Frequently Asked Questions

Career transition brings up a lot of things

Not just practical questions about jobs, résumés, timing, and next steps, but deeper questions around identity, energy, money, confidence, and if it’s too late to want something different.

That’s perfectly normal.

Most people don’t get here with everything figured out. They come with signals: restlessness, burnout, curiosity, dread, grief, or a quiet sense that the work that once fit no longer does.

The questions below are a place to start.

They won’t answer everything, but they may help you understand how I work, who this coaching is for, and what it can feel like to start exploring your next chapter without panic, pressure, or pretending.

  • Because I lived it.

    I know what it feels like to build an identity around journalism, to believe deeply in the work, and to watch the industry shrink around you.

    I also know that journalists often cannot see how valuable their skills are outside the newsroom. They have spent years managing complexity, asking better questions, reading people, shaping stories, making decisions under pressure, and serving an audience.

    Those skills transfer to many places.

    But first, journalists often need help believing they are allowed to carry those skills somewhere new.

  • Not necessarily.

    Sometimes the right move is leaving the industry.

    Sometimes it is changing roles.

    Sometimes it is changing the terms.

    Sometimes it’s pausing long enough to stop making decisions from a place of panic.

    The work we do isn’t built around a predetermined answer. It’s built around honest exploration, better questions, and aligned action.

  • Most clients start to feel internal shifts within the first few weeks: more clarity, less panic, better language, and a stronger sense of what’s actually happening.

    External changes often take longer, especially if the transition involves a new industry, identity shift, or job search.

    The goal isn’t instant certainty.

    The goal is durable clarity and steady movement.

  • You aren’t starting over.

    You are building from everything you have already learned.

    Your experience isn’t a liability. It is pattern recognition, judgment, resilience, and hard-won wisdom.

    The question isn’t whether it is too late.

    The question is: What does your experience make possible now?

  • That isn’t a problem.

    In fact, that’s often where the work begins.

    Many clients do not arrive with a clear answer. They arrive with signals: exhaustion, restlessness, dread, curiosity, envy, grief, or a vague sense that something no longer fits.

    Those signals aren’t noise.

    They are data.

    The coaching we do together helps organize that data into insight and action.

  • No.

    Journalists are a big part of my work because I lived that world for more than two decades. I understand the pressure, the identity, the burnout, and the grief that can come with questioning a calling you once loved.

    But I also work with mid-career professionals in communications, nonprofits, education, public service, and other mission-driven fields.

    The common thread is not the job title.

    It’s the moment when someone realizes: “I can’t keep doing work this way, but I don’t know what comes next.”