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 whatâs next?
Have you built a successful corporate career but realised you donât want your bossâs job?
Do you feel the tension between wanting more freedom and not wanting to sacrifice security?
If youâre ambitious but no longer willing to burn out for another promotion, youâre in the right place. Iâm glad youâre 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 youâre 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 đ , Iâm 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 thatâs what success was supposed to look like.
Then I became a mother. And I realised I didnât 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 whatâs next.
Next Steps:
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Career Change Maker | Career Clarity, Career Opportunities, Career Pivots, Burnout, Corporate Job, Income
#300 - Navigating Career Growth In Uncertain Times with Alice Olins & Hannah Awonuga
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đď¸ Episode Overview
This weekâs episode is an extra-special milestone the 300th episode of the Career Change Maker Podcast, recorded live at Allbright Everywoman. Joined by two powerhouse women, Hannah Awonuga (Founder, Inclusive Foundations Programme) and Alice Olins (Global Head of Learning & Content at Albright Everywoman), Janine leads a deeply insightful conversation on navigating career growth in uncertain times.
From Hannahâs journey from global corporate leadership to entrepreneurship while navigating grief, redundancy and reinvention to Aliceâs transition from journalism to entrepreneurship and back into corporate leadership, this conversation offers grounded wisdom you can apply no matter where you are in your journey.
If you're thinking about your next move, questioning your direction, or preparing for a new career chapter, this episode is full of powerful reminders that nothing is wasted, identity evolves, and you are the CEO of your career.
đĄ What Youâll Learn in This Episode
1. How to make bold career decisions â even when itâs easier to stay where you are.
Hannah shares how she left a well-respected director role at Barclays, not because she disliked it, but because she was thinking long-term. The lesson?
"Go when itâs easiest to stay, and stay when itâs easiest to go."
2. Why self-awareness is your greatest career strategy
Alice breaks down how carving out intentional time to think about your career, track your patterns, and reflect on what energises you is essential, especially during uncertain times.
3. The importance of having a âPersonal Board of Directorsâ
From negotiating salaries to navigating transitions, Hannah shares how having mentors and advisors who are âtwo or three steps aheadâ has been transformational.
4. How to think about your personal brand without boxing yourself in
Alice reframes personal brand as strategic storytelling flexible, responsive, and anchored in who you are and where youâre going, not just what youâve done.
5. Career growth requires communitym not doing it alone
From co-working communities to courageous friendships, both guests talk about the power of women supporting women through the messy middle of career change.
đ§ Action Steps
Here are three practical steps you can take after listening:
- Block out one hour a week for âCareer CEO Time.â
Use it for reflection, networking, journaling, or job searching. Treat it like a meeting with yourse
Invest in Yourself and Your Career:
- Community â Join our Network for mid-career women redesigning what's next in their careers
- Coaching â Join the Waitlist for The Portfolio Career Academy. Turn Your Expertise Into Multiple Streams of Income & Impact Through Building A Portfolio Career. Join The Waitlist
Connect with me!
Website: careerchangemakers.com
Email: podcast@careerchangemakers.com
LinkedIn: Janine Esbrand
Instagram: @careerchangemakerspodcast
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