Her Career Coach

Have you ever felt an energy in a room, a person, or a moment that you couldn't quite explain – but knew was real? This episode invites you to trust that instinct. Christina is joined by her longtime friend and healer, Karol Barac, a Reiki practitioner, spinal energetics practitioner and Akashic Records reader whose own path into energy work began in the hardest way imaginable – following the sudden loss of her daughter, Olivia, in 2021. Karol shares how repeated, unmistakable signs from Olivia in the days after her death led her – sceptical at first – into studying the Akashic Records, and eventually into a career spent helping thousands of people release trauma, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with who they really are. Together they unpack how the nervous system holds onto what the mind has already moved past, why blending ancient modalities with modern science is changing how we understand healing, and what it actually means to walk into a room, submit an application, or make a decision from a place of calm rather than fear. Karol also shares her honest, no-fad approach to energy work: start slow, stay curious, and never mistake someone else's healing journey for your own. For any woman quietly wondering whether the calm she's chasing might come from somewhere other than another to-do list ticked off, this conversation offers a different way in – one that starts with listening to the body, and ends with coming back to yourself. Follow Karol on Facebook Book a 30-minute Clarity Call with Christina Quiz - What's your career trying to tell you? You don't need a new career. You need to remember who you are.

You've felt it in a meeting, an interview, or a performance review – the sense that you're being read differently for the exact same behaviour a man would be praised for. You're not imagining it. Christina has seen it from every angle – as a woman who hid her own pregnancy from her employer, and as a former recruiter who sat across the table while hiring managers argued that a woman "hadn't been in the role long enough" to earn what a man would. In this episode, she takes off the coaching hat and gets on her soapbox. She walks you through the three forces she believes are keeping the pay gap – and gender equality more broadly – stuck: bias, societal conditioning, and the systemic structures built around a male default, backed by current WGEA data and two client stories that will make your jaw drop. You can keep hearing the same loaded language – too emotional, too bossy, too aggressive – and let it pass. Or you can start naming it when you hear it, in your own workplace and your own home. Listen to this episode, then notice the next time you hear someone described differently for doing exactly the same thing as someone else. Book a 30-minute Clarity Call Quiz - What's your career trying to tell you? You don't need a new career. You need to remember who you are.

You want to show up for the people who rely on you – consistently, and as yourself. But some weeks, no matter how much you plan or prepare, the words won't come, and forcing them only makes things worse. Christina knows that feeling well. This week, an episode that should have taken one sitting took her three days, ten failed takes, and a growing sense of frustration with herself. Rather than push a version of it out just to meet the deadline, she stopped – and started asking what the resistance was actually telling her. In this episode, she walks you through what she did next: turning to her astrology and human design for clarity, recognising that her old approach to preparing and delivering the podcast no longer fits, and choosing to trust her body's signals over the pressure to perform. It's a plan built on alignment rather than discipline – tuning in before pushing forward. You can keep forcing things when they're not working and feel the disconnect in the result. Or you can pause long enough to ask what's actually going on. Listen to this episode, then notice where in your own week you're pushing against something that's asking you to stop instead. Book a 30-minute Clarity Call Quiz - What's your career trying to tell you? You don't need a new career. You need to remember who you are.

If you've ever noticed your sense of worth rising and falling with something outside you – a number in your bank account, a launch that didn't land, whether anyone thought to say you were doing well – this episode names what's underneath it. In this honest solo episode, Christina shares the last five or six weeks: a launch that didn't go the way she'd hoped, the discomfort of following a playbook that was never hers, and the moment she stopped asking what was wrong with her and started treating the whole thing as information instead. What she offers isn't a strategy so much as a way through. Follow the thread back further than feels comfortable. Stay with what surfaces rather than tidying it away. Ten pages of journalling in, she found the belief sitting beneath all of it – one about money and worth that was handed to her long before she had the words to question it, and what she decided to do with that as a mother. For any woman who has quietly measured herself by what she earns, what she achieves, or who notices – the invitation here is simply to look. What's underneath is rarely as frightening as the not-looking, and it's almost always the thing that sets you free. Book a 30-minute Clarity Call Quiz - What's your career trying to tell you? You don't need a new career. You need to remember who you are.

