TRANSFORM YOUR
WORK-LIFE SATISFACTION WITH ONE YEAR OF GUIDANCE
Professionals, like you, in their 40s, 50s and 60s design their new career strategy over six weeks. Then spend the rest of our year together refining your plan in real time to make sure it fits and feels great.
Imagine doing your current work, in exactly the same way, for another decade…
If you need (or want) to work for the next 10+ years, you’ve got two choices:
1. REMAIN REACTIVE
Cross your fingers and hope that you can stick it out.
And resign yourself to the financial, physical and emotional well-being consequences of that decision…over the next decade.
2. BE PROACTIVE
Design enjoyable work that makes you feel valued and valuable.
And revel in the financial, physical, and emotional well-being consequences of that decision… forever.
Career change for grown-ups who have lots to lose and can't take childish leaps of faith
Design your ideal Plan B in six weeks, and because the world doesn't operate in a vacuum, take another 10 months to play with/refine/tweak your Plan to make it a practical possibility.
“I needed a kick up the arse. I needed a framework to work though, some active participation and real support rather than yet another self-help book. ”
— KATY, 40S, FINANCE, UK
ANY OF THIS RING A BELL?
Wish you could stop thinking in circles and actually have a proven method to make changes to your work situation that work for you?
Worried that if you don't take control of your career design now, you'll be forced to compete with younger people on the open-job market forever?
Know that you have more to offer the world, if only you could figure out what to offer it and how?
Fear your motivation to design your Plan B is falling through the cracks in your busy life?
Want to better design your future work so you have enough energy left over to focus on the fun life stuff beyond work?
Struggling to keep your future work at the top of your priorities when everyone needs so much from you in the present?
Want new, interesting ways to design your work and put it into the world that don't suck your soul dry?
It's bloody frustrating, so we're going to fix that….
Imagine, it's possible to figure out the exact parameters of a role that would feel bloody brilliant
You feel stuck in a career/job/industry that doesn't feel good anymore. You are wasting your precious time waiting for the ideal role to magically appear in your Linkedin inbox - even though you couldn't articulate what that might look like if I gave you a million dollars.
Stop doing work that isn't satisfying by designing work that is.
Imagine learning exactly how to break into new markets, and become known for doing work that doesn't drain the life out of you.
Imagine going on this learning journey, without upsetting the apple-cart of life, alongside other professionals, like you who feel career stuck.
Imagine the control you’d feel from designing more joy-at-work into your future.
After 19 years in the same industry, I woke up wondering "Is this it?"
And that career-stuck feeling wouldn't go away - even though I tried to bury the feeling for years.
I knew there was more. But I didn't have a clue how to figure out what. And zero idea where to start. So I started running away rather than running towards something.
I didn't think hard enough about my moves. I wasted time, energy and too much money. I don't want that for you.
7 years later, with a MSc Psychology under my belt, my research projects resulted in me writing a book about career design after 40. And I created a career design consultancy to help professionals in their 40s, 50s and 60s to learn how to make the right future career decisions for them - much more quickly than I did!
Learn the proven career design methods that work, right now
The best way to do that is to walk you through the critical career design assignments, one-by-one. These give you the power to design your future work, your way. There isn't just one design that works for everybody.
The Fierce Emporium is where mid-career professionals go to design work that is deeply satisfying, meaningful and enjoyable. (Around here, we call that "Fierce" work.)
It's about doing work that feels really good - even if it hasn't felt that way for a while.
The Emporium is bursting with everything you need to:
design your work around you;
get paid your worth;
feel pride in your work;
forget about cold job applications;
become known for your special talents;
and look forward to Monday mornings.
Plus, a community of fellow mid-career professionals all sharing ideas and geeking out about all things career design.
I now spend 60-70% of each working day doing work that I find fulfilling, challenging and exciting.
I want you to have that too. I want you to see the potential for the final third of your career. To take it at a pace that you decide. To not let your ambitions or dreams be curtailed by someone else idea of what you are capable of. I really want you to know your unique Superpowers because using them gives you control over your work enjoyment - that was unimaginable for me in my twenties.
