Host of Bold Moves with Jools Raye, a top 5% podcast worldwide.
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Sound familiar?
From the outside,
it all looks fine.
It turns up around 9pm on a Friday, when the house has finally gone still.
You open your Notes app and read the three ideas that keep circling. You feel that small flicker of excitement. Then you close the app and turn your phone face down, like it was a silly idea.
When your partner asks if you're okay, you almost say, “Something doesn't feel right.” Instead you go with, “I'm just tired.”
You are tired. Just not the kind sleep fixes. It's the kind that comes from holding yourself in a career that used to fit and now doesn't.
Is this it? No, Queen. This is where it gets interesting.
Here's what nobody tells you
You're not a leaper.
You're a builder.
Everyone says take the leap. Quit, follow your passion, find yourself on a beach. But you've got people who rely on you and a career you worked hard for. So when the only advice on offer is “leap”, you do the sensible thing: nothing at all.
Confidence was never the problem. The real one is the belief, deep down, that wanting more, when you already have so much, makes you ungrateful.
Wanting more is evidence you've grown.
You don't need to blow up your life to change it. You need a map, a bridge you can walk across, and one small, bold move.
Your free starter guide
Before You Pivot:
four small steps
Done all the thinking and still haven't moved? You've been testing your ideas in the one place they can't survive: your head. One step every few days, and you'll finish with a page full of clues about what's next.
Women who made their move
The answers were
in them all along
“So I did it. I handed my notice in and now have the business we built using my passions to focus on. I feel so relieved and so free.”
Sarah M, now a voice-over actress
“Jools gave me more than a plan… it gave me back myself.”
Sarah Cleaver, NHS Nurse
“I gained clarity and understood that I did know what I wanted underneath. The answers are in you, and with Jools' support you can pave that journey more confidently.”
Peri E, mum of one and product designer
“Jools has a rare gift: she helps you hear yourself.”
Callie, Creative Director, Content Creatures
When you're ready
Three ways
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Meet Jools
I'm Jools
Career Wingwoman and host of Bold Moves with Jools Raye
For years I was good at my job and talked myself out of everything else, one sensible reason at a time. A travel book. Personal training. My own coaching practice. A paycheck was how you made a living, wasn't it?
Then I became a mum, and the woman I was changed. We evolve as humans, all the time, and yet nobody tells you your career is allowed to evolve with you. I'd look at a job that looked great on LinkedIn and wonder why on earth it didn't fit any more.
There was a tug in my gut I couldn't ignore, pulling me towards a more creative, more aligned life.
“One foot planted in a place you've outgrown, the other reaching for somewhere new, and nobody handing you a map.”
That in-between space is lonely. Here's the bit nobody posts about.
I had ideas, probably too many. I was experimenting with the podcast, building my bridge one plank at a time. But years before, a headhunter had waved me into the VIP lounge, and it was so comfortable I stayed. Maybe too comfortable. In the end it took redundancy to move me, and my pivot turned into a crisis.
That's why I'll always tell you to move while you still have the choice, before it's made for you. It's a very different place to be.
And if redundancy has already made the decision for you, you're still in the right place. I've stood exactly where you're standing, and I'd love to work with you.
So I finally listened to that tug, and it led me to the life I have today: guiding women through the pivot I had to find my own way through. 18 years in careers and coaching, 8 of them coaching scientists and engineers in Defence. ICF accredited, Barefoot trained, with a postgraduate in careers guidance.
And I practise what I preach. I work school hours and see clients one day a week, by design.
Beyond the Bold Moves · every Sunday
Make Sunday your
favourite day again
You know you want to pivot. Every Sunday, I'll send you one small shift that takes under five minutes, the story behind this week's Bold Moves episode, and the bit nobody tells you about what happens next. Free, every Sunday.
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