Bold Moves: How Did You Know | Midlife Career Change & Life Transitions for Women

What makes a life worth living? In this thought-provoking episode, I interviewed Mary McGreevy, creator of the TikTok account, 'Tips from Dead People,' to explore this very question through the lens of bold moves. Mary, a video producer and public speaker with a deep interest in obituaries, has garnered over 177,000 followers by sharing the life lessons she’s derived from reading thousands of obit...

If you’re struggling to make a bold move, chances are it’s not just external barriers holding you back—it’s your identity: what you say to yourself and how you view yourself. In this episode, I sit down with Sarah Schneider, a professionally certified leadership strategist and executive coach, to uncover the real work behind making bold moves: redefining your identity and embracing self-leadership...

In this special 'Where Are They Now' edition of the Bold Moves: How Did You Know podcast, I reunite with Emmagness Ruzvidzo, managing director of VAKA Consulting. Em shares the progress of her Bold Moves journey over the past 19 months since her last appearance on this podcast. From redefining her business strategy to fitting in large-scale brand projects and advocating for inclusive marketing, Em...

Have you ever faced an unexpected layoff, experienced low job satisfaction, or dealt with a career setback and wondered how to rebuild your career and find your purpose? My guest today proves that career reinvention after a layoff isn’t only possible—it can propel you toward a more fulfilling and purpose-driven future. Scott Merritt is a strategic PR and media expert with over 25 years of experien...

We see the accolades when someone “makes” it as an author. They come in the form of bestselling lists, press features, book club picks by well-known celebrities and experts, book deals from multiple publishers, and plots of movies. But I wanted to cover the less examined stories of how authors do it. How do they write a 200+ page novel? What do they do when their book gets rejected? How do they ta...

How do you turn your vision for your Bold Move into an executable plan? In the final episode of the three-part season 2 finale, listen in as I revisit the stories of 8 bold movers from this season who share how they did it – how they took action to make their Bold Move become their new reality! They stopped thinking and planning and started DOING – and continued progressing one micro-action at a t...

We're exploring the significance of finding the right people (the 'Who') to propel bold moves in today's second part of the season two finale, This episode revisits guest stories to underscore how connecting with the right people is the key to achieving your ambitious goals. I share insights from “Who Not How” by Dan Sullivan and real-life examples from previous guests who highlight that progress...

In the season 2 finale of the 'Bold Moves: How Did You Know' podcast, I revisit insightful Bold Move stories my guests shared throughout the season. One of my strengths is seeing the patterns in these stories about how people approach their bold moves. That's how I came to distill the Bold Moves Recipe, which I presented in the very last episode last year. For this year's season finale, I wanted t...

When I feel off balance in life, it’s usually because I’m not being creative. I’ve stumbled into this lesson many times. Then, I start a new creative project, and pretty soon, I feel more energized! I’ve been thinking more about how creativity gets me back to my flow zone and how it has unlocked more fulfillment, satisfaction, and happiness in my life. My creative self is the part of me that disco...

Get ready to learn about embracing a bold moves mindset! It’s highly possible that your routines, obligations, and patterns you’ve fallen into are blocking you from your bold moves. Mikkel Leslie, founder of A Fulfillfed Life Coaching, helps people ditch the unhealthy expectations put on you from other places to make room for discovering the healthy expectations you have for yourself. Mikkel share...

“Making a career change or moving from a place of feeling  stuck or unchallenged to something more  exciting or powerful, you will go through the river of discomfort,” my guest Julie Stoltman, Founder of Reframe Career & Leadership says. Could she have nailed it any better? We find ourselves desiring our next bold career move, but all of a sudden we come face-to-face with imposture syndrome, s...

Raising a child while juggling a full-time software engineering job made today’s guest Polina Ruvinsky gravitate to a community of moms in a similar situation. She realized that not only did she enjoy supporting others, but she also received the support she needed to feel less alone and become even stronger in navigating new parenthood while working full time. Fast forward to today and Polina is a...

