“Once you find your center, everything becomes quiet. Then you can start observing life unfolding as a rotating pattern around you”, says Maria Kellis, in Episode 11 of Career Nation show.
Maria Kellis is a researcher, business consultant, entrepreneur, author, and teacher. A triple major from MIT, she runs a consulting firm that combines business and spirituality. In this video, she talks about going “From Burned Out to Fired Up!” and shares insights about life, meditation, wisdom, and career.
Here are some highlights from this episode:
> The influence of Taoism in her life
> Why books are considered to be the window to wisdom
> Why is the connection between spirituality and business is important
> How to address stress and burnout
> The importance of finding your center
> How to find the balance between work and connection
> What are the symptoms of stress and burnout
> What is your zone of genius
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Career Nation: Career Nation, welcome to yet another episode of the Career Nation show. Today’s guest, she’s a double graduate from MIT. She’s a researcher, a business consultant and entrepreneur and author and a teacher. And she’s here to share with us some of her insight around careers.
Career Nation: Especially around how to go from being burned out to get fired up. Please welcome Maria Kellis. Maria, welcome to the show.
Maria Kellis: Well, thank you for having me.
Career Nation: Maria. We would love to know you a little bit better and to just start off, we’re going to dive into your favorite things. Are you ready for a quick fire round of your favorite things?
Maria Kellis: Okay, sure. Let’s do that.
Career Nation: Awesome. So Maria, what is your favorite app?
Maria Kellis: I have to say that, there’s two of them. One is GPS because it changed my life. And the second thing is audio books. I go everywhere listening to audio books and I never get bored and I travel a lot. So I love listening to audio books when I travel. And sometimes when I want to go through it quickly, I can just speeds up. So this is my favorite apps these days, but I have so many, Oh my God, the, I have a virtual company. So we use Slack, we use Trello, we use, a lot of the productivity tools of the G-suite. I find that we live in an incredible time when we can work around the world. Like I have people in 10 countries working for me and it seems that we’re all in the same room. We meet once a week together and you know, for a team meeting and that’s it. You know, the rest of the time we never see each other. I don’t think I’ve met, well I haven’t met most of the people that work for me.
Career Nation: Oh, isn’t that incredible? You’re right. We truly live in incredible times and all of these applications help us bring people, ideas, concepts, work so much closer. so thank you for that. let’s move to your favorite quote.
Maria Kellis: I love The Tao. So a lot of the quotes from The Tao. And, if you change the way you look at things, the way you think, the, the things you look at change. I like this idea that as we change how we look at the world, in fact, it is the world that is changing. So to me it shifts the perspective and that I’m fascinated by this idea.
Career Nation: Oh, I love that quote. And I think a lot of masters, from that, from that point have actually used that quote. Dr. Wayne Dyer being one of them, one of my favorites as well.
Maria Kellis: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. He’s one of my favorite, like I love his interpretation of The Tao. In fact, I get some teachings of meditation very often.
Career Nation: Totally. Maria, let’s go and know about your favorite book.
Maria Kellis: I read so many books. I find that there’s so much wisdom to be had. These days I’m reading a book called the Stealing Fire that, is really talking about the idea of ecstasy is this idea of being in the flow that is very much related to my work. And I, I’m totally fascinated, but you know, next week I’ll have a new favorite. I love reading. I love connecting the, this days, my book, the, the books that I love are books about ideas or spirituality or practices or you know, business that certainly, I think that there’s so much knowledge to be shared that I believe in reading enough. You know, the, the more we read, the more we connect.
Career Nation: Totally. And with someone from your background can also connect so many dots. As you absorb more knowledge, you can actually connect even more dots. So I totally understand your passion for books and your appetite for books.
Maria Kellis: When I was little kid, I didn’t want to sleep. I literally didn’t want to sleep because I thought that this world is so amazing, but I didn’t want to miss one minute. And, I would read so much every night. I will not sleep until my dad’s alarm ring, you know, because that will get in trouble if you found that I didn’t, you know, didn’t sleep. So, and then he was always surprised I will never get up in the morning easily right. But of course that’s because I only slept one hour or one hour. I remember there was a time I ran like three or four books per day, per day, but there’s, and then I went through a period where I didn’t really want to read anymore. And in the last few years I started reading again. And I find that, the, the books that people write, it’s like concentrated version of wisdom. So I am very grateful to all the authors who spend all their time writing.
