The Career Confidence Podcast

Key Themes: Linked In, Personal Brand, Are you a Linked In lurker? In today's episode, I want to encourage you to overcome your reluctance to be visible on social media and to use it to build your personal brand.  Nobody else is going to share your achievements for you. You need to do it yourself and Linked In is an effective tool to help you make that happen.  About Nicola Semple I help...

Key Themes: Networking, Confidence, Building Relationships If you would rather poke your eye out with a blunt pencil than go to a networking event, then this is the episode for you. I share insights into why networking is so important and tips on how you can network in a way that feels good for you.  About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career g...

Key Themes: Values, Career Priorities Your values are what makes you 'you'. They help us determine what is important to us, they define the type of person we want to be, how we interact with the world around us and the way in which we treat ourselves and others. In this episode, I explain why understanding your values is key to career success. I also walk you through the process I use with clients...

Key Themes: Mental Load, How to Do Less In the last episode, I shared a mindset hack to help you reduce what constitutes your mental load in the first place. In this episode, I share practical strategies to help you manage what is left.  About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goals. You can book a free no-obligation chat about how I can sup...

Key Themes: Mental Load, Manage Your Mindset The mental load is everything that you have to do and everything that is swirling around in your head - the planning, the organising, the logistics, the general life management. If you have children, not only are you managing your own life, but you're managing theirs as well and that adds to your mental load In this episode, I share a mindset hack that...

Key Themes: Stop Being Busy All The Time, Do Less, Achieve More  In our society, busy has become a badge of honour. Being busy has become a self-fulfilling prophecy because everybody else is busy which means that we should be too. However, life doesn't need to be that way. In today's episode I share how banishing busy and doing less can lead to us achieving more.  About Nicola Semple I h...

Key Themes: Self Care, Sleep Sleep is a fundamental part of our wellbeing and is vital for our ability to think clearly and make good decisions.  In this episode, I share how you can get more sleep and the impact this can have on your ability to perform at your best.  About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goals. You can book a free no...

Key Themes: Career Happiness, Career Journey It is impossible to map out your entire career journey in advance. However, you can make a decision to enjoy your career journey whatever comes your way. In this episode, I share how you can shift your thinking to get maximum enjoyment from your career.  About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goa...

Key Themes: Wellbeing, Health You are your number 1 asset when it comes to building your career. If you don't focus on your own wellbeing nobody else will. In this episode, I share some simple strategies that you can use to create your own wellbeing parachute that will support you in times of stress.  About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career...

Key Themes: Self Promotion, Personal Branding Self-promotion and at its most basic is sharing our accomplishments with the world.  Many people find self-promotion uncomfortable and difficult. However, self-promotion is essential to help you move forward in your career. If you are not self-promoting then you run the risk of falling behind your peers that are sharing their achievements with oth...

Key Themes: Personal Responsibility, Self Determination People tend to seek permission when they don’t trust their own intuition and they doubt themselves and their skills and their abilities. What could you achieve in your career if you were to believe in yourself? What if you didn't need validation from other people and felt comfortable taking focused action?  In today's episode I share how...

Key Themes: Invest in Coaching, Invest in Employees In this episode, I share practical advice that you can use to get your employer to pay for coaching. Coaching is a relatively low cost investment that provides an excellent return on investment for the organisation and targeted development for the individual.  I would be very happy to have a conversation with both you and your employer about...

Key Themes: Overthinking In today's episode of The Career Confidence Podcast, I talk about how to how to stop overthinking from holding you back in your career. About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goals. You can book a free no-obligation chat about how I can support you to achieve your career goals:  https://nicolasemple.com/chat You can...

Key Themes: Promotion, Career Progression Today on The Career Confidence Podcast I talk about how to face the embarrassment of not being promoted and how to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move forward. Have you ever gone for a promotion and not been successful? How did it feel? I’m guessing it didn’t feel great. So, if you have gone for a promotion and not been successful, then what do yo...

Key Themes: Be True to Yourself, Your Version of Success In this episode of The Career Confidence Podcast I will be sharing what to do if you feel like you should be happy with your career but you're not.  It may be that on paper you have it all figured out. You are in a role that sounds challenging and interesting and perhaps other people perceive you to be successful based on the role that...

Key Themes: Goal Setting, Making an Impact The Dalai Lama says “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito” and that makes perfect sense. In the episode, I explore how you can make an impact without setting Big Hairy Audacious Goals.  About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goals. You can book a free no...

Key Themnes: Goal Setting, Career Goals In this episode, I share how to set goals you will actually stick to. Goal setting in its simplest form is setting out exactly what you want to achieve and then working out what you need to do to get you there. It sounds simple but for anybody that has set goals in the past, and I am going to assume that is the vast majority, if not, all of the people listen...

Key Themes: Career Priorities, Career-Life Balance In this episode of The Career Confidence Podcast, I ask you to consider whether now is the right time to focus on your career. We are all multi-dimensional human beings. We can not make decisions about our career in isolation, we need to look at it in terms of everything else that is going on in our life. I share what you need to take into conside...

Key Themes: Self Worth, Self Belief, Trust Yourself  In this episode, I share how to unhook from the need for external validation and learn how to trust yourself instead.  As human beings, we want to be liked, we want to be told that we are doing well and that other people approve and appreciate us. However, other people telling us that we are doing well or even showering us with praise...

Key Themes: Career Network, Colleagues Today’s episode is all about how the people that you spend time with impact how you feel about your ability to navigate the world of work. There is a much shared quote from Jim Rohn “You are the average of the five people that you spend most time with” if this is true then we want to spend as much time as possible with the people that are going to lift us up...

Key Themes: Self Belief, Confidence This is the first of a two part series because what I would ideally like you to do is listen to this episode, understand more about how a lack of self-belief can show up and also how these beliefs are formed in the first place. Then I’m going to invite you do some reflection of your own before you listen to the next episode of the podcast where I share some sugg...

Key Themes: Self Belief, Inner Confidence, You Are Enough In part 2 of this series about how lack of self-belief impacts your career, I share 3 steps that you can take to help you make the shift into believing and feeling that you are enough, and to help you build your inner confidence. About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goals. You can book...

Key Themes: Career, Confidence, Your Version of Success In the first episode of The Career Confidence podcast, I give an overview of what career confidence is (and is not!) and share why it is so important to build your career with confidence in this ever-changing world. About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goals. You can book a free no-obliga...

How to Create Your Own Definition of Career Success is one of THE most important topic that we will cover in this podcast because defining what career success means to you forms the foundation of building your career confidence. Author, Anna Quindlen said: "If your success if not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all”. In th...

Find out more about what you can expect on The Career Confidence Podcast. Mentioned in this episode: The Career Confidence Toolkit: Take Control of Your Career and Fulfil Your Potential I am delighted to share that my new book, The Career Confidence Toolkit is now available! If you still find yourself struggling to answer the question: “What do you want to do when you grow up?” Or if you find your...