We've now had over 30,000 people go through our figure it out eight the mini course. (and that's a lot of people, as it turns out) Also, we realized, as we were talking behind the scenes, that it had been a long time, like six years long time, since we really updated this mini course. So guess what? We've updated it! But we're going to do you one better, because we're actually going to share each and every day with you right here on the HTYC podcast for the next eight days. So if you're not alre...
Aug 14, 2019•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast As human beings, when we get stuck, we tend to focus on one thing that we latch onto as the “reason” why. Or one thing that if we could only do, it would solve all of our problems. It’s never just one thing. It’s always more nuanced than that. There is one thing that is very clear though, The reasons why you think you’re stuck and the reasons why you’re actually stuck, are two completely different things. To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories (and career hacks), find all the p...
Aug 12, 2019•24 min•Ep 296•Transcript available on Metacast One of the most common career change misconceptions is that you’ll have to start over – that all of your experience will go out the window if you make a change. It’s difficult to imagine a scenario where you don’t take a step down… where you actually get a promotion on top of finally finding work you actually love. How can you make that happen? In today’s episode, we’re revealing the 4 most common ways that people change careers (without starting over!) and talking to 4 people from each category...
Aug 05, 2019•40 min•Ep 295•Transcript available on Metacast Are your skills transferable to your dream career? Many people don’t believe that their skills can apply to the career they are desiring to move into. People tend to put their skills and experience into boxes and can’t see how the skills of one box can apply to another box. The truth, though, is that most of your skills and experience CAN transfer, even if you don’t yet know what your dream career is. We’ve developed an entire process to do this. Want to know how? Listen immediately (press play ...
Jul 29, 2019•31 min•Ep 294•Transcript available on Metacast Have you considered quitting your job? Are you frustrated because your job doesn’t fit you? We get emails about this all the time. Every situation is different, but there are some key actions that apply across the board. Today, Josh joins Scott to tackle 3 questions from listeners: I need help getting unstuck... My job doesn’t fit and I want to quit... I need help understanding my strengths... To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyour...
Jul 08, 2019•41 min•Ep 291•Transcript available on Metacast Everyone I talk to wants freedom, until they realize how it really actually works. One thing that comes up frequently while coaching people through career changes is the idea of obtaining freedom in their life and work. Freedom means different things for everyone. Sometimes it’s freedom to travel, or financial freedom, or just having the freedom and flexibility to pick up your kids from school. “For so so long, freedom meant the ability to be able to do what I want, when I want, where I want.” N...
Jul 01, 2019•51 min•Ep 290•Transcript available on Metacast Part 2: Where are they now series. Have you’ve said ‘yes’ to a job offer, even though it didn’t match up with your values? Matt Toy, also took a job offer, but realized, like many of the people we work with, that what he could be doing was staring him in the face the whole time. He was also faced with decisions that would compromise his values, but he was unwilling to make the sacrifice. To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer...
Jun 25, 2019•37 min•Ep 289•Transcript available on Metacast Have you noticed any recurring themes in your life? These patterns can range from the habits you form, the hobbies you enjoy, the work you choose, the tasks you hate, the type of people you surround yourself with, and so on. Digging deeper into your own patterns in your career and life is the first piece of research you need to do before you start down the career change road, but we also know that sometimes it is hard to accept those patterns for what they truly are. Matthew Toy struggled with a...
Jun 24, 2019•37 min•Ep 289•Transcript available on Metacast As kids, we all have dreams and aspirations for what we want to do when we grow up. However, as we get older, we tend to put down our dreams to pursue “reality” - or what we perceive is reality. Those dreams we had no longer fit into what we consider realistic. Years ago when I first started Happen To Your Career, my good friend Mark and I created an 8-Day mini-course to help people begin to figure out what they really wanted to be doing for their career and their life. We’ve now had over 25,000...
Jun 17, 2019•57 min•Ep 288•Transcript available on Metacast Allison and I continue to delve deeper into the things that led to her career change (and changed her entire life, too!). As she completed the Clifton’s Strengthsfinder assessment during her CCB course, Allison discovered the formula for her own career happiness. She says: confidence + strengths + motion = dream career She began to imagine a career she could be passionate about. When asked the question, “What are some of the things you can’t stop doing?” Allison found herself responding, “I can’...