Wanna crush your goals? Not just achieve them but knock them out of the park? Then I created this next masterclass episode just for you! There’s no better example of doing what it takes to crush your goals than Olympians. The gold medal is the ultimate victory of their sport and they train 4-8 years for 25-32 hours a week for a chance to compete for the elusive gold medal. But training isn’t the o...

Get the Bold Moves Recipe delivered to your inbox: www.kristenrocco.com/bold-moves-podcast-club Hi bold movers! I'm living out my bold moves vision with an extended stay in New York City. It's a mix of work and leisure, and it all started when I defined the bold moves I wanted to accomplish this year. Every part of this trip came together by leveraging the Bold Moves Recipe: the trip itself and th...

Imagine a world where you, as an employee, could not only match your skills to a job description, but you could also match your working style to your potential manager BEFORE you accepted a job? Or, on the hiring side, imagine if you could understand a candidate’s skillset and how well they would work with you as their manager before day one. That’s what Hatchproof is setting out to do. Imran Syed...

Does being an introvert make it harder to pursue bold moves? This interesting question led me to Kate Grantham. She’s an independent event producer behind some of the most well-recognized events in the world: the Super Bowl, SAG Awards, and Sundance Film Festival to name a few. She’s a self-proclaimed occupational extrovert, meaning that her career requires her to “turn it on” and be extremely ene...

Here’s the thing about midlife crisis… Is it even a thing anymore? It’s time to reframe the age-old narrative with a new twist. I joined Diana Murphy on her podcast, The Leader’s Table, to dispel why people who make bold moves are not in crisis, we’re clicking! You met Diana and heard her bold move story in the episode called, “Do It Your Way with Reformed Good Girl Diana Murphy” and now we’re tur...

Did the pandemic shake your world? It did for many of us, including Morli Desai, CEO of Amaira Natural Skincare. “There was this little pandemic going on that caused all of us to stop and take stock,” she said. For Morli, she realized she had lost herself. “I put everything else before me,” she recalled. Great, now what? What do you do when you know something’s not working and you need to make big...

After 55 years, Diana broke free from what was traditionally expected of her to honor her desire to create the life she wants. Now, she refers to herself as a “reformed good girl.” Life for Diana, now 65, is curated by her and no one else. Diana takes us through how she had to shed her good girl career and her good girl life to make bold moves. She’s a firm believer that it’s time to break free fr...

Graduation season has inspired me to think about all the powerful stories and brilliant advice that my 28 bold moves guests have shared on this podcast. I put myself into the shoes of new graduates and imagined what amazing insight I could have learned if I heard all these stories as I was graduating. It's almost like fast-forwarding into the future to ask my 40-year-old self what I could do after...

It’s episode 30 today! Every 10 episodes, I like to do a solo check-in episode – and today I’m: answering listener questions, including what I was fed up with that led me to the bold move I’m living today and how my overall trajectory has changed since I started focusing on taking a bolder approach to decisions hypothesizing that when we make a bold move it’s up to us to write the “how” of our sto...

I love interviewing professional coaches because they have a unique view of the challenges people face in life and career, and their advice can be so helpful in looking at problems as opportunities. So when I met Nancy Davis, a certified coach and strategist for high achievers, I quickly invited her to join me for a conversation about marching to the beat of your own drum and what to do when you g...

Who better to talk about how to position yourself for a promotion than someone who has made it to the C-suite? Meet Katherine Knight, Chief Legal Officer and Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Governance, at Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. She brings us into her decision-making process as she navigated her career for over 20 years. We discuss Katherine’s early career as a law cler...

One of the things I love most about hosting this podcast is getting to speak with people making all different types of Bold Moves. Today I’m interviewing the sweetest guest so far – he co-founded a chocolate factory called Harvest Chocolate! Willy Wonka vibes all day in this episode as we break down Matt’s journey to becoming a chocolatier. Ironically, he wasn’t always sold on the idea of opening...

What’s my story? That’s the question Carli Sidoti faced when feeling the internal tug that her agency career wasn’t it anymore. The hopeful advertising agency partner felt stuck, confused, and unfulfilled. But why? She had worked hard for 20 years to become VP at her agency. The next step WAS partner. She was getting there; she was almost there. Still, the feeling nagged at her. It was time for a...