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

Thinking about a mid-career sabbatical, a family career break, or an intentional career pause, but worried about coming back to the same burnout?

Whether you’re considering a year-long family sabbatical, designing your first intentional career break, or wondering whether consistent employment is actually required for a fulfilling career, this episode of Happen To Your Career breaks down what a designed mid-career sabbatical looks like in 2026, and how to come back to real career reinvention instead of the same burnout you tried to escape.

Research shows most career breaks lose all their gains within 1 to 4 weeks of returning to an unchanged environment. It’s called the fade-out effect, and it’s why most sabbaticals feel like expensive vacations instead of life-changing pivots.

HTYC career coach Laura McClernon walks through the 10-year design process behind her family’s year-long mid-career sabbatical, the Die With Zero memory-dividends math that made it make sense, and the Ideal Career Profile framework she used to design a career break that actually makes her career better.

 

What you’ll learn:

  • What a designed mid-career family sabbatical actually looks like
  • The difference between an intentional career break and a reactive one (and why most fail in the first 4 weeks back)
  • How to plan a mid-career sabbatical without losing career momentum or explaining a massive resume gap
  • The Die With Zero memory-dividends math that makes a mid-career break make sense
  • Why most career breaks lose all their gains in 1 to 4 weeks, and the design principle that beats the fade-out effect
  • The first step this week if you want to design your own family sabbatical or intentional career break

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: HTYC705.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:30am PDT

Dealing with career burnout in 2026 — or could it actually be boreout? Whether you’re experiencing job burnout, work burnout, quiet burnout, or boreout at work, struggling with a lack of career satisfaction, or wondering why you’ve lost motivation in a job that looks fine on paper, this episode of Happen To Your Career breaks down exactly what career burnout and boreout in 2026 look like, how to fix burnout and boreout for good, and how to find real career satisfaction.

83% of corporate professionals report burnout right now, and among women in senior leadership, that number jumps to 43%, more than double what it was in 2019. But the signs of burnout most people are experiencing today don’t look like the burnout symptoms you’ve been told to watch for — many of them are actually boreout.

If you’re high-performing, still delivering, still holding it all together, but something inside you that used to care about your work has quietly disappeared, you’re not dealing with traditional burnout. You’re likely dealing with boreout: the under-challenged, under-utilized, chronically bored version of burnout almost nobody talks about. And boreout is the kind that keeps people stuck for years in jobs that look great on paper but slowly drain them of any career satisfaction. In this episode, we break down the difference between boreout and burnout, why boreout turns into burnout if left unaddressed, the two distinct types of career burnout (situational burnout vs. career burnout), how to recover from boreout and burnout, and exactly how to find career satisfaction in 2026.

You’ll hear Lisa’s story of 7 years of boreout at a “good job” before landing a role she’s genuinely excited about — and the exact framework she used to get there.

 

What you’ll learn:

  • What career burnout and boreout in 2026 actually look like (and the new signs to watch for)
  • Boreout vs. burnout: the difference (and why confusing them keeps you stuck)
  • Why boreout is the most under-diagnosed form of burnout in 2026
  • The 3 forces driving boreout, job burnout, and work burnout in 2026
  • Situational burnout vs. career burnout: how to know which one you have
  • How boreout quietly turns into full career burnout
  • How to fix boreout and burnout without quitting reactively
  • How to recover from burnout and rebuild career satisfaction
  • Why changing jobs doesn’t fix career burnout or boreout (and what actually does)

 

Listen now to learn what career burnout and boreout in 2026 actually look like, how to tell the difference, how to fix both, and how to find the career satisfaction you’ve been missing.

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: HTYC704.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Looking for a high-paying remote job in 2026? Whether you're trying to find remote work in a tough job market, navigating a career change to remote, or wondering why your remote job search isn't working, this episode of Happen To Your Career breaks down exactly how to land a high-paying remote job in 2026 and where the best remote roles are actually being filled.

Only 4% of job postings in 2026 are labeled fully remote. Not 20%. Not 50%. Just 4%. That's the entire pool every remote job seeker is competing over. And the best high-paying remote roles, the ones with real compensation, real flexibility, and real ownership, were never posted in the first place.

If you've been applying to remote jobs for months and hearing nothing, the problem isn't your resume, your industry, or your experience. The problem is that you're searching in the wrong 4% of the market while 96% of remote opportunities are happening somewhere else entirely.

