The Joy at Work podcast offers time-poor professionals in their 40s, 50s and 60s ideas on how to increase their joy at work.
Lucia Knight dives right to the heart of the value each guest offers so that you can make deliberate change to bring more enjoyment, satisfaction and fulfillment to your work. Beyond expert interviews, you'll get practical reflections following guest interviews, recommends on experiments to try this week and answers to call-in career questions from listeners.
How to Make Your Work Matter More (Without Changing Jobs)
You've built a successful career. You're good at what you do. But perhaps you're starting to wonder whether your work could make a bigger difference.
The good news? You don't necessarily need a new job, a grand plan, or a complete career reinvention to make your work more meaningful.
In this conversation, I'm joined by Hannah Keartland, who helps business leaders turn their desire for positive impact into practical action.
We explore how to:
Identify the issues that genuinely matter to you.
Connect your personal passions with your organisation's strategic priorities.
Stop pushing water uphill on initiatives that struggle to gain traction.
Start making a difference through small actions within your existing sphere of influence.
Hannah also shares how one question in a leadership meeting can open the door to a different conversation — and potentially influence much bigger decisions.
You don't have to change everything to start changing something.
Ready to make your own work more joyful?
Take the Boost Your Joy at Work Quiz (https://lucia-trqb5gnw.scoreapp.com/)
Discover your Joy Readiness Score, your easiest quick win, and your biggest blind spot so you can start moving towards work you might want to do forever.
Meet Hannah Keartland
Hannah helps purpose-led business leaders who are stuck on something impact-related get unstuck — whether that's clarifying priorities, writing an engaging impact report, or designing a business where commercial success and positive impact go hand in hand.
She brings more than 20 years of experience leading innovation and finance at director and board level.
For more ideas on creating positive business impact, (https://www.keartland.co/newsletter-sign-up)sign up for Hannah's Better Business Bites newsletter (https://www.keartland.co/newsletter-sign-up).
14 Oct 2026
The Design Is Not the House | Lester’s Story
After working with Lucia, Lester had clarity. He understood the key elements he needed in his working life, the problems he wanted to tackle, the Kryptonite to avoid and the Superpowers he wanted to use more.
But as Lester puts it: the design is not the house. You still have to build it.
For him, that has meant finding more ways to use his Superpowers, experimenting alongside other people, learning the difference between simply spending time and using it with focus, and taking small steps that create momentum.
And that momentum matters. Because one of Lester’s biggest discoveries is that progress sustains joy.
When Lucia asks what work feels like now, his answer is wonderfully tangible: he’s relaxed. His shoulders are down. He’s learning, using his Superpowers and smiling in a way that reaches his eyes.
Lester’s story is a reminder that career design isn’t about finding one perfect answer. It’s about getting clear on what you need from work — and then having a way to keep building towards it.
Want to discover what work designed around you could look like? Explore Lucia’s career design programmes and find the right next step for you:
https://www.midlifeunstuck.com/work-with-me (https://www.midlifeunstuck.com/work-with-me)
7 Oct 2026
When Life Changes How You Show Up at Work
We like to think we can keep our personal lives separate from our working lives. But when something big happens — divorce, grief, redundancy or another major life change — it can affect how we show up at work long before we fully recognise it ourselves.
Divorce and identity coach Jonathan Burston knows this firsthand. During his own divorce, compounded by the death of his mother, Jonathan believed he was still functioning at work. Looking back, he realised he was barely surviving — and carrying uncertainty, loss and fear into his meetings, decisions and relationships at work.
Jonathan joins Lucia Knight to explore what happens when the weight of what we’ve been through starts shaping how we work — and how a difficult chapter can become an opportunity to reset rather than something we continue carrying into the future.
You’ll hear:
Why major life events can affect our work even when we think we’re coping
How career and identity can become intertwined
The “invisible baggage” we can keep carrying long after something has happened
Why a reset isn’t about pretending the past didn’t happen or trying to become who you were before
The simple question Jonathan uses to shift attention toward what comes next
Why meaningful change rarely begins with one enormous decision
Not sure what needs to change in your own working life?
Take Lucia’s free Boost Your Joy at Work Quiz to discover your Joy Readiness Score, your easiest quick win and the biggest blind spot getting in the way of work you might want to do forever:
https://lucia-trqb5gnw.scoreapp.com/ (https://lucia-trqb5gnw.scoreapp.com/)
Going through divorce?
Jonathan’s free RESET Quiz is designed to help you identify where you are in your divorce journey and what you need most right now:
https://reset2breakthrough.com/ready/ (https://reset2breakthrough.com/ready/)
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