If you've ever wondered what it actually takes to back yourself completely – not just in your career, but in your own life – this episode offers a rare and honest look at someone who's been learning exactly that. For the milestone 40th episode of the Her Career Coach podcast, Christina hands the mic to Beck Chapman, returning guest and long-time friend. When Beck was last on the podcast, she was the one sharing her story – the bold career pivots, the values-led decisions, the mindset work required to back yourself through uncertainty. Now she's back as the interviewer, and it's Christina's turn to answer the tough questions. Together, they trace the full arc of Her Career Coach: from a phone call during lockdown that lit something alight in Christina, through three distinct iterations of the business, and into the identity-first, strategy-second approach she practises today. The earliest clients that helped Christina see more clearly what her work was really for. What Christina doesn't often say out loud is how many times she returned to corporate contracts, even when she knew she wanted to go all in. This episode names that honestly: the self-worth and self-trust to fully back yourself don't always arrive when you expect them to. For any woman who can feel the distance between where she is and where she's meant to be, this conversation is a reminder that the journey is rarely linear – and that the work of remembering who you are has always been the point. Book a 30-minute Clarity Call Quiz - What's your career trying to tell you? You don't need a new career. You need to remember who you are.

If you've ever left a role – or a whole chapter of your career – and expected to finally feel like yourself again, but found instead that you felt more lost, more unsettled, or quietly unsure of who you are now, this episode is for you. In this deeply personal solo episode, Christina shares something she hasn't said publicly before. Episode 39 nearly didn't happen – not because there wasn't enough to say, but because saying it required her to sit in the very discomfort she walks her clients through. So she did. She takes us back to where the silencing began – from childhood, where her voice was literally spoken for, through school, and into a senior corporate role that edited everything: her language, her ideas, her emails, and even her margins. She also shares what it felt like, after that chapter, to step into work where she was genuinely trusted – and why that contrast changed everything. A year on from leaving the corporate world altogether, Christina opens up about the three unexpected nudges that arrived within weeks of each other – each one an invitation to slip back into the safety of an old identity. And what she realised when she chose not to. For any woman who knows what it feels like to have one foot in the future and the other still clinging to what was, this episode names something that rarely gets named: the exhaustion of editing yourself into a version the world will accept – and the quiet, necessary work of unlearning it. Register for Christina's free Zoom masterclass on July 10th, "You don't have a career problem. You have an identity problem" Book a 30-minute Clarity Call Quiz - What's your career trying to tell you? You don't need a new career. You need to remember who you are.

If you've ever said "I just need more confidence" more times than you can count, this episode is going to land differently than you expect. Because confidence was never the problem. And after 24 years sitting across from brilliant, accomplished women who couldn't understand why they were stuck, Christina will share with you exactly what the problem is. In this episode, Christina breaks down the real difference between confidence, self-belief, self-worth and self-trust, four things we treat as the same word but they're not, and why that distinction changes everything about the work you actually need to do. Christina will share Karen's story. A woman who built an extraordinary career, led big teams, advised boards, and still came to me feeling broken. Not because she lacked confidence. Because underneath everything she'd achieved, she'd never once stopped to ask what she was actually worth. If you've tried the courses, read the books, and you're still waiting to feel ready, this episode is for you. Register for Christina's free Zoom masterclass on July 10th, "You don't have a career problem. You have an identity problem" Book a 30-minute Clarity Call Quiz - What's your career trying to tell you? You don't need a new career. You need to remember who you are.

