32. Career Congregation feat. Nicola, Money Energetics Coach: Rewriting Money Stories

Career Congregation is your weekly gathering for all things career, a space to explore the highs, the lows, and the real stories of people navigating work, identity, money, and purpose. Hosted by Therapist and Coach Meghan Fitzpatrick, each episode offers grounded inspiration for reclaiming confidence and direction in your working life.In this episode, Meghan is joined by Nicola, Money Energetics Coach. Nicola’s journey spans more than a decade in advertising across London and New York, followed by a gradual and deeply personal recalibration of what success, stability, and fulfilment truly mean.Nicola reflects on growing up in Essex and how early cultural narratives shaped her sense of self worth, ambition, and identity. She shares her experience of working in high pressure agency environments, the allure and reality of New York, and the quiet accumulation of financial disconnection that often hides beneath outward career success. What emerges is an honest exploration of how money habits are formed, avoided, inherited, and rarely questioned.The conversation moves into a pivotal chapter of Nicola’s life, including redundancy, burnout, and her decision to pursue solo IVF. She speaks candidly about planning for motherhood, the emotional impact of unsuccessful IVF rounds, and the unexpected clarity that followed. This period became a catalyst for reassessing her relationship with money, agency, and the kind of life she wanted to build.Nicola explains how she found her way into money energetics and coaching, reframing money not as a measure of worth but as a neutral tool deeply connected to identity, creativity, and self trust. She shares how redundancy created the space to step fully into this work, and how her New Money Club was born from a desire to move people away from fear, extremes, and shame based money narratives.Together, Meghan and Nicola explore themes of lineage and legacy, personal responsibility without self blame, and the importance of integrating emotional and practical approaches to money. They also discuss readiness for change, the role of intuition, and why sustainable transformation requires time, integration, and honesty rather than quick fixes.This episode is a thoughtful and grounded conversation about money stories, career identity, starting again, and learning to hold your life differently. It is especially relevant for anyone navigating career transitions, burnout, redundancy, or questioning the structures they have been living inside.If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email Meghan at [email protected] you’d like to support the show, you can buy the team a coffee(s) at https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrickKey episode themes:Career • Coaching • Personal development • Mental health • Purpose • Burnout • Life after burnout • Entrepreneurship • Rock bottoms • Money • Money stories • Authentic career paths • Self worth • Identity shifts© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2025