The Holistic Career Change Podcast: Recent Episodes
Vilma Usaite
The Holistic Career Change Podcast hosted by a Certified Career Coach Vilma Usaite is home for all things career change related, including tried and tested strategies and not so straight forward secrets every career switcher should be armed with when transitioning into a purpose-driven career. Learn more: www.vilmausaite.com Instagram: @vilma.usaite
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Welcome to our new Lightworker Archetype Series! In this first episode, we're exploring what it looks like when the Alchemist, Performer, and Mystic archetypes come together in one person's work and business.
Lidia Lins spent 15 years building a successful career in environmental science—studying deep-sea organisms at 10,000 meters underwater, earning a double PhD, winning grants and prizes. But music was her first love at age 12, buried under the weight of what felt like a "real career." After a profound plant medicine experience, everything changed. She heard the truth she'd been silencing: her purpose wasn't to study life from the outside, but to breathe life back into people through sound and voice.
Today, Lidia merges her backgrounds in science, therapy, and yoga into a unique approach to voice activation—helping people reconnect with their authentic selves and communicate from their deepest truth. She released her debut album "Libertad" (Freedom) in 2023 and created "Your Naked Voice Mentorship," a 12-week program guiding others to vocal authenticity.
In this conversation, we explore:
- How success in a misaligned career can trap us into more misalignment
- The journey from burnout to aligned purpose
- How different environments can silence our voice (literally and metaphorically)
- The practical side of building a healing business: pricing, boundaries, and staying authentic
- Why voice work is one of the most suppressed yet powerful healing modalities
- A simple humming exercise you can try today
Connect with Lidia:
- Website: www.lidialins.com
- Instagram: @lidialins
- Spotify: Listen to "Libertad"
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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Discover your archetype here.
Not all healers are the same. Artists, Earth Guardians, Revolutionaries, Architects - there are 10 distinct Lightworker Archetypes, each with their own medicine and business model.
In this episode, I’m sharing how this system came through me, why it feels like deep ancestral remembrance, and why it’s emerging RIGHT NOW as healers worldwide are waking up to their calling.
If you’re a healer (or someone wants to become a healer) who’s spent years (and thousands of dollars) trying to figure out your gifts and how to build an aligned business - start here.
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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We’ll explore your aligned career or business journey & create a path to work that lights you up.
2/ Uncover your healing gift
Take this free lightworker archetype™ assessment.
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Join me for an incredibly inspiring conversation with Annore and Kellie, two powerhouse women from the recent Holistic Career Change Group who courageously listened to that inner voice whispering "there has to be more than this." We dive deep into the physical and emotional toll of career misalignment - from what Annore calls "emotional inflammation" to the Sunday scaries that signal our nervous system's response to work that doesn't fit our soul.
In this raw and honest discussion, we explore the limiting stories we tell ourselves about why we can't change ("my skills only work in this industry"), the unexpected challenge of loved ones who resist our aligned path, and what it really takes to build a soul-centered career after decades in traditional roles. You'll also hear about their exciting new businesses that light them up from the inside out, plus the messy, non-linear reality of manifesting your vision into existence.
ABOUT ANNORE
Annore is an endlessly curious, multifaceted guide weaving a soulful online space to share the wealth of insight she's gathered, lived, and lovingly applied over the years.
Annore is the creator of an Aligned Parenting by Design where she blends over 25 years of nannying experience with Human Design to support parents in raising children with presence, care, and deep energetic understanding. Her other offering, Unfold and Align, introduces Human Design as the first pillar in a growing body of embodiment practices — creating gentle, grounded tools to help others return to their rhythm, their truth, and their inner steadiness in a world that so often pulls us away.
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ABOUT KELLIE
At her core, Kellie loves encouraging and empowering women to reach their dreams. Leveraging the Holistic Career Coaching Blueprint and a variety of career experiences spanning from government, to private sector and entrepreneurship she is now offering business coaching, focused on healers looking to start their business or to be a supportive sounding board.
She can help you build a step-by-step plan, when you are feeling overwhelmed or unsure what step to take next.
Get in touch
kellie@kelliepierce.com
Website
www.KelliePierce.
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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2/ Join a Career Change Group Program
A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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Hi friends - this week's episode is quite raw & vulnerable. I've decided to openly about share what I've been going through behind-the-scenes of running my holistic career change practice.
I share about the pivot I'm going through in my business, chat about shifts in the collective & my old but also new identity as a practitioner AND let you in on the end of my long-term relationship.
It's an honest & sober episode that was not so easy to record. I hope you find a moment or two in this episode that will invite you to reflect on your own journey as well 🤍
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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🧲NEED CAREER CHANGE SUPPORT?
1/ Book a free call
We’ll explore your career journey & create a path to work that lights you up.
2/ Join a Career Change Group Program
A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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In this week's episode, I'm joined by Rebecca, a graduate of my Holistic Career Change group program, who shares her powerful transformation from people-pleasing perfectionist to someone who makes aligned decisions through her body's wisdom. Rebecca opens up about being a "serial class taker" with too many interests and no clarity, and how a vivid childhood memory shaped years of climbing the professional ladder solely for approval and validation.
We explore Rebecca's journey of learning to tune into her "loud body" as an internal navigation system, discovering her identity as an emotional projector, and shattering limiting beliefs about being bad at decision-making and never finishing things.
She shares practical insights about setting boundaries at work, asking for help, overcoming shiny object syndrome, and building self-awareness to course-correct when slipping into old patterns. Rebecca also discusses launching her beautiful multipotentialite business, moving through comparison mode, and learning to build an aligned venture in strategic phases while honoring how all her past experiences now weave together perfectly to support her new path.
ABOUT REBECCA
Rebecca is the Creator, Editor, and Curator of Compassionate Contrarian, a website and blog dedicated to cultivating knowledge and power in changemakers, wellness seekers, and curious souls. She helps individuals confidently navigate allopathic, alternative, and arcane practices with critical compassion. Her work centers on uncovering what’s hidden and getting you unstuck through Editorial Consulting, Vibrational Medicine, and Practical Divination. Question Boldly. Care Deeply. Persist with Purpose.
To follow Rebecca’s journey and explore Compassionate Contrarian, check out the links below. Join the mailing list now for the first newsletter in August 2025, and look out for a Flower Essence quiz and new resources—available soon or already live, depending on when you are listening!
Website: https://compassionatecontrarian.com/
Instagram: @compassionatecontrarian
Email: hello@compassionatecontrarian.com
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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🧲NEED CAREER CHANGE SUPPORT?
1/ Book a free call
We’ll explore your career journey & create a path to work that lights you up.
2/ Join a Career Change Group Program
A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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Ready to discover your unique Lightworker Archetype?
Join the waitlist here for my free Archetype Quiz and be the first to get access when it launches.
In this episode, I'm diving deep into one of the biggest traps I see those who want to move into healing careers fall into - confusing curiosity with alignment.
If you've ever felt scattered by all the healing modalities out there, become a "certification collector" signing up for training after training but still feeling unclear on your path, or you're burnt out in your current career dreaming of a healing profession but have no idea how to make it practical - this episode is for you.
I'm breaking down the four healing pillars that structure the entire healing arts world, sharing why traditional business advice becomes toxic for lightworkers, and introducing the concept of lightworker archetypes - your unique healing essence that should be the foundation of how you build your business, not an afterthought.
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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🧲NEED CAREER CHANGE SUPPORT?
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We’ll explore your career journey & create a path to work that lights you up.
2/ Join a Career Change Group Program
A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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In this episode, I sit down with two incredible humans, Catherine and Alexis, who recently graduated from my Holistic Career Change Group. We dive deep into their raw transformation stories - Catherine's journey from dental industry to embracing her creativity as the foundation of her aligned business, and Alexis's path of embracing her spirituality and energy work as central to her fulfilment.
ABOUT ALEXIS
Alexis spent years climbing the corporate ladder in the fashion industry, quietly navigating burnout, anxiety, and the pressure to keep it all together — all while secretly diving deep into energy work, manifestation, and the spiritual world.
Now fully in her spiritual girlie era, Alexis is a certified intuitive energy healer, Reiki practitioner, and soulful mentor for women ready to reconnect with their intuition, reclaim their power, and lead lives that actually feel as good as they look. Whether you’re a career-driven professional or a spiritual seeker, Alexis will inspire you to lead from alignment, trust your inner wisdom, and remember who you came here to be.
Website: AlexisMila.com
Instagram: @itsalexismila
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ABOUT CATHERINE
Catherine is the founder of CGH Design Co, an interior styling brand created to help women in life transitions design spaces that reflect who they are and who they’re becoming.
After stepping away from a long-time career that no longer aligned with her purpose, Catherine followed a deep pull toward creativity, empowerment and purpose. As a military spouse and a mom of two, she knows the challenges of starting over—whether it’s a move, a new role, or simply a shift in identity. Through CGH Design Co, she supports women in creating homes that feel grounding, beautiful, and aligned with the life they want to build next.
Instagram: @cghdesignco
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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🧲NEED CAREER CHANGE SUPPORT?
1/ Book a free call
We’ll explore your career journey & create a path to work that lights you up.
2/ Join a Career Change Group Program
A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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In this episode, I dive deep into Human Design with a Human Design initiator Kat Smith, exploring how understanding your energetic blueprint can transform your career path.
We'll Cover:
- Why Human Design feels inaccessible and how to cut through the confusion
- The difference between teaching Human Design vs. living it
- How each energy type can build aligned businesses and careers
- Why your decision-making authority matters more than knowing your "purpose"
Common Human Design Mistakes:
- Getting caught up in "mind candy" like incarnation crosses before living the basics
- Trying to hack your purpose instead of following strategy and authority
- Learning from uncertified teachers who teach their personal truth vs. the mechanics
- Focusing on what your design means rather than how to live it daily
Practical Applications for Careers:
- Authority as your compass: Check in with your decision-making mechanism before posting, pricing, or taking clients
- Energy management: Understanding your consistent vs. inconsistent energy centers
- Authentic attraction: Cleaning up your frequency attracts your specific people
- Timing everything: Emotional beings need time, splenic beings trust instant knowing
Reflection Questions:
- Am I making decisions from my mind or my authority?
