Career pivots sound exciting until you are actually living through one.

The uncertainty. The second-guessing. The loss of routine or identity. The pressure to quickly prove that you made the right decision.

In this Quick Lift, Betsy shares the biggest takeaways from her conversation with Trish Barber, author of Why Women Pivot, along with practical action steps for anyone navigating a career change, reinvention, or unexpected new chapter.

This episode is a reminder that feeling unsure does not mean you are failing—and that you do not have to have the entire path figured out before taking your next step.

Listen: to the full Loud & Lifted episode with Trish for the complete conversation.

Purchase: Why Women Pivot

Career pivots can look exciting from the outside.

A new job. A new business. A fresh start.

But behind the announcement is often fear, uncertainty, financial pressure and the uncomfortable question: Who am I without my old title?

In this episode of Loud & Lifted, Betsy talks with Trish Barber, author of Why Women Pivot, about what it really takes to make a career change—whether the pivot is your choice or one you never saw coming.

They discuss how to know when it is time for a change, how to identify the work that energizes you, how to rebuild your identity beyond a company or job title and how to talk confidently about your next chapter.

Trish also shares why every woman needs a personal advisory board made up of people who will challenge her, encourage her and help her navigate what comes next.

In this episode:

• How to know when a difficult season has become a sign that it is time to leave

• Why career pivots are rarely clear or linear

• How to identify your strengths and transferable skills

• How to own your pivot story without sounding wounded or apologetic

• Why networking and asking for help matter

• How to build a personal advisory board

• Why women need to actively support other women through career transitions

Whether you are thinking about leaving your job, recovering from a layoff, changing industries or starting your own business, this conversation is a reminder that you do not need every answer before taking the next step.

Chapters

00:00 Why women pivot

05:00 When change is forced

06:30 What energizes you vs. drains you

09:00 Building a personal brand after a pivot

12:00 Separating your identity from your title

18:00 The emotional reality of starting over

25:30 Why you need a personal advisory board

30:30 Women supporting women through change

Links

Trish Barber

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Sometimes we’re not stuck on the decision. We’re avoiding the conversation that comes after it.

In this Quick Lift, Betsy breaks down one of the biggest takeaways from her conversation with Kasey D’Amato: the hard conversation sitting underneath the big decision.

You’ll learn how to name the real issue, use Kasey’s head-heart-gut framework to get clear, recognize when busyness is actually avoidance, and prepare to have the conversation without over-explaining, over-apologizing, or trying to manage everyone else’s reaction.

The conversation may not get easier while you wait. But clarity usually starts when you finally stop working around it.

Links

Full episode

Kasey D'Amato

Most of us don't actually have a decision problem — we have an avoidance problem. There's one conversation, with one person, that we keep dodging, and it's the reason we're spinning our wheels.

This week, Betsy sits down with Kasey D'Amato — a physician assistant turned founder who built and exited a company that went global, and now advises CEOs and executive teams on the big calls: pivots, partnerships, hiring, firing, exits.

What you'll take away:

• The head, heart, gut test for making a decision when the data says one thing and your gut says another — and why two of the three have to align before you move
• The Polaris Point method: how to set a three-year goal and reverse-engineer it back to what you do in the next 90 days
• The two-minute rule for not making decisions out of anger
• Why most of the "outside pressure" you're drowning in is actually within your control
• The single first move to make if you're feeling stuck right now

Plus what alone time taught Kasey about saying no.

Kasey's free Decision Diagnosis tool is linked in the show notes.

Links

Kasey's website

Kasey's Instagram

Decision Diagnosis

We know we should set boundaries at work. So why do so many of us keep saying yes when every part of us wants to say no?

In this Loud & Lifted Quick Lift, Betsy breaks down four powerful truths from her conversation with Carrie, founder of Hey Work Friend and a former corporate HR leader.

You’ll learn why your nervous system may be working against you when you try to push back, the three-step script that makes workplace boundaries easier to communicate, and how to approach HR strategically when you’re dealing with a toxic manager or unhealthy workplace dynamic.

In this Quick Lift:

▪ Why people-pleasing at work may actually be a nervous-system response

▪ The three-step formula for setting a clear, professional boundary

▪ How to reset a boundary when you didn’t handle it well the first time

▪ What to document before going to HR

▪ Why toxic managers often don’t change

▪ The real health cost of chronic workplace overload

▪ How to stop confusing constant availability with value

Bottom line: Do great work. Show up with integrity. But stop sacrificing your health for a job that was never guaranteed to protect you.

