What Was What Next
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<p>Story-led reflections and conversations for leaders, founders, and clinicians navigating significant career, relationship, and life transitions. Welcome to What Was What Next with certified master coach Heena Thaker.</p><p>This is a podcast for individuals navigating the space between professional and personal chapters. We explore the complexities of executive role changes, relationship shifts, identity evolution, and <b>burn-on</b>, the hidden precursor to chronic burnout where high-achievers keep functioning while deeply exhausted.</p><p>Whether you are experiencing a season of midlife change, workplace fatigue, or deep life transition, these episodes offer grounded insights to meet you right where you are, before clarity lands.</p><p>Here's to us evolving together.</p>
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Recent Episodes
July 21, 2026
Who in My Family Ever Just Quits? | Honouring Family Sacrifice, Choosing To Write Your Own Story
<h1>"Who in my family ever just quits?"</h1><p>When former attorney and professor <b>Asha Wilkerson</b> found herself asking this question, she realised she wasn't simply deciding whether to leave a successful legal career. She was confronting something much deeper: <b>the invisible obligation to honour generations of family sacrifice</b>.</p><p>Asha's story is about <b>leaving a successful career, navigating family sacrifice, redefining success and finding the courage to choose a different life</b>. In deciding to write her own life story, she doesn't reject the sacrifices her family made. Instead, she comes to understand that perhaps the deepest way to honour those sacrifices is to embrace the freedom they made possible.</p><p>This episode is for anyone who has reached a point of <b>career transition, career change, reinvention or personal transformation</b> and feels conflicted about choosing a different path, even when the life they have built looks successful from the outside.</p><p>It is particularly relevant if you are asking:</p><p><b>Why do I feel guilty about leaving a successful career?</b></p><p><b>Why is it so hard to walk away from a career I've worked so hard to build?</b></p><p><b>How do family expectations influence career choices?</b></p><p><b>How can I honour my family's sacrifices without living according to their story?</b></p><p><b>What happens when success no longer feels fulfilling?</b></p><p><b>How do I reinvent myself after a successful career?</b></p><p><b>Who am I if I stop doing the thing that made me successful?</b></p><p><b>How do I write the next chapter of my life when the old one still looks successful from the outside?</b></p><p>At the heart of this conversation is a powerful question about <b>the stories we inherit and the stories we unconsciously continue</b>.</p><p>Sometimes, the hardest part of changing your life is not disappointing other people.</p><p>It is giving yourself permission to stop carrying a story that was never meant to be yours forever.</p><p>Because perhaps the greatest way to honour the sacrifices that came before us is not to spend our lives repaying them.</p><p>Perhaps it is to use the freedom they created.</p><p>Connect with Asha: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ashasplacelisbon.com/" target="_blank">https://www.ashasplacelisbon.com/</a></p><p>on Threads @AshaWilkersonEsq</p><p></p>
July 7, 2026
Who Am I Without My Career? Reinventing Yourself After Corporate Life
<p>For 27 years, Marianne Page built a successful career at McDonald's. Then she left and found herself asking a question that many accomplished professionals wrestle with:</p><p><b>Who am I without my career?</b></p><p>In this deeply honest conversation, Marianne reflects on the loss of identity that followed leaving corporate life, the dark season that came next, and the slow journey back to herself.</p><p>Today, Marianne is an award winning motivational speaker, business mentor and bestselling author, but this episode isn't just about business success. It's about identity, purpose and what happens when the role you've worn for decades no longer fits.</p><p>Together we explore:</p><ul><li>why so many leaders confuse who they are with what they do</li><li>rebuilding confidence after leaving a long career</li><li>finding joy again after redundancy or retirement</li><li>values, resilience and creating a life that feels like your own</li><li>why the season between "what was" and "what's next" can become the making of you</li></ul><p>Whether you're leaving corporate life, facing redundancy, approaching retirement, or simply wondering what's next after years of professional success, Marianne's story is a reminder that losing your role doesn't mean losing yourself.</p><p>Connect with Marianne via her official website <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mariannepage.com/" target="_blank">Marianne Page</a> or on <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mariannepage" target="_blank">LinkedIn </a></p><p></p><p></p>
June 23, 2026
You've Built a Successful Business. Why Do You Still Want Something More? | Sarah Clemson
<p>You’ve built a successful business yet something still feels unresolved. Many founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders reach a point where external success no longer matches internal fulfilment, and the work begins to feel repetitive or misaligned. In this episode of <b><i>What Was, What Next,</i></b> I speak with entrepreneur and creative strategist <b>Sarah Clemson</b>, who has built three successful businesses over the years. Sarah shares what it looks like to realise a business has become comfortable but no longer energising, and how she chose to evolve her work to reflect who she is becoming rather than who she once needed to be. We explore leadership, identity, achievement vs fulfilment, self-worth, and reinvention in later-stage business journeys including:</p><ul><li>Why successful businesses can start to feel repetitive or unfulfilling</li><li>The shift from achievement-driven identity to fulfilment and alignment</li><li>How self-worth and “proving yourself” can sit beneath long-term success</li><li>What it means to evolve your business as you evolve as a person</li><li>How confidence develops through courageous reinvention</li><li>Redefining success across different seasons of leadership and life<p></p><p>If you are a founder, business owner, or leader navigating a season where success no longer feels like enough, this conversation offers language, reflection, and perspective for what comes next.</p><p></p></li></ul><p>Connect with Sarah: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahclemson/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahclemson/</a></p><p>Website: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.tothesummit.co.uk/team/" target="_blank">https://www.tothesummit.co.uk/team/</a></p><hr /><p></p>
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- What is What Was What Next?
<p>Story-led reflections and conversations for leaders, founders, and clinicians navigating significant career, relationship, and life transitions. Welcome to What Was What Next with certified master coach Heena Thaker.</p><p>This is a podcast for individuals navigating the space between professional and personal chapters. We explore the complexities of executive role changes, relationship shifts, identity evolution, and <b>burn-on</b>, the hidden precursor to chronic burnout where high-achievers keep functioning while deeply exhausted.</p><p>Whether you are experiencing a season of midlife change, workplace fatigue, or deep life transition, these episodes offer grounded insights to meet you right where you are, before clarity lands.</p><p>Here's to us evolving together.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
- Where can I listen to this podcast?
This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
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No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.
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