Sustainable Ambition

Updated: 30 Apr 2025 • 158 episodes
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How do you navigate the inevitable conflicts between work and life? Not just the daily schedules or mounting responsibilities, but the tensions between your ambition for your career and your ambition for life? How do you decide what to prioritize and what to let go of? How do you decide when to speed ahead and when to ease up? These aren’t questions of work-life balance or self-care. They’re questions we can answer when we get serious about intentionally designing a life with work that works for you. Join Kathy Oneto, executive and life-work coach and founder of Sustainable Ambition, for conversations with experts, authors, and friends to explore sticky questions around navigating ambitious careers while integrating life with work, practicing sustainable work practices, and building resilience. Most people assume that ambition and sustainability are mutually exclusive. Not so! Keep listening, and Kathy will make you a believer in Sustainable Ambition, too. — Follow or subscribe now. It’s absolutely free and that way you don’t miss an episode! For links to the ideas, resources, or people on the show, go to: sustainableambition.com/podcast Get more with Sustainable Ambition Forum, an exchange of ideas on you+life+work: SustainableAmbition.com/subscribe Get FREE Sustainable Ambition resources at: SustainableAmbition.com/resources

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Pre-order my book Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4hESYMp  In this deeply resonant conversation, I sit down with Moe Carrick — author, consultant, and advocate for more human-centered workplaces — to explore the role of work in our lives and

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How we think about and plan our time matters, especially if we want to focus on the ambitions and goals in life and work that truly matter to us. My guest, Laura Vanderkam, has been studying time management for over fifteen years. In our conversation, she offers a fresh perspective on common narratives about how much t

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As leaders, we have to ask ourselves, how can we create more sustainability for ourselves and our teams? Among the challenges modern leaders face are the emotional demands of their roles, whether we want to acknowledge emotions in the workplace or not. Dina Denham Smith joins me to dig into the myths and misperceptions

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As the Sustainable Ambition podcast reaches its 150th episode, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the journey and the invaluable insights shared by various guests on the show.  The podcast has consistently explored the concept of Sustainable Ambition, exploring how to be ambitious without sacrificing yourself or y

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Pre-order my book Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4hESYMp  How can we pursue our ambitions without sacrificing our lives or ourselves in the process? It’s easy to get overextended while following our passions, but we can use those moments to

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Pre-order my book Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4hESYMp  So far this year, my guests and I have been discussing how we can do things differently through experimentation, creativity, and innovation to optimize our life and work for personal

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