Career Congregation is your weekly gathering for all things career. A space to explore the highs, the lows, and the real stories of people navigating work, identity and purpose in an ever changing world. Hosted by Therapist and Coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, each episode offers grounded conversation and perspective for reclaiming confidence, direction and inspiration in your working life.

In this episode, Meghan is joined by Deborah Craig, Hypnotherapist, Author, and Retreat Host. Recorded in person from the Algarve in Portugal, this conversation is an honest and reflective exploration of what it really means to work alone, live nomadically, and build a business that supports your nervous system rather than constantly overriding it.

Meghan and Deborah share the story behind their decision to spend January living and working together, for what they're now calling “mastermind month”, and how stepping away from their usual environments created unexpected clarity, momentum, and focus. They talk openly about isolation in self-employment, the difference between productive solitude and dysregulating loneliness.

The conversation explores the impact of environment on decision-making, creativity, and wellbeing, particularly for entrepreneurs, freelancers, remote workers, and digital nomads. Deborah reflects on how extended stays in one place allowed her to complete her book, host retreats, and move her business forward with greater ease, while Meghan shares insights from recent periods of instability, travel fatigue, and learning the cost of cutting corners when it comes to comfort and workspace.

Together, they discuss nervous system regulation, the hidden toll of constant movement, the pressure to rush transitions, and why creating space, physically and mentally, is essential for sustainable work. This episode offers grounded wisdom on pacing yourself, trusting timing, and building a working life that feels supportive rather than relentlessly demanding.

This conversation is for anyone working solo who has ever felt isolated, overstretched, or unsure whether they are doing things “the right way”. It is a reminder that clarity often comes from stillness, that alignment shows up when conditions are right, and that how you live directly shapes how you work.

You can connect with Deborah via her website: https://www.deborahcraig.com; via LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/deborahcraighypnocoach/ and via Facebook: Hypnotherapy.Coaching.By.Deborah
You can purchase her book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G8545HVZ#

If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email me at [email protected]
If you’d like to support the show and the work I do, you can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrick

Key episode themes:

Solopreneurship, Nervous system regulation, Environment and productivity, Digital nomad life, Boundaries and pacing, Creating supportive work structures, Remote working and isolation, Community, Overwhelm

© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2026

Career Congregation is your weekly gathering for all things career, a space to explore the highs, the lows, and the real stories of people navigating work, identity and purpose in an ever changing world. Hosted by Therapist and Coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, each episode offers grounded conversation and perspective for reclaiming confidence and direction in your working life.

In this episode, Meghan is joined by Victoria Bird, Supermum, Marketer and Co-host of the Fine-ish Podcast. Victoria is also one of Meghan’s long-time friends, making this conversation both deeply personal and refreshingly honest.

Victoria shares her winding career journey, from full-time travel blogging and freelance work to becoming a stay-at-home parent, navigating health challenges, loss, divorce and the complex identity shifts that come with long periods away from paid work. Now at a new crossroads, with both children at school, she reflects on what it really means to return to work in midlife, when priorities, capacity and values have fundamentally changed.

The conversation explores the pressure many parents feel to do it all, the emotional toll of survival mode decision-making, and the nervous system impact of taking work that looks good on paper but feels wrong in the body. Victoria speaks candidly about accepting a contract role out of financial necessity, realising quickly it was a poor fit, and the clarity that came from walking away even when it felt risky.

Together, Meghan and Victoria unpack non-negotiables, boundaries, flexible work, multi-stream income and why traditional full-time employment no longer works for everyone. They discuss how motherhood builds transferable skills, why networking is often more valuable than job ads, and how creative outlets can coexist with paid work while a bigger picture takes shape.

Meghan also shares upcoming plans for Career Congregation, including the launch of community networking calls and a structured career course designed to support people navigating career uncertainty, transitions and rebuilding work on their own terms. More details will be shared soon.

This episode is an exploration of career reinvention, maternal identity, nervous system regulation, values-led decision-making and building a working life that fits the season you are actually in, not the one you are told you should be in.

