Career alignment coaching for women
so, you did everything right but still don’t feel fulfilled...
You took the sensible steps, worked hard, built the career you thought you wanted. And now, you dread Sunday nights but don’t know why, because on paper you have nothing to complain about.
Hey, I'm Esme! I’m a career alignment coach, helping women change career direction and build a working life that fits who they truly are and the life they actually want to live.
sound familiar?
You think the problem is your job, but it's usually bigger than that (often a career you built in your twenties, for a life you're not sure you still want). Your work doesn't fit who you are or the life you want around it.
The role can look right on paper and still leave you flat. Going through the motions at a job you could do half asleep. Dreading Monday by Sunday afternoon. Not feeling like yourself the minute you log on.
A new job title won't fix that. What fixes it is getting clear on who you are, what you want from work, and the life you want it to fit around. Then changing direction towards something that holds all three. That's the change I help you make.
what changes when your career aligns
Well, you start the work-day without dread. The hours go quickly because what you're doing actually interests you, and you're using the strengths that come easily to you instead of forcing yourself to do things that drain you.
You feel fulfilled. You're proud of your work and you talk about it because you want to, not to complain. You've got energy for the people you love in the evenings, and you say yes to things without weighing up how exhausted you'll be.
But underneath all that, you understand yourself properly, maybe for the first time. You know what you want, you trust your own decisions (in and out of work), and that changes how you show up in the rest of your life too.
This is what's possible when your career fits who you are and the life you want to live.
a little about me
I'm Esme, the coach behind As Folk. Career alignment coaching is a partnership built around you: we work out what you actually want from your working life, what's been getting in the way, and what a career that genuinely fits you looks like. Then we build a path towards it.
My style is warm and grounded, with honest challenge when it helps. And more than any of the credentials, I've been where you are, twice, which shapes everything about how I work.
If you want the fuller picture of how I work and what brought me here, come and have a read.
what my clients say
What clients describe is a particular kind of being heard. Understood in their complexity, not simplified. Able to say things out loud they hadn't said anywhere else.
Questions that get at things they couldn't name on their own. Reflections that help them see themselves differently. Clarity that comes from inside them, not handed over from outside.
What often emerges is a clearer sense of who they are, what they want, and the confidence to start moving toward it.
“I've never taken the time or space to think about what I really want. Now I know, possibly for the first time ever.”
"I can believe in myself and trust myself. I've taken my life back."
"I’ve learned things about myself I’d never have discovered on my own."
"I have more options than I thought. This feels more real than anything I've done before."
"I feel like I'm actually growing, and changing patterns of avoiding and assuming things."
"I feel a lot, a lot less jumbled."
is coaching with me right for you?
It probably isn't for you if you're looking for:
✱ A quick fix. Getting to the root of what's not working takes time. We're not putting a plaster over anything here.
✱ Someone to tell you what to do. I won't hand you the answer or pick your career for you. Your direction comes from you - I help you find it and trust it.
✱ CV and interview help. I don't just write CVs and run interview prep, or send you a list of jobs to apply for. Coaching with me goes way beyond that.
✱ A guaranteed job by the end. You'll leave knowing your direction, with the confidence to move and a real plan to follow. Where you take it from there is yours.
Coaching with me is right for you if:
✱ You know something needs to change. You're feeling lost, unfulfilled, or out of alignment in your working life, and you can't keep ignoring it.
✱ You're ready to look honestly. You'll do the reflecting as well as the acting, even when it means sitting with things that aren't comfortable.
✱ You want more than a new job. You want to understand yourself properly and build a career that fits who you are and the life you want.
how to work with me
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my six-month career change pathway
A proven route through a career change, with a clear three-phase map, bespoke tools at every stage, and me alongside you the whole way.
It's for the woman who knows she wants to change direction but can't yet see what to, and doesn't want to work it out alone.
You'll go from stuck and overwhelmed to clear on your direction and confident enough to move on it.
four flexible coaching pathways
pick your path
Fluid coaching for whatever's standing between you and work that feels right, with flexible support to get you there.
You bring what's most present and we work through it together, across three pathways: Corbett, Donald or Munro, at 4, 8 or 12 sessions depending on how much support you want.
