Maybe you have a “great job” where you’ve been extremely successful. But does any of that matter if you dread going to work? Nope, you’re not ungrateful if you feel this way. When your career no longer aligns with your life, it's often because your identity has become too tightly wound around your job title, creating what feels like an inescapable trap. Learn how Karen stepped away from her all-encompassing job as a Dean and redesigned her career and life to find true fulfillment (and how you can do the same!)

What you’ll learn

• How successful people often struggle most with career change because their entire identity becomes tied to their role
• How to use life design principles to make work serve your life instead of consuming it
• How to use the Ideal Career Profile to separate who you are from what you do for work

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

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Free Resources

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Related Episodes

1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

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It’s never just one thing. It’s always more nuanced than that.

There is one thing that is very clear though. The reasons why you think you’re stuck and the reasons why you’re actually stuck, are two completely different things.

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories (and career hacks), find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Or tell us more about your personal career situation and schedule a conversation with our team go to https://happentoyourcareer.com/schedule-htyc to learn how we can best help!

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As the difficulty goes up, these career coaches would have you believe it’s impossible… except it’s not. I’ve talked to career experts and career coaches that will try to talk you out of it.

It’s difficult to imagine how career changes actually work without starting over if you’ve never done it yourself.

So, in today’s episode, we’re revealing the 4 most common ways that people change careers (without starting over).

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories (and career hacks), find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Or tell us more about your personal career situation and schedule a conversation with our team go to https://happentoyourcareer.com/schedule-htyc to learn how we can best help!