INTRODUCING
THE FIERCE EMPORIUM
Design your next decade of work in just 15-20 minutes a day for six weeks. Before spending the next 10 months with support to implement your plan.
“On the horizon, I can now see the chance of real fulfillment - and I’m having fun. ”
— DOM, 50S, FINANCE, UK
“I have a vision for the next decade, and more importantly I know how to get there. ”
— HARVEY, 50S, SECURITY, UK
Here’s how the Fierce Emporium is different
Extraordinary career design consulting
Structured weekly tasks take you from zero to hero in your future career design, at exactly the right time for you to get all the benefits. Even if you don't know where you want to end up yet, you'll receive the exact steps to complete each week to move you towards the future work design that fits you best.
Monthly LIVE coaching sessions
Aka “The Changing Room“. For a full year, come along to the monthly zoom sessions to get any career questions - big or small - answered. Even when you have zero questions, you won't believe what you can learn from hearing the answers to questions from other fierce-seekers that you didn't know you needed to ask.
Done-with-you approach
Your year, at your pace. Four times a year (spring, summer, autumn, winter) you can join in the live training and coaching sessions where we walk you through the highest impact assignments from each corner of the Fierce Emporium in a structured way over six sessions.
Fierce-seekers only podcast
Recorded Changing Room sessions, transformed into a private podcast so that you can sustain your momentum and get inspiration even when you're on the move.
“It’s made me realise I can do things I never before thought I could do. ”
— JEREMY, 50S, AIRLINES, UK
Personal support at your fingertips.
We have a private on-line journal where you can record your "must-remember" observations for later and ask for extra guidance and receive personal responses. No bots here…only fierce humans.
Never alone while you're learning to fish.
Four times a year you have the opportunity to join the live six-week group alongside a cohort of other midlife professionals who are also learning to design their next decade of work. Also, once a month for twelve months, you can join the Changing Room coaching calls to get all your career design questions answered. And you can reach out for personalized advice via the online journal every day.
No fluff. No woo-woo nonsense.
You don't need fluffy advice. You don't need lengthy conversations about your illusive passions. You need a psychologically and scientifically proven method that works. That is delivered with honesty, clarity - and often humour.
Experience of "doing"
Transform your learning into applied practical experience. After you've completed the six-weeks of guided content, you get to go into the world and experiment with what you've learned. And come back to re-group in the monthly "Changing Room" sessions with questions and support.
Check out the programme in detail?
Get your hands on the mini-brochure below.
What I'd perceived as weaknesses in the past are actually strengths - and I’ve been masking them in certain environments with different values. This has been a revelation.”
— DEIRDRE, 50S, PORTFOLIO CAREER, IRELAND
The Fierce Emporium: How it works
Redesign your career in one year. Stop wasting time waiting for the perfect idea to land on your desk. The best way to create deeply satisfying work is to design it for yourself.
Phase 1. Assess
Derailed!
Assessment
(1 hour)
Phase 2. Learn
The Fierce Emporium
Group Training Sessions
Personal Email Support
(6-8 Weeks)
Phase 3. Embed skills
The Fierce Changing Room
Monthly Coaching calls
Personal Email Support
Private podcast
(Optional) 1:2:1 Support
Phase 4. Experimental design
The Fierce Changing Room
Personal Email Support
(Optional) 1:2:1 Support
Phase 5. Refine
The Fierce Changing Room
Private podcast
Personal
Email Support
(Optional) 1:2:1 Support
FIERCE-SEEKERS IN THE FIERCE EMPORIUM:
Discover their Superpowers to eliminate 'drain' with a career design that has their Superpowers front and centre, they make tomorrow's work better than yesterday's.
Finally understand how to get results from networking in a very different way that leads to becoming known for their unique talents - and don't make them feel itchy.
Build a deep understanding of career happiness psychology through the practical career "diagnostics" and explainers that accompany each task.
Remove the work mask by becoming mighty friendly with the "at their best" version of themselves and the version that needs to get the heck out of their own way.
Pilot their future career to whatever destination they decide by implementing small decisions, analysing their results and correcting wherever necessary.
Find freedom by building a career they can adapt whatever happens in their wider lives. Because the skills they learn and embed last a life-time.
Let's start your career makeover. Book in here to get started.
