Now at Work with Lizzie Azzolino

From Soul Break to Homecoming: Rewriting The Story of Your Past to Create Your New Path Forward with Heidi Hackemer

Episode Summary

How do you heal, grow and create a fulfilling new path when the company and career you’ve poured your heart and soul into ends unexpectedly? Lizzie Azzolino is joined by founder and strategist Heidi Hackemer to explore the concept of a “soul break” and the overlooked importance of rewriting the story of our past.

Episode Notes

How do you heal, grow and create a fulfilling new path when the company and career you’ve poured your heart and soul into ends unexpectedly? Lizzie Azzolino is joined by founder and strategist Heidi Hackemer to explore the concept of a “soul break” and the overlooked importance of rewriting the story of our past.

Heidi shares her unconventional path through five chapters: advertising, entrepreneurship, collaborating with the Obama White House, serving as an executive at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Oatly, and her newly emerging homecoming. Her personal story illustrates why and how to listen to our intuition, the real work of knowing who we truly are, breaking free from external expectations and leading a career and life that’s fulfilling and uniquely yours.

They also talk about:

• The emotional and professional pain of closing a soul-driven business
• How breaking points can make way for something greater to emerge
• How to rewrite our stories and reframe the past to create a stronger foundation for the future
• The loneliness of leadership, spiritual lessons of entrepreneurship and the opportunity to redefine leadership now more than ever
• How intuition beyond logic always leads to the right next step and what happens when we go against it
• The vital importance of turning down distractions from technology to know what we really want
• The lessons found in reconnecting with nature, such as quitting her job, buying a truck, and driving across the country in her early 30s, and her current chapter which she calls “witch in the woods”
• Her experience saying yes to the call from the Obama White House
• What she’s learned from the Indigenous community about how to navigate societal and political challenges
• The power and clarity that comes with age

Get in touch with Heidi Hackemer: 

• https://hackemer.co/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidihackemer/
• Substack: https://heidihackemer.substack.com/

Get in touch with Lizzie Azzolino here:

• https://www.workwithlizzie.com/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizzieazzolino/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizzie_azzolino/