Have you ever landed the promotion, started the new role, and felt — after a few months — the exact same restlessness you were trying to leave behind? If that resonates, this episode is for you. In this episode, Christina continues the conversation she's been building across the series on career identity. This one is practical and personal — and it starts with a question you've probably answered a thousand times: What do you do? Because somewhere along the way, that question and who are you? quietly became the same question. And that's where so much of the career confusion for women in their forties and fifties begins. Christina walks through what's actually sitting underneath the restlessness — not the job, not the title, not the team. She unpacks four layers that she sees most consistently in the women she works with: what you believe about your own worth (which is different from believing in your capability); the values that have slowly drifted from your decision-making; the state your nervous system is operating in day to day; and whether something is genuinely pulling you forward. Not one of those things is on your CV. She also shares why no new role has ever been able to fix an identity problem — and why it never will. The job changes what you do. The woman underneath follows you everywhere. If you've been listening across this series, this episode brings the thread together. And if you're standing at a crossroads right now with a list of possible next moves, Christina invites you to put that list down — just for now — and ask a different question. Register for Christina's free Zoom masterclass on June 5th, "You don't have a career problem. You have an identity problem" Book a 30-minute Clarity Call Quiz - What's your career trying to tell you? You don't need a new career. You need to remember who you are.

Have you ever felt like there's a part of you that keeps getting prodded — the same tender spot, different situations, different decades — but you've never quite had the language for it? In this episode, Christina sits down with astrologer and embodiment guide Chrissy Lehpamer, founder of Aura & Sage and Christina's astrology teacher, to explore one of the most profound — and most overlooked — tools for identity work: Chiron, the wounded healer. Chrissy explains what Chiron actually is (not a planet — a centaur, discovered in 1977), where it comes from in Greek mythology, and why it matters so deeply for the women doing this kind of inner work. In your natal chart, Chiron represents the tender part of you that can't be fully healed — but can be understood, held with compassion, and ultimately transcended so you can teach and guide from it. The conversation goes deep on the Chiron return — the astrological transit that happens between the ages of 50 and 52, when Chiron comes back to its original position in your birth chart and offers a profound opportunity to close the loop on your lifelong wound. For many women, this is when things that have quietly shaped their career decisions, their sense of self, and their relationships finally surface to be seen. Christina shares that her own Chiron sits in her first house of identity, in Aries — and that discovering this after planting the seed of Her Career Coach was a full-circle moment she didn't see coming. Chrissy and Christina also discuss how to recognise when a Chiron wound is being activated (hint: look for the emotional habit, not the emotional truth), why the body is always involved, and why yin yoga specifically is one of the most powerful practices you can start now if you're approaching or moving through your Chiron return. If you're a woman in your forties or fifties who has been questioning who you are, what you're here to do, and why the same old patterns keep showing up — this episode will give you a language for what's actually happening, and a new lens for the work ahead. Find out more about Chrissy Lehpamer at Aura and Sage . Book a 30-minute Clarity Call Quiz - What's your career trying to tell you? You don't need a new career. You need to remember who you are.

The career still looks good on paper. The title, the achievements, the things you're supposed to be proud of — they're all there. But something underneath isn't working anymore. You've been asking who am I outside of my job title, and getting silence back. This episode is for you. In the third episode of her identity work series, career identity mentor Christina Storey gets honest about what the real work of finding yourself again actually involves. Not the weekend retreats or morning affirmations, but the slow, uncomfortable, ongoing process of uncovering the beliefs you didn't even know were running your life — many of them downloaded before you were seven years old. Christina shares where her own journey started in 2018, what she's still working through today, and why every woman in her fifties who has come out the other side says the same thing: I wish I'd given myself permission sooner. She walks through the foundational steps she returns to again and again — first with herself, and then with every woman who joins her six-month Elevate Program. Noticing the programming and naming your inner critic. Separating who you are from what you do. And the modalities she draws on across the work, including NLP, timeline therapy, hypnotherapy, somatic work, EFT, visualisation, and astrology. She also introduces the diagnostic tool she's been weaving into her work for women navigating midlife career change and identity shifts — the natal chart, as a blueprint of who you are before the world got to you — and shares how her own Chiron return changed everything. If you're a woman in your forties or fifties feeling disconnected from yourself, questioning your career, or sensing that something deeper needs to shift — this episode will give you language for what's actually happening, and a real-world map for what the work looks like. Mentioned in this episode: – Where this identity work series began – Episodes 32 and 33: The Who Am I exercise and the research findings on women across four decades Episode 28: Karen's story — From broken to complete alignment Career & Identity Questionnaire - be part of the research, your voice counts. Women in their 20's Women in their 30's Women in their 40's Women in their 50's Elevate — Christina's six-month one-to-one signature program for women. Learn more Book a 30-minute Clarity Call Quiz - What's your career trying to tell you? You don't need a new career. You need to remember who you are.

