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Elaine zitner ICF certified leadership and life coach. I help you get unstuck and move forward with clarity and co

not the corner office of my 20s. totally worth it.✌️ez
11/04/2026

not the corner office of my 20s. totally worth it.

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11/02/2026

The actual quitting took five minutes. The stories I’d been telling myself….those were years in the making and the undoing.

The conversation itself was clear and honest, and full of emotion and appreciation. But I’d been thinking about leaving corporate since I was 19, working at the bank as an assistant investment advisor.

Getting to the actual convo on that random Monday took a lot of small steps.

💻 IT project and process management
🤝 HR, doing coaching and organization development
🏥 Healthcare, leading the people side of big changes, still coaching along the way
✨ Now, my own business coaching women through their next chapter

None of those steps felt like a big leap at the time. Each one just got me a little closer to work that makes me feel alive.

Your next step doesn’t have to be blowing up your life. It might be a conversation, a book, or one honest question.

Share this with someone who needs a reminder that small steps count.

And follow along for Part 2: the first small step I took. (Spoiler: Let’s just say it wasn’t the career change I expected. )

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11/01/2026

“Later” has a sneaky way of turning into another year. 👀🔮

After the kids leave.

After the promotion.

After this project is done.
I know, because I said “later” for a long time too. What finally got me moving? Realizing I didn’t need the whole plan. Just the next step.

So if you’re at the tipping point, ready to figure out what you actually want and what’s been getting in the way, let’s figure it out together.

🗓️ The Tipping Point Live on Zoom · Limited to 10 women, so there’s room for real coaching

Comment READY and I’ll send you the details.

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10/31/2026

Career clarity was never really about the job.

I had cool titles, great teams, amazing benefits and solid steady income. And I felt very “ugggghhh is this it?”....

When I started to dig in I could see I wanted to feel joy, purpose, a sense of creativity. Excited in the morning. Proud at the end of the day.

Once I knew that, the job part got so much easier. I followed the breadcrumbs of feelings, not titles.

So before you ask “Should I stay?” or “What’s next?”, try this:

✨ How do I want to feel when I wake up?

🌙 How do I want to feel at the end of the day?

🔑 Which of those feelings is missing right now?

That’s your starting point.

Comment CLARITY and I’ll send you my 7 steps to career clarity.

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10/30/2026

We’ve been sold gratitude as the cure for everything. News flash: you can be grateful AND want a change. 💥

Grateful for the paycheck, and also craving something more.

Grateful for your team, and also bored out of your mind.

Grateful for the stability, and also lying awake at 3am wondering if this is it.

Both can be true. Neither one makes you ungrateful, selfish or broken.

Gratitude can be a beautiful practice. It can also become a way to override what you’re actually feeling.

And bypassing a feeling doesn’t make it go away.

Be grateful. Just don’t use it to talk yourself out of what you want.

Keep the gratitude. Ditch the guilt about wanting more.

Comment READY and I’ll send you the details for The Tipping Point, a live coaching session, so you can stop spinning and take your next step. 👣
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10/30/2026

Yes, yes, this is the Lego room at my mom’s house.

For years, I was waiting for career clarity. Waiting for a sign. For the project to be over. For the performance cycle. For the structure changes. Waiting and waiting……

All these years later, I can see that my living, breathing vision started in a small moment. A broken link, and a conversation I’d been curious about for ages.

From there, I did both. I followed the breadcrumbs, and I made a vision and a plan.

Many people think those are opposites. I’ve found that living with “both” is the only way I move forward.

Without the vision, I’m directionless and swirling in options.

Without the space for magic and following my curiosity, I’m locked into something that may no longer fit.

That’s why I have a living, breathing vision, and it’s where I start with every new client.

There are lots of elements to the vision, and I’ve shared more in other reels. But if you want to take a step with both a plan and space for magic, try this:

1️⃣ Draw two columns. ✏️

2️⃣ On the left, list three things you’ve been a little curious about lately. 🔍

3️⃣ On the right, write one sentence about how you want to feel a year from now. 🌱

4️⃣ Then follow one breadcrumb this week. Send one message. Ask one question. 👣

Share this with someone who’s waiting for a sign.

