Control Your Career

About Control Your Career

Control Your Career is a career strategy podcast for professionals who want to make better career decisions, navigate workplace challenges, and take an active role in shaping what's next. Hosted by Julia Toothacre, career strategist and creator of the Control Your Career framework, the show explores career growth, workplace dynamics, leadership, career transitions, and the trends shaping today's world of work. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience in career development, Julia combines practical career strategy with a real-world perspective to help listeners navigate today's workplace and build careers they don't leave to chance. Topics include: → Career strategy and long-term career growth → Career advancement, promotions, and increasing your influence at work → Workplace relationships, office politics, organizational dynamics, and difficult managers → Leadership, executive presence, visibility, and sponsorship → Career change, career crossroads, and major career decisions → Aligning your career with your strengths, values, and goals → Hiring trends, AI, labor market updates, and the changing world of work Through a mix of solo episodes, expert interviews, and commentary on current workplace issues, you'll gain practical strategies to navigate your career with greater clarity, confidence, and control. Learn more at ridethetidecollective.com

Publisher

Julia Toothacre | Helping Professionals Grow and Advance Their Careers

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Nov 2019

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

178 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Oct 2026

   Resume Advice for Experienced Professionals: What's Changed and What Hasn't

   If you have not updated your resume in several years, the first step is not adding your latest position to the document you already have. Before changing anything, you need to know what the resume is supposed to help you do next. In this solo episode, Julia Toothacre explains what has changed about resumes and hiring, what has remained largely the same, and how experienced professionals should approach their resume differently depending on whether they want a lateral move, advancement, a career change, or a step back from leadership. Julia also addresses common questions about applicant tracking systems, resume length, how far back your experience should go, tailoring resumes, LinkedIn, accomplishments, and using AI without producing generic content. The central principle throughout the episode is that a resume is a marketing document. It should reflect where you are going, not preserve every detail of where you have been. What Julia Discusses Why your career goal should determine how you update your resume What has changed about ATS systems, online applications, LinkedIn, and AI Why accomplishments and results still matter more than lists of responsibilities How experienced professionals should decide how much career history to include When a two-page resume makes sense Why you do not need to rewrite your resume for every individual application How to use AI as a resume tool without allowing it to erase your professional story Control Your Career Resources Learn More About the Episode: www.ridethetidecollective.com/podcast/resume-advice-experienced-professionals Explore all episodes: https://ridethetidecollective.com/podcast/ Connect with Julia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliakrussell/ Visit the website: https://ridethetidecollective.com Get career resources: https://ridethetidecollective.com/free/

2. 

   20 Oct 2026

   Managing Work, Energy, and Career Growth With Autoimmune Disease

   Living with an autoimmune disease can affect far more than your health. Changes in energy, mobility, concentration, stress tolerance, or physical capacity can influence how you work, what support you need, whether advancement still makes sense, and how you think about your career over time. In this episode, Julia Toothacre speaks with Dr. Amy Behimer about what it looks like to manage your career when autoimmune disease is part of your reality. Amy is a board-certified health and wellness coach, pharmacist, healthcare leader, and founder of Amy Behimer Coaching. She also lives with multiple autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis, which was diagnosed when she was 27 and already several years into her career. Julia and Amy discuss the pressure many high achievers feel to keep pushing even when their health requires a different approach. They explore how autoimmune disease can affect capacity and career decisions, why growth does not always mean climbing higher on the organizational ladder, the personal considerations involved in disclosing an invisible illness at work, and what it can mean when your health changes the kind of work that realistically fits your life. What Julia and Amy Discuss How autoimmune disease can affect energy, mobility, cognition, stress, and work Why Amy's multiple sclerosis diagnosis changed her relationship with achievement and career success What happens when working harder is no longer a sustainable professional strategy Why career growth does not always require another promotion How employees and managers can think more realistically about workload, strengths, and capacity How to think about disclosure when an autoimmune disease or chronic illness is not visible What happens when changing health makes a job, career path, or professional identity harder to sustain About Dr. Amy Behimer Dr. Amy Behimer, PharmD, NBC-HWC, is a board-certified health and wellness coach, pharmacist, and founder of Amy Behimer Coaching. Living with multiple autoimmune diseases herself, Amy combines evidence-based science with practical behavior change strategies to help people with autoimmune disease feel better, function better, and stay consistent with habits that matter most. With nearly two decades of experience as a clinical pharmacist and healthcare leader, Amy has developed and led innovative clinical programs while building a coaching practice dedicated to sustainable health behavior change. She is passionate about translating complex health information into simple, practical habits that fit real life. Through her coaching programs, speaking, podcast, and writing, Amy helps people move beyond overwhelm, build confidence, and make sustainable improvements in their energy, health, and quality of life. Connect With Amy Website: https://amybehimercoaching.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amybehimercoaching Podcast: Autoimmune Health Secrets Free Health Quiz: Mentioned in the episode. Add direct link when available. Control Your Career Resources Read The Blog: www.ridethetidecollective.com/podcast/managing-career-with-autoimmune-disease Explore all episodes: https://ridethetidecollective.com/podcast/ Connect with Julia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliakrussell/ Visit the website: https://ridethetidecollective.com Get career resources: https://ridethetidecollective.com/free/

