About Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, & Career Design
You're not totally happy with your career (obviously!) You also know that there "has to be something out there that's better." That hope that you can find meaningful and fulfilling work, that also pays you well, has led you here!
This is the show that provides the inspiration, tools, and roadmaps to move from where you are to work that matters to you and uniquely fits your strengths and talents.
You Are Not Your Job Title: The Career Identity Trap That Makes Career Change Feel Impossible for High Achievers
What if the three words you use to introduce yourself at every networking event, every family gathering, every first conversation — "I am a" — are the very thing keeping you trapped in a career that no longer fits?
Karen spent 30 years building an impressive career in higher education. She was wildly successful by every external measure. And she was completely burning out in ways she could not name until life forced her to stop and rethink everything she thought she knew about what career success was supposed to look like.
What You'll Learn:
Why the most successful people often struggle the most with career change and what the identity trap looks like for high achievers who have built decades of momentum in one direction
The shift from asking "what job will express who I am" to "what does my life actually need right now" and why that question changes everything about the decision
How Karen went from dean of students to student development coach, what most people would call a step down, and why she describes her current life as the healthiest she has ever been
What life design actually means in practice and how the Ideal Career Profile helps you define what you need at your next role beyond what sounds impressive on paper
Why past success does not obligate you to future misery and how to honor what you have built while choosing something that fits who you are becoming
Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!
Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation
Free Resources
What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!
Career Change Guide (https://hubs.ly/Q03vzSPc0) - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.
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Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
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28 Sept 2026
How to Find High-Paying Remote Work Without Job Boards
The best remote roles, the ones with real compensation, real flexibility, and real ownership, were never posted on a job board. They are being filled right now through relationships and conversations that started long before any job description existed.
If you have been applying to remote jobs consistently and getting nowhere, the problem is not your resume or your experience or the market. It is the assumption that the remote job search works the same way every other job search does.
This episode is about what actually works instead.
What You'll Learn:
Why filtering job boards by remote and applying consistently is one of the least effective strategies for landing a high-quality remote role in 2026
How Rachel applied seriously for four months without a single offer and started getting traction within three weeks by changing one thing about her approach
What a target companies list is, how to build one without job boards, and why it changes who you are competing against entirely
Why leading with remote as your pitch is the mistake most candidates make and what to lead with instead to get organizations genuinely interested
How the best remote careers get filled before anything is ever posted and how to position yourself inside those conversations
Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!
Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation
Free Resources
What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!
Career Change Guide (https://hubs.ly/Q03vzSPc0) - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.
Related Episodes
Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
21 Sept 2026
The Messy Middle: What Career Change Actually Looks Like Before You Have the Answers
Holly Dixon spent 20 years in the legal field, never once argued a case, and walked away without a single job lined up. She is still happening to her career and figuring out what comes next.
Most career change episodes on this show share a complete story from start to finish. This one does not.
This episode is the messy middle — the experiments that did not work, the grief nobody warned her about, the identity crisis that came from letting go of 20 years of who she thought she was, and what she has learned about living in uncertainty on purpose while still moving forward.
What You'll Learn:
Why the experimenting is not the detour on the way to clarity and how every experiment Holly ran gave her specific, useful information she could not have gotten any other way
What happens to your identity when you walk away from a 20-year career and why grieving who you used to be is not a sign something is wrong
How Holly co-created a four-month exit plan with her boss instead of giving two weeks notice and why that approach set everyone up for success including herself
Why the survival instinct that tells you to just pick something and get back to work can be one of the biggest obstacles to actually finding what fits
What living in uncertainty on purpose looks like in practice and how it becomes a skill you can build rather than a personality trait you either have or you do not
Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!
Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation
Free Resources
What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!
Career Change Guide (https://hubs.ly/Q03vzSPc0) - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.
Related Episodes
Six Career Experiments To Help You Discover Your Ideal New Role (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It's Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
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