LaVonne James
AI Forward Mid-Career Coach
Helping mid-career professionals stand out, step up, and succeed. Practical strategies for career advancement, personal branding, and navigating the modern workplace with confidence.
About the Host
LaVonne James is a career coach dedicated to helping mid-career professionals break through plateaus, build powerful personal brands, and step into the leadership roles they deserve with practical, research-backed strategies you can apply immediately. She teaches AI Upskilling at The AI Powered Professional Accelerator Bootcamp.
Are you afraid of becoming irrelevant in the age of AI? You are not alone — and there is now a name for it. FOBO, or Fear of Becoming Obsolete, is the defining career anxiety of 2026. In this episode of The Mid-Career Makeover Show, host LaVonne James breaks down the Fortune and Dice data on FOBO and career paralysis, explains why mid-career professionals are actually in the best position to thrive, and gives you three moves to break free this week.
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Goldman Sachs just released data showing AI-displaced tech workers face 3% pay cuts and decade-long earnings losses. But mid-career professionals are misreading the warning. Here is what the report actually says and how to avoid the trap.
Fortune just named it. Dice confirmed it. FOBO, the Fear of Becoming Obsolete, is now the defining career anxiety of 2026. Here is what the data says, why mid-career professionals are most at risk of being paralyzed by it, and exactly what to do this week to break free.
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