Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Figuring out the direction in our career can be challenging. Regardless of where you are in your career journey, this session will help you to learn the tools to achieve your goals and dreams, and move your career and life in a direction that is right for you.
Gaining self-awareness and knowing your values are the first step towards building a career and life with meaning and fulfillment. It is crucial to overcome internal obstacles, learn how to reframe failure and rejection, and manage our negative inner-voice. Visualizing the achievement of your dream will help you to stay motivated, and focused, and will lead you to take actions to make it a reality. It’s only through action that our lives will change. We need to learn how to create a career and life vision that is aligned with our values, and then take steps and actions towards the career and life that give us joy and meaning.
You are invited to listen to this episode, How to Make Yourself Happy, which is the most popular episode on Celina’s podcast. Many listeners have shared how this episode has helped to change their perspectives on their lives!
Celina Lee '01 is a globally recognized executive and career coach, lawyer, award-winning writer, and podcast host. Celina started her career as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and worked as a corporate lawyer at a law firm, Ropes & Gray LLP in New York City.
On her podcast, Live Your Dream with Celina Lee, she shares lessons learned in her journey as well as interviews from inspirational leaders from diverse industries about what they have learned in life and career.
Celina is the founder of Give One Dream, a global movement that inspires people to pursue and achieve their dreams. She has been invited to deliver keynote speeches and speak at industry-leading events, universities, and organizations around the world including TEDx, MIT, Stanford University, Princeton University, and Google.
Celina received her undergraduate degree from MIT and law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law. She is a certified professional coach and is a graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC).
Figuring out the direction in our career can be challenging. Regardless of where you are in your career journey, this session will help you to learn the tools to achieve your goals and dreams, and move your career and life in a direction that is right for you.
Gaining self-awareness and knowing your values are the first step towards building a career and life with meaning and fulfillment. It is crucial to overcome internal obstacles, learn how to reframe failure and rejection, and manage our negative inner-voice. Visualizing the achievement of your dream will help you to stay motivated, and focused, and will lead you to take actions to make it a reality. It’s only through action that our lives will change. We need to learn how to create a career and life vision that is aligned with our values, and then take steps and actions towards the career and life that give us joy and meaning.
You are invited to listen to this episode, How to Make Yourself Happy, which is the most popular episode on Celina’s podcast. Many listeners have shared how this episode has helped to change their perspectives on their lives!
Celina Lee '01 is a globally recognized executive and career coach, lawyer, award-winning writer, and podcast host. Celina started her career as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and worked as a corporate lawyer at a law firm, Ropes & Gray LLP in New York City.
On her podcast, Live Your Dream with Celina Lee, she shares lessons learned in her journey as well as interviews from inspirational leaders from diverse industries about what they have learned in life and career.
Celina is the founder of Give One Dream, a global movement that inspires people to pursue and achieve their dreams. She has been invited to deliver keynote speeches and speak at industry-leading events, universities, and organizations around the world including TEDx, MIT, Stanford University, Princeton University, and Google.
Celina received her undergraduate degree from MIT and law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law. She is a certified professional coach and is a graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC).
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Happy Holidays from MIT President Rafael Reif and Christine Reif!
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2022 MIT Holiday E-greeting team
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