Some thoughts are so familiar we stop noticing them. "It's too late for me to apply." "I don't have enough experience for the job." "I'm not ready for my dream role yet."

They run quietly in the background, and as Christina explains in this episode, they have far more say over your career than you might realise.

The same theme surfaced in Christina's recent client sessions, and in her own head. In response, Christina explores why "your thoughts create your reality" is less about the law of attraction and more about the chain between thought, emotion and action. She shares what the research says about how many thoughts we have each day. She then walks through the STEAR framework using a familiar example: The dream role you talk yourself out of applying for. She also opens up about the loop she's been in with her own business, and the questions, inspired by the work of Byron Katie, that she's using to break it.

This episode is for any woman who has felt herself shrink in front of an opportunity she really wanted. That thought may feel like a fact. It isn't, and what happens next is yours to decide.

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Have you ever felt an energy in a room, a person, or a moment that you couldn't quite explain – but knew was real? This episode invites you to trust that instinct.

Christina is joined by her longtime friend and healer, Karol Barac, a Reiki practitioner, spinal energetics practitioner and Akashic Records reader whose own path into energy work began in the hardest way imaginable – following the sudden loss of her daughter, Olivia, in 2021. Karol shares how repeated, unmistakable signs from Olivia in the days after her death led her – sceptical at first – into studying the Akashic Records, and eventually into a career spent helping thousands of people release trauma, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with who they really are.

Together they unpack how the nervous system holds onto what the mind has already moved past, why blending ancient modalities with modern science is changing how we understand healing, and what it actually means to walk into a room, submit an application, or make a decision from a place of calm rather than fear. Karol also shares her honest, no-fad approach to energy work: start slow, stay curious, and never mistake someone else's healing journey for your own.

For any woman quietly wondering whether the calm she's chasing might come from somewhere other than another to-do list ticked off, this conversation offers a different way in – one that starts with listening to the body, and ends with coming back to yourself.

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You've felt it in a meeting, an interview, or a performance review – the sense that you're being read differently for the exact same behaviour a man would be praised for. You're not imagining it. Christina has seen it from every angle – as a woman who hid her own pregnancy from her employer, and as a former recruiter who sat across the table while hiring managers argued that a woman "hadn't been in the role long enough" to earn what a man would. In this episode, she takes off the coaching hat and gets on her soapbox. She walks you through the three forces she believes are keeping the pay gap – and gender equality more broadly – stuck: bias, societal conditioning, and the systemic structures built around a male default, backed by current WGEA data and two client stories that will make your jaw drop. You can keep hearing the same loaded language – too emotional, too bossy, too aggressive – and let it pass. Or you can start naming it when you hear it, in your own workplace and your own home. Listen to this episode, then notice the next time you hear someone described differently for doing exactly the same thing as someone else.

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You want to show up for the people who rely on you – consistently, and as yourself. But some weeks, no matter how much you plan or prepare, the words won't come, and forcing them only makes things worse.

Christina knows that feeling well. This week, an episode that should have taken one sitting took her three days, ten failed takes, and a growing sense of frustration with herself. Rather than push a version of it out just to meet the deadline, she stopped – and started asking what the resistance was actually telling her.

In this episode, she walks you through what she did next: turning to her astrology and human design for clarity, recognising that her old approach to preparing and delivering the podcast no longer fits, and choosing to trust her body's signals over the pressure to perform. It's a plan built on alignment rather than discipline – tuning in before pushing forward.

You can keep forcing things when they're not working and feel the disconnect in the result. Or you can pause long enough to ask what's actually going on. Listen to this episode, then notice where in your own week you're pushing against something that's asking you to stop instead.

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If you've ever noticed your sense of worth rising and falling with something outside you – a number in your bank account, a launch that didn't land, whether anyone thought to say you were doing well – this episode names what's underneath it. In this honest solo episode, Christina shares the last five or six weeks: a launch that didn't go the way she'd hoped, the discomfort of following a playbook that was never hers, and the moment she stopped asking what was wrong with her and started treating the whole thing as information instead. What she offers isn't a strategy so much as a way through. Follow the thread back further than feels comfortable. Stay with what surfaces rather than tidying it away. Ten pages of journalling in, she found the belief sitting beneath all of it – one about money and worth that was handed to her long before she had the words to question it, and what she decided to do with that as a mother. For any woman who has quietly measured herself by what she earns, what she achieves, or who notices – the invitation here is simply to look. What's underneath is rarely as frightening as the not-looking, and it's almost always the thing that sets you free.

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If you've ever wondered what it actually takes to back yourself completely – not just in your career, but in your own life – this episode offers a rare and honest look at someone who's been learning exactly that.

For the milestone 40th episode of the Her Career Coach podcast, Christina hands the mic to Beck Chapman, returning guest and long-time friend. When Beck was last on the podcast, she was the one sharing her story – the bold career pivots, the values-led decisions, the mindset work required to back yourself through uncertainty. Now she's back as the interviewer, and it's Christina's turn to answer the tough questions.