In this episode, we break down the three types of remote job seekers (the Escapee, the Skeptic, and the Pivoter), the three roads that consistently land high-paying remote jobs, and the exact strategy clients like Rachel used to go from 4 months of applications to 3 weeks to an offer.

 

What you'll learn:

  • Why only 4% of jobs are remote in 2026 and where the other 96% are hiding
  • The 3 strategies that actually land high-paying remote jobs
  • How to find remote jobs without applying to job boards
  • Why your remote job search isn't working (and how to fix it)
  • How to change careers and go remote at the same time
  • Are remote jobs going away in 2026? The honest answer
  • How to negotiate flexibility into your current role
  • The Ideal Career Profile method for finding work-from-home jobs that fit

 

Listen now to learn how to find a high-paying remote job in 2026, land hidden remote roles, and stop wasting months applying to job boards that aren't working.

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC703.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Stuck in the wrong career in 2026? Here's what most career advice ignores: the cost of staying in the wrong career isn't just how you feel on Sunday nights. It shows up in your body. It shows up in your bank account. And it quietly shapes your entire professional identity, often before you ever realize it's happening.

Whether you're trying to figure out how to change careers without taking a pay cut, how to find the right career fit, or why staying in a job you hate is costing you more than you think, this episode breaks down the three hidden costs of career misfit and exactly how real people finally got it right.

 

What you’ll learn

  • Why your body may already be signaling a bad career fit — and why the exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix and the stress that weekends don't touch isn't something you just push through
  • The truth about "golden handcuffs" — how a good salary, flexibility, and supportive colleagues can become a cage that keeps you stuck longer than you ever intended
  • The most dangerous career mistake most people make twice — leaving reactively, without knowing what you actually want, and ending up in another version of the same wrong fit
  • How to identify your Ideal Career Profile — why the people who land in the right career start with signature strengths and personal values, not job titles or industries

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. An Overthinker's Guide To Making Better Career Decisions (Spotify /Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC702.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Just got laid off in 2026? Whether you're trying to figure out what to do after a layoff, how to job search after being laid off, or how to land a better job without taking a pay cut, this episode breaks down exactly what to do in the first 48 hours after receiving the news.

For most who experience a layoff, their first instinct is to fix it fast. Polish the resume. Post "open to work" on LinkedIn. Start applying Monday morning. That instinct is the exact move that turns a 3-month job search into a 9-month one, and the reason most laid-off professionals end up taking a pay cut instead of a pay raise.

The first 48 hours after a layoff decide the next 9 months of your career. Most laid-off professionals make the same mistakes in those first two days, and those mistakes cost them months and thousands of dollars. A small percentage do the opposite, and they often end up earning more in their next role.

In this episode, we unpack the 3 biggest mistakes laid-off professionals make and the 3 actions that actually move you forward. Whether you're navigating a tech layoff, corporate layoff, or any career change after being laid off, this is the layoff recovery guide for 2026.

What you’ll learn

  • What to do in the first 48 hours after a layoff (and what NOT to do)
  • The 3 layoff mistakes that add 6 months to your job search
  • How to negotiate severance and avoid signing away leverage
  • How to job search after a layoff without taking a pay cut
  • How to turn a layoff into a pay raise and a career upgrade

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Mentioned Episodes:

  1. HTYC642: From Layoff to Leveling Up Your Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. HTYC644: Laid Off and Scared? How to Turn Setbacks Into Career Opportunities (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: HTYC_701.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Job searching in 2026 has become harder than ever. Whether you're navigating a career change, looking for a job in a tough job market, or trying to get hired when AI is flooding hiring inboxes, this episode of Happen To Your Career breaks down the secret to effectively job searching in 2026 and how to land a job you love without sending hundreds of applications.

 

What you’ll learn

  • Why specificity (not volume) is what actually gets you hired in 2026
  • How to stand out when AI is writing everyone else's applications
  • How to build your Ideal Career Profile to focus your job search
  • How to use AI in your job search without sounding like a bot
  • How to get hired through real conversations (not cold applications)
  • Why applying to fewer jobs leads to more job offers

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Six Career Experiments To Help You Discover Your Ideal New Role (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  3. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Mentioned Episodes:

  1. HTYC393 - Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. HTYC419 - Leveraging What Makes You Unique: The Key to Your Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  3. HTYC510 - How To Turn Rejection Into An Opportunity With Your Ideal Organization (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  4. HTYC558 - The Secret to Effectively Job Searching in 2024 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  5. HTYC692 - The 4 AI-Proof Skills That Pay Really Well (Even With AI Job Displacement) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: HTYC_700.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Career change after 30 years? Career change at 50+? Mid-career pivot?

