Discover the fulfilling work that’s right for you. Finally.
For mid and late career high performers who need a structured plan and personalized support to choose a career with meaning, money, and joy
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Clarity, confidence, and direction in just 8 weeks
Your Career Homecoming
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You’re smart. You’re capable. You know that if you could figure out what you wanted to do there’d be no stopping you.
Surely there’s an option that will let you use your gifts, contribute in a way you care about, and meet your financial needs.
But every time you go through the cycle of idea!, hope, research, overwhelm, and analysis-paralysis, you get more discouraged.
All the journaling, assessments, and personal development are not adding up to anything. It’s almost like the more you learn about yourself the more confused you feel.
At your low points, you feel powerless, scared, and just BLAH.
When you want something you go after it and get it.
So why has choosing a career been so hard?
- Your work is so out of alignment with who you are that you have to perform a fake version of yourself just to get the job done
- You know you’re wasting your time, gifts, and potential on work that doesn’t matter enough
- You feel torn between making money and making a difference
- You’re missing out on life because you are either recovering from work or ruminating about what else you could do
- You’re not the vibrant, creative person that you used to be and don’t feel like yourself anymore
- You don’t want to be ungrateful for your current situation, but if you’re being honest you know you’re unfulfilled and this is unsustainable
- You have a persistent knowing that you’re in the wrong place, but keep overriding your intuition because you don’t have a clear vision or path
Ranging from “not terrible” to “wishing for surgery to avoid work,” you know there has to be more than this
How bad is it?
This is not who you want to be and how you want to live.
You know you can’t save the world, but you want to do your part.
Ready to give more, ready to live more
That old quote about “no one is coming to save you” hits especially hard as you accept that if your situation is going to change, you’re going to have to change it.
But you also know it’s high time to surrender and get the right kind of help. Because what you’ve been doing? It’s not working. And life is too short to keep feeling like this.
You realize that this is about more than choosing a new career. This is becoming the person you want to be.
WE've got you
Meet the Your Career Homecoming
Career Change Program
You have something to offer the world.
We help you find out what it is and how to share it.
- You get to be your authentic self
- You wake up excited for your day because you know your time and effort will make a meaningful difference to someone
- You are making good money and making the world a better place in a way that you connect with
- You have the energy and presence for friends, family, dating, hobbies, and big life goals
- You’re a lighter, happier, more colorful version of yourself
- You are proud of what you do and enjoy talking about your career
- Now your work is in alignment with who you are. You make intentional choices with clarity and confidence. You feel like yourself again. You’ve made it home.
Raise the bar and prepare for this:
It’s not too much to ask, and there is a reliable way to figure out the fulfilling work that’s right for you.
Two equally important things have to come together to make your career change successful:
your return to self & our strategy.
HOW WE GET THERE
Your return to self
Given your circumstances, it’s understandable that you’d be drained, discouraged, and doubting yourself. But that’s not a productive place to make life-affirming decisions from.
So before we do anything else, we start with bringing you back home to yourself. We put you back at the center of your life.
We quiet the voice of the parent, partner, or abusive boss in your head so you can learn to listen to your voice, wants, and needs.
We help you reconnect to who you are, what you care about, and what you have to offer so you can make decisions from a place of quiet confidence.
We help you start rehabilitating your relationship with work so you don’t recreate the very kind of situations you’re trying to get away from.
Skipping straight to resumes, job searches, and business plans is an atrocious waste of time, money, and energy without this solid foundation in place. This is essential. But it’s just half of what you need.
What the boardroom and pencil skirt crowd doesn’t grasp is that it’s not just your career that needs to change. You need to change.
Our strategy
The part that needs money for the real world, the part that wants to make a difference, the part that wants to feel competent & useful, the part that wants a life outside of work, and the part that wants to be your authentic self at work.
Like most of our clients, maybe you’ve already tried to figure this out by working with a career coach, life coach, or therapist. Maybe you’ve taken assessments or have journals filled with deep stuff about yourself.
Knowing yourself is not enough. You have to know how to apply relevant self-knowledge into making an actionable choice. We pioneered the process for this.
We help you create a list of options that are custom-tailored to you, and then teach you how to choose between them, based on your priorities.
No shiny object syndrome. No “sounds great but how would it make money?” options. No more second-guessing.
Our holistic career change strategy enables you to choose a career that honors all of you.
