Career Advice You Never Got

Ashley Artrip is a career coach and the author of Career Design, and she started this podcast because the advice she kept giving clients one-on-one was the kind of thing nobody had ever told them out loud. The show is short, biweekly, and unusually specific. Instead of general motivation, Ashley walks through the mechanics of the things that actually get people stuck: how to read a manager who keeps giving you vague feedback, when to stop trying to fix a job and start looking, what to put on a resume when your last role does not match your next one, and how to use AI tools without sounding like a robot in interviews. She brings on guests who have done the unglamorous work of changing careers in their thirties, forties, and fifties, and she lets them talk about the weird middle stage where you know you want something different but have no idea what. Episodes like 'Meet Your New Career Coach: ChatGPT' and 'The Power of the Portfolio Career' are good starting points. The tone is honest and a little conspiratorial, as if Ashley is telling you the thing your last boss should have said but never did. For anyone in a career pivot, or avoiding one, this show respects your time and gives you something concrete to try before the next episode lands.