Lixandra Urresta
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A podcast for career changers who are trying to switch industries or professions, or break out on their own and start a business. Listen to others who've taken that bold step to make their career switch and take action with your own. Career experts weigh in with their best advice for challenges along the way. Learn more and contact us at www.careerswitchpod.com. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn @careerswitchpod.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Career Switch Podcast turns the practical and emotional complications of changing careers into specific, manageable decisions.
Alexandra Uresta approaches career change as a series of decisions that can be examined, tested, and acted on. Career Switch Podcast moves between personal transition stories and advice-focused interviews, giving equal attention to practical job-search mechanics and the…
The career switch happened inside the same company; your next move might start with a coffee chat.
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A reflective look at how inherited rituals can shape work, identity, and the stories people carry.
Hispanic Heritage Month gives the conversation its frame, but the episode is really about how family rituals can shape work and identity. Zyda Rivera, a Reiki master and the founder of Mindful Living with Z, comes into view through Puerto Rican practices: bowls of water above…
Confidence, not credentials, is the bottleneck in a career change.
This episode treats a career switch as a confidence problem as much as a qualifications problem. A strong resume and a stack of interviews still matter, but the harder part is convincing a hiring manager that you can do the work in a new field.
A practical look at how editorial judgment can carry into work outside media.
The episode makes a plain case for laid off editors: the move is not a reinvention story so much as a job of carrying editorial judgment into other businesses.
A calmer, more usable take on networking for career change.
Networking is treated here as something steady and ordinary, not a big social performance. It begins with the pressure of public mingling, then settles into a simpler pattern: build a trusted brain trust, reach out to a few key people one at a time, and keep follow-up occasional…
Burnout becomes a bakery through patience, market research, and refusal to stay stuck.
A burned-out lawyer's pivot into a bakery gives the episode its shape, and the story works because it treats career change as steady work. Helene Godin lays out the practical steps with calm clarity: leaving a 22-year legal career, studying the gluten-free market, developing…
Practical job-search guidance that protects energy instead of draining it.
Burnout sits at the center of this episode, and the discussion treats a career change less like a burst of inspiration than a problem of pacing. Alexandra Uresta and Dr.
Networking is framed as a practical research tool, not a vague career slogan.
The episode treats career change as something concrete: learn the missing pieces, ask the right people, and map the gap between where someone is and where they want to be.
A practical look at moving into a new role from inside the same company.
The piece keeps the focus practical. Mia Villareal is shown moving from social media strategist to product marketing manager within the same company, and that detail gives the story its shape.
Unhurried FT conversations about bosses, burnout and the office.
Alexandra Uresta treats burnout as a real risk in career change.
Creative work sounds tempting.
Alexandra Uresta opens with a straight-up pep talk for anyone thinking about a career change.
Karen Wickery talks about how networking can feel like work, especially for introverts.
Career Switch Podcast closes its fourth season with a conversation about why career change can feel so difficult.
Alexandra Uresta opens by asking what happens when you want a career switch but still feel stuck.
Alexandra Uresta frames the show for listeners thinking about a career switch and looking for a nudge toward action.
Career Switch Podcast turns a familiar career-change challenge into something concrete.
Alexandra Uresta opens by naming the layoffs hitting journalism and media.
Lisa Paglioni shares how she reinvented her career after 26 years as chief of staff to a pharmaceutical advertising executive who passed away in 2022.
Barbara Brandon-Croft, the first Black woman cartoonist nationally syndicated in the US mainstream press, shares her journey from fashion writing at Essence to 14 years of her comic strip 'Where I'm Coming From' to 18 years at Parents Magazine, and how getting laid off in her 60s during the pandemic led to an unexpected creative renaissance.
Career coach Deidre Taylor joins host Alexandra Uresta to discuss three key signs it's time for a career change: dreading work consistently, feeling longings for a different life, and physical/emotional symptoms of chronic dissatisfaction.
Alexandra Uresta talks with Helene Godin about making a late-career pivot.
Alexandra Uresta talks with Dawn Graham about hiring.
Alexandra Uresta opens the show for Hispanic Heritage Month with Zyda Rivera, a Reiki master and founder of Mindful Living with Z.
Alexandra Uresta opens with a personal focus on people of color and first-generation listeners.
Alexandra Uresta talks with Mia Villareal about making a career switch without leaving the company.