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The Career Change Podcast

The Career Change Podcast

Rikke Hansen

The Career Change Podcast will show you how to change careers or figure out what business to start when you are a smart (but stuck) person in your mid-30s to your mid-50s. Fed up with fluffy motivational quotes? Then you are going to love the frank and proven advice shared by your host Rikke Hansen - A Career Change Advisor and entrepreneur with over 19 years' experience in helping thousands of men and women globally make big decisions and create careers and businesses that are both meaningful and future-proof. Every second Tuesday of the month Rikke will share advice, strategies, and resources that work in the real world, right now - Subscribe and go to www.TheCareerChangePodcast.com for more - Welcome home!

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best The Career Change Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to The Career Change Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite The Career Change Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

The Career Change Podcast - #59 How To Escape The Overthinker's Negativity Trap
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10/08/24 • 48 min

Do you tend to (endlessly) overthink your career change, but never get any solid clarity about it?

Keep noticing (and worrying about!) problems and risks with your new business or career idea, instead of taking action and making it happen?

Then you are stuck in The Overthinker's Negativity Trap!

Hit play to learn WHY you keep falling into this trap and HOW you can avoid or escape it - Both vital requirements if you want to (finally) get your career change or own business off the ground!

Spoiler alert: You will never look at your overthinker self-sabotage tendencies the same way again after listening to this episode.
But you'll also know the exact questions to ask yourself to quickly escape The Trap if you ever fall into it again.

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Do you keep overwhelming yourself with too many career change ideas? Or overthinking the few you have until you kill them off or end up in analysis paralysis? Then hit play on this episode right away!
Are you stuck in your career change process? Or not moving forward with starting your own business? Then you are not making enough decisions or experimenting (frequently) enough - Yep!
But don't fret - I'm not talking about big, scary, crazy-risky decisions or actions! Listen to discover why it's the smaller, more frequent decisions and actions you really want to get cracking with to build your transition muscles and get unstuck.
It's time to get out of your head - This episode will show you how!

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The Career Change Podcast - #42 Will You Regret Changing Careers?

#42 Will You Regret Changing Careers?

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02/28/23 • 44 min

Are you worried about failing and regretting it IF you were to change careers or start that business? But are you also stuck in a career or job you don't/no longer enjoy? Then this episode will help you get unstuck!
Hit play to discover what the biggest regret of career changers is and how you can actively decide what regrets you DON'T want to have - Both in the near future AND at the end of your life .
This is an episode that deals with some of the biggest questions you'll ever have to face in your work life - If you are looking for a more meaningful approach to decision-making, don't miss this one!

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The Career Change Podcast - #41 Why You Don't Have To Risk It All To Start A Business
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02/14/23 • 48 min

Would you love to start your own business but can’t just “quit your job and go all in from day one”?

Wonder if you are even cut out to join the entrepreneurial ranks when you can’t just “risk it all”? (like you are repeatedly being told to do by successful start-up founders over on Twitter🙄).
Don’t worry – You have other (more realistic) options when it comes to starting your own business after 35!

The great news is that not only do you NOT have to quit your job first in order to start your business (and risk all of your savings/kids/family/partner/sanity in the process – Phew ;).

As a matter of fact your can use the very job or profession you want to leave behind to power your first business!

Get ready to feel fired up about what’s possible for you – Even if right now starting your own business can seem like a far-fetched dream.

Hit play to discover how real people in the real world go about the initial stages of starting their own business – Especially if they can’t just risk it all or quit their job!

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The Career Change Podcast - #40 Help - I Hate Selling Myself!

#40 Help - I Hate Selling Myself!

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01/31/23 • 39 min

Do you hate blowing your own trumpet or tooting your own horn? Feel like a sleazy second hand car sales person the moment you start “selling yourself?”
Hit play on this podcast episode to discover a whole new way of thinking about selling – One that will help you go from self-promoter to value provider because you understand why selling is NOT about you.
Yep – It’s absolutely possible to "sell yourself" in a non-sleazy way – Get ready to change your mind, feel empowered AND speed up your career transition in the process!