Direction
You know the gaps between here and there, and have a sensible action plan to bridge those gaps
Clarity
You know what you want to do and why you want to do it
Confidence
You have conviction in your choice and your ability to get there
You will leave Your Career Homecoming with:
We help you choose and start the fulfilling career that’s right for you so you can have more of the life you want to live and become more of the person you want to be.
True homecoming.
Bottom line?
Aimee LALIBERTE, Founder of The Finance Edit
“All I wanted to do was to be able to get my kids off the bus. All I wanted to do was to get a dog and to make sure that she's my co worker, and has been for the last seven years. I just wanted to build a life for myself and for my family that felt super aligned. It just so happens that I get paid pretty well to do it.”
She Left the Golden Handcuffs of Higher Ed Development and Booked Out Her New Business in 6 Months
WHITNEY, Founder of Spirited Roots Farm
“I realized it's okay to want more out of my career. I let go of sunk cost fallacies. I allowed myself to want what I naturally gravitate towards vs just doing what seems like an obvious career based on my past.”
Said Goodbye to the Stress of Healthcare to Start a Family Farm
BRIT, PRODUCER AT NPR's SHORTWAVE
“I don’t think I would’ve found my way here without your support. I’m inhabiting a kind of confidence I’ve never experienced before. It feels right. And Your Career Homecoming helped me get here.”
From Frustrated Social Media Manager to Producer at NPR
DARIA PEOPLES, AUTHOR with HarperCollins
“Working with Laura changed my life. She was practical, but she also saw my future, the one I wanted, and it was totally safe in her hands.”
From 6th Grade Teacher to Author/Illustrator
beth, head of programming and strategic initiatives
“I didn’t change a great deal about how I use my brain — I just learned how to channel it into something that also gave me the stability I needed.”
From Inconsistent Freelance Gigs to a Steady Paycheck at a Large University
AUBREY NICOLE, FOUNDER OF MOKSHA DESTINY & HOST OF THE INFINITE DROP PODCAST
“Laura and the program (and again, I’ve done a lot of programs)…you somehow figure out how it get it out of the head and onto paper, and then there’s action steps to make it out in the real world. And the out in the real world part is what is missing from a lot of the other things."
From Senior VP of Marketing in Tech to Intuitive Business Strategist & Tarot Reader
LINDA, PRODUCT LEAD AT GOOGLE
“I vividly remember writing down that I wanted a career that let me continue to hone my management skills but no longer as a consultant; a company that offered the benefits and salary I wanted; and an office near the mountains and the ocean. What's funny is that I wanted all this before I turned 30. And, it happened. My dreams actually came true.”
Got Her Career Dreams Without Going Back to School
Tala Ocampo, Assistant Professor
“Going through this process gave me permission to heed whatever was tugging at my heart…it gave me clarity and, with that, courage — it makes the next step clear.”
She Finally Found a Career That Felt Like Home After 18 Years In HR
Mitch Zenaty, Business Development Manager
“I know the questions that I need to ask myself on a daily basis to make sure that my values stay aligned with what Laura helped me discover. And, I just got a job offer for a company that is perfectly aligned with my needs and wants. I'm excited about the job, but even more excited to be the man that I want to be.”
From Feeling Lost to a Confident Direction
RACHAEL ABAH, MENTOR FOR HIGH-ACHIEVING WOMEN
“I'm able to identify opportunities through the filters that you provided of knowing when something serves and honors me.”
From Laid Off in Corporate Sales to Aligned Business
Kira Corbin, Founder at Standard Affair
"...a wonderful curriculum that WORKS. And working with you has been one of the best things I’ve done in my life. I’m so happy I did! There is such incredible value in what you do. It is worth every penny."
From Prop Styling to Creating: She Launched Her Own Home Products Line
Clare EDGE, Author with harpercollins & Penguin random house
"There is something alchemical about the magic of Your Career Homecoming. If you are really ready for a transformation, this is so much more than an 'online class.' It’s an experience that is transformative and supportive, and for me, it really, really worked."
From Unfocused Creative to Award- Winning Author with Multiple 6-Figure Book Deals
Jayne Anne Ammar, National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach
"Laura's influence in my life was pivotal in my making a huge career shift when I finally decided to work with her in 2016. She offered the perfect blend of hard truths, a supportive framework, and questions to move me forward lovingly when I couldn't figure it out myself."
