The Career Change Studio
The Career Change Studio is your go-to podcast to help you design and create a new working life so that you can live the way you want and need in your next chapter. Join Certified Career Change Coach Dana Stevens for practical advice, inspiration, mindset shifts, and proven strategies to help you move on from unfulfilling work, explore new directions, and design a career that works for you.
Episodes
52 episodes
How to Make a Big Career Decision When You Don't Know What to Do
Episode 51: Career change coach Dana Stevens has been looking around secondary schools with her youngest son, and the conversations she has been having with him about change, decisions and the fear of getting things wrong have been striking her...
Your Brain Is Going to Try to Talk You Out of This
Episode 50: Career Change Coach Dana Stevens uses the story of creating this podcast as a live demonstration of how the brain responds to new things, why those first fearful thoughts are not facts, and what you can actually do with them. ...
Are You Living to Work or Working to Live?
Episode 49: Nobody decides to live to work. It just happens, gradually, when you design your career around what is in front of you rather than what you actually want your life to look like. In this episode, Career Change Coach Dana Stevens expl...
From Redundancy to a World of Possibilities: A Conversation with Juliette
Episode 48: What does it actually feel like to go through the Life-First Career Accelerator? In this episode Dana is joined by Juliette, who was part of the January 2026 cohort, for an honest and moving conversation about where she was when she...
What the Right Career Change Process Actually Looks Like
Episode 47: Most people who are trying to change careers are not stuck because there is nothing out there for them. They are stuck because they are approaching it in the wrong order. In this episode, career change coach Dana Stevens explains wh...
September Feels Like a Fresh Start. Here's How to Actually Use It
Episode 46: September has a particular energy. A sense of possibility. But for most people that feeling passes without anything really changing. In this episode, career change coach Dana Stevens talks about how to actually use the September fre...
How to Get Your Spark Back
Episode 45: So many people who want to change careers say some version of the same thing: "I just do not feel like myself anymore." "I have lost my spark"In this episode, Career Change Coach Dana...
I Didn't Have It All Figured Out Either
Episode 44: One of the most common things that stops people from starting to work on changing their career is the belief that they have to have it all figured out first. In this episode, Career Change Coach Dana Stevens challenges that idea. Sh...
What's Your Work Story?
Episode 43: You have probably heard of a money story, the set of beliefs about money that were formed in childhood and shape your financial life as an adult. Career change coach Dana Stevens believes we are all carrying an equivalent work story...
You Are Not Your Job Title
Episode 42: If the thought of changing careers feels like the thought of losing yourself, this episode is for you. Career change Coach Dana Stevens explores why so much of our identity gets wrapped up in our job title, particularly when we have...
Coasting or Growing?
Episode 41: Are you coasting right now? And if you are, is that genuinely what you want, or just what feels easiest?This episode is about the difference between coasting and growing. Why one feels safer. What the other actually costs. An...
Create a Life You Don't Need to Escape From
Episode 40: If a holiday is the only thing keeping you going right now, this episode is for you. Career Change Coach Dana Stevens talks honestly about what it actually means to live from holiday to holiday, the exhaustion of getting there, the ...
The Truth About Imposter Syndrome Nobody Tells You
Episode 39: Have you ever worried that you're not as good as everyone else? That maybe you don't belong in your job? Do you feel like a fraud? Do you worry that people will find out that you don't really know what you are doing?If so, yo...
Feeling Overwhelmed? Here's Exactly What to Do
Episode 38: Overwhelm is one of the most common things that keeps women stuck when they are thinking about changing careers. In this episode, Career Change Coach Dana Stevens gives you a practical tool to reach for the next time overwhelm start...
The Thought Cycle That's Keeping Your Career Change Out of Reach
Episode 37: So many people who want to change careers are struggling to belief that it is possible for them. In this episode, Career Change coach Dana Stevens unpacks the thought cycle that keeps people stuck in that gap between wanting s...
Is Changing Careers Worth It? Only You Can Answer That
Episode 36: Your brain is always going to tell you that changing careers is too hard, too risky, too much effort. In this episode, Career Change Coach Dana Stevens asks a different question. Not how would you do it, but is it actually worth it,...
Why Career Change Guilt Is Costing You More Than You Think
Episode 35: If you have been thinking about changing careers for a while but have not yet made a move, there is a good chance you are carrying some guilt about that. You may be thinking 'I should have done this sooner', 'I have wasted so much t...
Surround Yourself With Evidence of What's Possible
Episode 34: One of the most practical and underrated things you can do when you are thinking about a career change is to deliberately surround yourself with evidence that another way of living and working is possible. Not just for i...
You Don't Need a Passion to Change Careers
Episode 33: Have you been told that the key to changing careers is to find your passion? And have you then tried to locate said passion and come up more or less blank? In this episode, Career Change coach Dana Stevens dismantles the follow your...
Are You Stuck in All or Nothing Thinking About Your Career?
Episode 32: All or nothing thinking is one of the most common thought patterns people get stuck in. It is the thinking that tells you the choice is between staying exactly as you are or throwing everything away and starting from scratch. Betwee...
The Joy Experiment (How Finding Joy Can Help You Change Careers)
Episode 31: What if you could stop focusing on escaping where you are and start moving towards something that genuinely lights you up? In this episode, Career Change coach Dana Stevens makes the case for why joy is not just a nice thing to thin...
The Mental Health Cost of Staying in the Wrong Career And Why Things Can Change
Episode 30: This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and Career Change Coach Dana Stevens wants to talk about the experience of struggling on in a job that no longer fits and the impact that can have. So many people can tell themselves a stor...
Is It the Job, the Menopause, or Both?
Episode 29: Navigating perimenopause or menopause while also trying to figure out what to do with your career is something that Career Change Coach Dana Stevens experiences regularly with her clients. And yet it is rarely talked about. In...
What Actually Happens in a Coaching Consultation?
Episode 28: If you have been thinking about booking a free coaching consultation but are not quite sure what to expect, this episode is for you. Career Change Coach Dana Stevens walks you through exactly what happens in a consultation call, fro...