Shifted: Career.Mind.Life. <br /> <br /> Get inspired to navigate change and create YOUR ideal career and life
Shifted: Career.Mind.Life. Get inspired to navigate change and create YOUR ideal career and life
Podcast Description
This is a podcast about the shifts and turns in people's careers and lives.
Stories of real people, who have actually SHIFTED, so gone through some sort of career/life transition: changed jobs, roles, organisations, cities or countries.
It's a mix of:
🎙️ Conversations with guests: real people you can actually relate to, sharing their stories, insights and lessons learned based on their lived experience
🎙️ Solo episodes, where Yvonne shares a resource, framework or tool that she picked up during her training and professional life, and that she has seen working for her clients
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on career transitions and personal development, covering topics such as job hunting, emotional resilience, networking, and work-life balance, with episodes highlighting guest stories like that of Vera Thienert's shift from international development to HR and Dr. Anita Perkins' journey from academia to entrepreneurship.
This is a podcast about the shifts and turns in people’s careers and lives.
Stories of real people, who have actually SHIFTED, so gone through some sort of career/life transition: changed jobs, roles, organisations, cities or countries.
It’s a mix of:
🎙️ Conversations with guests: real people you can actually relate to, sharing their stories, insights and lessons learned based on their lived experience
🎙️ Solo episodes, where Yvonne shares a resource, framework or tool that she picked up during her training and professional life, and that she has seen working for her clients
Summary
In this episode, host Yvonne Davidis speaks with Ute Wilde Kraatz about her career in the diplomatic service of Switzerland, and her decision to retire early.
Ute reflects on her shifts in mindset, the importance of personal growth, and the lessons learned from her extensive international experience.
Have a listen and find out:
– what made Ute join the Foreign Service, what she means by 'Switzerland is calling' and how she answered her own call
– how Ute sought out opportunities to learn on the job, held up her hand when computers were introduced, and started a degree at 50
– how Ute navigated her professional responsibilities and personal life on her last diplomatic posting in Moscow, amidst a global pandemic and the escalation of geopolitical tensions.
Keywords
career change, career transitions, mindset shifts, foreign affairs, personal growth, life changes, decision making, retirement, work-life balance, international experiences, personal reflections
Chapters
0:55 Introduction
1:45 Quick fire questions
5:00 Ute's career change journey within the Swiss Department for Foreign Affairs
10:27 Embrace change, again and again
13:35 Career Transitions and Agency
16:45 Life in Moscow: challenges and adaptations
21:11 Navigating personal and professional decisions
31:33: Lessons learned from Transitions
33:54 My take aways
Connect with Yvonne
On LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-davidis
To find out more about her services, head over to her website: www.YDcoaching.net
For a framework to help you navigate change and transitions, check out Episode 3.
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