The Ambition Recovery Club is for burned-out over-achievers looking to unlearn what we’ve been taught about productivity and worthiness and reprogram how we define success and achievement so that we can live lives filled with intention, ease, and joy without sacrificing our drive and ambition.
We were raised to be multi-tasking, over-achieving, successful, ambitious, productive members of a capitalistic society. Yet despite working our asses off and doing all of the "right things", many of us have found ourselves nowhere near where we thought we'd be at this point in our careers and lives.
Chronic stress and anxiety, adrenal fatigue, overwhelm, and burnout plague us. Our drive and ambition have turned toxic, keeping us from the elusive work/life balance we're told is possible if we could only stick with a solid morning routine and drink 64oz of water every day.
Not only do we not have a good work/life balance, our health and mental well-being are in peril. Hobbies and relaxation elude us, and despite having messages of self-care attack us from every angle, we don't seem to know how to find our "off" button.
If you're ready to find a new way to work and live that doesn't run you into the ground, join us in the Ambition Recovery Club. Nobody here is an expert; we're all figuring this out together one day at a time.
What we'll do together:
Identify the toxic beliefs and behaviors that led you to burnout and breakdown
Unlearn what you once thought to be true about ambition, productivity, and worthiness
Discover new ways of thinking, working, and living that are more aligned with who you are today, not the you of decades ago
Redefine what success, ambition, and achievement mean to you
Implement tools, strategies, and daily practices that enable you to rebuild a healthy relationship with your drive and ambition and prioritize your health, wellbeing, and happiness
We'll do that by:
Sharing resources like articles, podcast episodes, books, videos, documentaries, and other wisdom we pick up along our day to day
Supporting one another's recovery through sharing our own experiences, cheering each other on, and acting as sounding boards when someone's looking for feedback
Making this a safe space to show up as the imperfect, messy humans that we are
take a peek inside the community:
A note from Baily, the (exhausted) woman behind
the Ambition Recovery Club:
After spending the first 3+ decades of my life hustling, achieving, pushing, etc., I found myself coming to the conclusion that the drive and ambition that once worked in my favor no longer do. My career used to be my top priority, so giving all of my energy and attention to it never felt like a burden. Two kids under 3 and a 5-year stint as an entrepreneur later, and that's no longer the case.
Like many entrepreneurs, 2020 broke me - emotionally, financially, and mentally. I hustled harder than ever before which yielded the most lackluster results I'd ever experienced. I pivoted, I experimented, I pushed, and none of it got me anywhere besides at the end of my rope.
2021 awoke me to the realization that how I had been operating my entire life didn't have to be the way I operated going forward. I became aware of my toxic ingrained beliefs around productivity and achievement, and discovered that the never-ending race to first place wasn't serving me in the slightest, at least not anymore.
2022 is currently acting as a laboratory for putting my new learnings around wellness, value alignment, and boundaries into practice. I am the lab rat in my grand experiment of discovering whether a recovering Type-A/people-pleasing/over-achiever can indeed change her ways, and much to my excitement, so far so good.
A big part of how I'm able to integrate the things I learn is through sharing/teaching others, which is why you're reading this. A few months back, I felt called to share with my community that I was experiencing big feelings of burnout and a strong desire to course-correct, and so many people raised their tired hands to say, “me too.”
And thus, The Ambition Recovery Club was born.
Having already launched a community and nearly imploded doing so, I'm not interested in acting as the thought leader or expert in this space. Not only does that sound exhausting (like most things these days), but I'm pretty much the opposite of an expert in chilling the f*ck out. This space will be a place where we can all contribute, egos and agendas aside.
My intention in creating The Ambition Recovery Club is to reprogram how I define success and achievement so that I can live a life filled with intention, ease, and joy without sacrificing my drive and ambition. If I can do that alongside others who share this desire, even better.
There is a better way to do this thing called life, and I'm determined to find it.
You in?