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(2 of 8) Career Reflection: Use Your Past to Find What Career Actually Fits You with These 10 Questions | What Fits You

Tue, 09 Jun 2026

You could spend the next decade reflecting on your career and still end up exactly where you are right now. Not because reflection doesn't work, but because directionless reflection won't get you to the forward question. You can probably name what you don't want with real precision, but you still can't tell anyone what you actually do want.

That gap is where most career changes stall for years. Sometimes decades.

In Day 2 of the What Fits You 8-Day Mini Course, you'll work through 10 specific reflection questions designed to use your past intentionally, the same questions our team uses with clients to surface the patterns and themes that point to what actually fits.

The work that genuinely fits you almost always feels familiar, like coming home after a long time away. The pieces are usually already in your history. You just need a framework to see them clearly.

What you'll learn:

Why reflection alone leaves most high performers exactly where they started
The forward question most people can't answer, and how to actually answer it
Why careers that fit feel familiar, not foreign, and what that means for where to look
The 10 specific reflection questions our team uses with clients to surface what actually energizes you
The bonus question that often surfaces what every other question missed

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Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

An Overthinker's Guide To Making Better Career Decisions (Spotify /Apple Podcasts)
Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It's Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Mentioned Episode:

What Fits You - Introduction (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
What Fits You - Day 1 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Episode 222 - (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

(1 of 8) How to Find Your Signature Strengths: The Foundation of Career Fit and Fulfilling Work | What Fits You

Mon, 08 Jun 2026

The thing that's exceptional about you is probably the thing you've stopped noticing. After enough years of high performance, the things you do better than almost anyone get filed away as "obvious" or "easy" or "everyone can do that." Even when they're genuinely rare.

That's the Signature Strengths problem most high performers walk into a career change with. They're great at things they don't even count as strengths, and they can't tell you what they're truly built for because they've never named it.

In Day 1 of the What Fits You 8-Day Mini Course, you'll start separating what you're great at from what you actually want to keep doing. Because being excellent at something isn't the same as it being a fit, and the gap between those two is where most career changes go wrong.

What you'll learn:

Why "I'm a good leader" and "I'm great with people" aren't actually Signature Strengths
The specific definition of a Signature Strength, and why it's the foundation for every career change that actually fits
Why the things that come most naturally to you are usually the things you've stopped noticing
The Strengths Reflection Exercise that surfaces patterns years of self-assessment tools missed
Why even high performers who've done this work for years often don't know their Signature Strengths until someone helps them dig deeper

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Changing Careers (When You Don't Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Mentioned Episode:

What Fits You - Introduction (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

(Introduction) How to Find Career Fit in 8 Days: A Step-by-Step Process | What Fits You

Mon, 08 Jun 2026

The people who find this course usually aren't here because something obvious is broken. They're here because their career looks fine from the outside and still doesn't feel right from the inside. They can name what they don't want with precision but freeze when asked what they actually do want.

That gap is what this course was built to close.

Over the next eight days, you'll walk through the same process Scott built from scratch after his own career fell apart. The same process that's now taken nearly 100,000 people from "I know something's off" to "I know what fits me."

In this Introduction, you'll hear what each day delivers, why finding the right career isn't usually about reinvention, and how to set yourself up to get the most out of the next eight days.

What you'll learn:

Why most career advice falls short for high performers who've already done years of self-reflection
The reason nobody has ever taught you how to find work that actually fits, and what to do about it
What Signature Strengths are and why they're the foundation of every career change that works
What each of the 8 days covers and the simple exercise that pairs with each episode
How to get the most out of the course whether you finish with a decision or a clearer next step

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

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

Disappearing Episode: This Week 2 Announcements & Milestones

Sat, 06 Jun 2026

2 Surprise Announcements from Scott and Happen To Your Career

The $300,000 Trap: What It Really Costs to Stay in a Career That No Longer Fits (Identity Loss) | Executive Series Part 3

Fri, 05 Jun 2026

Most executives never run the math on what it really costs to stay in a career that no longer fits. They calculate what leaving would cost them, the income, the title, the security they've spent fifteen or twenty years building, but they almost never run the numbers on what staying is already taking from them.

In Part 3 of our Executive Career Change series, you'll see what the math actually looks like, including the four real costs of staying that compound year after year, the data on what really happens to income after a structured executive career change, and the three questions that surface the truth for almost every executive we've worked with.

The salary you've been protecting becomes something you've been paying for. And once you see what staying actually costs you, the math of leaving looks completely different.

What you'll learn:

The four real costs of staying in a career that no longer fits, including the identity loss that almost no executive sees coming until it's too late
What the Wharton data actually shows about income recovery after an executive career change, and why "leaving will cost you forever" is almost always wrong
Why the income math of staying isn't safe, it's a slow leak most people never count
The three questions our team uses to surface what's actually going on for executives stuck in the trap
Why the first real move isn't the resignation or the announcement, it's something simpler and more important

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It's Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Mentioned Episodes:

Executive Career Change Series Part 1 of 3 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Executive Career Change Series Part 2 of 3 (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
Katie's Career Transition Story (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

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