by Ishwari Samarakoon | December 5, 2023 | Career
Are you a new Grad? It’s exciting, isn’t it? Finally, finishing uni? Getting your first job? Ready to finally put everything you have learnt into practise? Then the reality hits. The imposter syndrome starts. The mountain of what you don’t know and what you have to...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | November 28, 2023 | The Speechie Life Blog, Work-Life balance
Work-life balance is like happiness. We all want it but it can be fleeting especially if we aren’t clear about what it looks like. Work-life balance isn’t one thing. It’s also not stable, consistent or forever. Instead, it’s ever-changing, growing, leaving and...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | November 21, 2023 | Career, The Speechie Life Blog
Are you thinking about changing your job? Not happy with the KPI’s and expectations of your role? Feeling burnout? Are you looking to resign, but worried that the next job will be the same? Then you are not alone. I am hearing this from my mentees and a lot of...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | November 13, 2023 | Career, Hard conversations, The Speechie Life Blog, Work-Life balance
Here’s a little secret about boundaries. Boundaries in relationships are hard to hold. They are hard for you to hold. They are hard for other people to hold. ( Glossary definition of boundaries ) So when we are talking about boundaries, we need to start, explore,...
by Ishwari Samarakoon | November 6, 2023 | The Speechie Life Blog
Confidence. We all want it. The feeling we get when we can just do the thing without second-guessing, worrying or wondering. Some people seem to have it naturally. But the truth is, there is a bunch of stuff we can do easily, effortlessly and successfully. We don’t...
