Choose Work
Choose Work
Podcast Description
I’m Heidi, Founder of Heidi Coaching & Training. This podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights to help you make thoughtful decisions about your career and workplace.
Each episode focuses on one specific work-related theme, explored in-depth over multiple episodes through interviews with Dutch or English-speaking experts or individuals with firsthand experience.
This podcast provides answers to questions like:
* How can I find work that aligns with my personality, talents, and values?
* How can employers promote Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace?
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers various themes surrounding career development, including finding work that aligns with personal values and talents, promoting Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace, and entrepreneurial inspiration. For example, episodes include topics like 'Giftedness in the Workplace,' as discussed by Dr. Sabine Sypré, and practical advice for managing personal finances while building a meaningful career.
I’m Heidi, evidence-based Coach & Trainer. This podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights – empowering you to make thoughtful decisions about your career and workplace.
In each episode, I explore a work-related topic together with a national or international expert, or someone with firsthand experience.
Sometimes there is a deep-dive into a theme across several episodes, other times it’s a stand-alone interview with an expert or practitioner. Episodes are primarily in English.
How do you navigate career transitions when things feel uncertain and uncomfortable?
In this episode in English, I’m joined by Dr. Rachael Skews — behavioural scientist, psychologist, coach, and internationally recognised expert in Acceptance & Commitment Coaching.
We take a deep dive into career transitions and psychological flexibility & ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy),exploring why uncertainty, fear, impostor thoughts, and self-doubt often show up when our work really matters — and how ACT can help us move forward.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction to Choose Work
01:05 Career transitions, psychological flexibility, and why this episode matters
01:30 Meet Dr. Rachael Skews and her work in Acceptance & Commitment Coaching
03:10 What Acceptance & Commitment Coaching really is (and what it isn’t)
06:45 Impostor thoughts, self-doubt, and why high performers experience them
08:30 Why the goal isn’t to get rid of difficult thoughts and feelings
10:30 Rachael’s non-linear career journey: consultancy, academia, health tech, and entrepreneurship
15:10 Moving from academia to Headspace and working in behavioural science
18:10 Entrepreneurship, uncertainty, and psychological flexibility as a resource
20:00 Rest, recovery, and treating yourself like an elite performer
22:20 Self-criticism, overworking, and building self-compassion at work
23:40 Redundancy, career inflection points, and conscious career choice
25:10 Starting a business: loneliness, creativity, and stepping into the swamp
27:30 Values, meaning, and designing work that actually fits you
30:10 The “swamp” metaphor: discomfort as the price of meaningful work
33:00 Fear, uncertainty, and speaking outside your comfort zone
35:10 ACT in action: focusing on what’s on the other side of the swamp
38:00 Risk tolerance, uncertainty, and how personality shapes career choices
42:20 Case example: supporting a senior leader considering entrepreneurship
45:00 Scarcity mindset, money fears, and responsibility during career transitions
48:00 Why fear makes sense — and why it shouldn’t make the decision
50:30 Is it ever too late to build psychological flexibility?
53:10 Psychological flexibility as “conscious evolution”
54:20 Rachael’s upcoming book on Acceptance & Commitment Coaching
56:00 A practical reflection exercise for listeners navigating career transitions
58:10 Where to find Rachael and her work
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Resources mentioned:
– Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS)
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Contact Dr. Rachael Skews and learn more about her work:
– Website: https://www.rachaelskews.com/
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For show notes, please visit heididelanghe.com/podcast
For feedback or suggestions for topics or guests, email me [email protected]
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