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 world. She’d see a job posting, and whether or not she genuinely wanted to do the work, she’d take on the challenge. In other words, she’d shift into whatever shape necessary to accomplish the goals of that role. While pursuing her degree, Allison worked as an office manager in a typical 8-hour office environment. Not too long into her role, she realized the clock-in-clock-out-pushing-papers desk job wasn’t for her. Recognizing a need for hands-on work, Allison routed her college studies for a career in oil and gas. Upon graduation, she was hired as a High-pressure Pump Operator in Anchorage, Alaska. Looking back, Allison says she was drawn to the job’s hands-on nature and the opportunity to work in big picture operations. She felt a special love for the procedures and problem-solving ability required for her two week on/two week off schedule. She was good at her job, but the love didn’t last. Allison comes on the podcast today with Scott to tell her story of how she made her transition. After she made the changes in her life to create her career change, she realized that it was more than a career change - it was a life change. On today’s episode, she explains one of the struggles she had: “I had so many different skills and interests, and I jumped around so much that one job sometimes didn't look anything like the next job. I was grasping at straws to try to fit all these aspects of my life into one [career] that I didn't even know was possible. So, I just jumped from job to job. I felt like a flip-flopper. It didn't feel very good. When I would want to move on to the next thing, I felt like I had to subdue or discredit the parts of myself that were in the other position.” By the time she got through her career transition, she was able to look back with better clarity: “Looking back at the big picture, even though my jobs were so different, every single job, whether it was part of the role or not—if it was just interactions with employees or how I felt about myself in that position—everything pointed to my dream job.”

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 dots to do work you’re enamored with How to know when it’s time to leave a job industry   Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]    Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!  Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes How To Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)  Should I Quit My Job? How To Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

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 with what the company valued. When she came to us for help, it became apparent that the genuine, highly caring, no-holds-barred person that she was (and wanted to be more often) was being hampered because of the job she was working in. This inability to be herself for 70 hours a week became so frustrating for her that it sparked an 11-month long journey to figure out what she really wanted and fight off the mental barriers that were keeping her stuck! So how did she go from teary days staying at a job she hated to getting paid $20,000 more with a career that allowed her to be who she is? Take a listen to Audrey’s story and find out! 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 money? Listen and we will tell you how to find out. Maybe that great accomplishment shouldn’t be on your resume - Learn what should and shouldn’t be on your resume when making an industry switch. Hear how not taking yourself too seriously and joking around can lead to more connections and more opportunities. Find out how interviews can not only help you learn about a particular job but can help you define what kind of environment you will truly excel in. See the full show notes

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 a year of working on a tech startup. Gia was struggling with whether she should invest more time and effort or close it and move on to something else. After journaling for a few months, she got clarity on precisely what she needed to do. Free flow journaling is another method Gia uses to get clarity on her thoughts and mindset. Writing without restraint is best for those situations when you cannot quite articulate what seems off about a particular topic. For instance, Gia is trying to move her child into the public school system; she has been free flow journaling to articulate the struggle she is having inside her head. Putting it down on paper really gets the juices flowing and allows you to make better decisions. When Gia would ask her female clients what they accomplished in their careers over the past year, they could not articulate a response. If you cannot answer how you add value to a company, most likely you will not be getting that job. Gia says women need to be able to confidently and clearly articulate how they bring value to the table. One way to start thinking about your answer is by writing down what you do every single day. After a few months, you will have more details and could clearly explain how your presence adds value. Gia tells her clients to keep tabs on the following six areas: The actual work that you did today. What did you do to build your brand? What are your community contributions? Did you invest time in your professional skills? Did you invest time in your soft skills? How you went above and beyond. Once people started journaling these six things, often they would realize they were lacking in certain areas, and it would result in intentional action taking. For example, when someone realizes it has been weeks and they have done nothing to build their brand, that person would start taking actionable steps to increase their brand awareness. Some barriers that come up for Gia’s clients when journaling about their workday are procrastination and time. People always claim they do not have enough time to reflect and journal. Gia suggests opening up Google Drive and take thirty seconds to write down what you have done before you leave work for the day. Enjoy the show! Resources: The Daily Career Journal: https://careerikigai.com Code for 50% off: HTYC Gia’s Website: http://giaganesh.com Gia’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/KicStarturLife Gia’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giaganesh/

Emilie Aires joins Scott to discuss what the martyrdom mindset is, how it relates to burnout, and how to overcome it.

