The Career Change Studio

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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.

  1. 2h ago

    Made Redundant? Why Your First Step Isn't Your CV

    Episode 52: When you get made redundant your instinct can be to jump straight into job hunting activities:  update your CV, get on LinkedIn, start applying. And yes, that advice is relevant eventually. But if you skip straight to the practical steps before you've dealt with what redundancy actually does to you, everything becomes harder than it needs to be. In this episode, Career Change Coach Dana Stevens talks directly to anyone who has been made redundant, is in consultation, or is at risk and trying to figure out what to do. Not the CV stuff. The stuff that needs to happen first. In this episode: Why redundancy is not just a logistical problem, it's an emotional one, and treating it only as a practical challenge is why so many people get stuckWhy closing the gap between what you know ("it's not personal") and what you feel is the foundation everything else rests onWhat the real first step is, and why it makes every practical step that follows more effectiveFree Webinar From Redundancy to Clarity: How to Figure Out What You Actually Want Next Wednesday 21st October 2026 at 7.30pm — register here: https://www.danastevens.com/RedundancyOct26 Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

  2. Oct 6

    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 as exactly the conversations she has with her clients every day. In this episode she shares what came up, and why the simple way we explain things to children might be exactly the simple way we need to hear them ourselves.  In this episode you will learn: The importance of building a personal criteria for making a career decision rather than relying on what other people think is rightWhy you cannot make a career decision with certainty, and why that is okayHow to think about the risks that feel most real to you and what you can actually do to mitigate them Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

  3. Sep 29

    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.  An honest, practical and personal episode for anyone who has ever let their brain talk them out of something that mattered. In this episode you will learn: Why the brain generates resistance and objections when you face something new, and why that is not a sign to stopHow to investigate your thoughts and look for real evidence rather than just accepting what your brain tells youWhy telling yourself not to think something almost never works, and what to do instead Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

  4. Sep 22

    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 explores the difference between living to work and working to live, what the second one actually means in practice, and how you get from one to the other.  In this episode you will learn why it's important to get clear on what your personal version of working to live is. And how the The Life-First Career method can help you finally create that. Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

  5. Sep 15

    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 joined and where she is now. Juliette arrived after a redundancy feeling, in her own words, unemployable and ready for the scrap heap. She felt she had no control over anything and could not see a way forward. By the time she finished the group coaching programme she had been commissioned to write a series of children's books, was setting up as a freelancer, and pursuing a brand new business idea in a field she had never worked in before that genuinely excites her. But this episode is not just about the practical outcomes. It is about the internal shift. The moment her thinking was held up to a mirror. The way she learned to flip her thoughts rather than be run by them. The surprise of discovering that being in a group with other women navigating the same journey was one of the most powerful parts of the whole experience. And the feeling of going from depleted and directionless to, as she puts it, knowing exactly what she wants and what she does not want, and feeling capable of whatever she turns her mind to. If you are thinking about joining the September cohort of the Life-First Career Accelerator, this episode will give you a window to what it is actually like from the inside. Doors close midday Monday 21st September 2026.  Click here for more information and to join: https://www.danastevens.com/LifeFirstCareerAccelerator If you want to chat with Dana about whether joining is right for you, book in a free consultation Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

  6. Sep 8

    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 why going straight to the CV, the job sites and the applications before doing the foundational work is the thing that keeps people going round in circles, and what the right order actually is.  In this episode you will learn: Why treating career change like job hunting is the most common reason people get stuckThe three stage process that actually worksWhy the order of the stages matters and what goes wrong when any one of them is skippedIf you want help, support and expert guidance to go through this proven process join Dana's group Coaching Programme that starts this September. You have until midday 21 September 2026 to join. Find out more about the Life-First Career Accelerator and join the September cohort here: https://www.danastevens.com/LifeFirstCareerAccelerator Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

  7. Sep 1

    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 fresh start rather than just feel it.  This is an episode for anyone who has felt the September pull before and watched it pass without anything shifting. In this episode you will learn: The questions worth sitting with to get honest about your real why before the feeling passesThe most common limiting thoughts that arrive with any new intention and more accurate alternatives to eachThe Mini Change Goal concept and why the small thing you choose matters less than the practice of choosing and following throughWhy building your identity as someone who creates small changes is the foundation for the bigger career change workIn this episode Dana mentions her upcoming free masterclass "Stop Circling and Start Deciding: How To Change Careers" on Monday 7th September at 7.30pm. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP TO THE MASTERCLASS Click here to listen to Episode 19 - Change Fluency: A Mindset Shift You Can Practise. Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

  8. Aug 25

    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 Stevens explores how that happens, why the obvious solution of just getting a new job is rarely the complete answer, and what actually getting your spark back looks like in practice. She shares the story of a client who came to her after a difficult redundancy, having gradually lost everything that made her feel like herself along the way, and where that client is now.  Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

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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.

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  • Creator
    Dana Stevens
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    53
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    © 2026 The Career Change Studio
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