Career Nation: Oh, it’s certainly a labor of love and we get to sort of get the distilled knowledge in books. Maria, do you have a favorite restaurant?
Maria Kellis: Well, I live around the world, so it’s not necessarily easy me to say I have a favorite restaurant. I love very comfy food. When I was sick and we’ll talk about that, but I used to be very, very sick and, and so I’ve learned to, heal myself with what I ate. And so very, very healthy foods, salads, juicy. Those are my favorites. So sometimes my favorite restaurants are just simply like the grocery store or the actual local farm market or organic market.
Career Nation: I love it. Staying healthy and getting the nutrition that’d be, want to fuel up our bodies is so important. So I totally agree with that. Maria, your career journey is fascinating. You’re a double grad from MIT and entrepreneur.
Maria Kellis: Triple. I know.
Career Nation: Good god. Triple grad from MIT, entrepreneur, you have been working in the corporate world and now you are building bridges and connections between spirituality and business. Can you share a little bit about how you came to this place? What and how did you come to this unique vantage point where you’re helping so many people today?
Maria Kellis: I did not choose this path. It chose me. So in 2004, I, I had to, you know, you can call it the burnout, like all systems down. I ended up in a wheelchair in the hospital, very sick. Everything, everything was wrong and the doctors were not giving me much hope. They were telling me that it was going to be the rest of my life and I just simply did not agree with that idea. And I made a decision, a very powerful decision back there that, I needed to, I needed a miracle and that’s what I set out to find. And, and because I tried everything, I tried everything, you know, doctors, alternative doctors, medicine, alternative medicine. And finally, the one thing that worked at the time, I was under a severe amounts of pain, incredible pain
Maria Kellis: and, the medicine wasn’t working like all the painkillers in the market. You know, I hadn’t, the only thing I didn’t want to have was, morphine because I knew this was for terminal patients, but I was in so much pain and nothing was working. And I remember they gave me meditation, about thinking of pain, pain as fire and thinking of water coming in and taking out the fire, but it worked. So I was like, Ooh, whatever that is, I’m doing more of that. And, that, that’s how I started that kind of really I started and it was funny because in the beginning I didn’t understand the cause of meditation at all. I have other things to do, like, you know, and, and as soon as they sitting and doing nothing, I’m like that. That’s not what I do.
Maria Kellis: But maybe on day five of meditating I had with a call, going through a warm hall. So suddenly the lights started coming from everywhere and I started going up and down really fast and, and I came over to this other place where I felt I was floating and I saw the world in a different way. And I was like, wow, okay. I always thought that it was really weird stuff, but after this happened, I couldn’t believe that, you know, I, I’m like, I must be missing something. There’s something else. And that, that kept me interested for years in trying to understand what happened and also how to replicate it. I have to say that I had some incredible, very very deep, mystical experiences. And this is what was the beginning of this journey for me. I, and, and now when I make people, I tend to work with very smart people because I’m very smart.
Maria Kellis: I tend to attract really smart people. And I love that doubt. I love their doubt that they’re facing. And they’re like, well, you know, I don’t know. I’m really skeptical and I’m like, you know what you should be. And so what I concentrate on with people is to help them have very fast and first experience. So, because once you have an experience, you know, and once, you know, you can’t really argue with what just happened. Otherwise it’s just very theoretical and not much use for theory, right? So I believe that for each and every one of us, it’s really our experience that matters. The energy world is real, I believe, because I experienced it. I live it. I see it every day. I, yeah, I feel it. I, I connect with it. And it is my hope, my dream to make that world part of everyday life visible for everyone. It’s not, it’s not for some saints. And, and gurus somewhere in the Himalayas that spend their life meditating. It’s available to everyone and it doesn’t require that much if we do that.
Career Nation: Maria, you, you went through this personal transformation and you were caught in a really difficult scenario and your health was failing and you found that yes, you had to take medic medical help, but really what helped you the most was meditation. And from that point you had several personal experiences, real experiences, and you said, okay, this is something that could help other people. And so…
Maria Kellis: It’s not just meditation, I shouldn’t say just meditation videos, part of it. Go ahead.
Career Nation: Oh yeah. So it’s plus meditation. And so the, when, when we talk about sort of the real world, we talk about sort of business and entrepreneurship and we have to deal with things like customers and business models and products and services. How does, how can spirituality intuition play a role as in, isn’t spirituality different than I’m looking at a sales pipeline or I’m looking at certain metrics or what have you. Isn’t that different? Like how do you, how do you connect these two worlds?