Victoria can be found on Instagram at @fineish_podcast

If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email me at [email protected]
If you’d like to support the show and the work I do, you can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrick

Key episode themes:Career • Career transition • Motherhood • Identity shifts • Work-life balance • Mental health • Burnout • Life after burnout • Purpose • Authentic career paths • Money • Money stories • Entrepreneurship • Side hustles • Rock bottoms • Personal development

© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2026

Career Congregation is your weekly gathering for all things career, a space to explore the highs, the lows, and the incredible stories of people who have navigated career challenges, stepped through fear, and found success and growth on the other side. Hosted by Therapist and Coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, each episode offers real-life inspiration for reclaiming confidence and direction in your work.

In this solo episode, Meghan welcomes listeners into 2026 with an honest and reflective check-in after a year defined by endings, transitions, and significant personal and collective change. She reflects on 2025 as a period of shedding and closure, drawing on themes from astrology, numerology, and her work with clients to make sense of why so many people experienced abrupt shifts in careers, relationships, homes, and identities.

Meghan shares her own experience of leaving London, navigating a nomadic chapter across Europe, and learning to trust her instincts while tuning out external expectations and well-meaning opinions. She speaks candidly about exhaustion, the importance of genuine rest, and why easing into the new year matters more than rushing into goals or productivity, particularly after an intense cycle of change.

The episode explores 2026 as a year of momentum and new beginnings, while holding space for care, intention, and alignment. Meghan revisits the origins of Career Congregation and the recurring themes she sees in her therapy and coaching work and across the collective, from burnout and "golden handcuffs", to the quiet realisation that a career no longer fits. She reflects on redefining success, and what it can mean to build a working life that feels sustainable rather than draining.

Meghan also shares updates on the evolving Career Congregation course and community, including plans for a self-paced programme and office hours designed to support people at any career stage, from early uncertainty to later-life reinvention. At its core, this episode is an invitation to slow down, take stock, and move forward with clarity rather than pressure.

If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email me at [email protected]
If you’d like to support the podcast and the work I do, you can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrick

Key episode themes: Career • Personal development • Mental health • Purpose • Burnout • Life after burnout • Career change • Career transition • Finding your purpose • Work-life balance • Motivation • Authentic career paths • Therapy • Rock bottoms • Money stories

© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2026

Career Congregation is your weekly gathering for all things career, a space to explore the highs, the lows, and the real stories of people navigating work, identity, money, and purpose. Hosted by Therapist and Coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, each episode offers grounded inspiration for reclaiming confidence and direction in your working life.

In this episode, Meghan is joined by Nicola, Money Energetics Coach. Nicola’s journey spans more than a decade in advertising across London and New York, followed by a gradual and deeply personal recalibration of what success, stability, and fulfilment truly mean.

Nicola reflects on growing up in Essex and how early cultural narratives shaped her sense of self worth, ambition, and identity. She shares her experience of working in high pressure agency environments, the allure and reality of New York, and the quiet accumulation of financial disconnection that often hides beneath outward career success. What emerges is an honest exploration of how money habits are formed, avoided, inherited, and rarely questioned.

The conversation moves into a pivotal chapter of Nicola’s life, including redundancy, burnout, and her decision to pursue solo IVF. She speaks candidly about planning for motherhood, the emotional impact of unsuccessful IVF rounds, and the unexpected clarity that followed. This period became a catalyst for reassessing her relationship with money, agency, and the kind of life she wanted to build.

Nicola explains how she found her way into money energetics and coaching, reframing money not as a measure of worth but as a neutral tool deeply connected to identity, creativity, and self trust. She shares how redundancy created the space to step fully into this work, and how her New Money Club was born from a desire to move people away from fear, extremes, and shame based money narratives.

Together, Meghan and Nicola explore themes of lineage and legacy, personal responsibility without self blame, and the importance of integrating emotional and practical approaches to money. They also discuss readiness for change, the role of intuition, and why sustainable transformation requires time, integration, and honesty rather than quick fixes.

