Notes for the turning points.
On overthinking, self-doubt, being seen at work, and the questions that surface in the middle of a career.
Articles
Career decisions on autopilot: how to choose again
Many mid-career professionals realise their biggest career moves happened by default. Four steps to move from autopilot to a choice you can stand behind.
Career Clarity Coach vs Career Transition Coach
A clarity coach helps you work out what you want next and why. A transition coach helps you make the move. Many people reach out for the second and need the first.
How Do You Overcome Imposter Syndrome at Work?
The quiet belief that you have fooled everyone lands hardest on capable people in new territory. Name it, separate it from the evidence, and act before the doubt clears.
What Career Suits Me? A Clarity-First Guide for Professionals Aged 35 to 45
At mid-career, "what career suits me" is the right question asked the wrong way. Clarity comes from better questions, honest feedback and small experiments.
The Inner Layer: Overthinking & Self-Doubt
One day you want to quit, two days later you need a better job, by Friday you are lying awake about retirement. Three questions have collapsed into one.
Leadership Lessons from the Lunch Table
A boy shares out the poffertjes and waits for the next batch himself. When behaviour is rooted in values, it feels safe and real.
One Small Step in Reality, One Giant Leap in Your Mind
The notebook stayed closed for years. The gap between what we intend and what we do is not laziness: it is psychology, and it can be unpacked.
Turn Overwhelm into Opportunity
To move or not to move country? To change jobs or stay? A framework from Co-Active coaching that brings structure to life-changing decisions.
Why Visibility is an Organizational Strength
Visibility is not blowing your own trumpet. When leaders know who can do what, they can put the right person on the right challenge.
In the works
Three pieces Radha is writing now. They appear here as they are finished.
How to speak up in meetings when you are the most junior person in the room
Influence · Coming soon
Struggle to speak up in meetings with senior leaders? Practical steps to quiet the inner voice, get your point heard and be seen for what you bring.
How to disagree with your boss and keep the relationship
Leadership · Coming soon
A calm, practical way for managers to disagree upward: start with the shared goal, name the cost, offer a path, and practise before the real conversation.
Thinking about a career change in your 40s? Start with the in-between
Transitions · Coming soon
Outgrown your career, or seen your role reorganised away? Why the space between ending and beginning matters, and small experiments to test your next step.
Beyond reading.
Choose by where you are in your career. Take any of them as a Pod or one to one.