September 4, 2025 • 12 mins
Is your career still serving you—or has the season shifted?
Sometimes we hold on to dreams long past their expiration date, not realizing that what we need isn’t to push harder but to pivot with purpose. If you’ve been feeling torn between the work you used to love and the life you want now, this episode will help you reset with clarity and courage.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- Why fall is the perfect time for a career reset
- Four reflection questions to evaluate your current work and future direction
- How to grieve a former dream so you can fully step into a new one
- Small, practical steps to explore new opportunities without overwhelm
- Why pivots are normal—and how to embrace them without guilt
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Laura (00:00):
If your work used to light you up, but now just feels
like too much, maybe it's timeto rethink the season you're in.
hello and welcome to money andcareer mastery from overwhelmed
to ownership.
I'm Laura Sexton, your abundanceand legacy coach here to help
you navigate the world of money,debt payoff, and career growth
with confidence and clarity.
(00:22):
In this podcast, we'll tacklethe financial and career
challenges, holding you back,optimize your income and build
the freedom that comes with trueownership.
If you're ready to break freefrom overwhelm, create a budget
that aligns with your values anddesign a legacy that empowers
future generations.
You're in the right place.
Hey, accelerators.
(00:42):
I wanna say a quick thank you toyou for showing up back here
today.
Thank you for taking time foryourself, but also thank you for
giving me the space to havetaken a week off.
I haven't done that in quitesome time, and I'm in the middle
of some really big shifts.
things are changing in my liferight now.
I have some kids going back toschool.
(01:03):
I have a couple at home.
I am making some changes in thebusiness to streamline things
and make it easier for all ofyou.
And it just feels like thingshave gone a little sideways and
I had to take some time to makesure that everything was
settled.
We talk about prioritizingthings all the time, and the
podcast was lower on the listthan my family, my children, my
(01:26):
current clients that I'm workingwith.
Back to school, gettingeverything up, settled, started.
I'm moving some things around inthe house.
I have gone back to my normalpeople clothes instead of my
maternity clothes.
So there are just a lot ofthings, a lot of pieces that
we're moving and unfortunatelythe podcast had to take a back
seat.
But we are back.
(01:47):
We are ready to go.
Today is all about a careerreset.
We're gonna talk about how yourkids are learning from you.
We're gonna talk about how torefresh your financial goals.
We are going to talk about howto prep for a debt-free holiday
season, which I think is very,very important.
We're also gonna talk aboutsome.
Frightening finances, five moneyhabits that haunt people for
(02:10):
years.
So please know that I have somereally fun things coming up for
you in the not too distantfuture, but today, today we're
talking all about that careerreset.
What got me thinking about thiswas a couple days ago I had a
conversation with my newestclient.
She is an actress in New Yorkand very much me.
(02:32):
10 to 12 years ago.
I was thinking about that timein my life when my second baby
was around six months old and Irealized that something had
shifted.
I was still getting auditions,still technically doing the
thing that I love acting, butevery time I saw an opportunity
(02:54):
come in, I just felt conflicted.
I wanted to give it all of thetime and energy that it
deserved, but I was turningthings down left and right.
That's when it hit me.
It's not that I didn't loveacting anymore, it was that the
season I was in had changed.
I needed to pivot.
(03:16):
So maybe you felt that too.
Maybe you felt torn, betweenwhat you used to love and what
your life needs right now.
I just wanna let you know thatyou're not failing.
You're evolving.
So if you were in the messymiddle of I love this thing, but
I just don't feel like it'sright anymore and I don't know
where I'm going.
That's what we're doing.
That's what we're gonna talkabout today.
(03:37):
So let me ask you the bigquestion.
Okay?
If your career could lookdifferent by this time next
year, what would you want it tolook like?
Sometimes I ask this questionand the person I'm speaking to
knows exactly what they want, Ihad a conversation with a lady
earlier this week.
We'll call her Wendy, and shehad a very, very difficult time
(04:00):
telling me what she want, whatshe would want in her future.
She was having a hard timewrapping her head around what
could look different for her,because she knew that the
situation she was in todaywasn't what she wanted it to be
in the future, but she didn'tknow how to make the pivot.
So that's what we're gonna talkabout.
Fall is a natural time to resetyour career.
(04:22):
The season is changing.
There are new routines.
We have some time, especially ifyou're like me and your kids
have gone back to school, you'vegot some space to reflect on
what it is that you want most.
What lights you up?
What fulfills you?
This is our second chance at aNew Year's Energy because the
calendar has changed.
