The Recovering Overachiever: Awakening to a More Vibrant Life — with Sara Mostafavi

So many of us are conditioned to do more, achieve more, and be more. We’re always striving toward the next goal, milestone, or promotion, and we don’t pause to check in with what success looks like for us. Today we’re working on changing that.

In this episode, Lucy is joined by Sara Mostafavi, a Murmuration Collective coaching client and community member, who after 16 years of corporate life, found her more authentic way of moving professionally and personally through the world.

This conversation is about how to listen to the signs that you might be on the wrong path, then to uncover your deeper values and create alignment between your work and your life.

Sara shares her journey of how her body and her family made it clear she needed to make a change, then how coaching gave her the clarity and the courage to actually redesign her life.

Tune in to give your inner overachiever a big permission slip to take a much-needed break in 2025 and beyond.

Jump into the conversation:

[4:30] Stepping out of the “achiever” mindset & redefining success

[10:30] How Sara found alignment between her career & her values

[15:00] Impact of leaving corporate after 15 years

[18:30] Working with your core strengths

[23:05] Finding clarity in the quiet

[28:25] The many ways Sara redesigned her life in 2024

[33:15] From over-achieving to high-achieving

[37:00] The power of leaning into your network

[45:00] Sara’s pearls of wisdom for any overachievers tuning in

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