40 - Jess Galica on Women Making Bold Career Pivots

Jess Galica, the founder of the Reclaim Your Career project, joined us on The Modern People Leader. Over the past year, she has interviewed 100+ women that have made successful career pivots.  In this episode, she shares her findings as well as some of those stories. Timestamps: what led to Jess’s desire to make a career pivot (4:48), what propelled her research and writing around women & career pivoting (16:08), people in our generation are mastering the art of pivoting (22:09), what's feminist guilt? (25:03), you’re the only one who needs to wake up and do your career every day (32:41), women are bearing the disproportionate brunt of the challenges the pandemic has put on people as it relates to work (39:50), and the three steps of a career pivot (50:48). If you want to learn about Reclaim Your Career: Follow Jess on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessgalica/ Learn from women’s stories: https://www.reclaimyourcareer.co/ If you have any feedback for the MPL podcast or would like to connect, don't hesitate to reach out on LinkedIn: Daniel Huerta and Stephen Huerta