When the wildly impossible, becomes possible
Have you ever dreamt of making a wildly different career change but told yourself it’s not “realistic” or possible?
Our minds place all sorts of limits on what we can and can’t do, and what’s permissible, so in this episode I invite Samantha Day to share her story and insights on how she made the seemingly impossible shift from accounting to stand-up comedy.
In her inimitable style, you’ll hear about how Samantha made the decision to leave her 30-year career for something new and incomparable; the thought-provoking psychological approaches she uses to deal with fear and doubt; and the practical steps she took to get started and build her profile.
In this episode we discuss
- The push and pull factors that drove Samantha to make a career change
- How she sanity checked her choice to move into comedy so that she could feel confident she was making the right decision
- Two powerful psychological perspectives Samantha uses for developing courage, one of which she got from Michael Macintyre’s director!
- The steps and approach she took to build her new career from scratch
- How Samantha’s old job made her ill and the physical signs to look out for that suggest real change is needed
- How Samantha feels doing a job that’s in alignment mentally, physically and emotionally
A bit more about Samantha Day
Samantha Day spent 30 years working as a tax accountant in the city of London, before making a career change that couldn’t be more polarised.
In her early 50s she embarked on a transition from accounting to stand-up comedy, turning a very new hobby into a real job that she earns a living from.
She’s won numerous comedy awards, is regularly gigging around the country, and she’s (at the time of recording) had two really successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Find out more about her on her website at samanthadaytime.com or follow her on Instagram.
Questioning your options to change careers?
In this episode I quickly talk about my Work Wonderland™ Course, which is what Samantha completed before I got to actually meet her. She used this as a temperature check to make sure that when she was thinking of changing her job, she wasn’t making a jump to something else that she wouldn’t be happy with.
The course and web application is a low investment to help you to determine the right career path (even if you have no idea what the right direction is at the start), or to confirm that what you are already thinking is the right choice. Read all about it here.
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