THE SUSTAINABLE AMBITION PODCAST
What if you could have more fulfillment, peace, and ease in your professional and personal life — while staying ambitious?
Learn to align your ambitions with what matters most, navigate transitions with adventure and ease, and create sustainable success — without sacrificing your wellbeing or losing yourself in the process.
We’re taught that ambitious careers come with a price: our time, our peace, maybe even our wellbeing. But what if that story is outdated? What if you could pursue meaningful work, advance your career, and still have energy for the life you want to live?
Join Kathy and her guests — experts, authors, and innovators — as they challenge traditional narratives about success and ambition and explore new ways of living and working. While life and work rarely go according to plan, it's never too late to create a life and career that truly work for you.
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CAN AMBITION BE SUSTAINABLE?
Host Kathy Oneto talks with experts, authors, and friends with insight on her philosophy about life and work focused on three concepts: Right Ambition, Right Time, and Right Effort. Kathy shares ideas for navigating your career at different stages of life and work. You’ll learn to define your own success. You’ll embrace a consciously ambitious approach to better align life and work. And no matter what you choose to take on, you’ll have the resilience to tackle the challenge and the practices you need to sustain your energy.
Each new person who embraces Sustainable Ambition makes it easier for all of us to thrive in life and work.
177: Margaret Andrews: Becoming the Leader Only You Can Be
Overview
Leadership is hard right now.
Maybe one of your intentions for this year is to grow as a leader. Maybe you’re questioning if you even want to be one.
As my guest today, Harvard instructor and leadership development expert Margaret Andrews, emphasizes, leadership is a choice. And it’s okay if it’s not the right choice for you right now. But for those who are opting in, it’s important to set our intentions so that we can focus our efforts on making work better for ourselves and those around us. Because that is what leadership calls us to do.
In our conversation, Margaret and I discuss why self-leadership is vital to then leading others, how to intentionally and sustainably cultivate new practices and behaviors, and why good leaders learn to embrace paradoxes and polarities.
Leadership doesn’t come from following a formula or fitting yourself into a box. This episode invites you to consider how to become the kind of leader only you can be.
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176: The U-curve of Ambition: Finding Your Sustainable Zone
Overview
Ambition isn’t static. It ebbs and flows depending on our life stage, energy, priorities, and circumstances. Intentionally choosing where to put our time, energy, and attention is an essential part of Sustainable Ambition.
Today, I’m going to introduce a concept and tool from my book, Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work, that I find really useful at the beginning of a new year.
I’ll explain how the U-curve of ambition helps us get clarity on our current stage and state when it comes to our ambitions, so that we can better allocate our time and energy toward our goals at work and in life.
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175: How to Move Forward: Lessons from Creativity (Ambition In-Between Series)
Overview
Much as we often find ourselves asking “what now” at the culmination of an ambition, the start of a new year is also a time when many of us wonder how best to move forward.
For the third episode of our Ambition In-Between series, I want to build on what I’ve shared about the unexpected outcomes and mixed emotions that show up at the completion of a big ambition, and talk about how to move forward when we’re not totally certain what’s next.
Drawing on my experience of writing and releasing Sustainable Ambition, as well as what I’ve learned this year about the creative process, I’ve learned to reframe ambition and growth as a cyclical, non-linear process. When we recognize the need both for periods of commitment and periods of dormancy and reflection, I believe we can unlock a more sustainable, joyful way to build our lives and grow over time.
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