Career Congregation is your weekly gathering for all things career, a space to explore the highs, the lows, and the realities of navigating work in an ever changing world. Hosted by Therapist and Coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, the podcast offers grounded perspective and practical encouragement for those reassessing direction, identity, and fulfilment in their working lives.

In this solo episode, Meghan announces the launch of her new 6 Week Career Coaching Cohorts, beginning Thursday March 5th. These small group programmes are designed for people in transition, who feel stuck, or are who are unsure of their next professional move. Whether looking to change roles, returning to work after time out, starting something new, or regaining confidence after a difficult period.

Meghan explains why she is reintroducing group coaching now, after a year of focusing on the podcast and 1:1 work. Seeing how many people are navigating uncertainty, burnout, redundancy, relocation, or career dissatisfaction, she wanted to create something practical, structured, and accessible that also offers community. Each cohort is intentionally limited to six people to allow meaningful discussion, accountability, and space for individual goals within a shared framework.

Across the six weeks, participants will follow a clear structure while working on personalised actions that move them forward. This may include clarifying direction, updating a CV or LinkedIn, exploring new industries, building confidence, or taking the first steps towards freelance or business ideas. The emphasis is on momentum, consistency, realistic progress and community support.

Meghan also reflects on the importance of managing external noise, protecting time and energy, and reconnecting with the foundational habits that support decision making and resilience during periods of change. The episode is both an invitation to join the cohorts and a reminder that career transitions rarely happen in isolation. Having structure and the right environment and support can make the process far less daunting.

Links to sign up for the cohorts are below. Only six places are available in each group.

9AM GMT Cohort: https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/203609
12:45PM GMT Cohort: https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/203355
6:30PM GMT Cohort: https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/203345

WORK WITH MEGHAN: If you are interested in working with Meghan 1:1, you can book an intro call with her here: https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/166602

GUEST SUBMISSIONS: If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email Meghan at [email protected]

SUPPORT THE SHOW: If you’d like to support the show and the work of Career Congregation, you can do so here: https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrick

Keywords:Career, Coaching, Guide, Mentor, Personal development, Purpose, Fulfilling work, Career change, Career transition, Redundancy, Motivation, Authentic career paths, Burnout, Life after burnout, Money, Money stories, Solopreneur, Freelance, Remote working, Digital nomad

© 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 week’s episode, Meghan is joined once again by her friend Chris Holt, Nutritional Coach and Founder of Basic AF Protein, for a catch up on business growth, personal milestones and what it really takes to build something from the ground up.

Chris shares the journey of launching Basic AF Protein in a crowded wellness and supplement market. He talks about the practical realities behind sourcing, manufacturing, branding and distribution, and why cutting through industry noise requires clarity, consistency and a strong sense of purpose. There is a candid conversation about risk, self belief and the mental stamina required to move from coaching into product based entrepreneurship.

The conversation also turns to Chris’s experience of being adopted and the documentary project he is developing to explore that story. He speaks about tracing his own history, the questions that emerge over time, and the decision to document that process. It is a grounded discussion about identity, personal narrative and the complexity of revisiting your beginnings as an adult.

This episode is a direct and honest look at entrepreneurship, adoption, storytelling and the ongoing process of building something meaningful while still figuring parts of yourself out.

Chris can be found on socials including Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok @beyondthetats or via his website https://beyondthetats.com/

WORK WITH MEGHAN:If you are interested in working with Meghan 1:1, you can book an intro call here: https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/166602

GUEST SUBMISSIONS:If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email Meghan at [email protected]

SUPPORT THE SHOW:If you would like to support the show and the work of Career Congregation, you can do so here: https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrick

Key episode themes:
Entrepreneurship
Product based business
Adoption and identity
Documentary storytelling
Personal narrative
Building a brand
Long term growth

Keywords:
Career
Entrepreneur
Coaching
Personal development
Mental health
Purpose
Fulfilling work
Motivation
Entrepreneurship
Authentic career paths
Money
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 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.

We’re coming up on one year of Career Congregation, and over the coming weeks we’ll be sharing some highlights from the past year. This episode featuring Kelly Godfrey, Growth Consultant & Founder of GrowBetter, has been by far the most played so far over this past year. It's a must-listen if you’re new here, or a great one to revisit.

