Starting Again Without Starting From Scratch
Changing direction in your career can feel strangely disorienting.
You might know that you want something different, but not know what the next thing is yet. You might worry that changing industries means throwing away years of experience. Or you might look at people who have already made the leap and wonder how they managed to turn everything they had done before into something new.
But starting again rarely means starting from zero.
Starting Again Without Starting From Scratch is an honest conversation about what it really takes to reinvent your career while recognising the value of everything you’ve already built.
We’ll talk about how to identify the skills, experience, relationships and strengths that can travel with you into your next chapter; how to separate what you genuinely want from what you’ve simply become good at; and how to make a change when you don’t have a perfectly mapped-out five-year plan.
We’ll also explore the less talked-about side of career change: the identity shift that can happen when you leave behind a role, industry or version of success that has defined you for years, and how to give yourself permission to want something different without treating your previous choices as mistakes.
You’ll leave with:
A clearer understanding of what you want to take with you from your current or previous career, and what you’re ready to leave behind.
A way of recognising your transferable skills beyond your job title.
Ideas for turning seemingly unrelated experiences into part of a coherent next chapter.
Practical questions to help you work out what kind of career move might make sense for you now.
A more expansive way of thinking about reinvention, especially if you’re still figuring out exactly what comes next.
This is for anyone who is considering a career pivot, questioning whether their current path still fits, returning after time away, building something alongside their existing career, or simply wondering: what else could I do with everything I’ve learned so far?
Your host
The conversation will be hosted by Elizabeth Uviebinené, author and founder of Storia.
Across her books and her work building Storia, Elizabeth explores many of the questions at the heart of this event: how our relationship with work changes over time, what happens when our ambitions evolve, how identity becomes tangled up with what we do, and how we build lives and careers that leave room for change.
Rather than presenting career reinvention as a neat before-and-after story, Elizabeth will lead an open, thoughtful conversation about the uncertainty, experimentation and unexpected opportunities that often sit in between.
There will also be space to reflect on your own career, hear from other Storia members and bring your questions to the conversation.
You don’t need to arrive knowing exactly what your next move is.
You just need to be curious about what else might be possible.
Meet Your Host:
Hello :) I’m Elizabeth, founder of Storia, a personal growth and community platform designed to help people navigate the messy middle of life, work and identity with more intention. Storia brings together guided reflections, practical tools, expert-led sessions and a supportive community around everything from career change and confidence to relationships, creativity and reinvention. The idea behind Storia is simple: you don’t need to have everything figured out to start creating a life that feels more like your own.