Now What? - Life after redundancy

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Redundancy. Layoffs. The brutal uncertainty of job hunting. Now What? is the honest, practical podcast for anyone navigating life after redundancy in the UK — covering confidence, job search strategy, interview prep, rejection, flexible working, career change and the emotional reality of trying to hold everything together while your inbox does nothing. Hosted by someone living it in real time, not dispensing advice from a mountain. New episodes weekly.

  1. 14 APR

    Staying Optimistic When the Job Search Knocks You About

    Job searching has a special talent for making even fairly stable adults feel they’re one delayed email away from developing a brand new personality. It can be hopeful one minute, exhausting the next and strangely capable of turning 'just waiting to hear back' into a full-time emotional side quest. In this episode, I’m talking about how to stay optimistic after redundancy, during job search uncertainty and through those stretches where interviews are done, decisions are pending and your confidence is trying not to wander off unsupervised. I look at the difference between what you can control and what you can’t, why that matters so much when you’re job hunting and how to protect your energy when rejection, silence, or waiting for outcomes starts getting into your head. I’m also joined by Evie Squires, founder of Mother of All Jobs, to talk about flexible work, career confidence, working parenthood and how her own redundancy experience led her to build something genuinely useful for parents looking for better, more flexible job opportunities. So if you’re dealing with redundancy, job rejection, job search stress, confidence wobbles, or the general emotional weirdness of trying to stay hopeful while your inbox remains suspiciously quiet, this one’s for you. Find out more about Mother of All Jobs: motherofalljobs.co.uk Follow Mother of All Jobs on Instagram If you enjoy the episode, follow, subscribe, leave a review, share it with someone who might need it, or send Haribo. I remain open to all support models.

    45 min
  2. 24 MAR

    Passion Projects, Side Hustles and Starting Something New After Redundancy

    What do you do when redundancy creates space in your life — and along with the stress, uncertainty and job searching, there’s also a small voice saying, maybe now’s the time to finally try that thing? In this episode, I’m talking about passion projects, side hustles and the strange pressure to reinvent yourself when your career has been disrupted. I get into why these ideas can feel so appealing during redundancy, why we often put ourselves off before we’ve properly begun, and why the projects that gain momentum are usually the ones we keep moving forward in small, consistent ways rather than treating them like instant rescue plans. I also share a conversation with Liam Walker, who used redundancy as an opportunity to lean into his love of cycling and start Liam Walker Cycles — a YouTube channel that has grown, gained traction and opened up new opportunities, even while he’s still navigating the reality of finding his next role. It’s a grounded, honest look at what it means to build something meaningful without pretending it has to solve your whole life by next Tuesday. If you’re wondering whether redundancy might be a chance to try something different, start a creative project, explore a side hustle or finally commit to an idea you’ve been circling for ages, this episode is for you. Find Liam Walker Cycles here:YouTube: www.youtube.com/@liamwalkercyclesInstagram: www.instagram.com/liamwalkercycles If this episode resonates, please follow, rate and review the show — and share it with someone else who’s currently asking themselves, now what?

    35 min
  3. 17 MAR

    Confidence After Redundancy- When You Did Well, But Can’t Say It

    You walk out of an interview thinking you represented yourself well. You gave good answers. You sounded like yourself on a good day. Then someone asks how it went — and suddenly you hear yourself downplaying it, caveating it, softening it before the result has even arrived. This episode is about that. I’m exploring the strange way redundancy can affect confidence — not always by changing what you’re capable of, but by changing how willing you are to trust your own judgement. After enough rejection, silence and near-misses, it can become harder to say, “I did well there,” even when you know you did. I talk about the quiet self-protection that can creep in after too many disappointing outcomes, why imposter syndrome is less of a one-off flaw and more of a long-running maintenance issue and how a brief but sincere period in my twenties as an almost-acoustic-singer-songwriter taught me something unexpectedly useful about confidence, competence and knowing your range. I also share four practical things that have genuinely helped me rebuild confidence in a way that feels grounded, realistic and usable — not forced, not cheesy, and not dependent on pretending you’ve become the sort of person who starts the day by high-fiving their own reflection. If redundancy has left you second-guessing yourself, underselling your strengths, or feeling oddly cautious about your own ability, this episode is for you. If you’re asking yourself now what? — you’re in the right place.

    22 min

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Redundancy. Layoffs. The brutal uncertainty of job hunting. Now What? is the honest, practical podcast for anyone navigating life after redundancy in the UK — covering confidence, job search strategy, interview prep, rejection, flexible working, career change and the emotional reality of trying to hold everything together while your inbox does nothing. Hosted by someone living it in real time, not dispensing advice from a mountain. New episodes weekly.

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