From C-Suite Exec to Portfolio Careerist with Julie Fedele

In this episode, Emma sits down with portfolio career mentor Julie Fedele for a conversation about ambition, burnout, and what hopping off the corporate ladder and redesigning your career really takes. After spending 20 years in corporate strategy, private equity, and venture building across Australia and Europe, Julie realized she had climbed the wrong ladder. This realization led to a multi-year journey to clarify her vision, rediscover her gifts, and replace her corporate income through multiple revenue streams as a portfolio career mentor and future of work strategist.  Together, they explore the emotional and financial realities of walking away from a high earning role, why safety and nervous system regulation matter when building something new, and how to create from purpose instead of pressure. Julie breaks down the concept of portfolio careers and explains why the future of work is shifting away from single income paths toward more flexible, resilient models. The conversation also dives into why human design is a practical tool for self understanding, decision making, and career alignment, especially for women who feel successful on paper but misaligned on the inside. This episode is a much-needed reminder that sustainable success is built slowly, intentionally, and from the inside out. Julie Fedele, is a former C-suite exec who worked in corporate strategy, private equity, and venture building only to realize she’d climbed the wrong ladder. In this conversation, we talk about her multi-year journey to shift out of corporate and replace her income through building a portfolio career, or multiple revenue streams, across both being a portfolio career mentor and future of work strategist. We get into how she balanced strategy with the woo, and why she believes Human Design is such a powerful tool to find career alignment. We talk about what she believes is coming in the future of work, and what we can do to protect and set ourselves up for that transition today. We talk about shedding old identities and the stages of grief that often come in career transitions, and so much more. If you’ve ever considered building your own business or are wondering how to create safety in the world of AI, you don’t want to miss this episode. Let’s dive in.  In this episode, you’ll learn: Why career pivots often involve grief, not just strategy What a portfolio career looks like in practice How to create safety while experimenting with new income streams Why the traditional corporate promise no longer holds, and the importance of strategic communities in the future of work How connection to Self is key to creating more aligned and business decisions Links Follow Julie on substack: https://juliefedele.substack.com/ Follow Julie on Instagram: @julie_fedele Follow on Instagram: @conscioussuccessco Work with me: https://www.conscioussuccessco.com/book-a-success-call