Stuck, Burnt Out or Unsure What's Next in Your Career?
PEP Talk is a structured, guided & connected career change pathway for people who want clarity, confidence and a realistic way forward.
“The experience has been phenomenal.
I’ve built confidence and quit my old job, and am now in the career of my dreams.”
ALEX R.
Is Your Current Career Holding You Back?
Many capable professionals reach a point where:
- Work feels misaligned or meaningless
- Motivation has faded, even though they’re still performing
- Stress or burnout has become normalised
- They know something needs to change, but don’t know what a realistic next step looks like
Why staying where you are keeps getting harder
Putting off a decision doesn’t keep things stable – it usually makes things heavier.
Over time, people who delay change often experience:
- Growing dissatisfaction and loss of confidence
- Fear of becoming “too late” to change direction
- More stress, less energy, and fewer options
- A constant background question of “is this really it?”
What is the PEP Talk programme?
PEP Talk is Thriveherd’s guided career change roadmap, designed to help you:
- Get clear on what actually matters to you now
- Identify realistic and exciting career directions
- Build confidence through evidence, not just reflection
- Make good, future-aware decisions that balance fulfilment, money and stability
Our Proven Process for a More Fulfilling Work-Life
The PEP Talk career change programme is structured into three phases:
Prepare
Define Success
Create a snapshot of your current situation and complete your Statement of Aims to help you measure progress and outcomes
Self-Discovery
Define your Fulfilment Factors:
- Core values, Passions and motivators, Career impacts and outcomes, Specific & transferable skills, Core personality strengths, When you’re at your best
5 Career Avenues
3-step method to create 5 clearly labelled career avenues, using your Self-Discovery, to take forward into the Explore phase.
Explore
Discover Career Options
You’ll get a highly tailored career options report from our expert team, complete with rationale. Gather additional exciting options via our real-world exploration methods.
Grow Your Network
Begin developing contacts and networks in your sectors of interest – for information, insights and hidden opportunities. Boost via our Authentic Networking Club.
Shortlist
Use our unique VIP method to narrow down to 5 specific, exciting & viable career paths.
Plan
Due Diligence
Research, gap-filling, networking and live experimentation to gain clarity and confidence before committing to forward path.
Budget & Risk
Evidence-based approach to affordable transitions, money skills & mindset. Check the grass is actually greener on the other side, to make sure you won’t end up back at square one.
Decision-making & Planning
Make a decision you’ll be happy looking back on. Use our career planning template to create a detailed and motivating career change action plan for next steps (or business plan).
How We Support Your Career Change
Regular group coaching sessions with other career changers
Online step-by-step exercises to complete at your own pace
Frequent member-only career change webinars & workshops
Flexible, Structured Progress
When you join PEP Talk, you’re joining a membership-based programme designed to flex around your life, energy and priorities – while still giving you enough structure to make real progress.
Most members:
- Move through Prepare, Explore and Plan over a few months, adjusting their pace as they go
- Combine self-paced work with live group sessions
- Stay engaged for as long as the programme continues to support their goals
Our members take full advantage of the Thriveherd Community because they prioritise depth, confidence and quality of outcome.
Support Across The Full Career Change Picture
Your PEP Talk pathway covers all the ground you need to explore and plan your career effectively.
As a community member, you’ll also enjoy unlimited access to our full range of webinars and workshops, discussions boards, tools and resources on the following key topics:
Identity & Impact
Define and build meaning, purpose, values and contribution.
Self-Belief
Guided to support to tackle self-doubt, build confidence and believe in yourself.
Professional Visibility & Opportunities
Practical support for discovering opportunities and positioning yourself in the market.
Wellbeing & Resilience
Resources and sessions that support energy, stress management and emotional resilience during change.
Direction & Momentum
Support to help you find your direction and keep going. Includes goal-setting, decision-making, accountability and momentum.
Money Confidence
Supported by our specialist finance coach, hone your money skills and money mindset for an affordable career change.
How Will I Keep Momentum and Make Progress Stick?
Our three ⚙️ engines of career change – all included in your membership.
Career Experiments
Club
You’ll be guided to test career ideas in low‑risk, real‑world ways – research tasks, conversations, small experiments and reflection.
This helps you get out of your comfort zone, move beyond overthinking and base decisions on lived evidence, not guesswork.
Authentic Networking Club
Networking can feel awkward, inauthentic or intimidating.
This safe, structured space builds networking skills in a grounded way, helping you form genuine relationships that can lead to real opportunities, including the hidden jobs market.
Monthly Momentum Club
Monthly momentum sessions give you space to review what you’ve learned, adjust direction if needed, get insights from your peers, and set priorities for what comes next. This rhythm helps you maintain focus, productivity, accountability and confidence over time.
What You Get With Membership
The PEP Talk Framework
Online modules with a workbook and shared folder. Step by step, to keep your career change moving in the right direction.