From Marketing Manager to Holistic Health Coach
PIA, FINE ARTIST
"I gained certainty in who I truly am and what I truly want. This breakthrough allowed me to declare my Homecoming Career with the confidence of knowing this wasn't just a phase; this was home."
Channeled Her Creativity into a New Career
Tim bryant. Founder and executive director at One Love Prison Meditation Project
"I want to highlight this incredible coach, Laura Simms. Many years ago I was at a crossroad in my work life and I took a chance with her program. It turned out to be an amazing experience that gave me the emotional and tangible tools to start One Love Prison Meditation Project and still helps me today."
Emotional and Tangible Tools to Succeed
DIONNE, DAY TRADER
“I think one of the beautiful things about the way that it worked out is that you weren't trying to push me one way or the other. It was literally like, what are the opportunities, or what are the potential opportunities for what you put on your list, about what your must-haves were, and I don't think that I have ever just allowed myself to have that."
Ditched “Good Enough on Paper” Jobs for an Aligned Career
Trudy Graham, Leadership coach, facilitator, & speaker
"I came out of Your Career Homecoming with a confidence that what I was about to invest my time in wasn't going to be my next failure. It was going to be the foundations of something solid."
Started a Business After a 34-Year Career in Education
Yuniya, Founder and Principal Consultant at Uplift Global Consulting
“It's like that art technique called pointillism, where you draw through dots. When you look up close, all you see are dots. But when you step back and look at the whole picture, then you see what you're looking at. Your Career Homecoming helped me connect all my dots and see my complete career picture.”
From Avoidant in Her Consulting Business to Audacious Career in Global Fellowships
JOrdyn C., holistic Personal Chef
"I never would have given myself permission ever to consider this as a really viable path. But when I looked at all my data, when I looked at the lifestyle and the impact I want to have and how I work best with people, it was crystal clear."
From Cyber Security To Personal Chef
Robin, Project Coordinator
“I feel like I have a life now. It’s wonderful.”
Made Peace with Leaving Her PhD In Scottish Studies for More Balance
jon, MEdia and technical director for a large church
"I'm just really fully engaged now. Before, my struggle was disengagement, but now I'm constantly learning new things, which is really what I love. I can research, implement, and see projects through from start to finish - something I never could do in my previous corporate role."
From Burned Out Information Architect to Engaged Technical Director
Dr. vickie
"It helped me focus and get permission to work specifically with African American women - the population I saw dying at faster rates and experiencing more health challenges. I realized I could incorporate my passions for spirituality, health, and alternative methods while creating a meaningful niche that truly matters."
From Dreading Work as a Doctor to Joy and Motivation
Who We Help
We work with high performers who relate to any of these starting points:
- I have no idea what I want to do
- I have some puzzle pieces, but can’t I fit them together
- I have many ideas but can’t choose between them
- I have some solid ideas, but I’m not confident enough in them to fully commit
- I’m 95% sure I know where I’m headed, but worry I might be missing other options and don’t want to invest time & money in my idea until I’m absolutely sure
Your Career Homecoming has 450+ graduates from 12 countries.
They have come and gone from places like Broadway, Google, Salesforce, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, NPR, the FBI, the US Air Force, family-owned businesses, and working for themselves.
What they all have in common is the drive to do something that matters without sacrificing the life they want to build for themselves.
That's what Your Career Homecoming has helped them do.
Guidance that gets you there
Your Career Homecoming is the gold-standard holistic career change coaching & advisory for high achievers who want their work to make a difference.
We’ve helped clients navigate these and many more questions. We’re there to act as coach, consultant, and champion, safely ushering you into your Homecoming Career.
The level of support we offer is beyond anything else we’ve ever encountered in our industry, and that’s on purpose; that’s what it takes to get this right. Your Career Homecoming is the last career change resource you’ll ever need.
And did we mention structure, and having an actual plan to figure this out?
None of those coaching sessions where you aimlessly talk about your feelings or what you wanted to do when you were a kid for an hour, leave with no direction, and think “what did I just pay for?”
We work from a process that has been developed and tested for nearly 15 years.
- What if you care deeply about helping people, but people also exhaust you?
- What if the career you have your heart set on doesn’t meet your income needs?
- What if you don’t have the experience to do the job you’re excited about?
- What if you want to start a business but don’t want to lose the security of being an employee?
- What if the job you want to do isn’t available in the place that you live?
