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Designing Your Future Self Podcast

Designing Your Future Self Podcast

By: Andrea C. McLean
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Summary

 What if the only thing standing between you and the career and life you were meant to lead is the story you've been telling yourself? Designing Your Future Self is the podcast for professionals and executives who are ready to stop playing small and start stepping boldly into their next level. Each episode is built around one powerful theme, one proven strategy, and one actionable assignment to help you close the gap between where you are and where you deserve to be. Season 2 is built entirely around The S.O.A.R. Method® — a coaching framework designed to help you Shift Your Mindset, Overcome Your Challenges, Activate Your Plan, and Reflect and Refine your path forward. Across 52 episodes, we tackle the mindset work, leadership strategies, and career tools that high-achieving professionals need to advance with confidence, influence, and intention. Topics include limiting beliefs, executive presence, leadership advancement, sponsorship, strategic influence, promotion readiness, and designing the future self you were always meant to become. Your host, Andrea C. McLean, is an Executive and Career Coach, Founder of ACM Coaching Group, creator of The S.O.A.R. Method® and The F.L.A.P. Method®, and award-winning author of Decide to Be Your Future Self. With 35 years of global corporate leadership experience, Andrea brings real-world insight, warmth, and deep expertise to every conversation. New episodes every Wednesday. Ready to go deeper? The Promotion Ready Leader Workbook is available now for $47 at andreacmclean.com/promotion-readyAll rights reserved. Personal Development Personal Success
Episodes
  • Shifting from Perfectionism to Progress

    Shifting from Perfectionism to Progress
    May 13 2026
    Perfectionism can keep talented professionals stuck, invisible, and over-preparing. In this episode, Andrea C. McLean explains why perfectionism is often fear wearing the mask of standards and shares four practical shifts to help you move from perfectionism to progress. Resource: Promotion Ready Leader Workbook, andreacmclean.com/promotion-ready
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    10 mins
  • How to Build a Resilient Mindset During Career Uncertainty

    How to Build a Resilient Mindset During Career Uncertainty
    May 6 2026
    Uncertainty is no longer the exception in your professional life. It is part of the condition many leaders and high-achieving professionals are navigating every day. In this episode of Designing Your Future Self, Executive Coach Andrea C. McLean explores what resilience really means. Resilience is not toughness, endurance, or pretending you are fine. It is the capacity to adapt, recover, and bounce forward with clarity and intention. Andrea identifies four factors that make high-achieving professionals more vulnerable to uncertainty, shares how her F.L.A.P. Method®, Face Life’s Adversities and Persevere, serves as a practical resilience framework, and walks you through five ways to build a resilient mindset starting today. Because resilience is not a personality trait you either have or don’t have. It is a skill. A practice. And you can build it. Resource mentioned in this episode: Promotion Ready Leader Workbook andreacmclean.com/promotion-ready
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    10 mins
  • From Comparison to Celebration

    From Comparison to Celebration
    Apr 30 2026
    Comparison isn't just the thief of joy. In your career, it's the thief of clarity, confidence, and momentum. In this episode of Designing Your Future Self, Executive Coach Andrea C. McLean unpacks the comparison trap: why high-achieving professionals fall into it, what it's quietly costing them, and how to break free. Drawing on the S.O.A.R. Method®, Andrea walks through the three most common comparison triggers she sees in her coaching practice — Milestone Envy, Timeline Anxiety, and Identity Comparison — and shares four practical ways to shift from measuring yourself against others to celebrating your own unique path. Because here's the truth: your career is not a race with other people. It is a journey toward your own fullest expression of leadership. And the only meaningful comparison is between who you are today and who your future self is becoming. Resources: Promotion Ready Leader Workbook — andreacmclean.com/promotion-ready
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    10 mins
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