My daughter just came home withher first ever school planner
(04:47):
and now she loves it.
She's so excited'cause she seesmommy do a planner all the time
and she wants to do one with me.
And we've kind of gone back andforth.
I'm like, what are we put inhere?
I don't know what to put in herebecause I don't know what to put
in a planner for somebody thatdoesn't have anything to plan
on.
So now she has her first one andit's a brand new planner.
All of the pages are empty andfull of possibilities.
So this is your second chance ata New Year's Energy.
(05:11):
It's also a great time forpreparing for changes in the job
market.
Q4 is a big hiring season withQ1 being great for transitions.
There are a lot of people thatwill transition to a new job in
January a lot, and I am gearingup for a busy career season, or
(05:33):
at least I'm hoping for one,where I can help people find the
work that they are uniquely madeto do.
So we can get you plugged in andjust ripping and roaring and
ready to go on all accounts.
What is life giving about yourcurrent work?
There's something that lightsyou up about what you do day in
(05:53):
and day out.
Even if you hate your job, I canguarantee you there's one or two
things that you enjoy about it.
Flip side to that, of course,what drains you at work and is
that fixable?
That's the key piece.
Can we fix it?
Is it within your control tofix?
Because if there's somethingthat drains you and it's fixable
and we can fix it, and we canmake your life more enjoyable,
(06:16):
then what we need to do isfigure out how to grow in the
place that you're in.
If we can't fix it, we need tohelp you go to the next thing.
Question number three.
Is your work supporting orstealing from your values and
financial goals?
My friends, if you are working50, 60, 70, 80 hour weeks and
you're on salary, you're doingthe wrong thing because you're
(06:39):
stealing time away from thepeople that love you most, and
it's not contributing to yourfinancial goals at all.
You make sure that the work youare doing is supporting you.
Financial goals are some of myfavorite things and I wanna help
you achieve them.
Reflection.
Question number four.
If nothing changed in the next12 months, how would you feel if
you were exactly in the samespot 12 months from now?
(07:01):
Are you happy?
Are you frustrated?
You lackadaisical.
I like that word.
That's a fun word I've heard alot recently about this idea of
quiet cracking.
It is a chance for not quitting.
Quiet.
Quitting is totally different,but it's people that are
starting to burn out and theydon't realize it, and they're
(07:22):
going to work and they're givingwhat they think is there.
Giving what they think is their100%, but their 100% now is 70%
of what they used to be able togive as they're just feeling
overworked, overwhelmed, they'renot feeling appreciated the way
that they should be.
This is a chance for managementto step up.
If you were in management, lookaround at the people that are
(07:46):
below you.
Look at your direct reports.
How can you build them up?
How can you help them grow?
If you were not in management,but think you could do a better
job than your manager, let'sfigure it out.
How can you help the peoplearound you grow?
Because I promise you, thehigher ups are gonna see you.
I wanna go ahead and normalize,pivoting for a second there.
There's an old, old, old feelingof.
(08:09):
You go to work, you stay at yourjob, you're there for 30 years,
you retire, they give you a goldwatch and you move on.
That doesn't happen a lot ofplaces anymore.
People are changing jobs everythree to seven years.
And if that's the case, I mean,let's look at what we want our
end goal to be.
I heard somebody say, if you'regonna have three to seven jobs
(08:30):
in your lifetime, or change yourjobs every three to seven years,
why don't you go ahead and seewhat it takes to teach.
Water aerobics on a cruise ship.
I was like, yeah, that's what Iwanna do.
I wanna be on a cruise ship.
I wanna be getting paid to doJazzercize on a cruise ship.
That sounds great, except Iwould probably get very nauseous
(08:50):
and my husband couldn't come.
'cause he gets incredible motionsickness, which I just think is
so funny for a man that is soincredibly strong.
So look, pivots happen, changeshappen.
Here's what I, here's what Ineed you to do first.
You go ahead and grieve yourformer dream.
When I stepped back from acting,that was very difficult for me
(09:13):
because I love it.
I love being an actress.
That was one of my favoritethings.
I got to go and escape the worldand be somebody else for a
little while, but I know that Ican go back to that at another
time.
Or maybe that season of my lifehas passed, and that's okay.
I enjoyed what it was for thetime that I was in it, but now
(09:37):
that I have grieved acting, Igot to turn and step into a new
dream.
And I love this dream.
I love getting to help you withyour career.
I love getting to help you withyour money.
