Mandy Tang: Heal Your Career Wounds

Summary

Career coach and shamanic practitioner Mandy Tang explains how toxic workplaces can leave lasting emotional injuries she calls career wounds, which often show up as physical symptoms like acid reflux, chronic coughs, and insomnia. She describes how the achievement trap, cultural pressure, and Silicon Valley hustle culture keep people stuck in jobs that drain them. The conversation also turns to shamanic journeying and the idea of a visualized 'power place' as tools for healing and decision-making, while host Cliff Dunning opens with musings on solar flares, the Brookings Report on alien contact, and the end of the Kali Yuga.

Key takeaways

• 1Mandy Tang's book is titled 'Heal Your Career Wounds: Navigating the Trauma of Today's Workplace'
• 2Tang holds an MBA from Columbia, is a certified trauma-informed yoga instructor, and completed a three-year shamanic practitioner program
• 3Tang defines a career wound as any emotional injury from work that you haven't recovered from, leaving you 'walking wounded'
• 4Her 'Symptom Scanning' exercise uses physical symptoms (throat and chest issues, autoimmune flare-ups, insomnia, dropping exercise) as undeniable evidence of workplace trauma
• 5Tang teaches the shamanic 'power place' technique, a visualized safe location in 'non-ordinary reality' where clients journey to seek guidance from guides, ancestors, spirits, or animals
• 6Host Cliff Dunning cites the 1960 Brookings Institution report warning that first contact with aliens could destabilize religious institutions, and claims humanity is leaving the Kali Yuga and entering the Dwapara Yuga

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Transcript excerpt

Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. Wow, one of those strange days. You know, you hope that the internet is always working, but when it doesn't work, it can be a real problem. I have AT & T and, you know, it's like they're constantly fixing the lines. This has been going on now for almost two months and they make every excuse in the world. I love the excuse about being fixed by 11 a.m. Never, ever is it on time. And so I have been dealing with internet problems now for the last, like I said, two months. And luckily, I can use hotspots or Xfinity now for 10 bucks a month. But that kind of strange way to start the show. Sorry about that. It's been a challenge. I have not been able to use my desktop, which is what I use for interviews. I've been using my, thank God for Apple, Apple laptop, which I've been using for writing as well. And so anyhow, I'm not going to spend the whole introduction of this podcast crying about Internet problems. But, you know, I was thinking about Robert Shock's solar flare discussion and what would happen if the whole world was blasted by a solar flare and it melted our relay stations so we didn't have Internet. We didn't have any form of electronics. It'd be devastating. It'd be completely devastating. I don't know what we would do. I mean, I don't know if we're prepared for that. It's one of those questions. It's funny because when we had Randall Carlson on, we were discussing what happens if we have a turn meteor stream impact like we had at the end of the Younger Dryas. What would happen? We're pretty much screwed. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Sep 16, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.