Career Transitions that Align with your Personality & Values w/ Julia Toothacre

<p>I am so excited to have Julia on the podcast today! Julia has 12 years of experience in career development.  After going through several of her own life changes she shifted her career path and started her own business as a career coach, she has a podcast and is overall a wealth of knowledge for ambitious professionals who are looking for a change... but aren&apos;t sure where to go.<br/><br/>It was a quarter-life crisis that led Julia to the work she is doing today. After spending time pursuing graphic design (because that was aligned with her degree) she realized it wasn&apos;t for her. She started to dive into other options and while on that path found that she was actually working against her natural strengths and her mindset about herself was not in a good place.<br/><br/>Once she worked past those limiting beliefs she found that becoming a career coach was where she was meant to be! Julia talks about her decision to go back to grad school but I love how she explains that more education isn&apos;t always the answer for everyone.<br/><br/>Julia shares how she&apos;s seen many people pursue an MBA or business degree but they aren&apos;t clear on what the degree will do for them.  The first step should be the exploration of self - figuring out who you are as a person, who you are in that career, and where you think you want to go. Does pursuing that degree help you reach where you&apos;d like to go?<br/><br/>In your 20&apos;s you are in your prime space for exploration and determining what you love. However, we often end up doing what we think we are supposed to do rather than figuring out what we thrive in. Career transition doesn&apos;t always mean completely changing industries, sometimes you just need to think outside the box.<br/><br/>She also acknowledges that sometimes we have the skillset but we don&apos;t love doing it. Those are the things that we need to recognize and shift as we are in the exploration phase. We are not stuck just because we are good at something. <br/><br/>Forging our own path can