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Each podcast episode explores a question from two listeners as they try to navigate their dilemmas about career choices and life purpose. Heidi works deeply with the language and guidance of astrology while Ellen offers inspiring, actionable, practical next career steps. They help listeners reimagine how to best design your life and call in renewal, reinvention and a new chapter.
Heidi is recovering from surgery and while she is resting, we decided to replay an old episode from October 2022 when Heidi interviewed Ellen. Since October 10th is Ellen's 75th birthday (she is as shocked as you are!), what better way to celebrate her than looking back on the unexpected paths of her life.
If you want to know more about Libra transits, tune into Luminosity (only $24/month!) on October 5th at 6pm Pacific to listen to the Monthly Cosmic Cycle with Bruna Maia.
We will be back for Scorpio season with announcements of great happenings this fall and winter!!
Get well soon Heidi!! We are all sending you lots of love.
Ep 89 Unexpected Paths - Heidi Interviews EllenThis week, Heidi and Ellen switch things around when Heidi interviews Ellen. Ellen began her career as an attorney specializing in death penalty cases. After practicing law for 17 years, she reinvented her career and launched her first business, a bakery, followed by a garden and floral design company. She's also the co-founder and former director of MEarth, a 10-acre environmental education learning center that served 2,500 students each year.
Ellen is a certified Designing Your Life coach and certified Wild Writing™ instructor. Typically clients hire her when they want something really bad...but..they're feeling overwhelmed about how to make it happen. Through her private coaching, Ellen helps her clients set goals, get unstuck, and get things moving. She offers Chart Your Career sessions in collaboration with Heidi and they are the co-hosts of the podcast Chart Your Career.
Ellen loves having deep conversations about the process of building a meaningful life and career. But nothing makes her happier than Sunday night dinners with her family.
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Ellen Fondiler, Career & Business Strategist: ellenfondiler.com, IG: @elfondiler
Heidi Rose Robbins, Astrologer & Poet: heidirose.com, IG: @heidiroserobbins
Heidi and Ellen welcome Virgo- the sign of industry, efficiency and devotion. Virgo always invites us to curate our life with meticulous attention. Our health and wellness are a top priority as well as how to improve or streamline our work life. We direct our attention to tending and caring for our bodies and being.
They talk about the birthdays of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Zendaya. Heidi reads the poem, We Are Loved from her new book ASK ME.
Chart Your Career Instagram: @chartyourcareerpodcast
To connect, visit:
Ellen Fondiler, Career & Business Strategist: ellenfondiler.com, IG: @elfondiler
Heidi Rose Robbins, Astrologer & Poet: heidirose.com, IG: @heidiroserobbins
Heidi and Ellen welcome the sign of LEO. It is a month to shine forth, to stand in our own light and offer up what abides in our hearts. It's time to be the SUN in our own families, communities, and homes. It's the season of generously giving our gifts!
They celebrated the birthdays of LEO rock stars: Mick Jagger and Dua Lipa. Heidi read the poem LISTEN by Barbara Crooker.
Chart Your Career Instagram: @chartyourcareerpodcast
To connect, visit:
Ellen Fondiler, Career & Business Strategist: ellenfondiler.com, IG: @elfondiler
Heidi Rose Robbins, Astrologer & Poet: heidirose.com, IG: @heidiroserobbins
On this Summer Solstice day when we have equal hours of light and dark, Heidi and Ellen welcome the sign of Cancer. Cancer is about nourishment, protection, tending and making things whole. Cancer carries the energy of the mother, holding and caring.
They celebrate the birthday of the great artist David Hockney, whose work celebrated the joy and the beauty of being alive.
Heidi read the poem Low Down Now by Brooke McNamara
Chart Your Career Instagram: @chartyourcareerpodcast
To connect, visit:
Ellen Fondiler, Career & Business Strategist: ellenfondiler.com, IG: @elfondiler
Heidi Rose Robbins, Astrologer & Poet: heidirose.com, IG: @heidiroserobbins
Heidi and Ellen welcome the sign of Gemini. It will be an ever-moving and effervescent month. Gemini knows how to light up a room and how to ask all the good questions. The pace picks up, and so too the number of things we are juggling. Gemini rules the lungs and is ever here to remind us to take a deep breath or two amidst all the activity. Gemini Season tells us that we can connect with our sense of curiosity as a form of care. What we grounded during Taurus Season will now change, morph, and evolve in Gemini Season.
They celebrate the birthdays of fellow Geminis Walt Whitman and Prince. Heidi read the poem The Coast of Nowhere II by Chris Dombroski.
