Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search

As human beings, when we get stuck, we tend to focus on one thing that we latch onto as the "reason" why. Or one thing that if we could only do, it would solve all of our problems. 

It's never just one thing. It's always more nuanced than that. 

There is one thing that is very clear though. The reasons why you think you're stuck and the reasons why you're actually stuck, are two completely different things.

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Have you ever heard of career coaches use a ranking system for career change difficulty?

As the difficulty goes up, these career coaches would have you believe it's impossible… except it's not. I've talked to career experts and career coaches that will try to talk you out of it. 

It's difficult to imagine how career changes actually work without starting over if you've never done it yourself. 

So, in today's episode, we're revealing the 4 most common ways that people change careers (without starting over).

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories (and career hacks), find all the podcasts HERE.

Or tell us more about your personal career situation and schedule a conversation with our team to learn how we can best help! 

Mentioned Resources:

1. How to Connect with Anyone (Spotify / Apple Podcast)
2. Designing Career Experiments (Website)

Are your skills transferable to your dream career?

Many people don't believe that their skills can apply to the career they are desiring to move into. People tend to put their skills and experience into boxes and can't see how the skills of one box can apply to another box.

The truth, though, is that most of your skills and experience CAN transfer, even if you don't yet know what your dream career is. 

We've developed an entire process to do this. Want to know how? Listen immediately (press play already) and learn all the things! 

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories (and career hacks), find all the podcasts HERE.

Or tell us more about your personal career situation and schedule a conversation with our team to learn how we can best help! 

Wondering if you have to choose between another degree and staying in the comfortably-miserable job you're in right now?

There's a third option: A more unconventional way to get unstuck without starting over from the bottom.

It uses the experience you have in your career while allowing you to find a role that you love. What is this unconventional approach? 

Listen to the first episode in our 4 part series: How to Get Unstuck (Without Starting Over) to find out.

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories (and career hacks), find all the podcasts HERE.

Or tell us more about your personal career situation and schedule a conversation with our team to learn how we can best help! 

What if your job looks perfect on paper but quietly drains your energy, confidence, and momentum? In this episode, executive Paul Ichilchik shares how spending 80–90% of his time outside his strengths became a breaking point—and how challenging assumptions about security and success led to an intentional career change that restored alignment and energy.

What you'll learn

• How to recognize executive misalignment before it turns into burnout
• Why "success on paper" can be the most dangerous career trap
• How to identify when you're spending too much time outside your strengths
• The hidden cost of tying identity too closely to title, pay, or status
• Why saying no to a strong offer can be a strategic leadership move

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit  happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

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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

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