This episode is a thoughtful and grounded conversation about money stories, career identity, starting again, and learning to hold your life differently. It is especially relevant for anyone navigating career transitions, burnout, redundancy, or questioning the structures they have been living inside.

If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email Meghan at [email protected]
If you’d like to support the show, you can buy the team a coffee(s) at https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrick

Key episode themes:Career • Coaching • Personal development • Mental health • Purpose • Burnout • Life after burnout • Entrepreneurship • Rock bottoms • Money • Money stories • Authentic career paths • Self worth • Identity shifts

© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2025

Career Congregation is your weekly gathering for all things career, a space to explore the highs, the lows, and the incredible stories of people who have navigated career challenges, stepped through fear, and found success and growth on the other side. Hosted by Therapist and Coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, each episode offers real-life inspiration for reclaiming confidence and direction in your work.

In this week’s episode, Meghan is joined by Valerie Tate, an Intuitive Psychotherapist and Trauma Specialist who has spent the last 25 years helping people clear the way for the purest expression of their soul’s path in this lifetime. Based in San Francisco, Val’s work is grounded, insightful and deeply attuned, shaped by a lifetime of intuitive experiences and a profound commitment to the inner unfolding of consciousness.

Val shares how her intuitive abilities first emerged in childhood, how those early experiences were gradually tucked away, and how a near-death experience at nineteen shifted her sense of reality entirely. She also speaks about her early career in advertising, the moment she realised she was craving deeper emotional truth, and the pull that eventually took her from Minnesota to California, where she finally found a community and training environment that genuinely nourished her and reflected who she was becoming.

The conversation explores Val’s intuitive development, including her studies at the Arthur Findlay College in the UK, her commitment to staying grounded while working with non-physical information, and her belief that intuition is not strange or mystical but a natural human capacity that deserves to be normalised rather than feared. She and Meghan unpack the tension between essence and relational reality in dating, why many of us fall in love with potential, and how to separate the soul level of connection from the practical day to day dynamics that actually determine whether something works.

Val also reflects on 25 years in practice, the clients who arrive as mirrors, the cyclical themes she sees across time, and the moments that have expanded her both personally and professionally. She shares how she navigates energy, why she keeps her own system as clean as possible, and the commitment that guides her life and work: to keep her heart open, no matter what.

This is a powerful, thoughtful and spiritually grounded conversation about intuition, awakening, boundaries, purpose and the lifelong unfolding of who we are.

You can connect with Val via her website: valtate.comOr on Instagram: @valtate_therapy

If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email me at [email protected]
If you’d like to support the show and the work I do, you can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrick

Key episode themes: Intuition • Therapy • Mental health • Purpose • Personal development • Authentic career paths • Career change • Rock bottoms • Spirituality • Self trust • Relationships

© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2025

Career Congregation is your weekly gathering for all things career, a space to explore the highs, the lows, and the stories of people who have navigated challenges, stepped through fear and found clarity and confidence on the other side. Hosted by therapist and coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, each episode offers intelligent conversations designed to inspire grounded self-belief and empowered decision-making in your work and life.

This week, Meghan is joined by Daniela DeGasperis, Founder and CEO of DDM Group, a female-led financial services platform disrupting the wealth industry in Canada. Daniela works with medium to high net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs and professionals who are missing out on the tools, strategies and oversight usually reserved for the top 1%. She is on a mission to close the gap, bring financial education to the mainstream and help people keep more of what they work so hard to earn.

In this conversation, Daniela breaks down the systemic issues baked into Canadian financial structures, why the average person is not set up to thrive and how tax planning, strategic diversification and proper oversight can transform someone’s entire financial trajectory. She shares her personal journey, including the experiences that led her to build DDM Group in 2020 and why she believes collaboration between financial experts is essential for anyone wanting a genuinely sustainable and secure financial future.

Meghan and Daniela also explore the psychology of money, cultural narratives, generational financial trauma and the importance of emotional intelligence and intuition when making life and career decisions. Daniela speaks openly about the misconceptions people hold around wealth, the shame that keeps many from asking the right questions and why starting small is always better than waiting for the perfect moment.

