In this episode, I share a couple of lessons and reframes I offer you to take on if you'd like to go through a smoother career transition period - these are the most common pitfalls I've seen career changers succumb to when designing aligned careers. *** Schedule a consultation call to take this work further: https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/45min *** Instagram: @vilma.usaite

This week's episode features another mind-blowing career change story. My client Nikita has joined me to share her transition from being a dentist and owning a dental clinic to becoming an interior designer. Her career switch story has already been inspiring many others who've been considering a change. She goes into detail about the obstacles she's faced along the way, the inner work this shift required her to do, and the advice she has to share for everyone who's considering a career...

We are starting the year with another magical career change story. The guest on the podcast today is my client Nicole who shares the details of her career transition journey. Nicole’s path to finding her purpose was not easy or straightforward. The majority of her life was spent in hustle, survival, and powering through harsh life circumstances. It was only this past year when she committed to finding an aligned path that her life and her gifts started opening up and flourishing. Nicole...

In this episode, we talk about the often undervalued skill of making decisions. The reason why I talk about this in a career change setting is because your success in a new fulfilling, meaningful purpose-driven career or business will quite literally depend on your ability to make a decision regarding the new path you’re about to commit to. These are the questions I'd like to invite you to journal on to master the decision-making skill: 1. List all the facts (neutral circumstances) &...

This week’s episode features a very special guest - my client who is generously sharing the details of her career change journey with you all. There’s SO much healing in this episode as she is someone who represents a slower, more grounded pace of change - the opposite of what we often are programmed to envision. Do make sure you listen to this till the end as not only does she share life-changing wisdom for career changers, but we also discuss: -how career change is not an isolated event...

In this week's episode, I'm introducing the uncomfortable, confusing in-between space of career change - the liminal space. It's not necessarily a concept I hear people speak about a lot - and yet I have been experiencing firsthand just how vital it is to understand what the liminal space of career change is and how to better prepare for it so you don't feel blind-sided when you're in the middle of it.  *** Schedule a consultation call to take this work...

This week we are talking about the good old imposter syndrome. While we can expect to meet a version of it when changing careers - in this episode I'm offering you a powerful reframe of how to shift this fear and how to work with your unconscious competence. A few questions I'd like you to write down your answers to: -How have my life experiences shaped me and taught me to excel at this new career? -If I look back and start connecting the dots backwards - how has everything been leading...

This week I want to talk to you about manuals we have for EVERYTHING in our lives and how not to use them against ourselves, especially on a career change journey. Not being familiar with this concept has ruined many career change attempts.  Manuals are these invisible, unwritten set of rules we might have adopted throughout the course of life - by symbiosis, being exposed to our caregivers growing up, observing our environment and following the powerful pulls from social conditioning...

This week I'm stoked to bring you a new interview with one of my clients - Ashley Travassos who during our work together transitioned from being at top of her corporate career ladder as a marketing executive - to starting her practice as a holistic nutritionist.  She shares ALL the details in the episode, including how and why her career change journey was particularly hard & complicated - Ashley is what I refer to as circumstantial career changer. She will also share how by luck or sheer...

When is 'the right' time to leave your unfulfilling job? In this episode I'm sharing an extensive answer to this question. There's a very specific way to determine when it's time for you to finally transition into a career of meaning & purpose. *** Schedule a consultation call to take this work further: https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/45min *** Instagram: @vilma.usaite

The more I work in career change & alignment, the more infatuated I become with this beautiful transformative experience. I believe that our quest for purpose & career fulfilment is magic & mystery above strategy. I think this process is not dissimilar to alchemy. In this process we too metaphorically transform lack of meaning into awareness, harmony & purpose.  Career change is an identity shift which means that through this process we, first & foremost, crystallise the...

Career changer series is back with  one of my clients Shanice who, in this episode, shares her career alignment journey with you all.  She went through the whole career change process and transitioned from being lost, confused & miserable to having found a path of fulfilment.  Along the way she picked up the practices of managing her mind, changing her beliefs and learning how to allow her feelings back into her life to create a more wholesome experience. You are really in for a treat -...

In this week's episode I'm inviting you to revisit belief work & learn more about the importance of a story. The stories we tell ourselves about our lives, about our future, about our careers determine our reality. We are our stories. This is particularly true when we embark on this uncertain & unstable process of career change - the way we will frame it in our heads  will affect the success & timeline of our career transition. Tune into the episode to learn how to start...