What if the beliefs that are quietly running your life – the ones telling you what you're worth, what you're allowed to want, and how small you're supposed to stay – were never actually yours to begin with? In this episode, Christina explains how our core beliefs form before our 7th birthday and how those beliefs have shaped the woman you think you're supposed to be today. Drawing on the work of Dr. Bruce Lipton and real responses from her research, Christina walks through what women in their twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties are actually experiencing – and what the data reveals about the moment 'doing' stops being enough. She also shares what the women who've done the inner work wish they'd known sooner. This episode will help you start seeing the pattern – where it came from, how it's been shaping you, and why the answer has never been a new career. Mentioned in this episode: Christina's questionnaire: Be part of the research. Your voice counts. Women in their 20's Women in their 30's Women in their 40's Women in their 50's Also mentioned in this episode Join Christina's Reignite waitlist The Biology of Belief by Dr Bruce Lipton To find out more about Christina, visit hercareercoach.com.au Email Christina: christina@hercareercoach.com.au Connect with Christina on LinkedIn and Instagram If you're ready for a career that finally feels like you, book a no-obligation chat with Christina

It's easy to answer "Who am I?" with the things you do and the roles you play. It's harder - and far more valuable - to strip those away and see what's underneath. In this follow-up to Episode 32, Christina shares her experience of going back to the identity exercise — and discovering that her first attempt had barely scratched the surface. So she went back, went deeper, and shares what came out. She talks about leaving a corporate career at 48. About the years she spent softening herself to make others comfortable, and what it took to stop. About everything she's building — her business, her podcast, her work with her clients — so her daughter grows up knowing that you don't have to shrink, settle, or wait for someone to tell you it's okay to go after what you want. Christina offers a set of prompting questions to help you move the exercise beyond roles and titles and into something more meaningful. Because your job title doesn't define you. This is the exercise that helps you remember who does. Take the quiz: What's Your Career Trying To Tell You? To find out more about Christina, visit hercareercoach.com.au Email Christina: christina@hercareercoach.com.au Connect with Christina on LinkedIn and Instagram If you're ready for a career that finally feels like you, book a no-obligation chat with Christina .

Who are you — without your job title, your role, or what you do for other people? It sounds like a simple question. Until you actually try to answer it. In this episode, Christina shares what happened when client Karen introduced her to Ben Crowe's Mojo Crowe "who am I?" exercise — and what happened when Christina tried it herself. Two lines. Then nothing. And two of those lines were "I'm a mum" and "I'm a wife." Which are also titles. She gets into why we build our entire sense of self around what we do for a living, what's actually going on when your career starts to feel hollow but you can't name why, and why the instinct to fix it with a new role usually leads to the same disconnection in a different seat. Christina also shares her own identity journey — including a childhood wound that suppressed her voice for decades, and what it took to start finding it again through this podcast. They explore the difference between performing your career and actually living it, what happens when you sit in the silence long enough to hear the whisper, and why the women who do the identity work first are the ones who come out the other side knowing exactly who they are. This one's for the woman who's been going through the motions, feeling disconnected but unable to name it — and who's ready to grab a pen, sit with the question, and find out what's underneath. Take the quiz - What's Your Career Trying To Tell You? https://links.hercareercoach.com.au/widget/quiz/aSX1spPDYpxxunKHoTxQ Book a no-obligation chat with Christina: https://calendly.com/hercareercoach/discovery-call-her-career-coach Where to find Christina: Email: christina@hercareercoach.com.au Website: www.hercareercoach.com.au LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christinastorey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hercareercoach/