This episode is a sharp, insightful and practical look at money, power and autonomy — and a reminder that financial empowerment should be for everyone, not just those with luck or privilege. It’s about information, strategy and having the right people in your corner.

You can connect with Daniela via email at [email protected] or through DDM’s website: ⁠https://www.ddmgroup.ca/⁠ – be sure to mention Daniela!

Key episode themes: Money • Money stories • Entrepreneurship • Success stories • Authentic career paths • Motivation • Personal development • Financial education • Wealth building • Tax strategy

© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2025

Career Congregation is your weekly gathering for all things career – a space to explore the highs, the lows, and the incredible stories of people who have navigated career challenges, stepped through fear, and found success and growth on the other side. Hosted by therapist and coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, each episode offers real-life inspiration for reclaiming confidence and direction in your work.

In this week’s episode, Meghan is joined by Daniel Allen-Hörnfeldt, an Ambassador for Rewilding Sweden and devoted father and husband. Dan’s journey has been nothing short of incredible and will inspire so many people looking to make a change and not sure where to start. His story charts a path around the world, from Australia to London’s hospitality world, to life in rural Sweden, and is a powerful story of personal evolution, intuition and courage. It is also describes a deep reconnection with nature and healing.

Dan opens up about his early years, family expectations and the long search for a life that felt true to him. He shares honestly about burnout, unhealthy coping, numbing, and the turning point that changed everything. What began with a single swim grew into wild swimming, ice water communities, meditation, and exploring different pathways of healing. These experiences helped him peel back the layers of conditioning and reconnect with who he really is.

The conversation follows Dan’s journey from hospitality leadership to co-founding a sourdough pizza restaurant in rural Sweden with his wife, building a thriving cold water community, and stepping into his current work in rewilding. His reflections on fatherhood, healing, intuition and nature offer a moving reminder of what becomes possible when you follow the small nudges of joy and allow your life to unfold in a way that is authentic to you.

You can find Dan on LinkedIn.

***This episode contains mention of recreational drug use, psychedelics, and some swearing. Nothing in this episode is advice, endorsement or therapeutic guidance for the use of drugs in any context.***

Key episode themes: Career change • Career transition • Purpose • Finding your purpose • Personal development • Mental health • Life after burnout • Work-life balance • Motivation • Authentic career paths • Success stories • Inspiring careers • Therapy • Rock bottoms

© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2025

Career Congregation is your weekly gathering for all things career, a space to explore the highs, the lows, and the incredible stories of people who have navigated career challenges, stepped through fear, and found success and growth on the other side. Hosted by Therapist and Coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, each episode offers real-life inspiration for reclaiming confidence and direction in your work.

In this week’s episode, Meghan is joined by Sarah Barnes Humphrey, a storyteller, entrepreneur, and the founder and host of two podcasts: Let’s Talk Supply Chain and Blended. Sarah is also a fierce advocate for self-worth, inclusion, and authentic leadership. Her journey is one of resilience, identity, and rebuilding from the ground up.

Sarah shares her early experiences growing up in a family-run logistics business, the complex reality of working with entrepreneurial parents, and the defining moment that changed everything: the sudden closure of her family company in 2017. After decades of building her career there, Sarah found herself without a job, without a plan, and forced to rebuild her identity from scratch. She opens up about the grief, confusion and rock bottom moments that followed, as well as the courage it took to create a new path.

The conversation also explores Sarah’s lifelong health challenges with lipedema, a condition she spent more than 15 years fighting to get properly diagnosed. She shares the painful experiences of medical dismissal, the importance of self-advocacy, the role of holistic care, and the surgeries that changed her relationship with her body. Her story highlights how listening to yourself, trusting your instincts and refusing to accept inadequate answers can fundamentally change your life.

Sarah reflects on her evolution as a founder and creator, from side hustles and early experiments to building Let’s Talk Supply Chain into a global brand. She talks about mopping floors at a tennis club while running her podcast at night, working multiple part-time jobs to keep her dreams alive, and pushing through fear and rejection in sales. She also shares how she discovered her personal brand through one defining word: self-worth.

