Agile Self-Development
Agile Self-Development explores how to design the second chapter of work and life.
After spending years — often decades — building careers, many of us start asking different questions. What kind of work do we actually want to do next? What pace of life feels sustainable? And what does “enough” really look like?
Hosted by Product Leader and Agile Practitioner Helene Amster Kopel, this podcast blends ideas from agile thinking, professional development, and real-life career experience to explore how our careers can evolve over time.
Instead of making dramatic pivots or starting over, the second chapter is about experimenting, learning, and intentionally designing what comes next.
Episodes include practical insights on skills like consulting, networking, and influence, along with deeper conversations about meaning, fulfillment, and redefining success in the later stages of a career.
If you’ve spent years climbing the ladder and are starting to wonder what comes next, you’re not alone.
Because the first chapter of our careers was about climbing.
The second chapter is about designing.
Agile Self-Development
New Season Introduction: Designing the Second Chapter of Work and Life
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For most of our careers, we’re taught how to climb the ladder.
Work hard. Learn more. Get promoted. Take the next opportunity.
But what happens after you’ve been climbing for twenty or thirty years?
In this relaunch episode of Agile Self-Development, Helene Amster Kopel introduces a new direction for the podcast and a concept she calls the second chapter of work and life.
Many professionals spend the first decades of their careers building experience, expertise, and credibility. But eventually the questions start to change.
What kind of work do we want to do next?
What pace of life feels sustainable?
And what does “enough” really look like?
This episode introduces the idea that the next phase of our careers doesn’t have to mean starting over. Instead, it can be about experimenting, learning, and intentionally designing what comes next.
If you’ve spent years building a career and are starting to rethink what the next chapter might look like, this conversation is for you.
Visit us at http://www.agileselfdevelopment.com!