The Career Change Studio

The Career Change Studio is your go-to podcast to help you design and create a new working life so that you can live the way you want and need in your next chapter. Join Certified Career Change Coach Dana Stevens for practical advice, inspiration, mindset shifts, and proven strategies to help you move on from unfulfilling work, explore new directions, and design a career that works for you .

The Career Change Studio is a business podcast hosted by Dana Stevens, with 50 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Dana Stevens hosts The Career Change Studio, a business show with 50 episodes published.

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  Episode #50

  Your Brain Is Going to Try to Talk You Out of This

  Sep 29, 202619 min

  Episode 50: Career Change Coach Dana Stevens uses the story of creating this podcast as a live demonstration of how the brain responds to new things, why those first fearful thoughts are not facts, and what you can actually do with them. An honest, practical and personal episode for anyone who has ever let their brain talk them out of something that mattered. In this episode you will learn: Why the brain generates resistance and objections when you face something new, and why that is not a sign to stop How to investigate your thoughts and look for real evidence rather than just accepting what your brain tells you Why telling yourself not to think something almost never works, and what to do instead Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

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  Episode #49

  Are You Living to Work or Working to Live?

  Sep 22, 202616 min

  Episode 49: Nobody decides to live to work. It just happens, gradually, when you design your career around what is in front of you rather than what you actually want your life to look like. In this episode, Career Change Coach Dana Stevens explores the difference between living to work and working to live, what the second one actually means in practice, and how you get from one to the other. In this episode you will learn why it's important to get clear on what your personal version of working to live is. And how the The Life-First Career method can help you finally create that. Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

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  Episode #48

  From Redundancy to a World of Possibilities: A Conversation with Juliette

  Sep 15, 202631 min

  Episode 48: What does it actually feel like to go through the Life-First Career Accelerator? In this episode Dana is joined by Juliette, who was part of the January 2026 cohort, for an honest and moving conversation about where she was when she joined and where she is now. Juliette arrived after a redundancy feeling, in her own words, unemployable and ready for the scrap heap. She felt she had no control over anything and could not see a way forward. By the time she finished the group coaching programme she had been commissioned to write a series of children's books, was setting up as a freelancer, and pursuing a brand new business idea in a field she had never worked in before that genuinely excites her. But this episode is not just about the practical outcomes. It is about the internal shift. The moment her thinking was held up to a mirror. The way she learned to flip her thoughts rather than be run by them. The surprise of discovering that being in a group with other women navigating the same journey was one of the most powerful parts of the whole experience. And the feeling of going from depleted and directionless to, as she puts it, knowing exactly what she wants and what she does not want, and feeling capable of whatever she turns her mind to. If you are thinking about joining the September cohort of the Life-First Career Accelerator, this episode will give you a window to what it is actually like from the inside. Doors close midday Monday 21st September 2026. Click here for more information and to join: https://www.danastevens.com/LifeFirstCareerAccelerator If you want to chat with Dana about whether joining is right for you, book in a free consultation Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

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  Episode #47

  What the Right Career Change Process Actually Looks Like

  Sep 8, 202619 min

  Episode 47: Most people who are trying to change careers are not stuck because there is nothing out there for them. They are stuck because they are approaching it in the wrong order. In this episode, career change coach Dana Stevens explains why going straight to the CV, the job sites and the applications before doing the foundational work is the thing that keeps people going round in circles, and what the right order actually is. In this episode you will learn: Why treating career change like job hunting is the most common reason people get stuck The three stage process that actually works Why the order of the stages matters and what goes wrong when any one of them is skipped If you want help, support and expert guidance to go through this proven process join Dana's group Coaching Programme that starts this September. You have until midday 21 September 2026 to join. Find out more about the Life-First Career Accelerator and join the September cohort here: https://www.danastevens.com/LifeFirstCareerAccelerator Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

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  Episode #46

  September Feels Like a Fresh Start. Here's How to Actually Use It

  Sep 1, 202616 min

  Episode 46: September has a particular energy. A sense of possibility. But for most people that feeling passes without anything really changing. In this episode, career change coach Dana Stevens talks about how to actually use the September fresh start rather than just feel it. This is an episode for anyone who has felt the September pull before and watched it pass without anything shifting. In this episode you will learn: The questions worth sitting with to get honest about your real why before the feeling passes The most common limiting thoughts that arrive with any new intention and more accurate alternatives to each The Mini Change Goal concept and why the small thing you choose matters less than the practice of choosing and following through Why building your identity as someone who creates small changes is the foundation for the bigger career change work In this episode Dana mentions her upcoming free masterclass "Stop Circling and Start Deciding: How To Change Careers" on Monday 7th September at 7.30pm. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP TO THE MASTERCLASS Click here to listen to Episode 19 - Change Fluency: A Mindset Shift You Can Practise. Book a free Coaching Consultation: https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danastevens.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana_stevens_coach/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danastevens1/ If this episode resonated, follow The Career Change Studio and share it with someone who’s feeling stuck in their career. And if you’re ready to design a working life that truly fits your needs and lifestyle, book a free consultation call at https://calendly.com/danastevens/initial-coaching-chat Special thanks to @Lou_Greenaway_Music for the piano composition and performance.

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