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The Holistic Career Change Podcast hosted by a Certified Career Coach Vilma Usaite is home for all things career change related, including tried and tested strategies and not so straight forward secrets every career switcher should be armed with when transitioning into a purpose-driven career. Learn more: www.vilmausaite.com Instagram: @vilma.usaite
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In this episode, I share a couple of lessons and reframes I offer you to take on if you'd like to go through a smoother career transition period - these are the most common pitfalls I've seen career changers succumb to when designing aligned careers. *** Schedule a consultation call to take this work further: https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/4…
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Career Changer Series: Dentistry to Interior Design
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This week's episode features another mind-blowing career change story. My client Nikita has joined me to share her transition from being a dentist and owning a dental clinic to becoming an interior designer. Her career switch story has already been inspiring many others who've been considering a change. She goes into detail about the obstacles she'…
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Career Changer Series: Tech to Water Healing
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We are starting the year with another magical career change story. The guest on the podcast today is my client Nicole who shares the details of her career transition journey. Nicole’s path to finding her purpose was not easy or straightforward. The majority of her life was spent in hustle, survival, and powering through harsh life circumstances. It…
In this episode, we talk about the often undervalued skill of making decisions. The reason why I talk about this in a career change setting is because your success in a new fulfilling, meaningful purpose-driven career or business will quite literally depend on your ability to make a decision regarding the new path you’re about to commit to. These a…
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Career Changer Series: Research to International Diplomacy
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This week’s episode features a very special guest - my client who is generously sharing the details of her career change journey with you all. There’s SO much healing in this episode as she is someone who represents a slower, more grounded pace of change - the opposite of what we often are programmed to envision. Do make sure you listen to this til…
In this week's episode, I'm introducing the uncomfortable, confusing in-between space of career change - the liminal space. It's not necessarily a concept I hear people speak about a lot - and yet I have been experiencing firsthand just how vital it is to understand what the liminal space of career change is and how to better prepare for it so you …
This week we are talking about the good old imposter syndrome. While we can expect to meet a version of it when changing careers - in this episode I'm offering you a powerful reframe of how to shift this fear and how to work with your unconscious competence. A few questions I'd like you to write down your answers to: -How have my life experiences s…
This week I want to talk to you about manuals we have for EVERYTHING in our lives and how not to use them against ourselves, especially on a career change journey. Not being familiar with this concept has ruined many career change attempts. Manuals are these invisible, unwritten set of rules we might have adopted throughout the course of life - by …
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Career Changer Series: Marketing to Holistic Nutrition
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This week I'm stoked to bring you a new interview with one of my clients - Ashley Travassos who during our work together transitioned from being at top of her corporate career ladder as a marketing executive - to starting her practice as a holistic nutritionist. She shares ALL the details in the episode, including how and why her career change jour…
When is 'the right' time to leave your unfulfilling job? In this episode I'm sharing an extensive answer to this question. There's a very specific way to determine when it's time for you to finally transition into a career of meaning & purpose. *** Schedule a consultation call to take this work further: https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/45min *…
The more I work in career change & alignment, the more infatuated I become with this beautiful transformative experience. I believe that our quest for purpose & career fulfilment is magic & mystery above strategy. I think this process is not dissimilar to alchemy. In this process we too metaphorically transform lack of meaning into awareness, harmo…
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Career Changer Series with Shanice Rivera
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Career changer series is back with one of my clients Shanice who, in this episode, shares her career alignment journey with you all. She went through the whole career change process and transitioned from being lost, confused & miserable to having found a path of fulfilment. Along the way she picked up the practices of managing her mind, changing he…
In this week's episode I'm inviting you to revisit belief work & learn more about the importance of a story. The stories we tell ourselves about our lives, about our future, about our careers determine our reality. We are our stories. This is particularly true when we embark on this uncertain & unstable process of career change - the way we will fr…
This week we are talking about building solid foundations within your career change journey. If you are considering a new career path - here's one piece of advice I have for you - less is more. I spend many hours of my day connecting with career changers - many of them are very eager to rush into implementing a myriad of vague career/ business idea…
Many of you have heard of the term ‘dark night of the soul’ within various contexts. In this episode, I share how the dark night of the soul is related to career change and what role it plays within career transitions. I believe that career change is a powerful spiritual teacher - tune into the episode to learn more. *** Instagram: @vilma.usaite **…
