Little Moves, Big Careers: Smart Career Growth Strategies for Ambitious Professionals.
Struggling to get noticed and move up in today’s fast-changing workplace? Little Moves, Big Careers is your go-to podcast for smart, actionable career growth strategies that cut through the noise.
From visibility and confidence to self-leadership and influence, every episode mixes bold insights, cheeky truths, and practical takeaways that actually work inside real organisations to help you stand out and get promoted.
No corporate waffle; just unapologetically honest career talk for people who want to perform, progress, and stand out for all the right reasons.
New episodes drop every Tuesday.
Start your journey with 'The Survivor’s Guide' episode to learn how to lead through change and rebuild your career even when things get sticky.
Hosted by Caroline Esterson, career strategist and co-founder of www.inspireyourgenius.com, this show reveals the unspoken rules of modern work and teaches you the small, smart moves that make a big difference.
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Episodes
55 episodes
Why Even The Most Capable Women Underestimate Themselves: The Science Of Capability vs Capacity And The Visibility Gap
On Monday, Jocelyn (VP of Global Brand & Comms, working mum, quietly extraordinary human), said two things that resonated powerfully.The first: that early in her career, she believed doing brilliant work would be enough. And then she...
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She Led A Rebrand, Launched An AI Product And Got Promoted - All Within A Year Of Maternity Leave. So Why Did She Still Ask "Am I Good Enough?" with Jocelyn Lo
What does it look like when a woman is quietly, consistently, almost accidentally extraordinary (and genuinely the last person in any room to have noticed)?It looks like Jocelyn Lo, VP Global Brand and Comms for Seedtag.In ...
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Why Boundaries Aren’t Selfish - They’re a Leadership Skill with Emma Fraser
Do you ever feel pressured to overdeliver, keep everyone happy, and prove yourself at work?In this episode, Caroline explores why that pressure can quietly pull capable women away from strategic, sustainable leadership. Through he...
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Does Your Career Lack the Right Allies, Leading To Missed Opportunities? Here’s How To Fix It Right NOW with Emma Fraser
Are the right people talking about your work when you’re not in the room?This episode unpacks a career truth many women discover too late: doing brilliant work is not always enough to move forward. Career momentum often comes thro...
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Why Technical Expertise Alone Is Holding Brilliant Women Back in Corporate Leadership with Emma Fraser
Are you doing brilliant work at your job but still being overlooked for bigger opportunities?This episode explores why confidence and technical expertise are not always the real differentiators in career growth. For women navigati...
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International Women's Day follow up: Why your decisions are dangerously promoting the wrong people.
International Women’s Day can spark great conversations… and then Monday arrives and everything snaps back to “busy.”This episode is the follow-through.If you manage people, this is your practical guide to turning fairness ...
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International Women’s Day 2026: Five surprisingly simple leadership actions to unlock fairness and career success
International Women’s Day is a moment — but leadership is what happens on a random Tuesday when nobody’s watching.This episode is for managers and senior leaders who genuinely want fairer outcomes… and who are ready to stop relying on go...
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Why Focusing Only on Tasks Won’t Help You Lead a Hybrid Team & 5 Little Things to do Instead
Are you leading a hybrid team and quietly wondering whether you’re creating clarity or just managing chaos?Hybrid working promises flexibility, but for many leaders it often feels fragmented, messy, and harder than it should. In this epi...
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Career Lessons Every Young Leader Needs to Hear (When You Don’t Feel Ready Yet)
Stepping into leadership can feel exciting… and quietly overwhelming.In this reflective episode of Little Moves, Big Careers, Caroline pulls together the key lessons from four powerful career conversations - each revealing what ...
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How to Build Career Discipline and Think Like a Board Member with Dr Keith Dorsey
Discipline isn’t about willpower. It’s about trade-offs.In this episode of Little Moves, Big Careers, Caroline chats with Dr. Keith Dorsey about the habits that quietly shape extraordinary careers - from martial arts at six year...
