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Episode 6: Navigating Uncertainty: Mindset, Preparation & Grace Through Career Transitions

Jul 02, 2025

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💡 Episode 6: Navigating Uncertainty: Mindset, Preparation & Grace Through Career Transitions Summary

In this timely and supportive episode of The Joy CEO Podcast, host Lori Pine offers a grounded, compassionate guide for high-achieving professionals navigating corporate reorganizations, layoffs, or role uncertainty. Drawing from her own experience and her work as an executive coach, Lori shares both mindset shifts and practical strategies to help listeners stay anchored through professional transitions.

Whether you're preparing for a potential change, dealing with a recent layoff, or supporting someone who is, this episode will equip you with tools to stay steady, proactive, and empowered—even when the ground beneath you feels uncertain.

If you’ve ever struggled to separate your worth from your job title, this conversation will remind you: you are your greatest asset—not your role.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

  • You Are Not Your Title

Lori shares how to shift your mindset from job-based worth to a deeper recognition of your inherent value.

  • Ground Yourself Before You React

Use practices like journaling, gratitude, and breathwork to stay emotionally steady during turbulent times.

  • Update and Prepare—Even If You're Safe

Lori encourages listeners to regularly update their resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and personal brand to stay ready—not reactive.

  • Relationships Are a Career Lifeline

In moments of change, reach out. Networking doesn’t mean asking—it means connecting and showing up.

  • Uncertainty Can Be an Opening

Career disruption is often an invitation to realign, evolve, and grow into something new—on your terms.

🔎 Mentioned in the Episode:

  • Lori’s personal experience navigating corporate restructuring
  • Tips for journaling, breathwork, and daily grounding
  • Relationship-first approach to networking
  • Why gratitude is a resilience tool—not just a feel-good one
  • Hula hoop Theory in Episode 2

Reflection Prompts:

  • How do I define my worth beyond my title?
  • What support systems do I need to stay steady in uncertain times?
  • Where am I being invited to evolve professionally—even if I didn’t choose this change?

🧠 Who This Episode Is For:

  • Professionals facing corporate reorganizations or layoffs
  • HR leaders looking to support teams through transitions
  • Women navigating career changes with clarity and self-worth
  • Executives and managers committed to leading with heart—even in disruption

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You don’t have to keep carrying it all alone. And you don’t have to keep proving your worth. You’re already the asset.

Let’s build from there.

—Lori
The JOY CEO

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