Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search

Laura liked her company. She just hated what she was doing every day. So instead of updating her resume and hitting the job boards, she did something most people never think to try, she proposed a role that didn't exist yet, got it approved, and moved into it.
Four years later, she did it again. If you think you have to leave your company to find work that actually fits, this episode will make you reconsider.
 
What You'll Learn:
Why the internal job board is not the universe of available options and where the real opportunities inside your organization actually live
The three-part framework for proposing an internal move that gets a yes including the psychological reason most internal moves fail before they ever reach a decision-maker
How to use test drive conversations inside your own organization to surface invisible roles and build the relationships that make an internal move possible
How to know whether an internal move is the right answer for your situation or just a delay of the inevitable
Why Laura had to do this process twice and why that's not a failure but exactly how intentional career design is supposed to work
 
Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!
Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation
 
Free Resources
What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!
Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.
 
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Finding meaningful work at 50 or 60 isn't about starting over, it's about admitting something has been off for a while and finally doing something about it.
Scott Ingham spent 18 years in pharmaceutical sales watching the challenge slowly disappear from work he used to love. Glenn spent 20 years in healthcare sales hitting every external marker of success while quietly knowing something essential was missing.
Both of them found meaningful work after 50 and this episode explains exactly how they did it.
What You'll Learn:
What meaningful work actually means after 50, the research-backed definition that goes beyond passion and gives you something concrete to build toward
Why the "I'm too old to change careers" belief keeps more high performers over 50 in the wrong role than anything else and the science that dismantles it directly
How the Ideal Career Profile turns decades of accumulated self-knowledge into a precision tool for finding purposeful, well-paid work after 50
Why starting with job boards is one of the worst first moves in a career change over 50 and what to do instead
What both Scott and Glenn found on the other side, not just a better job, but a fundamentally different relationship with work
 
Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!
Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation
 
Free Resources
What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!
Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.
 
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One of the biggest reasons smart, capable people stay in careers that don't fit is contributed to a well-documented quirk of human psychology called the availability heuristic. It states, if the only version of work you've ever known is the one you've been living, your brain literally cannot picture anything different.
In this episode, we'll unpack three ways to change that without making a dramatic career shift. You'll also learn:
Why thinking harder about your career options never works and what rewires your beliefs faster than any amount of reflection alone
How a single 15-minute test drive conversation can expand what feels possible more than months of research or planning
Why career change over 40 isn't starting over, it's the moment you finally have enough experience to do work entirely on your own terms
What work can actually look like when you stop assuming it has to look like what you've always known.
 
Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!
Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation
 
Free Resources
 
What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!
Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.
 
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How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
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Most people assume the work that drains them is just part of the job, something to push through, optimize around, or get faster at. But the real reason certain tasks deplete you has nothing to do with how skilled you are. It comes down to a distinction between your skills and strengths and how often your work is in alignment.
What You'll Learn:
The critical difference between skills and strengths and why confusing the two is what keeps most high performers trapped in work that slowly drains them
Why getting better at draining work never actually solves the problem and what a strengths-based approach does instead
How to use your natural wiring to build the right skills and clear tedious tasks off your plate in a way that actually sticks
Why routines aren't just time management tools, they're acts of intentional career design that compound over time into a work life you want to show up for
How clearing draining work and protecting your energy is one of the most effective ways to prevent burnout before it starts
 
Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!
Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation
 
Free Resources
What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!
Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.
 
Related Episodes
Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
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When being physically unable to work feels like a relief after 22 years of practicing law, that's not burnout, that's a breaking point.
Misty Leon knew she wanted something different, she just thought it would take ten years to get there. She was wrong.
Ten years took twelve months and in this episode you're going to learn:
How Misty launched a 10-year business plan in less than twelve months and what finally made that possible after years of putting it off
Why a career experiment that looked like it failed on paper turned out to be the exact thing that unlocked her next move
How a counterintuitive productivity practice created more space in her workday and made her more valuable to everyone around her
What autonomy actually looks like as a career non-negotiable and why most people don't realize how much it matters until they've spent years without it
The one question every person in a good-enough job should be asking themselves right now
 
Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!
Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation
 
Free Resources
What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!
Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.
 
Related Episodes
Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
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