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 familiar pull of the multipotentialite journey. After college, Melanie accepted a role with Americorps and moved to San Francisco, where she participated in a program called Public Allies. Working for Americorps was a combination job, as Melanie served at a nonprofit for four days per week and spent her Fridays completing Public Allies’ social justice leadership development program. Melanie and her coworkers were passionate, multifaceted people. Fast forward to now, and Melanie has become a professor of career education for the University of Cincinnati, researcher and nonfiction writer, nonprofit supporter, and science fiction writer. She enjoys helping multi-talented students discover a future that fits their unique wiring, and she loves digging into data on multipotentialites, personality tests, and strengths assessments.

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 me (or you’re human), sometimes they can make you a little jealous or depressed. How come it always works out so well for those other people? Well, here’s the hidden reality behind every single one of the success stories we’ve published: Zero of them were easy, AND none of them went perfectly. In fact, we find that much of the time we are helping our students make it easier to change to work they love by focusing on the right things, but focusing on the right things alone doesn’t automatically make you successful. In today’s episode, I talk about how career happiness really works. In fact, this episode is one of the lessons I teach inside Career Change Bootcamp.

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, being in a job that looks like a dream job on the outside doesn’t mean it’s going to be the dream fit for YOUR inner values, strengths and interests. I can’t tell you how many people find HTYC because they’re in a job they thought would be great, but isn’t — it ends up being someone else’s dream and not their own. Or, we get emails every day about people who feel like they can’t get clarity on what their next career move looks like, so they’re stuck in a mental pressure cooker wanting to make a change forward but not knowing how. Does that sound like you? If so, grab a pen and paper because I have a ton of lessons I’ve learned from personally coaching 1,100 people through career transitions that I want to share with you to save you time, headaches, and help you make the transition you’re dreaming of happen. In today’s episode, I share 6 keys to career happiness and then how to use this information to make your change and how to focus your time to be most effective. I vividly remember being in a job that wasn’t fulfilling at all. When I was there, I didn’t understand how this whole career happiness thing worked and honestly thought that if I could just get to a better job situation then it would solve all my problems. Which means that many of us are going about the job change somewhat blindly, we’re looking at job postings online or trying to network or updating our LinkedIn profiles even spending time going on interviews but the problem is that we don’t even know exactly what a fulfilling career looks like for us. Now here’s the tricky part, we as human beings are pretty terrible at determining what will actually make us happy.  

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 themselves. I say guest, but this is actually a bit of a different episode. We've done this once or twice before where we've shared an actual coaching session with you, allowing you to sit in as a fly on the wall, listening to somebody that we've worked with. On today’s episode, you're going to hear Elizabeth begin in the early stages of identifying what she really wants and needs. And even more importantly than that, some of the ways that I guide her through to help begin making this happen immediately. You're not going to hear any magic bullets in this episode (because there are none in reality), but you are going to hear some things that you may be able to integrate into your own personal life and career change right away.