This week by popular demand, I’m walking you through the symptoms of a misaligned path. You might be familiar with the emotional impact a career that you have outgrown is having on you - but what about physical symptoms? Through the years of working with many career changers, I have witnessed and collected a number of physical symptoms signaling th…
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What I Wish I Knew Before My Career Change
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This episode is all about me sharing realisations and truths I WISH I knew before starting my career change process as I feel like it would have given me more peace and would have allowed me to lean in and surrender more. I hope this will be an inspirational piece and my wish is to help you feel more hopeful about your own career change process. **…
In this week's episode, we are wrapping up the series on thought work. I share real-life career change examples of how to use the thought work to support you. We also discuss how not to use the model against yourself and what your daily thought work practice could look like specifically for you. *** Instagram: @vilma.usaite *** If you'd like help w…
In this week's episode, we are continuing the thought work conversation. I am introducing the model - the most powerful and simple tool I have encountered over the years of training and work with clients in my private practice. It's very effective in helping you clearly and schematically understand the causal relationship between your circumstances…
This week's episode is an introduction to thought work - which is the very first aspect I address with every single client of mine going through a career change. A lot of our thoughts we have surrounding career change are unquestioned. If you have a choice to think thoughts that make you question your worth, make you believe that you literally have…
Are you one of those people who love to secretly fantasise how one day you'll hand in your resignation letter to your boss and proudly walk out of the room? I know it has definitely been me in the past and in this episode I'm sharing my advice on how to prepare for the inevitable career change. First tip - I invite you to NOT rush to dramatically h…
In this week's episode we are chatting about career change and financial fears. One of the main reasons why mid-career professionals struggle with embracing the idea of a career change is their fear of having to accept a significant cut in the salary. They also fear that they may need to 'regress' in their career and perhaps even take on a junior r…
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Career Changer Series: From PE Teaching to Literacy Problem Solving
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In this Career-Changer Series episode, I interview the charming Lois Letchford, who went from PE teaching to becoming a reading specialist and literacy problem solver. Her journey, however, was not very straightforward one - her career change was not necessarily voluntary or intentional, at least to start with. She went from living her life as an u…
Self-sabotage is THE curse word that I hear a lot. My new clients often share that they feel like they contain this inner battle inside of them whenever they express the need to change something up, especially when they commit to embark on a career change. They share that there's one part of them that wants to transition and do whatever it takes - …
In this week's episode we talk about a topic that is not the most appealing - responsibility. Responsibility is about taking ownership of ALL that we have consciously and unconsciously created in our lives. It's dropping all the stories about why we are the way we are and why all the odds are stacked against us to change. I'm also sharing a simple …
This week's episode is a little different - I’m sharing a recorded interview on a holistic approach to a career change. While in my mind taking a holistic approach is an obvious golden thread weaved into everything that I do, this interview made me realize that, unfortunately, it's still not a necessarily common approach to switching careers. So, i…
In this week's episode I invite you to meet the most wise, authentic, self-sufficient and calm person you will EVER get to meet - your future self. I share my absolutely favourite luxurious technique that I myself use daily without fail. If you explore and really embrace this technique - you will gain a new best friend, therapist, coach, partner in…
In this week's episode I invite you to expand your vision and evaluate your life beyond a career switch. We are prone to think that when we change roles and industries, that's where the transformation stops - but really embracing a career of meaning will inevitably affect your lifestyle choices as well. In this episode we will be dreaming AUTHENTIC…
This week we are diving into communication strategies. How do you communicate your career change to others when you don't feel confident about this process yourself? How do you have your own back and yet answer to the questions in a respectful matter? Your answers in the episode! *** Instagram: @vilma.usaite *** If you'd like help with changing car…
This week I have only two questions for you: Are you leading a double life? How will you let your blue bird sing its song? *** Instagram: @vilma.usaite *** If you'd like help with changing career, schedule a free of charge consultation call: https://calendly.com/coachvilmausaite/45minBy Vilma Usaite
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Career-Changer Series: From Translation to Painting
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In this Career-Changer Series interview, I had the honour of chatting with Jennifer Baker - a translator who has recently fully stepped into her authenticity and embraced her calling to paint. In this episode, Jennifer shares her magical journey of how her life has turned around in less than 12 months of her saying YES to opportunities coming her w…
In this week's episode we look at one of my favourite topics - multipotentiality. Say WHAT? You will learn: -Why I skipped publishing last week's episode -What to do when you have multiple passions & interests and you are not sure which one to commit to -What multipotentiality is and why it's your superpower -What is a portfolio career and how you …