- What if you start to chicken out on your dream?
You can make a lot of wrong turns when changing careers.
Why It Works
Let me tell you what we're not doing:
- Assessments that tell you your type and provide a list of canned options, some of which you've already rejected, some which sound awful (mortician? actuary?), some of which sound like you could never make a dime
- Ideal day exercises that remind you how much you're missing out on now without crystalizing into options of what you could actually do
- Journal prompts about what you would do if the money didn't matter (it does) or what you loved as kid (because ballerina-archeologist positions are hard to find)
- Treating your resume like a roadmap (it may very well be a eulogy for what you're done with)
- Brainstorming job titles only to come up with more of the same or outrageous pipe dreams
- Taking a personal development system that was never designed to help you answer these career questions and trying to a extrapolate a direction
- Identifying a list of your values that feels powerful but doesn't yield concrete options
You can do those things on your own. Probably have.
You get us in your corner when you realize you need strategy, structure, and support that the well-meaning therapists, career coaches, and personal development work can't provide.
We bring you back home to yourself.
You can't choose a career from fear, performance, or what everyone else has decided is acceptable.
This is not a purely intellectual choice. This is a decision that requires your heart and hope; your self-regard restored, so you can be the center of your own life instead of living for everyone else.
So we start where it matters most: we work on who is doing the choosing.
We find options you wouldn't have found on your own.
The WHOLE Method is our proprietary approach to generating options in an entirely different way. It considers the full complexity of who you are and the life you want to live, not just your work history. It surfaces possibilities you wouldn't have found on your own because you wouldn't have known where to look.
And because we've walked this road with hundreds of clients, we'll see options and opportunities you might miss; very helpful when you're trying to find something you've never had before.
We use a structure that allows you to make an intentional decision you can trust.
When choosing a career, there are a hundred ways to get it wrong. Our process is thorough by design. It examines what you want, what you need, what you've dismissed too quickly, and what you've been holding onto for the wrong reasons. It connects dots you couldn't connect on your own. You stop guessing and start leading your own career.
We help you create a practical plan to safely get from here to there.
The real test: getting there without destabilizing everything you've built.
We make sure you know what to do and in what order. No extra steps that overcomplicate things and drag it out longer than it needs to. No skipped steps that take on too much change at once and create instability.
You have a path that accounts for your finances, your timeline, your responsibilities, and the life you're already living.
We give you the support system this decision actually requires.
We use a mentorship model because it's the only support system we've seen consistently get results. You get guidance from someone who has helped hundreds of people solve this exact problem, who can see around corners you can't, and who can bring you back to the truth and yourself when you get in your own way.
You also get community. There’s no substitute for seeing your colleagues come to life and make life-affirming choices, real time.
Support isn't a bonus. It's the reason this works.
It's Forever
The short-term goal of Your Career Homecoming is to help you find the fulfilling work that's right for you and have a solid plan to transition into it. It does that.
But what you leave with is bigger than an answer: you leave with a process that belongs to you. Should your needs change, your circumstances shift, or the world look different than it does today, you'll know how to navigate it. You're set for life.
Common Questions
Will this really work for me?
If you what you read here resonates, then probably. But we work on an invitation only basis to ensure we only partner with people we’re confident we can help. After 15 years, we’re quite clear on who we can and can’t help.
Is this for people who want to get a job, or people who want to start a business.
Both. You may not know which is right for you when you get started, but you will by the time you leave.
Will I get to work directly with Laura?
Yes. You will work closely with Laura and the coaching team. You have the opportunity to speak directly with Laura twice a week and have unlimited access in our community platform.
What's the investment?
There are a couple different pricing and payment options, and since enrollment is by invitation only we wait until we're both sure this is a good partnership before starting that conversation.
If you explore working with us, we will go into much more detail about the program, process, and payment options. Some things we’re happy to share here, and some things we want to explore in relationship with you.
How soon can I start?
We operate on rolling enrollment so you can jump in our one room schoolhouse when you're ready. We ask that you start with our masterclass to learn our method, first.
Peace from the turmoil of not knowing Agency in your career
Confidence in yourself and your choice
Peace from the turmoil of not knowing / Agency in your career / Confidence in yourself and your choice
You know you’re worth more.
If you took the armor off your heart long enough to really let yourself believe that there is a beautiful future waiting for you - and that you could be 8 weeks from finding it - how fast would you take the help to get there?
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