Are You Climbing the Right Ladder?

About this episode

Steve Kay and Kali Fraser discuss the importance of aligning one's career with personal values and fulfillment.

Welcome back to the NLP UK Training podcast! Hosted by NLP Trainers Steve Kay and Kali Fraser from NLPUKTraining.com – a leading provider of NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner certification in the UK. In this episode, Steve and Kali explore a powerful question: is your career feeding your soul, or just filling up your schedule? They reflect on the familiar cycle of chasing the next promotion, ticking off the next goal, and constantly adding to the to-do list – only to arrive at a quiet sense of unfulfilment. Drawing on their own corporate and entrepreneurial experiences, they unpack the difference between busyness and meaning, values and validation, and why many of us never stop to ask why we’re climbing the ladder in the first place. It’s practical and reflective, too. You’ll hear four coaching questions designed to help you pause and reassess: what would your ideal workday feel like? What would you miss if your job disappeared tomorrow – and what wouldn’t you? When did you last feel truly alive at work? And what are you tolerating that you’ve convinced yourself is “just normal”? If you’re feeling stretched, restless, or quietly questioning your direction, this episode…

People in this episode

Hosts: Steve Kay, Kali Fraser

Topics covered

• career fulfillment
• self-reflection
• NLP
• coaching questions
• work-life balance

Keywords

• career
• NLP
• coaching
• fulfillment
• work-life balance
• self-improvement
• meaning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NLPUKTraining.com

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