The Career Changers

What is a green job?  Will we all transition to a green job? Why 50% of jobs will be impacted in some measure by climate change?  What are the reasons that make green jobs great opportunities for the new generations?  What are some tips and tricks to successfully transition to a green job?  Joseph Gelfer, career changer and Founder of Ecotopian Careers - a company helping people during their caree...

"For some people, rock bottom is a trampoline. It springs them up from the depths, back into the light, fueled by a decision never to experience that low again. Or to help make sure other people don't end up there either." I knew I had to share with others who were also struggling so I’m here to help you do the same - and this line from the book, Do Over, by Jon Acuff sums it up nic...

Our guest today is Kathleen Ralls, educator, writer, coach, and athlete. She said “After spending 15 years as a secondary history teacher in the U.S. and Norway, I defended my dissertation just as the pandemic hit. Since then, I left my full-time teaching career, And today I share my knowledge with other females in business, education, service and sports, empowering them to both find their voices...

Our guest today is Andrew Barnes, Founder of 4 Day Week Global. “A hundred years ago, we moved from working six-day weeks to five, and we’re overdue for an update. The 4-day work week is a reduction in the work week from a standard 40 hours to 32 hours for the same pay and benefits. This reduction has been proven to work for employees and employers. COVID-19 made it clear we can find a better bala...

Ciao e benvenuti a The Career Changers, il podcast che ha lo scopo di ispirare le persone durante il loro percorso di realizzazione personale e lavorativo.  Questo é il primo episodio in italiano.  Il nostro ospite é Marco Sepertino, Founder e CEO di Vitture SRL, recentemente balzato alle cronache per aver rivelato di assumere il personale nella sua compagnia senza guardare ai curriculum vitae ma...

The questions we are going to answer in this episode: 1. What are the stories you tell yourself? 2. How can you realise that you are not heading in the right direction?  3. How do you understand what is wrong in your career/life and why are you in the wrong place in first instance?  4. How can you discover who you are and what you care about?  5. How to build how a life aligned to your values 6. T...

" Do what you love, and you’ll never work another day in your life". But how many of us have been lucky enough to be on the right path early in life? As strange as it may sound, doing what we love in life is a choice of courage. Courage to leave the known for the unknown. Explore the unexplored. Believe that good things are going to happen if we recognise our talents. Our guest today is...

Today the UK Cabinet Office has launched the Civil Service Apprenticeship Strategy with the aim to emphasize quality training and set targets that will help build a more diverse pipeline of recruits into government by 2025.  What does this mean? That the UK government is becoming one of the leading voices of “the career changers movement”, opening the door of a new career to people whose careers h...

Our guest today is Carrie Lynn Hotson, job interview coach and HR Consultant. Carrie has written 1000's interview questions, interviewed 100s and 100s  of candidates, and SADLY had to watch as many people weren't able to succeed because they didn't know how to prepare. Today she is going to talk want on the importance of understanding what each interview question means, how to find...

Our guest today is Daria Aleksieieva, Growth Marketing Manager at Popup and Freedom Fighter for Ukraine. I found out about Daria by reading one of her Linkedin posts that was matched for content relevancy with The Career Changers.  The post was saying  From marketer to bartender in 1 day Hey, let me introduce myself My name is Daria, I’m 31 years old and I live in Kyiv, Ukraine In January I joined...

Our guest today is Jane Ferré, career coach, helping frustrated professionals who've outgrown their current role to secure the role of their dreams.  Jane started her career coaching business after experiencing redundancy not once but twice in one year - once her choice, the other not.  Before setting up her own coaching practice she had a 20+ year career in senior HR roles such as HR Busines...

Our guest today is Alfie G. Whattam, Business Leader (at a $1 billion company), Best-Selling Author of ‘Trust in Alfa’, and a Keynote Speaker.  From his own words “I started my career just a few short years ago with absolutely nothing. No fancy degree. No connections. No money. But at a very young age, I've very quickly become a successful business leader, best-selling author, and keynote spe...

