What I’m Learning About Midlife Career Changes 6 mo. In (15min.)|Molly Wipperfurth + (replay) Using Your Existing Skills for your Second Act | Joanna Ehresman, Fika Design

Six months into this midlife career change experiment, Molly’s pulling back the curtain — not on a guest, but on herself. Two lessons the guests keep teaching her, two mind shifts that have quietly changed how she thinks about money and risk, two things that have flat-out not gone to plan, and two she’s reworking heading into the back half of the year.

It’s an honest midyear check-in for any woman in her 40s or 50s rethinking her own second act. Then, rolling into the holiday weekend, she replays the episode that started it all: Joanna Ehresman, and the one piece of coaching advice — treat your next thing as an experiment — that took the pressure off everything.

What You Will Learn — Molly’s Midyear Recap

[00:48] Lesson one: almost no one pivots alone

[01:37] Lesson two: real career change takes three to five years, usually built alongside the day job

[02:53] Mind shift one: treating your next thing as an experiment — and the weight it lifts

[04:32] Mind shift two: rethinking income and benefits — non-traditional money, and Melanie’s hospital-board health coverage workaround

[06:11] What hasn’t gone well

[09:03] What she’s working on: flipping the schedule

[10:07] The inner work — doing the work

[11:06] Feedback is a gift: the stories and voices Molly most wants to hear next

Replay — Episode 1: Joanna Ehresman