78. You’ve Outgrown Your Career. Why Are You Still Waiting?

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