Feeling stuck in your career is not the same as knowing what you want instead. What do you do when your career no longer feels right, but you have absolutely no clue what you want instead?

When you’re feeling stuck, it’s easy to think you need a massive 10-year plan or a sudden "lightning bolt" of inspiration before you’re allowed to make a change. But clarity doesn't come from sitting at your desk overthinking it—it comes from gathering real-world information.

In this episode, I share how I left a 20-year corporate career at companies like Spotify and Meta without a perfect roadmap, and the exact step-by-step process I used to find my way next. We’re breaking down how to stop chasing fancy job titles and instead figure out what kind of ordinary working life you actually want.

Plus, we tackle a major trap that trips almost everyone up: learning how to untangle whether you want to quit a new path because you genuinely dislike it, or if you’re just facing the uncomfortable "tax" of being a beginner.

What we dive into:

• The Passion Myth: Why waiting for an "aha!" moment keeps you stuck, and what to do instead.
• The Ordinary Tuesday Test: How to design a career around the daily life you want to live two years from now.
• Fear vs. Dislike: A simple trick to tell if you’re resisting something out of fear or true misalignment (featuring my own messy video-editing rabbit hole).
• Your Experiment This Week: A low-stakes, real-world action step you can take today to get your first piece of honest evidence.

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