The Career Change Podcast

Do you tend to credit your achievements to luck or other people? Have a tendency to notice your failures and "not good enough" moments a lot more than your wins?  Are you worried about being exposed as a fraud? Then you are the perfect candidate for Imposter Syndrome! ...But guess what? It's not all bad! Imposter Syndrome actually refers to a patten of behaviour attributed only to h...

Do you worry about having left it too late or not being confident enough to make a career change into a new field or to start your own business? Are you over 35 AND have a tendency to beat yourself up and/or feel intimidated by all the younger people you come across who are already super accomplished (at a way earlier age than you)  in the very field you want to change into or start a business in?...

Do you have a tendency to start and stop  when it comes to your career change or own business efforts? Wonder how to stay motivated when everything sucks?   Want to learn how to keep up momentum, so you  can keep going until you get the results you want?  In this episode, you'll discover why the " Start/Stop Loop" is such a dangerous place to find yourself stuck repeatedly (erosion...

If you've been wanting to change careers or start a business for years - This is a must-listen episode. We'll dive deep and get honest about how to ensure you don't get to the end of another year and still find yourself stuck in the same career/job/work scenario you so badly want to escape.  Making a big change after 35 requires way more concrete and powerful strategies than just ad...

How many times have you talked yourself out of a great career change or business idea? Maybe you really liked the idea initially, but then you started nit-picking and finding faults with it and hence discarded it...Oh and all of this likely happened inside of your head too...Before you even got real-life feedback and external input, right? ;).  And this scenario just keeps repeating itself. So you...

 A lot of career changers and new entrepreneurs feel very discouraged if they discover that someone is ALREADY doing what they want to do. So they wonder if they should just forget about their idea, as it's already been done. They might wonder if they are even cut out to be an entrepreneur at all. I call this the "Somebody Is Already Doing It" Fallacy.  Something you believe to be t...

How do you stay focused on your career change or business plans during times of uncertainty? How do you avoid getting distracted and end up stress/doomscrolling your life away?  Hit play to discover the 5 "painkillers" you can use right away to take back control! Uncertainty and discomfort is always going to be part of the career transition process (pandemic or not) - So let's talk...

How do you know if you are making the right career change decision? How can you know if you'll even like running your own business? What if it turns out to be even worse than the work you are doing now?! Worries like these  often indicate you are treating your career change process like an intellectual exercise (i.e. your efforts have likely never gotten further than your own head). Let'...

Are you too old to change careers in your late 30s, 40s or 50s? Worried you've left it too late to start the right business? Feel conflicted because you've invested so many years in your current line of work - Even if you no longer enjoy it?  There will always be scenarios and people for whom you'll be too old (at any age!) - Ageism still exists - However, let's make sure YOU a...

What if you stopped thinking like an employee about what's (not) possible and started thinking like an entrepreneur instead? What if you didn't have to worry about gatekeepers or the CV/R ésumé Police? Would you pick yourself instead of waiting to be chosen? Would you realise that you already have what it takes to at least get started with your transition?  If you have been an employee f...

Do you feel stuck because you worry it will take too long to change careers or start your own business? Many people over 35 overestimate the risks of making a change whilst totally underestimating (or ignoring) the costs of staying stuck. So they remain stuck in jobs and careers they've totally outgrown and might even hate. Not realising they are already wasting their precious time and potent...

Perfectionists find it hard to start their own business or change careers. Why? Because they avoid doing anything that could lead to failure. However, the change process always entails using skills or doing things that you might never have done before. Which means there is no way to do it perfectly. And (gasp;) you might even fail. So what gives? Listen to this episode if you want to understand ho...

With everything going on in the world right now - Especially if you are also spending a lot of time following the news or doomscrolling - You might be wondering if this is the right time to change career or start a business? In this episode I'll share why now is NOT the right time to do nothing and why waiting and worrying or dabbling are NOT the safe options. COVID-19 has massively sped up s...

Discover how to overcome analysis paralysis - Step by step. This episode will show you how to get out of your head and into action instead! Packed full of frank and practical suggestions for what to say to yourself and what to do to get out of overthinking - So you can (finally!) change careers or start the right business.    Analysis paralysis is the nemesis of way too many intelligent people who...

How do you choose the right idea or passion when you have too many? And how do you figure out if you'll even enjoy building a career change or business around them? Rikke has a long track-record of helping multi-passionates pick and combine the right ideas or passions to help them create unique careers or business concepts they love. In this episode she'll share one of her most powerful...

Discover what works when it comes to changing careers or starting a business in your mid 30s to your mid 50s.  This is a whistle-stop tour of what to expect from The Career Change Podcast - Who it's is for and how it can help - Why getting used to reinvent and change careers after 35 is becoming the new norm - How to identify what's sabotaging your efforts - Why staying stuck in the job...

The Career Change Podcast will show you how to change careers or figure out what business to start when you are a smart (but stuck) person in your mid-30s to your mid-50s.  Fed up with fluffy motivational quotes? Then you are going to love the frank and proven advice shared by your host Rikke Hansen - A Career Change Advisor and entrepreneur with over 15 years experience of helping thousands of me...