Getting to sit one-on-one withsomebody kneecap to kneecap,
eyeball to eyeball screen toscreen.
It is a joy to get to know you,to get to see you, to get to
(10:00):
love on you a little bit.
That is a joy for me, and I'mhappy that my former dream has
sunsetted so that I can be herewith you today.
There's nothing wrong withpivoting as long as you take the
time to grieve the former dream.
So we're not stuck on it.
We're not ruminating on it.
What could have been, andthat'll, that'll be a quick way
(10:23):
to burnout.
Very quickly.
We grieve our former dream, welet it go, and then we step into
the new dream.
Every season is gonna havedifferent capacities.
Every season is gonna have adifferent realm of clarity.
Remember, you're not stuck, butyou might be avoiding a
decision.
(10:43):
That's somebody that I usuallyget to work with, where we're in
between, we're in the liminalspace.
So if you are stuck, that iswhen you wanna have a
conversation with me, you canbook a clarity call with me and
we can just dig into your careermastery.
Okay.
If you're ready to do some ofthis work on your own, say maybe
you've made the decision, youknow what your new dream
(11:05):
actually looks like.
Here are your small stepstowards change, update your
resume, update your portfolio,your LinkedIn, one of those, all
three of those.
Start one conversation this weekabout what could be next for
you.
Journal about your ideal day atwork, and compare that to
reality.
Schedule one hour this week toexplore, to listen, to learn, to
(11:28):
dream, whatever it is you needto do to take one small step
toward change.
And then I want you to reflecton the season you're in.
Is it positive?
Is it negative?
Identify one way your currentwork is aligned.
Misaligned with your long-termgoals, then take one micro step
towards clarity and change thisweek.
(11:50):
If you're ready to align yourmoney and your mindset, you can
come join the Yes spendchallenge in the free Facebook
group.
It will be starting on Monday.
It's a yes spend challenge.
We are saying yes to whatmatters most and letting go of
what doesn't.
The link is down in the shownotes.
Come join us there and in themeantime, go out and make a
(12:14):
difference.
thank you for spending time withus today on Money and Career
Mastery from Overwhelm toOwnership.
Remember, your legacy isn't justabout financial freedom.
It's about living with purpose,taking action, and building a
foundation that lasts forgenerations.
Don't just listen, implementwhat you've learned and share it
with someone who could use afinancial or career
(12:34):
breakthrough.
If you found value in today'sepisode, help us grow by rating,
reviewing, and sharing thepodcast.
I'll be back next week with morestrategies to help you master
your money and career.
Until then take ownership ofyour future and build your
legacy with intention.
If your work used to light you up, but now just feels
like too much, maybe it's timeto rethink the season you're in.
hello and welcome to money andcareer mastery from overwhelmed
to ownership.
I'm Laura Sexton, your abundanceand legacy coach here to help
you navigate the world of money,debt payoff, and career growth
with confidence and clarity.
(00:22):
In this podcast, we'll tacklethe financial and career
challenges, holding you back,optimize your income and build
the freedom that comes with trueownership.
If you're ready to break freefrom overwhelm, create a budget
that aligns with your values anddesign a legacy that empowers
future generations.
You're in the right place.
Hey, accelerators.
(00:42):
I wanna say a quick thank you toyou for showing up back here
today.
Thank you for taking time foryourself, but also thank you for
giving me the space to havetaken a week off.
I haven't done that in quitesome time, and I'm in the middle
of some really big shifts.
things are changing in my liferight now.
I have some kids going back toschool.
(01:03):
I have a couple at home.
I am making some changes in thebusiness to streamline things
and make it easier for all ofyou.
And it just feels like thingshave gone a little sideways and
I had to take some time to makesure that everything was
settled.
We talk about prioritizingthings all the time, and the
podcast was lower on the listthan my family, my children, my
(01:26):
current clients that I'm workingwith.
Back to school, gettingeverything up, settled, started.
I'm moving some things around inthe house.
I have gone back to my normalpeople clothes instead of my
maternity clothes.
So there are just a lot ofthings, a lot of pieces that
we're moving and unfortunatelythe podcast had to take a back
seat.
But we are back.
(01:47):
We are ready to go.
Today is all about a careerreset.
We're gonna talk about how yourkids are learning from you.
We're gonna talk about how torefresh your financial goals.
We are going to talk about howto prep for a debt-free holiday
season, which I think is very,very important.
We're also gonna talk aboutsome.
Frightening finances, five moneyhabits that haunt people for
(02:10):
years.
