Mid-Career Change

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150. Necessary Endings: Knowing When Something Has Run Its Course

2026-07-1510:20

At mid-career, not all endings come from things going wrong. Sometimes, on the surface, everything still looks fine. The role is stable. The work is good. You’ve built experience, reputation, and a sense of identity around what you do. And yet, underneath that, something begins to feel different. Less energising. Less meaningful. Less alive. In this episode, I explore the idea of necessary endings. The kind of endings that don’t come from failure or crisis, but from growth. Because one of the...

149. The Inner Critic Running Your Career

2026-07-0112:22

If you’ve ever found yourself thinking: “You’ve left it too late.” “You should probably stay where you are.” “What if this goes badly?” then you’ve already met your inner critic. In this episode, I explore the role that voice plays in your career, especially at mid-career when the stakes can feel higher and the decisions more significant. The inner critic often sounds reasonable. Sensible, even. It focuses on risk, uncertainty, and what might go wrong. And because of that, many people mistake...

148. The Comparison Trap: Why Other People’s Careers Knock Your Confidence

2026-06-1711:26

Have you ever opened LinkedIn, scrolled for a few minutes, and closed it again feeling worse about your career? In this episode, I explore what I call the comparison trap, that quiet but persistent habit of measuring your progress against other people, and the impact it can have in mid-career. When we are earlier in our careers, comparison can feel useful. There are clear markers, and it helps us gauge where we are. But over time, paths diverge. Careers become less linear, more personal, and ...

147. Is Your Job Draining You – Or Is It Just Three Meetings?

2026-06-0312:33

In this episode, I explore a simple but powerful idea: when we feel drained at work, it’s often not the whole job that’s the problem. It’s specific parts of it. Drawing from Chapter 13 of Write Your Career, I introduce the four dimensions of balance: Time, Energy, Attention, and Purpose. While most conversations focus on time, it’s often energy that tells the real story. You can work fewer hours and still feel exhausted, or work longer hours and feel energised, depending on how your time is s...

146. Who Are You Without Your Job Title?

2026-05-2013:22

What happens to your sense of identity when your job title no longer fits? In this episode, I explore a question that sits quietly underneath many mid-career decisions: If I changed careers… who would I be? For many of us, our work becomes a shorthand for who we are. Over time, our job title can start to carry more weight than it should, shaping how we see ourselves and how we introduce ourselves to others. But what happens when that identity starts to feel too small, or no longer quite right...

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