Brittany Cates | Career Coach, UX Designer, Podcast Host, Entrepreneur
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Stuck in a soul-sucking job? Career Change for Women is the go-to podcast for high-achieving women ready to pivot into fulfilling, flexible, high-paying work. Hosted by Brittany Cates—career coach, UX designer, and former burnt-out teacher—you’ll get real talk, inspiring career change stories, mindset shifts, and actionable steps to help you ditch the confusion and make your dream career a reality. Formerly Shift Your Day Job.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Brittany Cates turns career-change stories into practical lessons about transferable skills, professional identity, calculated risk, and building more purposeful work.
Career Change for Women treats a career pivot as a decision to examine, test, and act on. Brittany Cates uses guest conversations to connect professional dissatisfaction with concrete questions about transferable skills, self-doubt, feedback, networking, and the kind of working…
A TV producer doesn't want the executive producers' lives; Brittany Cates treats that as a career clue.
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A midlife career-change story that puts self-trust ahead of credential-chasing and keeps the focus on reaching the people who need the work.
Brenda's story treats a midlife career change as something practical, not mystical: reset life, set limits, and put the work in front of the people who need it. The strongest stretch is the pushback on credential chasing.
A reflective career change conversation about slowing down, self trust, and sustainable growth.
The episode treats slowing down as a practical habit, not a slogan. Emily Hawkins comes across as a coach who helps small business owners simplify process, manage time, and build toward sustainable growth.
A clear-eyed career pivot story about choosing alignment over the next rung.
Shannon Russell's path is presented as a measured career pivot: after 16 years in television, she looks at the executive track and decides the next rung would not fit the life she wants, especially with family in view.
A practical reset for women considering a career shift.
Career Change for Women treats a career pivot as something practical, not theatrical: leave work that does not fit, and look for work that does.
Creativity comes through as a practical way to move before certainty arrives.
The discussion treats creativity as a practical way forward, not a hobby on the side. Brittany Cates and Karen DeLoach keep circling back to one plain idea: when people ease up on perfection and stop worrying so much about judgment, they make room for clarity and confidence.
A grounded conversation about feedback, trusted advice, and making career support more accessible.
The episode treats feedback as something that can sting before it helps, and that framing gives the conversation real weight. Francie Jane's arc runs from matching hedge funds with investors and raising nearly half a billion dollars in institutional investment to building…
A steady look at purpose, emotions, and retirement as a new season.
Wendy Leggett presents retirement as a season to shape, not a pause to dread. In conversation with Brittany Cates, the piece keeps circling a practical question: what gives life direction once work no longer does?
A grounded conversation about career change, self-trust, and finding meaning in a detour.
Jen Brown's story is about a career turn she stopped treating as a regret. She once planned to become an occupational therapist, found the classes too hard, and later gave that detour new purpose after 16 years in education by becoming a certified life coach for teens and young…
Unhurried FT conversations about bosses, burnout and the office.
Feedback can bruise.
Host Brittany Cates interviews Wendy Leggett, a retirement coach, about navigating the emotional and non-financial aspects of retirement.
Brittany Cates interviews Ellen Toomey, her former career coach, about moving from stay-at-home motherhood and loneliness toward technology work, entrepreneurship, and coaching women into tech.
Shannon Russell could see the next rung, and that was the problem.
Emily Hawkins shares her journey from a corporate layoff to building a successful coaching business, highlighting key moments like witnessing a colleague's dismissal, taking a leap into entrepreneurship, and pivoting to high-value services.
Brittany Cates interviews Brenda Rigney, a coach who helps midlife women transition into entrepreneurship.
Host Brittany Cates interviews Karen Deloach, a creativity specialist, about using art to navigate career transitions and reduce anxiety.
Host Brittany Cates interviews Jen Brown, a former educator turned life coach, who shares her journey of resilience through family health crises and career change.
What keeps you moving?
Failure belongs in the story.
Rayna Rokicki moved from teaching middle and high school at an international school in Nigeria (2014 to COVID) to producing podcasts, then to full-time podcast growth coaching in 2024.
Juliana VanLaanen weighs leaving a corporate presidency: corporate America wasn't going anywhere, but Two Mama Bees would not exist without her leap.
Barbara Walsh, a board-certified master health coach, recounts her 2016 breast cancer diagnosis and her choice to decline surgery, radiation, and chemo while waiting for a second opinion in New York City.
Cori Myka, founder of Calm Within Adult Swim in Seattle, tells Brittany Cates that a 2016 chairlift ride in Palm Springs led her to sell the kids' swim lessons part of her business and keep the adult program.