RN to Realtor: the Career Pivot She Didn’t Plan Turned Out to Be the One That Fit | Lisa Cole, the Cole Team

You raised your hand to help with your husband’s career change — and somewhere along the way, you became the one running everything. What you didn’t expect? You actually fell in love with the work. If you’ve ever stumbled into something you never planned and realized it fits you better than the career you chose […]

Make the Internet Like You: From Blogging to Digital Marketing Founder | Vivienne Wagner, Founder + CEO, Houndstooth Media Group, Ep. 28

You’ve built a solid business, but the old way of getting found on Google is quietly disappearing — and if your website isn’t speaking a language AI can find, your competitors are already winning customers you never knew existed. Most business owners have no idea this shift has already happened. Vivienne Wagner, founder and CEO […]

Two Nurses, One Bold Second Act: Founding a Nonprofit Hospice | Beyond Hospice co-founders, Kerry Keenan & Jill Schoenecker, Ep. 27

Kerry Keenan and Jill Schoenecker built their nursing careers around hospice care — right up until their health system sold the program to a for-profit company. They had two options: stay and keep doing work that no longer felt like theirs, or walk away. Between them, they’d tried a version of each, and neither stuck. […]

From Corporate Sales to Functional Weight Loss: A Career Pivot Story | Brittany Gieske, FPN-P, Founder, The Metabolic Method, Ep. 26

Every doctor told Brittany Gieske the exhaustion, the stubborn weight, and the symptoms with no clear cause were just “normal” postpartum life. She didn’t believe it — so she found the answers doctors never tested for, then walked away from a ten-year corporate career to make sure other women didn’t have to go looking alone. […]

The Artist’s Way at 40: One Woman’s Unexpected Second Act + Special Announcement | (replay) Calleen De Oliveira, Ep. 25

You’re good at your job, you’re juggling everything, and somewhere underneath all of it there’s a quiet question you haven’t answered yet: what do I actually want to do next? The problem isn’t that you don’t know how to work hard — it’s that no one ever taught you how to listen to yourself. ABOUT […]

Invisible to Iconic: How She Turned Her Colors Into a Passion-led Career Change | Marissa Ray, House of Colour, Ep. 24[replay + updates]

There is a moment when something finally feels like you — not the version that carpools and manages spreadsheets, but the version that has been waiting. Marissa found hers in a color drape. She didn’t blow up her life — she built a new one, slowly, intentionally, one client at a time, and she’s here […]

From Accountant to Author: Ruby Rayne’s Inspiring Second Act [replay + update], Ep. 23

Ruby wrote her first book on a dare — an accountant who’d never wanted to write, plotting a love story in her head at the kitchen table. Four books, a number-one release, and an Audible deal later, she’ll tell you she still can’t believe she did it. What she won’t say upfront: she wrote the […]

Returning to Engineering after 12 years at Home | Leah Tilstra [replay + updates], Ep. 22

Returning to work after a career break? Here’s what stay-at-home moms get told: the years home don’t count, you’ll come back at a lower title, and you should take whatever salary is offered. Leah Tilstra rejected all three — and walked back into engineering at Abbott with a senior title and a sign-on bonus after […]

Why Taking a Break Might Be the Best Thing for Your Creative Journey | Molly Wipperfurth, Ep. 21

Six months in, Molly has a lot to celebrate — real connections she never expected and a podcast she taught herself from nothing that landed in the top 10% globally within three weeks. But being proud of something you built is exactly why you protect it. So this update is about what comes next: slowing […]

From Healthcare Operations to Elementary Education: A Midlife Career Pivot | Meghan Johnson, Ep. 20

A midlife career change she didn’t initially choose. Meghan spent years as the operations leader who had to deliver the layoff news — and she cried the first time she did it. Then, a few waves later, it was her. She handed over her badge in a parking lot, took a summer to stop bracing, […]