- What does my body want to do today?
- Am I trying to be someone else's version of success?
- What would following my authority look like in my business decisions?
ABOUT KAT:
Kat is a Human Design Educator, Shamanic Practitioner, Cacao Medicine Ceremonialist, Orgasmic Preacher, Peaceful Role Model, Voice of the New Awareness. She offers Heart-led & Human Design-informed spaces and education for others to find their peace and understanding in the same way she has.
CONNECT WITH KAT:
IG: @lady_kat_the_maginificent
COURSES & MENTORSHIP: mynameiskatsmith.com
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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🧲NEED CAREER CHANGE SUPPORT?
1/ Book a free call
We’ll explore your career journey & create a path to work that lights you up.
2/ Join a Career Change Group Program
A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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In this episode, I explore the profound cycle of death and rebirth we experience during career transitions. Learn why letting go of old identities is essential before you can fully step into your new path and how resisting this natural cycle keeps you stuck in limbo.
What We'll Cover:
- How nature's wisdom teaches us to embrace both death and rebirth
- The biological parallel of apoptosis (programmed cell death) in our personal transformations
- Why you can't fully bloom in your new season without releasing the old
Signs You're Stuck Between Identities:
Clinging to Past Status
Introducing yourself by your former title
Checking your old company's updates obsessively
Keeping your corporate ID "just in case"
Hiding your current financial reality while comparing to past income
Using Safety Mechanisms
Endless credential collecting before launching
Perfectionism preventing you from publishing your work
Maintaining unnecessary backup plans
Comparing your beginning to others' middle chapters
Making Decisions from Fear
Setting prices based on old industry standards
Taking clients who drain your energy but validate your old identity
Constantly moving the legitimacy goalpost
Exhaustion from maintaining dual identities
Reflection Questions for Your Journey:
- Are you experiencing physical symptoms of being in liminal space (insomnia, anxiety)?
- Do you speak of your new path in present tense ("I am") or future tense ("I'm hoping to")?
- What parts of your previous identity serve as your "backup plan"?
- How does your calendar reflect your true priorities and identity?
- What would complete surrender to your new path look like?
- Are you making decisions from abundance or scarcity?
- Is your nervous system sp
- What would your future self lovingly tell you to let go of right now?
Just as nature flows through its seasons without resistance, you too can embrace both the winter of letting go and the summer of full bloom in your career evolution.
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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🧲NEED CAREER CHANGE SUPPORT?
1/ Book a free call
We’ll explore your career journey & create a path to work that lights you up.
2/ Join a Career Change Group Program
A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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In this episode, I explore the transformative power of decision-making and how it can dramatically change your life. Learn how deciding with conviction and practicing the frequency of your desired outcome can manifest your dream career, income, or lifestyle.
What You'll Learn:
- Why decision is the most underutilized power we possess
- How remaining in indecision keeps us stuck for years
- The two critical components of effective manifestation
- Why "I've decided" is more powerful than "I hope" or "I wish"
Steps to Manifest Your Desired Reality:
- Make a Firm Decision
- Declare what you want as if it's already done
- Set ambitious, unreasonable goals
- Claim your future now, regardless of current evidence
- Be specific about what you're creating (income, business, relationship)
- Practice the Frequency Consistently
- Journal daily about your new reality
- Visualize details of your future outcome
- Record affirmations and listen regularly
- Prepare your body and nervous system to receive
- Follow Intuitive Nudges
- Listen to inner guidance aligned with your authority
- Take inspired action on unconventional ideas
- Move beyond just wishing into implementation
- Trust the process even when the path seems unclear
- Commit to the Vision
- Don't let fear or others' opinions derail you
- Recognize that your external world reflects your internal reality
- Become a completely new version of yourself
- Stay consistent with your manifestation practice
Can't wait to hear about all that you'll be bringing into your life with the power of decision! 🧚🏻♀️
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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1/ Book a free call
We’ll explore your career journey & create a path to work that lights you up.
2/ Join a Career Change Group Program
A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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In this episode, I give my guidebook away on how to find an aligned career direction and it's NOT as complicated as it seems. IF you know the right coordinates to input. Drawing from nearly a decade of experience and multiple wisdom traditions, I share my kaleidoscope approach to career clarity.
What You'll Learn:
- Why looking at one system/aspect in isolation leads to confusion
- How ancient wisdom traditions can provide precise career guidance
- The kaleidoscope method that reveals your soul's work in the world
Love work to Find Your Aligned Path:
- Past Experience Inventory
- List activities you genuinely enjoyed from past jobs
- Be specific about what elements lit you up
- Focus on tasks that energized rather than drained you
- Hobbies & Interests Deep Dive
- Document interests you spend "too much time" exploring
- Note topics you research for fun when no one's watching
- Identify subjects you naturally teach others about
- Environment Mapping
- Identify spaces/environments where you feel most alive
- Document your ideal working conditions (movement, stability, etc.)
- Cross-check with Human Design environment types
- Astrological Career Indicators
- Examine your 6th house (daily work)
- Review 10th house & Midheaven (public reputation)
- Analyze 2nd house (earning style)
- Consider North Node placement
- Human Design Career Analysis
- Check defined/undefined energy centers
- Understand your profile's work approach
- Honor your type's decision-making strategy
- Numerology Direction
- Identify career implications of your number's energy
- Note masculine/feminine/alchemical influences
- Integration: The Kaleidoscope View
- Look for patterns across all systems
- Identify where different wisdom traditions point to the same direction
- Create your career Blueprint at these intersection points
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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🧲NEED CAREER CHANGE SUPPORT?
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We’ll explore your career journey & create a path to work that lights you up.
2/ Join a Career Change Group Program
A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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Thinking about making a big career move… but freaking out about the money part? You’re not alone — and you’re definitely not irresponsible. In fact, this might be the smartest time to look your finances in the eye and get radically honest about what you want, need, and are capable of building.
In this episode, I’m joined by a Money coach & maven Elizabeth Michelle, who brings the kind of grounded clarity that makes spreadsheets feel like self-care.
Together, we unpack:
💸 How to prep for a career transition without going into panic mode
💸 The financial blind spots most career changers never see coming
💸 How to give yourself permission to earn less temporarily — without spiraling into shame
💸 What a “money date” actually looks like (and how to start one this week)
💸 How to build financial strategy that supports your nervous system AND your dreams
Plus, we dive into why this economic climate might actually be the best time to pivot — if you do it from a place of clarity, self-leadership, and alignment.
✨ If you’ve been circling the question “Can I afford to do this?” — this episode is your yes, your plan, and your energetic permission slip.
ABOUT ELIZABETH
Elizabeth is a Money Coach who helps mid-career women in their 30s and 40s—especially the ones who’ve done everything “right” on paper but are craving something very different—get their finances in order so they can make bold career and life moves without money holding them back.
Her coaching blends real-world tools, deep money mindset work, and a no-judgment vibe that makes space for intuition, clarity, and actual results. She’s here for the women ready to break the rules, trust themselves, and fund the life they’re meant to live.
How to connect with Elizabeth:
- Website: https://theelizabethmichelle.com/
- Instagram: @theelizabethmichelle
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-michelle
- Grab the FREE Fund Your Future Change Guide: https://elizabeth-michelle.kit.com/502bccdbc1
- Schedule a Mini Money Review - Jump-start your money goals with a 90-Minute Mini Money Review! Together, we'll as
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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We’ll explore your career journey & create a path to work that lights you up.
2/ Join a Career Change Group Program
A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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In this episode, we explore how to spot hidden opportunities in today's unclear career paradigm, transforming what feels like chaos into a pathway toward greater purpose and alignment.
What we’ll cover:
- Why the traditional career rules no longer apply in 2025
- The emotional toll of constant uncertainty in our work lives
- How to reframe career disruption as an opportunity for alignment
- Practical questions to shift your perspective from anxiety to possibility
- Why there's a crucial gap between self-knowledge and career implementation
Reflection questions:
- What aspects of this situation do you have control over, even if they feel small?
- What would change if you viewed yourself as the author of your next chapter rather than a victim of circumstances?
- What outdated patterns or beliefs is this career disruption giving you permission to release?
- How might this reset be perfectly timed in the larger arc of your life story?
- What have been previous moments of disruption in your life that initially felt like setbacks but led to growth?
- If this disruption is actually clearing the path for your next evolution, what might that look like?
- What one choice could you make today that would help you feel more purposeful about this transition?
Enjoying this episode? Send me a text & share what you're resonating with!
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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1/ Book a free call
We’ll explore your career journey & create a path to work that lights you up.
2/ Join a Career Change Group Program
A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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In this episode,I unpack the paralyzing fear of failure that often holds us back from making meaningful career transitions and discovering our true path.
Why Fear of Failure Feels So Massive:
- Psychological Factors: Identity attachment, loss aversion, uncertainty intolerance, and perfectionism
- Social Factors: Fear of judgment, comparison to others, and cultural expectations
- Cultural Considerations: How different cultural backgrounds create unique pressures around career choices
- Practical Concerns: Financial vulnerability, time investment, and perceived skill gaps
- Energetic Impact: How fear disrupts our natural flow and blocks our intuitive wisdom
Sacred Perspective Shifts:
- The Parental Wisdom Test: What would you advise your own child to do?
- The Deathbed Perspective: What will you regret most looking back?
- The Soul's Journey: What experiences is your spirit here to collect?
- The Inner Child Connection: What dreams did you have before the world told you to be practical?