Ever felt like something's shifting inside you but you can't quite name it? Like the career you've built no longer fits who you're becoming, and you don't know whether to push through or finally listen to what's been whispering underneath? In this episode, Christina sits down with psychologist, astrologer and writer Rhianna Jade to explore what astrology actually is, not as a predictive tool, but as a language for understanding yourself, your cycles, and your identity on a deeper level. Rhi explains how to start simply with your sun and moon signs, why most people overcomplicate it, and what the astrological shifts of 2026 mean for women navigating career, self-worth, and identity. They go deep on Chiron moving into Taurus and what that means for women, the shift from "am I allowed to be seen?" to a deeper, more embodied question: "am I actually worthy of this?" Whether that's stepping into a new role, owning your voice, or trusting yourself enough to make the move you've been sitting on. Christina also shares how Rhi's natal chart reading years ago uncovered suppressed voice patterns traced all the way back to her childhood. This one's for the woman who knows the career stuff and the identity stuff are connected — and who's ready to stop looking outside for answers and start trusting what's already inside her. Connect with Rhi: instagram.com/rhiannajade__ Take the Quiz: Find out where you are in your career journey - https://links.hercareercoach.com.au/widget/quiz/aSX1spPDYpxxunKHoTxQ Where to find Christina: Email: christina@hercareercoach.com.au Website: www.hercareercoach.com.au LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christinastorey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hercareercoach/

In this solo episode of Her Career Coach, Christina returns for 2026 with an honest conversation about why she deliberately paused the podcast and what that decision revealed about identity, ambition and alignment. This episode explores what happens when high-achieving women reach a career crossroads. When your role no longer fits, your identity feels outdated and you cannot clearly see what is next. She unpacks the concept of Her Crossroads within the Her Career Journey framework and explains why progress does not always look like forward motion. Christina also touches on key upcoming astrological dates for 2026, sharing what these collective transitions can represent for your career, identity and next chapter. If you are questioning your direction or feeling disconnected from your work, this episode will remind you that you are not behind. You may simply need to pause and recalibrate with your quiet inner voice. Take the quiz - What's Your Career Trying To Tell You? https://links.hercareercoach.com.au/widget/quiz/aSX1spPDYpxxunKHoTxQ Where to find Christina: Email: christina@hercareercoach.com.au Website: www.hercareercoach.com.au LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christinastorey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hercareercoach/

In this powerful episode, Christina dives into the real experience of being at a career crossroads — that uncomfortable but deeply important moment when you realise the role you've outgrown no longer fits who you are. Drawing on insights from a recent workshop with 55 mid-career women, Christina explores why so many professional women feel stuck, unclear, or disconnected at work, and what it actually takes to gain career clarity and confidently choose your next step. You'll be guided through reflective questions from her signature Her Career Journey framework, helping you reconnect with your strengths, recognise what's no longer aligned, and begin to reignite your career with intention rather than pressure. If you're feeling lost in your career, unsure about your next move, or craving a sense of direction, this episode will help you get clear, grounded, and ready to take your next aligned step. The next round of Reignite Your Career begins in January 2026. Join the waitlist here: https://link.hercareercoach.com.au/reignite-your-career-waitlist-page Where to find Christina: Email: christina@hercareercoach.com.au Website: www.hercareercoach.com.au LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christinastorey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hercareercoach/