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The Career Change Podcast - #29 How To Stop Putting Your Career Change On Hold
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06/28/22 • 31 min

Do you keep putting your career change or business plans on hold? Find yourself reverting back to dabbling and never getting any real results? This episode will help you change that - Once and for all!
Many aspiring career changers never move past motivational "hacks" or fluffy Instagram quotes (and therefore never escape the dreaded "start, stop, start, stop cycle"). Listen to this episode if you want to learn how to access and create a MUCH deeper level of urgency, so you can STOP faffing about and (finally) get started AND keep going!

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The Career Change Podcast - #28 How To Avoid Making THE Wrong Career Change Decision
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06/14/22 • 30 min

Are you afraid of making THE wrong decision when it comes to your career change or first business? Then you are likely falling for what I call "The One Big Decision Fallacy" and are likely feeling an enormous amount of pressure and worry! (am I right?! ;).
Hit play on this episode if you want to discover why there is NO "one big decision" to be made (or messed up) when it comes to changing careers in the real world (phew!) - As well as what you want to start doing instead (right away) to get cracking with your transition and with decision making.
This is for you whether you don't trust yourself to make any decisions or you worry about making THE wrong decision - Get ready for a big sigh of relief! I'm excited to share an empowering, proven and reality-checked approach to decision-making with you in this episode!

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The Career Change Podcast - #27 Should You Turn Your Passion Into A Business?
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05/31/22 • 42 min

Should you should turn your passion into a business? This episode will help you skip past the fluff and hype in order to figure out what's right for YOU and your unique circumstances.
Whether you should base your business on your passion is important to figure out UP FRONT. Why? Because not all passions are created equal when it comes to whether you can actually turn it into a business you'll also enjoy AND that's also profitable.
Listen to this episode to discover two highly practical strategies for figuring out if YOUR passion is a good candidate for being turned into a business...or not!

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The Career Change Podcast - #26 How Perfectionism Is Sabotaging Your Career Change
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05/17/22 • 31 min

Perfectionists have a MUCH harder time changing careers or starting their own business - Have you noticed?
If you suffer from toxic perfectionism, you are likely (still) stuck in that job or career you no longer enjoy. Why? Because you are (still) waiting for the perfect business idea, perfect career or perfect passion to (somehow) show up or for you to (somehow) find it?
Sounds familiar? Then hit play on this episode right now!
You'll discover why and how you are using your perfectionism as the perfect self-sabotage and delay mechanism and (most importantly) what to do instead. Learning how to effectively get a handle on perfectionism is a key part of a successful career transition - Especially if you are a corporate professional over 35!
This is definitely one of those episodes where you'll feel like I'm inside of your head right away - But you'll also finish it with a sense of relief knowing you have other options (and how to start taking advantage of them).

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The Career Change Podcast - #43 The (Real) Worst Case Scenario For Career Changers
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03/14/23 • 39 min

What if you were ALREADY in your worst case scenario? What if you stopped wasting so much time and energy on distracting yourself with what might or might not happen if you were you to change careers or start that business? What if you focused A LOT MORE on creating your BEST case scenario instead?
You'll never view your career change experience the same way after you've listened to this episode - Get ready to discover how to assess and handle even your biggest fears and why you are likely worried about the wrong kind of worst case scenarios!

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How many episodes does The Career Change Podcast have?

The Career Change Podcast currently has 60 episodes available.

What topics does The Career Change Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Podcasts, Business, Careers and Career Change.

What is the most popular episode on The Career Change Podcast?

The episode title '#55 The Most Risky Career Change Strategy After 35!' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Career Change Podcast?

The average episode length on The Career Change Podcast is 33 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Career Change Podcast released?

Episodes of The Career Change Podcast are typically released every 14 days, 1 hour.

When was the first episode of The Career Change Podcast?

The first episode of The Career Change Podcast was released on Jun 28, 2020.

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