Maria Kellis: You know, for the longest time I had a real job while I was doing this on the side. And you’ll say, you’ll think that being in a wheelchair sounds really horrible. But I actually spent eight years between 2004 and 2008, 2012 where I had accident after accident, disease after disease. I fell through a roof. I, you know, twice. I had you know, like I had severe burns, like, you know, incredible. Everything that was a freak accident that could happen, happened to me. And to me, this was just the beginning because the first time I had the miracle of walking, I,
Maria Kellis: you know, in my mind I was like, okay, that’s really cool. But then the second time I was like, okay, that’s really interesting happen again. And it’s almost like my life led me to, you know, because I think like an engineer real well, how do you make it repeatable? How do we make it real? How do you make these things happen again and again? And I started teaching people like back in, you know, well, almost from the beginning. Because, you know, people were coming and finding it and saying, how do you do it? Like even at the hospital that were like, we don’t understand, you’re the happiest person here. Please tell us how. They invited me to teach people back in the hospital. And I was still a patient at the time. But,
Maria Kellis: I saw it working and in the real world I saw real applications. I saw the changes. I, in 2008 I went back to Greece. I was in California when I got sick, but eventually I went back to Greece because, you know, to be with my pants and
Maria Kellis: I worked for the government and I could not influence, but somehow the projects that I was assigned that were voted unanimously, right? And the first time I saw that, I was like, okay, by the way if you’re familiar with politics, that never happens. Yeah. And then so, okay, well, so you can actually use this not just for, health, not just for, you know, feeling better. Not having, not just for relaxing, but you can actually literally use for business. I started testing it. I started saying, you know, well, what if you did this? I, you know, everything I teach, it wasn’t developed overnight. It was like years and years of testing and seeing what works and what doesn’t and how to apply because we think, you know, or I used to think that this world is linear, that time starts and keeps moving. When I started seeing the world, this multidimensional and going through the dimensions, then I started realizing that nothing is as it seems.
Maria Kellis: And, and so things like sales is the easiest thing to influence because as you change your magnetism, literally you attract more. And by attracting more, you attract more customers. So suddenly you’ll become this number one salesperson. And they’re like, how did you do that? Like when I started this company, my little company, I went from zero to 20,000 per month. You know, just like that because I said, Hey, 20,000 sounds like a good number. It never occurred to me that it’s difficult. It’s just like, why not? Right? and I have seen this happen again and again, people who just aren’t companies or start a new practice or start a, and, and they want to attract opportunities. They are able to find those opportunities because of what the envision because of setting, being passion, using the systems that, you know, that I teach and you know, it happens again and again.
Maria Kellis: So sales in fact is the easiest thing to, to attract. It’s not the… Think of it as being magnetic. We are all magnets and the more magnetic you are, if you really know who you are, if you define yourself, your track, the opportunities, the circumstances, the events, the resources to you. So instead of thinking of you having to go there, think of everything happens here. So instead of saying, I need to find customers who are saying they need to find me because what I offer to them is what they want. So it works.
Career Nation: That’s a, that’s a very revealing insight, Maria. And that’s an interesting way to look at it. Where
Career Nation: one can start to manifest the things that one would like to see happen. And that, you know, I’m sure there’s many techniques that allow us to do that. One of the areas that is becoming pretty interesting and critical in Silicon, not just in Silicon Valley but generally in the corporate world is around mental health and many professionals faced burnout. They’re stressed, they are burnt out. from your vantage point, how do you see this? Like what kind of effects does it have on professionals? How should they look at it from, from a standpoint of how do I get better?
Maria Kellis: I, I would say that I’m an expert in that because I did not only face burnout myself, back in college. But in fact, I believe that the reason I got sick is because I kept burning out and kept pushing and pushing and pushing to the point where my body just completely shut down. So the reason I say that is because it’s very easy to speak about things when we haven’t lived through them. But when we lived through them, that’s when we really understand.
Career Nation: Yeah. But that’s when you have real experience that he can talk about it and share it with others.
Maria Kellis: I believe that if we keep pushing we are taught that the harder we push, the more we do, the grant that we call, then we will succeed. So if things don’t go our way and we keep working harder, pushing harder and doing more because that’s what we’re taught. And I believe that there’s a balance. I am not saying sit and meditate and wait and like, you know, everything will come to you. Like unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. You need both. You need both the pushing energy and the flowing energy.
