Get Your Aging Career Car Back in Shape to Take On the New Roads
Is your career running out of gas? Maybe it’s time for a tune-up—and this week on A New Direction with Coach Jay Izso, we’re pulling into the garage with author, career expert, and former pastor Chris Fontanella. His latest book, Overhaul Your Career: Seven Tips for Restoring Your Classic Model for New Roads, offers a powerful roadmap to get your professional life humming again—whether you’re changing lanes, stuck in neutral, or looking to turbocharge your purpose.
Coach Jay dives deep with Chris to explore why so many people feel stalled in their careers and what it really takes to restore your inner drive. More than just a motivational boost, this conversation taps into timeless principles, spiritual insight, and practical tools for reshaping your mindset and direction. It's not just about finding a job—it’s about discovering your vocation, reigniting passion, and rolling forward with confidence.
Whether you're a recent graduate wondering what’s next, a mid-career professional questioning the road you're on, or a seasoned executive looking to realign your life’s purpose, this is the episode that will speak directly to your soul. Chris Fontanella doesn’t promise shortcuts—but he does promise a deeper, richer path to meaning and fulfillment in your work life.
Chris Fontanella's book, "Overhaul Your Career: Seven Tips for Restoring Your Classic Model for New Roads" is such a great read for anyone entering in the later stages of their career and considering retirement.
The fact of the matter is, we as humans are really never ready to "retire".  Inactivity is the real killer of us all.  And Chris Fontanella explains to us that the reality is that we need work to fulfill us.  It is so important to our lives to continue to be productive even in the last half, third or quarter of our working career.
Overhaul Your Career, is a complete guide on how to go into your next career after  your main career is over, or you no longer align with it.  As Chris explains, "YOU ARE IN CONTROL"!  You make the choices.  But changing a career, later in life, will take guts and a rebel spirit.  And you need to be a "rebel with a cause" and that cause is your next career.
He also, makes it plain to his reader that you must maintain your individuality and at the same time rediscover who you really are.  You may be thinking, "but I know who I am", but the question is who is the real you?  It is so easy for us to be in a career and lose ourselves and no longer remember the person we truly are.