Inside the Fierce Emporium you’ll get:
4 opportunities to join the done-with-you six-week deep learning phase (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter) including six group training sessions.
12 x Monthly Group "Changing Room" coaching sessions - no matter what stage you're at, get your questions about career design, implementation, skills and job hunting answered.
12 x private podcast - only for members of the Fierce Emporium One Year programme.
Email support for 12 months. Personalised support at your finger tips.
A community of professionals in their 40s, 50s and 60s who are on the same career redesign journey.
Personalised postcards and Fierce content throughout the year.
Monthly mixers - where you get to meet personally with one fierce-seeker per month for ten minutes.
We're not getting any younger. Book in to see if this is the right programme for you.
Stop waiting for your career to get toasted by your organisation, start designing work that could be more satisfying and energising that you can ever imagine.
“I’ve got answers to the questions “what do I want to do with the final third of my life?”
— CATHERINE, 60S, COMS, UK
“My future looks different. I have a clear head and I know better what I want to do and don’t want to do and the reasons why. I also have more weapons in my career arsenal. And I know my personal USPs - my Superpowers. ”
— MICHAELA, 50S TECHNOLOGY, UK
Don't Take Our Word For It –
Here's What fierce-work-seekers have To Say…
💸 Let’s Talk Money
Members of the Midlife Unstuck Community can join the year-long programme for £2399.
Step 1: Join the Never too old, Never too late Midlife Unstuck Community
Step 2: Book in to speak to me asap to see if it’s right for you.
Step 3: Get ready to design your next decade to be more satisfying, meaningful and enjoyable.
We're midlifers. Time is precious. Book in to speak now.
Why work with me?
Hey there! I’m Lucia!
Former career: A 19-year head-hunting career spawned a tiny giant obsession with work happiness.
Midlife career specialist: Author of X Change. Founder of career consultancy Midlife Unstuck. A midlife MSc Psychology sparked a quest to understand the phenomenon of the mid-career slump. And to design the antidote to it.
The antidote to the mid-career slump: Combining a scientifically-proven change model, design principles and 25 years career consulting experience resulting in a transformational, online career joy makeover programme: The Fierce Emporium.
“You’ve created the Hogwarts of career design. ”
— KERSTIN, 50S, MD, US
The FIERCE EMPORIUM Is Genuinely Not For Everyone
Most people are too busy doing today's work to think much about tomorrow's.
But at our age, we have to own our career design, otherwise, someone else holds all of our career cards.
If you're enjoying your work less than 50% of each week, you know you need to change that now. Or, wait until things get really bad (not really an option for someone as smart as you.)
Still have questions? We’ve got answers!
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“Fierce” is a term I use to describe work that is designed to be (most of the time) deeply:
Enjoyable
Satisfying
Fulfilling
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It's not an ordinary career overhaul and redesign programme. So, it had to be set in an extraordinary environment.
I partnered with a wonderful artist, Martyn Pentecost, and Richard Hagen, MD of mPowr Publishing, to create The Emporium. Each time you visit, you’ll shop for your personal career insights and tools, helping you analyse the way forward in your career.
One of my previous clients called it “The Hogwarts of Career change” - I just love that!
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Unique content including explainer videos, audio recordings and online experiences that you can't get anywhere else
Weekly challenges that can be individualised to make your experience unique to you
A six week walk-through career design training based on proven psychological concepts of change.
Monthly "changing room" group coaching calls - for when you move into the practical experimentation and implementation stages of your career design process.
A private podcast to inspire you and get your questions answered even if you can't attend the live monthly group coaching sessions.
Practical insights on your personal situation from Lucia in your bespoke online journal
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The learning content will be delivered to you over six weeks. When you've completed the learning sessions, you'll move into the practical design process where you'll get support and all your questions answered in the monthly Live coaching sessions.
Some like to dip in and dip out, others like to dive deep and enjoy the accountability of the monthly sessions. You can build the programme around you, depending on your lifestyle and available time.
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Some people can dedicate the necessary time to finish the learning part of the programme in six weeks straight. If you only allocate time on the weekends to visit The Emporium, it might take longer to complete.