Jun 10, 2019•38 min•Ep 287•Transcript available on Metacast Are you ready for a career change? Want to find the time to make a career change? We would love to talk with you about your situation and help you figure out the best path for you to follow. Schedule a call with us now!
Jun 06, 2019•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you ready for a career change? We would love to talk with you about your situation and help you figure out the best path for you to follow. Schedule a call with us now! Allison Kolberg (Curbow) was good at everything. The problem was…she couldn’t find something she enjoyed doing. As a self-proclaimed Upholder (defined in Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies) , Allison had a knack, or rather a compulsion, for meeting expectations. This habit led to a “see and conquer” mentality in the career worl...
Jun 03, 2019•28 min•Ep 286•Transcript available on Metacast Daniel Pink is a New York Times best selling author, well-known keynote speaker and speech writer for Al Gore. Looking at his career, you'd have no idea that he graduated law school, but decided law wasn’t for him, then he got into politics and decided that wasn't for him either. How did Daniel go from shifting career focus multiple times to ultimately finding career happiness as a best-selling author? What you’ll learn The best questions to replace “What is your passion?” How to connect the dot...
May 27, 2019•41 min•Ep 285•Transcript available on Metacast Is staying at a job you hate holding you back from happiness? What if you’ve changed careers…and the new work wasn’t quite the fit you thought it would be? That’s what happened to Audrey Romagnoulo. She was a talented Operations Manager working in the Events and Hospitality industry in New York City. She’d given much of herself to the job and had been rewarded with increasing responsibility, perpetual “thank yous” …and an increasing distaste for her work because what she valued most didn’t align...
May 20, 2019•47 min•Ep 284•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Gia tells us how she was always a girl who had a diary growing up. Nowadays, Gia got back into journaling and starts every morning writing down what she is grateful for. The other questions she writes about are what she is looking forward to and her top priorities. The most significant benefit Gia has seen with her journaling is self-awareness; having a better connection with yourself will provide clarity on what really matters in life. The last time Gia found clarity was after ...
May 13, 2019•41 min•Ep 283•Transcript available on Metacast Emilie Aires joins Scott to discuss what the martyrdom mindset is, how it relates to burnout, and how to overcome it.
May 06, 2019•38 min•Ep 282•Transcript available on Metacast Melanie, like you, identifies as a multipod. When Melanie Buford was making a college decision, she felt torn between two very different directions: On the one hand, she had a knack for math, and she felt she could excel in an engineering type role. On the other hand, Melanie felt fascinated by psychology and humanities. These two areas of interest had little to no overlap, so not only was Melanie choosing between majors but also universities. This was the first time Melanie experienced the fami...
Apr 29, 2019•48 min•Ep 281•Transcript available on Metacast Is staying at a job you hate holding you back from happiness? What if you’ve changed careers…and the new work wasn’t quite the fit you thought it would be? After helping a couple thousand people make career changes, you notice a few commonalities. We’ve realized that EVERYONE has barriers to making their change. Especially the busy, high achieving peeps that we’ve worked with. You are no exception! You know how you always hear those success stories of what other people have done? If you’re like ...
Apr 22, 2019•31 min•Ep 280•Transcript available on Metacast A little while back, I had a Skype call with a former Google employee who made a transition into a role that fits his strengths even better. He is totally thrilled! I wanted to tell you about it because you might be thinking “who on earth chooses to leave Google? That’s the holy grail of dream jobs!” And that’s what most people think from the outside, right? But a big trap that it’s easy to fall into when you’re searching for jobs is comparing your insides to someone else’s outsides. For example...
Apr 15, 2019•26 min•Ep 279•Transcript available on Metacast So what happens when you’re in your role working for a company and, for the most part, it's been great. You've been there for a while, and you know lots of good things have come out of it. You've worked with a good team and you've had a lot of fun. It's been pretty meaningful, except … Now a lot of those things have either stopped or changed. Whether it's caused by a company merger or a new boss or a completely different situation. And that is that is where our next podcast guest found themselve...
