To kick off 2026 on the podcast, I spoke to Benjamin Benois. For all his professional career, Ben worked in the tech industry as a Sales Manager for companies like Google and Tripadvisor. He then decided to radically change his career path to follow his passions and dreams.
Three years ago, he started from scratch and became a Mental Performance Coach for Professional & Olympic athletes - with no contacts, no network, and no “permission” from the high-performance sports world. Since then, Ben has worked with more than 30 professional athletes, supported Olympic athletes (including an Olympic final in Paris 2024), helped his clients achieve a total of 76 medals, and worked with athletes from over 12 nationalities.
In this episode, we discuss why dreaming big is a strategy, not a cliché; how to make the decision to change careers when nothing feels certain; what questions to ask yourself when you’re considering a career change; how to build a business from scratch without any contacts; and the transferable essentials from high-performance mental coaching that can help you along the way, such as self-belief, persistence, consistency, grit, discipline, and resilience.
If you need some inspiration and motivation to start making a change this year, this episode is for you!
Listen below via Spotify, or find the episode on Apple Podcasts, or you can watch it on YouTube.
Alice coaches those who want to change career but don’t know what they want to do instead. She offers Career Coaching designed to help career-changers gain a clear vision of what career is right for them, and how to achieve it. She is also an accredited Coach Supervisor, and host of The Career Change Diaries podcast.
