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Latest Episodes
How to Figure Out What’s Important to You
“Look at points of contention and conflict - those moments reveal what matters most.”
Not sure what matters most to you in your career?
Discover three simple ways to create a unique career formula based on what's really important to YOU.
What to do when you’re drifting in life & work
This is how to move from drifting to direction: grounded habits, self-awareness, and identity-based goals. Come along to find out why being able to name that you’re drifting is a huge and why becoming the kind of person who does the thing is the real goal.
Enjoying Your Own Company is the Secret To Career Change
Learning to enjoy your own company is one of the most underrated life skills.
Here’s how solitude builds self-trust and gives you back your agency in career and life.
How to use your feelings instead of fighting them
Your feelings aren’t flaws, even when they feel overwhelming. They’re data. Here are four ways to work with your emotions in life and career change instead of resisting them.
How to create stability in life & work
Click for practical steps to assess your stability, spot disruptors, and focus on what’s in your control for more peace and confidence.
How to have more respect for your time
Every minute counts. Learn how to stop people pleasing, set boundaries, and live intentionally with your time.
How to Decide Whether to Stay or Pivot in Your Career
Feeling stuck between staying in your current role or starting over?
In this episode of Blueprints to Becoming, Kate Maxwell unpacks:
why the “stay or go” dilemma is a false choice
how to overcome sunk cost thinking
Odyssey Planning
“15 Things” exercise
how to expand your options and decide with clarity
Stop Expecting Work to Make You Happy
We often expect our jobs to deliver all our life satisfaction - but joy often comes from outside work. In this episode, I explore defining the true function of work in your life, why fun matters, and how to create your personal “so much fun” formula to build a richer, more fulfilling life.
Being emotional isn’t a bad thing
If you’ve ever been told you’re too emotional, this episode is for you. Learn why feelings are valuable data, how they can guide you, and why showing emotion is a strength, not a weakness.
Afraid of How People Will React to Your Career Change? Here’s What’s Really Holding You Back
Afraid of how others might respond to your career choices? Discover the four fears that hold us back, the assumption trap, and how to reclaim your power to choose what's right for you.
On Planning and Presence
Planning is motion, but it's not action. It gives us a sense of doing something, of making a change, but without actually changing anything, because we are living in that future focus.
How to stop overthinking your career choices
Overthinking can feel productive - like you're working the problem.
But really, you're just treading water.
You feel like maybe if you just keep thinking, a solution will present itself.
But what is it actually costing you?
Is This All There Is? When Your Dream Job Doesn’t Feel Like a Dream
Today we are talking about this feeling of disillusionment that happens when the dream job does not feel like a dream. That moment where you think: Is this it? Is this all there is?