The Change Effect - Inspiration and Strategies for Creating Success on Your Own Terms

Noelle Van
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The Change Effect helps you turn life transitions into powerful new beginnings one story, one shift, one breakthrough at a time. Your host, Noelle Van – a leadership coach and change strategist, spent years in corporate America helping innovators and leaders break through barriers to create success on their own terms – she now works with women to step into change to create a life they love.   Whether you're putting yourself at the center of your own story, redefining success or making a power pivot in your life, career or business - you're in the right place. Each week, we dive into conversations with trailblazers, change-makers, and everyday women experiencing the ripple effects that come from overcoming the fear and doing it anyway. Providing actionable steps, practical strategies, and a whole lot of fun along the way.

  1. 1d ago

    E163: Rewriting What's Possible After 40 and Beyond

    In this solo episode, we explore aging on your own terms and the stories women are often handed about what is possible after 40, 50, and beyond. This episode challenges the cultural narrative that possibility narrows with age and offers a more expansive view of midlife and beyond as a time of deeper honesty, vitality, ambition, relevance, and self-authorship. Rather than competing with an earlier version of yourself, this conversation invites you to let this chapter have its own identity, rhythm, beauty, ambition, and definition of success. In this episode I share:  How culture can narrow the story around women’s ambition, vitality, and relevance as they age.Why many women are not becoming less themselves, but more honest with themselves.How ambition changes when it becomes less about approval and more about freedom.Why vitality is about aliveness, not simply appearance or endless energy.How relevance deepens through wisdom, perspective, discernment, and lived experience.Connect with Noelle: Website: www.noellevan.com Instagram: @noellevanbeyond YouTube: @noellevanv Linkedin noellev Support the show

    E163: Rewriting What's Possible After 40 and Beyond

  2. Sep 1

    E161: Decision Fatigue and the Art of Choosing Yourself First

    In this solo episode, we explore decision fatigue,  the quiet mental and emotional exhaustion that comes from constantly making choices for everyone and everything around you. This episode looks at how decision fatigue can erode self-trust, why urgent decisions often crowd out the important ones, and how women can begin protecting their energy for the choices that truly shape their next chapter. Choosing yourself first is not selfish. It is a way of rebuilding trust with yourself, honoring your own clarity, and creating enough space to hear your own voice again. In this episode I share: What decision fatigue really is and why it often shows up as procrastination, irritability, or overthinking.How carrying the emotional weight of everyone else’s needs can make your own choices feel blurry.The difference between urgent choices and important choices.Why self-trust is built through small moments of inner alignment.Practical ways to reduce low-value decisions and protect your highest-stakes choices.Connect with Noelle: Website: www.noellevan.com Instagram: @noellevanbeyond YouTube: @noellevanv Linkedin noellev Support the show

    E161: Decision Fatigue and the Art of Choosing Yourself First

  3. Aug 25

    E159: The Good Girl Bargain: Choosing Honesty Over Approval

    In this solo episode, we explore The Good Girl Bargain,  the unspoken agreement many women make to be pleasing, responsible, agreeable, and easy to approve of in exchange for belonging, safety, and success. This episode looks at how patterns like people-pleasing, perfectionism, over-functioning, emotional monitoring, and achievement can begin as adaptive strategies, but eventually become limiting.  I share how resentment can offer important information, and how women can begin writing new rules rooted in intuition, honesty, and self-trust. This is a conversation about loosening the old bargain and choosing inner alignment over approval. In this episode we cover:  What The Good Girl Bargain is and why it can be so hard to recognize.How over-functioning, people-pleasing, and perfectionism often begin as protection.Why resentment can be a signal that a new boundary is needed.The difference between being kind and abandoning yourself.How to begin practicing new rules that honor your capacity, truth, and intuition.Connect with Noelle: Website: www.noellevan.com Instagram: @noellevanbeyond YouTube: @noellevanv Linkedin noellev Support the show

