Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search

Susan is 61, doesn't need the money, and just took on more work. From the outside it looks like a mistake, but she understood something most people miss about what makes a working life fulfilling. If you are weighing retirement, a career change over 50, or what comes next, this episode will change how you think about your next season of work.

What You'll Learn:

• Why going back to work after you have earned your way out can be a...

Ask most professionals what salary they're targeting for their next career change and the answer comes from the paycheck they already have. That is how people settle before the search even starts.

This episode breaks down how to set a salary target by working backward from the life you want to build, and why your income goal should come from your future instead of your current situation.

What You'll Learn:

• Why the three most c...

There is a conversation you have been putting off. You know exactly which one. The one with your boss about leaving. The one with your spouse about needing something different. The one about what you are actually worth. Most people treat these conversations as optional, but in this episode, you will understand why their important and you'll hear the exact words three real people used to navigate difficult career conversations and w...

Laura liked her company. She just had no idea what to do next inside it. The posted internal roles were not what she wanted, and she could not find what she was looking for by browsing a job board.

So she did something most people never think to try.

She identified a problem the company had not solved yet, built a case for a role around fixing it, and proposed a job that did not exist. They said yes and four years later she did it ...

Most career change stories end with someone leaving everything behind and starting over. Alanna's doesn't. She came back from her honeymoon certain she needed to change everything about her career.

After two years, a baby, three volunteer boards, consulting work, and a run for legislative office, she found what she was looking for without ever leaving the organization she was already in.

If you have been assuming a big exit is the ...

Stephanie was at application 91 with her work visa ticking down in London after a layoff. So she did what most people do when a job search starts to feel like a race against the clock — she applied to absolutely everything.

She sent 54 more applications before something specific shifted in how she was approaching the search. Eight days after that shift, she had two offers. The real question is what changed between application...

What if the three words you use to introduce yourself at every networking event, every family gathering, every first conversation — "I am a" — are the very thing keeping you trapped in a career that no longer fits?

Karen spent 30 years building an impressive career in higher education. She was wildly successful by every external measure. And she was completely burning out in ways she could not name until life forced her...

The best remote roles, the ones with real compensation, real flexibility, and real ownership, were never posted on a job board. They are being filled right now through relationships and conversations that started long before any job description existed.

If you have been applying to remote jobs consistently and getting nowhere, the problem is not your resume or your experience or the market. It is the assumption that the remote job ...

Holly Dixon spent 20 years in the legal field, never once argued a case, and walked away without a single job lined up. She is still happening to her career and figuring out what comes next.

Most career change episodes on this show share a complete story from start to finish. This one does not.

This episode is the messy middle — the experiments that did not work, the grief nobody warned her about, the identity crisis that cam...

Jackie gained 40 pounds in four months. Her nervous system was off. She was dealing with depression, a toxic workplace, a failing relationship, and a job that had stopped feeling like her, all at the same time.

Most people in that situation wait for things to calm down before making a move. Jackie did the opposite. She changed her career, left her relationship, and relocated simultaneously. This episode is about how she did it, wha...

For most high performers, it looks like showing up on time, delivering results, and holding everything together, while feeling nothing about any of it.

New research shows 83% of corporate professionals are experiencing burnout right now, with women in senior leadership burning out at nearly double the rate of men. But the version driving those numbers is one most people have never learned to recognize, because from the outside, it ...

Scott had a great leadership team, great clients, great culture, and great brands. He also had burnout so deep it was following him home to the dinner table.

The hardest part was that there was nobody to blame and nothing obvious to point to.

When the usual culprits are missing, most people do nothing. Scott did something else entirely and went from a 20-year advertising career to owning a franchise he loves in less time than he ev...

Getting laid off feels like a crisis. That feeling is exactly what makes the next few moves so costly.

Most professionals respond the same way after a layoff in 2026 — they treat it like a fire to put out as fast as possible, start applying everywhere, and take the first thing that comes back. They end up in a slightly different version of the same situation wondering how they got there again.

We've worked with thousands of p...

Two identical candidates walk into the same interview with the same resume. One gets the job. The other doesn't.

It has nothing to do with how well they prepared or what they know. It has everything to do with how well they leveraged human psychology.

This episode breaks down the five most common interview question types that trip people up, what most candidates get wrong, and the specific frameworks that change the outcome for any...

Amelia spent eight years as a media communications director before a layoff sent her straight into panic-applying for whatever came up. Natalie knew networking was her next move and then sat frozen for two months because it felt transactional. Laura had the numbers: referrals converted to interviews at eight times the rate of cold applications, and one of those referrals is now her boss.

The split between a job search that lands a ...

One woman spent seven years in a role that everyone told her she should be grateful for while she was slowly falling apart inside it. Another quit fast, convinced that leaving the job would fix everything, and then spent the next two years finding out why it didn't. Neither outcome was what either of them expected. And what finally worked for both of them isn't what you would guess either. If you've been asking yourself whether you...

Staying in the job you've outgrown feels like the safe choice. It feels steady. It feels comfortable. It feels like the responsible thing to do until you're ready to make a move. But what if staying wasn't safe at all? What if it was costing you more than leaving ever would and you just hadn't calculated it yet? This episode introduces the Cost of Staying Formula and the three hidden costs most high performers never factor into the...

AI tools are flooding inboxes with hundreds of applications a day and almost everyone is running the same playbook. Recruiters are overwhelmed, the pile is massive, and the people getting lost in it are not the least qualified. They are the ones who sound the most like everyone else. This episode is about the one thing that actually cuts through in a job market like this one and why almost nobody is doing it.

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