Together, they trace the full arc of Her Career Coach: from a phone call during lockdown that lit something alight in Christina, through three distinct iterations of the business, and into the identity-first, strategy-second approach she practises today. The earliest clients that helped Christina see more clearly what her work was really for.

What Christina doesn't often say out loud is how many times she returned to corporate contracts, even when she knew she wanted to go all in. This episode names that honestly: the self-worth and self-trust to fully back yourself don't always arrive when you expect them to.

For any woman who can feel the distance between where she is and where she's meant to be, this conversation is a reminder that the journey is rarely linear – and that the work of remembering who you are has always been the point.

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If you've ever left a role – or a whole chapter of your career – and expected to finally feel like yourself again, but found instead that you felt more lost, more unsettled, or quietly unsure of who you are now, this episode is for you.

In this deeply personal solo episode, Christina shares something she hasn't said publicly before. Episode 39 nearly didn't happen – not because there wasn't enough to say, but because saying it required her to sit in the very discomfort she walks her clients through. So she did.

She takes us back to where the silencing began – from childhood, where her voice was literally spoken for, through school, and into a senior corporate role that edited everything: her language, her ideas, her emails, and even her margins. She also shares what it felt like, after that chapter, to step into work where she was genuinely trusted – and why that contrast changed everything.

A year on from leaving the corporate world altogether, Christina opens up about the three unexpected nudges that arrived within weeks of each other – each one an invitation to slip back into the safety of an old identity. And what she realised when she chose not to.

For any woman who knows what it feels like to have one foot in the future and the other still clinging to what was, this episode names something that rarely gets named: the exhaustion of editing yourself into a version the world will accept – and the quiet, necessary work of unlearning it.

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If you've ever said "I just need more confidence" more times than you can count, this episode is going to land differently than you expect.

Because confidence was never the problem. And after 24 years sitting across from brilliant, accomplished women who couldn't understand why they were stuck, Christina will share with you exactly what the problem is.

In this episode, Christina breaks down the real difference between confidence, self-belief, self-worth and self-trust, four things we treat as the same word but they're not, and why that distinction changes everything about the work you actually need to do.

Christina will share Karen's story. A woman who built an extraordinary career, led big teams, advised boards, and still came to me feeling broken. Not because she lacked confidence. Because underneath everything she'd achieved, she'd never once stopped to ask what she was actually worth.

If you've tried the courses, read the books, and you're still waiting to feel ready, this episode is for you.

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Have you ever landed the promotion, started the new role, and felt — after a few months — the exact same restlessness you were trying to leave behind? If that resonates, this episode is for you.

In this episode, Christina continues the conversation she's been building across the series on career identity. This one is practical and personal — and it starts with a question you've probably answered a thousand times: What do you do? Because somewhere along the way, that question and who are you? quietly became the same question. And that's where so much of the career confusion for women in their forties and fifties begins.

Christina walks through what's actually sitting underneath the restlessness — not the job, not the title, not the team. She unpacks four layers that she sees most consistently in the women she works with: what you believe about your own worth (which is different from believing in your capability); the values that have slowly drifted from your decision-making; the state your nervous system is operating in day to day; and whether something is genuinely pulling you forward. Not one of those things is on your CV.

She also shares why no new role has ever been able to fix an identity problem — and why it never will. The job changes what you do. The woman underneath follows you everywhere. If you've been listening across this series, this episode brings the thread together. And if you're standing at a crossroads right now with a list of possible next moves, Christina invites you to put that list down — just for now — and ask a different question.

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Have you ever felt like there's a part of you that keeps getting prodded — the same tender spot, different situations, different decades — but you've never quite had the language for it?

In this episode, Christina sits down with astrologer and embodiment guide Chrissy Lehpamer, founder of Aura & Sage and Christina's astrology teacher, to explore one of the most profound — and most overlooked — tools for identity work: Chiron, the wounded healer.

Chrissy explains what Chiron actually is (not a planet — a centaur, discovered in 1977), where it comes from in Greek mythology, and why it matters so deeply for the women doing this kind of inner work. In your natal chart, Chiron represents the tender part of you that can't be fully healed — but can be understood, held with compassion, and ultimately transcended so you can teach and guide from it.

The conversation goes deep on the Chiron return — the astrological transit that happens between the ages of 50 and 52, when Chiron comes back to its original position in your birth chart and offers a profound opportunity to close the loop on your lifelong wound. For many women, this is when things that have quietly shaped their career decisions, their sense of self, and their relationships finally surface to be seen.

Christina shares that her own Chiron sits in her first house of identity, in Aries — and that discovering this after planting the seed of Her Career Coach was a full-circle moment she didn't see coming.

Chrissy and Christina also discuss how to recognise when a Chiron wound is being activated (hint: look for the emotional habit, not the emotional truth), why the body is always involved, and why yin yoga specifically is one of the most powerful practices you can start now if you're approaching or moving through your Chiron return.

If you're a woman in your forties or fifties who has been questioning who you are, what you're here to do, and why the same old patterns keep showing up — this episode will give you a language for what's actually happening, and a new lens for the work ahead.

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