Career Reset Guide

The Conscious Path to Career Transitions

What if the most reliable guide for career change isn’t a plan, but your ability to stay present, welcome fear, and act from love? With spiritual mentor and meditation teacher Eva Liao, we explore how grounded spirituality can turn uncertainty into clarity while still honoring real-life needs like money, timelines, and family. We redefine spirituality as connection to something larger and a return to our natural state of love and presence. Then we get practical: noticing fear without wrestling it, how welcoming discomfort frees energy, and why “the noticing of a negative is the greatest positive.” Eva shares a simple self-inquiry - name the fear, ask what you need, soothe yourself, and then ask, “Could it be that I can trust life right now?” That question shifts you from spiraling to your next steady step. We dig into authenticity, healing, trusting both yourself and something bigger, and taking safer leaps with part-time bridges and nervous-system-aware planning. We explore choosing love over fear, body intelligence, and letting answers arise in everyday moments so your identity isn’t tied to outcomes. If you’re at the edge of change - seeking meaning but wary of risk - these tools offer clarity and grounding. Connect with Eva Liao: Website:  www.evaliao.com Instagram: iamevaliao Explore Eva's course "Awakening" on her website Connect with Michael Davio Simmonds: Personal website: https://simmondscoachingservices.biz Email: simmondscoachingservices@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldaviosimmonds/

Systemic Intelligence for Uncovering Your Authentic Career Path

What if career blocks aren’t logical, but systemic? Stephanie Hartung brings a fresh lens to career transitions through systemic intelligence and constellation work. With a diverse background in art, design, business, and therapy, she reveals how hidden patterns - often rooted in family loyalties - shape our professional paths. The conversation explores organizations and individuals as living systems guided by complexity, balance, feedback, and self-organization. Stephanie shows how unconscious bonds can keep us tied to family expectations, making change feel like “cutting your own roots.” She also shares how childhood survival patterns can lead to burnout, as in her own tendency to “save” others until collapse. Challenging traditional views of success, Stephanie suggests that money follows authenticity - not the other way around. She also describes how Constellations, a tool grounded in systemic intelligence, can be applied to explore different career transition scenarios. By revealing hidden dynamics, this method helps uncover unconscious sabotage and supports alignment with our most authentic professional path. Connect with Stephanie Hartung: Organisation: Feld Institut Website:  https://feld-institut.de Book: The Magic of Connection: Systemic Intelligence in Organisational Development. CIP, 2025. Available from Amazon or Tradition shop Connect with Michael Davio Simmonds: Personal website: https://simmondscoachingservices.biz Email: simmondscoachingservices@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldaviosimmonds/

A Creative Entrepreneur's Path to Purpose

What happens when you build your life around authentic passions instead of conventional careers? In this inspiring conversation, Marco shares his journey as a creative entrepreneur who’s never been an employee a day in his life. From the moment he first heard Jimi Hendrix as a teen, he knew music would guide his life. Combined with his love for food and Italian culture, these passions became Cinque - a unique community space in Switzerland with a bistro, recording studio, yoga rooms, and more. The road wasn’t always smooth. Marco offers powerful insights on blending creativity and entrepreneurship, challenging the idea that business must be separate from self-expression. “The goal is not the finance,” he says. “Finance is a tool for sustainability.” His philosophy puts authenticity first, trusting that sustainability follows. For anyone considering a career shift, Marco’s message is clear: “Everything is reversible.” No matter how stuck you feel, change is possible with a decision, the right support, and consistent daily steps. Most transformative is his belief that creativity isn’t rare - it’s our human birthright. “Being human and being creative is the same story,” he says. By reconnecting with this truth, we unlock paths to more fulfilling work. Ready to explore your own creative potential? This episode offers both inspiration and practical wisdom to help you align your work with your true essence. Connect with Marco Palmieri: Website: https://www.cinque5.net/ Connect with Michael Davio Simmonds: Personal website: https://simmondscoachingservices.biz Email: simmondscoachingservices@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldaviosimmonds/

Intuition-Led Creative Transformation: A Moron's Insights

What happens when a top Wall Street trader walks away to follow his intuition? In this powerful conversation, Steve shares his mid-career awakening after 20+ years of success left him physically broken and spiritually disconnected. A stark warning "you're going to die on this desk" led him to leave his job, despite having two kids and a pregnant wife. Rather than chasing another high-paying role, Steve embraced creativity, drafting his book How to Succeed on Wall Street and Why You Should Absolutely Not Do It: A Moron's Memoir in one week. This sparked a new path: founding Creative Postures, producing music, podcasting, and writing poetry. Steve discusses trusting intuition, the roles of creativity and healing, and redefining success. His daily practice of writing 1,000 words shows how discipline fuels transformation. If you're feeling stuck or questioning your path, Steve's story is a bold reminder: the best things in life often weren’t planned. Explore how trusting your gut might also provide purposeful direction for your path of transformation. Connect with Michael Davio Simmonds: Personal website: https://simmondscoachingservices.biz Email: simmondscoachingservices@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldaviosimmonds/

Reclaim Your Inherent Power by Going Within

What if your greatest challenge became the doorway to your authentic purpose? In this moving conversation with clairvoyant reader Dave Clark, we explore the liberating journey from limitation to freedom that awaits anyone brave enough to look within. Dave shares his extraordinary path from a childhood marked by family addiction and polarized extremes to becoming a sought-after spiritual guide—a transformation catalyzed by caring for his severely disabled daughter and the profound spiritual awakening he experienced when she passed away at age eleven. With raw honesty, Dave reveals how witnessing his daughter's transition to the other side fundamentally altered his perception of reality and ultimately led him to discover his gift for clairvoyant healing. At the heart of our discussion lies a powerful truth for career changers: the programming that limits us operates largely outside our awareness. Dave explains how these unconscious beliefs—often formed before we have conscious memories—create internal resistance that prevents authentic work and fulfillment. Whether you're contemplating a major career shift or simply seeking greater alignment, Dave's insights illuminate why the transition between external validation and internal purpose often feels chaotic yet leads to profound clarity. The practical wisdom Dave offers transcends the spiritual realm. His approach to creating bridges between current reality and future vision, developing authentic "vision boards," and recognizing how our natural talents connect to purpose provides a roadmap for anyone navigating significant life changes. Perhaps most compelling is his perspective on how facing our fears—especially around survival and worthiness—ultimately frees us to create work that reflects our true nature. This conversation will resonate with anyone who senses there's more to life and work than meeting external expectations. As Dave reminds us, "We have to start looking within," for it's only by reclaiming our inherent power that we discover what we're truly here to contribute. Connect with Michael Davio Simmonds: Personal website: https://simmondscoachingservices.biz Email: simmondscoachingservices@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldaviosimmonds/