The Career Change Studio
The Career Change Studio is your go-to podcast to help you design and create a new working life so that you can live the way you want and need in your next chapter. Join Certified Career Change Coach Dana Stevens for practical advice, inspiration, mindset shifts, and proven strategies to help you move on from unfulfilling work, explore new directions, and design a career that works for you.
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The Power of Potential in Midlife
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Episode 21: When did you last think of yourself as someone full of potential? If it's been a while, this episode is for you.
We live in a culture that associates potential with youth. But what if that story isn't just unhelpful, what if it's factually wrong? In this episode, Career Change coach Dana Stevens makes the case that women in midlife actually have more potential now than at any other point in their lives, and backs it up with the science to prove it.
Whether you are considering a career change in your 40s, thinking about changing careers in midlife, or simply feeling like your best years are behind you, this episode will change how you see yourself and what you believe is possible.
In this episode you will learn:
- Why midlife career changers have a compounding advantage that younger people simply don't have
- What neuroscience and neuroplasticity research tells us about the adult brain's ongoing capacity for growth and learning
- Why the cultural story that potential belongs to the young is not only unhelpful but factually incorrect
- How your mindset about your own potential directly shapes the actions you take and the results you create
- A practical taking stock exercise to help you see your own potential clearly, many for the first time in years
- How one simple shift in how you think about yourself can be the beginning of real, lasting career change
Resources mentioned: Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.