Practical Magic Strategies:
- Create intentional bridges between old and new paths
- Build concrete safety nets to ground your leap of faith
- Find your soul tribe for support and reflection
- Practice small acts of courage to strengthen your spirit
- Honor your emotions as messengers, not obstacles
Remember: If it all feels overwhelming, trust your intuition to guide you to just one reframe and one strategy. Even tiny steps create magical momentum, and momentum is everything when transforming fear into possibility ✨
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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Feeling stuck in an endless cycle of excitement followed by procrastination in your career change journey? This episode reveals the hidden psychological mechanism keeping you trapped. We explore why your resistance to change isn't about laziness or poor time management—it's serving a deeper purpose you might not even recognize.
Every time you promise yourself this will be the week you make progress on your new career path, only to find yourself making excuses days later, you're experiencing an inner conflict between parts of yourself that want growth and parts that need safety. This tug-of-war consumes enormous energy, leaving you exhausted despite taking little action.
The solution isn't more willpower or better time management techniques. Instead, we need to uncover what emotional payoffs you're receiving from staying stuck. Are you protecting a familiar identity? Avoiding potential rejection? Meeting connection needs through current relationships? Once you identify these hidden benefits, you can find healthier ways to meet the same needs while still moving forward.
I share some journaling prompts to help you uncover your specific emotional payoffs and offer alternative strategies to meet those same needs in ways that support rather than hinder your growth:
- What specific aspects of your current situation feel most challenging or uncomfortable?
- How long has this pattern been present in your life?
- What previous attempts have you made to change this situation?
- How does staying in this situation reinforce your identity or how you see yourself?
- Are there any aligned choices your current situation gives you "permission" to make?
- How might your current situation be protecting you from something you fear?
- What might feel safer about remaining in discomfort than stepping into growth?
- How does your current situation connect you to important people in your life?
- What family or generational patterns might you be participating in through your current circumstances?
- What needs are being met through your current situation, where you remain 'stuck'?
- How can you meet those needs in alternative healthy ways?
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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In today's episode, I share inspiring career transition stories that I hope will inspire those of you considering or currently navigating your own transitions. These stories highlight that significant career changes can happen at any age, & that our past experiences often prepare us for unexpected future paths.
Some takeaways:
- Previous careers & experiences build valuable transferable skills
- Personal frustrations can often lead to identifying meaningful opportunities
- Fresh perspectives can be an advantage when entering established industries
- Authenticity and persistence are crucial elements for successful transitions
- There's no expiration date on finding your aligned career path
Featured career changers:
Vera Wang
She didn't design her first dress until age 40, after careers as a figure skater and Vogue editor for 17 years. When planning her own wedding and feeling frustrated by available options, she created her own dress, which sparked the idea for her business. Her previous fashion industry experience gave her unique insights despite having no formal design training, leading to her billion-dollar empire.
Martha Stewart
Martha transformed from a model to a Wall Street stockbroker before starting a catering business from her basement at 35. She published her first book at 41 and eventually became America's first self-made female billionaire at 58.
Diane von Fürstenberg
After creating her iconic wrap dress in the 1970s, von Fürstenberg faced significant setbacks and had to step away from fashion in the 1980s. She later rebuilt her brand in her 50s, proving that careers can have multiple chapters and that comebacks are possible at any stage.
Colonel Sanders
At 65, when most people retire, Sanders lost his restaurant to an interstate bypass. Instead of giving up, he traveled the country pitching his chicken recipe, facing 1,009 rejections before his first success. He ended up building KFC into a thriving business by his mid-70s.
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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A five-month transformative experience blending spirituality, strategy, & community. Includes 1:1 coaching, group support, somatic work, astrology insights, & financial planning to make your transition feel aligned & sustainable.
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This week we're exploring how your Human Design can serve as your compass during career transitions! Discover how your energy type and authority can guide you toward more aligned work that honors your true nature.
In this episode:
- Learn about the 5 Human Design types and how each navigates career changes differently
- Understand your decision-making authority and why "trust your gut" isn't advice for everyone
- Get practical career transition strategies customized for Generators, Projectors, Manifestors, and Reflectors
- Hear real-life examples of clients who found fulfillment by honoring their design
🔗 RESOURCES
Generate your Human Design chart for free at myhumandesign.com
✨ When you honor your design in your career journey, you're not just choosing a job—you're choosing freedom, fulfillment, and the joy that comes from finally working with your true nature rather than against it. This knowledge has had a massive impact not only my clients' lives but my own, and I can't wait for you to experience it as well.
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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In today's short & sweet episode, I'm diving into something fascinating I've been noticing in my conversations with career changers, especially those called to lean into the magic of being multi-passionate. If you've ever felt torn between multiple interests or worried that your diverse passions don't "fit" together, this episode is your permission slip to dream bigger.
I'm sharing why your unique combination of interests isn't just random – it's your soul's signature, and how to transform these seemingly unrelated passions into a thriving, authentic business.
What we’ll chat about:
- Why trying to choose just one path feels like cutting off a part of yourself
- How to merge your different passions into unique service offerings
- An example of combining fashion styling with spiritual healing
- Why your "too exotic" combination might be exactly what the market needs
🌟 Quick Exercise to Unlock Your Unique Offer:
- List ALL your interests (no filtering!)
- Play with unexpected combinations
- Ask yourself: What offering would YOU want to purchase?
- Notice what combinations light you up
💫 Remember: You're not here to fit into existing boxes – you're here to create new ones. Your diverse interests are soul gifts waiting to create something entirely new together.
Want to share your unique combination of passions with me? DM me on Instagram and tell me what unexpected merger of interests makes your soul sparkle! ✨
Have a magical week! 🌙
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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Hey beautiful souls! Happy 2025! 🎉
In today's episode, I'm diving deep into one of the most common questions I get from eager career changers: "How do I speed up my career transition?" If you're feeling stuck in a misaligned job and desperate for change, this episode is for you!
I'm sharing a powerful perspective that has helped my clients significantly cut down their transition time - the secret of identity-first transformation. Instead of focusing on the traditional bottom-up approach, I explain why starting with identity-level change can create quantum leaps in your career journey.
What You'll Learn:
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Why the traditional gradual approach to career change fails for 90% of people
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How to use Robert Dilts' Logical Levels of Change framework to transform your career
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A real-life example of how my client Jessica used this approach to transition from software development to Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Practical steps to embrace and embody your new professional identity before external validation
🔮 Robert Dilts' Pyramid of Change (From Top to Bottom):
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Spirit/Purpose - Your ultimate "why"
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Identity - Who you believe you are
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Values & Beliefs - What's important to you
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Skills/Capabilities - What you can do
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Behaviors - Actions you take
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Environment - Physical surroundings
Start your transformation at the identity level, and watch how everything else naturally aligns to support your journey!
🌟 Reflection Questions for You:
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Who are you becoming? (What identity are you claiming?)
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What does this person believe?
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What does their typical day look like?
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What environments do they thrive in?
Remember: Your transformation doesn't start with updating your LinkedIn profile - it's about becoming the person you're meant to be. When you step into your authentic identity first, everything else naturally falls into place.
Want to share your journey with me? DM me on Instagram or use the link in the show notes to tell me what identity you're stepping into. Not who you're trying to be, but who you already are at your core.
Have a magical week ✨
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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In this week's episode, I share my own journey of continuous reinvention in business, & why I believe it's actually natural &healthy to keep evolving our work - even (& ESPECIALLY) when we're in alignment with our purpose.
The truth is, when we commit to building an aligned career or business, we're also automatically signing up for ongoing reinvention.
Just like everything in nature is in constant motion, our authentic work needs to keep evolving as we grow.
If you've been feeling the nudge to shift & change things up in your business lately, this episode will help you understand why that's not just normal, but essential for your growth & continued alignment.
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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JOIN Holistic Career Change Group program starting 11/11.Learn moreIn this powerful episode, we sit down with Karol, founder of HiK trainings, who shares her remarkable journey from Dominican Republic roots to creating a business that perfectly aligns with her multifaceted gifts.
Here's what we explore:
🌱 Origins & Early Wisdom
- Growing up between Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
- Moving to the US with limited English to pursue her masters
- Early recognition of success patterns and divine guidance
💼 Corporate Evolution
- Using corporate challenges as stepping stones for growth
- Finding strategic ways to maintain authenticity in structured environments
- Building resilience through seemingly unfair situations
🔄 The Awakening
- The moment she realized her life felt like someone else's story
- Struggling with scattered creative ideas without follow-through
- The Libra tendency of prioritizing others' needs before her own
- Learning to sit with the discomfort of putting herself first
🦋 The Transformation
- Navigating the desire for quantum leaps vs. embracing the process
- Following divine breadcrumbs and synchronicities
- Finding courage in moments of self-doubt
✨ The Alignment
- Creating a unique business model combining:
- Gaming/Entertainment
- Coaching/Personal Development
- Technology
Do listen till the end to discover how Karol transformed her creative energy into a focused force of purpose and impact.
ABOUT KAROLAlongside her corporate role as a Director at Microsoft Xbox, Karol is the CEO of HIK Trainings, an EdTech company she founded to enhance performance and engagement in hybrid and remote teams through scientific-based coaching and leadership development programs. Their AI and human knowledge solutions are built to help individuals and team thrive regardless of physical location.
Website: https://hiktrainings.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hiktrainings/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hiktrainings/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hiktrainings/
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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This week we are having a heartwarming and insightful conversation with two inspiring career changers, Julia and Alison, who were part of my previous Holistic Career Change Group program.
They share their personal stories of realizing their careers weren’t aligned with their true selves and how they navigated the often tricky process of making the shift. We dive into themes of self-discovery, breaking free from people-pleasing habits, and finding the courage to embrace new, authentic career paths.
