System Board of Regents to launch the Interdisciplinary Mentorship Program and served as vice president of Marketing and Communications and sitting president of the Graduate Student Council.
You can find her on social media at the following handles:
G: @sasha.the.socialite
FB: @internationalMsTexas
Have you ever felt triggered at work by a colleague, boss, being overworked, or micro aggression, racist, sexist, ableist, or other structurally oppressive comments? This episode is for you! I talk about workplace trauma and how NOT to re-trigger any traumatic event. I then propose the AAT method, which translates to Action, Awareness, and Taking up Space. This method is especially important for women and people from marginalized communities. How do you take up space, especially when you want to withdraw and stay quiet? What does it mean to take up space? How can you make sure that even when you're triggered, you're standing in your own power, speaking your truth, and generating safety for yourself?
In this episode, I talk about the new trend called quiet quitting. What is it, what are all the different facets of quiet quitting, what does it have to do with the pandemic, why might it be beneficial, and what can we do if we're finding ourselves disconnected at work. How do we continue to be a holistic and feeling human being in a world that prizes productivity and hustling?
You'll want to listen for some key questions to ask if you feel like you are quiet quitting.
In this episode, I delve into one of the major tools I use as a life coach and that's thought work. I use a model that's based on causal coaching and it involves analyzing our thoughts and linking our thoughts to our feelings and actions. This is the foundational tool to use for deciding whether to leave or stay at your job. In either case, I recommend that you look at your thoughts and your reasons for your decision and recognize that it's a choice that you're making to stay or leave.
I also talk about the red flags you should look for in any workplace situation. This includes a mismatch of your values and the culture and industry of your work and other types of caveats. However, whatever you decide to do, you want to make a decision from a place that is from the desire to grow and evolve, that's more overpowering, then you wanting to avoid pain. In this episode, you will learn why it's so important to clean up your thoughts and process your emotions when deciding to make a huge life change such as leaving your job.
In this episode, you will learn all about the difference between dealing with the stress versus stressor at work. You'll learn about the different ways to complete the stress cycle, so that it doesn't turn into chronic stress.
Using Elizabeth Gilbert's ideas, I talk about the difference between a job, hobby, vocation, and career and how that applies to your life.
In this episode, I talk about the importance of writing a personal and professional mission statement. It helps you clarify your values and this will help you decide what job or career to pursue. I then discuss how to use methods from design anthropology to map out your next steps.
Do you have a codependent relationship with your job or work?
In this episode, you will learn:
1) What codependency is and how it shows up in our relationship with work and at the workplace.
2) The five ways in which codependent tendencies show up in the workplace and why this discussion is different from what you'll find on Google searches or what's published in Human Resources articles.
3) How to be loving and compassionate towards ourselves as we're reflecting on our codependent tendencies
4) Key questions to ask ourselves as we reflect on whether we're in a healthy relationship with our job or career or business
5) That codependencies show up not just at work and in our relationship with our job, but in other areas of our lives as well
This episode is a continuation of our previous discussion of our codependent relationship with work. In this episode, Part II, you will learn tools and strategies to mitigate codependent behaviors.
You will learn:
1) The key questions to ask yourself if this job or career or industry is the right place for you and how to know that
2) How to "shine the spotlight" on yourself so that you prioritize your own needs and wants
3) How to create and design the life you want and make sure your job or career and everything else fits into your vision of the life you want
4) Why mitigating codependent behaviors is all about turning inward and focusing on you
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In this episode, I talk all about boundaries and burnout. This is what you will discover in this episode:
1) 7 tips that will help you establish and enforce boundaries at the workplace
2) Boundaries are meant for you - to honor your values - not to change the other person.
3) Boundaries are most effective when they come from a place of self-love or neutrality about colleagues and the workplace.
4) Boundaries are the highest form of expression of love that you can provide for yourself.
5) Determining which boundaries to create will involve some digging deep and reflecting inward. It will involve figuring out your core values in work and in life and structuring your boundaries around them.
In this episode, you will learn the following:
1) What is burnout? (drawing heavily from Emily and Amelia Nagoski's book, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle).2) What is emotional exhaustion and why that leads to burnout. What is compassion fatigue and why that leads to burnout. What is Human Giver Syndrome?
3) Why burnout and chronic stress are harmful for the body.
4) Solutions offered to prevent and reduce burnout.
How do you know when to leave or quit your job? How do you know when to embark on a new career?
I offer 7 questions you can ask yourself when making this decision. These are not typical questions that you'd find in an article online. These are mindset questions that are focused on you, your needs, and your inner work. These are questions that prioritize your mental health.
Tune in if you're ready to dig deep! These questions will help give you clarity on what to do next and that ultimately, it doesn't really matter what you decide because you will still have the same human brain. But if you learn to manage your mind, use the tools to create meaning and satisfaction, and take actions that will help cultivate new thoughts and connection with yourself, then you'll have the job and career you want.
In this episode, I bring in one of my good friends Aminata Cham who has a lot of wisdom and tools that help people navigate change. Aminata has a background in IT project management and has a wide breadth of international experience.
In this episode, we talk about:
1) Aminata's experience moving to the US from The Gambia at age 19 and how she learned to forge a new family and support system.
2) Our experience with the pandemic and the challenges of being a working parent.
3) Some mindset tools that can help when navigating major life changes.
4) What sustained both Janny and Aminata during the pandemic and it has to do with relying on community. This includes Good News Jam and Zoom sessions with friends.
5) Cultural backgrounds and beliefs that can help us navigate change and be resilient as well as certain beliefs that can hold us back and how we can create new experiences for ourselves.
6) How to be compassionate with ourselves, how to be aware of that negative self talk and pressure to try to "do it all", how to shut off from work to avoid burnout, and how to really take your PTO.
7) How to be yourself and be authentic amid change. Aminata has wisdom to share around this advice.
In this episode, we continue the discussion of how to navigate a major career or job change if you've been fired, laid off, or faux-fired. You will learn the rest of the 10 tools for navigating this change and why it's so important to focus on building the relationship with yourself. This is an opportunity for you to discover what you actually want in your life and build resilience by learning to have your own back.
Have you been fired, laid off, or faux-fired? In this episode, I draw from coaching tools and Robin Merle's Involuntary Exit book to equip you with ideas and tools to help you if you've bee fired. I provide my background and story for when I got fired and I give you the podcast I wish I had to help me on my journey towards healing and growth. I provide 10 tools and concepts to help you navigate this major life change. This is part 1 "If you've been fired." Make sure you check out part 2 of "If you've been fired."
In this episode, I talk about what change is and why it can be so stressful for many people. I talk about the different stages of changes and offer four broad strategies for coping and navigating any major life and career change.