If any of those describe where you are right now, this episode is for you.

Monika Herdlick spent 30 years as a flight test engineer and Army Reserve helicopter pilot. By every external measure, she was winning — federal service, world travel, flexibility, a strong paycheck. But the work had quietly stopped fitting, and she didn't know how to leave the good job she'd outgrown.

What Monika did next is the part of every career change story people don't talk about: months of quiet, uncomfortable work — networking conversations, career experiments, sitting in the in-between space without a plan.

The result? She was hired as Director of Programs and Partnerships at a growing defense company for a role she never applied for. Part-time by design. With room to finish her yoga instructor certification and keep bees.

 

In this episode, you'll learn:

  • How to know it's time to leave a good job after 30 years
  • How to make a career change at 50+ without starting over
  • How to get hired without applying through strategic networking
  • Why clarity comes from action, not the other way around
  • How to build a mid-career pivot that actually fits your life

If you're considering a career change after 30 years in the same field, this conversation will show you what's possible.

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: 699_V3__MONIKA_HERDLICK.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:30am PDT

If your job search isn't working, the problem isn't your resume. It's 4 specific job search mistakes most people make without realizing: the wrong mindset, the wrong order, the wrong criteria, and the wrong mode.

In this episode, we break down each mistake — including how one of our clients went from submitting hundreds of applications and 4 months of silence to 2 offers in 8 days, why referrals produce 69% interview rates vs. 8% for cold applications, and how to stop sending applications into a void and start getting hired into work that fits.

What you’ll learn

  • The 4 job search mistakes killing your chances of getting hired
  • Why "just apply to more jobs" is the worst job search advice
  • How to flip your job search from outside-in to inside-out
  • Why relational job searching beats transactional applications by 8x
  • How to get hired into work that actually fits, not just another job

If your job search isn't working, you're stuck in endless applications, getting ghosted, or tempted to settle for the wrong role — this episode is your playbook for fixing what's wrong with your job search and getting hired into work that actually fits.

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Six Career Experiments To Help You Discover Your Ideal New Role (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Get the audiobook here for free (limited time only!) - https://happentoyourcareer.com/audiobook 

Direct download: HTYC698.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

The 2026 job market is brutal. Hiring freezes. Ghost jobs. Mass layoffs. Algorithmic rejection. If you've been applying for months and hearing nothing, the problem isn't you — it's the job search playbook you've been handed.

In this episode, we breaks down the 3 shifts that separate people who actually get a job they love in a bad job market from people stuck in endless application loops: clarity before search, conversations before applications, and designing your career instead of defaulting into one. 

 

What you’ll learn

  • Why referrals produce 7x the interview rate of cold applications (69% vs. 8%)
  • Why "apply to more jobs" is the worst career advice being given in 2026
  • How to get clarity before you start your job search (and why most people skip this entirely)

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available for FREE on audiobook! Visit https://happentoyourcareer.com/audiobook/ to listen to it today!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Six Career Experiments To Help You Discover Your Ideal New Role (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  3. Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: 697_Audio_-_How_To_Actually_Get_A_Job_You_Love_Animated.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

After 13 years as a federal employee, Kara Cochran was laid off with five months of runway, no direction, no industry experience outside federal service, and a job search timeline half as long as the average. This is how she made a career change after a layoff, switched industries fast, and landed a senior Chief of Staff role she never applied for.

 

What you’ll learn

  • How Kara used an ideal career profile to go from "I don't know what I'm looking for" after a federal government career change to landing a chief of staff role she originally told herself nobody would ever hire her for — and the ChatGPT job search move that gave her a starting point she never expected
  • Why every dead end Kara hit while navigating a career change after layoff — exploring nonprofits, clean energy, and management consulting — was actually sharpening what she really wanted the whole time, and how getting radically honest about her non-negotiables transformed her search from scattered to focused
  • The unexpected strategy Kara used to land a senior role with no network and zero cold applications — how letting her work speak for her in a low pressure context turned a throwaway comment into a dinner with senior leadership and created a chief of staff role that did not exist before she walked in the door