We discussed:
- how sensitive and people-pleasing individuals tend to merge with their environments, making it hard to know their authentic desires—especially when it comes to career choices.
- Alison opens up about the judgments she had about her aligned career path.
- Julia shares about considering several aligned paths & the importance of recognizing the right timing to focus on each.
- how often the most aligned careers are right under our noses but can be hard to see.
- that our innate gifts can sometimes feel like burden, but once we understand the dual nature of these gifts, they become powerful assets.
And Julia and Alison share the unexpected lessons and personal highlights they experienced during the Holistic Career Change group program.
ABOUT ALISON
Alison is a Relationship Coach who helps people clear away what isn’t serving them and cultivate their true selves, enabling them to discover who they truly are as individuals and in their relationships. Her approach empowers both individuals and couples to let go of external expectations, embrace their authentic desires, and create meaningful, fulfilling connections. You can find her on Instagram @alisonsarahcoaching
ABOUT JULIAJulia (she/her) is an interior designer and short-term rental entrepreneur who creates magical, transformative spaces for her guests. Drawing on her corporate background, she oversees all aspects of her business, from design to guest experience. Blending this expertise with intuitive creativity, she designs environments that inspire and nurture, turning everyday stays into unforgettable experiences.
With an interest in the future of housing, Julia is drawn to innovative concepts that promote accessibility, sustainability, and well-being. Connect with Julia on Instagram @TreeOfTheValley to check out her properties and discus
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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The Holistic Career Change Group is now open for enrollment! This five-month program blends spirituality, strategy, community, and coaching to help women transition into careers that align with their authentic selves. You'll receive one-on-one support, group coaching, somatic work, astrology readings, financial planning, and so much more. It’s designed to help you uncover your career blueprint and make a smooth, financially sustainable transition. The group starts on 11/11.
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In this week’s episode, we dive into a topic that may feel unexpected but incredibly important: how trauma influences our sense of purpose. We explore the often-overlooked duality of trauma, seeing it not just as a source of pain but also as a creator of gifts, strengths, and direction in life. I'll unpack how our deepest wounds can actually lead us to our soul's calling.
We will cover:
- Trauma’s Role in Purpose: Trauma fragments us, but it can also help shape our character traits, gifts, and even our career paths. By understanding the patterns of our wounds, we can find deeper alignment with our purpose.
- The Healing Process: Healing trauma can lead to growth and transformation, unlocking new gifts that can be part of our life’s mission. We explore how healing often becomes a gateway to identifying our soul’s purpose and collective contribution.
- A Multifaceted View of Purpose: Purpose isn't just about what brings us joy; it's about embracing both light and shadow, joy and struggle. Trauma plays a critical role in shaping this journey, but it requires conscious and careful healing work.
- Practical Steps to Identify Purpose: I provide a simple, trauma-informed exercise to help you start exploring your purpose through the lens of your life experiences. By reflecting on your skills and strengths born from trauma, you can find authentic paths that feel expansive and energizing.
- A Holistic View on Trauma & Purpose: This exploration is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Everyone’s journey with trauma is different, and healing or finding purpose can look different for each individual.
Exercise Mentioned in the Episode:
- Create a timeline of significant life events (positive and challenging).
- Reflect on the skills and qualities developed through these experiences.
- Identify which skills expand and energize you, and explore how they might be applied to a purposeful career.
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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I’m so thrilled to be sharing this honest & inspiring conversation with Lauren and Linda, two participants from the Holistic Career Change Group Coaching program. They share their raw experiences of career transition, offering invaluable insights for anyone considering or undergoing a career change.
In this episode, we explore:
- How our bodies signal career misalignment
- Overcoming fears that surface when committing to change
- The healing power of embracing uncomfortable emotions
- Debunking the myth of binary career choices
- The multi-dimensional and non-linear nature of career transitions
- How the Blueprint process becomes a map of self-discovery
- Practical tips for prioritizing your career change journey
- The ripple effect of career transformation on all aspects of life
Whether you're contemplating a career shift or in the midst of one, this episode offers relatable experiences and practical wisdom to guide your journey. Tune in for an honest, empowering discussion about transforming your career and life.
ABOUT LINDA
The Sculpt Lab, founded by Linda Greco in 2019, is dedicated to helping individuals seamlessly integrate fitness into their daily lives to build healthier habits and lasting lifestyles. As a personal trainer, nutrition consultant, reiki master, and former bodybuilding competitor, Linda takes a holistic approach to wellness, working closely with her clients to nurture the body, mind, and spirit for comprehensive health and well-being.
IG: @the_sculpt_lab & @linda.balsamo.greco
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🧚🏻♀️ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career coach helping unfulfilled women transition into soul-aligned work where their gifts become their livelihood. Whether they're dreaming of launching their own business or finding a role that lights them up, Vilma supports their journey to work that feels like home.
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In this episode, I thought I'd break down the journey that follows after you've discovered your aligned career path. If you've found your direction but are feeling a bit lost on what comes next, this one's for you!
I dive deep into:
- Why the excitement of finding your path might unexpectedly fade (and why that's okay!)
- The 6 stages of building your aligned career
- How to navigate each stage with intention and purpose
- The importance of setting clear timelines and boundaries
- Why "starting before you're ready" is your secret weapon
- The often-overlooked step of saying goodbye to your old career
- How to build belief in yourself and your new path
I share personal insights and client stories to illustrate each stage, offering practical advice on:
- Prepping & planning for the transition
- Managing your finances during the shift
- Developing new skills and building credibility
- Navigating the identity shift from old career to new
- Scaling your new career and giving back to your field
Remember, this journey isn't linear, and everyone's path is unique. But understanding these stages can help you navigate your transition with more confidence and clarity. You've got this.
- Financial coach Elizabeth MichelleIG: @elizabeth_mchelle
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In this episode, I'm serving up some tough love for aspiring entrepreneurs, especially those transitioning into aligned businesses. I dive deep into the realities of building a purpose-led business, challenging the "overnight success" narrative we often see.
I explore:
- Why your business isn't there to motivate you
- The importance of unwavering belief in yourself and your vision
- How your business acts as a mirror, revealing where you need to grow
- The crucial role of self-coaching and mindset work
- Why challenges are actually preparing you for success
I share my insights on why many new entrepreneurs struggle, and how to shift your perspective to see obstacles as teachers. Remember, an aligned business is first and foremost a healing journey.
Hopefully this short episode will help you clarify how bad you ACTUALLY want it.
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In this episode, I explore the concept of lightworkers and how to recognize if you're meant for a healing career. It’s something that I get asked a lot, so I thought I might as well record an episode.
Here’s what I will cover:
- What is a lightworker: understanding the soul-level calling to raise the planet's vibration and help humanity evolve.
- Signs you might be a lightworker:
- Feeling different or out of place
- High sensitivity to energy and emotions
- Strong desire to help and heal others
- Attraction to spiritual and metaphysical topics
- The lightworker's dilemma: feeling stuck in misaligned careers and recognizing the spiritual lessons in these experiences.
- Four categories of healing careers: physical, mental, emotional, and energetic/ethereal.
- How to know if you're meant for a healing career: Signs to look out for.
- Common fears of aspiring healers and how to overcome them:
- Not feeling qualified enough
- Concerns about making a living
- Fear of not being good enough
- Age-related doubts
- Worry about others' opinions
- Practical steps for embracing your healing career:
- Identifying your specific healing interests
- Investing in education and training
- Starting small
- Connecting with other healers
- Building an online presence
- The importance of trusting the process and taking inspired action in your healing journey. Embracing a healing career is as much about personal transformation as it is about helping others.
My intention for this episode is to validate your experience & hopefully inspire you to lead with your lightworker essence & start taking action to build an aligned career.
Remember to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with anyone who might be considering a healing career path!
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Vilma is a holistic career change coach who helps women transition into their authentic aligned careers and businesses.
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In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend Elizé, a Speaking confidence and visibility coach, for a raw conversation about transmuting a fear of being seen.I open up about my own ongoing struggles with on-camera presence and how I've managed to build a successful coaching practice despite these challenges. Elizé and I dive deep into how our childhood experiences have shaped our relationship with self-expression, and we explore the energetics of visibility in the entrepreneurial world.
We also touch on some less conventional topics like ancestral healing as a tool for reclaiming our voices, and offer a fresh perspective on social media as a potential space for healing and connection.
Throughout our chat, we share personal insights, practical tips, and mindset shifts to help you embrace your authentic self online.
Whether you're a new entrepreneur feeling the pressure to "perform" or you're struggling to embrace your new identity as a career changer, this episode is packed with relatable experiences and empowering stories.
Join us for this heart-to-heart about breaking free from performative pressures and showing up as your true, beautiful self.
ABOUT ELIZEElize is a Speaking & Visibility coach. She is like the spawn of The Dali Lama & Maya Rudolph.
Infusing humor, play, and spirituality, she guides others to tap into freedom, whether in group settings or in front of the camera.
You can find her on Instagram @elize_presents.
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Vilma is a holistic career change coach who helps women transition into their authentic aligned careers and businesses.
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In this week’s episode, I'm chatting with my amazing client Elizabeth about her incredible journey from high-flying tech consultant to heart-led financial coach.We dive deep into the pressures she felt as a type-A eldest child to follow conventional success paths, even when her corporate job left her stressed and unfulfilled. Sound familiar? :)
Elizabeth shares how a surprising layoff during the tech downturn became a blessing in disguise, giving her the time and space to finally pursue her true calling - which had been right under her nose all along!
Together, we get real about the money mindset hurdles that can hold us back from investing in our dreams, and we share our favorite abundance beliefs to help you upgrade your wealth vibe.
Plus, Elizabeth spills the tea on how delicious life feels in her new purpose-fueled career - from waking up excited to enjoying networking (which was a big surprise for her!)