Live Group Coaching
Regular online group sessions where you work through real career questions and activities with your coaches and peers.
Access to Specialists
Most people only need group coaching, but book discounted 1:1 sessions with our specialists for deeper focused support.
Unlimited Ongoing Support
Momentum matters. You get sustained coaching, peer support and accountability, not just a one-off session that fades.
Is PEP Talk Right For Me?
PEP Talk is for you if:
- You prioritise long-term fulfilment over quick fixes.
- You value deep self-reflection and rigorous due diligence.
- You are an open-minded learner who thrives with others.
This may not be right if:
- You're desperate, and your primary goal is urgent job applications.
- You prefer quick fixes or simple advice over deep, authentic answers.
- You already have a set direction or just need decision-making support.
If this is you, check out tailored career coaching
Why Thriveherd
(and not just another career coach)
A full specialist team in one membership
You’re never locked into just one coach. Career, life and confidence coaches & mentors, CV and job search specialists, finance & wellbeing support – all in one place, working together.
Real-world career options, tailored to you
Personalised career suggestions combined with guided exploration, labour market views and career mobility – not generic lists, out-dated career types or rigid pathways.
Community as standard, not an add-on
Peer insight, encouragement and shared learning are built into the experience from day one. Webinars, workshops, clubs and tools across the full spectrum of career change and professional growth.
World-class support without world-class price tags
No sky-high fees or locked-in packages. Membership keeps support affordable, with heavily discounted 1:1 sessions when you want extra focus.
Investment
From as little as £75 a month
Join a supportive, accessible community where you can get to known our coaches and make real individual progress through PEP Talk.
Your membership buys you coaching and momentum, with exclusivity available via discounted 1:1 support if you need it.
Monthly, not locked in
Cancel any time. No long contracts. You stay because it works, not because you’re trapped.
One-to-one available
If you need deeper work later, one-to-one coaching is heavily discounted for members.
Real coaching, real price
Why low prices? Our mission is to provide world-class career change support affordably and flexibly.
Real Voices of Change
I needed a change and a way out. PEP Talk helped me identify my priorities and my red flags. I was able to reflect & consider aspects I hadn’t even thought of before and create a Career Change Plan for the short, medium and long term.
I have successfully found a job in a new sector without much previous experience. I can say loud and clear that I feel very positive!
Tiziana
Not just career changing but life changing!
Before this programme, I felt stuck in a career that no longer held meaning or satisfaction for me.
One month after finishing the programme I’ve been offered a role in my new career, working 100% from home. This could not have worked out any better!
L. Mortenson
I knew I wanted a change but was wary of jumping into a new career, and I had very little idea of what jobs might be available or how to go about getting them.
I’ve now got a new job in a meaningful area that I feel passionately about and which genuinely aligns with who I am as a person and what I want to do with my life. I am really excited about my career going forwards!
Stephanie F.
Start your career change today
How to Get Started
1. Choose a plan
Start your community membership now for just £35 per month, or £75 to include the PEP Talk programme.
2. New member questionnaire
Complete our New Member Survey so we can help you tailor your membership exactly to your needs.
Join to get started
3: Meet your peers and coaches
Get to know who’s on the journey with you, and RSVP to your first session or event to meet the team.
Join to get started
Not quite ready for membership? 👉 Join a free PEP Talk discovery webinar
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Join a free PEP Talk discovery webinar
Membership
Choose Your Path
Start with what fits your needs.
Community Plan
Holistic work-life growth
£35
Per month
Join the Community
- NWebinars and events across our full range of career growth topics
- NAccess to all 3 of our monthly clubs
- NOne-to-one coaching sessions from £145 (£195 for non-members)
Pathway Plan
For PEP Talk career changers
£75
Per month
Join PEP Talk
- NEverything in the Community Plan
- NFull PEP Talk modules, workbook and group career change coaching sessions
- NOne-to-one coaching sessions from £125 (£195 for non-members)
1:1 Coaching Sessions
Holistic work-life growth
From
£125
Per private session
Join PEP Talk
- NDiscounted from £195 for non-members
- NSessions from £125 on the Pathway Plan and from £145 on the Community Plan
- NChoose from our expert team or request a match
Frequently Asked Questions
Getting started & fit
How the programme works
Money & practical realities
Confidence, doubt & decision-making
About Thriveherd
Learn More at a Free PEP Talk Discovery Webinar
Not quite ready for membership, feeling curious, or need to know more?
Discovery Webinars take place most Tuesdays at 5.30pm UK time and on Thursdays at 1pm UK time.
During the webinar, one of our co-founders, Paul and Silvana, will give you a guided tour of the programme, give you a sneak peek of the content and strategies, and answer your questions with full transparency.
After booking your seat, please wait for the joining info on the confirmation page.