Career Nation: Oh come on Maria. I was really looking forward to just meditating all day and all of these things would happen to me.
Maria Kellis: Well you can, and I have in periods of my life where I have done that, it still requires work. Like no work. That becomes your meditation. You know, if you meditate 12 hours a day and then everything will work really well in your own life. But also you don’t care about many things. But I, you know, I, I did go through this phase in my life where I was just like a superhero meditator. Let’s do like an Olympic run of meditation. Like let’s do 12 hour a day for like month, two months. And those are incredible times, right? At the same time though, there, there is almost what, what is it that you want? If it wants spiritual development, then meditate. If you want a business and money, then meditating may not necessarily be the best thing to do. You might want to think about what is the actual business that I have.
Maria Kellis: And I’m not saying, I’m not saying that meditation will not help. In fact, once you know what you want, you remember, know what you want and you let go of the things that you don’t want, then you can really put a lot of gratitude and appreciation and love and have this feeling, this desire, and it will bring everything you want to you. So if, if you want to have a really successful business, the way to do it is not to save. Well, I’m just going to sit around and just, you know, meditate all day. You actually start a business and then become successful. Right? It’s all like, Oh, well somebody will come and offer a business to me and yes, it’s fun. Right? People won’t come and give you opportunities, but if you want to choose your opportunities, then you get to start by putting them together.
Career Nation: Yeah, absolutely. And so when we think about work and we think about sort of stress and burnout being burned out, is there a, is there, are there symptoms that we should watch out for that tell us or can tell someone that I’m burned out versus I’m just like little bit stressed. So is there like a set of symptoms that, are sort of a tell that yes, this person is burned out and needs help?
Maria Kellis: And, it’s a really interesting question. What’s the difference between burnout and stress? Because a lot of stress will lead to burnout. and there, there’s psychological effects. Like for example, you will be more irritable, and people who have like shorter attention span. The ideas will not come as easily. Memory problems. Those are all telltales, right? People who have burnout don’t know that they’re burned out until something very dramatic happens. Because they’re so used to running that they missed the fact that suddenly their performance went down, you know? So instead of like realizing, Oh my God, I needed to slow down and get out of there, they keep working even harder until they literally break something, their systems. And, the, the reason is that we’re not used to thinking that taking care of ourselves, sleeping, is, is important.
Maria Kellis: If, if for example, somebody has chronic sleep issues, a lot of stress, like waking up with, Oh, I can’t breathe right? Those are usually signs of a really high stress level that may or may not be visible, but your body definitely feels sick. And that can also be, you know, so, so mental, like emotional and, and literally physical symptoms. So you’ll, you’ll see it in, you know, like your adrenaline levels or your, liver or, toxicity in your body. So those are all like, they’re all related. We’re, we’re in a system where a complete system, so body, mind and spirit and a, and all of those are related.
Career Nation: And so that’s very interesting, Maria. So that are these signs that we can look out for, and are these, how do we deal with this? Like we see stress levels building up and we see ourselves maybe at the verge, at the very edge of burnout or starting to burn out.
Career Nation: Are there,
Career Nation: are there things that we could do to distress ourselves or address this burnout? Are there things that we could do daily or weekly or is there, is there a way out of that?
Maria Kellis: Oh, absolutely absolutely. I won’t be teaching this if I felt that was hopeless scenario. Oh my God. The first thing to do is to realize that you have value. You have found the, even if you do nothing. And that, I know it sounds very simple, but when you realize that your value is not in what you produce, but in who you are, so it’s not your results that determine your success, but it’s who you are. Then you realize that pushing harder when you are not able to push anymore. That is the opposite of what you should do. So putting yourself in priority, allowing yourself to take a break is truly important in this. The second thing is that when you, and I’ll be, you know, I’m giving a gift to the, to the people who are listening to us.
Maria Kellis: If they go to mariakellis.com/extraordinary, there’s a series of four meditation that I found is the, is for the busy professionals, so got to relax them in two minutes, 30 seconds if that. So that’s all you have to prepare for meeting a lot of stress goes into and how to really relax into state. Those tools seem simple and sometimes more is just more. And I believe that very, very simple things, very, very simple changes. Breathing is a truly remarkable thing we can do. When you find yourself stressing out, stop and take three breaths. That’s it.
