About us
Welcome to the NJ Career & Life Decision Lab. Nothing has to be wrong for you to be here. You can like your job and feel decent about where life is taking you, and still wonder what else is out there. That question is enough. We don't know it all. But we have the tools, the insights, and each other, to work through it together. This community exists to do three things: build support, provide tools, and share perspectives. During a time of big transitions, the thing people need most is permission to feel normal. Alone, that's isolating. Together, it's normalizing. We can't wait to meet you.
Upcoming events
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Stop Chasing What You're "Supposed" to Want
·OnlineOnlineYou're either fully locked in or asleep. Rest doesn't compute anymore. When it shows up, it comes with anxiety and a story that you're failing. That pressure isn't really about time. It's about expectations you never chose, but absorbed anyway, until they started feeling like your own. This week's Lab: whose life purpose you're actually living, and how to tell.
We'll cover:
- Why the pressure you feel isn't about time, and where it's actually coming from
- How to tell if a goal is yours or one you inherited without noticing
- A simple test, choose, iterate practice for deciding for yourself. Every time, not just once
Who shows up here:
- You're checking every box and still asking why none of it feels like relief
- Rest feels foreign. When you stop, the anxiety gets there before the rest does
- You've caught yourself procrastinating on "the thing" and wondered if that's actually information
About the Lab:
NJ Career & Life Decision Lab is a free, ongoing group for people working through a career or life decision that's bigger than a to-do list. New topic most weeks, same small group, no pitch when you show up.Hosted by Gloria Julien. Career & Life Decision coach, ICF Associate Certified Coach, and a former mechanical engineer who's made a career leap like this twice herself.
Curious what deciding actually looks like, not just thinking about it? Your Life Unbounded podcast digs into this every week: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube.
4 attendees
How to Create Joy at Work (When it feels anything but..)
·OnlineOnlineYou don't have to love your job to want to feel something other than drained by it. This week's Lab: how to build real joy into work you already have, without forcing it or being cringey.
We'll cover:
- Why joy at work isn't about being social, it's about your senses and your surroundings (pulled from Ingrid Fetell Lee's book Joyful)
- 3 concrete, low-effort shifts you can make this week, not someday
- How to tell if the problem is your environment or the role itself, because that's a different fix
Who shows up here:
- You're grateful for the job. You still dread walking into the office.
- Your whole life got built around this career. Some nights you're still wondering why none of it feels like yours.
- You know there's more you want. You just haven't said it out loud yet.
About the Lab:
NJ Career & Life Decision Lab is a free, ongoing group for people working through a career or life decision that's bigger than a to-do list. New topic most weeks, same small group, no pitch when you show up.Hosted by Gloria Julien. Career & Life Decision coach, ICF Associate Certified Coach, and a former mechanical engineer who's made a career leap like this twice herself.
Curious what deciding actually looks like, not just thinking about it? Your Life Unbounded podcast digs into this every week: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube.
2 attendees
Past events
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