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#147 - Viviane Freitas was an architect before she started a new career in marketing from scratch, all in an attempt to make her life happier.  She explains how she knew changing careers was the right move, the first steps to breaking into a new industry and how to overcome the fear of starting again in your career from scratch.

What you'll learn

• [4:32] Common responses friends and family make when they learn that you want to change your career.
• [9:25] The problem with working in the wrong career.
• [10:49] How to find the type of career that’s right for you.
• [19:39] How to reach out to strangers to ask about careers you  might be interested in.
• [21:33] What to ask professionals that are in industries you’re interested in working in.
• [22:28] The first steps to breaking into a new industry.
• [27:24] How to overcome the fear of starting your career from scratch.
• [29:05] How a coach can help you both before and after you’re career change.
• [37:46] What to do if you’re considering a career change but are worried about starting over.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• Joana Orvalho career coach
• Episode 8: No Education? No Experience? No Problem! – with Austin Belcak of Cultivated Culture
• Hubspot
• Udemy
• Domestika
• Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
• What Color Is Your Parachute, Richard N Bolles
• Becoming, Michelle Obama
• Change Work Life Coaching

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/changing-career-and-starting-all-over-again/

Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!

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#146 - Amie-Jo Buckland went from being a cleaner to buying her own franchise of Time For You Domestic Cleaning.  She explains the process of buying a franchise, the benefits it has compared to starting a business from scratch and how becoming a franchise owner helped her create a better work-life balance.

What you'll learn

• [4:14] The difference between running a cleaning franchise and working as a cleaner.
• [5:11] The day-to-day of running a cleaning franchise.
• [7:50] What a franchise is.
• [8:36] The benefits to companies of expanding their businesses through franchises.
• [9:22] What it means to buy a franchise.
• [10:13] The benefits of owning your own franchise.
• [11:50] The process of joining a franchise.
• [15:20] The amount of support you get from your franchisor.
• [16:17] What a business plan covers.
• [17:26] Common fears and doubts when starting a franchise.
• [19:00] What you get for your money when buying into a franchise.
• [23:30] What the relationship between franchise owner and franchisor is like.
• [25:26] How much freedom you get as a franchise owner.
• [27:02] The advantages of buying a franchise instead of starting a business from scratch.
• [28:03] The disadvantages of buying a franchise.
• [29:50] The risk of others damaging your reputation.
• [31:44] The different exit possibilities for franchise owners.
• [33:55] The work-life balance owning a franchise gives you.
• [33:15] The challenges of recruiting quality staff.
• [36:23] How to find a franchise that works for you.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• Workplace
• Michelle Obama
• Change Work Life Coaching

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/buying-a-franchise-and-starting-a-business-without-starting-from-scratch/

Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!

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#145 - Neurologist and Brain Ops Group co-founder Dr Mary Rensel explains how you can optimise your brain health, improve your performance and increase your confidence and resilience.

What you'll learn

• [4:03] What optimising your brain means.
• [5:29] How optimising your brain improves productivity and other areas of your life.
• [6:24] The changes you can expect from taking steps to optimise your  brain.
• [7:34] What “resiliency” means and why it’s so important.
• [9:48] The confidence healthy lifestyle actions give you.
• [11:16] Different healthy lifestyle actions that help look after your brain.
• [13:58] Diets that help maintain brain function.
• [15:53] How sleep deprivation affects the brain.
• [17:06] How movement affects blood flow to the brain.
• [18:25] How the people around you contribute to your brain activity and life expectancy.
• [22:25] The effect social connections have on your brain.
• [24:51] How big your social network should be.
• [26:41] What emotional processing is and how to practise emotional awareness.
• [31:01] Why your brain is more sensitive when you first wake up.
• [32:35] How to get yourself out of a mid-afternoon slump.
• [34:49] How employers can help support their employee's mental well-being.
• [36:18] The first steps to improving your brain health.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• Big Potential, Shawn Achor
• The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/how-to-optimise-your-brain-and-improve-your-performance/

Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!

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#144 - Tina Neve is a career coach and counsellor and the founder of Human Decisions. She explains the rights you have when being made redundant, how to negotiate for a better redundancy package and how you can make redundancy a positive part of your career.