Our guest today is Christine Meyer, Life Coach, Author of “Keep It Simple, Smartypants”, Speaker, Founding Member of Forbes Coaches Council.  Today we are going to discuss with Christine why everything changes when we change. Support the show Are you looking for more inspiration? Why not take our ten minutes career test? Just click here to start the test. If you want to receive your regular dose o...

Our guest today is Terry McDougall, Executive and Career Coach and author of Winning the Game of Work: Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms. Terry works with high-achieving business owners and professionals who are "successful but not satisfied” because they are paying a high price for their "success" in terms of stress, burnout, health, and relationship problems.  Prior t...

Our guest today is Brenden Kumarasamy, founder of MasterTalk, a YouTube channel he started to help the world master the art of public speaking. Today Brendan is running a very successful business and youtube channel teaching thousands of people the secrets of public speaking. He said “I believe the next Elon Musk is a 7-year-old girl in some part of the world. Thus, it is my responsibility to be s...

Our guest today is Dave Liu, a 30-Year Veteran of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. He’s an entrepreneur who has started multiple companies, advisor who has raised over $15 billion for hundreds of companies, and investor in multiple billion-dollar exits.  Dave is the author of The Way Of the Wall Street Warrior, A humorous and irreverent guide to conquering the corporate game from a Wall Street vete...

Our guest today is Scott Graham,  a Boston career coach with over 15 years of experience helping people who want more balance, direction and fulfillment in their life, career, and relationships.  Today Scott is going to explain how we can achieve the unachievable in our lives.  Support the show Are you looking for more inspiration? Why not take our ten minutes career test? Just click here to start...

Our guest today is Elena Mellara,  Career Coach for the career conflicted.   In her own words: I support career conflicted professionals in need to figure out their next steps. I am also a career changer (or twister as I like putting it) as, after 20 years in corporations covering roles in pricing and forecasting I felt my heart was not in numbers anymore but into people. That's why I twisted...

Today we're going to talk about career change in the Sports industry with Andrew Mitchell, mountain bike national champion turned CEO of an eco-courier company.  After an accident that ended his competitive mountain biking days, he decided to put his Business Administration degree to use, but in a sustainable way. So he built Geazone, a zero-emissions courier company - that just became North...

Our guest today is Peter Karius,  Leadership & Career Coach helping aspiring leaders go from imposters to corporate superstars.  Impostor Syndrome feels like you are a fraud but is essentially just an emotion and we can learn ways to overcome it. About Peter's career journey “The journey there was definitely not straightforward for me. Growing up it was very clear that being employed was...

Our guest today is Tracy Asamoah, a Life Coach helping women in medicine navigate transitions in their professional and personal lives.   Tracy started her career as a doctor before turning to coaching and child and adolescent psychiatry.  Today she is going to share her life experience and wisdom and how she is helping women in medicine to thrive.  To discover more about her work visit here . Sup...

Our guest today is Eleni Charitonos, Analog Astronaut & Founder & President of GUSEDS, The Glasgow University Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. Born in 2000, in Cyprus, she is the first Cypriot female Analog Astronaut and she is working towards becoming the first Cypriot Astronaut. Her passion for space is invaluable which is why she is trying to explore as many aspect...

Our guest today is Lucas Caneda, a career changer with a double career. Global Team Lead at UNIQORN Incubator and Professional Rugby Player at Sarlat Rugby Club. It was exactly in Sarlat that Lucas met Dom Einhorn, the Founder and CEO of the UNIQORN incubator-accelerator and president of the Sarlat Rugby Team. He immediately integrated the incubator's Rugby+ program where he now works as a te...

Our guest today is Nic Frick, a career coach who helps new moms who don't want to go back to their jobs find new jobs they love.  Nic’s background spans a career built through tech, customer service, recruiting, and teaching yoga.  Her programs integrate forgotten practices that support careers, inner growth, and redefines what work-life balance and sustainability are all about. This holistic...

In this episode, we're going to talk about career change and inspiring people to leave uncommon lives with Terry Tucker, Motivational Speaker and Author of Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles to Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life. ​ Terry has reinvented himself frequently over his professional career. Each time he took on a new job, he had to develop new skills and face different...