Tarzan Kay came to a pivotal moment in 2022 when she had to drastically change her email marketing business. I talked to her when she was fresh off those changes, curious about how she had the courage to get through it. We talk about unethical sales methods, my shocking discovery that we both grew up in the same cult, and how this has affected our businesses. Content warning: Mention of drug use.

In this mini-episode, I share my musings on the potential cost of not listening to yourself. Why does ignoring your desires matter anyway? Hint: it’s connected to Career Courage.

Diana Alt is a friend and career coach colleague. She’s a no-BS executive coach and career growth strategist. We talk about her transition from tech into coaching, her 4 Pillars of an Ideal Job, and what to do when your life falls apart.

This episode is an excerpt from a coaching session with Briana, a freelance writer who recently accepted temporary employment. But even though she’s uncovered some new skills, she’s struggling with it. Does she like this work? Does it mean she’s a failure if she goes back to work for someone else? What about the financial uncertainty of being self-employed?

Interview with Chelsea Jay, Leadership Coach. I absolutely loved our conversation on job hopping, red flags at work, having courage in your career, and how to know when it’s time to quit your job.

Welcome to Season 2! This season is all about Career Courage and in this first episode I want to share my thoughts on the recent trend of “Quiet Quitting.”

Welcome to the Season 1 Review! In this season’s final episode, we’ll review how my guests went about making career changes. How do you know when it’s time to change something in your career or try something new? Listen to find out the two main reasons my guests have made career changes. You’ll get a taste of each interview from this season and if any of these clips spark your interest, go back and listen to the full episode. Links are included in the show notes below.

This episode is the audio access to my class, Moving Forward With a Bridge Job. I taught this virtual class live in the spring of 2021; I’m sharing it here because a bridge job can be a great step in building an intentional career, and we can all benefit from a perspective shift on bridge jobs. It has been edited from the original for audio context.

Wanda Deschamps’s career was successful from the outside, but her mid-life autism diagnosis was the missing piece that helped her make sense of her work and life. In this conversation, we discuss the years leading up to her diagnosis, and how Wanda has become an advocate for the inclusion of disabled peoples in her speaking, writing and consulting work.

Nisha Harichandran was a commercial and corporate lawyer before she followed her dream to become a writer. She recognized her transferable skills, moved countries for love, and listened to the nagging of her inner voice to make big life changes in 2020.

In light of the “Great Resignation,” interviewing is a skill that matters more than ever. Host Karen Styles discusses this recent trend of quitting and shares her 3 steps to Intentional Interviews.

Teresa Wong is the author of the graphic memoir Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression. I’ve known her for over 20 years and was thrilled to interview her about her copywriting career, the process of creating her first book while working at her day job, why graphic narrative is her medium of choice, and why THIS was the story she wanted to tell.

Hope Mirlis started out in performing arts but now performs weddings. Her big career moves coincided with big geographical moves, too. Originally from NYC, she moved to Atlanta to pursue performing arts, and then went to California to get a Master’s of Fine Arts. A friend asked Hope to officiate their wedding, and that changed everything. Hope and Karen discuss the path to an intentional career, and the many twists and turns that happen along the way.

If your job was a car, what would it be? Would thinking of it as a car help you look at it in a different way? In this solo episode, Karen discusses using a metaphor to look at your jobs creatively. She uses the car metaphor to describe two past jobs, and gives questions to get you thinking about how to use this tool for yourself.

KDC joins Karen to discuss how kindness drives change in her career and in her life. KDC started out dreaming of becoming a teacher but discovered that the traditional classroom was not for her. However, she’s found other ways to be involved in education. She shares her story of getting sober, learning to treat herself with kindness and following the Universe’s breadcrumbs to her intentional career.

D’ana Joi is a Multi-Passionate Creative educator and entrepreneur and who carved her own path to her intentional career through blogging and building communities for multi-passionates. We discuss how discovering her Human Design was instrumental in her career, and how multi-passionates can learn to fall in love with focus.

Michelle Ward was an actress who gave up her Broadway dreams to become a business coach. How did that happen? We discuss the many ups and downs, how she created her intentional career as the CEO of the 90 Day Business Launch and how she helps creative women create launch businesses.

Kristine Miguel shares her story of trading a traditional accounting career for love - but not the way you think! I was curious about her transition from her linear CPA career path to starting her own business based on love, financial education, and empowerment. We discuss the challenges she faced and the lessons she learned while creating her intentional career; and some thoughts on spirituality and the coaching industry.

Welcome to the first episode of the Intentional Career Podcast! I’m Karen Styles, host, Career + Life Coach and owner of Flow + Fire Coaching. So, what the heck is an intentional career anyway? I’ll share my thoughts on that question, what to expect from this podcast, and a few of my career theories.

Coming May 27th: The Intentional Career Podcast shares how all kinds of people take all kinds of paths to do work they love. Get inspired to create your Intentional Career by hearing the stories of folks who have done just that. Hosted by Career and Life Coach Karen Styles of Flow + Fire Coaching.