Second Act Success Career Podcast: Career Change Advice, Job Search Strategies, and Personal Development Tips

About Second Act Success Career Podcast: Career Change Advice, Job Search Strategies, and Personal Development Tips

Welcome to the Second Act Success Podcast, a top 2% globally ranked podcast for women ready to make a career change, quit their job, start a business, and become their own boss. Hosted by Shannon Russell, business coach for women, author, and entrepreneur, Second Act Success helps women transition from employee to entrepreneur and build a business using the skills, experience, and ideas they already have. If you're wondering how to start a business, considering a career change after 40, growing a side hustle, or planning your exit from corporate, you'll find practical business advice, inspiring stories, and actionable strategies to help you build your next chapter. Listen and learn how to: • Quit your job and start a business • Navigate a career change or midlife career transition • Find and validate the right business idea • Turn your skills and experience into a profitable business • Create a business plan and find your ideal clients • Build your personal brand and market your business • Turn a side hustle into a full-time business • Transition from employee to entrepreneur • Become your own boss without starting over from scratch You'll also hear real-life success stories from female entrepreneurs and women who have changed careers, left corporate jobs, started businesses, and created more flexibility, freedom, and fulfillment in their lives. Is this podcast for you? Are you dreaming about quitting your job to start your own business? Do you have a business idea but aren't sure where to begin? Are you wondering how to use your corporate experience to become an entrepreneur? Do you want more flexibility for your family and the things that matter most to you? Are you ready to turn your side hustle into a business or finally become your own boss? If you're ready to stop wondering "what if?" and start building your second act, you're in the right place. 🎧 Listen to new episodes every week for career change strategies, entrepreneurship advice, business tips for women, and inspiration to help you build your second act. 🔗 Book a free Second Act Strategy Call with Shannon Russell and find free resources at secondactsuccess.co. Subscribe to Second Act Success and start building the career, business, and life you want next.

Publisher

Shannon Russell | Career Change & Business Coach for Women

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Mar 2022

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

140 of 280 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   How to Create a Business Plan & Set Goals (90-Day Business Sprint Day 1) | #273

   Business coach and author Shannon Russell guides listeners through creating a focused 90-day business plan and setting actionable goals for career advancement.

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   How to Get Clients for Your Business: 4 Ways I Find Clients Without Being Salesy | #272

   Business coach Shannon Russell shares four effective, non-salesy strategies for finding clients and growing your business.

3. 

   29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Career Burnout? How to Make a Midlife Career Change Without Starting Over | #271

   Shannon Russell interviews Marianne DeMello-Smith about navigating career burnout and making a midlife career change without starting over.

Inside a recent episode

Career Burnout? How to Make a Midlife Career Change Without Starting Over | #271

Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Like you said, those six months you reflected and not everyone does that. Sometimes, you know, you get that space and you're just rushing for that next thing and you're going, you're going. So what made you say, I'm going to stop and I'm going to talk to myself and figure out what's, you know, what I need for this next act? I am a very self-aware person. I always have been. I'm also a personal development junkie. I always have been and a lifelong learner. So for me, all those things added up to me knowing I just need to take a minute like this. I just left an unhealthy situation for me. Not saying it was for everybody. […]

Who has been a guest on Second Act Success Career Podcast: Career Change Advice, Job Search Strategies, and Personal Development Tips

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Marianne DeMello-Smith
• Becca Eve Young
• Jesikah Wells
• Allison Lane
• Sairan Aqrawi

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

21,524

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

68 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 91 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

99

Social presence

94

YouTube

76

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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