Beyond the Layoff: Rebuild Your Confidence, Wellbeing, and Career
What happens after a layoff, beyond finding the next job?
Losing a job can affect much more than your career. It can shake your confidence, your sense of identity, your wellbeing, and even the way you see your future.
In this recording, Mena Eissa and Anna Reger explore what can happen emotionally after a layoff or career transition, and why moving forward isn't always as simple as finding the next opportunity.
What We Explore
In this conversation, we talk about:
Why a layoff can feel like a loss of identity, not just a loss of income or a job
The hidden losses that can come with leaving a role
Why we often reach for practical solutions before we've had space to process what happened
What happens to confidence when your professional identity suddenly changes
The pressure to “get back on track” and why you may not feel ready
How to begin reconnecting with yourself beyond your job title
Practical ways to start moving forward with more clarity and intention
Anna also shares her personal experience of being laid off and introduces the Self-Exposure practice, while Mena looks at the emotional and identity side of career transitions.
Who This Is Recording For
This recording is for you if you've been laid off, are going through a career transition, or are questioning what comes next.
Especially if you:
Find yourself wondering who you are without your job title
Feel that your confidence has changed since leaving your role
Are trying to move forward but something inside you isn't quite ready
Feel pressure to quickly find the next job and “get back to normal”
Miss more than just the work itself
Are starting to wonder whether you actually want something different
You don't have to have all the answers before you watch.
A Little About Us
Anna Reger works with people navigating career transitions and brings her own lived experience of being laid off. She created the Laid Off & Fabulous community to help people find their footing before, during and after a layoff.
Mena Eissa is a wellbeing counsellor and coach for tech expats. After more than 25 years in technology and moving from Egypt to the Netherlands, she knows how closely a professional identity can become tied to who we think we are.
Her work focuses on the emotional side of stress, burnout, identity and life transitions, and on helping people reconnect with themselves beyond what they do.
Your job title may have changed.
Your worth has not.
Want To Reflect a Little Further?
Mena has also written a short reflection guide, 5 Things No One Tells You About Losing a Job, with questions to help you explore what may be going on beneath the surface after a career transition.
Want To Explore What Comes Next?
If something in the conversation resonated with you, you can continue the conversation with either of us.
For practical support with your career transition, job search and what comes next.
For the emotional and wellbeing side of career transitions, identity, confidence and finding your footing again.
Free 45-minute conversation. No preparation. No pressure.