In this special episode, I chat with my partner Maarten about his experience and insights as the significant other of someone going through a major career transition.

I know so many women express feeling unsupported or doubted by their partners when they want to make a bold career shift. Or partners come at it very logically versus emotionally. Understandably, the prospect of losing financial stability can be scary for spouses too.

I’ve been SO fortunate to have a partner who believed in and stood by me every step of my winding career change journey. I wanted to share Maarten's perspective to shed light on how partners can provide that unconditional support when their loved one decides to take the leap towards more purposeful work.

We get honest about Maarten's initial reservations, how he came to fully embrace my transition, the flexibility required to make more time together, tuning into each other's needs, and the advice he has for others supporting a career changer.

There's so much wisdom in hearing the other side's experience when your dreams disrupt the status quo.

When you make a shift, your loved ones shift too. I hope this episode inspires you & your partner to navigate inevitable changes with more compassion, trust and teamwork.

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Vilma is a holistic career change coach who helps women transition to their authentic aligned careers and businesses.

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Have you chosen an exciting new career path, one that truly lights you up...only to start questioning if you made the right move when it doesn't unfold smoothly or quickly? You're not alone!

In this week's episode, we're exploring why an aligned vocation can still feel uncomfortable or rocky in the early stages. And how to tell the difference between normal growing pains versus true misalignment.

I'll also share how I navigated feeling like an imposter and reclaiming my confidence when reality didn't match my expectations. And what I did to course correct and find more ease, joy and flow as I built skills and structured my ideal business model.

We'll discuss some key signs that your discomfort may signal just growing pains, not necessarily overall misalignment:

• You still feel excited by the work itself, just doubting your abilities
• Part of you knows it aligns with your core motivations
• The path resonates, but your approach feels off

Plus, strategies to recalibrate HOW you're walking this purpose path in order to feel re-inspired:

• Examine unconscious expectations around the timeline
• Check where you’re using outdated models versus aligning with your own rhythm
• Get radically honest if this still deeply resonates with your soul

Even when you're headed towards your North Star, the journey itself will likely involve some stormy seas, please don't get discouraged!

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In this episode, I interview Eleanor, a graduate of the Holistic Career Change Group Program who's made a pivot from non-profit work to becoming a guide for mothers and caretakers.

We discuss:

• how Eleanor first came into the program with lots of interests: from a jewelry business to returning back to non-profit work
• how overworking and overcommitting to pursue misaligned goals left El burnt out and disconnected from their body. It took a traumatic childbirth experience to force them to reevaluate their choices
• financial scarcity and how it impacted Eleanor's life and career choices
• transition into motherhood and how mothers are STILL a very underserved and under-resourced community
• the pre-butterfly "goo phase" that is so tough to endure yet so necessary in order to complete the transformation required to embrace an aligned path
• Eleanor's experience in the group program - deep friendships, support and clarity she found as a result of doing the work & showing up for the process and themselves.

ABOUT ELEANOR
El Fort (she/they) serves as a guide for female-bodied (women and non-binary) folks on their unique healing journeys, with a particular focus on new and soon-to-be mothers and caretakers. El combines over 20 years of leadership, training, coaching, and facilitation skills in the professional world with their own experience over the last few years of healing from chronic stress, burnout, and overwhelm.
El believes the heart of healing is nervous system regulation. They use evidence-based practices that back up ancient wisdom with a sprinkle of mysticism. They work with people holistically to connect with their own self-worth, self-trust, and self-compassion. Through mindfulness, movement, breath and belief work, clients find peace, balance, harmony and joy to live their most authentic, fulfilled, badass life.

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ABOUT VILMA
Vilma is a holistic career change coach who helps women transition to their authentic aligned careers and businesses.

Holistic Career Change Group program
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1:1 coaching
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