The Career Confidence Podcast

Nicola Semple

The average person spends 90,000 hours at work over the course of their lifetime. How you feel about work has a big impact on your overall happiness. In this podcast, we explore how you can build your career with confidence and improve your workplace happiness. We will cover topics such as creating a career vision, managing uncertainty, dealing with stress, overcoming self-doubt and building healthy boundaries so that you can excel at work and still have a life. I’m your host Nicola Semple, a Certified Mindset Coach and creator of the You Are Enough Coaching Cards. I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goals. You can book a free no-obligation chat about how I can support you to achieve your career goals: https://nicolasemple.com/chat Connect with me on Linked In to carry on the conversation: https://linkedin.com/in/iamnicolasemple I will be releasing a new episode of The Career Confidence Podcast every second Friday so make sure that you hit the subscribe button and you will be the first to know when a new episode goes live. read less
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Episodes

How to be the CEO of You: Taking Charge of Your Professional Journey
Feb 9 2024
How to be the CEO of You: Taking Charge of Your Professional Journey
You can have mentors to guide you, line managers to champion you, and team members to help you deliver your objectives, but at the end of the day, the future direction of your career is YOUR responsibility. And yet so many people don’t take that responsibility.  In this episode of The Career Confidence Podcast, I share insights into how you can take charge of your professional journey. Specifically: Building your self-awareness so that you know yourself, your strengths and your valuesIdentify what career success looks like for youCreating your career goals and plan (this is not the same as setting objectives for your performance review!)Being proactive Building your personal brandEmbracing change and being agile   Links Mentioned: How to Set (the right) Career Goals for 2024   About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goals. You can book a free no-obligation chat about how I can support you to achieve your career goals: https://nicolasemple.com/chat You can get my free guide "Back Yourself: Your 7 Step Plan to Build Confidence and Achieve Your Career Goals": https://nicolasemple.com/backyourself Connect with me on Linked In to carry on the conversation: https://linkedin.com/in/iamnicolasemple A new episode of The Career Confidence Podcast is released every second Friday. Hit the subscribe button and you will be the first to know when a new episode goes live.
How to Learn to Trust Yourself
Sep 8 2023
How to Learn to Trust Yourself
In today’s episode, I am talking about how to learn to trust yourself. It’s a big topic and it’s an important one. What I am noticing is that for a lot of my clients, there is a huge amount of pushing, on their part, to come up with the "right" answer about what should come next for their career.  Often we lose that ability to trust in ourselves. Maybe we have made a mistake or a project or piece of work hasn’t gone as well as we wanted it to. Maybe we’ve made a career move in the past that hasn’t turned out how we wanted it and we are feeling bruised and battered and struggling to trust that we will make the right decisions about our own future. Sometimes we might lose that trust because other people have called it into question. Perhaps other people have criticised us and that causes us to question whether or not we are doing the right thing. In this episode, I share some thoughts and advice about trusting that: You will come up with the "right answer"You will be brave enough to take the action needed to help bring your career vision to lifeYou do know what is right for you. About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goals. You can book a free no-obligation chat about how I can support you to achieve your career goals: https://nicolasemple.com/chat You can get my free guide "Back Yourself: Your 7 Step Plan to Build Confidence and Achieve Your Career Goals": https://nicolasemple.com/backyourself Connect with me on Linked In to carry on the conversation: https://linkedin.com/in/iamnicolasemple A new episode of The Career Confidence Podcast is released every second Friday. Hit the subscribe button and you will be the first to know when a new episode goes live.
A Story of Authenticity and Being Brave
Aug 25 2023
A Story of Authenticity and Being Brave
This August I am resharing my most popular interivews from my Career Confidence Conversations series. Today I’m delighted to introduce you to the incredible Blu Reynolds. Blu is a Senior Consultant at Moorhouse, following an attempted career in Law and working in a range of roles within healthcare and the NHS. I came across Blu when he published a blog post titled “Are You Gay Son?” where he reflects on his journey or self acceptance and living effectively, both inside and outside the workplace. When I read the blog post I knew that I wanted to invite Blu to have a Career Confidence Conversation and I’m delighted to now share with you his perspectives on his career journey to date, why hindsight is a wonderful thing and how we can all be brave and live authentically whatever that looks like for us.   About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goals. You can book a free no-obligation chat about how I can support you to achieve your career goals: https://nicolasemple.com/chat You can get my free guide "Back Yourself: Your 7 Step Plan to Build Confidence and Achieve Your Career Goals": https://nicolasemple.com/backyourself Connect with me on Linked In to carry on the conversation: https://linkedin.com/in/iamnicolasemple A new episode of The Career Confidence Podcast is released every second Friday. Hit the subscribe button and you will be the first to know when a new episode goes live.