Hope this episode will serve as a healthy dose of inspiration to fuel your own career change journey!
ABOUT ELIZABETHElizabeth is a Financial Coach focused on helping women love their relationship with money and grow their wealth. She truly believes that financial independence is an enabler for living a life on your terms, realizing your dreams, and creating a more secure and abundant future. She is passionate about helping women to feel empowered to talk about money and ask for what they deserve, feel less stressed about money, and be more confident managing their money in a way that supports their goals and lifestyle.
Elizabeth offers a 1:1 coaching program that is tailored to you. We'll work together on creating an easy to follow plan for money management and build positive money mindset and manifestation practices that are in alignment with your goals.
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This is one of those long-time coming episodes where I take you through my very own linear career change journey.
In this candid episode, I open up about my 3-year transition from misaligned corporate jobs to building my own coaching practice. I talk about how:
- I experienced years of inner turmoil and unhappiness working in management consulting and public sector roles that felt inauthentic;
- I quit jobs without a plan, taking solo soul-searching trips to Iceland and Portugal to get clarity;
- Iceland helped strip away my former identity and connect me to my true self through nature;
- After realizing I needed to be self-employed, I gradually transitioned by studying coaching while still working corporate jobs;
- I overcame intense fears of being perceived as a "wacko" life coach by former colleagues;
- I took imperfect action by starting to coach before feeling fully ready to gain clarity;
- I transitioned by getting a job with flexible remote hours which gave me safety to build my practice.
I also share the most pivotal moments, doubts, and emotional journey I had to embark on in order to help others find aligned careers.
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In this special episode, I chat with my partner Maarten about his experience and insights as the significant other of someone going through a major career transition.
I know so many women express feeling unsupported or doubted by their partners when they want to make a bold career shift. Or partners come at it very logically versus emotionally. Understandably, the prospect of losing financial stability can be scary for spouses too.
I’ve been SO fortunate to have a partner who believed in and stood by me every step of my winding career change journey. I wanted to share Maarten's perspective to shed light on how partners can provide that unconditional support when their loved one decides to take the leap towards more purposeful work.
We get honest about Maarten's initial reservations, how he came to fully embrace my transition, the flexibility required to make more time together, tuning into each other's needs, and the advice he has for others supporting a career changer.
There's so much wisdom in hearing the other side's experience when your dreams disrupt the status quo.
When you make a shift, your loved ones shift too. I hope this episode inspires you & your partner to navigate inevitable changes with more compassion, trust and teamwork.
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Have you chosen an exciting new career path, one that truly lights you up...only to start questioning if you made the right move when it doesn't unfold smoothly or quickly? You're not alone!
In this week's episode, we're exploring why an aligned vocation can still feel uncomfortable or rocky in the early stages. And how to tell the difference between normal growing pains versus true misalignment.
I'll also share how I navigated feeling like an imposter and reclaiming my confidence when reality didn't match my expectations. And what I did to course correct and find more ease, joy and flow as I built skills and structured my ideal business model.
We'll discuss some key signs that your discomfort may signal just growing pains, not necessarily overall misalignment:
- You still feel excited by the work itself, just doubting your abilities
- Part of you knows it aligns with your core motivations
- The path resonates, but your approach feels off
Plus, strategies to recalibrate HOW you're walking this purpose path in order to feel re-inspired:
- Examine unconscious expectations around the timeline
- Check where you’re using outdated models versus aligning with your own rhythm
- Get radically honest if this still deeply resonates with your soul
Even when you're headed towards your North Star, the journey itself will likely involve some stormy seas, please don't get discouraged!
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In this episode, I interview Eleanor, a graduate of the Holistic Career Change Group Program who's made a pivot from non-profit work to becoming a guide for mothers and caretakers.
We discuss:
- how Eleanor first came into the program with lots of interests: from a jewelry business to returning back to non-profit work
- how overworking and overcommitting to pursue misaligned goals left El burnt out and disconnected from their body. It took a traumatic childbirth experience to force them to reevaluate their choices
- financial scarcity and how it impacted Eleanor's life and career choices
- transition into motherhood and how mothers are STILL a very underserved and under-resourced community
- the pre-butterfly "goo phase" that is so tough to endure yet so necessary in order to complete the transformation required to embrace an aligned path
- Eleanor's experience in the group program - deep friendships, support and clarity she found as a result of doing the work & showing up for the process and themselves.
ABOUT ELEANOR
El Fort (she/they) serves as a guide for female-bodied (women and non-binary) folks on their unique healing journeys, with a particular focus on new and soon-to-be mothers and caretakers. El combines over 20 years of leadership, training, coaching, and facilitation skills in the professional world with their own experience over the last few years of healing from chronic stress, burnout, and overwhelm.
El believes the heart of healing is nervous system regulation. They use evidence-based practices that back up ancient wisdom with a sprinkle of mysticism. They work with people holistically to connect with their own self-worth, self-trust, and self-compassion. Through mindfulness, movement, breath and belief work, clients find peace, balance, harmony and joy to live their most authentic, fulfilled, badass life.
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In this short & sweet episode I share a pattern I've been noticing A LOT LATELY - people being let go & redirected by the wildest career circumstances.
Rather than resisting this at times unpleasant change, I encourage you to embrace it and ask yourself - what gifts they’re pushing you to embody.
Let's zoom out & read between the lines!
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In the last episode of the year, I have the honor of chatting with an inspiring career changer & manifestation maven - Sarah.
Sarah's gone through the holistic career change process & found herself in a multipotentialite portfolio career - having carved out a very unique space for herself.
In many ways, she's a trailblazer & an example of what's possible when you choose to boldly lead with creative spirit, emotional intelligence, and alignment—even within rigid tech spaces not set up for authentic expression.
In the episode we will chat about uncompromising self-advocacy to shift workplace culture to the leading edge, refusing to mute intuition or hide true colors for the comfort of others.
Sarah will also expand on the magic that unfolds when you stand firmly in your integrity and heart-wisdom, ushering in the new paradigm of working & living.
This was such a fun episode to record. Sarah has this joyful, light yet wise presence - and my hope is that you'll feel inspired hearing her story just as I did.
ABOUT SARAH
Sarah is a creative spiritualist who is devoted to understanding herself, so that she may understand everything else. She is on the path of radical self-acceptance so that she may create the most beautiful reality possible. Sarah's favorite feeling is being inspired by someone; so she is deeply honored when she is able to do the same.
You can find her on Instagram at @darahsoh
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I'm brimming with joy to be bringing you an astrology-focused episode!
In this beginner-friendly episode, we are joined by a special guest Cat, a professional astrologer, who will be walking us through the crucial birth chart components that signify career and destiny:
- Moon to indicate our emotional needs
- Midheaven to identify our public calling
- North Node to show us a soul-driven direction
- and 10th house to suggest types of career & public roles we might be drawn to
We will discuss how, by assessing planetary aspects and zodiac sign positions related to these key locations in the natal chart, you can find greater clarity around fulfilling work that aligns with your innate talents and gifts.
Cat will go into more detail about how you could leverage astrological guidance for your career shifts, along with actionable tips for listeners interested in mapping their birth charts for an aligned career direction.
We had SO much fun recording this episode and I hope you will enjoy listening to it just as much!
RESOURCESFree Birth Chart generator: https://www.astro-seek.com
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ABOUT CATCatherine, also known as Cat, is an astrologer whose passion is to see other people understand themselves the best, their path and their potential based on their birth chart. She has a particular interest in career astrology, and how understanding your birth chart can help you feel aligned within your career.
If you are interested in booking a personal reading with her you can visit her Etsy shop: https://catsastrology.etsy.com
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We are back with the career change series! This week I’m bringing you the behind-the-scenes of my client Nina’s career change journey.
While Nina’s story is very unique in the way that it unfolded and how she found her aligned career, many of her fears, and inner conflict that she experienced along the way are very common amongst career changers.
We will discuss:
- what it felt like working in real estate and how despite the potential in the industry - showing up for it felt very challenging
- a personal traumatic experience that turned out to be a catalyst for change in both - Nina's personal and professional life
- a new perspective on grief and how to transmute and reimagine it
- the moments of peace, lightness and expansion she gets to feel now that she started walking an aligned career path...
and so much more.
Nina has a lot of wisdom to share and my hope is that you will enjoy and appreciate her grounding & healing energy and get inspired for your own career transition!
ABOUT NINANadjalisse “Nina” Rodriguez is founder and host of the Grief and Light Podcast, which she created following the unexpected loss of her brother Yosef in 2019.
She has since forged a path to address the silence surrounding sudden loss and the reality of life as a griever.
The Grief and Light Podcast has evolved into a powerful platform highlighting stories of loss, grief and life thereafter, as well as amplifying the voices of those making meaningful impacts within their communities.
Beyond the airwaves, Nina extends her support by offering monthly virtual grief support meetups, one-on-one grief support sessions, illuminating the path forward for those facing one of life's most challenging moments.
- Website: www.griefandlight.com
- IG: @griefandlight
- Email: nina@griefandlight.com
- 1:1 Grief Support (12 weeks): https://www.griefandlight.com/heart-to-heart
- Book a Discovery Call: https://calendly.com/griefandlight/heart-to-heart-discovery-call
- Other ways to work with me: https://www.griefandlight.com/workwithme
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- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2FI3TSz9wPBYu8Eymdegaj?si=738e6ba3d7514922
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grief-and-light-podcast/id1680003901
- Other Platforms: https://griefandlight.buzzsprout.com/share
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**This week we are analysing the anatomy of giving up.
In the episode, we will be discussing:**
- Our tendency to give up too quickly on our dreams and career pursuits and how many of us have become complacent and, at times, even entitled to manifestations.
- How our need for instant gratification affects long-term change efforts.
- The unpleasant, challenging feelings we will inevitably experience as we explore the edges of our possibility and how to coexist with those feelings versus allowing them to take over.
