Are you exhausted and burnt out from your current job that you can ‘t even think about what it is going to take to start changing careers? It’s time to re-calibrate your mindset to make that career change to something you enjoy (finally!).
How do you know when you’re perfectionism is getting in the way of your progress? Or is it what helps you to be successful. Or is it somewhere in between. A short while back we released a podcast episode on “perfectionism” and how you might not even know it’s holding you back. We got great feedback on this episode from many of our listeners. Caroline Adams and I scheduled a followup conversation to debrief on the podcast and what we learned from creating a podcast on perfectionism. Ironically we...
What challenges will you have when making a career change at 30? Or secret advantages when you’re 40? What about “imagined” challenges at 20? Find out what to do to about it! https://happentoyourcareer.com/career-change-at-30-20-40-and-50
How do you get in touch with people who are incredibly busy? Such as executives that may hold the key to starting a new career at a company you’re excited about, or might be a great mentor for you when making a career change? Darrah Brustein is an expert networker, founder of Network Under 40, Equitable Payments, and Financial Whiz Kids. She breaks down what you need to do to connect with hard to reach people and make them want to help you! What you’ll learn How to reach out to executives or oth...
What would you want to do if you weren’t on your current path? Louise McNee had always been the type of person who knew exactly where she wanted to go and was driven to make it happen. That is until she was no longer sure what she wanted to be doing with her life. Listen to find out how she went from in confident executive to in tears no longer sure what was up or down to learning what creates a truly fulfilling life for her! http://happentoyourcareer.com/230...
Dan Pink has written multiple New York Times best sellers, he’s been a speech writer for Al Gore, He’s given many Keynotes all over the world. His current book “ When ” has been sitting atop the best seller list for months. Looking at his career right now, you’d have no idea that at one point he was in law school but decided being a lawyer wasn’t for him, got into politics and after the initial luster wore off that the political space wasn’t for him either. So how did Dan go from shifting career...
What is my passion?? Passion can be defined in many ways in relation to your career. Christie Mims, the founder of the Revolutionary Club, a Forbes Top 100 website for your career, wants people to separate their passion from their job. According to her, in the grander scale of things, passion is bigger than just your job. So, what is passion? Basically, passion is who you are and your job is how you express that passion. Passion is your North Star and your job is fueled by your passion. Finding ...
Have you ever been so excited about a new project or goal that you’ve set for yourself that you just can’t wait to start? You sit and visualize yourself going through the motions of the process, checking off all the boxes on your to-do list, and finally you check off that last task, then you bask in the feeling of victory after you’ve achieved your accomplishment. That entire process, the drive and determination , the movement forward , that feeling of accomplishment …that is what it means to be...
Is Being a Perfectionist holding you back? Where does perfectionism come from in the first place? What’s the meaning of perfectionist really? Here’s your Perfectionism Test Here’s your perfectionism test on whether or not perfectionism is holding you back in your career change. Answer these three questions to get started OR take the entire perfectionist test by clicking here! 1.Do you have a track record of success in one area of your life (career, fitness, finances, relationships, etc)? 2.Have ...
What if you already have a very comfortable job but you want more? How do you create the environment to make a change when you already have it pretty good but you know that something MUST change? Get the entire episode and transcripts at http://happentoyourcareer.com/225
What if the moments in our lives that feel the most awkward are actually the most valuable? That’s the question that Melissa Dahl poses in her new book Cringeworthy, a Theory of Awkwardness. It’s also something that I’ve been pondering for about 10 years now. Particularly the area of having awkward and difficult conversations and how they impact your life. Want to completely change how you have difficult conversations? Go to http://happentoyourcareer.com/224...
When you’re faced with hard decisions like “should I take this other job” or “How do I know if this company is worth my time” or “is this type of role really going to make me happy, how do you really know? Our HTYC career coach Caroline Adams helps us break down exactly how to know. To get started go to http://happentoyourcareer.com
Maybe you used to really enjoy your job, but lately you’ve been feeling burnt out. The good news is there is a way to revitalize those feelings you once had for your career and company. Going from an employee of an organization you’re already working for to an independent consultant may be just what you’re looking for. This episode takes you through the 4 steps that explain how to get a consulting job with the company you already work for. What you’ll learn The trick to enjoying your corporate c...
What if you’re a creative thinker who’s in a role that doesn’t allow you to use all that creativity? I would say “square peg, round hole” but usually it’s more “well rounded” people that function in a “square” environment. They can fit in, they just don’t want to have to. Every single day we get people who are creatively minded that email us and say: “I would love to find a career where I get to use my creativity and still get paid well for it.” We’ve learned that many people don’t even really b...
According to our guest (and coiner of the term), Emilie Wapnick, a multipotentialite is a person that doesn’t have “one true calling the way that specialists do.” Emilie describes multipods as people with many paths that pursue all of them, either sequentially or simultaneously (or both). A person with Multipotentiality “thrives on learning, exploring, and mastering new skills.” As innovators and problem solvers, the multi-passionate have the need to discover anything and everything to satisfy t...