    E159: The Good Girl Bargain: Choosing Honesty Over Approval

  4. Aug 18

    E158: Carrie KC West: Rewriting the Stories That Are Keeping Us Stuck

    What if the life you are living is shaped by stories you never consciously chose? In this episode of The Change Effect, Noelle sits down with Carrie KC West, author and founder of The Rewrite System, for a conversation about story, identity, reinvention, and what it means to reclaim authorship of your life. Carrie KC West is the founder of The Life Rewrite System and author of Life Rewritten and Money Rewritten. Her work sits at the intersection of storytelling, personal transformation, psychology, and reinvention. Drawing from her own life and her years in the film industry, Carrie helps people recognize the hidden narratives shaping their choices and begin to consciously choose new ones. In this conversation, we explore: • How early life experiences and inherited messages shape the stories we live  • Why reinvention often feels so big, uncertain, and overwhelming • The importance of awareness in breaking old patterns and creating lasting change • How small shifts can redirect the course of a life over time • Why women are being called to reclaim authorship of their lives, work, and leadership This episode is an invitation to look at the story you are living and ask: Is this still the story I want to carry forward? Connect with Carrie: Website Linkedin Facebook Instagram   Connect with Noelle: Website: www.noellevan.com Instagram: @noellevanbeyond YouTube: @noellevanv Linkedin noellev Support the show

    E158: Carrie KC West: Rewriting the Stories That Are Keeping Us Stuck

  5. Aug 11

    E157: Redirecting Your Ambition and Owning What You Want

    There's a common assumption that when women step away from traditional definitions of success, they've stopped wanting more. In my experience, the opposite is true. The ambition doesn't disappear. It becomes more personal, more honest, and more aligned with who they've become In this episode, we're exploring what happens when your ambitions change, the fears that come with redirecting them, and why wanting something different may require even more courage than staying the course. In this episode: • The inherited definition of ambition • Why changing direction isn't giving up • Common fears around reinvention • Owning what you want now • Building your own definition of success Your ambitions are allowed to evolve. You don't have to keep chasing a version of success that no longer fits simply because it once mattered to you. My hope is that this conversation gives you permission to get honest about what you want now and the confidence to pursue it wholeheartedly. If you want to go a bit deeper on this, I've attached a simple exercise for you called The Ambition Audit, to explore what you want now and what you will need to do differently to get it.  Download:  🖊️The Ambition Audit HERE Connect with me: 🌐 https://www.noellevan.com 📸 Instagram: @noellevanbeyond 💼 LinkedIn: Noelle Van Support the show

    E157: Redirecting Your Ambition and Owning What You Want

  6. Aug 4

    E156: Yvonne Caputo: The Courage to Ask: Family Stories, End-of-Life Wishes, and Deeper Connection

    Some of the most meaningful conversations in our lives are the ones we do not know we need to have until time begins to narrow. In this episode of The Change Effect, Noelle sits down with Yvonne Caputo, author of Flying with Dad and Dying with Dad, for a powerful conversation about family stories, parent-child relationships, end-of-life wishes, and the unexpected healing that can come when we meet someone with curiosity instead of expectation. For many years, Yvonne’s relationship with her father was distant. Then one evening, he began telling her stories from his time as a B-24 navigator during World War II. What started as one story became a deeper path toward connection, trust, understanding, and eventually the conversations that helped Yvonne honor his wishes at the end of his life. In this conversation, we explore: • Why listening to a parent’s stories can open the door to deeper understanding • How curiosity can soften complicated family relationships • The importance of having end-of-life conversations before a crisis • How grief can hold both sorrow and sacred joy  Yvonne also shares how the Five Wishes document helped guide meaningful conversations with her father, and why these discussions can become a profound gift for both parents and adult children. This conversation is a reminder that it is never too late to ask, to listen, to understand, or to begin again.   Connect with Yvonne:  Linkedin Facebook Books    Connect with Noelle: Website: www.noellevan.com Instagram: @noellevanbeyond YouTube: @noellevanv Linkedin noellev   Resources Mentioned:  Flying with Dad by Yvonne Caputo Dying with Dad by Yvonne Caputo Five Wishes Support the show