- The evolution of the human brain and what time inconsistency has to do with it.
- How aligning our frequency with desires is just one side of the equation - the other being inspired action.
- The importance of self-awareness, curiosity, and taking ownership of your actions and outcomes.
This episode is a little more fiery than usual because my goal is to ALWAYS remind you of the untapped potential inside of you.
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I'm very excited to share another career change story with my client Julia.
We will discuss:
-about her years as a registered nurse and what her every day felt like
-how she made a decision to pivot which coincided with her moving to Europe
-how she broke into the film industry - without speaking the language - and what steps she took which eventually led her to a paying job she has now
-how she was learning to not just think but also FEEL out what alignment felt like in her body and how to discern what’s hers and what’s not
-what she learnt during her career change journey and what’s her advice to those of you still on this journey
It's such a unique beautiful story. Enjoy!
JULIAFollow Julia's journey and work on her Instagram account @juliascreative_
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In this episode, I’m inviting you to listen to a very unique and, in many ways, unexpected career unfolding. My client Niamh is a musician and, as we jokingly called her, a career ‘returner’. After many twists and turns, using the holistic process, she found her way back to her first love - music.
We will discuss:
-How Niamh’s identity as a musician was initially built upon external validation and how it eventually lead to creative, emotional, and physical burn-out.
-About the disconnect between dreaming big and taking action. Niamh shares how she needed to learn to build a bridge toward her vision by taking the small daily steps.
-We talk about her transformed relationship with energy and how she’d feel tired all the time until she learnt how to work with her mind and how she developed a life-changing skill of questioning the thoughts she used to take for granted.
-We also speak about resistance - and how she realized how sometimes she mistook basic resistance towards something new as her intuition not to pursue things.
-We discuss breaking the rules and giving ourselves permission to create new landscapes. For Niamh, it was about recreating the musical landscape - which was in her words one of the most liberating experiences.
As per usual, please listen till the end as Niamh has THE BEST advice for those of you seeking to change OR, perhaps similarly to her, return to an old career flame.
This is such a value-packed and inspirational conversation, hope you enjoy it!
ABOUT NIAMH:
Niamh is an Irish musician, nature lover and sewing enthusiast, in pursuit of a creative life and career.
After several years of following an exciting but struggle-filled classical music path, she took time out to gain some wisdom and perspective from the rest of the world, and to get acquainted with her self, before reentering a musical career from a place of creativity and joy.
She also has a small business which combines her love of books and sewing; you can find it on Instagram and Etsy @NeevesBookSleeves.
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What does masculine and feminine energies have to do with career change?
Turns out a lot - if we don't know the difference between how masculine and feminine energies manifest as we go through career transitions, we may end up stuck in inaction and confusion or we'll be choosing misaligned careers and getting discouraged.
Tune in to learn more!
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This week I'm bringing you another transformational career change story. My client Michelle has come on a podcast to share her switch from the wine industry to marriage and family therapy.In many ways, her story is almost a textbook case of a career change process. She went through all the stages and phases I speak about on this podcast, she overcame massive resistance and changed some old sabotaging patterns that kept her stuck, unfulfilled, and completely terrified of choosing a new career path.
In our conversation, we also chat about just how much Michelle was paralysed to make any decision and was convinced she couldn't make a “wrong” decision at this stage of her life (sounds familiar?).
We also discuss toxic relationships with work and we go into detail about those pivotal moments of Michelle's change process that completely changed the trajectory of her future.
Make sure you listen till the end to hear what happened when she made a decision to commit to this new line of work. It’s so illuminating and Michelle does a wonderful job illustrating the inner blocks and protective mechanisms that kick in when we try to pivot.
Enjoy!
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This week we are exploring the emerging phenomenon of portfolio careers.Portfolio career is a fancy term for the type of careers that consist of multiple streams of income, jobs, or businesses when compared to a traditional single career path. This allows individuals to combine skills, experiences, and interests to create a diverse portfolio of pursuits that provide both financial stability and personal fulfillment.
I personally believe portfolio careers are THE careers of the future and I share a story of my client Simone who has crafted an aligned portfolio of careers for herself.
Have you ever thought about building a portfolio career? What streams of income, jobs, or businesses would you like to combine? You may share and engage on Instagram.
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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.
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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 pivot. This is such an inspiring story of transformation that I know is going to serve so many of you.
ABOUT NIKITA
After a 180 shift, Nikita is pursuing her lifelong dream of becoming an interior designer. Just a few short months ago, however, her life looked very different. She was a dentist and burned-out owner of a dental clinic, fully living out of alignment. Her journey back to herself wasn’t easy, but it was with aligned action, intention, acceptance, and belief that she began owning her own life and waking up to her own power. Since saying yes to herself, she’s seen major shifts in her self-esteem, purpose, relationships, and marriage. Her journey wasn’t straightforward, but it has been incredibly rewarding.
Instagram: @nikitainteriors
*ABOUT VILMAVilma is a career change coach who supports women in finding & transitioning into their purpose-led careers.
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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 shares how she found her calling, what it feels like now, what challenges she faced along the way, and the advice she’d like to gift those of you who are at the beginning of your unfolding.
This episode is a MUST-LISTEN for everyone feeling confused and isolated on their way to finding your WHY.
ABOUT NICOLENicole is an elemental lightworker, photographer, nature worshiper, and mother energy to many including her grown boys. She is currently learning the Watsu modality and moving towards exiting the corporate world to be of direct service in the healing journey of others. A lifelong resident of the PNW, she is often forest bathing or standing in a stream. She is working on her first oracle deck featuring her photography and looks forward to where the water guides her next.
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*ABOUT VILMAVilma is a career change coach who supports women in finding & transitioning into their purpose-led careers.
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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:
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List all the facts (neutral circumstances) & the drama (your thoughts about circumstances) around this decision. List these separately.
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What am I afraid will happen if I say YES to this decision & commit to it? What are the consequences I'm afraid of? What will be the consequences of NOT making this decision? What will be the cost and risk of not committing to this?
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Feel the feelings that arise when you think about saying yes and saying no to this decision. What comes up when you feel the associated feelings in each scenario?
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Go to the worst-case scenario intentionally. What does my worst-case scenario look like? Get as specific as possible and then ask yourself how you would problem solve for each of those scenarios. Write out all the solutions & create backup plans for your backup plans.
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What would I do if I believed I can't make a wrong decision? How is me committing to this decision the BEST decision for my future?
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Before making a decision, ask yourself - am I regulated? Is my nervous system activated? Have I filled my inner resources (water, food, rest)? Am I calm and grounded?
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Tune into the wisdom of your body - what is the visceral response when you think about saying yes to this decision vs saying no to it?
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If you feel stuck between two hard decisions - ask yourself what is the third option here. What is a win-win scenario that I may be overlooking?
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Additional prompts:
-Would I make this decision if the results I'm after were guaranteed? Where am I not believing results are guaranteed? Who do I think is responsible for creating results?
-What is the opportunity cost of this decision? If I’m saying no to this opportunity, what am I saying yes to and vice versa?
-What emotion am I trying to avoid by saying yes/no?
-What would my future self say about this decision in 10/20 years and why? What would he/she do?
-What decision will move me closer to who I want to be in this world?
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Not sure if you're ready to change careers yet? I have a super fun short quiz to help you clarify:Career change quiz
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 & why approaching it holistically matters
-the blindspots we sometimes have around our skills which then makes it difficult to land a truly aligned career
-the often unconscious division between ‘work’ & ‘play’ & how our fulfillment often lies in spaces where we allow ourselves to merge the two.
…and so much more.
You’re in for a treat. Enjoy!
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Not sure if you're ready to change careers yet? I have a super fun short quiz to help you clarify: Career change quiz
This speak we speak about the uncomfortable, confusing in-between space of career change - the liminal space.
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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 me to this career path?
-How am I already unofficially/low-key doing this or performing the tasks this career/business would entail?
-What do people often compliment me on that I downplay or take for granted?
-How do I feel when I think of making this career into a full-time pursuit?
-How is this career essentially getting paid for being myself?
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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 bestowed upon us.
When our relationships or processes don’t meet the rules outlined in these mysterious elusive manuals, we get upset, frustrated but, mostly, we think something has gone wrong and we need to abandon ship.
That is not the case in career change journey and in this episode I explain exactly WHY and how to drop your manuals and drop into self-trust.
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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 determination & willingness to put herself out there she landed herself her first nutritionist role within months of deciding to go for this career and SO much more.
We will also touch upon topics that I believe dont often get enough air time - which is feeling the grief of past lives and parts of our identity we leave behind when we decide to seek for a purpose-led career. Honestly, a must-listen for every career changer - so many beautiful insights that Ashley so openly is sharing in this episode, including what Ariel & Ursula from the Little Mermaid have to do with it.
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About Ashley
Ashley is a Holistic Nutritionist and Fitness Instructor Specialist (FIS) with over a decade of experience helping people reach their health goals.
While teaching advanced fitness classes for years, she realized that many class participants were looking to lose weight, have more energy, and improve strength. Fitness was providing them with some benefits but they weren't quite seeing the results they were looking for. She knew that nutrition was the missing piece for them, so she decided to take her wellness expertise to the next level and sought out a formal education to learn from the leading nutrition experts.
Her passion is to merge fitness and nutrition to help people in the areas of increased energy, better digestion, and weight loss. She works with her fiance Hugo Moniz, Personal Trainer and Certified Life Coach, through their wellness business Feel the Difference with a focus on what they call the trifecta of wellness: Mindest, Fitness, and Nutrition.
Ashley works to understand your unique nutritional fingerprint - what's working for you and what's not. Using a combination of advanced assessment tools to understand your body, Ashley creates a customized easy-to-follow nutrition protocol (like no other!) tailored to get to the root cause of your problems and treat the sources, not the symptoms.