You'll have four different opportunities to join the walk-through (done-with-you) programme in case life gets in the way and you need to focus on different priorities for a while.
You have a total of 12 months unlimited access to the The Emporium. You can access all the challenges as well as supporting video and audio content, anytime during this time.
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We understand that the best laid plans often go awry. Whether it’s family, health, work, illness, or other unplanned events, we know commitments often require reprioritisation.
Again…that’s why we made the programme flexible, giving you access for a full year.
You will feel shifts happening from week one, but the major gains are to be found when you complete the learning portion of the programme and move into the practical design section.
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This article will give you 9 reasons why the Fierce Emporium isn’t the right programme for you - and suggest another one.
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The reason it’s so expensive is mainly that…
The examples I give within the course mean I had to spend years training other midlife professionals to make sure that the programme successfully allows you to redesign your work-life.
The ‘practical’ nature of the course gives you the ‘how’ and not just the theory. There is no pointless navel-gazing.
It took me six months alone to develop the course and then six months with Richard Hagen and Martyn Pentecost (Directors of Mprw Publishing) to turn it into a reality.
The creative talent and the software we used. Every image is hand-drawn, there are some magical elements we built in to make it impactful and memorable - a bespoke website is pricey to create and maintain)
The quantitative ROI – 86% Fierce Emporium Emporium graduates report getting paid the same or much more for doing more satisfying work. But, in fairness, it’s kind of hard to put a return on investment on “more enjoyment at work”.
The qualitative ROI – An unexpected outcome of the programme for many is that they have been asked to design their own role profile. That was a surprise - but it continues to happen. Many graduates tell me that they are enjoying the wider-life beyond work much more than they thought possible. Everyone is so different…
I’ve experimented with adding in many extras over the last 12 months to help you move faster, with more support that ever before. Here’s some of the extras:
4 opportunities (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) to get guided support through a small-group, six-week sprint through each of the modules with examples and opportunities to ask questions and get help immediately. One hour per week.
Monthly LIVE Group Q&A - no matter what stage you’re at, get your questions answered. And catch up with fellow career designers who are going through exactly the same process as you from all corners of the earth.
Private email support from me. 5 days a week.
Private member-only podcast - hear practical advice while you’re walking the dog or driving the car, including access to all historical casts.
One masterclass per quarter - on topics that relate specifically to midlife career design e.g. Foundational Networking like a Midlife Human, Advanced Super-powering your Network, Land your Personal Superpowers, A novel way to power-up your inner Critic to Support your Career Change and Fierce Career Experiments that Work and Superpowering your CV and interviews.
There is an awful lot of value in the programme.
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Because all the elements of the course are downloadable, there are no refunds.
I want you to make the right decision for you so I offer unedited testimonial videos so that you can do a masters level in research before investing.
Here’s another article on Everything you ever need to know about the Fierce Emporium - so you can make an informed financial decision.
Once you decide - let’s start designing. And sprinting towards your future.
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Simply put, no. If it were easy to make changes, you'd have done it already.
It's deep work.
Most people don't dedicate this amount of time, quality or structured thinking to their career…ever. Most professionals leave their career to luck.
Those who join The Emporium want more control, more freedom and more meaning in their work. And they're prepared to invest time to deliberately design it.
It might be important work, but it doesn't have to be boring or dull!
What you learn in The Fierce Emporium will have longer-lasting effects than any other training course you’ve done before….and any you are likely to do in the future!
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In the learning phase of The Fierce Emporium:
There are 6 modules - delivered over six weeks.
Each module has 4-5 challenges.
Each challenge takes 10-45mins.
So, it depends on how much time you have to invest and how much of a priority joy-at-work is for you.
You can do it as fast or slow as you wish.
It’s your programme. It’s been designed to flex around your life and work.
The remainder of the programme:
Your goals for the remainder of our time together depend on your needs, your life-style goals, the degree of change you have decided upon and future career dreams.
This is where we get you moving in a new direction.
Where you play with all of the design skills in the real world. All of these will be decided during the six-week learning phase.
And are different for every single client.
You get support from me and the group for a full 12 months. Throughout every stage of your change process.
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Just reach out.
I offer a package of three additional one-to-one sessions (3x30mins), only available to current programme participants.
