Blog - Phyllis Lehman Coaching

You’re Not Lost: Finding Clarity in Career Transition

You are not behind. You are not broken. And you are not, despite what the quiet voice at 2 a.m. keeps insisting, the only person your age who hasn’t figured it out yet. What you are is between stories. And that space, as uncomfortable as it feels, is not evidence of failure. It is evidence of growth. That is what career transition is all about. Here is the confusion that trips up so many young professionals in this phase: they mistake identity confusion for incompetence. They sit with a résumé

Discovering a Career Path in High School

Finding Clarity, Confidence, and Momentum for Your Future Choosing a career can feel overwhelming when you are still in high school. You are thinking about graduation, college, jobs, and what your life will look like in a few years. You might even feel pressure to choose the perfect path right away. The truth is that discovering a career is a process of learning who you are, what you enjoy, and what your strengths are. It is not about having everything figured out by a deadline. It is about building awareness

Career Pivot After 50

From Stage Fright to Stage Presence: How One Actress Discovered Her True Calling (And Why Your “Irrelevant” Experience Might Be Your Greatest Asset) A Vote of Confidence That Changed Everything Last month, I received an email that stopped me in my tracks. It wasn’t a quick “thanks for your help” note or a LinkedIn endorsement. It was a detailed, heartfelt reflection from a former client who was someone I’d worked with months earlier. She shared how our coaching relationship had fundamentally transformed not just her career trajectory, but her entire

4 Stories of Career Clarity: The Career You Have Already Prepared For

Four Real Life Examples They are not lost. They just cannot see themselves clearly yet. They are in need of career clarity. That is the quiet truth I have come to understand after coaching young professionals through some of the most disorienting passages of their early lives. They arrive at my door not because they lack talent — G-d knows, they have it in abundance — but because the story they are telling themselves is so much smaller than who they actually are. Let me introduce you to a few

Wow! I Didn’t Set Out to Be a Career Coach

Career coach? I started out like any other hopeful MBA armed with a hard earned degree from a top 10 business school ready to take on the world. I began my career diving deeply into data at Fortune 100 companies. Working closely with marketing, I truly enjoyed designing, implementing, and interpretating primary research that shaped products and services. The creative element of successfully putting together features and marketing campaigns that filled market gaps and served demographic niches was so gratifying. Using secondary research, I was able to report on economic