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Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/18  Have you ever noticed how old scripts stick around long after they’re useful? Like a template that’s been copied and pasted for years.  No one remembers any more who actually wrote it originally. But everyone keeps using it - because they’ve always used it. It once served a purpose. It reduced risk. Avoided embarrassment. Helped things run smoothly and efficiently. But over time, that familiar old template can turn into a handbrake. In this episode of Space to Shift Your Career, we’ll explore what happens when old templates shape your career decisions.  I’ll talk about the ‘What If’ script and how stories about failure - that many of us are still living by - can hold us back from going after what we actually want in our career and life. *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at http://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/17 As a public sector leader, you are used to working on wicked problems that don’t have easy answers. Think back to the last time you led through a complex piece of work in uncertain conditions.  You didn’t have the perfect brief. You and your team just got on with it.  You gathered information. You tested assumptions. And you adjusted as you went. And yet, when it comes to their own career, many public sector leaders do the opposite. They wait for clarity before acting. For certainty before experimenting. For the lightning-bolt that makes everything obvious. Are you waiting for that moment too? In this episode of the Space To Shift Your Career podcast, I talk about why that moment rarely comes – and what to do instead. *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/16  In the public sector, we’re trained to scan the horizon: New policy challenges. Political cycles. Economic trends. Resourcing needs. We’re used to a working environment where advisors give advice, decision makers decide, implementers implement. That’s just how it works, right?  But lately, it feels like the old certainties are gone.  Geopolitical and economic forces are challenging what we long took for granted.  Things that used to happen out there in the world are starting to feel closer to home. And for many public sector leaders, something unsettling is happening beneath the surface. A realisation that their career - the one they thought was stable, values-aligned, and relatively secure - may be more exposed than they ever imagined. Not because they did anything wrong. But because geopolitics, economics, and political priorities shifted. So today I want to ask you a simple but powerful question: If forces outside your control changed your role tomorrow, how prepared would you be?  In this episode, we’ll talk about how to take back agency over your career before you’re forced to react.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Get your FREE copy of the 'Re-Define Success' Workbook at https://SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/15  Many of us entered work in the public sector with a strong sense of purpose and duty. We measured success by impact: how well we served the public, supported our teams, or upheld fairness and accountability. Over time, those external measures became deeply internalised: performance reviews, recognition, pay bands. They started to define us. And yet, the longer we stay, the more we notice a dissonance: that our own definition of success hasn’t been updated in years. If you’ve been in your public sector career for a while, this might be the moment for a “success definition review”.   A chance to ask: Are the measures you set for yourself still the right ones for who you’ve become today?  In this episode, I’ll share 6 powerful questions designed to help you re-define success in a way that honours your public sector background AND opens up new possibilities. *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/14 As public sector leader, you witness how the world is shifting quickly. Long-term strategies like five-year career plans don’t hold up anymore.  But letting go of certainty doesn’t mean letting go of your desire to have impact. The reason you entered this work was clear: you wanted to solve big problems, make a difference, and contribute to something larger than yourself.  But here’s the challenge: once you’ve framed your impact in that way, it can feel like there are NO alternatives.  You ask yourself: where else could I possibly have this kind of influence? That belief - that your contribution is only valid at that scale, only meaningful when it’s national or global - can trap you.  It can hold you back from exploring alternative futures. It can keep you disconnected from things closer to home: where you live, and the people around you.  Imagine for a moment that impact has many levels. And you get to choose what matters most to you now. In this episode, we’ll uncover 3 layers to help you uncover how you want to contribute in future.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/13 Today, on the last day of 2025, I want to share with you my personal end-of-year reflection framework.  Yes, it’s THAT time of the year again! Why do people do this? I do it… To be more CONSCIOUS and in tune with my values. To HOLD me from rushing straight into strategizing and planning the next year. To take time to look back BEFORE looking forward.To notice and acknowledge what has been. Things that went as I had hoped for and the surprises along the way. And to check in on my intentions for the year.  Rather than rushing it, I like to take time to do this. That way I can come back to it a couple of times as new thoughts emerge. Not only when I sit down and think about it. But also when I’m out and about or pottering around at home.  