You’re Not Supposed to Figure This Out Alone

Right, welcome back to Evolve Lactation Podcast.

I'm Christine and I wanted to talk to you today about something new that I've been building in the background.

I've built what I'm calling a working space, a private working space for lactation professionals.

I have had memberships in the past.

I have hosted memberships and offered lactation career coaching, which is exactly what it sounds like.

It's when people have questions about what to do next.

Maybe they're new or new-ish lactation professionals or even aspiring ones who are thinking through what do they want their practice to look like? What do they want to do next? You know, sometimes we fall into working in the setting where we can get paid and Or working in the setting that's closest to us or most convenient for our personal life.

And we lose sight sometimes of what we got into it for.

Not necessarily the helping parents with breastfeeding part.

But, you know, sometimes when we first get into this work, we have this vision that, you know, hey, I'm a person who... is from this community or knows how to speak this language or, you know, I have this very specific perspective because of my own personal experiences.

And we think that that's what we're going to get into this work for.

And that's what we're going to do day to day.

And when we stop to think about it, it's not always what we're doing day to day.

And sometimes people are sort of ready to go in that direction, just ready to sort of reclaim their vision for what they wanted to do.

And sometimes that means making a change to what they're doing day to day, what setting they work in or what role they have.

And sometimes it's just adding something on.

to the work that they already do.

Maybe, you know, doing lactation work in a hospital setting, but in your, you know, you're making a side gig, we're going to offer another service.

So there's lots of different ways that lactation career coaching has helped people.

You know, I've worked with somebody who had, you know, just walked away from hospital work, ready for something new and, you know, needed to think through what the options were.

I've worked with people on just putting their vision into words because sometimes it's all vague and abstract in your head and you just need the right framework to get it all in there.

And those are things that I've been doing with people for years.