What’s Your Superpower? Adele Leah’s Super Powerful Work Helps You Discover It!
Do you love what you do and do what you love? If you answered no, then you’ll want to keep reading!
In this article, we talk to Adele Leah, a Career and Transformation coach. If we’re willing to check ourselves, she can help us check all the boxes to find a career we adore that comes with an amazing check!
Super Powerful Work
What do you really want? Really. Beyond the parameters of what’s “possible” or what’s likely, and beyond any constraints like time and money, what do you want?
What’s the big dream that stares back at you when you look in the mirror?
What did the 5-year-old you like to do for fun or what did the 10-year-old you tell adults when they asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
These are the type of questions that Career and Transformation Coach, Adele Leah, will ask if you’re questioning your career choice.
Adele Leah has 20+ years of working in career development and recruitment and has her own history of hating the hustle. She went from being unfulfilled in life to filling her life with tools and processes that created a niche career that brought her fulfillment.
Today, she works with people feeling stuck, unhappy, or lost in their jobs to help them transform their wildest career dreams into living, breathing reality.
In other words, helping people tap into their own superpowers to find their perfect career match is Adele’s superpower.
And that’s…super, powerful work!
Like a true heroine, she is giving her life to something bigger than herself. She might not wear a cape, but she reminds us how capable we are of landing our dream jobs externally when we do the work internally. She not only rescues people from jobs that they don’t thoroughly enjoy, but she also rescues people from limiting mindsets that say, “You can’t have the career you deserve, you can’t do what you love, and you can’t get paid what you’re worth.”
Plot twist.
You can win that battle and let a new belief save the day.
With Adele as your sidekick, you’ll be flying high as the hero in your own career story in no time!
Interview with Adele Leah: Slayer of Limiting Beliefs & Champion of “I love my job!”
Be Helpful:
As you went through the experience of building your career, pre-pandemic, you came to the realization that you had created a path and a process to discover what you really wanted to do. How did you go to market with it?
Adele Leah:
It wasn't overnight. I must really put this out there. This is one of the big things that I don't like in the market right now- that this is something that can happen overnight; you can make this massive switch and within 60 or 90 days be earning a six-figure income. There are maybe a few people that it has happened to, but it is rare.
So, I've done it myself and I've kind of gone through this process, naturally. Also, I am an intuitive person, though I didn't realize this at the time. Back then, I was working in recruitment. I would be interviewing 20-50 people a week and meeting various companies. I started picking up on themes, seeing where things went right and where things went wrong.
“You could have the exact same job and put it in two different companies. One person can thrive in one company and not in another doing the exact same thing. So, I really started delving into training, behavioral profiling, personality traits, and culture traits of businesses.”
When I was working one on one with people in recruitment, they'd say, “I just want a job.”
I would say, ‘Okay, good. Can you tell me a bit more?’
“Yeah, just somewhere that’s nice,” they would respond.
I was like, ‘Okay, so you just want a nice job, with a good team, in a nice company, but what do those words mean?’
We have these generic words that we use, but we don't delve into the meaning.
So, it really started with those 10-plus years of recruiting and seeing patterns using my intuition. Also, I studied neurolinguistic programming and it's about spotting patterns. That started helping me realize that there's a way to create something to help people navigate through.
It was a lot, and it was all in my mind at first. Even when I left the corporate world, I did quite a lot of background setup before leaving, and I tested the product in the market. I was doing some career coaching and personal brand coaching outside of work to see if it was viable before I made the leap.
So, there wasn't this process or formula when I left, but I wanted to build out this business and I needed to streamline it. I started bringing tools together in a sense and putting things into workbooks and steps. I created transformational frameworks for people that are in jobs they don’t think of as their dream careers. There’s an art and a science to it and coupled with some intuition- if you're working with me one on one- I was helping people really see themselves differently.
I’ve been doing a lot of work with people on skills and strengths, which is an interesting one because we take our strengths for granted. We think our strengths are things we're born with that are innate qualities and we don't see them as our superpowers.
“But, when we can really shine the spotlight on our strengths and our skills and hone in on that zone of genius, that’s our superpower. When we learn that, it can be a complete game changer for what you can do in your career or in your business.”
We’re kind of put into these job title boxes and think that’s what we are.
We are not our job titles.
Be Helpful:
You’ve got these skills. You figured out the formula and what you wanted to do as far as coaching and advising. How did you figure out your niche?
Adele Leah:
Okay, so it started with a niche, but it was still quite wide.
I talk about this a lot with people that I work with now when they're looking to leave the corporate world. You do start quite broad, but you don't want to be really broad, that can be a tendency.
“I find when people are stepping out on their own that they tend to say yes to everything. I certainly did that a bit, but there were certain things that I knew I didn't like to do. I could do them, but I didn't like it.”
