49. Career Congregation Solo Episode with Meghan Fitzpatrick: Intuitive Whispers, Expats or Immigrants, and Trusting the Journey

In this solo episode, Meghan reflects on her journey over the past year and the quieter instincts that can shape major life decisions long before they make logical sense. Meghan speaks about the reality of living through the uncertainty of career and relocation decisions in real time. Leaving London, restructuring her business, reconnecting with Europe through Ireland, and exploring the possibility of building a life in Portugal. All things that required movement on her part, long before certainty existed. The episode explores what it means to follow something instinctive while still navigating fear, bureaucracy, financial pressure, and the realities of starting over again.There is also a strong focus on the emotional side of relocation. Not the romanticised version often presented online, but the administrative exhaustion, the waiting, the loneliness, and the repeated experience of rebuilding the basics from scratch. Meghan reflects on the strange position many internationally mobile people occupy, existing between countries, cultures, and identities while trying to create a sense of home.The conversation also examines the language around migration itself. Meghan unpacks her complicated relationship with the word “expat”, having lived as both an American immigrant in the UK and now both a British and American immigrant relocating again within Europe. Rather than offering simplistic conclusions, she questions the class, political, and cultural assumptions attached to terms like “expat” and “immigrant”, particularly in an era of increasing global instability and migration.Trusting the process of your own life, even when the path ahead is incomplete is a larger episode theme. Sometimes the next step only becomes obvious after you have already taken it. Sometimes you need the lived experience before you can fully understand what is right for you. The episode challenges the pressure to have every answer in advance and instead makes space for experimentation, uncertainty, and changing direction.This episode explores relocation, intuition, entrepreneurship, nervous system regulation, immigration, reinvention, career change, self-trust, and the emotional reality of building a life across multiple countries. It is a reminder that major life decisions are rarely linear, and that uncertainty does not always mean you are on the wrong path.WORK WITH MEGHAN: If you are interested in working with Meghan 1:1, you can book an intro call with her here: https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/166602GUEST SUBMISSIONS: If you think you know someone who would make a great guest, feel free to email Meghan at [email protected] THE SHOW: If you’d like to support the show and the work of Career Congregation, you can do so here: https://ko-fi.com/meghanfitzpatrickChapters:00:00 Intuitive whispers and long-term instincts06:00 Leaving London and rebuilding within Europe14:00 Portugal, nervous system regulation, and feeling at home21:00 Expats, immigrants, and the politics of language28:00 Trusting uncertainty and making life-changing decisionsKeywords: Career, Career transition, Relocation, Immigration, Expat life, Nervous system regulation, Therapy, Therapist, Coaching, Personal development, Mental health, Entrepreneurship, Self-trust, Purpose, Work-life balance, Authentic career paths, Life transitions, Reinvention, Digital nomad, Portugal© Copyright Meghan Fitzpatrick 2026