Space To Shift Your Career

Yvonne Davidis, Career Change Coach for Leaders in the Public Sector wondering what next
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Welcome to Space to Shift Your Career! This show, hosted by Yvonne Davidis, invites leaders in the public sector to explore new paths that reflect who they are now and how they want their career to evolve in future.  Episodes cover how to overcome the feeling of being trapped, get motivated to take action and tap into your creativity to design exciting possibilities for yourself.  The podcast also offers strategies and tools to help you navigate the shifts and turns on the way to living out your ideal career and life. 

  1. 14: What Will Your Future Contribution Be - Outside the Public Sector?

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    14: What Will Your Future Contribution Be - Outside the Public Sector?

    Find the full transcript at SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/14 As public sector leader, you witness how the world is shifting quickly. Long-term strategies like five-year career plans don’t hold up anymore.  But letting go of certainty doesn’t mean letting go of your desire to have impact. The reason you entered this work was clear: you wanted to solve big problems, make a difference, and contribute to something larger than yourself.  But here’s the challenge: once you’ve framed your impact in that way, it can feel like there are NO alternatives.  You ask yourself: where else could I possibly have this kind of influence? That belief - that your contribution is only valid at that scale, only meaningful when it’s national or global - can trap you.  It can hold you back from exploring alternative futures. It can keep you disconnected from things closer to home: where you live, and the people around you.  Imagine for a moment that impact has many levels. And you get to choose what matters most to you now. In this episode, we’ll uncover 3 layers to help you uncover how you want to contribute in future.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. --> Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. --> Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. --> For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

    8 min
  2. 13: THIS Is An Appointment With Yourself, Public Sector Leader

    12/30/2025

    13: THIS Is An Appointment With Yourself, Public Sector Leader

    Find the full transcript at spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/13 Today, on the last day of 2025, I want to share with you my personal end-of-year reflection framework.  Yes, it’s THAT time of the year again! Why do people do this? I do it… To be more CONSCIOUS and in tune with my values. To HOLD me from rushing straight into strategizing and planning the next year. To take time to look back BEFORE looking forward.To notice and acknowledge what has been. Things that went as I had hoped for and the surprises along the way. And to check in on my intentions for the year.  Rather than rushing it, I like to take time to do this. That way I can come back to it a couple of times as new thoughts emerge. Not only when I sit down and think about it. But also when I’m out and about or pottering around at home.  Then I make an appointment with myself. I sit down and write down my reflections. I follow a framework of questions that I’d like to share with you today. I use this with my clients and everyone tells me how eye-opening it is!  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. --> Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. --> Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. --> For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

    7 min
  3. 12: Public Sector Leader, Are You Getting The Break You Need?

    12/23/2025

    12: Public Sector Leader, Are You Getting The Break You Need?

    Find the full transcript at https://SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/12 You know how every year, as government agencies approach the end of the financial cycle, we rush to close off reports, tidy loose ends, and get the numbers lined up before the cut-off? We prepare briefing notes, ministerial updates, budget forecasts, end-of-year performance papers.  But we rarely prepare ourselves to transition into downtime. It’s almost like we assume rest will somehow squeeze itself into the calendar between end-of-year events, office lunches, staff farewells - and last minute emergencies. But rest does NOT automatically appear!  For many public sector leaders, the holiday period is actually the busiest time of emotional labour:  Family commitments, social expectations, and carrying the responsibility of keeping things steady - “just in case something happens”.  So here’s my question for you today: What would it look like to apply the same intentional planning you give to your work… to the break your mind and body actually need?  In this episode, I share 3 questions to help you take stock.  Be honest with yourself. And courageous.  Your future self will thank you for it!  *** 90min Jumpstart Session  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. --> Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. --> Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. --> For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

    6 min
  4. 11: Has The Public Sector Warped Your Personal Approach To Risk?

    12/16/2025

    11: Has The Public Sector Warped Your Personal Approach To Risk?

    Find the full transcript at https://SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/11 *** If you’ve ever worked on a Cabinet paper, a briefing, or programme update, you’ll know the drill. Before anything sees the light of day, you run it past the front-page test:  “How would this look if it landed on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow morning?” It’s automatic – like muscle memory. I was speaking recently with a group of public sector leaders about their career journeys. One of them shared that in their team, the risk register was so central that it practically had its own seat at the table. Then they added: “We even have an opportunities tab!” They paused… and then said: “It’s empty.” We both laughed, nodding our heads.  But then sat with the truth of that. When you’ve spent years, maybe decades, in a system that is built on risk mitigation, what does that do to your mindset? The question that’s been echoing for me ever since is this: If everything you do at work starts with a risk register… does your career change process start with one too? In this episode I share 3 ways you can test how your risk mindset affects your career shift.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. --> Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. --> Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. --> For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

    8 min
  5. 10: Are You Stuck In The Public Sector Hamster Wheel?