So please know that I have somereally fun things coming up for
you in the not too distantfuture, but today, today we're
talking all about that careerreset.
What got me thinking about thiswas a couple days ago I had a
conversation with my newestclient.
She is an actress in New Yorkand very much me.
(02:32):
10 to 12 years ago.
I was thinking about that timein my life when my second baby
was around six months old and Irealized that something had
shifted.
I was still getting auditions,still technically doing the
thing that I love acting, butevery time I saw an opportunity
(02:54):
come in, I just felt conflicted.
I wanted to give it all of thetime and energy that it
deserved, but I was turningthings down left and right.
That's when it hit me.
It's not that I didn't loveacting anymore, it was that the
season I was in had changed.
I needed to pivot.
(03:16):
So maybe you felt that too.
Maybe you felt torn, betweenwhat you used to love and what
your life needs right now.
I just wanna let you know thatyou're not failing.
You're evolving.
So if you were in the messymiddle of I love this thing, but
I just don't feel like it'sright anymore and I don't know
where I'm going.
That's what we're doing.
That's what we're gonna talkabout today.
(03:37):
So let me ask you the bigquestion.
Okay?
If your career could lookdifferent by this time next
year, what would you want it tolook like?
Sometimes I ask this questionand the person I'm speaking to
knows exactly what they want, Ihad a conversation with a lady
earlier this week.
We'll call her Wendy, and shehad a very, very difficult time
(04:00):
telling me what she want, whatshe would want in her future.
She was having a hard timewrapping her head around what
could look different for her,because she knew that the
situation she was in todaywasn't what she wanted it to be
in the future, but she didn'tknow how to make the pivot.
So that's what we're gonna talkabout.
Fall is a natural time to resetyour career.
(04:22):
The season is changing.
There are new routines.
We have some time, especially ifyou're like me and your kids
have gone back to school, you'vegot some space to reflect on
what it is that you want most.
What lights you up?
What fulfills you?
This is our second chance at aNew Year's Energy because the
calendar has changed.
My daughter just came home withher first ever school planner
(04:47):
and now she loves it.
She's so excited'cause she seesmommy do a planner all the time
and she wants to do one with me.
And we've kind of gone back andforth.
I'm like, what are we put inhere?
I don't know what to put in herebecause I don't know what to put
in a planner for somebody thatdoesn't have anything to plan
on.
So now she has her first one andit's a brand new planner.
All of the pages are empty andfull of possibilities.
So this is your second chance ata New Year's Energy.
(05:11):
It's also a great time forpreparing for changes in the job
market.
Q4 is a big hiring season withQ1 being great for transitions.
There are a lot of people thatwill transition to a new job in
January a lot, and I am gearingup for a busy career season, or
(05:33):
at least I'm hoping for one,where I can help people find the
work that they are uniquely madeto do.
So we can get you plugged in andjust ripping and roaring and
ready to go on all accounts.
What is life giving about yourcurrent work?
There's something that lightsyou up about what you do day in
(05:53):
and day out.
Even if you hate your job, I canguarantee you there's one or two
things that you enjoy about it.
Flip side to that, of course,what drains you at work and is
that fixable?
That's the key piece.
Can we fix it?
Is it within your control tofix?
Because if there's somethingthat drains you and it's fixable
and we can fix it, and we canmake your life more enjoyable,
(06:16):
then what we need to do isfigure out how to grow in the
place that you're in.
If we can't fix it, we need tohelp you go to the next thing.
Question number three.
Is your work supporting orstealing from your values and
financial goals?
My friends, if you are working50, 60, 70, 80 hour weeks and
you're on salary, you're doingthe wrong thing because you're
(06:39):
stealing time away from thepeople that love you most, and
it's not contributing to yourfinancial goals at all.
You make sure that the work youare doing is supporting you.
Financial goals are some of myfavorite things and I wanna help
you achieve them.
Reflection.
Question number four.
If nothing changed in the next12 months, how would you feel if
you were exactly in the samespot 12 months from now?
(07:01):
Are you happy?
Are you frustrated?
You lackadaisical.
I like that word.
That's a fun word I've heard alot recently about this idea of
quiet cracking.
It is a chance for not quitting.
Quiet.
Quitting is totally different,but it's people that are
starting to burn out and theydon't realize it, and they're
(07:22):
going to work and they're givingwhat they think is there.
Giving what they think is their100%, but their 100% now is 70%
of what they used to be able togive as they're just feeling
overworked, overwhelmed, they'renot feeling appreciated the way
that they should be.
