Amy Shoenthal, Author, "The Setback Cycle"

Your New Life Blend

Has there ever been a better time to decide what our lives should look like? We are emerging from a once-in-a-century cataclysm where our lives were upended, our communities remade and our priorities readjusted. Now as the call to return to “normal” grows more insistent, we get to ask the question: what does “normal” look like? Did the old normal serve me? What do I want my new normal to be? And what will that mean for my career, my community, and my family? These are the fundamental questions to building our lives – and now, rebuilding them. As a therapist and coach, Shoshanna Hecht has been wrestling with these very questions in her practice – and now, on this podcast. With guests from all walks of life including media, culture, politics, tech, business & activism, Shoshanna examines the overlap of our goals, relationships, boundaries and priorities, and how we can navigate them all with self-awareness and intention. What do we want our lives to look like? Welcome to Your New Life Blend.

Amy Shoenthal, Author, “The Setback Cycle”

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What happens when you’re building the life you want, and then life knocks you sideways? The layoff. The rejection. The congratulations on your new baby, we’re going to just give all your accounts to other people.

That last one happened to Amy Shoenthal, whose upward trajectory in a marketing firm record-scratched to a halt when she announced her pregnancy and she was quietly but decisively sidelined, coming back from maternity leave to find herself displaced from all her longtime clients. The subsequent feelings of professional panic, alienation and displacement left her unmoored from her career expectations and goals, which took a while for her to process and regroup from. Fortunately, the regrouping led her to something even better – her new book, “The Setback Cycle” about how we process the obstacles that knock us flat and find our way back to something even better.

In this episode of “Your New Life Blend,” host Shoshanna Hecht (who is in the book!) sits down with Amy to discuss how to rally when we want to wallow (but go ahead and wallow a bit, it’s an essential part of the process), how to check in with ourselves as we course-correct, and how sometimes setbacks are just what we need to wake us up.

Website:
https://www.amyshoenthal.com

Books:
The Setback Cycle: How Defining Moments Can Move Us Forward
A Magical Day in Sunnyside

Forbes column: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyshoenthal
Visionaries Collective: https://www.visionaries-collective.com

Social Media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyshoenthal
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amysho
X: https://twitter.com/amysho

Here’s what some of the listeners have to say:

“Shoshanna asks the very best questions. While I’m off thinking of one thing, as a result of the interview discussion, she cuts through everything to get to the central, underlaying theme. I loved the first episode and so appreciate her sign off, reminding the listener to be gentle with oneself. Who doesn’t need that reminder?” ~mbr2014

“Love this podcast! The host is charming and insightful, the guests are fascinating and inspiring! I especially appreciate the timeliness and comforting message of the show – we have all been through so much in these last few years. It is time for a new look at our work and our lives, and what a great gift to have the chance to be guided by master coach Shoshanna Hecht and her brilliant guests.” ~GioiaDC