Mid-Career Change

123: How to Know When It’s Time to Rethink Your Career

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Jul 16, 2025
Mairead Ramonet, a confidence and mindset coach, empowers high-achieving professionals navigating career transitions. She discusses the 'success hangover,' where external achievements clash with internal satisfaction. Mairead highlights signs of being 'secretly stuck' and emphasizes the importance of emotional alignment in career decisions. Listeners learn practical mindset shifts to reconnect with clarity and confidence. The conversation encourages embracing change as a natural evolution rather than a crisis, offering steps to redefine success on personal terms.
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ANECDOTE

Mairead's Career Turning Point

  • Mairead Ramonet left a successful corporate sales job after feeling unfulfilled despite external success.
  • Redundancy during maternity allowed her to embrace her evolving self and rethink her career.
INSIGHT

The Secretly Stuck Phenomenon

  • Being "secretly stuck" means looking successful but feeling internally unsettled about your career.
  • It often involves second-guessing and a push-pull of motivation despite external achievements.
INSIGHT

Understanding the Success Hangover

  • "Success hangover" is the internal friction when career achievements no longer feel fulfilling.
  • The chronic success cycle wears down your brain, causing mental fog and paralysis on big decisions.
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