Career Change Interviews
The science to find your flow - Sarah Gregg
On episode 37 of the show, I have Sarah Gregg, a psychologist, coach and author of two highly-practical books - Find Your Flow and her upcoming book Choose Happy which is being released next month. We talk about the science behind gratitude, what rules and routines...
From NHS Psychology to Travel Blogger And Hypnotherapist - Alice Nettleingham
On this week’s episode, I have Alice Nettleingham, who has gone through a number of career changes and each time has really enjoyed every career she has been in. Like me, she loves variety and adventure and we met each other in Bansko, Bulgaria. After graduating in...
Managing Careers At Facebook and Starting A Business During A Pandemic - AJ Mizes
On this week’s episode, I have AJ Mizes, who left his job at Facebook in San Francisco as a Global People & HR Leader to start his company The Human Reach in the middle of the pandemic (talk about taking risks). AJ is a Career & Leadership Coach & HR...
Prototyping Your Next Career and Designing Your Life with Design Thinking - Fiona Reith
On this episode, I interview Fiona Reith, a phenomenal career change coach I know from a certification training we completed last year together called Firework. She recommended I read a book for career and life change called Designing Your Life by Dave Evans and Bill...
Shifting to a new career and life path by changing your self-concept - Damon Cart
On this week’s episode, I have Damon Cart, who has a huge career and life turnaround story. Only a few years ago Damon suffered from depression running his own life insurance business as a State Farm agent while his marriage also broke down. Looking for ways to...
From movie and TV actor to The Mindhealth Coach - Michael Legge
On this week’s episode, I have Michael Legge, who is a former actor best known for playing teenage Frank McCourt in Allen parker’s 1999 movie Angela's ashes and you might also know him from other TV shows like Shameless. Since being famous in the acting world for over...
From HR in Canadian government to starting a wellness business in Thailand by developing your gut decisions - Lori Ann Arsenault
On this week’s episode, I have Lori Ann Arsenalt who is the founder and chief grounding officer of Freedom Within Wellness and certainly has made a huge career transition and life transition story too. Lori Ann was a human resources manager for 18 years over in Canada...
From dentistry to tech startups through testing and validating career ideas - Tom Youngs
In this episode, I talk to Tom Youngs who made the big leap from successfully starting a career in dentistry in a well-respected private practice in the UK, to jumping into entrepreneurship in tech startups. I met Tom over five years ago - a well-respected coach I had...
The secret to live longer and happier without anti-aging products or restrictive diets - Matt Garrow-Fisher
This week, I discuss a topic that for some is taken for granted, for others neglected, and for all of us, whether we are young or old, is the true secret to not only happiness but living a long life. And I’m not talking about anti-ageing creams, botox, ketogenic or...
5 Steps To Transition to An Ideal Workweek
Transcript: This week. I discuss one of the most effective ways to make changes in your life when you lack passion and balance for the things that are important to you. It's all about taking an audit of your time. To find easy wins. So you can burn from within. I...
A quick way to coach yourself and find out what’s important you are not doing now - Matt Garrow-Fisher
Transcript: In this episode, we talk about values. What's important to us in life. And I give you one exercise to quickly work out. What's important to you. Uh, in fact, you're going to get the best coach. In the world. To help you if you're stuck in a...
Uncovering 6 controls in your internal cockpit to avoid crash and burn in your life and career - Matt Garrow-Fisher
Have you ever felt stressed, unhappy or going on an unsustainable path in life or at work? We all have, as humans, at some point in our lives, right? In this week’s episode, we explore 6 levels of human experience which, when we are consciously aware of them, can be...
Reflections from guests’ collective wisdom and experience for career change and how to burn from within in life
When things happen outside your control, be kind to yourself and others
How to find meaning in your life and work - Jeremy Lipkowitz
I talk to Jeremy Lipkowitz, who is a Search Inside Yourself certified teacher, a leadership coach, a meditation teacher, an emotional intelligence trainer, and founder of Untangling The Mind. I met Jeremy in Chiang Mai, Thailand and found out that throughout his life,...
An expert’s perspective on executive career and lifestyle change - George McGehrin
I talk to George McGehrin who founded The McGehrin Group, a national executive search firm, now turning over eight figures a year after being in business for 20 years. The McGehren Group mostly deals with leaders at the C-suite level (CEO, CTO, CFO, CIO) all...
Key habits, questions and attitudes to live life on your terms - Rex Sikes
I talk to Rex Sikes who has had a successful career as an actor and producer in LA. And actually a Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) coach of mine highly recommended Rex (as have many others I know in the personal development and NLP community. And it’s his work...
Why Did I Start Burn From Within And What Is It About? - Matt Garrow-Fisher
In this episode, I finally uncover where the concept of Burn From Within came from. I talk about one of the key root causes for unhappiness and misery in people's lives - their career or lifestyle. Many people are seemingly in a position financially and intellectually...
What energises you and what drains your energy? Psychometric test results analysed - Therese Toohey
I talk to Therese Toohey from the Byron Bay area of Australia who is a career strategist to leaders all over the world, helping them to be more congruent and true to themselves so they accelerate their careers through conscious leadership. I hired Therese after having...
The Guide To Making Big Life Decisions With No Regrets - Matt Garrow-Fisher
This episode is a bit different. You’ll hear from some of my past guests Seb Terry, Kim Orlesky and Luke Mickelson, as well as getting wisdom from Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos. All these people share a game-changing strategy for making big decisions with no regrets. I...
Shifting to A Remote Business With A Family - Dai Manuel
I talk to Dai Manuel on how he changed career and lifestyle, running a national 8 figure business in Canada with his partner to starting a new kind of career, an online career, one that's more remote and fulfilling a personal goal to build a life of freedom. I met Dai...
