When you're in a season of transition, one question can feel especially pressing: How do I know what my next step is?

We often think we need complete clarity before we move forward. But sometimes what we're really looking for is certainty—the assurance that we're making the right decision and won't regret it later.

In this episode of Navigate, Tim explores a different approach: instead of trying to figure out the whole path, focus on what you already know and the next faithful step you can take. Sometimes that step isn't a major decision at all. It may be a conversation, an experiment, a question, or simply giving yourself permission to explore.

You'll also be invited to consider three coaching questions:

• What do you already know to be true about this season?
• What is one step you could take that would help you learn something?
• What would your next step look like if it didn't have to answer every question about your future?

You don't need the whole path illuminated. Sometimes you just need enough light for the next faithful step.

Want to go deeper? Join Tim for the live Navigating Transition workshop on September 22. Together, we'll explore a practical framework for understanding what happens during seasons of change and how to move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Learn more and register: https://encompasslifecoaching.podia.com/navigating-transition-live-workshop

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What are you resisting right now—and what might that resistance be telling you?

In this episode of Navigate, Tim shares from his own experience of stepping away from a ministry role to pursue coaching more fully—and the resistance that surfaced along the way. What looked like a career decision was actually touching nearly every area of his life: family, finances, relationships, identity, purpose, and faith.

Resistance doesn't always mean we're headed in the wrong direction. Sometimes it reveals what we're afraid of losing, what matters most to us, or where growth is asking us to release something familiar.

In this episode, we'll explore how to become curious about resistance rather than simply trying to overcome it—and how to discern the invitation that may be hiding underneath it.

Reflection Question:
What am I resisting right now—and what might that resistance be telling me?

Explore Your Own Transition

If you're navigating a season of change, the Transition Impact Assessment can help you identify which areas of your life are being most affected and where you may need greater clarity and attention.

Take the Transition Impact Assessment:
https://encompasslifecoaching.podia.com/transition-impact-assessment

Learn more about Tim's coaching, resources, and upcoming workshops at encompasslifecoaching.com.

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If today's episode resonated with you, I'd love to help you navigate your own season of transition. Explore coaching, workshops, free resources, and practical tools at www.encompasslifecoaching.com.

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Transition often creates tension—but tension isn’t necessarily a problem to solve. In this episode, Tim explores three core tensions we all navigate during seasons of change and how they affect us both internally and externally. You’ll learn how to identify the tension that feels most present for you and begin managing it with greater awareness, clarity, and intention.

A question to consider: Which of these three tensions feels most present in your life right now—and what might change if you stopped trying to resolve it and began learning to navigate it?

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Transition is about more than changing jobs, moving to a new city, retiring, or facing a major life event. Those are the visible changes. The deeper work happens beneath the surface.

In this episode, Tim Austin explores the difference between change and transition, explaining why so many people feel unsettled even after making the "right" decision. You'll discover how transition shapes your identity, relationships, and sense of purpose—and why paying attention to what's happening inside you is just as important as navigating what's happening around you.

If you're in a season of uncertainty or helping someone else through one, this conversation will give you a fresh perspective and lay the foundation for the Navigate Change Framework™ that will be explored in the episodes ahead.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why change and transition are not the same thing.
• What really happens beneath the surface during life's biggest changes.
• Why some people emerge stronger from transition while others feel stuck.
• A simple question that can help you navigate your own season of change.

Ready to take the next step?

Download the Transition Impact Assessment and discover how your current season of transition is affecting different areas of your life.

👉 https://encompasslifecoaching.podia.com/transition-impact-assessment

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Thanks for listening!
If today's episode resonated with you, I'd love to help you navigate your own season of transition. Explore coaching, workshops, free resources, and practical tools at www.encompasslifecoaching.com.

Ready to talk? Schedule a complimentary discovery call with Tim.

After an extended break, the Navigate Podcast is back—but this is more than simply picking up where we left off.

In this episode, Tim shares why he is rebooting the podcast, how years of coaching people through change have shaped his thinking, and how writing his recent blog series helped a clearer framework for transition emerge.

You’ll also hear what Navigate will explore going forward and why transition is not merely something to survive, but an opportunity for growth, creativity and deeper faith.

Whether you are navigating change yourself or helping someone else through it, this episode offers an invitation to pause, reflect and take the next faithful step.

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If today's episode resonated with you, I'd love to help you navigate your own season of transition. Explore coaching, workshops, free resources, and practical tools at www.encompasslifecoaching.com.

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In this episode of Navigate, host Tim Austin reflects on one of the main ways we gain solid footing through uncertain seasons. For anyone whose ever wrestled with lack of clarity or confidence in seasons of change, Tim's insights will be a source of encouragment and a reminder that transition seasons are opportunities to align ourselves with what truly matters.

Mentioned in this Podcast:

With: Reimagining the Way You Relate to God, Skye Jethani
Psalm 42
Genesis 26
Download Tim's Discernment Guide

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If today's episode resonated with you, I'd love to help you navigate your own season of transition. Explore coaching, workshops, free resources, and practical tools at www.encompasslifecoaching.com.

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In this episode of Navigate, Tim is reflecting on building trust through transition seasons. Navigating change requires trust building. But that’s not always easy. It can sometimes feel like digging a well in hostile or unknown territory.
Tim compares the process of trust building with the ancient practice of digging wells. In the Bible, wells were regularly places of divine appointments and answers to prayer. They were places of provision, but also points of contact. A good well was reliable, life-giving and life-sustaining.

Likewise, when we dig wells of trust through the seasons - with God and with others - we are storing up a reliable source of relational capital, namely trust. Tim offers some important communication tips to help us dig wells of trust in transition.

Sources:
Craig Groeschel quote
The Holy Bible (NIV Version)

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Thanks for listening!
If today's episode resonated with you, I'd love to help you navigate your own season of transition. Explore coaching, workshops, free resources, and practical tools at www.encompasslifecoaching.com.

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How are you leaning into change in this season? What’s your posture like? Have you been resisting or embracing the changes in your life?
In this episode of Navigate with Tim Austin, Tim reflects upon seasons of change and how these become opportunities to discover and embrace our true identities and live with greater purpose and fulfillment.
Tim has a deep appreciation for the many creative ways seasonal change has helped him approach change on a personal level. Tim says, "Sometimes we might resist change because of the way it challenges our sense of identity and purpose. I’ve come to view certain transition seasons as an opportunity for shedding and letting go of the non-essentials. For getting back to what matters. For learning to walk out my days with less baggage, not more."

Resources:
Discernment Guide Free Download

3D Transitions™ Group Coaching

Henri Nouwen as referenced in The Sacred Enneagram

Any and all Bible Quotations

Support the show

Thanks for listening!
If today's episode resonated with you, I'd love to help you navigate your own season of transition. Explore coaching, workshops, free resources, and practical tools at www.encompasslifecoaching.com.

Ready to talk? Schedule a complimentary discovery call with Tim.