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The Complete Career Change Program

All 9 guides in order, plus a 12-week plan that tells you what to do each week.

The video course has 11 modules and 22 narrated videos of about 8 minutes each, with the guide PDF inside every lesson. $29 a month, 14-day refund.

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Is It Too Late? sample page
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Is It Too Late?
Career Change Age Calculator
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A free five-minute calculator that replaces “it’s too late” with three real numbers about the working years you have left.

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Who it is for: Anyone in their 30s, 40s or 50s who keeps putting off a change because of their age.

  • Count your working years to age 67
  • Compare them with typical job tenure
  • Name the real age obstacles, and answer them
What is inside
  • The numbers. State pension ages and median job tenure, with a table by age
  • Your calculator. An eight-line worksheet with a worked example
  • The real obstacles. Money, retraining time, age bias, confidence, and how to respond to each
  • Your next step. One small action and which guide to use next

You finish with:

  • Your personal working-years number
  • An honest list of obstacles with responses
  • One next step for this week
Career Clarity Workbook sample page
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Career Clarity Workbook
From “I want out” to a clear direction
$24one-time, instant PDF

A guided, six-stage process that takes you from vague restlessness to three tested directions and one confident next step, in about four weeks.

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Who it is for: People who feel stuck in their current career and have no clear idea what else would suit them.

  • Map your values, strengths and interests
  • Generate and score real options
  • Test your top three with small experiments
What is inside
  • Take stock. Push and pull audit, energy log, keep/lose/gain
  • Know your raw material. Values, transferable strengths, interests and non-negotiables
  • Generate options. Five idea sources and three future sketches
  • Filter. Fact sheets and a weighted scoring matrix
  • Test. Career conversations and small experiments
  • Decide and commit. A decision, a backup and a 30-day plan

You finish with:

  • A one-page work profile
  • Three directions scored against what matters to you
  • Evidence from real conversations and experiments
  • One chosen direction and a 30-day action plan
30-Day Career Test Drive sample page
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30-Day Career Test Drive
Try a career before you commit
$17one-time, instant PDF

Four weeks of small, low-cost experiments that show you what a career is really like before you spend money on training.

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Who it is for: Anyone with one or two possible directions who wants evidence before committing time and money.

  • Write a hypothesis you can test
  • Talk to, watch and work alongside the field
  • Finish with a go, adjust or drop verdict
What is inside
  • Week 1 · Hypothesis and conversations. Write your beliefs down, then talk to three practitioners
  • Week 2 · See the work. Shadowing, virtual observation, events, volunteering
  • Week 3 · Do a piece of the work. Design and finish a 6–10 hour mini-project
  • Week 4 · Verdict. Hypothesis check and a 30-point fit scorecard
  • Scripts. Introduction requests, cold messages and questions to ask

You finish with:

  • Three to five conversations with people in the job
  • At least one observation session
  • A finished mini-project you can show
  • An evidence-based go, adjust or drop decision
Retraining Route Decision Kit sample page
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Retraining Route Decision Kit
Decide before you pay
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Find out whether you need to retrain at all, compare courses, degrees, bootcamps and apprenticeships on true cost and time, and choose one route with a budget.

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Who it is for: Career changers with a target role who are facing course fees, funding forms and conflicting advice.

  • The ten-advert test for what employers require
  • Funding options by country
  • True-cost and payback calculator
What is inside
  • Do you need to retrain? Regulated vs unregulated roles and the ten-advert test
  • Map your routes. Self-study to degree, compared on fit and time
  • Find the funding. Schemes in England, the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand
  • Vet the provider. Independent data sources, questions to ask, red flags
  • True cost and the decision. Fees, lost income, payback months, and a scored comparison

You finish with:

  • A clear verdict on whether a qualification is required
  • Two or three routes with true cost and payback
  • A list of funding to apply for
  • One chosen route, budget and start date
Career Change Money Planner sample page
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Career Change Money Planner
Know your runway
$12one-time, instant PDF

Work out how long you can afford a transition, how big your bridge fund needs to be, and what pay cut you could survive, before you hand in your notice.

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Who it is for: Anyone whose change involves a pay cut, unpaid study, or a gap between jobs.

  • Split essential and flexible spending
  • Calculate your runway in months
  • Find the lowest offer you can accept
What is inside
  • Your real monthly number. Essential vs flexible spending from your statements
  • Your runway. Savings ÷ monthly gap, with and without transition income
  • The pay cut you can survive. Your take-home floor and maximum cut
  • Build the bridge fund. Target, saving plan and 12-month tracker
  • Your money-ready date. Transition models, stop signals and monthly check-in

You finish with:

  • Your runway in months, best and worst case
  • A bridge-fund target and date
  • Your minimum acceptable salary
  • Stop signals decided in advance
CV & LinkedIn Translator sample page
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CV & LinkedIn Translator
Speak your new field’s language
$17one-time, instant PDF

Turn experience from your old career into the language your new field hires for: a rewritten CV, a LinkedIn profile that tells one story, and a clear answer to “why the change?”