Gain Clarity From Within For Career and Life Change - Jamie Smart
I talk to Jamie Smart, an international best selling author of the book, clarity: clear mind, better performance and bigger results. After reading the book myself, I wanted to explore some really Paradigm shifting concepts of psychology from it in this interview. The...
Making millions to changing lives - Stevie Bellamy, The Pencil Tree
On this episode, I talk to Stevie Bellamy, a British-sounding former construction business owner based in Australia, who, not only has an uncanny resemblance to Brian May from the band Queen, but also has founded a beautiful charity for children in India and Nepal...
Take a career break and then start your own business - Kim Orlesky
Just when is it the right time to take a career break? So you have developed your career to the level it's at. If you leave now to focus on exploring your other passions, will this damage your resume or hurt your career development in the future? Whether you want to...
Career change at 35: from IT consultant to psychotherapist - Mrugank Patel
This is a well-thought out story of career change at 35 years old, planned meticulously to now blossoming into a burning-from-within reality. The plan took three years for Mrugank Patel (MP) to execute fully. Managing a big transition from a six-figure salary at a...
Coming out of early retirement to find purpose - Steve Polaski
Early retirement sounds great, right? Many people go through their entire career looking forward to retirement. But what is it like to retire early and enjoy the freedom it brings long before you are in your sixties or seventies? I got curious about what it was like...
Burnout Recovery: 9 Months After Quitting The Job - Malia Griggs - Burn From Within
Burnout can be caused by many things - a build up of stress, anxiety, long working hours, poor sleep are some factors. In Malia Grigg's case, the nature of her work was a big part of it. As Director of Social Media for The Daily Beast and previously in demanding roles...
Career Change During The Coronavirus Outbreak - Natasha Stanley
This video interview shares clear practical career change advice for those now looking for new work due to the coronavirus, or just simply to be happier.
Leaving a six-figure salary to build a charity - Luke Mickelson
I just got inspired by this man - Luke Mickelson, who started a phenomenal charity Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) over in Idaho, USA back in 2012 after leaving his six-figure salary (he was actually offered ownership in the business worth millions of dollars which he also turned down).
Now SHP runs over 200 chapters across 46 US states and 3 countries and helps over 28,000 kids receive for free their very own bunk beds that their parents just couldn’t afford before.
Vimala Seshadri: Going Deep Within Yourself To Find Your Purpose And Radically Change Your Life
From an academic and then highly successful American corporate career in the pharmaceutical industry, to working in an orphanage, moving to India, raising 15 kids and now coaching leaders.
If you want to be inspired today to live a more meaningful life, and find out secrets on how Vimala got there, listen to every word of this conversation today.
Holli Massey, The Creative Producer: Shifting Your Purpose and Keeping Your Skills From Your Career
Be inspired by Holli’s brave decision-making and life changes as she moved out of working with the corporate world and now passionately serving creatives to share their voice and message with the world in her business The Creative Producer, as well as her amazing Facebook community The Creative Engine Room - will post the links below this video!
Steve Preston, The Career Catalyst: An expert on the career change market
We have a career transition author, speaker and coach, Steve Preston, The Career Catalyst, sharing his expert opinion after coaching people to change their careers over many years.
If you want to understand the mindset and structure you need to adopt to make a smoother transition to a new career, certainly check out this interview:
Patrick Ryder: 22 years In Corporate To Living A Balanced Life With His Family As A School Teacher
Patrick worked in the corporate world for 22 years, a large part in the commercial side of mobile technology. He and his wife rose up the corporate ladder, moved their family and kids to Asia after promotion as regional directors. Yet Patrick was not happy with...
Barton Brent: Leaving Corporate Life Through Tragedy and Becoming Happier As a Result
Barton Brent had it all - a lake house in the US, cars, bikes, boats, a beautiful family, pets and a success career in commercial real estate he found easy and was good at. One fateful day, everything changed…
How to build a portfolio career and your own charity - Phil Evangelou, Kupendo Kids
In this video I talk with Phil Evangelou, who not too long ago was in a high-pressure city job as a lawyer for several year and made a big change. After living in Africa for a few months, learning new skills to start businesses remotely, he was inspired to not only start an ecommerce business with his friend, he also founded his own incredible charity, Kupendo Kids - www.kupendokids.com
Nick Condon, Journeys With Nick: From Chest Pains in Corporate IT to Balance in Creating An Adventure Travel Company!
Nick Condon used to work in corporate IT, at the same company for over 10 years. After getting more and more stressed with the increased responsibility, and being fed up and wanting something different in life, he managed to persuade his boss to take a sabbatical year of work to travel. When his year ended though, Nick learnt so much about himself, he made the brave decision to go it alone and start his own unique adventure travel company - Journeys with Nick (www. journeyswithnick.com).
Transferable skills: how to break into a new industry - Max Vishnev
Max Vishnev, an inspiring entrepreneur who transitioned from a career in Wall Street to starting a successful walking tour business in New York City. His journey was definitely not plain sailing, and he also had more career changes after this.
One of the biggest concerns people have is that if they leave their career they feel they are wasting the hard earned skills that have developed over the years. This is the story of how to transfer your skills to completely new industries so you thrive and keep your passion.
Challenge Yourself With 100 Things To Do Before You Die - Seb Terry
Author of the book and TV host on ESPN’s series ‘100 Things: What’s On Your List?’, Seb Terry shared a beautiful conversation about how he followed his passions and now has found real purpose in his life helping people all over the world.
Find A Career That Lights You Up Inside
By the end of us working together, you will be on a new career path that lights you up inside, gives you meaning and reflects the real you.
The time you invest with me will transform how you spend years of your time. Invest now so you start spending your time on things you care about, that make a difference, that allow you to be authentically yourself and ultimately be happy.