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How Ego, Imposter Syndrome and Control Quietly Undermine Leadership (And What Great Leaders Do Instead)
What if leadership isn’t about having the answers at all?In this episode of Little Moves, Big Careers, I’m joined by leadership coach and former senior police leader Zoe Thompson, whose 20-year career in policing o...
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How to Bounce Back from Career Setbacks: Transferable Skills, Resilience & Reinvention with Sonia Allen
Careers don’t follow straight lines. They zig, they stall, they fall over… and sometimes they completely reinvent themselves.In Part 2 of my conversation with the brilliant Sonia Allen, we dig into the transferable skills that future-...
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How to Bounce Back After Career Setbacks (and Build a Portfolio Career) with Sonia Allen | Part 1
Ordinary choices, extraordinary resilience and a career built with courage, curiosity and a lot of grit.What does real resilience actually look like over a lifetime (not just in the highlight reel)?In this powerful and de...
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Career Turning Points: How Small Decisions Shape Strong Leaders and Teams with Jon Turner
This is a very special episode of Little Moves, Big Careers.Today’s conversation is with Jon Turner, Managing Director of Siemens Electrification & Automation in the UK and Ireland AND the very first person I interviewed for...
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How to Spot Career Signals That Shape Your Next Move
Before we dive into real-life career stories, let’s talk about something seriously underrated: noticing.Big career changes rarely start with big decisions. They start with small signals we almost ignore.In this short,...
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How to Reset Your Career Goals for a New Year (Lessons from 2025)
2025 wasn’t dramatic in one big way; it was heavy in lots of small ones.In this episode, Caroline Esterson reflects on what last year really taught us about work, careers, and ourselves AND how to move into 2026 with more clarit...
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Christmas Career Stories: How To Tap Into What Matters To You
A quieter, gentler story to close the series.Ellie, home on Boxing Day, surrounded by cold stuffing, rogue Brussels sprouts, and the sudden realisation that she can’t keep shrinking at work.No big drama.No catastrophe.Just an...
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Christmas Career Stories: How To Influence Even In High Pressure Situations
Ah, the office Christmas party.Less “festive joy,” more “performance review with glitter.”Nia (our quietly brilliant operations manager ) positions herself near the buffet like a tactical genius. But when Gareth from Sales knocks the...
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Christmas Career Story: How To Create Clarity Even When Under Pressure
This is the big one.The call centre story.The real, messy, emotionally brilliant tale of Amina - QC Queen, calm diplomat, and unofficial backbone of the entire operation.On December 22nd the wallboard turns red, the VIP line coll...
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Christmas Career Story: How To Take Control When Things Are Confusing
Episode 2 brings us to the Marketing department, where a mystery Christmas hamper lands on Desk 14, belonging to the formidable Margaret - patron saint of “I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed.” Cue panic, silence, and the kind ...
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Christmas Career Story: Surviving Workplace Chaos and What It Teaches Us
In Episode 1 we meet Holly - a 19-year-old Christmas temp who gets dropped into a chaotic consultancy in December… the exact moment clients start demanding miracles before close-down.Holly doesn’t shout, she doesn’t flail, she doesn’t gr...
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How to Lead and Rebuild After Redundancies (When You’re Still Standing)
Being the one who keeps their job sounds like relief… until the reality kicks in: guilt, fear you’re next, shaky culture, doubled workloads, and zero guidance on how to move forward.This episode is for the people who stay
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How to Create a Career Bounce-Back Plan After Redundancy
Now we rebuild - not the old way, but smarter. This episode helps you design a career comeback plan that’s practical, intentional, and you-shaped. It’s not about getting back on the ladder; it’s about building one that actually leads s...
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How to Stay Visible When Job Hunting (Without Feeling Awkward)
Networking after redundancy can feel like trying to flirt after a bad breakup. But this time, we’re doing it with purpose and self-respect. You’ll learn how to reconnect, show up online, and talk about what’s next without begging for validation...
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