This episode is full of insight into entrepreneurship, identity shifts, money stories, starting over, and the emotional resilience required to rebuild your life and career when the unexpected forces you to begin again. Sarah’s story is an empowering reminder that your voice matters, that safe spaces change lives, and that it is never too late to redefine who you are and what you stand for.

Sarah can be found on Instagram and LinkedIn: @sarahbarneshumphrey
The Blended Pledge nonprofit and podcast: blendedpledge.org
Let’s Talk Supply Chain: letstalksupplychain.com
Sarah's book, I Buried Her in a French Press, is available on Amazon or at sarahbarneshumphrey.com

If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email me at [email protected]
If you’d like to support the show and the work I do, you can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrick

Key episode themes: Self-worth • Advocacy • Career change • Rock bottoms • Entrepreneurship • Resilience • Money stories • Leadership • Personal development • Authentic career paths • Mental health • Purpose • Starting over • Women’s health • Inclusion

© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2025

Career Congregation is your weekly gathering for all things career — a space to explore the highs, the lows, and the incredible stories of people who’ve navigated career challenges, stepped through fear, and found success and growth on the other side. Hosted by therapist and coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, each episode offers real-life inspiration for reclaiming confidence and direction in your work.

In this week’s episode, Meghan is joined by Eddie Truong, a professionally trained Inter-Transformational Coach, Mental Clarity Expert, and Founder of the ERA Coaching System, a movement rooted in Empowerment, Rediscovery, and Awakening. Eddie shares his remarkable journey from growing up in Vietnam with dreams of studying in the US, to earning a full scholarship and moving abroad alone at 17, only to face deep loneliness, depression, and the cultural shock that would ultimately spark his passion for mental health and coaching.

Eddie opens up about his “dark night of the soul,” the divine voice that reminded him there was purpose in his pain, and how that experience led to his mission to help high performers find balance, flow, and lasting inner peace. He and Meghan discuss the intersection of resilience, mental health, and transformation — exploring Eddie’s ERA method, the power of self-acknowledgement, and why true success means being both peaceful and fulfilled, not just professionally accomplished.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that purpose often comes through struggle, and that transformation ripples outward, touching everyone around us when we commit to our own growth.

Eddie can be found at eddietruong.com on Instagram at @eddietruong_era, and his book on overcoming phone addiction is available at book.eddietruong.com. Use code THANKYOU100 to download the book for free.

Key episode themes: Mental health • Coaching • Personal development • Purpose • Career • Authentic career paths • Rock bottoms • Success stories • Entrepreneurship • Work-life balance • Motivation • Finding your purpose

© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2025

Welcome to Season 2 of Career Congregation – this is episode 26!

Career Congregation is a weekly gathering for career inspiration, real stories, and honest conversations about work, purpose, and growth. Hosted by Therapist and Coach, Meghan Fitzpatrick, the podcast helps people reconnect with what feels most authentic to them on their career path, and find ways to do work they genuinely want to do.

In this opening episode of Season 2, Meghan returns after a break to share what’s been happening for her behind the scenes. Now based in Ireland, she reflects on starting over (again), setting up her private practice and creative base in a new country, and the surprising ways Career Congregation has grown since its launch earlier in 2025.

This episode sets the tone for a new season of conversations with inspiring guests who’ve challenged expectations, taken risks, and found fulfilment in their chosen life and career paths by following what feels right for them—both in life and work.

If you enjoy the show and want to support Meghan’s work, please like, subscribe, share it with someone who it might resonate with, leave a review, or make a contribution through Meghan's Ko-fi link: ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrick. Every bit of support helps keep these conversations going!

Key episode themes: Career • Coaching • Purpose • Career transition • Personal development • Mental health • Work-life balance • Burnout • Life after burnout • Therapy • Rock bottoms • Motivation • Authentic career paths • Success stories • Finding your purpose • Fulfilling work

© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2025