Diana Enache - Mindset Coach for Career Changes

Several years ago, I was sitting in a meeting and feeling disengaged.

At the time I told myself it was normal, that everyone gets tired of their job sometimes.
So I pushed through, I adapted and did the job well, while feeling a call for something different.

I’ve learned you can be excellent at your job and still be lost in it. You can have the title, the salary and still lie awake wondering if this is really it.

I’ve also been on the other side, where I find purpose, impact and satisfaction in my work. That only came after I intentionally worked on the change (in coaching, therapy).

If that happens to you too, then maybe you need to make an intentional change too.

How can we work together if you’re a high achiever, working in Tech, want to stop overthinking and are committed to your career development?

MAP 1:1 coaching program. 3 months of working on mindset, action, performance. For you if you:
feel frustrated because you don’t feel motivated by your job anymore.
worry because of the high volume of work, self-imposed pressure and the safety of your job.
think your field of work is changing fast and it’s hard to keep up.
want to clarify your career direction and change to a different job.
want to prepare for a leadership position.
want to earn more.

MADE 1:1 coaching program. 5.5 months of working on mindset, alternatives, decision, ex*****on and evaluation. For you if you:
don’t find purpose in your work anymore.
are tired of doing the job you have, but not the one you really want.
know you want to make a radical job change and want to work on your professional purpose, to identify a clear career path, to make the decision and act on it.
doubt yourself and are nervous about the uncertainty of change.
want to change your role or transition towards entrepreneurship.

LinkedIn transition review
For you if you:
are looking to pivot into a new job.
are ready to leave your corporate job and become a solopreneur.
want to create a powerful personal brand on LinkedIn.

From CV to interview
For you if you:
are receiving automatic rejections, or feeling like your experience is not properly understood.
want to change industries, or make a career transition.

Several years ago, I was sitting in a meeting and feeling disengaged.

At the time I told myself it was normal, that everyone gets tired of their job sometimes.
So I pushed through, I adapted and did the job well, while feeling a call for something different.

I’ve learned you can be excellent at your job and still be lost in it. You can have the title, the salary and still lie awake wondering if this is really it.

I’ve also been on the other side, where I find purpose, impact and satisfaction in my work. That only came after I intentionally worked on the change (in coaching, therapy).

If that happens to you too, then maybe you need to make an intentional change too.

How can we work together if you’re a high achiever, working in Tech, want to stop overthinking and are committed to your career development?

MAP 1:1 coaching program. 3 months of working on mindset, action, performance. For you if you:
feel frustrated because you don’t feel motivated by your job anymore.
worry because of the high volume of work, self-imposed pressure and the safety of your job.
think your field of work is changing fast and it’s hard to keep up.
want to clarify your career direction and change to a different job.
want to prepare for a leadership position.
want to earn more.

MADE 1:1 coaching program. 5.5 months of working on mindset, alternatives, decision, ex*****on and evaluation. For you if you:
don’t find purpose in your work anymore.
are tired of doing the job you have, but not the one you really want.
know you want to make a radical job change and want to work on your professional purpose, to identify a clear career path, to make the decision and act on it.
doubt yourself and are nervous about the uncertainty of change.
want to change your role or transition towards entrepreneurship.

LinkedIn transition review
For you if you:
are looking to pivot into a new job.
are ready to leave your corporate job and become a solopreneur.
want to create a powerful personal brand on LinkedIn.

From CV to interview
For you if you:
are receiving automatic rejections, or feeling like your experience is not properly understood.
want to change industries, or make a career transition.

💡 As a mindset coach for career change, I wish every high achiever (who wants to make a career change, but is stuck because of perfectionism) knew that making a change needs preparation and action, not overthinking and procrastinating until everything is perfect.

💡 As a mindset coach for career change, I wish every high achiever (who wants to make a career change, but is stuck because of perfectionism) knew that the perfectionism keeping them safe in their career is convincing them they're not yet ready for a change.

Before you submit the next job application, take the Career Change Readiness Quiz.

In 5 minutes, you’ll know:
- How ready you really are for a career move.
- What stage you're in.
- Your next smart step.

Get your quiz result at: meaningful-career.com/free-quiz.

I hear this often in coaching sessions from clients: “I have low self-confidence. I want to be more confident.”

This low self-confidence is a result of them not taking action.
That confidence comes with/from taking action.

Before self-confidence comes self-trust.

In my personal experience and in my experience working with clients I saw that having self-trust can help us start taking said action.

Let me take you back a few years.
I was working in a finance role and it was a good job with a great team, but after a while I wanted to do something different. I wanted to help people grow at work.
I already had training experience, I liked working with people, interacting with them and helping them develop their skills.
That drive and interest in learning took me from Finance to Learning & Development in a Tech organisation.

Then, a few years later, from employee to solopreneur coach and trainer.
I had no client roster, but I started building anyway. If I'd waited for confidence to show up, I'd probably still be working away doing finance reports in Excel.
I trusted that I could figure it out, knowing I’m the kind of person who learns, adapts, makes the effort, who networks.

