Taking Control of Your Career with Sally Spicer
Taking Control of Your Career is a career coaching podcast for women who know they’re capable of more but feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to start.
Hosted by career coach Sally Spicer, this podcast is about cutting through the noise, calming the panic, and having the honest conversations most of us avoid. There’s no hype, no hustle, and no pressure to have it all figured out — just clear thinking, practical tools, and grounded support to help you stop second-guessing yourself and start making career decisions that actually feel right.
If you’re navigating career transition, questioning your next move, or ready to redefine success on your own terms, this podcast will help you move from uncertainty to confident, intentional action.
Career clarity. Confidence. Control.
Taking Control of Your Career with Sally Spicer
Why I Fell Out of Love with International Women’s Day - and Why I’m Taking Back Control
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International Women’s Day often leaves us inspired - but unchanged.
In this episode, I share why I fell out of love with IWD, despite spending over 25 years working at the heart of recruitment, careers, and leadership.
I talk honestly about what I’ve seen behind the scenes:
the quiet ways women’s careers stall,
the stories we absorb about capacity, confidence, and gratitude,
and how well-intentioned initiatives often fail to shift real outcomes.
This isn’t a conversation about fixing women.
It’s about understanding the systems we’re operating in - and reclaiming agency within them.
Drawing on my background as a recruiter, coach, and inclusion practitioner, I explore:
- Why performative IWD activity rarely moves the dial
- What 26 years in recruitment taught me about gender and career progression
- The difference between “confidence issues” and systemic constraints
- Why mid-career dissatisfaction is often a turning point, not a failure
- What it really means to take back control of your career — on your terms
This episode is for you if:
- You’ve ever left an IWD event feeling energised… then quietly gone back to the same reality
- You feel successful on paper but disconnected or dissatisfied in reality
- You’re questioning what success means to you now — not what it meant 10 years ago
I also share why my approach to International Women’s Day looks different,
and how my work is focused on creating space for clarity, agency, and deliberate decision-making — not performative gestures.
If something in this conversation resonates, I’d love you to stay connected.
Portsmouth- 10th March - https://talent-included.mykajabi.com/international-women-s-day-2026
London dates coming soon.
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