“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 everything. Saying “yes” to every project - to every request. “Yes, sir, I can make that happen!” “Yes, I can get that extra presentation done.” Saying “yes” to all that took a bad situation and turned it into a totally intolerable situation.   Saying “yes” to too many things can hold you back from career happiness. At first, you may be excited that you’re the person that everyone can depend on. But then it changes. People start asking you to do more and more because “______ always finds a way to get it done.” In fact, it gets to the point that the people make you their first stop. This can cause resentment, stress, and fatigue - none of which produce career happiness. But you also find it difficult - or impossible - to stop saying “yes.”   Saying “no” is exactly what we talk about in today’s episode with Michael Hyatt. Michael is a best-selling author (multiple times over) and was previously the CEO of a publishing company before starting his own company. Michael is also a self-admitted, recovering people-pleaser. As such, throughout past few decades, he has had to learn to say “no” gracefully. In other words, he had to protect his own time and priorities. At one point, he said it this way: “The way that you can give people a really firm ‘No’ is to have a really firm ‘yes’ on the other side of it.” Also, he gives specific examples of how he can say “no” to a request, but still present a solution for the person. And people thank him for saying “no.” Listen to this episode to hear the whole conversation, including: Why it’s so hard for you to say “No” to people...and what to do about it How to get back hours of free time each week The connection between having a vision and conquering daily distractions Using elimination, automation, and delegation to crush even more tasks on your to-do list Why you need more than one routine to run your day The most important things you can do to be more focused and more productive Also, as an added bonus, Michael shares the best advice on how to stay happily married for 40 years.

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 consider.  We’ve taken the advice from 6 successful career changers and put it into this episode.   https://happentoyourcareer.com/276    Listen to all the podcasts at http: https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

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 personal mottos: if change is the only constant, let's get better at it. With that motto and all of her knowledge, Jenny helps people organize their brain, move beyond burnout, and build sustainable, dynamic careers they love. You’ll learn: How to stop holding yourself back by waiting to have all the time in the world for things to happen for you How to use constraints that a day job puts on your career change as a positive and make it easier rather than harder How and why creating an ideal day map for yourself will help you pivot to reach that success The importance of the scanning process of your career change   Visit the blog post for more show notes

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 great job at Linkedin, an awesome apartment in the Big Apple, a savings account that most of us could only imagine…but she still wasn’t happy. From the outside, it looked like she had everything. But on the inside, she was struggling to answer those big life questions: What does it mean to lead a meaningful, purposeful life?

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 are a lot of realities about pursuing it as a full-time career path that you’ll want to know before you quit your job and start the business. Being in love with the dream of calling yourself a coach can be very different from truly having a passion for the day-to-day life of being one. For example, how much do you enjoy sales conversations? Working for yourself is an eat-what-you-kill kind of job, so you’re going to spend a TON of time bringing in clients so you can keep the lights on and pay the bills. And, how much time out of your week would you estimate you’ll be on the phone with coaching clients? Whatever you’re guessing, guess again and listen to this podcast episode with Marc Mawhinney to hear about what it was like for him (and for Scott) in building their coaching businesses. On this episode, you’ll learn how Marc got into coaching (and the books that have been his biggest inspiration), how building a coaching business is a bit like being a modern-day caveman, how to ensure you’re not getting paid in meatballs, and how to decide when (or if) you need a coaching certification.   If you think you might be interested in becoming a career coach, check out this guide we put together: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Career Coach

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  

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   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast  

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://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast  

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  

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.com/267   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast  

Linnea is just like you. She was a listener of the HTYC podcast, and decided it was time to make a career change. She signed up for career coaching and found her ideal role! But Linnea did not stop there… she ended up jumping four titles in just six months! Learn how Linnea doubled down on the career change advice she received from her coach, became her own biggest advocate, found her strengths and grabbed her career change by the horns.    What you’ll learn  The methods Linnea used to get promoted quickly to her ideal career  How to unconventionally network and make it actually work for your career change  How to figure out if you should be switching industries  Why extreme preparation is the key to your career growth   Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]    Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!  Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)  Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcast) How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

You’ve probably heard people say things like. “Big Dreams take time” or “that type of success takes time” or my absolute favorite. “Just give it a little time!” But what if the key accomplishing wildly unrealistic goals didn’t have anything to do with time? What if that was one of the most common misconceptions that gets repeated all over the world. This is episode 3 of a 3 part series on how to accomplish wildly unrealistic career goals.

