TUR012 - Become the Chief Soul Officer of Your Life! with Shelley Paxton
Shelley Paxton is a Chicago-based professional coach and the founder of Soulbbatical, an organization focused on helping organizations and leaders realize their purpose and potential. With nearly three decades of marketing and advertising experience with brands including Visa, AOL, and McDonald's, Shelley formerly served as Chief Marketing Officer of Harley Davidson and brings extensive insight and expertise to her coaching practice, working with Fortune 100 leaders and entrepreneurs alike.
Shelley is the author of Soubbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Your Best Life. She has trained under thought leader Brené Brown, and serves as the Chief Soul Officer of her personal and professional life, honoring her values of authenticity, freedom, and courage.
Shelley joins me today to discuss her professional journey from rising the ranks of Corporate America to leaving it all behind on a quest for inner alignment and peace. She shares why she decided to appoint herself Chief Soul Officer of her life, and what this title means to her. She explains the importance of incorporating self-care into your professional life, regardless of who you are or what you do. Shelley also highlights the large-scale impact that this type of self-empowerment could have and some practices and lessons she emphasizes to remain in alignment with her soul's calling.
“Self-worth trumps net worth, every day of the week.” - Shelley Paxton
This week on The Unwritten Rules Podcast:
Shelley's journey through and out of Corporate America and what she felt was missing from her professional life at the time
The importance of listening to yourself to find alignment rather than merely pushing through
Untangling busyness from business and prioritizing being a human being over a human doing
How meditation played a role in Shelley's transformation and helped her connect deeper within
What people thought when Shelley left Harley Davidson and why she gave herself the title of Chief Soul Officer
The one assignment Shelley gave herself in her early soulbbatical and the three passions she hoped to reignite within herself
Practical steps for becoming the Chief Soul Officer of your life and the impact that building a movement of Chief Soul Officers could have
A practice Shelley incorporates into her mornings, inspired by Brené Brown
Shelley's experience with imposter syndrome and her view on gender roles in Corporate America
The importance of giving yourself permission, and whether self-worth and net worth are mutually exclusive
The truest form of rebellion and the powerful difference between rebelling for something and rebelling against something
Shelley's unwritten rules surrounding self-care and how she believes we should reframe holidays/time off
What morning autonomy is and how it could be a game-changing gift for individuals and professional teams
Why Shelley created a "personal board of directors" and who is on her list
A balanced life verses an aligned life and whether you need to sacrifice soul for salary
Our Favorite Quotes:
“We need to stop asking for permission and we need to start giving ourselves permission.” - Shelley Paxton
“Each one of us making the choice to become Chief Soul Officer of our own lives is a ripple, that becomes a wave, that becomes a tidal wave of change.” - Shelley Paxton
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