What do you do when everything looks fine from the outside, yet inside, you feel like a shell of the woman you once were? In this episode, Christina is joined by the brilliant and brave Karen Lauf, who shares her deeply personal story of rebuilding her confidence and rediscovering her voice after facing rejection, burnout, and self-doubt. A year ago, Karen was at a crossroads, professionally successful on paper, but emotionally drained and disconnected from herself. When a missed promotion collided with personal challenges, it cracked something open in her. She realised she'd spent so long giving to everyone else, she had forgotten how to show up for herself. What followed was a transformative coaching journey, one marked by vulnerability, tough truths, mindset shifts, and ultimately, a powerful reconnection with the woman she had always been. Karen opens up about the moment she realised her confidence wasn't as solid as it seemed, what it felt like to finally embrace her self-worth, and how she found peace, alignment, and purpose again. If you're feeling stuck, lost, or like life has quietly pulled you away from who you truly are, this conversation will speak straight to your heart. Karen's story is living proof that no matter how far off course you feel, you can come back to yourself. And when you do, you might just realise that the version of you you've been waiting for was there all along. ​Inspired by Karen's journey? If you are at your crossroads and are ready to do the deep work, Christina has two exclusive spots to begin the 6-month Elevate Program in November. Don't wait, claim your spot and start your transformation. Book in here: https://calendly.com/hercareercoach/discovery-call-her-career-coach Where to find Christina: Email: christina@hercareercoach.com.au Website: www.hercareercoach.com.au LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christinastorey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hercareercoach/

In this masterclass-style solo episode, Christina is pulling back the curtain on everything you actually need to know to walk into your next job interview with confidence, clarity and calm. Whether it's been years since your last interview or you've been ghosted one too many times, this episode will help you reframe interviews from something you dread to something you own. Christina walks you through the most common interview formats (virtual, face-to-face, behavioural, case study), shares her top do's and don'ts and offers important mindset shifts to reframe the entire process. From understanding the STAR technique to the exact questions to ask your recruiter and the panel, this episode is packed with real-talk strategies to help you show up as your most grounded, prepared self. If you're at a career crossroads and interviews are part of your next move, this is essential listening. Where to find Christina: Email: christina@hercareercoach.com.au Website: www.hercareercoach.com.au LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christinastorey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hercareercoach/

You're not broken, your nervous system is just exhausted. In this solo episode, Christina opens up about what really happens after you leave a high-stress career and why the "freedom" of stepping away doesn't always bring the instant relief we hope for. If you've been stuck in procrastination, burnout, emotional overwhelm, or feeling numb, this episode is a must-listen. Christina takes you behind the scenes of her own transition out of corporate life and into entrepreneurship and what surfaced once the urgency and constant noise disappeared. She explores how years of operating in fight-or-flight mode conditioned her nervous system, and how that dysregulation can sneak into our focus, confidence, and self-worth even after we "make the leap." You'll learn how nervous system regulation, shadow work, and compassionate self-awareness can radically shift how you show up, not just at work, but in life. Christina shares how recognising the signs of nervous system burnout has changed everything, and how this understanding is now a core part of the work she does with clients. This episode is your permission slip to slow down, listen in, and meet yourself with grace, because healing doesn't start with hustle. It starts with noticing. Where to find Christina: Email: christina@hercareercoach.com.au Website: www.hercareercoach.com.au LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christinastorey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hercareercoach/

In this powerhouse return episode, Christina Storey welcomes back Melanie Munro, State Director at SustainRecruit and Deputy Chair of Women in Super, to unpack what's really happening in the job market right now. If you've been feeling uncertain, stuck, or simply curious about how AI is reshaping career paths, especially in financial services and beyond, this conversation is a must-listen. Together, Christina and Mel explore the evolving recruitment landscape from shifting job specs to increasing demand in risk, compliance, and AI strategy roles. They break down what recruiters are actually looking for, how to stand out when you're one of hundreds of applicants, and why networking is still your most powerful tool in an AI-saturated world. You'll also hear grounded insights on: What's driving salary demands and movement right now The real impact of redundancies and where the opportunities still exist How to position yourself if you're feeling uncertain, invisible, or on the edge of burnout LinkedIn visibility tips that don't feel gross or performative Why your CV still matters and how to make it count This episode is both a reality check and a roadmap, filled with actionable tips for women navigating career shifts in a transforming world. Whether you're job hunting, considering a pivot, or just want to future-proof your career, Mel and Christina bring the clarity and strategy you need. Where to find Christina: Email: christina@hercareercoach.com.au Website: www.hercareercoach.com.au LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christinastorey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hercareercoach/ Connect with Melanie and the team at SustainRecruit LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/melanie-munro-04b2801a Website: sustainrecruit.com