This is a chance for managementto step up.
If you were in management, lookaround at the people that are
(07:46):
below you.
Look at your direct reports.
How can you build them up?
How can you help them grow?
If you were not in management,but think you could do a better
job than your manager, let'sfigure it out.
How can you help the peoplearound you grow?
Because I promise you, thehigher ups are gonna see you.
I wanna go ahead and normalize,pivoting for a second there.
There's an old, old, old feelingof.
(08:09):
You go to work, you stay at yourjob, you're there for 30 years,
you retire, they give you a goldwatch and you move on.
That doesn't happen a lot ofplaces anymore.
People are changing jobs everythree to seven years.
And if that's the case, I mean,let's look at what we want our
end goal to be.
I heard somebody say, if you'regonna have three to seven jobs
(08:30):
in your lifetime, or change yourjobs every three to seven years,
why don't you go ahead and seewhat it takes to teach.
Water aerobics on a cruise ship.
I was like, yeah, that's what Iwanna do.
I wanna be on a cruise ship.
I wanna be getting paid to doJazzercize on a cruise ship.
That sounds great, except Iwould probably get very nauseous
(08:50):
and my husband couldn't come.
'cause he gets incredible motionsickness, which I just think is
so funny for a man that is soincredibly strong.
So look, pivots happen, changeshappen.
Here's what I, here's what Ineed you to do first.
You go ahead and grieve yourformer dream.
When I stepped back from acting,that was very difficult for me
(09:13):
because I love it.
I love being an actress.
That was one of my favoritethings.
I got to go and escape the worldand be somebody else for a
little while, but I know that Ican go back to that at another
time.
Or maybe that season of my lifehas passed, and that's okay.
I enjoyed what it was for thetime that I was in it, but now
(09:37):
that I have grieved acting, Igot to turn and step into a new
dream.
And I love this dream.
I love getting to help you withyour career.
I love getting to help you withyour money.
Getting to sit one-on-one withsomebody kneecap to kneecap,
eyeball to eyeball screen toscreen.
It is a joy to get to know you,to get to see you, to get to
(10:00):
love on you a little bit.
That is a joy for me, and I'mhappy that my former dream has
sunsetted so that I can be herewith you today.
There's nothing wrong withpivoting as long as you take the
time to grieve the former dream.
So we're not stuck on it.
We're not ruminating on it.
What could have been, andthat'll, that'll be a quick way
(10:23):
to burnout.
Very quickly.
We grieve our former dream, welet it go, and then we step into
the new dream.
Every season is gonna havedifferent capacities.
Every season is gonna have adifferent realm of clarity.
Remember, you're not stuck, butyou might be avoiding a
decision.
(10:43):
That's somebody that I usuallyget to work with, where we're in
between, we're in the liminalspace.
So if you are stuck, that iswhen you wanna have a
conversation with me, you canbook a clarity call with me and
we can just dig into your careermastery.
Okay.
If you're ready to do some ofthis work on your own, say maybe
you've made the decision, youknow what your new dream
(11:05):
actually looks like.
Here are your small stepstowards change, update your
resume, update your portfolio,your LinkedIn, one of those, all
three of those.
Start one conversation this weekabout what could be next for
you.
Journal about your ideal day atwork, and compare that to
reality.
Schedule one hour this week toexplore, to listen, to learn, to
(11:28):
dream, whatever it is you needto do to take one small step
toward change.
And then I want you to reflecton the season you're in.
Is it positive?
Is it negative?
Identify one way your currentwork is aligned.
Misaligned with your long-termgoals, then take one micro step
towards clarity and change thisweek.
(11:50):
If you're ready to align yourmoney and your mindset, you can
come join the Yes spendchallenge in the free Facebook
group.
It will be starting on Monday.
It's a yes spend challenge.
We are saying yes to whatmatters most and letting go of
what doesn't.
The link is down in the shownotes.
Come join us there and in themeantime, go out and make a
(12:14):
difference.
thank you for spending time withus today on Money and Career
Mastery from Overwhelm toOwnership.
Remember, your legacy isn't justabout financial freedom.
It's about living with purpose,taking action, and building a
foundation that lasts forgenerations.
Don't just listen, implementwhat you've learned and share it
with someone who could use afinancial or career
(12:34):
breakthrough.
If you found value in today'sepisode, help us grow by rating,
reviewing, and sharing thepodcast.
I'll be back next week with morestrategies to help you master
your money and career.
Until then take ownership ofyour future and build your
legacy with intention.
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