Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Career Pivot Guide 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly reflection on change, self-trust, and finding your way forward Begin where you are Hello and welcome, Reader! Over the years, I've had the privilege of working with people from many different professions. Engineers. Marketing executives. Leaders in the banking industry. IT specialists. Professionals in global health. Even psychoanalysts. On the surface, their careers looked very different. But when they started...
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Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Career Pivot Guide 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly reflection on change, self-trust, and finding your way forward Begin where you are Hello and welcome, Reader! Two years ago, at the age of 57, I decided to publish my first book in English. It was an experiment. I challenged myself to write and publish it in seven days. It took me ten 🙈. To be fair, I wasn't starting from scratch. Over the previous fifteen years as a career transition coach, I had accumulated a...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Career Pivot Guide 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly reflection on change, self-trust, and finding your way forward Begin where you are Hello and welcome, Reader! Recently, I spoke with a client who found himself in a strange place. On paper, very little was wrong. He had a stable job, a good income, and a family he cared deeply about. Three children. A mortgage. The kind of responsibilities that make stability matter. He wasn't facing a crisis. In many ways, life...
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Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Career Pivot Guide 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly reflection on change, self-trust, and finding your way forward Begin where you are Hello and welcome, Reader! A few years ago, I worked with a senior executive who was going through one of the most difficult periods of his life. His marriage had ended. He was trying to rebuild a relationship with his son. Sleep had become unreliable. Thoughts circled endlessly through the night. At the same time, his professional...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Career Pivot Guide 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly reflection on change, self-trust, and finding your way forward Begin where you are Hello and welcome, Reader! A few months ago, I spoke with a woman who had spent many years in animation and cartoon production. She started as a designer but gradually learned many other parts of the business. Over time, she became the kind of professional every company values: someone who can step into almost any project, in any...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Career Pivot Guide 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly reflection on change, self-trust, and finding your way forward Begin where you are Hello and welcome, Reader! One of the hardest phases in any transition begins after the excitement of starting fades. You’ve already invested a lot into the new direction.You’ve learned.Tried things.Adjusted.Spent emotional energy on it. And yet, the external reality still feels uncertain. No clear breakthrough. No obvious...
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Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Career Pivot Guide 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly reflection on change, self-trust, and finding your way forward Begin where you are Hello and welcome, Reader! One of the most common things I hear from smart people in midlife career transitions sounds like this: I’m exploring. And often, they really are. Courses. Certifications. Side projects. New ideas. Conversations. Books. Possibilities. And yes, on the surface, it can look very active. Even impressive. But...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Career Pivot Guide 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly reflection on change, self-trust, and finding your way forward Begin where you are Hello and welcome, Reader! There is a version of “stuck” we don’t talk about enough. It doesn’t look like confusion or a lack of ideas. It looks like this: You know something has to change. But you don’t have the energy to face it. When even small choices disappear I once worked with a woman who had been leading a company for many...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Happiness Explorer 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly space for happiness, self-trust & the art of living well Let’s begin gently Hello and welcome, Reader! It rarely starts with a big decision. More often, it begins with something small. A thought that passes quickly: “Tomorrow is Friday… good.” And you notice the relief is slightly bigger than it should be. Or a moment in a meeting — an important one, the kind many people would want to be part of — and suddenly:...
3 months ago • 2 min read