Jennifer Seaver Stokes is driven by her passion about the power of professional coaching partnership. With more than 7 years and 2000 hours of delivering highly effective coaching experiences, she’s been able to work with a wide variety of exceptional professionals and emotionally intelligent individuals. Today, she continues to inspire others to actively leverage their inner assets for outer success. In this episode, Jennifer shares her journey into becoming a career coach. She also gives us an...
Feb 19, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Phillip joins me on the How to Become a Career Coach podcast. Phillip is the Director of Student and Client Success here at Happen To Your Career. And he helped to put the Professional Career Coach Training and Certification program together with me. Phillip is the one that you talk to when you schedule a conversation, and he has had the privilege of talking with everyone that has joined our program. So, why is Phillip on the podcast with me? He's here to address some of the best questions we ge...
Jan 24, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Allison was on the How to Become a Career Coach podcast about two months ago. She shared a lot about her journey to become a career coach, which started by going through our Career Change Bootcamp (CCB) program, where she identified that career coaching was her direction. Soon after identifying this, she enrolled in our Professional Career Coach Training and Certification program, targeting to finish in September 2019. She was all set for having herself setup for her coaching career business. It...
Jan 20, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Many people that think their dream is impossible. Sharissa Sebastian had been in the tech industry for years, but was wanting to make a transition out of that field. She was eventually introduced to coaching through Groupon. Her coach began talking with her about what her ideal situation would look like, but she was holding herself back. She didn't think that "ideal" wouldn't be realistic. But Sharissa's coach asked her, "But what if it is possible?" To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episo...
Jan 08, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 8
"How do you determine what to charge for coaching?" "Should I do one-on-one coaching or group coaching?" "What if my target market can't afford my rates? Do I go broke, or do I just lose out on clients?" (and they don't get the help they need) These are common questions that new coaches often ask. In fact, these are questions that all coaches face when they hit a plateau or brick wall in finding new clients. While it's important to address these issues, realize that there is not just a single an...
Jan 01, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Out of all the examples of career coaches that I've shared with you, many of them didn't realize their passion for coaching until they were in their career for at least a few years (sometimes a couple decades). Sarah is an exception to that. She identified her desire to "help individuals find careers where they thrive" when she was 21 and in college. Granted, she didn't know exactly how this would play out, and she came across some fantastic opportunities and some hard road blocks. Sarah actuall...
Dec 18, 2019•24 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Last week, I shared a conversation I had with our Director of Client Success, Phillip. Specifically, I shared that the fact that too many coaches try to learn everything, and this one things trips up new coaches and delays their ability to help and impact people's lives. Well, this week, I had a conversation with Kimberly Ramsawak , who helps give us a solution to this. We had the privilege of helping Kimberly with her coaching business (even before we officially started our Professional Career ...
Dec 11, 2019•27 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Everyday I’m in conversations with aspiring, new or even established coaches. And as you can imagine it’s a lot of conversations, and time and time again I see the same… well…. The same 7 things pop up that restrict these folks from becoming amazing coaches, trip people up from starting and having profitable coaching business. We see these time and time again. Phillip, our Director of Client Success here at Happen To Your Career, joins us today to talk about these 7 things that trip up new coach...
Dec 04, 2019•41 min•Season 2Ep. 4
When I say the word “badass,” what comes to mind? Someone who knows what they want? Someone who breaks down walls standing in their way? Someone who finds, and keeps finding, ultimate career and life happiness? That’s how I think of it, and whether you realize it or not, that kind of life is totally possible for you. Last year, I interviewed Jen Sincero, NYT bestselling author of hilarious, sarcastic, and no-nonsense self-help books. During our chat, Jen told me the 5 ways she’s currently making...
Nov 27, 2019•36 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Having opened his eyes to a world of extreme poverty combined with the life-threatening situations of Civil War, Luis Velasquez suffered through and survived 3 brain tumors, lost his career and his relationships, and still found the resilience in him to “bloom where he was planted.” This resilience expert explains his life as a series of severe and happy accidents that taught him how to thrive, rather than just survive. Along the way, Luis learned several important lessons: I don’t wanna be fear...
