It's OK to Change Your Mind - with Alexandra Dolea

It's OK to Change Your Mind - with Alexandra Dolea

January 30, 2026 · 60 min

About this episode

Alexandra Dolea discusses her journey from field archaeology to career mentoring and the changes that followed during the pandemic.

What happens when your dream job stops loving you back? Alexandra Dolea, archeologist, career mentor, and creator of the Career Excavation Framework, walks us through how she spent nearly two decades in field archaeology across Europe and the Mediterranean, only for everything to unravel during the pandemic: work disappeared, burnout set in, and the story she told herself about success no longer fit. That breaking point became a blueprint for change. We also get personal about health, rest, a...

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