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Who it is for: Career changers sending applications and hearing nothing back.

  • Build a keyword bank from real adverts
  • Rewrite duties as results
  • Align CV, LinkedIn and your story
What is inside
  • Learn the target language. Keyword bank and jargon swap list
  • Mine your experience. The evidence formula and before-and-after bullets
  • Rewrite the CV. Career-change layout, profile formula, cover note
  • Rebuild LinkedIn. Headline, About, skills and visibility settings
  • Tell the story. The bridge story and a consistency check

You finish with:

  • A keyword bank built from real adverts
  • Twelve or more translated achievement bullets
  • A career-change CV and cover note template
  • A two-line answer to “Why are you changing careers?”
Foot in the Door Playbook sample page
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Foot in the Door Playbook
Get the first yes
$17one-time, instant PDF

Five plays career changers use to get a first role in a new field: proof projects, warm introductions, stepping-stone roles, inside moves and targeted applications.

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Who it is for: People who have the skills or training but keep hitting the “no experience” wall.

  • Create proof with a small real project
  • Get introductions instead of cold applying
  • Find stepping-stone roles that hire now
What is inside
  • Proof project. Plan it, finish it and write a one-page case study
  • Warm introductions. Contact map and message templates
  • Stepping-stone roles. Bridge jobs by target field, including adult apprenticeships
  • Inside moves. Use your current employer’s trust
  • Targeted applications. Where changers have an edge, plus a weekly scoreboard

You finish with:

  • A finished proof project and case study
  • Five conversations started through people you know
  • Three stepping-stone job titles to search
  • A weekly routine you can keep up
90-Day Career Change Planner sample page
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90-Day Career Change Planner
One week at a time
$12one-time, instant PDF

Thirteen weeks of three small, scheduled actions, with weekly reviews and if-then plans that keep you moving when life gets busy.

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Who it is for: Anyone with a chosen direction who needs structure to make steady progress alongside a job.

  • Thirteen weekly plan and review spreads
  • If-then plans for your likely obstacles
  • Monthly reviews to adjust course
What is inside
  • Set up your 90 days. Goal, three milestones and your weekly rhythm
  • Weeks 1–4 · Foundation. Research, conversations and set-up
  • Weeks 5–9 · Build. Skills, proof work and profile
  • Weeks 10–13 · Launch. Applications and follow-up
  • 90-day review. What worked and your next 90 days

You finish with:

  • A 90-day goal within your control
  • About 39 small actions planned and tracked
  • Weekly and monthly reviews
  • A plan for the next 90 days
Teacher Exit Kit sample page
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Teacher Exit Kit
Life after the classroom
$17one-time, instant PDF

For teachers ready to leave the classroom: map where teaching skills transfer, translate them for employers, and plan an exit that fits the school year.

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Who it is for: Classroom teachers thinking about leaving, especially in the UK where resignation dates follow the school year.

  • Leave, adjust or stay: find out which
  • Three rings of roles that use teaching skills
  • Exit timeline that fits resignation dates
What is inside
  • Leave, adjust or stay? Keep/lose sort and what to consider first
  • Map where teachers go. Close to school, education-adjacent and further afield
  • Translate your skills. School language to employer language
  • Test and apply. Holiday-sized proof pieces by role
  • Time your exit. Common resignation dates, the notice gap, leaving well

You finish with:

  • A clear reason and must-haves for your next role
  • A shortlist of two or three roles
  • Teaching experience in employer language
  • A dated exit timeline
Life After the Ward sample page
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Life After the Ward
For nurses moving on
$17one-time, instant PDF

For nurses thinking of leaving bedside care: explore non-clinical and adjacent roles, decide what to do about your registration, and reframe clinical experience for new employers.

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Who it is for: Registered nurses who want to stay useful to healthcare, or move beyond it, without the ward.

  • Four zones of roles, from clinic to corporate
  • Keep or lapse your registration: the trade-offs
  • Ward language translated for employers
What is inside
  • What are you leaving? Keep/leave list and non-negotiables
  • Explore the four zones. Roles, and whether registration is needed
  • Your registration decision. Revalidation, costs and returning later
  • Translate clinical experience. Translation table and your leaving story
  • Plan the move. Transition routes, dated plan, first three actions

You finish with:

  • Your non-negotiables written down
  • A shortlist across four zones
  • A registration decision you understand
  • A transition plan with dates

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