3. 

   13 Oct 2026

   The First 90 Days After a Layoff: A 4-Step Plan

   A layoff can create an immediate urge to update your résumé, start applying, contact everyone you know, and do anything that feels productive. The problem is that what makes sense during the first week may be very different from what you should be doing 30, 60, or 90 days later. In this solo episode, Julia Toothacre breaks the first 90 days after a layoff into four stages: assess your reality, build your search, evaluate the evidence, and adjust your strategy. The goal is not to create a 90-day deadline for finding another job. Instead, the framework provides checkpoints so you can respond to what you are learning rather than repeating the same job-search strategy for months without examining whether it is working. Julia covers the immediate financial and logistical considerations after a layoff, how to evaluate your career and the current market, when to update your materials and activate your network, how to diagnose where a search is getting stuck, and what to reconsider if the process extends beyond 90 days. What Julia Discusses What to handle during the first week after a layoff How finances, benefits, caregiving, location, emotional capacity, and risk affect your next steps How to decide whether you want another version of your previous job or something different Why current market conditions need to be part of your strategy How to communicate a layoff without sounding angry or self-deprecating How to define target roles, industries, compensation, location, priorities, and deal breakers Why a focused search usually provides better information than applying indiscriminately How to track applications, networking conversations, referrals, and responses What a lack of applications, recruiter screens, interviews, or offers may tell you Why the 30-, 60-, and 90-day marks should be checkpoints rather than deadlines When contract, consulting, freelance, temporary, part-time, or bridge work may deserve consideration The Four Stages Stage 1: Assess Your Reality Days 1 to 7 Address immediate logistics and understand your personal, career, and external realities before determining the search strategy. Stage 2: Build Your Search Days 8 to 30 Define what you are targeting, prepare your career materials, begin networking, start applying, and track what happens. Stage 3: Evaluate the Evidence Days 31 to 60 Look for patterns in applications, recruiter screens, interviews, networking conversations, and overall search volume. Stage 4: Adjust Your Strategy Days 61 to 90 Use what you have learned to make informed changes to target roles, positioning, compensation, geography, résumé strategy, networking, or other parts of the search. ep 176 solo Control Your Career Resources Read The Blog: https://ridethetidecollective.com/2026/10/13/first-90-days-after-a-layoff/ Explore all episodes: https://ridethetidecollective.com/podcast/ Connect with Julia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliakrussell/ Visit the website: https://ridethetidecollective.com Get career resources: https://ridethetidecollective.com/free/

Who has been a guest on Control Your Career

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• Francis "Tank" Rhodes
• Tank Rhodes
• Geoff Curtis
• Jamie Dye
• Danny Cohen

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YouTube views

48,527

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 70 / 100

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Quality

77

Social presence

94

YouTube

76

Engagement

32

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