    E156: Yvonne Caputo: The Courage to Ask: Family Stories, End-of-Life Wishes, and Deeper Connection

  7. Jul 28

    E155: The Hidden Cost of Staying in a Life You've Outgrown

    We often think of change as the risky choice. ➡️  Changing careers. ➡️  Leaving relationships. ➡️  Starting businesses. ➡️  Choosing something new. But what if staying carries a cost too? In this episode, we're looking at the quieter risks. The ones that accumulate over time. The energy drain, the erosion of self-trust, the dreams we postpone, and the subtle ways we adjust our expectations to fit our circumstances. This conversation isn't about convincing you to make a change. It's about helping you see the full picture so whatever decision you make is one you've made consciously. In this episode: • Why we underestimate the cost of staying • How self-trust gets worn down • The hidden tax of postponing what matters • Signs you're staying by choice or by default • Questions to help you honestly assess where you are Whatever your next step, my hope is that this conversation encourages you to pause and take an honest look at where you are. Sometimes staying is the right decision. Sometimes change is. The important thing is that the choice is yours, and that you make it with clarity, intention, and your eyes wide open. If you want to go a bit deeper on this, I've attached a simple exercise for you called The Cost of Staying Audit,  to take a closer look at what it may be costing you to stay where you are. Download: 🖊️ The Cost of Staying Audit HERE Connect with me: 🌐 https://www.noellevan.com 📸 Instagram: @noellevanbeyond 💼 LinkedIn: Noelle Van   Support the show

    E155: The Hidden Cost of Staying in a Life You've Outgrown

  8. Jul 21

    E154: Rebecca Boedges: From Private Healing to Published Memoir

    Some stories take years before they are ready to be told. Not because they aren’t important, but because they ask something deeper of us before we can bring them into the world. They ask us to live them, make meaning from them, heal through them, and eventually decide - that what we have carried privately may become a source of light for someone else. In this episode of The Change Effect, a past guest and long time friend of mine, Rebecca Boedges, shares what changed after her first appearance on the podcast, including her early-stage breast cancer diagnosis in January 2024 and how that experience pushed her to finally bring a decade-long book project into the world. Rebecca is a psychotherapist, coach for artists, consultant, and author of Holding Light: A Life Between Loss and Art a moving memoir that explores pregnancy loss, infertility, motherhood, intuition, trauma, marriage, art, and the quiet courage it takes to build a life after heartbreak. We talk about the vulnerability of memoir, the strange and beautiful process of becoming an author, the support Rebecca received from her husband Mark, and why creative work often asks us to move through fear before we feel ready.  Rebecca also shares how her experience supporting Mark’s internationally recognized art career now informs her coaching work with emerging artists. In this episode, we explore: • The turning point that helped Rebecca finally publish Holding Light • Why memoir writing is both deeply personal and creatively challenging • The fear of being seen, judged, or rejected when sharing your work • How artists can move through the question, “Am I good enough?” • Why relationships, courage, and curiosity matter when building a creative career This conversation is about grief, healing, art, intuition, and the moment when the work you’ve carried privately is finally ready to meet the world. Connect with Rebecca: Website Instagram The Change Effect Episode 7 with Rebecca Connect with Noelle: Website: www.noellevan.com Instagram: @noellevanbeyond YouTube: @noellevanv Linkedin noellev Support the show

    E154: Rebecca Boedges: From Private Healing to Published Memoir
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The Change Effect helps you turn life transitions into powerful new beginnings one story, one shift, one breakthrough at a time. Your host, Noelle Van – a leadership coach and change strategist, spent years in corporate America helping innovators and leaders break through barriers to create success on their own terms – she now works with women to step into change to create a life they love.   Whether you're putting yourself at the center of your own story, redefining success or making a power pivot in your life, career or business - you're in the right place. Each week, we dive into conversations with trailblazers, change-makers, and everyday women experiencing the ripple effects that come from overcoming the fear and doing it anyway. Providing actionable steps, practical strategies, and a whole lot of fun along the way.

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