Comment STEP and I’ll send you details on my next live session, or if you want the free guide Comment CLARITY and I’ll send it to you.

10/27/2026

I know you think a new job title will fix the way you feel. It didn’t for me. What helped most had nothing to do with LinkedIn, my resume or networking.

It was creating a living, breathing vision. Not a list of things to have or achieve. A picture of the life I wanted, and the work that would fit into it.

Here’s part of what went into it:

1️⃣Values - What matters to you now, not 10 years ago. Mine are joy, connection and nature. What would a 10 out of 10 look like?

2️⃣Feelings - How do you want to feel when you wake up, and at the end of the day? I wanted to feel excited in the morning and proud at night.

3️⃣Strengths - What lights you up, the work you’d happily do even if nobody paid you. It might be what you’re good at. It might be something else entirely.

4️⃣Parts - Which parts of you have been running the show, and which ones are ready for more room? (Hi, Silly Sally.)

Make it about who you are and what you want now. Not what you think you’re supposed to want. It takes the pressure off, and it’s a lot more fun.

Start with one thing. Finish this sentence: “Tomorrow, I want to wake up feeling ___.”

Tell me your word in the comments 👇 and share this with someone who could use a break from the spinning. If you want the full guide comment “clarity” and I’ll send it to you
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10/19/2026

It can be very painful, frustrating and confusing to both know and not know…

To know that you want something else and not know what that is,

To wish you could just be content with what you have and where you are and no matter how hard you try, you still don’t feel that way.

To both want to take a leap and to stay exactly where you are cause at least it’s familiar.

One of my clients said it perfectly “The tension between being afraid and needing to change, I’ve reached the tipping point”.....

You don’t need to know exactly where you’re going before you begin. But getting clearer on what you want and understanding what keeps pulling you back will make moving forward feel less intimidating.

It can be scary to take the leap and it can also be fun, exciting, and freeing. At least that’s the journey with me :).

Want to talk through the thing you keep swirling about? DM me. Or comment TIP and I’ll send you the details for my upcoming small-group coaching session.

10/19/2026

Sorry friends, getting a new job won’t solve the actual thing keeping you stuck in overthinking, swirling and avoidance around what to do about work aka being career confused

Whether you’re in a role that’s meh, you recently left, or you’re firmly in the “is this really it” camp, what makes it hard is actually quite simple.

To know what to do next, you have to know what you want 🤯🤦🏽‍♀️

And while that sounds simple, it’s actually complex.

Hence the spinning and avoiding.

It’s tough being a mid or late stage career pro. You might think you should have this figured out by now. It might bring up shame or embarrassment. And not knowing, especially when you’re smart and capable, is enough to make anyone go a little bonkers.

So you think about it and update LinkedIn, maybe consider some more education….but somehow you still feel exactly the same and the swirl continues.

Been there. I see you, friend. And please know you are not alone.

Knowing what you want can be hard. So let’s start small.

Try this….

1) Track what lights you up and what drains you for two weeks. The big stuff and the small stuff. Make it easy on yourself. Note on your phone. Tell a robot. Whatever works.

2) Use the small moments to start learning how you actually know what you want. Bath or shower? Pizza or salad? How do you know?

Knowing yourself is like a muscle. It needs to be nurtured and tended to and it can grow quicker than you’d think.

I know you want to jump straight to “what’s the job.” But that’s like trying to do 10 chin-ups when you can’t yet do one. (Still a work in progress for me too, honestly. 😂)

Start small. You’ll get there. I promise.

And when you do…the next thing will actually align with who you are and what you want. Imagine that!!

Happy noticing and tracking

✌️ez

PS - I made a freebie walking you through the overall process in more detail. Comment “clarity” and I’ll send it to you.

10/16/2026

Deep breaths. Prep the night before. It doesn’t actually matter if they are late. Etc etc ….i get all of that in my head but I feel totally bonkers in the am trying to get them out the door and I imagine I’m not the only one….

What have you found helpful????

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