Now What? - Life after redundancy

<p>Other people's good news is one of the quieter challenges of redundancy. Not the hardest thing, but one of the most disorienting because the feeling it produces doesn't have a clean name and nobody warns you it's...

<p>You know you're capable. You've got ideas, drive, the whole thing. But when you're job hunting, ambition starts to feel less like fuel and more like something you need to apologise for.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode...

<p>When redundancy happens, the spotlight lands on one person. But the uncertainty doesn't stay in one lane. It spreads into finances, into plans, into the people sharing the same space and nobody really warned them in...

<p>Job searching has a special talent for making even fairly stable adults feel they’re one delayed email away from developing a brand new personality. It can be hopeful one minute, exhausting the next and strangely...

<p>What happens when a job looks perfect on paper, pays well and suits your skills, but the commute feels like taking a ring to Mordor and the hours would wreck your family’s balance?</p><p>In this episode, I talk about...

<p>What do you do when redundancy creates space in your life — and along with the stress, uncertainty and job searching, there’s also a small voice saying, maybe now’s the time to finally try that...

<p>You walk out of an interview thinking you represented yourself well. You gave good answers. You sounded like yourself on a good day. Then someone asks how it went — and suddenly you hear yourself downplaying it...

<p>Redundancy does an odd little trick. It doesn’t just take away a job, it takes away the easy, everyday connection that came with it. No Teams pings, no corridor chats, no accidental “oh you should speak to…” moments...

<p>Personal brand can sound like something that requires a ring light and a sudden interest in 'thought leadership'. In real life, it is much simpler. It is what people come to you for, what they trust you with, and...

<p>Ghosted after an interview? Or applied for something great and got absolutely nothing back?</p><p>This episode is for anyone who’s tired of pretending silence doesn’t mess with their head. We talk about why ghosting...

<p>Job interview prep after redundancy is a weird little moment where you finally get the interview and your body reacts like you’ve been booked in for something far more dramatic than 'a chat about your...

<p>Redundancy has a way of turning perfectly normal days into something… slightly loaded. Suddenly you’re measuring time differently, your inbox has the power to ruin an afternoon,and “being proactive” can become a...

<p>Ever had a perfectly normal plan to 'be proactive' in the job hunt and somehow ended up applying for roles at 11:47pm that you wouldn’t even want if they came with a free Nando’s?</p><p>This episode is about...

<p>People mean well after redundancy. They really do. But there’s one 'comforting' phrase that shows up again and again and instead of helping, it adds pressure, guilt and that horrible feeling that you should be...

<p>If you’re going through redundancy, job searching, or career uncertainty, you might have noticed your brain doing something unhelpful-but-understandable: reaching for a fantasy that makes everything feel instantly...