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 people go through that mini-course. One of the exercises in that course involves declaring 3 wildly unrealistic things you want to do, be or become these could be occupations, jobs, roles, whatever you wanted, Sky’s the limit. The only rule is that it has to be wildly unrealistic. We started getting thousands of responses emailed to us and there was something interesting that we noticed right away. They’re all big goals sure, but what else? None of them them are actually impossible or unachievable. What does this tell us? It means that the things we believe to be wildly unrealistic are only unrealistic because we believe them to be. It’s about the story that we tell ourselves. https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/podcast/wildly-unrealistic

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? What do you notice about the Paradigm shifting changes? The average person can’t imagine how it can work in their own life. Most of the world can’t “just do that”. You might automatically say, “that could never work for me” It takes completely reframing your future to be able to achieve a paradigm shifting change.   In this conversation with we get deep into how: Learn how to take the goals you are passionate and excited about and take the next little steps to turn them into a reality this year. How to change your limiting beliefs from a negative into a positive. Learn how to use confirmation bias as a benefit to gain goal success. Learn how important it is to put words to and vocalize the whisper of ideas you have been feeling. Get help identifying the little secret beliefs and limiting factors you tell yourself that are causing you a roadblock. Learn to stop playing negative Jedi mind tricks on yourself and start feeling the positive force within. Reframe your negative beliefs into positive beliefs and learn how to reinforce those positive beliefs with data points to give you forward momentum. How 60 minutes of your time brainstorming can open up numerous possibilities.

Wondering how you’re going to know if you like your new career or company before you transition? Good news. We’ve put together 6 ways you can get some reassurance. Take a listen! Or if you want even more detail go over to https://happentoyourcareer.com/261     Listen to all the episodes on the podcast at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Most people would call Mo’s roles with Jay-Z, Hollywood directors, and Allen Iverson “dream jobs,” but no matter how shiny the job title, he still couldn’t find fulfillment.   Hear how Mo found career happiness PLUS three of the most common questions high achievers ask about career transitions.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/260   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Katie felt trapped. She’d invested in her company for a number of years, and she felt there was nowhere left to advance. To top it off, her employer had paid for her certification so she felt indebted. In this live coaching call, you'll get a behind the scenes listen as Katie recognizes the options available to her and prepares for her career change.   What you’ll learn  How to recognize if limiting beliefs are delaying your career change Should I quit my job? The signs that you’ve outgrown your company How to avoid career burnout    Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]    Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!  Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts) An Overthinker's Guide To Making Better Career Decisions (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

As far as I know perfection doesn’t exist because it’s subjective. This of course means that if we are after perfection, then we are already setting ourselves up for failure. Now here’s the deal. The people we work with are often pretty highly self aware people. Even still they (and me too, many times) don’t recognize when we’re having moments of perfectionism that are holding us back.

t’s easy to think about the weaknesses that could hold you back from your next career move, but research shows high achievers focus most on their strengths. Learn how to reframe the weaknesses in your life as “anti-strengths” and find a career that was made for you—strengths and anti-strengths included.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/257   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Hit a roadblock on finding career happiness? Hear how practicing perseverance landed Dan his dream career interviewing celebrities like Donald Trump, Tony Robbins, Rachel Ray, and Chelsea Handler.   Read his full story at https://happentoyourcareer.com/256   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Are you interested in becoming a career coach? Have you wondered what it's really like and what it really takes? Scott is joined by Phillip Migyanko and Lisa Lewis of HappenToYourCareer.com with a behind-the-scenes talk about becoming a career coach. Want to find out even more about how to become a career coach and career coach certifications? Visit Here https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/lp/career-coach-coaching-certification/  

If money was no object, what would your retirement plan look like? What if you found a career that enabled you to live out your retirement plans NOW, as your daily job? Learn how Kristy found true career happiness by designing her ideal career and pitching it to the CEO of one of her dream organizations. What you’ll learn  How to use signature strengths to design your ideal career    How to know if you can find career happiness with your current company  The trick to push yourself to step out of your comfort zone, and why it’s so important    Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]    Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!  Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcast) Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcast)

You’re not still rocking your high school hairstyle, so why restrict yourself to the job you thought you wanted way back then? It’s time to step out of your teenage shadow and give yourself permission to seek a career outside the bounds of your college major.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/254   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

What challenges will you have when making a career change in your 30s? 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

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 bitout 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 up.   When it comes to career change, more likely than not you’ll be faced with the choice to break out of your comfort zone to progress down a new path that may be full of unknowns.