Previous participants who combined these resources say it helped them to:
Get crystal clear on some of their Superpowers
Receive personalised coaching on getting the heck out of their own way
Discover different ideas for their future - ones they couldn't have accessed alone
Combining the one-to-one sessions with at home learning, group coaching calls and personalised email support enables you to maximise the return on your investment, in the shortest time possible.
Over the course of your one year career design programme, you’ll only pay £300 for three sessions (as opposed to the normal £447 for the same package for those not within The Fierce Emporium.
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No.
If you have spare time, I’ll be encouraging you to spend it inside The Emporium learning or actually practically designing your future.
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Of course! So far, we’ve had fierce seekers join us from:
United States
Ireland
Australia
France
Dubai
Switzerland
Zimbabwe
Hong Kong
Germany
The learning part of the programme arrives directly into your inbox at the crack of dawn…around 5am GMT on a Monday morning for six weeks.
So it doesn't matter where you live.
The weekly coaching sessions over the six weeks of deep learning are recorded so you never miss out. And the monthly coaching and Q&A sessions are also transformed into a private podcast - again so you never miss out.
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The Fierce Emporium one year programme is £2399.
I never discount the programme as I already offer much more value than any other programme I’ve research in US or US.
I occasionally offer little extra bonuses for new clients. You can access those via the emails in the Never too old, Never too late Midlife Unstuck community. Are you already receiving very regular career design emails from me?
I have questions that are not listed here - what do I do?
Everyone who joins The Fierce Emporium - one year to redesign your career programme has a 30-minute call with me before I send them a link to join.
That way you can ask any questions that I haven't included here, see what I'm like as a human and decide if it's right for you. (Book your call here)
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Speak to me asap. If you have any issues booking in or the times don't work for you, drop me an email letting me know and I'll come back to you asap.
I'm excited about working with you over the next year to design your next decade of deeply satisfying work.
THE FIERCE EMPORIUM IS FOR:
Professionals at a mid-point in their career...
Who want to build sustainable, enjoyable and satisfying work for the next decade so that you can focus on…well…creating more fun in the other parts of your life.
While enjoying a sense of control and freedom over how you get paid to do your best work, rather than being at the mercy of someone else's business choices. you tell your story online can make all the difference.
THE FIERCE EMPORIUM IS NOT FOR:
People simply looking for a job. There are MANY courses and people out there who teach that stuff. And while we touch on it, our focus on is on how to design your next decade to be so satisfying you surprise yourself with enthusiasm and actually look forward to it.
Anyone who takes themselves too seriously. We do VERY serious work in The Fierce Emporium. But there's lightness and a bit of silliness built-in. Especially in the group sessions.
Anyone who thinks they're perfect. Everyone who joins The Fierce Emporium is perfectly imperfect. In fact they are wondrously flawed. We all are. And whilst in the corporate world, you may feel like you need to hide that all of the time, you're going to need to let your mask slip. I promise you we'll love what is behind it - even if you don't yet.
Our 'Re-design your career in one year' promise
The Fierce Emporium is a one-year programme. You don't have to stay that long but you'll want to. If you take advantage of what's on offer, we guarantee you will be doing your work in a way that is much more satisfying in 12 month's time than it is today.
“It’s the biggest act of self-kindness you could do. It was surprising and fun. ”
— FIONA, 40S, INNOVATION, UK
“Resources that you can actually use to make your work - and life - better. ”
— PETE, 50S, BUSINESS OWNER, 50S, IRELAND
🚀 Ready for liftoff?
Members of the Midlife Unstuck Community can join the year-long programme for £1899 (UNTIL JAN 19TH)
Step 1: Join The Midlife Unstuck Community
Step 2: Book in to speak to me asap to see if it’s right for you.
Step 3: Get ready to design your next decade to be more satisfying, meaningful and enjoyable.
Talk to me. In 30 minutes we'll know if we're right for each other
Just because you've spent 15-20 years doing one kind of work, doesn't mean you have to do it for the next 20 years. I use a prove career design methodology to show you how to make design changes in your work that will allow you to make the changes you need to feel good about your work again. And I walk with you through the practical changes so that you make sure your design fits your perfectly.