I didn't feel confident starting. I felt both enthusiasm and worry, but I acted anyway, because I trusted myself to do the work and follow my mission. Confidence came later.

I see self-trust as the conviction that we can rely on our own thoughts, decisions and behaviours to get us where we want to go.

If I were to put them in order, it would be: self-trust → action→ self-confidence.

What do you think?

I've been working with career changers and aspiring solopreneurs across Europe, who experience perfectionism, for a while now.

They live in different countries and yet, while talking to them, regardless if they’re from Berlin, or from Barcelona I’ll hear similar stories about what they tell themselves.

The things that have come up over and over in coaching are:
- They want to make a role or career change, want to start their own business and they research a lot.
- They do the same task multiple times.
- They overthink (all that mental energy spent circling a decision instead of doing something).
- They feel drained, like their job is eating their energy instead of fueling their drive.
- They feel restless, like they need to do something different, but they’re not 100% sure what.
- They repeatedly think: “I don’t see the impact in the work I’m doing now. I want to do something with purpose.”
- They've spent years building expertise and starting something different is scary.
- They experience self-doubt often.
- They talk harshly to themselves.
- They think: "I don't see the impact in what I'm doing. I want to do something that matters."

But the same struggles have different contexts depending on where they live and work.

In places with strong direct feedback cultures, perfectionism comes with the fear of showing anything unfinished, because they've been trained to expect blunt comments.

People who are already hard on themselves criticise their own work before they deliver it.

In more modesty prone cultures, I see perfectionism hiding behind self-deprecating humor.

Downplaying achievements becomes a safe move socially.

In cultures with a history of working long hours, boundary setting or career change conversations come with guilt about not working enough, about wanting something different.

In multilingual, multicultural environments, I see competence and identity get fused together, people feel the need to prove themselves more.

All this being said, my experience has shown me that none of these are unique to one country.

If you want to change something about your work, but you’re overthinking, what would you do if you allowed yourself to experiment?

I talk to high achievers who tell me they’ve been thinking about a career change for months, sometimes a year.

What strikes me is how sure they say they need to be before doing anything. Like there’s a decision that comes with a guarantee.

There isn't. But I get why they look for it anyway. It's perfectionism wearing a very convincing disguise.

“If it's not going to be perfect, why do it?”
So you don't.

You think about it more, research more, find excuses about the market, the economy, stability, you consume mental energy while not making a change.

There's usually something else going on at the same time.

You've spent years building expertise, becoming good at what you do. Starting something new means being bad at it for a while, being a beginner again, and asking questions you "should" already know the answer to.
And on top of all that, you're trying to figure this out on your own.

So you continue even though the job doesn't light you up anymore, even though you don’t see the purpose.

This is the kind of thing I work through with high achievers in my MAP 1:1 coaching program.
We work on the assumptions and the fears, the negative self-talk, on what purpose means for you right now, on deciding and acting when there's no perfect answer.

It's for you if you're willing to challenge the assumptions, fears, and negative self-talk that are keeping you from making the change.
It's for you if you want new behaviours.

Send me a message and let's start with a free 30 minute conversation about where you are and where you’d like to be.

I recently read the book Drive, by Daniel Pink and one idea stuck with me: people feel motivated, energized when they have autonomy over four things: what they do, when they do it, how they do it, and who they work with.

Tasks, or "you decide what you do". When people have a say in how a task is defined before they start it, not just execute someone else's idea, they invest more creativity and care into it. 

Time, or decoupling pay from presence. In companies that implemented ROWE (Results Only Work Environment), where employees stopped tracking hours and were evaluated on output, productivity increased.

Method, or process ownership. The option to decide their own workflow rather than following a prescribed method gives people the sense of mastery.

Team, or people choosing who they work with. People being placed on a team they didn't choose, with people whose working style clashes with theirs is one of the fastest ways to drain intrinsic motivation. 

As a solopreneur, I get to live all four:

Tasks: I choose what I work on. Coaching, facilitation, consulting, networking, outreach, content, building my own programs, learning something new. I build my task list.

Time: I get paid for outcomes. I set goals quarterly, check in regularly, and adjust what’s needed.

Method: I define the process, the milestones, the steps to take in order to achieve the result I’m aiming for. I get to design the "how."

Team: I choose who I build with, from long-term collaborations with entrepreneurs like Adela Bulai | Solopreneur Coach | Empowering Authenticity, Anca Brici Identity Coach, , to short terms collabs on projects like: coaching for L&D by L&D Shakers, Relaunch by Coaching Innovators, MentorHer, Career reconfiguration, and Career with meaning, to workshop collabs with , Trainerita cu fundita, Alina Vladoi/ Business & Career Coach/ HR Partner, and Adelina Dinu.

I am a big fan of collaborating. I think this is one of my top strengths, so I use it.

Even if I’m a solopreneur, I don’t have to work alone.

Now I’m curious about you: Which of these four dimensions already exists in your work? 

And which one do you crave?