What you'll learn

• [2:24] How counselling can complement coaching.
• [7:34] The rights you have in the UK if you’re being made redundant.
• [8:29] How redundancy differs from other forms of dismissal.
• [10:24] Traps you should avoid when going through a redundancy process.
• [12:40] The value of keeping documentation of redundancy procedures.
• [15:08] How to approach alternative employment your employer offers you as a result of redundancy.
• [17:19] What compromise agreements are and how they work.
• [18:19] How to know if you can leverage your redundancy payout.
• [23:18] The benefits of taking legal advice around your redundancy.
• [25:48] What can be negotiated in a redundancy settlement.
• [29:40] How to know if you should discuss your redundancy details with colleagues.
• [33:54] What you should do if you get made redundant.
• [39:17] How to approach a career change in a time-efficient way.
• [43:38] How to avoid panicking when looking for a new job.
• [48:44] How to respond to employers asking why you were made redundant.
• [52:52] How to get mentorship or coaching without spending lots of money.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• Working Identity, Herminia Ibarra
• Smart Growth, Whitney Johnson

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/redundancy-how-to-bounce-back-and-come-out-fighting-when-you-lose-your-job/

Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!

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#143 - Emily Sander is the founder of Next Level Coaching and the author of “Hacking Executive Leadership”.  She explains how failures can help you become more successful in the future, how to turn things around when you’re feeling like a failure and how you can get out of the “I am a failure” mindset.

What you'll learn

• [6:10] How to define failure.
• [9:12] The importance of defining what success looks like for you.
• [11:46] How to respond to situations that make you feel like a failure.
• [14:29] How to know when you’ve properly processed failure.
• [16:49] How to respond to negative feedback about your work.
• [18:47] How to anchor yourself when you’re feeling down.
• [23:22] What leads people to think of themselves as a failure.
• [26:59] How to shift your mindset around the mistakes you’ve made.
• [31:31] Why it’s never too late to leave your job.
• [35:07] The value of finding a job that is the right fit for you.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• Hacking Executive Leadership, Emily Sander
• Thinking In Bets, Annie Duke
• The Confidence Gap, Russ Harris
• The Compound Effect, Darren Hardy
• Essentialism, Greg McKeown

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/turning-failure-into-success/

Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!

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#142 - Yosef Lynn is an executive coach who helps people in their careers and their relationships.  He explains the importance of communicating with your partner when contemplating a career change, the best ways to start the conversation and how to head off any feelings of fear and insecurity it might create in them.

What you'll learn

• [2:19] How your relationship and your career affect each other. 
• [3:54] How skills learned in your career can be transferred to new fields. 
• [9:05] Common pitfalls people fall into when discussing a career change with their partner. 
• [11:25] When to start talking to your partner about a future career change. 
• [15:07] How to first introduce the topic of a career change with your partner. 
• [18:37] The best way to talk about change with your partner. 
• [22:18] Common fears and objections people have against their partner’s potential career change. 
• [26:12] How best to address your partner's fears. 
• [29:54] How often you should talk to your partner about your future career change. 
• [32:05] How to best respond to your spouse if they want to change their career. 
• [38:06] The extent to which your career impacts other areas of your life. 

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• The Five Love Languages, Gary D Chapman
• Not A Partnership: Why We Keep Getting Marriage Wrong & How We Can Get It Right

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/relationships-and-careers-how-to-talk-to-your-partner-about-career-change/

Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!

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#141 - Award-winning career coach Lindsay Gordon explains the practical steps you can go through when making a career-changing decision, the mindset you should have when making decisions and what to do if you think you’ve made the wrong decision.

What you'll learn

• [2:17] Why Lindsay wrote a book to help people make the right decisions.
• [6:10] The danger of making important decisions while under duress.
• [8:45] How to maintain the right mindset during tough times.
• [11:05] What to do when you’re feeling overwhelmed with despair at your job.
• [13:05] How to know when you’re ready for change.
• [14:20] A framework for making important work-related decisions.
• [16:33] How to find out if a job or role will be a good fit for you.
• [17:41] How your fulfilment differs from your values.
• [19:29] How to know when you’re ready to make a decision.
• [22:22] Ways you can shift your perspective around your current job.
• [25:46] How to get over the fear that you might make the wrong decision.
• [30:03] How to accept that you might not be ready to make a decision.
• [32:28] The difference between taking your time over a decision and avoiding making a decision.
• [35:55] What to do if you think you’ve made the wrong decision.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• Episode 115: Choosing the right company to work for – with Lindsay Gordon of A Life of Options
• Right For YOU, Lindsay Gordon
• Designing Your Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
• Stop Worrying About Making the Right Decision, Ed Batista, Harvard Business Review
• TED Talk: How to make hard choices, Ruth Chang

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/how-to-make-big-career-decisions/

Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!