This week we are talking about building solid foundations within your career change journey. If you are considering a new career path - here's one piece of advice I have for you - less is more. I spend many hours of my day connecting with career changers - many of them are very eager to rush into implementing a myriad of vague career/ business ideas. They have this long list of unfulfilled wishes and a deep sense of urgency - to fulfil them all, at the same time.   As you can imagine that...

Many of you have heard of the term ‘dark night of the soul’ within various contexts.  In this episode, I share how the dark night of the soul is related to career change and what role it plays within career transitions. I believe that career change is a powerful spiritual teacher - tune into the episode to learn more. *** Schedule a consultation call to take this work further: https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min *** Instagram: @vilma.usaite

This week by popular demand, I’m walking you through the symptoms of a misaligned path.  You might be familiar with the emotional impact a career that you have outgrown is having on you - but what about physical symptoms? Through the years of working with many career changers, I have witnessed and collected a number of physical symptoms signaling that it’s time to shift. As you know, my philosophy is holistic which means that I will often analyse the less obvious symptoms and messages that...

This episode is all about me sharing realisations and truths I WISH I knew before starting my career change process as I feel like it would have given me more peace and would have allowed me to lean in and surrender more.  I hope this will be an inspirational piece and my wish is to help you feel more hopeful about your own career change process. *** Schedule your first call to take this work further: https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min *** Instagram: @vilma.usaite

In this week's episode, we are wrapping up the series on thought work. I share real-life career change examples of how to use the thought work to support you. We also discuss how not to use the model against yourself and what your daily thought work practice could look like specifically for you. *** Schedule your first call to take this work further: https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min *** Instagram: @vilma.usaite

In this week's episode, we are continuing the thought work conversation. I am introducing the model - the most powerful and simple tool I have encountered over the years of training and work with clients in my private practice. It's very effective in helping you clearly and schematically understand the causal relationship between your circumstances, thoughts, feelings, actions and results. You probably have often heard various teachers and literature talk about the idea of your thoughts...

This week's episode is an introduction to thought work - which is the very first aspect I address with every single client of mine going through a career change. A lot of our thoughts we have surrounding career change are unquestioned.  If you have a choice to think thoughts that make you question your worth, make you believe that you literally have no future and your life will be this boring small existence  OR think supportive thoughts, that remind you of what’s available for you, make you...

Are you one of those people who love to secretly fantasise how one day you'll hand in your resignation letter to your boss and proudly walk out of the room? I know it has definitely been me in the past and in this episode I'm sharing my advice on how to prepare for the inevitable career change. First tip - I invite you to NOT rush to dramatically hand in that resignation just yet. I cover strategies to take on way ahead of your planned quitting date and I share the most important aspects...

In this week's episode we are chatting about career change and financial fears. One of the main reasons why mid-career professionals struggle with embracing the idea of a career change is their fear of having to accept a significant cut in the salary. They also fear that  they may need to 'regress' in their career and perhaps even take on a junior role in order to embark on a different career path. My take on this is slightly unorthodox - I do not believe it has to be the case. It can be,...

In this Career-Changer Series episode, I interview the charming Lois Letchford, who went from PE teaching to becoming a reading specialist and literacy problem solver. Her journey, however, was not very straightforward one - her career change was not necessarily voluntary or intentional, at least to start with. She went from living her life as an undiagnosed dyslexic, and having to, essentially, from the scratch create principles and unique techniques to help her son, who also is dyslexic,...

Self-sabotage is THE curse word that I hear a lot. My new clients often share that they feel like they contain this inner battle inside of them whenever they express the need to change something up, especially when they commit to embark on a career change. They share that there's one part of them that wants to transition and do whatever it takes - and then there's that other part that works hard to sabotage all and any efforts. That part is so convincing and strong that they often quit...

In this week's episode we talk about a topic that is not the most appealing - responsibility. Responsibility is about taking ownership of ALL that we have consciously and unconsciously created in our lives. It's dropping all the stories about why we are the way we are and why all the odds are stacked against us to change. I'm also sharing a simple 'stock-taking' and responsibility embracing exercise - Life wheel. Download it and make sure you complete it to gain more awareness and start...