The Big Life Pivot

The Big Life Pivot Ep5 with Alex Huzzey

What happens when the career you've spent 20 years building no longer feels like the life you're meant to be living? In this episode of The Big Life Pivot, Ursula sits down with Alex Hussey, who spent two decades working in advertising and media before making a remarkable transition into ministry and becoming a vicar. What began as a quiet feeling of dissatisfaction—a recurring middle-of-the-night question about whether creating adverts was really what he wanted his life to be about—eventually became a profound exploration of purpose, values and calling. Alex shares the long, often uncertain journey from a successful advertising career to leading a church community in St Albans. Together, they explore the difference between external success and internal fulfilment, the challenge of stepping into the unknown, and how listening to the small voice that says "there must be something more" can lead to an entirely different life. This is a thoughtful conversation about identity, courage, purpose and what it means to build a life that truly aligns with who you are.

The Big Life Pivot: Episode 4 with Jim de Zoete

In this episode of The Big Life Pivot, Ursula speaks with Jim de Zoete, a creative consultant with a background in advertising, broadcast, film and agency leadership. After decades in full-time creative roles — from copywriter to executive creative director — Jim found himself facing a transition he hadn’t chosen: redundancy from an agency he had helped lead and deeply cared about. What followed was a period of fear, uncertainty, liberation and surprising creative renewal. Jim shares what it felt like to hold two truths at once: the anxiety of losing stability, and the quiet crackle of possibility. He talks about the importance of leaving well, having conversations before you know the answer, and allowing space for new ideas to emerge. This is a conversation about creative identity, dignity in endings, networking as nourishment, and learning to live with both fear and excitement in the same room. Jim is an ECD and creative consultant, working with brands and agencies such as Google, Paramount TV and Saboteur, leading projects and workshops. His work has picked up awards at all the major advertising awards globally. He loves nothing more than a knotty creative challenge and a room full of humans. Work - http://www.jimdezoete.co.uk LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimdezoete Insta - https://www.instagram.com/jimdezoete/

The Big Life Pivot Episode 3: Jac Godfrey

In this episode of The Big Life Pivot, Ursula speaks with Jac Godfrey about leaving a successful legal career and stepping into a very different way of living and working through yoga. Jac’s story is not one of dramatic escape or sudden transformation. She loved the legal profession and built a meaningful career within it. But over time, something shifted. As the profession changed around her, the work began to feel less human, less sustainable, and less aligned with who she was becoming. What began as a yoga class after the birth of her daughter gradually became something much bigger: a path back to herself, a new relationship with her mind, and eventually a whole new professional identity. This conversation explores the courage of listening to what no longer fits, the exhaustion of carrying a new future before you can share it, and the quiet power of trusting that life can become not just okay, but brilliant. In This Episode Ursula and Jac explore: How a single yoga class became the start of a deeper life shift Why Jac’s move away from law was not about hating her old career The changes in the legal profession that made the work feel less human The slow overlap between an old identity and a new one The role counselling played in helping her make sense of the pivot Why keeping big change private for a while can feel exhausting How support, timing, and stepping stones can make reinvention possible What success looks like when it is rooted in freedom, health, and groundedness

Episode 2: Listening to the 'niggle' with Ben Scoggins

In this episode of The Big Life Pivot, Ursula Capell is joined by Ben Scoggins, outgoing CEO of Organic, to explore what happens when a quiet inner niggle grows too loud to ignore. Ben shares the story of leaving a successful London career in advertising and marketing to move to Devon with his wife and young family, in search of a life that felt more aligned. Together, Ursula and Ben talk about anxiety, uncertainty, belonging, career identity, transferable skills, and the courage it takes to make a change before you have every detail worked out. This is a thoughtful conversation about listening to what no longer fits, envisioning a different future, and finding the confidence to take the next step, even without a perfect plan. If you’ve ever felt stuck, restless, or caught in the in-between, this episode is for you.

Introducing the Big Life Pivot

Welcome to The Big Life Pivot, hosted by coach and consultant Ursula Capell. This podcast explores the strange, wobbly space of transformation - that moment when the version of you that used to fit no longer feels quite right, but who you’re becoming isn’t fully clear yet. From the outside, everything might look fine. But inside there’s a quiet nudge: something feels off. In each episode, Ursula speaks with people who have lived through their own messy middle, navigating uncertainty, listening to the signals beneath the noise, and discovering what becomes possible on the other side of stuck. If you’ve ever felt the pull toward something more aligned, more alive, or more you, this podcast is for you. Subscribe and join the conversation. Welcome to The Big Life Pivot.