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC696.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:15am PDT

Career rut, career stagnation, and career burnout don't happen randomly — they happen for three specific, fixable reasons. If you're successful on paper but quietly asking "is this it?", you're not failing. You're stuck in a career that no longer fits, and this episode gives you the exact psychology and action steps to finally get unstuck. Whether you're a high achiever feeling trapped, burned out in a career you worked hard to build, or wondering how to move forward when everything looks fine from the outside — this is the career advice that explains what's actually happening. What you'll learn:
  • Why getting promoted can actually make you more stuck in your career — and the hidden gap between career success and career fulfillment
  • How fear disguised as loyalty quietly traps high performers in careers they've outgrown — and how to break free
  • What's really hijacking your ability to imagine a different career path and how to get your career moving again
  • Why successful people stay stuck in the wrong career longest — and the three steps to get unstuck, move forward, and find meaningful work
If you're successful but unfulfilled, burned out in a stable career, or trying to figure out how to change careers when you can't see a way out — this episode breaks down exactly why you're stuck and what to do about it.

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. An Overthinker's Guide To Making Better Career Decisions (Spotify /Apple Podcasts)
  3. Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: HTYC695.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Mid-life career change is more possible than most people think — and career change at 40, 50, or even 60 doesn't mean starting over or taking a pay cut. This episode is backed by real data and real people who made successful career transitions later in life and proved every excuse wrong. Whether you're facing age discrimination fears, financial fear about switching careers, or simply don't know how to change careers after decades in the same field — this is the career pivot roadmap for experienced professionals. What you'll learn:
  • The four beliefs keeping experienced professionals from making a career change later in life — and what it takes to finally build a career you love
  • Why career change after 50 doesn't mean starting over, how to overcome ageism in your career transition, and why most people who make this switch never take a pay cut
  • The exact strategy mid-career professionals use to get around age discrimination, financial fear, and the feeling that there isn't enough time — without going through the traditional job application system
  • How to make a career pivot at 40, 50, or 60 and land meaningful, well-paid work without starting over
If you've ever searched "is it too late to change careers," "career change at 40," "career change at 50," or "how to switch careers later in life" — this episode answers all of it.

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Get the HTYC Audiobook here for FREE! Limited time only!

 

Related Episodes

  1. Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  3. Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Mentioned Episodes:

  1. Career Change at 50: You’re Never Too Old or Too Busy
  2. Career Change When Your Work No Longer Matches Your Values: Glenn’s Career Reinvention
  3. I Thought I Needed to Escape My Career (The Real Problem Surprised Me)
  4. Using Career Experiments to Pinpoint Your Ideal Career
Direct download: 694_final_audio_V3.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 7:49am PDT

Career change from a stable, well-paying job is one of the hardest career transitions a high achiever can face — especially when leaving feels financially irrational and your job looks great on paper. But staying in the wrong career has its own cost, and most people don't see it until it's too late. In this episode, Tom Wilder shares the 4-step career change process he used to leave financial services after 15 years and land a role so well-matched it looked like luck. It wasn't — it was 18 months of intentional career transition work. What you'll learn:
  • Why a well-paying job that's the wrong fit is harder to leave than a bad one — and the hidden cost of staying in a career that doesn't fit
  • The 4 steps to prepare for a career change before sending a single resume — and why most people planning a career pivot skip every one
  • How to make a career transition look like luck — and why 18 months of quiet preparation makes you impossible to overlook
  • When to quit your job even when leaving feels financially irrational and the timing seems wrong
Whether you're burned out in a stable career, planning a career pivot, or trying to figure out how to change careers without starting over — this episode is your roadmap.

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Six Career Experiments To Help You Discover Your Ideal New Role (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  3. Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: 693_-_Tom_Wilder_Audio.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 3:22am PDT

AI job displacement is eliminating careers faster than any shift in history — but 4 high-paying skills AI can't replace are still in demand right now. If you're worried about AI replacing your job, planning a career change, or trying to future-proof your career in 2026, this episode gives you the exact AI-proof career skills to build. What you'll learn:
  • Why "which jobs are AI-proof?" is the wrong question — and the better question that actually protects your career from AI job displacement
  • The real reason people with jobs AI can't replace are thriving in the 2026 job market (it has nothing to do with your industry or credentials)
  • How to know if your current work is building AI-proof skills — or leaving you vulnerable to AI replacing your job
  • Which high-paying career skills hold their value even as artificial intelligence automates more roles and reshapes the job market
Whether you're navigating a career change, worried about job security, or trying to recession-proof your income in the AI economy — these are the career skills worth building now.

