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Your Life Looks Good on Paper - But Inside, You’re Exhausted, Second-Guessing Everything, and Quietly Wondering How Long You Can Keep This Up
Aligned & Intentional: Designing a Career That Fits Your Life
Helps women - especially working moms - get clarity, confidence, and direction, and leave with a personalized, realistic plan without powering through exhaustion, spiraling at night, or blowing up the life they’ve built.
Stop the constant overthinking and feel clear again.
Make career decisions you trust - without guilt, fear, or blowing up your life.
Feel grounded, confident, and aligned with who you are now.
The Quiet Misalignment That’s Draining You More Than You Admit
From the outside, life can look “good,” while on the inside you feel conflicted.
You’re capable, driven, and dependable, but emotionally exhausted.
You keep second-guessing decisions, even when you “should” feel grateful.
At night, the overthinking shows up again, because the tension still is not resolved.
Somewhere between “I should be happy” and “I can’t keep doing this,” you feel stuck.
For many women, especially working moms and caregivers, the mental and emotional load never really switches off.
You don’t need motivation, discipline, or another mindset shift.
You need clarity you can trust - without blowing up the life you’ve built.
A Practical 6-Week Process to Move From Quiet Frustration to Confident Direction
Aligned & Intentional: Designing a Career That Fits Your Life is a guided online career design experience for women - especially working moms - who feel capable, grateful, and yet conflicted about their careers.
This is not about perfection or “having it all.”It is about designing a career path that supports your professional goals, family life, personal values, and wellbeing.
Inside, you will:
Normalize the tension between gratitude and dissatisfaction, so you stop judging yourself for feeling off.
Release guilt around wanting more balance or fulfillment, without burning everything down.
Reconnect with who you are now, not who you were earlier in your career.
Redefine success for this season, so your next step fits your capacity and priorities.
Make decisions without constant overthinking, using a structured approach grounded in strengths, values, and real-life context.
Leave with a personalized, realistic plan, including a 30-60-90 day plan you can follow even when life is busy and messy.
You’ll Feel the Shift Faster Than You Think
This experience is intentionally designed to balance reflection and action, so you gain clarity without overwhelm and momentum without pressure.
Participants typically experience:
Immediate relief and validation within the first 1-2 sessions.
Increased clarity and confidence by weeks 3-4.
A personalized, realistic plan by the end of the program.
Even if you have tried quizzes, generic advice, or “powering through,” this gives you a process built for real life.
How Aligned & Intentional Fits Into Your Busy Life
Short Video Lessons
Practical guidance designed for busy schedules, so you can make progress without long stretches of time.
Live Facilitated Group Sessions
Discussion and application time that helps you move from insight to direction.
Guided Reflection + Exercises
Structured prompts that turn foggy feelings into clear insight you can use.
Optional 1:1 Coaching Support
Deeper guidance if you want personal feedback on your real scenarios.
Career Design Workbook
A downloadable workbook that captures your thinking, so you stop starting over in your head every night.
Lifetime Access
Revisit the materials as your season of life evolves.
The 6-Week Career Design Path
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Week 1: Start With Why
Release the pressure to “have it all figured out” and name what clarity would change for you right now.
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Week 2: Clarity Through Contrast
Identify energizers, drainers, patterns, and signals of misalignment without judging yourself.
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Week 3: Know Yourself
Ground your direction in strengths, values, and how you work best in this season.
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Week 4: Explore Your Future
Expand options without overwhelm, and treat exploration as research, not indecision.
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Week 5: Decide With Confidence
Use the Aligned Choice Filter to choose without waiting for perfect certainty.
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Week 6: Set Your Intentions & Let’s Go
Define 2-4 guiding intentions and build a realistic 30-60-90 day plan and conversation toolkit.
This Is For Women Who Are Ready to Stop Living in Limbo and Start Choosing on Purpose
This is for you if:
You’re a woman in your 30s or 40s at a quiet but persistent career crossroads.
As a working mom or caregiver, you carry a mental and emotional load that rarely switches off.
Values matter to you, relationships matter to you, and you are harder on yourself than anyone else is.
Clarity you can trust is what you want, not hype, pressure, or abstract advice.
Practical direction that works with your real life is what you are ready for.
This is NOT for you if:
You want a quick fix or a single “right answer” handed to you.
Motivation, affirmations, or surface-level inspiration is what you are looking for.
Clarity without reflection or decision-making is what you expect.
You are unwilling to examine patterns honestly or take responsibility for your next step.
If You Keep Ignoring This, the Cost Compounds
If you keep pushing the feeling down, it does not disappear.
It follows you into the next season.
You stay stuck longer than you want.
You continue feeling disconnected from yourself and others.
You look back years later wishing you had listened sooner.
You do not need to blow up your life to feel better.
You need a clear process that turns reflection into realistic, thoughtful action.
The Beliefs Keeping You Stuck Are Not Facts
These misconceptions are common, and they keep capable women trapped in guilt and indecision.
Myth: “If I want something different, I’m ungrateful.”
Truth: Wanting a better fit is not a betrayal of what you have built.
Myth: “Other women seem to handle this better than I do.”
Truth: You are carrying a heavier load than most people can see.
Myth: “I have to choose between my career and my family.”
Truth: This is designed to help you build a path that supports both.
Myth: “I should have this figured out by now.”
Truth: Career clarity is a practice, not a one-time decision.
Myth: “If I slow down or change direction, I’m failing.”
Truth: Intentional change is not failure. It is leadership in your own life.
Meet Mary Tettenhorst, Your Guide Through Career Clarity and Change
I’m Mary Tettenhorst, Founder and President of Impact Talent Strategies, and a talent development leader and career coach with over 20 years of experience helping people gain clarity, confidence, and direction.
I created Aligned & Intentional: Designing a Career That Fits Your Life after realizing I needed to apply the same reflection and career planning approach I had spent years teaching others to my own life, as my family responsibilities grew and familiar patterns kept repeating.
My mission: to help women move from quiet misalignment to clear, intentional careers that truly fit their lives.
20+ years in HR and Talent Development across corporate, nonprofit, and higher education environments.
Founder of Impact Talent Strategies.
Co-author of Talent Impact: Grow Your People, Grow Your Business.
Master of Education in Human Resource Development.
Certified and authorized partner for DiSC, Five Behaviors of a Team, and Working Genius.
Your Next Step
If you are ready to stop carrying this alone and start moving forward with purpose and confidence, choose what happens next.
OPTION 1: Get Career Clarity.
Talk with Mary about what feels off, what you want to feel instead, and whether Aligned & Intentional: Designing a Career That Fits Your Life is the right next step for you.
OPTION 2: Do Nothing and Keep Powering Through.
Keep second-guessing, keep overthinking at night, and stay stuck longer than you want because it feels safer to wait than to choose.
Nothing changes until you decide it’s time to choose yourself.
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Results may vary | Results are based on individual circumstances
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