Like Gabby Douglas’ leap from underdog to olympic medalist, Linnea leapt from Marketing Manager to Senior VP—in only six months! Learn the full immersion techniques that helped Linnea stick the landing on career happiness.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/250 To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Long before you even begin thinking about going on an interview, you need to get into the right mindset. This accounts for nearly 80% of your interview success! Having a confident, present mindset allows you to head into your future interviews with ease. It channels your nerves (those sweaty palms and racing heart) into excitement instead. And, it allows you to be yourself. In order to get into this mindset though, you have to know yourself well, and respect your past experiences. You need to understand your career equity. And, that takes introspection. That introspection doesn’t come overnight either. It’s a practice that builds up over time, which is why “cramming” for interviews isn’t effective. Being true self in an interview comes down to self-development.

Did you know there are 3 primary ways to start a business, and each is tailored to specific personalities? Listen to learn which business recipe fits your unique disposition.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/248   For even more stories of how High Achievers find career happiness find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Ever feel like you’re headed on a career trajectory that you don’t even want anymore? The 5-year plan worked in an age when pensions existed, but today, the working world has changed. You don’t have to take the one-way street. You can make u-turns, take on-ramps and off-ramps, and even create your own, never-before-seen path to career happiness. And we can help you do it.   Listen to our interview with Maxie McCoy, author of You’re Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way, to find out the simple secret to finding a career you love.

    What happens when you’re already in a good work and life situation but what you really want is to be in an “ideal” situation? For example: What if you have a career you love, get paid well, have great relationships… but you recognize it could even be better. We’ve learned by working with thousands of people that to get to lead a life most people will never lead, you have to do things most people wouldn’t be willing to do. While this can range from doing the hard work to figure out what your ideal life looks like to contacting hard to reach people, it always means doing things many others are unwilling to do. For Robbie, who had a great role in DC with a great company, this meant getting away to get new experiences and clarity on what she wanted for her next chapter in her life. It also meant designing a sabbatical that was both fun, uncomfortable, scary and fulfilling a 5 year dream of a multi month road trip around the continental US. Our team got the pleasure of helping her design this experiment leading to her next step. Along the way I personally got to meet her as she and I sat down in our Podcast and Video Studio in Moses Lake WA to talk about: What caused her to want to leave an already good career How she was intentional about designing a sabbatical that would give her more feedback and clarity The simple formula to not accepting less in career and life (which came from Robbie’s late father) Listen to the entire episode here and read the blog https://happentoyourcareer.com/246 or listen to all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast   And follow Robbie's adventures here: fb.me/whats.that.rattle https://www.instagram.com/whats.that.rattle/

Do you worry that it’s not possible to make money and do work that you enjoy? This has been one of the most common questions we get at happen to your career. This topic causes more worries, anxieties, and questions about salary than nearly anything else. We’ve learned that it doesn’t work the way that you think it does. Learn the realities (and possibilities) about when you should accept less when making a career change. Find the episode and guide here at https://happentoyourcareer.com/245 Listen to all the episodes at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Want to know how to avoid getting lost in the application stuck when there's 30,50 or 200 people applying? Learn some examples of convincing approaches that you can use right now. find the entire conversation at https://happentoyourcareer.com/244 or all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Robert was an executive earning great money, and enjoying life and work, when he was unexpectedly laid off. At first he believed he would be able to easily make a career change, but months went by with no job offers and he began questioning everything. We’re sharing a rare opportunity to listen in to an actual coaching session with Robert as we systematically uncover what’s working for him and what’s not.    What you’ll learn  The 3 biggest mistakes we see for “High Performers” who are in the midst of a career change How career change coaching sessions actually work  What to do when you aren’t receiving any responses during your career search     Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]    Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!  Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts) Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

