Can grief lead to a career change? Is it ever too late to reinvent yourself? How do you know when your path no longer fits?

In this powerful episode of Your Soulful Career Calling, I sit down with Alice Segars, LCSW, a Los Angeles based psychotherapist and psychoanalyst who made a bold career pivot from Hollywood television executive to grief and trauma therapist after the death of her father.

We explore:

• Career change after 30 (and why it’s not failure)
• Reinventing yourself after loss
• Grief and identity transformation
• How childhood traits often reveal your purpose
• Self-compassion vs. people-pleasing
• Parenting teens without “should” language
• Raising resilient, self-trusting young adults
• Why you don’t need a perfect 5-year plan
• The psychological cost of performance culture

Alice shares how grief reorganized her life, how storytelling in Hollywood connects to psychoanalysis, and why healing and career clarity requires patience, empathy, and courage.

If you’re navigating a career transition, questioning your identity, raising a teen under academic pressure, struggling with self-doubt, or searching for deeper purpose, this conversation will remind you that reinvention is growth, not failure.

You don’t have to have it all figured out.
You just need the next right step.

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www.careerquestinc.com

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Connect with Alice:

alicesegarstherapy.com for speaking and support

Book on the look out for Alice's book, "Don't Court Your Chaos" in late 2026! It will provide more hopeful information about managing your life without being caught up in patters that keep you stuck.