Your Life Unbounded is a weekly career & life transition podcast hosted by Gloria Julien. Ex-mechanical engineer, UX specialist, and career strategist.
Released every Thursday, the podcast applies design thinking, systems analysis, and the 4C Framework (Claim, Clear, Choose, Commit) to help high-achieving professionals break through career ambiguity, end analysis paralysis, and design a life rooted in clarity and joy.
Your Life Unbounded
Decide What’s Next.
From $2M Corporate Deals to $10K in Glass Vases: The 8-Year Strategy for De-Risking Your Career Pivot
What happens when a high-stress corporate job demands a presentation from your hospital bed? Industrial engineer Jennifer Johnson traded $2M medical marketing projects for an 8-year deliberate exit strategy to build The Plant Place. In this episode breakdown with career decision coach Gloria Julien, discover how analytical overthinkers can de-risk a major career pivot, transition from infinite spreadsheet research to placing $10,000 bets on themselves, and build a life of genuine fulfillment.
The 15-Year Career Pivot: Why Small Questions Beat Big Decisions
It took one coach 15 years to go from journalism to coaching. It took me 15 years to leave engineering. Here's what we both learned about getting unstuck — one small question at a time.
Stuck in a Career Transition? Why Overthinkers Get Stuck — and How to Get Unstuck
Stuck between knowing what's wrong and not knowing what's next? A conversation with coach Allison Task on why overthinkers stay stuck in career transitions — and the small, almost laughably tiny steps that actually get you unstuck.