Talking Career Change Podcast

Have you ever found yourself avoiding tasks at work? Are you choosing to change careers because you want to escape the feelings associated with your current job?

Avoidance is a coping strategy to help you escape difficult thoughts and feelings. In this episode, I hope you'll discover that avoidance isn't the best answer…there are other options.

You won't want to miss:

• Discovering the catalyst for avoidant behaviour
• Understanding how to recognise when you're avoiding
• The link between avoidance and career change
• How avoidance played out in a very personal way in my life

PLUS, my weekly takeaway to help you on your journey of career change success.

Links and resources:

• Take the Career Change Readiness Quick Quiz at secondsteps.com.au
• Follow me on Instagram: @secondstepsau
• Find out more about me at secondsteps.com.au/about-me

Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you can keep up with my conversations about the career change journey.

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Ask a former perfectionist, me, *points at self*, you can't just get rid of perfectionism overnight. So just what do I mean by creating peace with perfectionism? In this episode, I answer this and give you some tips for how you can make peace with perfectionism.

If you've struggled with perfectionism, if it's leaked into your personal and professional life, if your a closet perfectionist and want to know you're not alone, this episode is for you.

You don't want to miss:

• How perfectionism can play out at work
• How not to deal with perfectionism
• Understanding perfectionism's routes
• Breaking free from perfectionism by being more free in your approach

PLUS, my weekly takeaway to help you on your journey of career change success.

Links and resources:

• Book your individual coaching session or schedule your free discovery chat here
• Follow me on Instagram: @secondstepsau
• Find out more about me here

Click on SUBSCRIBE to keep up with my conversations about the career change journey.

If you enjoyed this episode or you're a fan of the show, please leave me a rating and a review. Thanks!

Ever wondered why you procrastinate or started to get frustrated by the fact that you never seem to get things done? In this episode I explore why we procrastinate and then how to push pause on procrastination so you can be more productive.

Procrastination is a natural protective response. Admittedly, it's a little over-protective, but in overcoming procrastination you need to know what it's protecting you from.

You don't want to miss:

• My personal story with procrastination
• How to identify if it's procrastination
• The strategies for pressing pause on procrastination
• Your invite to my "Kickstart Your Career Change Challenge"

PLUS, my weekly takeaway to help you on your journey of career change success.

Links and resources:

• Sign up to 7 Days, 7 Ways to kickstart your career change: https://www.secondsteps.com.au/7-day-challeng-lead-page
• Follow me on Instagram: @secondstepsau
• For more about me and what I do, check out my website.

Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss out on any part of your career change journey.

And, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave me a rating and a review. Thanks!

Should I stay or Should I go? That is the question! How do you really know when it's time to change careers and what happens if you're unhappy in your current career but you just don't think your ready to change.

You don't want to miss:

• The signs it's time for a career change
• How problems at work can impact your personal life
• What questions to consider when contemplating a career change
• Uncovering the reasons we think we're not ready for a career change and how to overcome these

PLUS, my weekly takeaway to help you on your journey of career change success.

Links and resources:

• Download my free e-book Step out of the way of your success via: https://secondsteps.com.au/
• Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/secondstepsau/
• Follow me on Facebook: https://facebook.com/secondstepsAUS
• Email topic suggestions to: [email protected]

Be sure to hit SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss out on any part of your career change journey.

And, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave me a rating and a review. Thanks!

Wondering whether you might be experiencing work-related burnout? Feel disengaged from your job and not sure if you can reconnect? This week I explore work related burnout, the red flags, and the strategies to prevent and reverse burnout in an effort to determine whether it's possible to bring back the sparkle to your career.

You don't want to miss:

• Preventing work-related burnout
• The signs to look out for
• The techniques that can help reverse burnout
• What to do if you can't recapture that career sparkle

PLUS, my weekly takeaway to help you on your journey of career change success.

Links and resources:

• Download my free e-book: Step out of the way of your success via https://www.secondsteps.com.au/
• Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/secondstepsau/
• Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secondstepsAUS
• Email me: [email protected]

Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss out on any part of your career change journey.

And, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave me a rating and a review. Thanks!

Are you waking up each morning feeling like your stuck on repeat? Are you wondering how you became stuck in a mundane routine of work and home life? This episode, I explore what leads to that feeling of being stuck on ground-hog day and then uncover my tips for breaking free from the mundane so you can add variety back into your week again.

You don't want to miss:

• The 3 reasons our weeks become monotonous
• The tips for unhooking from your groundhog-day experience
• My experience with ineffective time management and how I learned to manage my time more wisely
• How you can stop people pleasing and start prioritising self

PLUS, my weekly takeaway to help you on your journey of career change success.

Links and resources:

• Download my free e-book: Step out of the way of your success via https://secondsteps.com.au/
• Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/secondstepsau/
• Follow me on Facebook: https://facebook.com/secondstepsAUS
• Email me: [email protected]

Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss out on any part of your career change journey.

And, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave me a rating and a review. Thanks!

Let me introduce myself, I am Amber and I'm the host of Talking Career Change. I'm also the CEO of Career Coaching company, Second Steps, and a passionate and empathic Career Coach.

As this is the first episode, I'll introduce myself further and let you know a bit more about the Talking Career Change Podcast. Then I'll reveal the reasons why I think having a conversation about changing career is beneficial to anyone stuck in a dissatisfying career or simply contemplating a change of career, and hence the reason I started this podcast.

You don't want to miss:

• Some of the future topics I'll explore and why
• My experience with career change
• My belief that everyone deserves a chance at obtaining their ideal career

PLUS, my weekly takeaway to help you on your journey of career change success.

Links and resources:

• Download my free e-book, Step out of the way of your success via https://secondsteps.com.au/
• Follow me on Instagram: https://.instagram.com/secondstepsau/
• Follow me on Facebook: https://facebook.com/secondstepsAUS
• Email me topic suggestions: [email protected]

Be sure to hit SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss any part of your career change journey.

And, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave me a rating and a review. Thanks!