Agile Self-Development
Agile Self-Development explores how to design the second chapter of work and life.
After spending years — often decades — building careers, many of us start asking different questions. What kind of work do we actually want to do next? What pace of life feels sustainable? And what does “enough” really look like?
Hosted by Product Leader and Agile Practitioner Helene Amster Kopel, this podcast blends ideas from agile thinking, professional development, and real-life career experience to explore how our careers can evolve over time.
Instead of making dramatic pivots or starting over, the second chapter is about experimenting, learning, and intentionally designing what comes next.
Episodes include practical insights on skills like consulting, networking, and influence, along with deeper conversations about meaning, fulfillment, and redefining success in the later stages of a career.
If you’ve spent years climbing the ladder and are starting to wonder what comes next, you’re not alone.
Because the first chapter of our careers was about climbing.
The second chapter is about designing.
Agile Self-Development
S6 Ep2 - Treat Yourself Like a Product, Start With Discovery
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When we think about the next chapter of our career, most of us jump straight to answers.
What should I do next?
What role makes sense?
What would I even change?
But that’s not actually where to start.
In product, we don’t begin with solutions.
We start with discovery.
In this episode, I walk through what it looks like to apply that same thinking to your own life and career—starting with assumptions, not answers.
Because the goal isn’t to figure everything out overnight.
It’s to get a little more honest about what you think you want… and test whether it’s actually true.
Visit us at http://www.agileselfdevelopment.com!