Q&A With Patsy Day; Advice On Your Saga From Susannah De Jager The Wobbly Middle podcast

Q&A with Patsy Day; Advice on Your Saga from Susannah de Jager

8d ago 13:42

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We’ve got mail.

Susannah and Patsy open the mailbag and respond to some of your excellent (occasionally panic-tinged) every-woman questions about navigating midlife career change.

This means, Patsy, who usually prefers to hide behind the microphone (and strong opinions about editing), has to sit in front of it. Susannah on the other hand is already on her second podcast of the day—just casually interviewing biotech CEOs before breakfast—and brings her usual mix of energy and insight.

They discuss:
→ How do you find space to even think about change when life keeps getting in the way?
→ How do you resist the gravitational pull of the familiar when change is hard?
→ And what if tech has run ahead of you… can you still catch up?

It’s all a bit looser and a bit more Wobbly than usual. But that’s kind of the point.

(00:00) - Bonus Q&A
(01:44) - Innovative Career Pivots
(03:28) - Listener Questions: Overwhelmed in OX2
(03:53) - Tips for Tackling Overwhelm
(05:30) - Focusmate and Task Initiation Tools
(06:14) - Listener Questions: Tech Skills for Career Change
(07:08) - Upskilling Resources and AI Tools
(09:45) - Listener Questions: Staying the Course
(10:11) - Aundrea's Empower Framework

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About the Hosts:

Susannah de Jager has just relocated to Abu Dhabi, where she’s podcasting, consulting with start-ups, and occasionally advising on scale-up capital. After leaving her role as CEO of a boutique asset manager, she asked the all-important question: what next? Five years later, she’s following her curiosity —The Wobbly Middle is for her and every woman doing the same.

Patsy Day is a lawyer on a break—and a podcast producer. She’s worked everywhere from London to Ho Chi Minh City, but these days she lives in Oxford. Patsy is knee-deep into podcast production for SafeHouse Amsterdam (launching 2025) and co-hosting The Wobbly Middle.

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