Career Relaunch®

Focusing on the Present with Caroline Yeats

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July 31, 2019 8:00pm

53m

When it comes to your health, you never really know when things can take a turn. Caroline Yeats shares her story of relaunching her career as an investment banker to become a nutritionist after being diagnosed with incurable Stage IV bowel cancer in her early 30s. We’ll discuss investing your time in only those things that matter and treating each day as if it’s your last. The week we had planned to record this conversation, Caroline actually had to have a sudden, emergency heart surgery, but she very generously insisted on still doing this recording, which gives you a glimpse into her positive attitudes about life and work. During today’s Mental Fuel segment, I’ll share the steps I’m trying to take to create the future I desire.

Key Career Insights

  1. When you’re in a balanced place in life and invested your time doing things you care about, you can truly enjoy each day.
  2. Doing things that make you miserable is not worth it because life is just too short.
  3. Thinking about important questions can potentially change the rest of your life. What do you want? What makes you happy? What makes you unhappy? What can you do about it?
  4. Imagine what you want your ideal life to look like in 5 or 10 years. What can you do right now to make that happen?
  5. You have to decide which issues you will allow to consume you, then reconsider whether it’s worth the stress.

Listener Challenge

During this episode’s Mental Fuel segment, I talked about deciding exactly what you want your life to look like in the future. Decide what specific actions you’ll take right now to maximize the chances of making this vision come true. While there are no guarantees things will turn out exactly as you hope, you might as well do everything you can to try and turn your hopes into reality.


About Caroline Yeats, Nutritionist

Caroline Yeats started her professional life in investment banking after graduating with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from The University of Oxford. After five years, she joined one of her banking clients, Xstrata Mining, as an Investor Relations Manager. Following the company’s takeover, she was a founding member of a new mining venture, X2 Resources, but a serious medical issue led her to