This week we're talking about those moments when the ground feels shaky, and you're not sure how to find your footing again. We dig into what resilience can look like when you're in the middle of it, and we share our ongoing journeys to feeling steady again.
Aug 11
36 min
This week we're talking about the plans that just... didn't happen. Nicole and Alicia swap stories on career curveballs, calendar chaos, and the honest question of how you know when it's time to change course.
Jul 28
31 min
Both the messy middle and entrepreneurship are a feeling of a rollercoaster AND a feeling of steadying. We are finding that paradox both comforting and discomforting. In this episode, we discuss how to own these waves and explore finding rhythms to manage the rocky parts.
Jul 14
37 min
Nicole and Alicia dig into the blurry line between 'work' and 'job', paid and unpaid, and who actually gets to define it. This episode explores what work actually means when you're in the middle of redefining it, who shaped those definitions in the first place, and why unpaid doesn't have to mean unvaluable.
Jun 30
40 min
How do I trust myself AND change my mind? Turns out sometimes these might be the same thing. Nicole and Alicia get into what this tension actually feels like in a career, knowing when a pivot is the right call, why the brain and body don't always agree, and learning to listen to what your body is telling you is the next right thing, right now.
Jun 16
26 min
Life has a way of lifing and it doesn't wait for a convenient moment. In this episode, we're sitting with all of it: the left turns, the overlapping tensions, the feelings that show up uninvited in the middle of work, ambition, and everything else you're trying to hold together. This one is a reminder that you don't have to resolve it all - sometimes you just need permission to feel it.
Jun 2
39 min
Being in a liminal transition phase can be wonderful… until someone says, “So what do you do?” In this episode, Nicole and Alicia share a work-in-progress approach to defining this stage based on what can be, not what has been (or what a “younger me” might have expected).
May 26
27 min
Acknowledging milestones is important. Expecting things to change dramatically once we reach them is a recipe for disappointment. Here, Alicia and Nicole dive into the fallacy of “it will get better or easier once I finish XYZ,” and the possibility of living life today the way we might imagine living it in the someday that isn’t guaranteed.
May 26
29 min
The Messy Middle is hard. How do you build a sense of progress when it feels like an endless set of steps with no real goalposts? In this episode, Nicole and Alicia talk about the earliest stages of setting up a new career chapter and the challenges that come with feeling like every step forward comes with a curveball or a step to the side. Whether you’re deep in a career shift or just starting to feel restless, sometimes it takes a different perspective to appreciate exactly where you are.
May 26
24 min
Closure is often positioned as an important milestone- a conversation, a realization, or a moment where things finally click into place and moving forward becomes easier. But what if that isn’t really how it works? In this episode Alicia and Nicole explore what it looks like to let go of a chapter – a job, a relationship, an identity - without a tidy ending. They discuss the pressure to “have closure” and how it might not always be a reality. Sometimes you close the door. Sometimes the door just slowly fades away.
May 26
26 min
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