Sure. Feeling safe and at ease is great and all, but what goals have you ever achieved by staying in your comfort zone?? We’re willing to bet on not many at all . Nobody ever achieves much by staying in their comfort zone. WHY? Well, achieving goals requires you to aim for something just a little bit out of your reach. Having a goal makes you look forward to something attainable that may not be in your comfort zone (at the moment). Then the question of how to get out of your comfort zone comes u...
Starting the career search process can be intimidating, especially since the first thing any job search website asks for is WHAT ? Like you’re supposed to know what job title you want in the first place? When you don’t know what career path you want to take, the process is not only hard to get started, it can be paralyzing when you don’t have all of the answers. Just thinking about a career change causes stress, anxiety, frustration, and fear to rise inside many people because the majority feel ...
This is our first podcast episode ever where we share the story of our Career Change Bootcamp graduate, Margaret Fredrickson, alongside her career coach. Margaret gives us her first-hand experience of how coaching helped her overcome her own fears and doubts about finding her dream job--and lets us in on why vulnerability is the biggest job search hack out there.
Interviewing can be a scary experience, because we feel like we have to fit into a certain box. But, what if I told you there are a few simple ways to be yourself in an interview, and actually land the job? On this podcast episode, I will be speaking with Evangelia LeClaire, one of our top-notch career coaches here at HTYC about this exact topic. And together we will spell out exactly how to effectively prepare for an interview so that you can be your most authentic self....
We are constantly told that life is about the journey, not the destination. But, what if our so-called “journey” doesn’t have any purpose? During this podcast episode, Scott will speak with Career Change Bootcamp graduate, Kelly, who will take us through her journey to finding a purpose in life. And, once she found it--everything else seemed to fall into place.
Do you feel like you’re living your life in fear of what you could actually accomplish if you tried? On this podcast episode, we’ll be sharing 4 essential steps on how to stop living your life in fear--and finally how to give yourself permission to live the life you actually want.
Maybe you really enjoyed your job when you started…years ago. But now, you stroll into work each morning disengaged and hopeless. You're not alone. About 50% of people go through this exact cycle in their job: excited, learning stops, they feel stuck. Hear how Laura confidently and successfully switched industries after being at a job for 8 years. What you’ll learn How to know when it’s time to leave your job. The importance of self reflection in the career change process. How to successfully sw...
Are the expectations of others holding you back from doing work that is truly fulfilling? Most of us feel like we have to behave like one person when we’re at work, and a different person when we’re at home or in our social circles. That in itself creates a social expectation. If you want to be yourself at all times, you’re bucking the trend. Because, in our world today it’s not “normal” to get paid to be who you are, using your true strengths instead of just the skills you’ve picked up in vario...
Everyone and their mother is going to email you about your resolutions and goals now that it’s the beginning of 2018. I don’t want to do that to you. Plus you already know I have a serious aversion to doing what everyone else is doing? So instead I thought I would email you an example of what NOT to do and then give you a complete step by step process of how completely reframe your future! What’s the difference between a meager change vs a paradigm shifting change? It takes completely reframing ...
In this conversation with Chris we get deep into how: Take off some of the pressure by learning the difference between a startup and an income generating project. Learn how a side hustle is different from being a full blown entrepreneur. There is nothing wrong with you if you don’t want to quit your job tomorrow and take a big risk to start your own thing. You have other options. Not everyone is meant to be an entrepreneur but that doesn’t mean you can’t have your own thing on the side. Learn ho...
I remember in 2006 I had just been fired from a job that I hated. I was pretty determined to not have to go back to “just another job” where I would spend my days just waiting for the weekend as I grinded it out in meetings that had no meaning to me. So I began learning everything I could about people who get well paid AND love their work. Let’s call these people “Happy High Achievers” One of the things that I observed right away is that Happy High Achievers don’t often get jobs by traditional m...
ABOUT EMILIE ARIES Emilie Aries is the Founder and CEO of Bossed Up, an organization that promotes a program that helps thousands of women step into their own power as the boss of their lives and careers. After having fought career burnout herself, Emilie made it her mission to share her experience and continue to educate women on how to craft happy, healthy, and sustainable career paths that focus on preventing burnout by providing support to help women navigate pivot points in their careers an...
Learn why it’s important to be authentic and honest during the interview process and how it can put you a step above the rest. How can hard conversations lead to better opportunities? Learn how defining the lifestyle you want and including that want into your job search can make all the difference. The fear of money may be holding you back from making a change. Learn how to overcome that fear and get clear on your money situation. Could staying in your current situation actually be costing you m...
What if you could have a system to rely on to make all your important decisions? My friend Pete Mockaitis and I had a great conversation on the podcast today about how our decisions and needs evolve over time, and he shared a decision-making framework with two critical questions you can use as “mental weightlifting” to help make smart decisions faster. I love his framework because it allows you to be less reactive and more intentional and proactive, which is very helpful in all areas of life (no...
Let me tell you about a great problem to have -- and a question that came from one of our students inside of Career Change Bootcamp , our signature program. Laura said: “ I'm really interested in a particular company, and I've now spoken to four people who work there. I've gotten really good at being genuinely interested in learning about roles and companies without actually "asking" anything...But now I want the job... so how do I graciously and not awkwardly shift the conversation from tell me...
