A major barrier to making a successful pivot? It’s not a lack of skills or experience, but our own self-doubt. Our inner critics – or, as Barker calls them, the inner shitty committee – can be so loud they overwhelm us. How do we turn down their volume?

Barker and Shireen agree: it’s about adding other voices to the mix.

“What I do that really helps is I imagine my future self, who’s got there,” Barker shared. “She’s my cheerleader, going ‘we did it’, ‘thank you’, and ‘well done’.”

For Shireen, the positive voice takes the form of David Bowie. “It can be easier to externalise an encouraging voice,” she explained. “So I’m a huge David Bowie fan, and I hear the voice of him daily. It works because David Bowie made some great music, but he also made some stinky albums. He kept changing and moving. He made mistakes and he didn’t care.”

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