Link to the original episode and show notes: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6lNDjONsrxVmoTr8kn0HuU?si=lMZdux4xSKqLo1oY6P2QPQ&pi=9vPz8vRJQu2zT&t=0

© 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 change, uncertainty and growth in their working lives. Hosted by Therapist and Coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, each episode offers insights, perspective and real life examples of people doing amazing things in their careers. This podcast is for anyone questioning their career direction or what comes next.

In this solo episode, podcast host, Meghan reflects on a lifetime shaped by living across borders and how being an expat from a young age has influenced her identity, career, relationships and sense of home. Drawing on her own experience as a third culture kid (TCK), digital nomad and business owner, she explores what it really means to build a life and career without a single fixed base.

Meghan shares candidly about her current pivot, spending time between Ireland and Portugal, setting up her business within the EU, and navigating the emotional and logistical realities of cross border living. She speaks openly about the nervous system impact of repeated moves, letting go of London after more than a decade, and the quiet grief that can accompany change even when it is chosen.

The episode explores the less talked about sides of expat life. Loneliness, relational strain, identity confusion and the repeated experience of starting over. Meghan reflects on growing up in international schools, the constant cycle of arrivals and goodbyes, and how this environment builds resilience, adaptability and social confidence while also leaving a lasting imprint.

This conversation is both personal and practical. Meghan connects her lived experience to her work as a therapist and coach, explaining why supporting people through major transitions, relocations and identity shifts has become a core focus of her practice. She offers reassurance to anyone feeling unsettled, ungrounded or unsure during a period of change, and reframes adaptability as a skill that can be developed rather than a personality trait you either have or do not.

This episode is for anyone navigating a move, a career pivot, life abroad, or the in between space where the old life no longer fits and the new one is still forming. It is a reminder that there is no single right way to build a life, and that stability can be internal, even when everything else is in motion.

If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email Meghan at [email protected]
If you would like to support the show and the work of Career Congregation, you can do so here: https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrick

Key episode themes:Expat lifeIdentity and belongingCareer pivots

TCKDigital nomad realitiesResilience and adaptabilityBuilding a location independent careerNervous system regulation during changeLetting go of old versions of home

Third culture kids

Keywords:CareerCoachingPersonal developmentMental healthPurposeCareer transitionFinding your purposeWork life balanceBurnoutLife after burnoutMotivationAuthentic career pathsTherapyTherapistEntrepreneurSolopreneurDigital nomadRemote working

© 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 week’s episode, Meghan is joined by Olaide Anjorin, Owner of FaceSkincare, model and teacher. Olaide's career has spanned countries, industries and identities. Raised in a small Irish town with a deep curiosity about the wider world, Olaide’s journey is shaped by travel, cultural exchange and a refusal to stay in one lane.

Olaide shares how studying business and marketing opened the door to living abroad through Erasmus, which sparked years of international experience across Europe and Asia. From working in student leadership and community initiatives to building a life overseas, she talks about how early exposure to different cultures expanded her sense of what was possible, both personally and professionally.

The conversation explores her unexpected path into modelling and teaching while living in Taiwan, and how those experiences later influenced her move into the skincare industry. After years of seeing the impact of high quality Asian skincare and learning firsthand about skin health through her work in front of the camera, Olaide founded Faceskincare.ie to bring Asian skincare secrets to customers in Ireland. She speaks openly about starting a business from the ground up, the entrepreneur's journey, building confidence, and learning through trial and error what works.

Olaide also reflects on the practical realities of juggling multiple roles, working across time zones, and redefining success on her own terms. From career pivots to trusting her instincts when opportunities appeared, her story highlights the value of adaptability, self belief and being willing to begin again in new environments.

This episode is a thoughtful look at nonlinear careers, global mobility, entrepreneurship, beauty, education, and the personal growth that comes from stepping beyond what feels familiar. Olaide’s journey is a reminder that your path does not need to make sense to everyone else to be the right one for you.

You can connect with Olaide via her website ⁠https://www.faceskincare.ie⁠ ;via her Instagram @iamlaideanjorin ; or on Linkedin Olaide Anjorin

If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email Meghan at ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠. If selected, a small admin fee will apply to cover the time involved in reviewing submissions and coordinating scheduling and production.

If you would like to support the show and the work of Career Congregation, you can do so here: ⁠https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrick⁠

Key episode themes: Career, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Personal development, Purpose, Fulfilling work, Career change, Career transition, Authentic career paths, Success stories, Inspiring careers, Money, Money stories, Solopreneur, Freelance, Remote working

© 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, 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