LA - Join me Thursday ☺️
Want to turn your hustle into flow?
LA friends!
Please come join me this Thursday at 6:30 PM in West Los Angeles as I host a workshop about how we can turn our hustle into FLOW. This is inspired by a “viral” piece I did on Substack where I used the metaphor of hustle being your rocket fuel/propellent to launch a career but needing something more to sustain and stay in orbit. I even went TO NASA last week to research the eff out of how do space ships endure so much stress!
To buy your tickets - sign up here. It would mean SO MUCH if you came by! And fwiw, I think you’ll love the workshop. It’s hosted by The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles but open to all!
Who: Jewish Professional Women
What: Workshop with Tara Schuster • The Rocket Booster Effect: Transforming Hustle into Flow
When: Thursday, Thursday, April 24th • 6:30 PM
Where: JFEDLA, 6505 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048
Rocket Science for Recovering Overachievers 🚀
In "The Coven," my small community for overcoming over achieving and finding lives we f*king love, one of our members dropped a BOMB on me when she asked, “is hard work inherently good?” This question HIT HOME.
As an elder millennial, I LIVED the hustle life. I was programmed with the classic success formula: grind through prestigious schools, land the big job, stack that 401k, retire (or die) rich. And honey? I executed that plan like a BOSS. By my early thirties, I was one of the youngest VPs at Comedy Central, living what looked like the dream.
Except... I was waking up at 4 AM with anxiety sweats about work projects. I made climbing the corporate ladder at breakneck speed look EASY but I felt like a burnt-out shell of a human. I didn’t know if purpose in life should matter or have ANY clue what mine would be. When layoffs hit in 2020, I completely unraveled. "This isn't how it's SUPPOSED to go – I worked so hard," I screamed into the void, mascara running, identity crumbling.
But since pivoting into my dream career, one which is more meaningful, profound, easier and (oddly) more lucrative, here's what I've realized: Hard work isn't inherently valuable. It's more like a rocket booster.
Rocket boosters are those MASSIVE engines that launch spacecraft into orbit. They burn through insane amounts of fuel and are absolutely essential for breaking free from Earth's gravity. But – and this is key – they're designed to fall away. In fact, continuing with rocket booster energy would be COUNTERPRODUCTIVE AND EVEN HARMFUL. Why?
The boosters are too heavy (like carrying emotional baggage)
They're the wrong type of propulsion for space (like using hustle when you need flow)
They burn through resources faster than I used to burn through episodes of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
For me, hustle was my rocket booster. It launched me out of my circumstances, but continuing to operate at that burn rate nearly destroyed me. The intense hustle mindset that launches a career can actively hold us back once we're more established, when what we really need is innovation, creativity, and sustainable energy.
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is let those boosters fall away and trust that we've already reached escape velocity. EVEN IF we have further to go in our careers, we can rest easy in the fact that we made it into f*cking OUTTER SPACE!!! After all, the real mission isn't the launch – it's what we discover once we're in orbit.
Love you, mean it. Drop a comment below and tell me: What boosters are you ready to release? Does this resonate with you at all? I worked really hard on this metaphor lol.
I hope to see you this Thursday!
xoxo
Tara