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The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
After a career break — whether for parenting, caregiving, health, travel, or burnout recovery — re-entering the workforce can feel like navigating a foreign country whose language you once spoke fluently. In this series, Lucas and Luna dissect the practical and psychological mechanics of that return. Each episode centers on one concrete obstacle: how to reframe resume gaps so hiring managers see depth, not absence; which certifications or freelance projects actually accelerate re-entry; how to…
Episodes
The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-EntryHow a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Trade Show Coordinator
After a seven-year gap raising twins, Maria Gonzalez landed a role coordinating trade shows for a mid-sized medical device company. In this episode, Lucas and…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How to Return as a Sustainability Consultant After a Career Gap
In episode 111 of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the growing field of sustainability consulting and how parents re-entering the workforce…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Clinical Data Manager
Episode 110 of The Comeback Career Podcast. Lucas and Luna explore how a parent with a seven-year career gap returned to the workforce as a clinical data…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How to Frame Your Career Gap in Interviews
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a critical skill for parents returning after a career break: framing the gap in job…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Corporate Trainer
After an eight-year career gap to raise her kids, Melissa Soriano thought her corporate training skills were obsolete. But a part-time contract at a local…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Project Manager
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a structured project management certification can be a powerful re-entry strategy…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Physician Assistant
After an eight-year career gap to raise her children, Sarah Chen returned to clinical practice as a physician assistant. This episode explores how she used a…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How One Parent Returned as a Cybersecurity Analyst After Five Years
Episode 105 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores how Sarah Chen, a former IT project manager, re-entered the workforce as a cybersecurity analyst after a…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Led to a Role in Academic Advising
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a career gap can pivot into academic advising. They follow the story of Maria, a…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Clinical Research Coordinator
Lucas and Luna dive into the story of Jenna, a former nurse who stepped away from the workforce for eight years to raise her kids and then returned as a…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as an Executive Assistant
After a nine-year career gap raising her kids, Jenna Martinez decided to return to the workforce as an executive assistant. She assumed her decade of pre-gap…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Corporate Recruiter
Episode 101 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores how a parent re-entered the workforce as a corporate recruiter after a seven-year gap. Lucas and Luna…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How One Parent Returned as a City Planner After a Decade Gap
In our 100th episode, Lucas and Luna examine the story of a former urban planner who returned after a 12-year gap raising twins. She started as a part-time…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Commercial Real Estate Analyst
Episode 99 of The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo tells the story of Diane, a former stay-at-home parent who returned to the workforce as a commercial…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Military Spouse Entrepreneur
After a seven-year career gap following relocations as a military spouse, Anna Velez started a virtual assistance business that now serves 12 clients across…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How to Rebuild Confidence in a Job Interview After a Career Gap
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how parents returning to the workforce after a career gap can rebuild confidence specifically for job interviews. They…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Financial Planner
Episode 96 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores how a 7-year career gap led to a successful return as a financial planner. Lucas and Luna talk with Sarah, a…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Contract Interpreter
Episode 95 of The Comeback Career Podcast: Lucas and Luna explore how a stay-at-home parent used her bilingual fluency to re-enter the workforce as a medical…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Brand Strategist
When Sarah Chen left her marketing manager role in 2018 to care for her twins, she assumed her career in brand strategy was over. Seven years later, she…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
Returning to a Creative Career After a Decade-Long Gap
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a decade-long career gap doesn't have to derail your creative ambitions. They…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Mortgage Loan Officer
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a decade-long career gap doesn't have to derail a return to the workforce. They…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Data Analyst
Episode 91 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores how a seven-year career gap became an asset for Maria Santos, a former teacher who returned as a data…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How One Parent Rebuilt a Tech Career After a Decade Away
Episode 90 of The Comeback Career Podcast follows the story of Anita, a former software engineer who stepped away from tech for eleven years to raise her…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Land a Sustainability Role
This episode features the story of Maria Gonzalez, a former marketing manager who took a five-year career gap to raise her two children and later landed a…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Paralegal
Episode 88 of The Comeback Career Podcast: After a six-year gap raising two kids, Mariana Reyes re-entered the workforce as a paralegal at a mid-sized…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Corporate Trainer
This episode of The Comeback Career Podcast focuses on one parent's return to the workforce as a corporate trainer after a seven-year career gap. Lucas…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Land a Hybrid Role in Nonprofit Operations
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna examine how a seven-year career gap led to a hybrid operations role at a mid-sized nonprofit…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Government Affairs Specialist
Episode 85 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores how a two-year career gap helped one parent return as a government affairs specialist. Lucas and Luna walk…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How One Parent Returned via the Federal Pathways Program