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https://www.feelthedifference.ca
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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.
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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 authentic self and eliminate the inauthentic parts - the old beliefs, concepts, wounds, fears & all that is in a way of achieving self-actualisation.
There are 7 stages in spiritual alchemy that I’ve also come to identify within any career shift journey. I share these with you in this episode.
Schedule a consultation call to take this work further:https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/45min *
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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 - Shanice shares many nuggets that many career changers will benefit from and make sure you listen to it till the end especially if you are on your career change journey - she shares such heart-felt advice at the end of the episode, you won’t want to miss it.
About Shanice:Instagram: @shanices_worldd
Shanice is a creator of a Holistic weight loss program that helps women transform limiting beliefs into empowering ones to support them in creating real sustainable weight loss & lifestyle changes.
Schedule a consultation call to take this work further:https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min *
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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 telling a new story.
Schedule a consultation call to take this work further:https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min *
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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 attitude leads to massive overwhelm. And overwhelm does NOT lead to action. It leads to procrastination, avoidance, distraction, which then perpetuates that state of stuckness and helplessness even more. That is NOT the space from which you want to be making long-term decisions regarding your future.
In this episode I invite you to view your career design process in the way you'd plan to build a house from the ground up - by starting with solid foundations.
Schedule a consultation call to take this work further:https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min *
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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 *
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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 our intricate system is sending.
Listen to the episode to learn more about these symptoms and how they may be related to embodying your purpose.
Schedule a consultation call to take this work further:https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
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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 *
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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 *
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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 creating your reality - but how does it ACTUALLY happen and is it even true?
Make sure you listen to the full episode and also do the little love work assignment I'm sharing with you at the end of the episode. Understanding and applying the concepts I share with you here can literally shift the direction of your life.
Schedule your first call to take this work further:https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min *
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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 feel better about yourself, inspire hope and induce energy - why won't you choose the latter?
Tune into the episode to learn exactly how to do that.
Schedule your first call to take this work further:https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min *
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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 for you to work out before you even inform anyone (even your closest colleagues!) about your leaving.
While in this podcast I do not usually talk about the strategies - I'm a believer that the tangibles of career change are just one-tenth of all the work a full-blown career change will entail - I'm not oblivious to the fact that we need to have a basic understanding of how to make the most out of your resignation.
That is exactly what this episode is about - how to quit your job like a boss.
Schedule your first call to take this work further:https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min *
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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, but it doesn't have to.
There are ways in which a career switch can be orchestrated that does not only entail a pay cut AND may even involve a significant growth in income. Listen to the episode to learn how.
Schedule your first call to take this work further:https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min *
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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, learn how to read. The same son who was initially branded by his teacher as one of the worst students she’s seen in years - low IQ and incapable to read. The very same son who later went on and got his Ph.D. from Oxford University.
A mother who didn’t give up now has laid the foundations and inspired hope in thousands (perhaps even millions in the future) of mothers and kids with a neurodiverse brain with reading difficulties.
Tune in to hear this awe-inspiring story and collect your pearls of wisdom.
Connect with Lois and explore her resources:
https://www.loisletchford.com/
Book:
Reversed: A Memoir" by Lois Letchford (Official Book Trailer) - YouTube
Reversed: A Memoir: Lois E Letchford: 9781947392052: Amazon.com: Books
Article “The Reading Teacher”
https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trtr.2038
Social media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/loisletchford/
https://twitter.com/LetchfordLois
https://www.instagram.com/loisletchford/
Schedule your first call to take this work further: https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min *
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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 without even having started.
Can you relate? If your answer is YES, then I invite you to listen to this episode where I explain what evolution and your perceived laziness has in common.
I explain what resistance is, how it works and what's the purpose of it.
I also share a simple 3-step process to start engaging and eventually overcoming your inner resistance to unlock the door to possibility.
**Schedule your first call to take this work further:
https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
Instagram:
@vilma.usaite**
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 taking the first steps towards a career and life that brings you meaning.
You may go to my website www.vilmausaite.com/podcast to get your worksheet accompanying the episode or, alternatively, you may download your Life wheel here.
Schedule your first call:
**https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
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This week's episode is a little different - I’m sharing a recorded interview on a holistic approach to a career change.
While in my mind taking a holistic approach is an obvious golden thread weaved into everything that I do, this interview made me realize that, unfortunately, it's still not a necessarily common approach to switching careers.
So, in this interview, I share a very high-level explanation as to how I arrived at this holistic approach. I also walk through a bird's eye view process on how to uncover your career and life of alignment.
Hope you enjoy it!
I was interviewed by Lixandra Urresta who's a host of Career Switch Podcast:Website: careerswitchpod.com
Instagram: @careerswitchpod
If you'd like to take this work further, schedule your first consultation call:
**https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
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@vilma.usaite
In this week's episode I invite you to meet the most wise, authentic, self-sufficient and calm person you will EVER get to meet - your future self.
I share my absolutely favourite luxurious technique that I myself use daily without fail.
If you explore and really embrace this technique - you will gain a new best friend, therapist, coach, partner in crime - all in one.
Listen to the episode to learn more and to go through the meditation I have recorded especially for you.
If you'd like to take this work further - schedule your first call:
**https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
Instagram:
@vilma.usaite
In this week's episode I invite you to expand your vision and evaluate your life beyond a career switch.
We are prone to think that when we change roles and industries, that's where the transformation stops - but really embracing a career of meaning will inevitably affect your lifestyle choices as well.
In this episode we will be dreaming AUTHENTIC - that is crafting what a perfect, most luxurious, self-loving and nourishing lifestyle may look like for you so you could enjoy a career and life of fulfilment and harmony.
You may go to my website www.vilmausaite.com/podcast to get your worksheet accompanying the episode or, alternatively, you may download your Perfect Day Exercise worksheet here.
Schedule your call:
**https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
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@vilma.usaite
**This week we are diving into communication strategies.
How do you communicate your career change to others when you don't feel confident about this process yourself?
How do you have your own back and yet answer to the questions in a respectful matter?**
Your answers in the episode!
Schedule your call:
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This week I have only two questions for you:
Are you leading a double life?
How will you let your blue bird sing its song?
Schedule your consultation:
https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60mim
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In this Career-Changer Series interview, I had the honour of chatting with Jennifer Baker - a translator who has recently fully stepped into her authenticity and embraced her calling to paint.In this episode, Jennifer shares her magical journey of how her life has turned around in less than 12 months of her saying YES to opportunities coming her way.
You will learn:-how Jennifer found herself in a career in translation and how she stayed in it for years convincing herself she was fortunate to have a job that enables her travel lifestyle
-the message her grad school painting professor shared with her that inadvertently left her discouraged to pursue a career as a full-time painter
-how COVID pandemic has stripped her of translation work, yet at the same time, offered her once in a lifetime opportunities
-the mindset Jennifer decided to commit to as she started to share her paintings with the world
-how a starving artist image is a myth that aspiring artists should not fall prey to
-about the relationship between self-promotion and artistry
And so MANY more heartfelt sharings to inspire you to say YES to your own calling.
To find out more about Jennifer and her paintings please visit www.jenniferbakerart.com
Instagram: @jenniferbakerpaintings
In this week's episode we look at one of my favourite topics - multipotentiality.
Say WHAT?
You will learn:
-Why I skipped publishing last week's episode
-What to do when you have multiple passions & interests and you are not sure which one to commit to
-What multipotentiality is and why it's your superpower
-What is a portfolio career and how you could design yours
-Why Richard Branson is one of the most successful multipotentialites on the planet
Schedule your your consultation:
**https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
Instagram:
@vilma.usaite
In this week's episode, I'm inviting you for a test drive.
You will learn:
-Why you should never hold your dream career choice against yourself (and what paper tower sniffers got to do with it)
-How to look after your transition process as if it was a fragile flower
-What is test driving your new path and why you should do it
-How to just do it
Schedule your first complimentary consultation:
https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
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@vilma.usaite
This week we are diving into the nervous system and why so often you may feel resistant in carrying out even the smallest of career change-related tasks.
In the episode you will learn:-Why changing career may be perceived as a major threat to your system
-What are the four main stress responses
-How to solve for those periods when you feel stalling
-A short mantra to help you feel safer and ground yourself
-Why the time is now to finally embrace your gifts
**Schedule your first complimentary consultation:
https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
Instagram:
@vilma.usaite**
In this week's The Holistic Career Change Podcast episode I'm introducing an internal ecosystem that I'd like to invite you to foster to ensure that your transition is smooth and your performance in the new career is effective.
In the episode you will learn:-The role I'd like to offer you to take on to get back on the driver's seat of your life and career
-What schizophrenia has to do with career change
-How most of us have been indoctrinated to perform in employee mentality
-What is the internal ecosystem
-How to foster three aspects of your internal ecosystem
**Schedule your first complimentary consultation:
https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
Instagram:
@vilma.usaite**
In the second Career-Changer Series interview, I chat with Hilde Vartdal Solum - a banker-turned teacher.
You will learn:
-How Hilde had told herself she would never go into teaching
-How she lived and traveled in different countries around the world just to find that her destiny was much closer to home than she had anticipated
-How observing her older colleagues at the bank made her realise that she would never want to find herself in that position
-About that one magic moment which let Hilde know that teaching was her path
-All the inside information about what it’s really like being a teacher
And so so much more. Don't forget to connect on Instagram and share what were your favourite take aways from the episode.
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This week’s episode can change the course of your life - if you let it.
The first message I have for you is that you are a liar. When you say that you ‘don’t know what’s next for me’, when you say that ‘you don’t know what your vision for the future is, what a meaningful career path would look like for you’ - you are lying to yourself and hiding from your own light.
You know the answers, you simply have never practised getting quiet enough to hear them.
