Episode #9 with Victoria Russell: from TV production to transformative life coach
Welcome to episode #9 of the Career Pivot Podcast, hosted by Bec Sands. This episode is available on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes and Google Podcasts, and if you enjoy it, I would love it if you could please subscribe and leave me a review.
In today’s podcast episode, I interview Victoria Russell, a transformative life coach who works with women recovering from trauma and addiction and supports them in relationship and career changes.
A fellow graduate of the Beautiful You Coaching Academy, Victoria began her career in daytime television on the production staff of dramas such as Passions, The Bold and the Beautiful, and General Hospital. After the landscape of daytime TV changed, Victoria used her experience in the entertainment industry and her love for women’s causes to carve a new and successful path in non-profit fundraising that lasted a decade, before a desire for autonomy in her life brought Victoria to life coaching and yoga teaching, the pursuit of a Master’s degree in psychology, and the Priestess path.
Show Notes
2:37 Where Victoria is at right now and her current dream
3:37 The difference between coaching and psychology, and Victoria’s personal philosophy around this
5:30 Where Victoria was at before she started coaching, and what made her want to pivot her career from daytime TV
8:18 How Victoria dealt with being in a field that was experiencing redundancies, what she did next, and how she decided to do what she is now doing in her career
10:41 Why meditation is so powerful in Victoria’s practice and for her coaching clients
13:08 The first steps Victoria took to step into her coaching practice and how she made the pivot
16:50 Victoria’s philosophy on comparison, and the mindset you can adopt to move forward
18:00 A huge issue in the world of coaching: that there’s a significantly fewer amount of coaches that are women of colour or African-American and some of the challenges around this - as well as what Victoria is doing to support
21:50 The best things about being in business
23:59 The three things people can do if they realise they’re not in the right career or job for them
26:45 What Victoria would say to someone who is on the fence about their career and next step, and what they can do next
28:00 One book that Victoria recommends for your next career pivot
Additional links:
Educated, Tara Westover
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
Visit Victoria’s website: www.victorialeighrussell.com
Instagram: divinefemininewithin
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