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#140 - Steven Rudolph is the founder and CEO of Multiple Natures International where he helps people to understand themselves and become more aligned with their values.  He explains how to find what your natural talents are, let go of societal expectations and balance what you enjoy and what you’re skilled at.

What you'll learn

• [5:31] The danger of overestimating or underestimating your abilities.
• [9:52] How to let go of the expectations society places upon us.
• [15:50] The difference between hard work and challenging work.
• [18:13] What to do if you feel you have no talents.
• [20:26] How to find out what your natural talents are.
• [24:40] How to help your children identify their natural talents.
• [26:04] How to balance what you enjoy and what you’re skilled at.
• [32:31] How to assess where you are misaligned in your work.
• [37:23] How understanding yourself can help you respond to outside challenges.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• The Queen’s Gambit
• “There’s not a letter that cannot be made into a mantra, there is not a herb that cannot be made into a medicine and there is not a person without a valuable quality, but the rare thing is somebody who can find those qualities and help to extract them.”
• Coursera
• Nataraja, the Dancing Shiva
• Getting Right With Tao, Ron Hogan

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/how-to-discover-and-use-your-natural-talents/

Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!

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#139- Jeremy Schifeling, former hiring manager at LinkedIn and founder of The Job Insiders, explains what LinkedIn can be used for, how you can best optimise your LinkedIn profile and ways you can use LinkedIn to change your career.

What you'll learn

• [1:40] Different ways skills can be transferable.
• [2:35] How Jeremy became a LinkedIn guru.
• [03:58] The number one misconception about LinkedIn.
• [04:52] How best to use LinkedIn.
• [06:40] Ways to add value to your LinkedIn profile.
• [08:33] How posting on LinkedIn can help build your personal brand. 
• [11:19] The purpose of your LinkedIn profile.
• [13:12] Why your LinkedIn profile should be different to your CV.
• [16:41] How to use LinkedIn to transition into a new career.
• [19:42] How to attract the right people on LinkedIn.
• [22:29] How to make your LinkedIn profile stand out and be memorable.
• [27:40] Who you should connect with on LinkedIn.
• [32:45] How to avoid your current employers finding out you want to transition to a new career.
• [36:50] The best platform to connect with old colleagues.
• [38:55] How to use LinkedIn to meet your goals.
• [41:01] The future of LinkedIn and how AI will change how we use LinkedIn.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• LinkedIn
• Linked, Omar Garriott and Jeremy Schifeling
• Teach For America
• Jobscan.co
• LinkedIn Learning
• Coursera
• Snappr.com
• Followupthen.com
• The 2-Hour Job Search, Steve Dalton

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-linkedin/

Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!

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#138 - Ali Greene is a full-time remote worker who helps people and companies make their work more freeing and flexible. She explains the difference between working from home and working remotely, what the digital nomad lifestyle really looks like, and how to find remote components in any job.

What you'll learn

• [2:06] How Ali became a remote worker and the benefits of being a digital nomad.
• [6:37] The difference between remote work and working from home.
• [11:34] How aspects of almost any profession can be done remotely.
• [14:40] Surprising professions that can be done remotely.
• [15:50] The drawbacks of working remotely.
• [16:38] The importance of building a community as a new remote worker.
• [20:09] Challenges for full-time remote employees.
• [22:48] How to get spontaneous socialisation and interaction as a remote worker.
• [28:10] How to gain influence and respect in an organisation as a remote worker.
• [34:50] How to approach your employer about becoming fully remote.
• [40:45] How to find companies that offer remote work positions.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• Sun and Co
• Hacker Paradise
• Remote
• Deel
• Oyster
• Remotive
• Growmotely
• Running Remote

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/how-to-work-remotely-from-anywhere-even-when-you-have-a-full-time-job/

Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!

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