So in this episode, I have lovingly selected and recorded 30 rapid-fire questions to help you uncover your truth.
No vanilla, acceptable, people-pleasing answers. Your soul’s truth only.
You’ll find all the instructions and questions inside the episode. I’m not attaching any worksheets here - the point of this exercise is to not give yourself a lot of time and capture your very first initial responses.
Sending lots of love your way. You’ve got this.
As per usual - I would love to receive your insights and key takeaways from this episode. Send me a message or tag me on your Instagram @vilma.usaite
This week in a rather emotional recording I share with you the TRUTHS that I wish someone had relayed back to me, when I was going though my identity & career transformation process.
I hope this foregoes your analysing mind and goes straight into your heart.
If you'd like to learn more about me and my services, please visit:
www.vilmausaite.com
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@vilma.usaite
This week's episode is tackling the big monstrous obstacle that a lot of career changers are faced with (or at least they use against themselves to not pursue their change).
If only I got a euro every time I heard ‘I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME & ENERGY’ to even think about a career change, let alone set aside time to work on it.
In the episode I will share:
-What's the easiest yet counterintuitive way to create energy and time to work on your dream
-Why our brain is an asshole
-How time often has little to do with quantity of time available for us
If you'd like to learn more about me and my services, please visit:
www.vilmausaite.com
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@vilma.usaite
This week the episode is dedicated to the big P word - PURPOSE and I could not have asked for a better guest than a master channel & energy alchemist Ashley Dufresne to talk to about purpose and meaning with.
We chat about Ashley’s journey to actualizing her Purpose and how a life of meaning and fulfillment is our birthright.
In the interview you’ll learn:
-what Purpose is
-how you can find your Purpose by getting out of the cerebral way of being and embracing soulful work
-the common pitfalls and how to solve for them when you are seeking for your Purpose
-an amazing practice on how to get back in touch with your body
Ashley will also share what channeling is, how all of us have an ability to channel and how to get attuned to start receiving information from the other planes.
Above all, there’s lots of laughter and validation for everyone seeking for more meaning and trying to realign their life and career paths.
Connect with Ashley:
Instagram: @ashley.dufresne
Website: https://ashleydufresne.com
Connect with me:
Instagram: @vilma.usaite
Website: https://vilmausaite.com
In this week's episode we speak about the elusive feeling of shame that quite a few career changers feel when considering a career transition.
Shame is an ingrained response that may deem us unworthy of a career of alignment, therefore, it will benefit you to learn how to recognise when it's holding you back from fully committing to your next career move.
If you'd like to learn more about me and my services, please visit:
www.vilmausaite.com
Instagram:
@vilma.usaite
In this episode I cover the 3 main stages of career change and what each of them entail.
I also share what to expect in each of them and how to problem-solve depending on which stage you find yourself at.
I will be opening a few 1:1 coaching slots in the second week of March, if you'd like the opportunity to work with me, please click here to apply: https://www.vilmausaite.com/apply
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In the first Career-Changer Series interview, I chat to Stacy Mikulik - a lawyer turned jewelry business owner.In this episode Stacy takes us on a journey and shares the details of her career transition journey - the good, the bad, the serendipitous and so much more that lead her to now owning a successful jewelry business grace+hudson.
In this episode you will learn:-about the one pivotal moment that woke Stacy up and made her realise that life is temporary and she has no excuses to NOT pursue her dreams
-how Stacy’s trip to the Virgin Islands completely changed the course of her life
-how her health issues near enough disappeared in a matter of weeks after she made her career transition
-about the pleasant by-products of a career change
-how working on the mindset is much more important than working on the website
-that abundance is an internal game and how Stacy learnt it first hand by growing her business exponentially during a global pandemic
-about the new paradigm of running a business by embracing the feminine flow and pursuing an individual version of success
AND SO MANY more golden nuggets for all the present and future career changers!
To find out more about Stacy and her beautiful jewelry visit https://graceandhudson.com
Instagram: @graceandhudson
Shop: 87 Wentworth Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401
I will be opening a few 1:1 coaching slots in March, if you'd like the opportunity to work with me, please click here to apply: https://www.vilmausaite.com/apply
Instagram: @vilma.usaite
This is where all the work we've done up until now comes together and we get to CONNECT THE DOTS.
One of my favourite episodes so far as from this point forward you may start seeing tangible results of the analytic self-inquiry work you've done in the previous episodes.
In this week's episode I will cover:
-My favourite way to banish procrastination
-A fun story of an English guy who found his fulfilling work by cycling around Europe without a plan
-How to match your list of criteria against a potential career path
-How not to use your past against yourself
-How to continue your exploration process which inevitably will lead you to the ideal career opportunity for you
-What your new superpower is and how to use it
I will be opening a few 1:1 coaching slots in March, if you'd like the opportunity to work with me, please click here to apply: https://www.vilmausaite.com/apply
Instagram:
@vilma.usaite
This week we look into the last puzzle piece of self-audit - your passions or your core zone of genius.
I purposefully left passions and determining your flow as the last piece you need to uncover in order to get super clear on a career that would bring you the most amount of fulfilment and purpose.
That is because I think your passions are absolutely important and can lead you to fulfilling work but ONLY when they are looked at in alignment with your unique strengths and core values.
In this week's episode I will cover:
-The sacred reason as to why you have so many seemingly different parts within you
-What role they play in you finding a career of alignment
-Why we should pay attention to that which we naturally gravitate towards and what we are passionate about and how not use it against ourselves
-How to find your authentic passion aka your zone of genius
You have a worksheet available for you to follow the Core of Genius exercise I share with you in the episode.
Grab your copy by visiting my website and clicking on Episode 7 notes:
https://www.vilmausaite.com/podcast
I will be opening a few 1:1 coaching slots shortly, if you'd like the opportunity to work with me, please click here to apply: https://www.vilmausaite.com/apply
Instagram:
@vilma.usaite
This week's episode is all about core values.
The reason why so many career switchers end up having career change ADHD is because they DON'T SPEND ENOUGH TIME GETTING SUPER CLEAR ON THEIR VALUES.
Your core values is that secret ingredient that will ensure the longevity and high level fulfilment in your next career.
Tune in to learn more about:
-What is Career Change ADHD
-Why nothing has gone wrong in your career change process
-What core values are
-How to identify your core values
As a bonus I have prepared a worksheet for you to help you identify your CORE values.
Grab your copy by visiting my website and clicking on Episode 6 notes:
https://www.vilmausaite.com/podcast
I will be opening a few 1:1 coaching slots soon, if you'd like the opportunity to work with me, please click here to apply: https://www.vilmausaite.com/apply
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Going from career confusion to career clarity can be a lengthy and convoluted journey.
It is, however, much less confusing, when you can follow a clear process that helps you navigate your change adventure.
In this episode, I share with you the very first step to take when you are not sure where to start - unravel your UNIQUE strengths.
I feel like there's a lot of confusion out there between strengths and skills which results in seekers continuously choosing the wrong career path.
In the episode I share the difference between the two and give you a step-by-step guide on how to identify your unique strengths by looking for SIGNs:
- Success — When you do the activity, you feel effective and in control.
- Instinct — Before you do the activity, you look forward to doing it.
- Growth — While you are doing the activity, you feel inquisitive, focused, and called to grow.
- Needs — Our strengths create needs in us. When our strengths are utilized, we feel fulfilled and ENERGIZED.
Tune in for the detailed instructions.
If you'd like to schedule a consultation call to discuss how I could support your career change, please click here to apply: https://www.vilmausaite.com/apply
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Did you ever allow yourself to consider that career change could be a fun process?
I'm personally a huge advocate of introducing fun and flow in virtually any topic or area of life.
I believe that changing career and taking the time to inspect yourself and the options available for your future should be a FUN and empowering game.
What it also should be is strategic.
I am suggesting you to play and test out potential career paths on purpose and with a clear direction.
How do you find direction?
Firstly, by taking complete ownership of your current circumstances, and, secondly, by being willing to go through an unveiling process of self-auditing.
I cover all of the above in my latest podcast episode on strategic career change fun.
P.S. While recording I also unexpectedly pivoted into talking about emotional adulthood and how often we feel entitled to demand for things to change in our lives without owning the circumstances we had created up until now 🤷🏻♀️ #sorrynotsorry
If you'd like to schedule a consultation call to discuss how I could support your career change, please click here to apply:
https://www.vilmausaite.com/apply
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'I don't even know where to start' is a very common remark I receive when I ask future career changers as to why they had not started their career transition on their own.
Even having followed popular career advice and having completed all kinds of psychometric tests, they are often still lacking in direction and understanding what career choice would bring them the most meaning.
In this episode I address the very first step I advise career changers to take when seeking for fulfilling work.
Resources mentioned in the episode:
-'Blue Ocean Strategy' book by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
If you'd like to schedule a consultation call to discuss how I could support your career change, please click on the link below:
https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
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In the second episode I am addressing a recent yet very prevalent misconception that 2021 is NOT the right time to make any career moves.
I share why the exact opposite is true and how the current global landscape could not have prepared a more fertile ground for planning out and executing your transition.
I also let you in on why that may not feel like true to you by explaining how our brain processes and recycles the decision making process.
If you've been on the fence whether 2021 is the right time - this one is for you.
If you'd like to receive a personalised consultation on your next career move, schedule a call here:
https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/60min
Instagram: @vilma.usaite
I wanted to start off the Holistic Career Change Podcast on a sobering note by cutting through all of the repetitive career change advice you are probably sick and tired of hearing and introducing you to what I coined as the 'shadow side' of career change.
Having gone through my own career change journey and having supported many of my clients, I found that there are three intangible factors that need to be addressed for a career change to be successful.
Tune in to learn what these are.
Instagram: @vilma.usaite
Full show notes and more information here:
https://www.vilmausaite.com/the-career-change-podcast