About Taking Control of Your Career with Sally Spicer
Taking Control of Your Career is a career coaching podcast for women who know they’re capable of more but feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to start.
Hosted by career coach Sally Spicer, this podcast is about cutting through the noise, calming the panic, and having the honest conversations most of us avoid. There’s no hype, no hustle, and no pressure to have it all figured out — just clear thinking, practical tools, and grounded support to help you stop second-guessing yourself and start making career decisions that actually feel right.
If you’re navigating career transition, questioning your next move, or ready to redefine success on your own terms, this podcast will help you move from uncertainty to confident, intentional action.
Career clarity. Confidence. Control.
Are You Practising the Life You Want… or the One You're Trying to Escape?
What if the life you're longing for isn't being blocked by a lack of time... What if it's being shaped by the habits you've spent years practising? This week's episode was inspired by a powerful coaching session that reminded me just how easy it is to become disconnected from our own lives without even noticing. What started as a conversation about career quickly became something much deeper. It became a conversation about presence. About productivity. About joy. And about how so many ambitio...
20 Jul 2026
Why Do We Shrink When We Talk About Money? 💰
Why is it that so many capable, ambitious women can negotiate million-pound budgets, lead teams and deliver incredible results… but the moment someone asks, 'What do you want to earn?"' everything changes? In this episode, I'm diving into one of my favourite subjects: money. After more than 20 years in recruitment, salary negotiations and career coaching, I've seen the same pattern play out time and time again. Women who know their value suddenly begin negotiating against themselves before an...
13 Jul 2026
You have not got a confidence issue and I'm here to tell you why!
You Have Not Got a Confidence Issue What if the thing you've been trying to fix... isn't actually the problem? So many women tell me they've "lost their confidence." They question their abilities, start considering roles below their capability, wonder if they've lost their edge, and quietly convince themselves they're no longer the person they used to be. But what if that's not true? In this episode, I'm sharing one of the most powerful coaching conversations I've had this year (shared anonym...
6 Jul 2026
The Hidden Cost of Waiting to Be Noticed in Your Career
What if working harder isn't the answer? So many ambitious women have built successful careers by keeping their heads down, delivering exceptional work and believing that, eventually, someone will notice. But what happens when they don't? In this episode, I explore one of the biggest patterns I see in my coaching work: waiting to be recognised instead of taking ownership of your career. Following one of my favourite Taking Control of Your Career webinars, I wanted to dive deeper into somethin...
29 May 2026
Staying Invisible Feels Safe… Until It Costs You Your Career
Have you ever been told: 'Just keep doing a good job and people will notice?' For many women, that's exactly what we've done. We've worked hard. Delivered results. Been reliable. Supported everyone around us. Taken on the extra work. Stayed professional. Stayed helpful. And yet, somewhere along the way, many of us realise we're still waiting to be recognised, promoted, listened to, or considered for the opportunities we really want. In this episode of Taking Control of Your Career, I'm explor...
22 May 2026
Why Successful Women Still Feel Stuck
Why Successful Women Still Feel Stuck The thing keeping so many women stuck is not failure. It’s success that came at a cost. In this episode, I unpack one of the most confusing experiences high-performing women face: building a life that looks successful on paper whilst quietly feeling disconnected, exhausted, flat or deeply unsure about what comes next. We explore: Why “stuck” is often not the real problem How years of conditioning can disconnect women from themselves ...
15 May 2026
Confidence returns, when clarity returns
What if the thing you’ve been calling a confidence problem… is actually a clarity problem? In this episode, I’m unpacking one of the biggest patterns I see in women navigating career change, burnout, redundancy, leadership transitions, and periods of feeling professionally “stuck.” So many women tell me: “I’ve lost confidence.” “I don’t know what’s wrong with me.” “I feel behind.” “I just can’t seem to move forward.” But after more than 20 years in ...
10 May 2026
Career visibility. We know it matters. So why does being seen still feel so uncomfortable?
In this episode, I explore the deeper emotional and systemic reasons so many women struggle with visibility at work - despite being highly capable, experienced, and ambitious. Because this isn’t really about confidence. It’s about conditioning. It’s about the stories many of us inherited around staying likable, staying agreeable, working hard quietly, and waiting to be noticed. I unpack: Why visibility is career-definingThe difference between visibility and self-promotionWhy so many women sel...
6 Feb 2026
Why I Fell Out of Love with International Women’s Day - and Why I’m Taking Back Control
International Women’s Day often leaves us inspired - but unchanged. In this episode, I share why I fell out of love with IWD, despite spending over 25 years working at the heart of recruitment, careers, and leadership. I talk honestly about what I’ve seen behind the scenes: the quiet ways women’s careers stall, the stories we absorb about capacity, confidence, and gratitude, and how well-intentioned initiatives often fail to shift real outcomes. This isn’t a conversation abo...
27 Jan 2026
🎙️ Rest, Conditioning, and Why Slowing Down Feels So Uncomfortable
In this episode of Taking Control of Your Career, I take you inside a real coaching session from earlier this week to explore something I see time and time again with high-achieving women: why rest feels uncomfortable, and why we return to lives that quietly drain us. The session came off the back of an enforced pause over Christmas - illness, cancelled plans, and a decision not to work. What emerged was a growing sense of restlessness and a realisation that even the simplest parts of life ha...
17 Jan 2026
The Story Behind the Work I Do
In this episode of Taking Control of Your Career, I share my own journey from high-achieving recruiter to career transition and identity coach and how owning my story has been key to creating clarity, confidence, and aligned career decisions. I talk openly about the conditioning, gender inequity, and internal narratives that kept me playing smaller than I needed to and why so many capable, successful women still doubt themselves, even when they’re more than ready for what’s next. This episode...
17 Jan 2026
Let's start with some intention
If you’re heading into career transition feeling stuck, restless, burnt out, or unsure what your next career move should be, this episode is for you. Before we talk goals, job titles, or next steps, we slow everything down. This episode is about intention not pressure. Not fixing. Not forcing clarity. In this session, I explore how so many career decisions are driven by fear, panic, and the need to escape discomfort and what changes when you start defining your career on your terms instead. W...
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