Apr 08, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep 278•Transcript available on Metacast “Most of the people I know, and coach, are recovering people-pleasers…” New York Times Best Selling Author, Michael Hyatt said this to me in our recent conversation. In fact, I’m a recovering people-pleaser myself. In my first professional job, I working between 80-90 hours a week. Part of that was because the job was a bad fit. Part of that was because there was a huge expectation to work a ton of hours. And part of that was that I said “yes” to everything my boss asked me to do. Absolutely eve...
Apr 01, 2019•43 min•Ep 277•Transcript available on Metacast We’ve now asked hundreds of people who’ve made successful career pivots one question after they’ve completed the journey: “What advice would you give someone who’s decided they want to make a career change?” What came back was surprising! It didn’t have anything to do with the best resume ever or the best tactic to market your skills or even the steps to take Nope! Instead it turns out that all of them described making a career change as a journey and there is far more important advice to consid...
Mar 25, 2019•16 min•Ep 276•Transcript available on Metacast Jenny Blake is the author of the books PIVOT: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One and Life After College . She is also a career and business strategist, and international speaker. Jenny has been featured as a career change expert on CNBC, in The New York Times and The Sunday Times UK. Her Pivot Podcast is a top rated show that CNBC listed among 6 podcasts to make you smarter about your career , and selected by Entrepreneur as one of the top 20 female-hosted business podcasts . One of her...
Mar 18, 2019•35 min•Ep 275•Transcript available on Metacast If we are always looking for external milestones, like a new job title or pay increase, without first addressing the internal stuff, we’ll always be on the hunt. We’ll constantly be looking for that feeling, and asking ourselves that question: “Is this it ?” During this week’s podcast episode, I dug deep with Kelly, a Career Change Bootcamp graduate and a woman who went through a radical mindset shift a couple of months ago. She was in the same exact place. She had all of the external things: a ...
Mar 11, 2019•57 min•Ep 274•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever considered trying to start your own coaching business? (A career coach, a fitness coach, a relationship coach, a leadership coach, anything like that?) You might be the kind of person who’s naturally gifted in helping others, but you don’t want to become a pastor or a psychotherapist, so going into coaching feels like a perfect next step for your career. Coaching can be an AMAZING career fit for many people -- and there’s a huge need for actually good coaches out there -- but there...
Mar 04, 2019•53 min•Ep 273•Transcript available on Metacast We talk about former first lady Michelle Obama, the founders of The Muse, and Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert and the impact they can make on your career happiness. Listen to learn the best career development books available right now and two hacks to help you speed through your reading list. Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/271 To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast...
Feb 18, 2019•45 min•Ep 271•Transcript available on Metacast Steve Jobs wore the same clothing every day. A famous composer used to stand on his head for 15 minutes each morning. Nikola Tesla did strange toe exercises each night to stimulate brain cells. People are weird, and I decided it’s time to come clean on the weird habits that increase my energy levels and provide personal success. Listen in for my strange confessions and for 5 ways you can multiply your own energy levels. Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/270 T...
Feb 11, 2019•54 min•Ep 270•Transcript available on Metacast Wayfinding Academy is the College that’s changing everything. Learn the importance of UNLEARNING and see how this new college is changing the status quo of education with a system that tailors the classes to every individual, helping students work in their groove and teaching them how to positively impact the world. Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/269 To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcare...
Feb 04, 2019•47 min•Ep 269•Transcript available on Metacast NYT Best-selling author Jen Sincero sits down with Scott to share tips for mastering the art of badassery every day. Learn how she works out her motivation muscles in the spiritual gym and how you can develop your own positive feedback loop for tackling tasks and kicking ass in your career. Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/268 To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast...
Jan 28, 2019•39 min•Ep 268•Transcript available on Metacast Bree knew she wasn’t using her strengths in her draining, repetitive role, but she wasn’t sure how to step into a position that truly fit her unique gifts. On this live coaching call, we help her build a plan for revealing and reinforcing her signature strengths in her next interview. Listen to learn the 3 tactics that will help potential employers accurately perceive your strengths and the value you bring to their organization. Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer....
Jan 21, 2019•48 min•Ep 267•Transcript available on Metacast 