Nov 20, 2019•38 min•Season 2Ep. 2
“My overall definition of success is helping other people succeed.” Allison Curbow has staked this claim for herself. Her journey to become a career coach started only 18 months ago. Allison went from being a person with a background that was scattered between different industries, and who lived in an environment where entrepreneurship was considered a scary and alien entity. “I was in Oil and Gas industry, and I was in sales industry, and home construction, and wielding, and procurement – all o...
Nov 13, 2019•31 min•Season 2Ep. 1
I have gotten to know Christie Mims over the over the years and really respect the business that she's built around career coaching around helping people with their careers in a variety of different ways. And we'll get to bring her on and showcase not just her story, and how this has happened for her. But some of the ways that I would say she has even really, really crafted that, that fit within her business I'm going to go so far as to say, shaped the industry in a lot of different ways. Christ...
Apr 25, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 9
On the How to Become a Career Coach podcast, we have two career coaches at the podcasting table. On one side of that table is Phillip Migyanko. Phillip had a history in HR and the hiring process. As a result, he developed a curiosity about people’s careers, how they work, their relationships, etc. In his pursuit to become an expert in careers, Phillip not only had a dream to do an awesome Ted Talk, but also loved to have conversations about careers. He especially loved helping people get to thes...
Apr 18, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Mo Chanmugham had 3 dream jobs before becoming a career coach: Online marketing at Rebok in Boston Assistant at a talent agency in Los Angeles Went to law school and worked for Def Jam in New York City He never intended to get into career coaching, but while in New York, he was introduced to personal development. He fell in love with the coaching process and started training to become a career coach. To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-beco...
Apr 11, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Andrea Soto has an incredible background, a plethora of experience, and Scott got to know her over the last about six months or so as they began to work with her as she was on the front side of putting together her career coaching business. Andrea worked full time was in the payments technology industry. She had over a 20-year career with a fortune 500 company. Corporate America was pretty much all she knew, and she had a number of different jobs and responsibilities throughout her career there....
Apr 04, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode, career coach Lisa Lewis (and a person that Scott describes as one of the best “career coaches on the planet”) shares the story of how she pivoted into career coaching and the powerful lessons she learned along the way. Lisa, in particular, shares advice on why it’s important to leverage feedback (both good and bad) to help you move forward in pursuing your dreams. Key Insights: How Lisa made the slow transition from a marketing career headed to the C-level suite to a passionate ...
Mar 28, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 5
You will be able to gain insight as we talk to experienced career coaches, exploring how it really is to be a career coach, the challenges they overcame and many lessons learned along the way. Today we are in discussion with Kathy Caprino, who is helping people make significant career moves as a career coach. Kathy talks about how she has created a multi-faceted portfolio of guiding people’s careers which is not only limited to coaching. In today’s episode you will be able to hear - Kathy’s stru...
Mar 21, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Today We have with us Kelly Poulson who has been a coach for a long time. We have worked together in several capacities over the past few months. In today’s discussion, we will talk about: The journey that led to her coaching career, how different professional roles and conversations led to a full-time coaching career and how she discovered coaching. The books that triggered her career transition when she first discovered coaching. (The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly) What qualifies someone to b...
Mar 14, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 3
You’re in for a treat today because today we are in discussion with Tracy Timm, who is an amazing coach within my coaching universe. Tracy talks about how her own lack of career clarity and inability to find resources that led her to believe if she could find her own perfect career niche, she could also help other people find their career their fit. In today’s episode you will learn - Tracy’s struggle in her corporate career. Her opinion on the current generation being victim to box checking. Ex...
Mar 06, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of How to Become a Career Coach. I’m Scott Anthony Barlow and I started Happen To Your Career in 2012 because I wanted to help people make big career changes, advance their careers, learn how take control of their life and work, but most of all to help people find and do work that makes them more happy more often and uses what we call their signature strengths Since that time, we’ve been able to help many thousands of people make changes that not only impacted their ...
Feb 18, 2019•13 min•Season 1Ep. 1
