What happens when the role you have built your identity around no longer makes sense, but nothing has replaced it yet?

When your work has shaped how you introduce yourself and how the world sees you, loosening your grip on that role can feel deeply unsettling. Instead of clarity or excitement, you may experience doubt, a drop in confidence, and a strange sense of emptiness.

In this episode, we explore the overlooked phase of professional transition where old identities fall away, familiar measures of success stop working, and you find yourself between who you were and who you are becoming.

• Understand why disorientation and low energy often follow the decision to step away from a long held professional identity.
• Recognise the quiet loss that comes with leaving a role that once provided certainty and status.
• Learn why this in-between phase is not something to fix, but something to move through.

Listen now to make sense of the space between identities and to understand why you are not meant to feel finished yet.

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Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

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