It happens to all of us: you’re cruising along (in your career, your relationship, your health, whatever). You put your destination into the GPS, started following the directions on autopilot, and you’re fiddling with the music on the radio, take your eyes off the road for what only feels like a moment, and WHAM. A pothole — seemingly out of nowhere — opens up and practically swallows your car tire, leaving you feeling trapped and helpless. You were minding your own business, not paying attention, and all of a sudden, you’re stuck with a blown-out tire in the middle of the highway, watching other cars pass you by. If you’re the kind of person who’s usually self-sufficient, a high achiever who did pretty well in school, this kind of situation is particularly frustrating. “How did this happen? How did I end up here…and where do I go from here?” If those questions are ones you’ve pondered at any point in your life, then keep reading. We have a heck of a podcast for you all about unconscious mindsets and how to get yourself back on track from mindset success coach Karenina Jahnigen.   Outdated mental operating systems can be incredibly painful — they keep us trapped in old beliefs that can suffocate current potential and opportunity. Yet often in life, our places of deepest pain and suffering are the places from which we have the most to give. That’s certainly true of Karenina. Listen to her story of overcoming incredible pain and limitations throughout her life — and how she used her own learnings to help others as a coach who has helped people truly transform their lives.

Imagine this scene: you’re driving to the office, and you feel your stomach tighten up. It’s not like butterflies, it’s more like anxious nerves starting to kick into high gear. You park, hesitate for a moment in the car before walking up to the building, sigh, and wonder to yourself, “Do I really *have* to today?” But if you’re anything like the thousands of people we’ve helped, there’s a part of your brain that probably also pipes up and says: “Appreciate what you have! This is a stable job with good benefits, is impressive to other people, and gives you vacation and sick leave. And leaving would have huge consequences on your family, your mortgage payments…what would you even do instead?” Or, even more scary: “What if I change jobs and it’s worse?” It makes it really painful to start to answer the question: Should I Quit My Job? But it doesn’t have to be. Here are four questions to help you weigh the Pros and Cons of quitting your job — versus some of the possible potential upside of staying. Check out the full show notes on the website: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/should-i-quit-my-job-how-to-know-if-its-ok/

On this week’s episode of The Happen To Your Career Podcast, four-time NYT bestselling author Gretchen Rubin dives into the science behind unmet resolutions, the anchor holding you back from your side gig, and the reason one “right way” might be...well...bullshit. A seasoned podcaster, she regularly co-hosts the Happier Podcast where she provides tips for making and breaking habits and success strategies for each personality type.   In her latest book, The Four Tendencies, Gretchen explains a personality framework involving, as you would guess, four tendencies. Each identified type is characterized by their tendency to respond to inner expectations and outer expectations. (Inner expectations being those you set on yourself—like New Year’s resolutions; outer expectations being those put on you by friends, coworkers, family, etc.)

What if you could take the very small parts of your past jobs that you love the very most, and spend most of your day doing those things that you were great at and made you happy? That’s what it’s like to work in your strengths. The more that we use our strengths in a day, the less likely we are to feel stressed, worried, angry or sad! Finding your strengths makes it easier to discover exactly what you want out of your career and life.   What you’ll learn  The answer to the very common question “How do strengths really work?” Whether or not strengths change over time  How to find your strengths and focus on your key strengths   Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]    Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!  Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts) How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

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 are far more important advice to consider.   We’ve taken the advice from 6 successful career changers and put it into this episode   https://happentoyourcareer.com/238 Listen to all the podcasts at http: https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast-2

Description: Wondering what types of jobs help people? This mentality will lead you the exact opposite direction of a fulfilling career. In this episode we discuss exactly what you can do instead. We also showcase exactly how Jackie Yerby made a career change to helping people in the way that’s most meaningful for her!   Want the transcript and helpful tools to figure out your career? Go to https://happentoyourcareer.com/237 Get even more help to make your career change. Find all our podcasts packed with career change advice and stories at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast-2