In this week's episode, I'm inviting you for a test drive. You will learn: -Why you should never hold your dream career choice against yourself (and what paper tower sniffers got to do with it) -How to look after your transition process as if it was a fragile flower -What is test driving your new path and why you should do it -How to just do it ***…
This week we are diving into the nervous system and why so often you may feel resistant in carrying out even the smallest of career change-related tasks. In the episode you will learn: -Why changing career may be perceived as a major threat to your system -What are the four main stress responses -How to solve for those periods when you feel stallin…
In this week's The Holistic Career Change Podcast episode I'm introducing an internal ecosystem that I'd like to invite you to foster to ensure that your transition is smooth and your performance in the new career is effective. In the episode you will learn: -The role I'd like to offer you to take on to get back on the driver's seat of your life an…
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Career-Changer Series: Banking to Teaching
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In the second Career-Changer Series interview, I chat with Hilde Vartdal Solum - a banker-turned teacher. You will learn: -How Hilde had told herself she would never go into teaching -How she lived and traveled in different countries around the world just to find that her destiny was much closer to home than she had anticipated -How observing her o…
This week’s episode can change the course of your life - if you let it. The first message I have for you is that you are a liar. When you say that you ‘don’t know what’s next for me’, when you say that ‘you don’t know what your vision for the future is, what a meaningful career path would look like for you’ - you are lying to yourself and hiding fr…
This week in a rather emotional recording I share with you the TRUTHS that I wish someone had relayed back to me, when I was going though my identity & career transformation process. I hope this foregoes your analysing mind and goes straight into your heart. *** Instagram: @vilma.usaite *** If you'd like help with changing career, schedule a free o…
This week's episode is tackling the big monstrous obstacle that a lot of career changers are faced with (or at least they use against themselves to not pursue their change). If only I got a euro every time I heard ‘I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME & ENERGY’ to even think about a career change, let alone set aside time to work on it. In the episode I will s…
This week the episode is dedicated to the big P word - PURPOSE and I could not have asked for a better guest than a master channel & energy alchemist Ashley Dufresne to talk to about purpose and meaning with. We chat about Ashley’s journey to actualizing her Purpose and how a life of meaning and fulfillment is our birthright. In the interview you’l…
In this week's episode we speak about the elusive feeling of shame that quite a few career changers feel when considering a career transition. Shame is an ingrained response that may deem us unworthy of a career of alignment, therefore, it will benefit you to learn how to recognise when it's holding you back from fully committing to your next caree…
In this episode I cover the 3 main stages of career change and what each of them entail. I also share what to expect in each of them and how to problem-solve depending on which stage you find yourself at. *** Instagram: @vilma.usaite *** If you'd like help with changing career, schedule a free of charge consultation call: https://calendly.com/coach…
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Career-Changer Series: From Law to Jewelry
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In the first Career-Changer Series interview, I chat to Stacy Mikulik - a lawyer turned jewelry business owner. In this episode Stacy takes us on a journey and shares the details of her career transition journey - the good, the bad, the serendipitous and so much more that lead her to now owning a successful jewelry business grace+hudson. In this ep…
This is where all the work we've done up until now comes together and we get to CONNECT THE DOTS. One of my favourite episodes so far as from this point forward you may start seeing tangible results of the analytic self-inquiry work you've done in the previous episodes. In this week's episode I will cover: -My favourite way to banish procrastinatio…
This week we look into the last puzzle piece of self-audit - your passions or your core zone of genius. I purposefully left passions and determining your flow as the last piece you need to uncover in order to get super clear on a career that would bring you the most amount of fulfilment and purpose. That is because I think your passions are absolut…
This week's episode is all about core values. The reason why so many career switchers end up having career change ADHD is because they DON'T SPEND ENOUGH TIME GETTING SUPER CLEAR ON THEIR VALUES. Your core values is that secret ingredient that will ensure the longevity and high level fulfilment in your next career. Tune in to learn more about: -Wha…
Going from career confusion to career clarity can be a lengthy and convoluted journey. It is, however, much less confusing, when you can follow a clear process that helps you navigate your change adventure. In this episode, I share with you the very first step to take when you are not sure where to start - unravel your UNIQUE strengths. I feel like…
Did you ever allow yourself to consider that career change could be a fun process? I'm personally a huge advocate of introducing fun and flow in virtually any topic or area of life. I believe that changing career and taking the time to inspect yourself and the options available for your future should be a FUN and empowering game. What it also shoul…
'I don't even know where to start' is a very common remark I receive when I ask future career changers as to why they had not started their career transition on their own. Even having followed popular career advice and having completed all kinds of psychometric tests, they are often still lacking in direction and understanding what career choice wo…
In the second episode I am addressing a recent yet very prevalent misconception that 2021 is NOT the right time to make any career moves. I share why the exact opposite is true and how the current global landscape could not have prepared a more fertile ground for planning out and executing your transition. I also let you in on why that may not feel…