Maria Kellis: Three breaths, one.
Maria Kellis: And one more. I bet you feel a little bit better now. And all he did was breathe.
Career Nation: Absolutely. And thank you for sharing the link and we’ll drop the link in the show notes here as well, Maria. Because I think having these techniques are sort of these essential tools we can use on a daily basis and it probably doesn’t even require any special equipment or anything like that, right? It could just be whatever you are, you can be wearing whatever clothing, et cetera, be in any environment and you should be able to do these, right?
Maria Kellis: Yeah. I created those from my students. Like, I remember there was one of my students, she, she was going to a meeting and she was like, I need to prepare for a meeting. I have seven minutes. And I said, okay, let’s create seven minute meditation. Right? And I recorded this. And suddenly she started using it for every meeting. And then she’s like, Oh my God, my life changed. So I started giving it to people and they were like, how did that happen? You know, you know, like I don’t go to meetings without listening to this meditation anymore and it’s seven minutes to prepare. So you can like literally arrive seven minutes early and listen to it in the car, go to the meeting and you’re there. But
Maria Kellis: remember if you think you’re a doer, so if you, if you go there to prove to people that you’re smarter, that you are good. You know, you have no connection, so you’re replaceable. But if you go there centered as yourself, bring the best version of yourself, you connect with people and people just want to work with you. People just want to give the best selves. And, and that changes the game. So I, I truly believe that those,
Maria Kellis: well, whatever, and I tell people, whatever you need, tell me I’ll create a new tool. It’s really easy for me. It’s what I do, but I find that the problems that we think we have are so much less. If we just take a moment to step back and find your center. I often use this analogy when I talk about clearing, but if you think of the hurricane, right? There’s an eye in the hurricane so it goes crazy, crazy, crazy. But right in the center is complete calm. So I always say it, just find yourself in a center, find your center, state center and everything becomes quiet and life rotates around you. You see it, you observe it, you see the craziness happening. But you don’t have to be part of the craziness floating around and falling and crushing on things. You’re just at the center and whenever you want something, just reach out, grab and then the senior center and then something else. So I like that. All right. And then stay in your center. And that centering, that peaceful moment allows you to be in peace. When people meet me, they always say, Oh, I feel so much peace when I’m around you. I’m like, yeah, just be in your center. That’s what that piece is. It’s not very far away. Just come back back to you. Somebody said once, how far away from home do you need to go in order to find your way home? So we’ll come home and you just come back.
Career Nation: Oh I really like that exercise Maria. And I love that example because it kind of puts, puts one oneself in the center as a calm person who can basically deal with anything and allows us to, as you said, create the best version of ourselves. And it’s also, I think somewhere as you were talking about it, I also felt a sense of, you know, you know, creating a sense of, you know, creating more value for others, being more useful to others because we were creating best versions of ourselves. let me, let me ask you a, just a quick follow up on that because you mentioned about people going to meetings or high stress environments, et cetera. A lot of times people, they may be stressed, but they want to get into a zone of confidence and going from, you know, a high stress to a lower stress and getting rid of stress through meditation’s definitely helps. How can one move to a zone of higher confidence? Is there? How can one think about confidence as a way to think about, you know, I will really want to be effective. I really want to help others. I want to be, you know, I want to contribute in this meeting or this, you know, presentation or what have you. How can we think about sort of building that confidence?
Maria Kellis: It actually goes hand in hand. I, I talk about something being your zone. Who’s genius I have, you know, because of who I am, I’ve always been interested in what makes people become a tune is what makes it for a genius idea. When do you have those ideas that are, you’re like, wow, this was a genius when I was in, I remember when I was in grad school, like the, you know, typical MIT late night project and I remember there was this moment where everything was quiet cause it was probably four in the morning. And, I was at the lab creating something and then I just looked at the ceiling and then I saw a glass and I said, Oh, transplant case for it. It was at the time Palm pilots and and I was like, Oh the trust bank case. Then you see what is in there. Right. And that’s how me just like that. Then the next day my professor was like, Oh you should patent that. By the way. I didn’t get the patent cause like I, I was too busy doing other things in retrospect I wish I had bothered, but at the time I didn’t bother to get that in mind.
