Is making a midlife career change right for you? My real question to you is…is it ever the right time to take a career risk? To follow your dream? To regret-proof your life? You may not think so…for so many reasons! Some might say that midlife complicates things like your career. You know, all...
Continue readingEP #185: Creating a Career on the Road in Midlife: Who We Are Now with Michelle Fishburne
What You’ll Learn in this Episode about Creating a Career on the Road in Midlife: Who We Are Now with Michelle Fishburne. How a lay off can turn into an opportunity in midlife. How to use your past to help you figure out your future. How a crisis can motivate creative problem-solving . Why...
Continue readingEp #16: Surprising Lessons from Leaving a Long-Term Job in Midlife with Wendy Goodridge
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Leaving a Long-Term Job in Midlife: Wendy’s experience with leaving her career and the challenges she experienced along the way in midlife. What it took for Wendy to see that losing her job was something that happened for her rather than to her. The biggest epiphanies she...
Continue readingEp #8: Why You’re Miserable at Work and How to Change It
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: The importance of figuring out why you’re unhappy at your job. The real reason why you’re miserable at work. The difference between the facts about your job and your thoughts about them. How your negative thoughts about your job are created. The detrimental effects of blaming people and...
Continue readingHow do you make a REALLY BIG decision?
I’m fascinated with how people make big decisions. Some of you have no problem making a big decision. Others get overwhelmed and confused into paralysis. Which category do you fall into? Are you the first type? Do you generally think, “I got this…bring it on!” Or are you the second type, more of a...
Continue readingThe surprising reason you’re miserable at work
It can be pretty frustrating to be miserable at work. Midlife misery loves company, so…let’s have an honest talk about that job of yours that looks fantastic on paper. You know which one I’m talking about, right? the job with amazing benefits the job with more paid vacation than you’ve ever had before the...
Continue reading4 Smart Questions when you Feel Stuck at Work
Feeling stuck at work? How do you know when you’ve been at your job too long? There’s no one answer. Sometimes one week can be too long. Usually though, my clients talk about being in a job too long when they’ve been working at the same place for more than 10 years. That’s when I’ve...
Continue reading3 Lessons I Learned from Being Laid Off
My three year anniversary after being laid off from a long-term job is this month. It’s hard to believe that so much time has gone by. I held five positions in the field of health promotion, addiction and mental health for 25 years. I had the last job for 19 of those 25 years....
Continue readingWhen being green with envy is a good thing
Have you ever had that not-so-wonderful shade of “green envy” wash over your body? You know what I mean. It was a time that you noticed you actually felt green with envy, or inadequate or envious because you wanted what someone else had. Now that you’re older, you may have even thought that...
Continue readingThe long-term job—a blessing and a curse
Who knew that my long-term job could be both a blessing and a curse? I never even imagined I would be the type to have a long-term job. Seriously. It didn’t seem like something that would have my name on it. I landed my first professional job in 1989. I remember it well. I...
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