For example, when I stepped out as a career coach, people often asked me to write their cover letters. I knew that was going to be salable service but that doesn't really float my boat. I didn't want to spend all day writing cover letters. From the freedom-seeking perspective, there was a bit of a time and money element. So, there were certain things I could put in the pot of, “That's not going to be me,” but my niche was still too broad.
It was focused, at that point in time, on job seekers and I knew that they needed a cover letter, so I set up a process and a formula for how to create a rockstar resume. I thought about ways to set something up where people can have the process and be able to do it for themselves for the things that I don’t necessarily want to do.
“Also, one of the key things for me, was around transformation and empowering people with the skills, knowledge, and ability to go and do it themselves again and again and again.”
I knew that was a good, sweet spot for me- how do I want to leave my clients feeling? I didn’t want to just focus on the outcome they were getting.
I didn't really niche in the market initially, in terms of doing demographics; they're going to be between the ages of x and y and in certain industry sectors, for example.
“But I kind of knew when I was putting my marketing and my branding together that I am not your typical corporate coach. You’re not going to catch me in a suit…EVER!”
I knew just from how I would brand myself as a person that I was going to attract the right people. Niching is not super easy because we can worry that we're going to lose the clients that we want or that we don't niche enough. But, I think the niching evolves.
After about 12-24 months, I rebranded. I got more specific, and my products got more specific because I really honed in on what I loved and what I was great at. And just recently, I rebranded again to get even more niche. It’s not just job seekers. It's more for those that are looking to up-level and leave the corporate world or to start a business. I wouldn't have been able to do that when I started.
“It is not super easy to give up a nice shiny website that's only been up there for two years and you've put a hell of a lot of work into it, but you must be ready and prepared to evolve.”
I would say that every 12-18 months, take the time to reflect on what you're doing, who you are working with, and where you are going.
Think about where you want to play next.
Be Helpful:
You love what you do so much, and it gives you all this energy. But, at the end of the day, it is still what you do for a living. How do you step away, or do you not need to? What does work-life balance look like to you?
Adele Leah:
It’s interesting. You know my soapbox topics! This is why I say, ‘Where do we want to PLAY?’
“We’ve all got these superpowers. Where do we want to go and play with these superpowers? If we can reframe how we perceive work, where it's not a bad thing, then it shouldn't be de-energizing and stressful.”
Yes, there are moments that are stressful. Absolutely. However, it should bring us energy and it should be enjoyable, and it should fulfill us. If we find our career sweet spot and it fulfills us, then why wouldn't we want to do it?
I find this work-life balance thing really interesting because we only need that if we are spending 8- 10 hours a day doing something that is going against the grain of our natural strengths and our natural skills and where we want to be. We need that when we’re not working with our superpowers or in our zone of genius.
You have people that are in jobs that deal with customers, and they hate people. So, then it is work and you have to balance being there for 8 hours while thinking about what you’re going to do after work.
There is a figure from the Gallup International Survey that says 85% of people are disengaged in their job. Then, we have to look at the kind of effects that are happening with mental health and stress while suicide rates are up. It’s because there are people doing jobs that they really don't like, and it is really hard work.
In the UK, people are finishing work and going drinking in the pub or sitting at home watching the telly trying to numb out what's happening. If they could find their skills and strengths and work where they can play with them, then their life could be so much better.
For me, I had a real game-changer job in credit insurance. I hated it and I was that person that was going out drinking every night and miserable and depressed. Now it’s different, two different worlds. The best thing is that I get to help other people that are where I used to be which makes it even better.
“Now, when I'm on calls with clients, it’s as energizing as when I go to the gym. On days that I don't have any client calls, I'm miserable. This is just part of me. This is where we can all get to if we dig deep enough.”
To answer your question, this is my hobby and I make sure I find time for the things I love. I love my career, and I love going for walks, listening to podcasts, going to the gym and yoga, and reading books about mindset, business, and careers. I also like to watch programs about mindset, business, and careers (and the occasional crime drama.)
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
We’ve all heard the famous superhero quote, “With great power comes great responsibility.”
While the complexity of that quote can be debated for hours, it can also have a very simple meaning.
If you have the ability to do something, then do it for the greater good of others. If you have the ability to stop something bad from happening, then do that too.
That is exactly what Adele Leah is doing.
She is using her knowledge, education, and her personal experience to positively transform people’s lives. She is using her energy to help us re-direct the energy we give to jobs we hate. She is using her heart to help stop the suffering in the hearts of people feeling defeated by their careers.
Adele’s work is honorable.
She teaches us how to be agile, resilient, courageous, and strong- just like superheroes- so that we can be super, humans who have soul-satisfying, successful jobs.
We hope that if you learned anything from reading this, it was understanding that you hold the power to change your career and your life.
The question is, what will you choose to do with that responsibility?
Hopefully, your answer involves contacting Adele.
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