Then I make an appointment with myself. I sit down and write down my reflections. I follow a framework of questions that I’d like to share with you today. I use this with my clients and everyone tells me how eye-opening it is!  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at https://SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/12 You know how every year, as government agencies approach the end of the financial cycle, we rush to close off reports, tidy loose ends, and get the numbers lined up before the cut-off? We prepare briefing notes, ministerial updates, budget forecasts, end-of-year performance papers.  But we rarely prepare ourselves to transition into downtime. It’s almost like we assume rest will somehow squeeze itself into the calendar between end-of-year events, office lunches, staff farewells - and last minute emergencies. But rest does NOT automatically appear!  For many public sector leaders, the holiday period is actually the busiest time of emotional labour:  Family commitments, social expectations, and carrying the responsibility of keeping things steady - “just in case something happens”.  So here’s my question for you today: What would it look like to apply the same intentional planning you give to your work… to the break your mind and body actually need?  In this episode, I share 3 questions to help you take stock.  Be honest with yourself. And courageous.  Your future self will thank you for it!  *** 90min Jumpstart Session  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at https://SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/11 *** If you’ve ever worked on a Cabinet paper, a briefing, or programme update, you’ll know the drill. Before anything sees the light of day, you run it past the front-page test:  “How would this look if it landed on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow morning?” It’s automatic – like muscle memory. I was speaking recently with a group of public sector leaders about their career journeys. One of them shared that in their team, the risk register was so central that it practically had its own seat at the table. Then they added: “We even have an opportunities tab!” They paused… and then said: “It’s empty.” We both laughed, nodding our heads.  But then sat with the truth of that. When you’ve spent years, maybe decades, in a system that is built on risk mitigation, what does that do to your mindset? The question that’s been echoing for me ever since is this: If everything you do at work starts with a risk register… does your career change process start with one too? In this episode I share 3 ways you can test how your risk mindset affects your career shift.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at www.SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/10 Have you ever watched a hamster running on its wheel?  From the outside, it looks like motion, progress. All that energy. But from the inside, it must feel like endless circling with no way out.  That’s what it can feel like when you live on autopilot. Work and life are busy. You’ve got your routines to keep moving. But you’re going through the motions. And it’s hard to step off and pause. The same is true when your career ideas only live inside your head. They spin round and round, going in circles, but nothing changes.  This is one of the biggest challenges public sector leaders face: stepping away from the day-to-day to think about what they really want.  So let me ask you: Do you make space to think out loud about YOUR ideas? Do you have a safe space to talk about them? With someone who doesn’t deflate your ideas, but instead adds air to them?  Someone who fuels your ideas, and asks:  What do you need to make this happen?  In this episode, I share 3 practical ways to step out and start exploring what’s next.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at www.spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/9 Imagine being handed an old manual to run a department in today’s world.  The structures have changed. The funding streams have shifted. The stakeholders are different. But you're still expected to make things work, using outdated tools. That’s what it feels like for many public sector leaders considering a career change. They rely on ideas and beliefs shaped decades ago.  Ideas about what a successful career ‘should’ look like. About changing careers being unwise, naive, impossible. Simply an own goal.  Beliefs that might have been useful once. But now?  In a changing world of work requiring us to deal with change at an ever faster pace, to be adaptable life-long-learners?  They might just be keeping you stuck.  In this episode, I unpack 4 common myths holding public sector leaders back from changing careers - even from just exploring alternatives. Myths that self-censor. I share real life stories of humans who challenged those myths.  Humans with public sector careers, who shifted into something different. Something they had perhaps only dreamed about: a career that makes them feel joyful, energised and alive.  *** You can find my conversations with the career shifters mentioned in this episode in my previous podcast 'Shifted: Career. Mind.Life' on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/8   ***  You wouldn’t set out on a long journey without a compass or GPS. Or the maps app on your phone.  Even if you think you know the route, things change: road closures, traffic, better paths you didn’t know about.  And yet... this is how many of us move through our careers in the public sector: we follow the expected road. The logical promotional path. The well-known track, carved out by someone else.  But logic isn’t the same as what’s meaningful TO YOU.  And direction isn’t the same as alignment.  