Career Switch Podcast: Expert advice for your career change · Lixandra Urresta

49: Need some A.I.R. with your career change?

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Madeline says influence starts with “who are you and who do you want to be?”

Alexandra Uresta opens with the show's core purpose. Career Switch Podcast is built to help people take action on a career change they are already considering, whether that means switching industries, changing professions, or starting a business. Some episodes focus on people telling their own switch stories. Others bring in experts, which is the lane this conversation follows. Uresta sets the scene for listeners who are still figuring out what else they can do with their skills. She also speaks directly to people who are already in the middle of the process and running into mental snags. Madeline Miller joins to offer a framework called A.I.R. The idea comes in as a way to work through what feels off before rushing to the next move. The conversation begins with alignment. Miller describes the discomfort of being in a role that does not feel like a fit. One of her clearest examples is the feeling of not wanting to tell people at parties what you do for work. That reaction becomes a clue rather than something to brush past. She treats it as evidence that the work may not match how the person wants to be seen or valued. Uresta reinforces the point with her own examples from pharmaceutical advertising, law, and entertainment law. Those details keep the discussion grounded. Miller then turns to influence. She explains that influence builds on alignment because the question is not only what someone does, but how they want to show up. From there, the conversation reaches into communication, executive presence, and nonverbal body language. Even those surface skills are tied back to identity. Miller keeps asking, in plain language, who the person is and who they want to become. That makes the episode useful for thinking about conflict at work, difficult conversations, and the unease that can sit underneath a career switch. Uresta's hosting stays patient and chronological. She gives Miller room to explain the idea, then asks for examples that listeners can recognize in their own lives. The result is a conversation that feels practical without getting stiff. It treats career change as something people work through inside real schedules, real jobs, and real uncertainty. By the end, the listener has a clearer way to spot misalignment and a grounded language for the presence they want to build next.

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A career-change conversation that turns discomfort into a useful signal.

This episode treats career change less as a logistics problem than as a question of fit. Alexandra Uresta and Madeline Miller spend much of the conversation on A.I.R., starting with the uneasy sense that a role no longer matches who someone is or how they want to be seen.

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A calm framework for when your work stops feeling like yours

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