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  3. Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: AI_Job_Displacement.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 10:38am PDT

The guilt of wanting more from a "good job" weighs heavier than the job itself. "Who am I to complain?" you wonder, as your creativity withers and Sunday nights fill with dread. What if your dissatisfaction isn't a character flaw but your internal compass screaming that you've wandered off course?

Vivi spent 12 years at a financial services company with great benefits and flexibility, but ultimately discovered that her need for creativity and growth was non-negotiable, leading her to redefine what success really means and find work that truly energizes her.

 

What you’ll learn

  • How to recognize when you've outgrown your comfortable job
  • How your signature strengths connect to career satisfaction
  • Why the internal work of self-awareness must come before job searching, not after
  • How Vivi got specific and figured out what she really wanted during her career change

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.


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  1. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: HTYC691.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Ever felt like your specialized career has become a prison - that you're "too far in" to do anything else? Criminal prosecutor Jenna felt exactly the same way, convinced her legal background would only lead to more litigation roles that no longer fit her life as a new mother. But what happened next challenges everything we believe about specialized careers and transferable skills - within six weeks of her career transition, she was promoted, proving that expertise isn't a limitation, it's an advantage waiting to be reframed.

 

What you’ll learn

  • How the stories you tell yourself about being "too specialized" create artificial career limitations
  • How to reframe specialized skills so they become advantages in completely different industries
  • When prioritizing your life circumstances over career success can lead to unexpected professional growth

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC690.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

What if meaningful work isn’t about finding the right job title—but recognizing the strengths you already have? Learn why career change gets easier when you stop ignoring what comes naturally.

 

What you’ll learn

  • The difference between skills, strengths, and signature strengths
  • Why the strengths that feel “too easy” are often the most important ones
  • How focusing on job titles can distract you from work that actually fits
  • Practical ways to start identifying and testing your real strengths now
  • Why high performers tend to undervalue what comes naturally to them

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: HTYC689.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

When your dream role at a prestigious company leads to 2:00 AM work calls and a total loss of self, how do you find the courage to walk away? Keith Penningroth shares his journey from burnout to a career that honors his mental health and leverages his natural signature strengths.

 

What you’ll learn

  • How to identify the "lines in the sand”
  • The "sink or swim" reality of elite tech cultures
  • How to define your signature strengths
  • The physical toll of chronic workplace stress
  • The power of winning others over (WOO)
  • How to argue for yourself productively
  • Why starting with small changes is more effective

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC688.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

What if your job looks perfect on paper but quietly drains your energy, confidence, and momentum? In this episode, executive Paul Ichilchik shares how spending 80–90% of his time outside his strengths became a breaking point—and how challenging assumptions about security and success led to an intentional career change that restored alignment and energy.

 

What you’ll learn

  • How to recognize executive misalignment before it turns into burnout
  • Why “success on paper” can be the most dangerous career trap
  • How to identify when you’re spending too much time outside your strengths
  • The hidden cost of tying identity too closely to title, pay, or status
  • Why saying no to a strong offer can be a strategic leadership move

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. An Overthinker's Guide To Making Better Career Decisions (Spotify /Apple Podcasts)
  2. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC687.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 2:00am PDT

When job security disappears, the only stability that lasts is the clarity you build within yourself. Amelia Johnson shares how intentional reflection, strategic networking, and defining her values helped her turn a layoff into a confident, values-driven career transition.

 

What you’ll learn

  • How to turn a layoff into a clear, intentional career pivot
  • Why “feeling safe” at work isn’t always a sign you should stay
  • How getting clear on your values helps you avoid the wrong roles
  • Why applying to fewer jobs can actually speed up your search
  • How to spot red flags (and green flags) during interviews

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC_686.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 2:00am PDT

Ever feel trapped in work that doesn't fit, convinced certain career paths just aren't for you? Aaron spent over a decade believing he'd "tried law and failed" when he'd never actually tried at all, while Steph kept fitness as a side hustle because she believed "you can't make money in fitness." Their breakthroughs reveal how the biggest career obstacles aren't external barriers—they're the limiting stories we tell ourselves, and why questioning these beliefs can unlock careers you thought were impossible.