Links

Full episode

Hey Work Friend

Hey Work Friend on Instagram

You were sold a plan: do great work, stay dependable, don't make noise, and someone will notice. It doesn't work that way — and the conversation with Roxy Couse named exactly why.

In this Quick Lift, Betsy pulls the four sharpest truths from that episode and gets honest about what each one looks like from inside the rooms where promotion decisions actually get made: why hard work is the price of admission and not the strategy, why being invisible keeps you out of the conversation no matter how good you are, why your manager can't be your whole career, and why you genuinely cannot outwork a bad boss.

Each truth comes with one move you can make this week — not a worksheet, not ten habits, just one. Because awareness doesn't change anything. The first move does.

For the woman who's done everything right and is still wondering why she feels stuck.

Links

Full Episode

Connect with Roxy

Roxy Couse has built a platform by saying the quiet parts of corporate life out loud.

The career lies. The unspoken rules. The bad bosses. The pressure to be "authentic" at work while still somehow being polished, agreeable, visible, strategic, collaborative, ambitious, and not "too much." Cute little list, right?

In this episode of Loud & Lifted, Roxy brings her signature mix of corporate hard truths, workplace humor, and practical career strategy to a conversation about what it really takes to get ahead — without losing yourself in the process.

Her message is clear: hard work alone will not save your career.

We talk about why performance doesn't automatically lead to promotion, why visibility matters more than most women want to admit, and why personal branding isn't just an online thing — it's how people understand your value before you're even in the room. Roxy gets into the hard truth about bad bosses, why you can't outwork one, workplace mean girls, career ownership, and why "no one is coming to save you" isn't harsh — it's freeing.

And in the back half, it gets personal: Roxy shares how she built her own business on the side of a corporate job, the 3 a.m. note she wrote giving herself six months to get out, and what it took to actually bet on herself. It's the rare career conversation that names the hard stuff honestly — and still ends somewhere hopeful.

This one's for the overachievers, people-pleasers, eldest daughters, and high-performing women who have done everything "right" and are still wondering why they feel stuck.

You'll learn

• Why hard work often gets you more work — not more opportunity
• The real cost of being invisible in your career
• How to build visibility without feeling fake
• Why speaking to your impact isn't bragging — and who's actually in the room when it counts
• Why you can't outwork a bad boss — and what staying too long really costs
• How personal branding becomes career protection
• How to start building something of your own — before you're ready

Roxy's hard truth: your career is personal. And if you don't take ownership of it, someone else will decide what happens next.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome Roxy Couse

00:31 The hard truth women are sold at work

02:54 The cost of being invisible

04:24 Visibility does not mean being extroverted

09:26 How to talk about your wins without bragging

11:53 When your manager is not respected

13:47 No one is coming to save your career

18:11 Why you cannot outwork a bad boss

20:56 There is no girls’ club

25:45 Building something that is yours

29:00 Betting on yourself when you are risk-averse

32:15 Why starting before you are ready matters

32:50 Where to connect with Roxy

Links

https://roxycouse.com/

https://www.instagram.com/roxycouse/

https://www.tiktok.com/@roxycouse

Rachel Druckenmiller was out for a run when she was hit by a truck. The crash fractured her spine — and it fractured something harder to see: her trust in her own body.

This Quick Lift pulls the biggest lessons from that conversation. It's not a fitness episode, and it's definitely not about working out to look a certain way. It's about what happens when movement becomes the way you come back to yourself.

After the accident, Rachel felt weak, scared, and disconnected. What rebuilt her wasn't a mindset shift or a magic moment of clarity. It was lifting. It was consistency. It was support. It was borrowing belief from someone else until she could believe in herself again.

Three takeaways we break down:

▪ Confidence isn't a feeling — it's self-trust, and self-trust is built by keeping promises to yourself

▪ Strength changes how you show up — in a room, in a hard conversation, in your own life

▪ You don't rebuild alone — and the people who tell you that you do are wrong

Confidence doesn't come from thinking harder. It comes from doing the thing. Keeping the promise. Taking the walk. Lifting the weight. Asking for help.

One rep at a time.