About ReImagining Ambition: Career advice that reflects your new relationship with work and career
Struggling to manage your career or job search with so much uncertainty and crisis in the world? You're not alone.
Join Work Wonders Careers founder, career strategist, and resume writer Jenn Walker Wall for practical and easy-to-apply career advice and inspiration that will help you reduce overwhelm and stress, detach from hustle culture, and work and live in alignment with your values and goals.
Careers at the End of the World is for mission driven people who care a lot about the world around them - and want support and strategies that help them operationalize those priorities along the way.
Episode 65: Reset, Revive, and Rest: Using Mercury Retrograde for Your Professional Goals
Episode 65: Reset, Revive, and Rest: Using Mercury Retrograde for Your Professional Goals
Careers at the End of the World podcast host and founder of Work Wonders Careers Jenn Walker offers gentle reframes for Mercury retrograde as a practical slowdown for professionals and job seekers to revisit, revise, recalibrate, and rest their inputs - rather than trying to outwork or avoid slow downs.
She explains Mercury’s link to communication, commerce, labor, as well as career tools like resumes, cover letters, and tech workflows, and suggests using delays to assess sales/marketing processes, professional assets, and interview alignment.
Sharing her own experience of recovering from creative burnout during the last Mercury Retrograde, she describes taking several weeks off writing, seeking new inspiration, and changing her social feeds as part of a larger reset. Jenn critiques hustle culture and encourages opportunities to seek ease, including securing resources like side or contract work. She recommends basic audits and emphasizes a middle path between doing nothing and panic-applying, aiming for consistent, intentional action and periodic recovery.
00:48 Mercury Retrograde Reframe
05:41 Choosing Rest and Reset
09:55 Anti Hustle Job Search Mindset
12:51 Practical Retrograde Checklists
16:33 Find the Strategic Middle
13 Oct 2026
Episode 64: Practical Abundance Practices to Create Possibilities
Episode 64: Practical Abundance Practices to Create Possibilities
Host Jenn Walker Wall reflects on how career coaching has shifted beyond strategies and tactics as today’s difficult market, layoffs, and long job searches force people to grieve lost identities and reinvent themselves.
Jenn shares her own abundance practices that help to foster creativity, capacity, and possibility over despair including meditation, tarot and astrology, journaling, and budgeting, as well as practices like investing in local art and small businesses as well as practicing generosity and giving.
03:53 Why abundance practices matter
08:04 Abundance is not the same as money
10:42 Creative energy reset
11:54 Money mindset
13:42 Budgeting and boycotting
17:12 Spending and Giving Abundantly
24:31 Tarot and astrology as energetic anchors
27:19 Defining "enough"
29 Sept 2026
Episode 63: Tough Truths for a Tough Market: Managing Yourself and Your Career in a Competitive Market
Episode 63: Tough Truths for a Tough Market: Managing Yourself and Your Career in a Competitive Market
Jenn Walker Wall discusses the major challenges for job seekers and self-employed professionals in a difficult market.
From managing long gaps and short stints on resume, to bringing old expectations and norms into a new reality, and confronting the heavy use of AI, right now there is no shortage of challenges that are complicating the search and business growth process for many mission-driven professionals.
Listen in to this week's episode as she offers tactics, insights, and reality checks for navigating the ongoing tight market, minimizing challenges, and managing your time and energy in a process that often feels like it could last forever.
00:00 Welcome and Setup
02:46 Tough Market Reality Check
05:04 Long Unemployment Gaps
09:45 Expectations and Energy
12:50 How to Stand Out When Everyone is Using AI
19:16 Unemployment and Severance
20:58 Managing Time
Join us in Positioned for Possibility. We start October 13th (https://www.workwonderscareers.com/positioned-for-possibility-career-and-job-search-community).
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