Maria Kellis: But how did that idea come? Right. I think that our zone of genius is much related to ourselves. We are unique in who we are. Very, very unique and our creativity, our genius comes in that place of calm. So the one of my zones of genius is to do like a thousand things, right? So the being in this high stress environment, being in this chaos actually, it’s really exciting to me and I, that’s my, that is my genius. Like making order out of chaos. So in that highest stress, it’s not about stepping away from the stress and saying, Oh no, I can handle this. I’m just going to go meditate. Buh-bye. Right? It’s being present, completely present in the moment and in that moment, finding that zone of genius, that, that moment where you’re in the flow, where you’re no longer thinking how bad what you’re doing, but you’re in that moment doing it because that is extraordinary.
Maria Kellis: Some people find the zone of genius when they’re running by does the running, they, they have that, they’re in that song or they find it as they’re creating or you can find it through music. Whatever works for each person is different. But it’s that moment when you stop being you, that you become aware of everything. You become connected. You look around and you see ideas and you find, you find yourself finding those ideas. That part is not different from who you are. Just be who you are. So if I have one advice for everybody, just be you. That’s enough, right? But then that’s harder to do than just to say, but yes. So in this high pressure environment and in this place where you need to find those ideas where they, you know, maybe your promotion or your, you know, depends on the amazing ideas that you have, where the pattern is that you have, finding that place of calm is the way to do it.
Career Nation: Maria, that’s it. That’s a brilliant way to put it because quite frankly more and more we are rewarded for our innovation and concepts rather than actual hard labor. And in this new world, finding your center and finding your zone of genius is a fantastic tool to help us sort of unlock opportunities that, you know, might be inside us we may already have the answers, but we haven’t quite found our zone of genius and found the center. and we are sort of being, pushed into this chaotic world. But, but centering ourselves would allow us to take advantage of that opportunity. And, I totally, I totally subscribe to that view and I agree with that. Maria, as we wrap up here, what advice do you have for Career Nation? Our audiences, people that are early in career, middle of their career, late career, like all kinds of folks all across the world. What message, what pieces of advice would you like to share with them?
Maria Kellis: Well, it’s lucky that it happens to be the same thing for everybody. Be yourself and expand a little bit on that. So you… There’s 7 billion people in the world and each one of us is unique. Our uniqueness is what is the best thing we can do. So if you’re just starting out, be unique seems very scary because you’re like, well, but I should fit in because otherwise nobody will hire me. Or, but you know, if you’re just starting out being yourself, we’ll allow you to find the best job and in fact we’ll give you opportunities that are actually aligned with you. So maybe, maybe it feels scary to be you, especially when you’re starting, but the opportunities you’ve come, well, you know, even if you started at a lower level, it doesn’t matter because very faster you would be at the high level. If you’re in the middle of your career, being yourself allows you to know that, you know, I have that experience that I have and in the future I know where I want to go.
Maria Kellis: So I’m just literally at that stage where I’m about to take off. Remember the colicky stick about to take off. So, I’m in a very exciting time. And so being yourself allows you to really be that trajectory where you’re not faking it. You really be you and the opportunities you’re creating, the path you’re creating is truly aligned with who you want to be. So it doesn’t feel like you’re working. I mean, my team, remember I have people in, you know, many countries around the world. The reason I picked my team is because they’re in different time zones. So this way, like at 24 hours a day, there’s somebody awake. And working with them and I’m like, don’t you ever sleep? Of course. But I love my job so much. I don’t want to, you know, like I have an idea three in the morning I’m working and it doesn’t feel like, Oh no, I’m working.
Maria Kellis: I’m like, Oh wow, this is such a great time for me to work on this because nobody is going to call me right now. and, and of course if you’re at the end of your career, being yourself is really what, what you should do because that is the point where, you know, you’ve gone through the basics. You have what you know you can do and being yourself brings them an extra home that makes you interesting. You’re, you’re no longer part of the crowd, but you stand out and when you stand out, that’s really when you succeed.
Career Nation: Maria, that is just a fascinating insight. Being yourself allows you to bring your unique value to the world and quite frankly, whether you’re early career, middle career or late career, it doesn’t matter. You can actually be successful just by being yourself and showing up in the best version of yourself. Maria, thank you so much for making the time. we’ll make sure to, share the links and the show notes. mariakellis.com/extraordinary to get your meditation tools and be ready to beat stress, beat burnout. Maria, thank you so much for joining us. We wish you all the very best and have a wonderful rest of the day.
Maria Kellis: Thank you for having me. It was a pleasure. And, lots of love to everyone.
Career Nation: Thank you.