    12/09/2025

    10: Are You Stuck In The Public Sector Hamster Wheel?

    Find the full transcript at www.SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/10 Have you ever watched a hamster running on its wheel?  From the outside, it looks like motion, progress. All that energy. But from the inside, it must feel like endless circling with no way out.  That’s what it can feel like when you live on autopilot. Work and life are busy. You’ve got your routines to keep moving. But you’re going through the motions. And it’s hard to step off and pause. The same is true when your career ideas only live inside your head. They spin round and round, going in circles, but nothing changes.  This is one of the biggest challenges public sector leaders face: stepping away from the day-to-day to think about what they really want.  So let me ask you: Do you make space to think out loud about YOUR ideas? Do you have a safe space to talk about them? With someone who doesn’t deflate your ideas, but instead adds air to them?  Someone who fuels your ideas, and asks:  What do you need to make this happen?  In this episode, I share 3 practical ways to step out and start exploring what’s next.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. --> Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. --> Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. --> For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

    9 min
  6. 9: What Public Sector Career Shifts Look Like In Real Life

    12/02/2025

    9: What Public Sector Career Shifts Look Like In Real Life

    Find the full transcript at www.spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/9 Imagine being handed an old manual to run a department in today’s world.  The structures have changed. The funding streams have shifted. The stakeholders are different. But you're still expected to make things work, using outdated tools. That’s what it feels like for many public sector leaders considering a career change. They rely on ideas and beliefs shaped decades ago.  Ideas about what a successful career ‘should’ look like. About changing careers being unwise, naive, impossible. Simply an own goal.  Beliefs that might have been useful once. But now?  In a changing world of work requiring us to deal with change at an ever faster pace, to be adaptable life-long-learners?  They might just be keeping you stuck.  In this episode, I unpack 4 common myths holding public sector leaders back from changing careers - even from just exploring alternatives. Myths that self-censor. I share real life stories of humans who challenged those myths.  Humans with public sector careers, who shifted into something different. Something they had perhaps only dreamed about: a career that makes them feel joyful, energised and alive.  *** You can find my conversations with the career shifters mentioned in this episode in my previous podcast 'Shifted: Career. Mind.Life' on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. --> Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. --> Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. --> For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

    11 min
  7. 8: What Matters Most In Your Career Shift?

    11/25/2025

    8: What Matters Most In Your Career Shift?

    Find the full transcript at SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/8   ***  You wouldn’t set out on a long journey without a compass or GPS. Or the maps app on your phone.  Even if you think you know the route, things change: road closures, traffic, better paths you didn’t know about.  And yet... this is how many of us move through our careers in the public sector: we follow the expected road. The logical promotional path. The well-known track, carved out by someone else.  But logic isn’t the same as what’s meaningful TO YOU.  And direction isn’t the same as alignment.  I’ve seen this happening for the public sector leaders who get in touch to work with me.  As one leader told me:  “If you don’t think about what you do, you find yourself in this senior role and ask yourself: Did I actually want this kind of a life?” In this episode, I want to help you pause and recalibrate.  I’ll share 2 powerful questions (out of the 10 questions) I use with my clients. Both are designed to bring you back to what matters most to you at this moment in your career and life.  Because BEFORE you choose a new direction, you need to reconnect with your own inner guidance system. With YOUR compass.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. --> Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. --> Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. --> For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

    8 min
  8. 7: The #1 Fear Public Sector Leaders Have About Shifting Careers

    11/18/2025

    7: The #1 Fear Public Sector Leaders Have About Shifting Careers

    Find the full transcript at www.SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/7  Imagine a bird in a beautiful cage. From the outside, it looks like the perfect home: polished bars, regular meals, shelter from storms. The bird is safe. But when you look closer, you notice the way it stares at the sky. It’s comfortable in there… but the bird longs to fly. That’s what I hear consistently from public sector leaders who’ve been thinking about their next career move.  They value the stability and benefits of their current role. The “golden” part of the cage. But they also feel the weight of what they’re missing: more autonomy, creativity, flexibility. More alignment with what they really care about.  They long for something different and wonder: what else might be out there?  But the cage keeps them from following their curiosity. In this episode, I’m going to talk about the #1 fear that keeps them inside: financial security.  I’ll share three practical steps you can take to go through that door and spread your wings.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. --> Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. --> Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. --> For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

    8 min
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Welcome to Space to Shift Your Career! This show, hosted by Yvonne Davidis, invites leaders in the public sector to explore new paths that reflect who they are now and how they want their career to evolve in future.  Episodes cover how to overcome the feeling of being trapped, get motivated to take action and tap into your creativity to design exciting possibilities for yourself.  The podcast also offers strategies and tools to help you navigate the shifts and turns on the way to living out your ideal career and life. 

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  • Creator
    Yvonne Davidis, Career Change Coach for Leaders in the Public Sector wondering what next
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Explicit
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