You know your career no longer fits, but you’re not ready to make a reckless leap. Where do you begin?

In this episode, Jools shares a grounded way to explore a career change in your 40s using three steps: Awareness, Anchor and Action. You’ll reflect on what you want more and less of in work, check whether a possible direction fits your life now, and choose a small experiment that gives you useful evidence.

You’ll hear:

  • Why confidence can grow through experience, rather than needing to come first

  • Three questions to help you notice what fits the woman you are now

  • How to check whether an idea supports your strengths, choice and connections

  • A prompt to picture a believable working week that fits your real life

  • Small, lower-risk experiments to test a possible direction

  • Why you don’t need the whole route mapped out before you begin


Next week: The different routes you can take when your career no longer fits.

Source note: Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 report says 12% of employees in Europe were engaged at work in 2025. The UK figure was 10%.


Timestamps00:00 - Starting the conversation on career change in your 40s
01:01 - Why this episode is for successful women who feel stuck
01:30 - The three steps: Awareness, Anchor, Action
02:16 - Bold Moves and the podcast’s mission
02:45 - Where to begin after identifying your career “cage”
03:42 - Why career pivots are both practical and personal
04:11 - Introducing the AAA method
05:07 - The trap of waiting to feel confident first
06:33 - Confidence grows through experience
07:26 - Step one: Awareness
08:15 - Questions to clarify what you want more or less of
08:44 - Step two: Anchor
10:11 - Using AI to picture a believable working week
11:11 - What AI can—and can’t—help you explore
11:40 - Step three: Action through small experiments
12:10 - Examples of low-risk career experiments
12:38 - Why career change is easier with support
13:08 - How to choose a qualified coach
13:34 - Learning from experiments, whether they work or not
14:03 - The full Awareness, Anchor, Action cycle
14:33 - You don’t need the whole route mapped out before beginning
15:16 - Free AAA starter guide and what’s coming next week


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