Relationships and careers: how to talk to your partner about career change - with Executive Coach Yosef Lynn
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#142 - Yosef Lynn is an executive coach who helps people in their careers and their relationships. He explains the importance of communicating with your partner when contemplating a career change, the best ways to start the conversation and how to head off any feelings of fear and insecurity it might create in them.
What you'll learn
- [2:19] How your relationship and your career affect each other.
- [3:54] How skills learned in your career can be transferred to new fields.
- [9:05] Common pitfalls people fall into when discussing a career change with their partner.
- [11:25] When to start talking to your partner about a future career change.
- [15:07] How to first introduce the topic of a career change with your partner.
- [18:37] The best way to talk about change with your partner.
- [22:18] Common fears and objections people have against their partner’s potential career change.
- [26:12] How best to address your partner's fears.
- [29:54] How often you should talk to your partner about your future career change.
- [32:05] How to best respond to your spouse if they want to change their career.
- [38:06] The extent to which your career impacts other areas of your life.
Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):
- The Five Love Languages, Gary D Chapman
- Not A Partnership: Why We Keep Getting Marriage Wrong & How We Can Get It Right
For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:
https://changeworklife.com/relationships-and-careers-how-to-talk-to-your-partner-about-career-change/
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