Lucas and Luna explore how a parent re-entered the workforce after a five-year career gap by joining the U.S. federal government's Pathways Program. They…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Benefits Consultant
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the story of a former teacher who, after a five-year gap to raise her children, returned…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Fractional COO
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the rise of fractional executive roles as a re-entry path for parents after a career…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How One Parent Returned as a Federal Contractor After a Gap
Episode 81 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores how Melissa Chen, a former IT project manager, parlayed her six-year career gap into a federal contracting…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Recruiter
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a stay-at-home parent used a five-year career gap to transition into recruiting, a field that values empathy and…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Freelance Writer on Upwork
Episode 79 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores how a marketing manager turned stay-at-home parent rebuilt her career by freelancing on Upwork. Lucas and…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a UX Researcher
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a stay-at-home parent leveraged a career gap to transition into UX research. They…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return via a Temp Agency
Episode 77 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores a less glamorous but effective re-entry path: temporary staffing. Lucas and Luna share the story of Maria, a…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Leadership Coach
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a career gap can become a launchpad for a leadership coaching practice. They focus…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Become a Project Manager
For parents returning after a career gap, project management is a surprisingly accessible field — it values transferable skills like scheduling, budgeting, and…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Build a Sales Career
Episode 74 of The Comeback Career Podcast. After six years as a stay-at-home parent, Jenna Kowalski was terrified of sales—cold calling, rejection, the whole…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Marketing Manager
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a career gap can actually strengthen your candidacy for a marketing management role…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Cybersecurity Analyst
Episode 72 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores the untold story of a former teacher who returned to the workforce as a cybersecurity analyst after a…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return via a Professional Fellowship
In Episode 71 of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how professional fellowships can serve as a structured on-ramp for parents returning after…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Data Analyst
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a stay-at-home parent leveraged free online courses, a portfolio project, and a…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Start a Consulting Firm
After a six-year career gap, Sarah Chen, a former marketing director, launched her own consulting firm specializing in retail analytics. In this episode, Lucas…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Land a Contract Role
Lucas and Luna explore how a career gap can be a strategic advantage in landing contract or project-based work. They break down the case of a former marketing…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Land a Returnship
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the power of returnships—structured re-entry programs for professionals after a career…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helps You Build a Skills Portfolio
Episode 66 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores how parents returning after a career gap can systematically document and present their skills using a skills…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Build a Financial Literacy App
Lucas and Luna talk to Sarah Chen, a former marketing manager who took five years off to raise twins and returned by building FinLit, a financial literacy app…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Can Help You Build a Board Portfolio
Episode 64 of The Comeback Career Podcast: Lucas and Luna explore how parents returning after a career gap can leverage their unique experience to serve on…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Corporate Trainer
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the story of Maria, a former marketing manager who took a five-year career gap to raise…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Can Help You Build a Volunteer Resume
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how returning parents can use volunteer roles to fill resume gaps, build new skills, and…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helps You Build a Side Hustle into a Full-Time Role
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a career gap can be the perfect time to turn a side hustle into a full-time role…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Negotiate a Part-Time Return
When Maria Chen left her logistics role to care for her elderly mother, she assumed her next job would be full-time or nothing. In this episode, Lucas and Luna…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Launch a Freelance Copywriting Business
In episode 59 of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a career gap can become the foundation for a freelance copywriting business. They…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return to Consulting
In Episode 58, Lucas and Luna explore how a career gap can become a strategic advantage in consulting re-entry. They examine the case of Sarah, a former…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Can Help You Rebrand Your Identity
Episode 57 explores the strategic advantage of using a career gap to deliberately reshape your professional identity. Lucas shares the story of a former…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return to Nursing
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the story of Maria Hernandez, a registered nurse who took a six-year career gap to raise…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Can Help You Build a Second Income Stream
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a career gap can be the perfect time to build a second income stream. Using the…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Can Help You Land a Government Job
Episode 54 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores an overlooked route back to the workforce: government jobs. Lucas and Luna break down why public-sector…
- The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry
How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Launch a Nonprofit
Episode 53 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores how a six-year career gap became the launchpad for a nonprofit. Hosts Lucas and Luna unpack the story of…