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Career Change Maker | Career Clarity, Career Opportunities, Career Pivots, Burnout, Corporate Job, Income
***Top 1.5% Global Careers Podcast For Corporate Women***
Are you navigating a mid-career transition and wondering what’s next?
Have you built a successful corporate career but realised you don’t want your boss’s job?
Do you feel the tension between wanting more freedom and not wanting to sacrifice security?
If you’re ambitious but no longer willing to burn out for another promotion, you’re in the right place. I’m glad you’re here.
This podcast helps high-achieving mid-career women gain career clarity and confidently design their next chapter, whether that means evolving inside corporate, exploring a portfolio career, or building a hybrid path.
If you’re ready to stop default climbing and start making strategic, aligned decisions about your future, this podcast will give you the insight and tools to move forward with confidence.
Hey 👋 , I’m Janine Esbrand, corporate lawyer turned career strategist and executive coach.
For years, I had my eye on the corporate partner title. I kept my head down, worked the long hours, and chased the next big deal because that’s what success was supposed to look like.
Then I became a mother. And I realised I didn’t want to build a life around my career, I wanted to build a career around my life. So, I stepped off the default corporate path and designed a portfolio career that allows me to work on my terms, create meaningful impact, and show up fully, both professionally and personally.
Now, I help ambitious mid-career women do the same: gain clarity, challenge the default ladder, and design aligned, sustainable careers that reflect who they are now, not who they used to be.
This podcast will give you the strategy, mindset and tools to make it happen.
So grab your notebook, pour your hot drink of choice and lets design what’s next.
Next Steps:
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Career Change Maker | Career Clarity, Career Opportunities, Career Pivots, Burnout, Corporate Job, Income
# 183- These Assumptions Are Holding You Back From Career Change Success
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In today’s episode of the ‘Career Change Maker’ podcast, I am talking about these assumptions that are holding you back from career change success.
The reason I want to talk about this topic here is that this is something that happens to a lot of people in terms of their thought processes. If you're someone who's been thinking about a career change, you've been stuck, and are not quite sure what steps to take then this episode is going to be useful for you when it comes to a career change.
Episode Highlights
· 01:40 - When you've been in your role for a long time in a particular industry it can feel really overwhelming and difficult to pin down what the alternatives should look like.
· 04:25 - I want you to challenge yourself around the assumptions that you're making about what is possible for you because if you are constantly making assumptions about your success then you're not giving yourself enough time to see the different options that you're considering.
· 06:00 - Before we talk about the strategy, I really pay attention to what assumptions are made about, what is possible for me next in my career, are these assumptions based on fact, or are these assumptions just coming up based on my thoughts.
· 08:25 - I created the ‘Career Change Maker’ program because I recognize that too many amazingly talented women are missing important direction and strategy for their career development and advancement.
What you will learn:
- As you are considering what it is that you want to do, it could even be for you to go for a promotion, it doesn't necessarily have to be you moving away to do something different, but considering the different things you're contemplating really pay attention to the thoughts that are coming up for you. This is because if you are discounting that opportunity as you don't feel like you are good enough, it might be more about assumptions that you're making than it is about real facts.
- It's really important for us to pay attention to our thoughts. Oftentimes people say that they need to know what to do like updating their LinkedIn or Resume, etc. All of that is good and relevant but if you don't pay attention to the thoughts that you have in your mind, and the assumptions that you are making around what is possible, the strategy would be irrelevant.
- Identifying what you want to do involves two things ‘What’ and ‘How’. Once we determine what you want to do, then we can look at the strategy but don't allow not knowing what the strategy looks like to stop you from determining that this is the path you want to take. Then you can move to the how and while you're in the what phase allow yourself to fully explore. Don't hold yourself back because you assume it's not going to be possible.
Other episodes you may also enjoy:
Episode 110 : Making Major Career Changes With Louise Glendon
Episode 120: Has The Fear of Success Been Holding You Back?
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