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This week we are talking to Marianne, a life and business coach. For more than 10 years, Marianne has coached her clients to find their direction in life. She knows all about how to arrive at your dream life, and how to set accurate goals that will get you there. In this episode, we express our doubts and our insecurities when it comes to thinking about the future, and what we want it to look like. Marianne gives us some very helpful questions to ask ourselves, and shares how you can find inspiration for your future without setting a five year plan.Make sure to check out Marianne if you want to get in touch with her: https://www.instagram.com/mariannenorrgrann/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariannenorrgrann/ https://www.grandnord.se/en/start/Pro bono coaching for people under 30 (great opportunity!): https://n3i9zlb0rt6.typeform.com/to/J4E3JkLi Contact us at amanda@famacommunications.com and roos@famacommunciations.comSubscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@thegossipofficeFollow us on @the_gossip_office on Instagram and TikTok

Goals, goals, goals... Today we're talking goals with a newly found friend of ours, who happens to be really good at setting ambitious goals and working towards them. 10 years ago she said she was going to be on the front page of Sweden's largest business magazine and now she's aiming to become fully financially free by 35. Wendela Spelmans is a business woman, former tech startup employee, and amateur golf professional. Welcome to her world!See more of Wendela here: https://www.tiktok.com/@golfwendyThe exercise she is talking about: https://x.com/thedankoe/article/2010751592346030461Don't forget to follow us on TikTok @the_gossip_officeInstagram @the_gossip_office Or contact any of us on amanda@famacommunications , roos@famacommunications

With the amount of thinking and talking about our lifes that we do (and that we expose you to...) it is easy to believe that we have a clear multi-year plan and concrete goals to get to whatever destination it is we have in mind. And yet... goal setting is not something that comes natural to us. Corporate goals, however? Easy! Hit us with those kpi's and we'll run with them. In this new theme we will discuss how to actually arrive at a vision for which you can create concrete goals. No, we will not dive into all the frameworks available to achieve your goals and make changes to your day-to-day, but we want to focus on the step prior. During the next episodes, we will have a guest who is a pro at setting goals, and who lives her life oriented around them. We also invite a life coach to figure out why we struggle so much to look further than next week!But, in this intro episode we discuss our own relation to goal setting, look at some research around the topic, and even read a poem!ConnectFollow us on @the_gossip_office on TikTok & Instagram.Contact us on amanda@famacommunications.com and roos@famacommunications.comSourcesThe Science & Psychology Of Goal-Setting 101Self-Direction and Planning: SMART GoalsBuilding a Practically Useful Theory of Goal Settingand Task MotivationImmoral goals: how goal setting may lead to unethical behavior

We are wrapping up this theme by sharing some very personal stuff. What major life decisions did we already do? Why did we make them? And what do we think they have led us to? We're talking childhood, health, relationships and why we think we ended up where we are right now. Join in. Contact us on:amanda@famacommunications.comroos@famacommunications.comFollow us on @the_gossip_office on TikTok & Instagram.

In the third episode of our theme on how our background influences our life choices we invited Fatima Essaidi. Fatima is the author of the book "we are the children of immigrants" in which she, together with her 22 co-authors, shares her story about growing up between two cultures. She shares the story of her own parents with us, as well as patterns and behaviors she recognizes in herself that have shaped both her personality and her life choices. Make sure to read Fatima's book! Link to her book.Contact us on:amanda@famacommunications.comroos@famacommunications.comFollow us on @the_gossip_office on TikTok & Instagram.

We continue to explore how our upbringing influence our life choices and career paths. Today we have a super interesting guest to talk about how educational choices start already in preschool. Tove Klaesson is doing her PhD on the topic of educational inequalities and the role of preschool. We talk about segregation and how that affects how children grow up to see the world and the possibilities. Follow us on @the_gossip_office on TikTok & Instagram.Contact us at amanda@famacommunications.com or roos@famacommunications.com

After (a very long) summer vacation with episodes being a little all over the place, we are back with our theme based episodes! We're kicking it of on the topic of how your upbringing and background affect your life choices. As we have been very active in advocating for women in STEM, we have looked at our field, and what brings people there/keeps them out through a rather gender coloured lens. In the next few episodes, we want to discover questions such as how does your cultural background influence your choices, what role does family play in your career and what role do bias and prejudice play in your direction in life. In this intro episode we dive into a few studies, give our own take on some of the findings and set the tone for the episodes to come. Follow us on @the_gossip_office on TikTok & Instagram.Contact us at amanda@famacommunications.com or roos@famacommunications.comSources:Source 1Source 2Source 3Source 4

Apparently we're not completely real adults just yet, because neither of us ever attended any friends' weddings... But, we have experienced the wedding hype online! How can everyone afford to get married and attend so many bachelorette parties in their 20s? Why does it seem like everyone is having the exact same wedding? And what do we even get to say about this topic?Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @the_gossip_officeContact us:amanda@famacommunications.comroos@famacommunications.com