Chart Your Career Instagram: @chartyourcareerpodcast
To connect, visit:
Ellen Fondiler, Career & Business Strategist: ellenfondiler.com, IG: @elfondiler
Heidi Rose Robbins, Astrologer & Poet: heidirose.com, IG: @heidiroserobbins
After weeks of significant Aries energy, Heidi and Ellen welcome the steady, sure sign of Taurus. The urgency and speed of Aries give way to a quieter willpower. There is great strength in Taurus, but it is used carefully and deliberately. Taurus wants to see that what has been planted under Aries will come to fruition. It looks to grow beauty and magnetize resources needed.
They discussed the Taurus birthday of Stephen Colbert and John Oliver.
Heidi read the poem Mending Blessing by Jan Richardson.
Chart Your Career Instagram: @chartyourcareerpodcast
To connect, visit:
Ellen Fondiler, Career & Business Strategist: ellenfondiler.com, IG: @elfondiler
Heidi Rose Robbins, Astrologer & Poet: heidirose.com, IG: @heidiroserobbins
Heidi and Ellen welcome the sign of Aries. It is fitting that on the day the Sun enters Aries it is International Astrology Day and the beginning of the Astrological New Year. Today we start anew. We start afresh. We launch a new season. And with Mercury moving direct (that same day), all powers are moving towards bold ideas and assertive action. Let us ride with the hope of a new Astrological Year. Ellen and Heidi celebrated the birthdays of film director Chloe Zhao and actress Kate Hudson (both academy award nominees). Heidi read the poem Full Moon in Aquarius by adrienne maree brown.
Chart Your Career Instagram: @chartyourcareerpodcast
To connect, visit:
Ellen Fondiler, Career & Business Strategist: ellenfondiler.com, IG: @elfondiler
Heidi Rose Robbins, Astrologer & Poet: heidirose.com, IG: @heidiroserobbins
When they last spoke- Alex was confused about whether or not to move- how to feel less stressed by the balance between work and parenting, and how to carve more space in the day for herself.
A little more than one year later, Ellen and Alex catch up to see what Alex decided about her future.
In this episode we discussed Alex's significant life changes over the past year. Alex shared how she transformed her daily routine, including establishing a morning ritual and adjusting her work schedule to create more balance. We discussed Alex's decision to stay in Hawaii rather than relocate, and her focus on making incremental changes rather than drastic ones. Alex acknowledged learning from last year's overcommitment and is being more mindful about workloads in 2026.
The conversation concluded with Alex sending an email pitch to David Blaine's publicist, which resulted in an immediate response.
About Alex: Alex is a bestselling author, award-winning editor, and entrepreneur based in Hawaii. She's the co-founder of Get It Done, a company providing writing coaching, editing, proofreading, cover design, publishing, and distribution services for clients who want to write a book. She writes one of my favorite newsletters at AlexandraFranzen.com, and runs a popular Tiny Book Course. Alex deleted all of her social media accounts eight years ago as she describes in her forthcoming book, Marketing Without Social MediaChart Your Career Instagram: @chartyourcareerpodcast
To connect with Ellen, visit:
Ellen Fondiler, Career & Business Strategist: ellenfondiler.com, IG: @elfondiler
Heidi and Ellen welcome the sign of Pisces, the final sign of the astrological year. It is a culminating and synthesizing sign, a time when we end chapters and release what no longer serves. It's also a time to start dreaming, listening, and intuiting. We feel our way forward, sensing the route to the new threshold.
They celebrate the birthdays of legendary Pisceans Bad Bunny and Catherine O'Hara. Heidi read the poem 'I Ask My Mother To Sing' by Li-Young Lee.
Chart Your Career Instagram: @chartyourcareerpodcast
To connect, visit:
Ellen Fondiler, Career & Business Strategist: ellenfondiler.com, IG: @elfondiler
Heidi Rose Robbins, Astrologer & Poet: heidirose.com, IG: @heidiroserobbins
Heidi and Ellen welcome Aquarius, the season of gathering in the name of PROGRESS. This is the sign of HUMANITY. This is the sign of democracy and equality. We are in distressing times. But we are also in a time when huge change and reinvention is possible. This is a call to gather, a call to make new choices, a call to think outside the box, a call to dig deep.
They celebrate the birthdays of Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison. Heidi read the poem Shedding the Old by Samantha Thornhill.
Chart Your Career Instagram: @chartyourcareerpodcast
To connect, visit:
Ellen Fondiler, Career & Business Strategist: ellenfondiler.com, IG: @elfondiler
Heidi Rose Robbins, Astrologer & Poet: heidirose.com, IG: @heidiroserobbins
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