I’ve seen this happening for the public sector leaders who get in touch to work with me.  As one leader told me:  “If you don’t think about what you do, you find yourself in this senior role and ask yourself: Did I actually want this kind of a life?” In this episode, I want to help you pause and recalibrate.  I’ll share 2 powerful questions (out of the 10 questions) I use with my clients. Both are designed to bring you back to what matters most to you at this moment in your career and life.  Because BEFORE you choose a new direction, you need to reconnect with your own inner guidance system. With YOUR compass.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at www.SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/7  Imagine a bird in a beautiful cage. From the outside, it looks like the perfect home: polished bars, regular meals, shelter from storms. The bird is safe. But when you look closer, you notice the way it stares at the sky. It’s comfortable in there… but the bird longs to fly. That’s what I hear consistently from public sector leaders who’ve been thinking about their next career move.  They value the stability and benefits of their current role. The “golden” part of the cage. But they also feel the weight of what they’re missing: more autonomy, creativity, flexibility. More alignment with what they really care about.  They long for something different and wonder: what else might be out there?  But the cage keeps them from following their curiosity. In this episode, I’m going to talk about the #1 fear that keeps them inside: financial security.  I’ll share three practical steps you can take to go through that door and spread your wings.  *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/6 >> 5 Meanings Of Space Public Sector Leaders Should Consider When Exploring A Career Change A few weeks ago, one of my listeners wrote to say how much she loved the name Space To Shift Your Career. She said: “For me, space isn’t just about time. It’s about the physical environment I’m in, especially when I’m in nature. That’s when I finally feel like myself again. Grounded, alive, able to breathe.” Her words stopped me in my tracks. Because that’s EXACTLY why I chose the name.  And why I end every episode with “make space, rediscover you, and then take action.” Space isn’t one-dimensional. It’s not just about finding an empty slot in your diary.  It’s multi-layered: time, environment, energy, people. And the FLOW we feel when we’re aligned. That’s what we’ll explore in this episode: what “space” really means.  And how extending your definition can help you expand what’s possible for your career and life. *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript at www.SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/5  Let me ask you something: When you hear the word ‘dream’, do you roll your eyes - even just a little?  You’re not alone.  To many of us ‘dreaming’ sounds lofty. Naive. The opposite of what we need.  Especially in the public sector, where realism, facts and measurable outcomes are the currency - what place does dreaming have?  But here’s a thought: imagine your career without a vision. No direction. Just duty.  That’s not realism. That’s resignation.  In this episode, I’ll talk about why so many smart, experienced and driven public sector leaders struggle to imagine what’s next for them. And how that might be holding them back more than they think.  So if the word ‘dream’ makes you uncomfortable… stay with me. I’ll share 3 practical ways to remove that stop sign.  *** *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.

Find the full transcript on www.SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/4 Have you ever been on a boat that slowly loses momentum?  It starts off strong. Full speed ahead. Purpose clear. Destination in sight. But over time, it begins to slow. Not because something is wrong. Just because something shifted.  The scenery outside is still beautiful. The passengers are still kind. But your gaze starts to drift towards the horizon. You’re not feeling lost completely, but no longer sure where you’re headed.  You begin to wonder: ‘Is this still where I want to go?’  Maybe you’ve left the familiar shore behind. Or maybe you’re still anchored, because you know the current isn’t quite right for you anymore.  You’ve steered a steady course for years. You’ve served, led, and solved big problems with heart and integrity. And now? The water feels still. Other times choppy. And somehow not yours to sail anymore.  That can be an uncomfortable place, this in-between. You might wonder: ‘Am I just tired? Or is it time for something new?’ If you’re in the public sector and starting to feel that something has shifted for you, you’re not alone.  In fact, you might be in a powerful moment. One where you decide to be more intentional about how you want your next chapter to unfold.  In this episode, I’ll share 3 mindset shifts that can help you move forward with more clarity, integrity and hope for what’s next.  Not by having it all figured out, but by learning to navigate uncertainty in a way that’s more aligned with your pace, your priorities, and your possibilities.  *** *** Yvonne Davidis helps Leaders in the Public Sector explore and develop exciting career options that align with who they are now and how they want to evolve in future. Sign up to 'Email me new episodes' to get them straight into your inbox. Get your copy of How To Break Through 4 Limiting Beliefs About Shifting Your Public Sector Career. Book a 90-minute Jumpstart Session to clarify your deal-breakers and must-haves. For step-by-step support apply here for Yvonne's 5-months Find Your Career Space programme and she'll be in touch to invite you to a Get-To-Know-Each-Other Call.