Career Glow Up: Betting on Yourself and Getting Off the Struggle Bus with Allison Hemmings

Alison Hemmings

In this episode of Her Career Unplugged, Joanne and Vimala sit down with Allison Hemmings — the "career glow-up coach," founder of Newo Executive Solutions, and a former recruiter who sold her house, her car, and her comfort zone to build a coaching business from the beaches of Costa Rica (now Medellín, Colombia). Allison unpacks why she rebrands career coaching as a "glow up" — because the traditional, one-job-for-twenty-years career is gone — and why the real problem her clients bring her often isn't the job itself, but a life with no boundaries around it. She breaks down her "career as real estate" framework for negotiating from strength instead of taking the first offer, shares the client story behind a $40,000 raise, and gets candid about the confidence gap that keeps qualified women stuck on what she calls the "struggle bus" while less-qualified men walk into interviews without a second thought.