 

What you’ll learn

  • Why limiting beliefs about career failure often prevent us from pursuing paths we never actually tried
  • The feedback exercise that reveals what everyone else sees about your potential (that you can't see yourself)
  • Why reaching rock bottom in your career is often the clarity you need to question false limitations

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. An Overthinker's Guide To Making Better Career Decisions (Spotify /Apple Podcasts)
  2. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC685.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

What if the problem isn’t your focus—but the way you’re trying to force your brain to work? In this episode, Scott shares real, lived strategies for working with ADHD instead of against it—and how that shift can transform productivity, energy, and career fit.

 

What you’ll learn

  • Practical strategies I use daily (not generic advice)
  • How to identify your personal “golden focus window”
  • Why weekly planning reduces overwhelm and decision fatigue
  • How accountability dramatically improves follow-through
  • How ADHD can be a competitive advantage—not a liability

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC684.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:10am PDT

What happens when career burnout slowly erodes your identity, energy, and mental health even in a stable, pension-backed role? After decades in city planning, Cathy realized that job security wasn’t worth sacrificing her wellbeing. In this episode, she shares how she confronted scarcity beliefs, walked away from stability, and rebuilt her life around autonomy and alignment.

 

What you’ll learn

  • How to recognize when burnout is tied to identity, not just workload
  • Why job security and pensions can become avoidance mechanisms
  • The hidden cost of masking and over-functioning at work
  • How scarcity beliefs influence career decisions
  • What it really takes to leave a “stable” job and rebuild on your own terms

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC683.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Learn how to change careers when your degree feels useless and your job is highly specialized. We break down exactly how to reposition your experience so employers in any industry want you.

 

What you’ll learn

  • Why highly specialized degrees are not career barriers—and why most people work outside their original field.
  • How to translate your specialized experience into transferable strengths that employers in any industry value.
  • The simple shift from describing what you did to describing what you caused (outcomes vs tasks).
  • Real career paths that people with specialized backgrounds successfully move into—no new degree required.
  • The first practical steps to pivot into a new career, including how to explore roles, identify strengths, and build clarity through conversations.

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

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  1. Finding Your Ideal Career Path: Uncovering Roles You Didn’t Know Existed (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. How to Overcome Overthinking and Finally Change Careers (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  3. From “Biggest Mistake of My Life” to the “Best Fit of My Life” (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  4. Career Change For Teachers: How To Leave The Classroom Without Leaving Education (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC682.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

After nearly two decades in sales and a life-altering health scare, Glenn realized his work no longer aligned with what mattered most. This episode explores how reassessing values, setting non-negotiables, and approaching a career transition intentionally helped him design a values-aligned career with renewed energy, purpose, and impact.

If you’re questioning whether your current role still fits—or wondering how to make a meaningful change later in your career—Glenn’s story offers a grounded, practical perspective on what alignment really looks like.

 

What you’ll learn

  • How to recognize when your work no longer aligns with your values
  • How to define and protect your non-negotiables during a career transition
  • How to manage doubt, rejection, and age bias during a career transition
  • What it looks like to approach a career change intentionally—especially later in your career

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Direct download: HTYC681.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Career burnout doesn’t always come from work you hate—it often comes from climbing a path that doesn’t fit. In this episode, Jackie shares how she stepped off the promotion ladder, aligned to her core needs, and rebuilt a career that fuels her energy, health, and life.

 

What you’ll learn

  • Why burnout often shows up after you’ve “done everything right”
  • How Jackie recognized her work and life were misaligned—and what changed
  • What it looks like to leave a role intentionally, not reactively
  • Why meaningful connection matters more than status for long-term fulfillment
  • How aligning to your needs can improve both work and health

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTCY680.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Your strengths aren't just what you're good at—they're your career compass. When you ignore your signature strengths, even great opportunities become draining. Discover how one IO psychologist used her strengths to break free from the "great opportunity trap" and find work that truly energizes her.

 

What you’ll learn

  • Why your signature strengths should guide your career experiments and decisions
  • How to get valuable feedback from friends and family about your natural talents
  • The difference between skills you can do versus strengths that energize you

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC679.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Maybe you have a “great job” where you’ve been extremely successful. But does any of that matter if you dread going to work? Nope, you’re not ungrateful if you feel this way. When your career no longer aligns with your life, it's often because your identity has become too tightly wound around your job title, creating what feels like an inescapable trap. Learn how Karen stepped away from her all-encompassing job as a Dean and redesigned her career and life to find true fulfillment (and how you can do the same!)

