In this Short, Sam Alvita names what so many mid-career professionals feel but cannot name: a quiet part of that identity is keeping you stuck. If you are trying to reinvent yourself, this is where that work actually starts.
Sam describes the narrative a lot of us absorbed early, people from our community who go to this school or start in this job need to stay in this very particular lane. Those limiting beliefs set the rules for what feels allowed, and they quietly edit what feels possible long after you have outgrown them.
The shift is not about adding another tactic. It is about seeing the borrowed story for what it is, then doing the deeper work to break it down. Underneath that old lane is more potential than your current title lets you show.
If you are contemplating a career change or in the middle of searching for work that aligns with your purpose, your superpower, and your values, this reframe matters. Your next role will not fit if you bring an outdated identity to it. The career reinvention and personal transformation have to happen first, before the resume does.
Watch the full conversation with Sam Alvita and Roger Kastner:
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsZglYbRVF8&list=PLbWfh34FP_dUcAaCrI31z00_fLdphi6b7&index=1
In the full conversation, Sam answers the following questions:
- How to reinvent my career?
- How do I prepare to change careers?
- What makes for great teams?
- What is the learn, unlearn, and relearn cycle?
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- Sam’s LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-sloan-alvita/
- Sam’s Company: https://www.byworkrewritten.com/
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What Do You Know To Be True? is a personal development and leadership podcast for professionals discovering, building, or already living into their purpose and possibilities.
Each episode is a real conversation with a guest who's navigated their own reinvention: from discovering a talent built out of something difficult, to now using their superpower in service of others. Their stories offer new perspective, validate what you already know, and inspire your next move. Wherever you are on that path, these conversations are for you.
Each conversation gives you something real: a guest's honest story, a practice or perspective you can actually use, confirmation you're on the right path, and you're not alone.
"What Do You Know To Be True?" is hosted by Roger Kastner, is a production of Three Blue Pens, and is recorded on the ancestral lands of the Duwamish and Suquamish people. To discover the ancestral lands of the indigenous people whose land you may be on, go to: https://native-land.ca/
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