 

What you’ll learn

  • How successful people often struggle most with career change because their entire identity becomes tied to their role
  • How to use life design principles to make work serve your life instead of consuming it
  • How to use the Ideal Career Profile to separate who you are from what you do for work

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC678.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Relentless leadership demands and misaligned values pushed Jessica Ward to rethink her career. She walks through the gradual process of redefining success on her own terms, and how setting boundaries, leaning into strengths, and experimenting with a new path allowed her to create work that truly fits her life.


What you’ll learn

  • How to recognize when you’ve outgrown a role—even if you’re successful and respected
  • Why being great at your job doesn’t mean it’s the right job anymore
  • How to step back from leadership without “going backward” in your career
  • The exact way Jessica rebuilt energy, boundaries, and confidence without blowing up her life
  • How to design work that fits your life instead of forcing your life to fit your work

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation


Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.


Related Episodes

  1. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC677.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Most people don’t leave a job when they should—they leave when something finally forces them to. In this episode, we break down the predictable moments that push people to quit and how to change course before burnout, regret, or crisis hits.


What You’ll Learn

  • Why most career changes happen years later than they need to
  • The common life and work moments that finally make people quit
  • How “comfort” quietly keeps you stuck in the wrong role
  • What you can do to break the pattern and make an intentional change sooner


Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation


Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.


Related Episodes

  1. Edna's Full Story
  2. Breakdown on How Edna Quantified Her Strengths
    • Using Strengths in Job Search: Surprising Results From Edna’s Career Change Story (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  3. Karen's Full Story
  4. Breakdown of How Karen Shifted Her Identity (after it was holding her back)
  5. Taking Control of Your Career When It's Harming Your Mental Health (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  6. Temporary Blindness Due to Stress
  7. My personal story on gaining nearly 50 pounds and getting winded running up stairs - It’s in the HTYC book.
  8. Experiencing Seizures From Lack of Sleep and Burnout


Other Resources Mentioned:

 

Direct download: HTYC676.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Thinking about a career change but worried it will mean a pay cut, lost momentum, or starting over? In this episode, we bust the biggest career change myths and reveal the hard truths about building work that actually fits your life.

 

What you’ll learn

  • Why most people don’t need to take a pay cut during a career change—and how career transitions can actually increase your earning power
  • The dangerous myth of waiting for the “right time” and why prioritization—not timing—is what drives real change
  • Why doing what worked in the past often keeps you stuck, and what mindset shifts are required to create fulfilling work
  • How clarity doesn’t come before action—and why experimentation beats overthinking when defining your next career move
  • Why trying to do career change alone almost never works, and how the right support accelerates progress and reduces costly mistakes

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Escaping Career Crisis Mode And Finding Work That Fits You (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Double Your Salary: How to Negotiate A Career Change That Pays Well ****(Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC675.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

Thinking about returning to work after a career break, but feeling paralyzed by the gap on your resume? After years in a demanding executive role, Caroline found herself burned out, unfulfilled, and wondering if this was really “success.” Find out how she gave herself permission to walk away, take a two-year career break, and rebuild a work life that finally fits her life and her values.

 

What you’ll learn

  • How to translate 17 years of experience into compelling value propositions when returning from a career break
  • The counterintuitive strategy of stating exactly what you want instead of apologizing for your career hiatus
  • How to leverage assessment tools like StrengthsFinder to rebuild confidence and articulate your unique strengths

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC674.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

You might have a career that once felt clear, successful, and exactly right—until one day it suddenly doesn’t. Hayley Lowe reveals how she recognized the signs her once-linear career no longer fit, and outlines the mindset shifts, experimentation, and clarity that led her to a role that aligns with her strengths and season of life.

 

What you’ll learn

  • What it looks like to negotiate a role based on alignment, not job titles
  • How Hayley used reflection and experimentation to rediscover her strengths
  • How major life changes can reshape what you need from your career
  • How to recognize early signs that a role isn’t the right fit
  • Why quitting without another job can be a strategic move

 

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

 

Related Episodes

  1. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
  2. Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

 

Direct download: HTYC673.mp3
Category:Careers -- posted at: 1:00am PDT

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