Happen To Your Career Podcast

A career change podcast for people who don’t want to settle. Stories of how high performers find meaningful work.

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Yup. Work you freakin’ love is real.

Everything you’ve wished your work could be is real. It just doesn’t happen the way you think. Forget about job search. Learn how top performers find work that fits. The Happen To Your Career Podcast is stories of real people who’ve found their ideal careers.

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Popular Episodes

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January 5, 2026

673: Navigating Misalignment, Burnout & a Big Career Pivot: When Your Career Path Stops Making Sense

February 3, 2025

605: The Secret to Effectively Job Searching in 2025

January 26, 2026

677: Career Change After Burnout: Trapped in a Job You’re Great At—but Don’t Want Anymore?

February 9, 2026

680: Career Burnout Happens When You Keep Climbing the Wrong Ladder: How Jackie Chose Fit Over Promotion

January 19, 2026

676: Career Change Triggers: Why Most People Wait Years Too Long to Leave a Job (And How to Break the Pattern)

January 15, 2026

675: Common Career Change Errors That Keep You Stuck (And How to Avoid Them)

December 18, 2025

670: Unlock Your Signature Strengths: The Surprising Path to a Career That Fits

February 16, 2026

681: Career Change When Your Work No Longer Matches Your Values: Glenn’s Career Reinvention

April 13, 2019

279: 6 Keys to Career Happiness

November 27, 2017

261: Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers

October 23, 2023

538: How To Define Your Ideal Career When Making A Career Change

April 3, 2023

509: Should I Quit My Job Without Another Lined Up?

June 26, 2023

521: How to Overcome Overthinking and Finally Change Careers

August 26, 2024

582: Finding Your Ideal Career Path: How to Uncover Roles You Didn’t Know Existed

January 25, 2021

395: Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change

March 16, 2021

402: How To Stick The Landing In Your Dream Job: Linnea’s Four Title Career Leap

November 5, 2018

255: How Kristy Celebrated Small Victories on the Way to Her Dream Career

June 12, 2023

519: Leading on Empty: Navigating Burnout with Dave Stachowiak

August 26, 2024

582: Finding Your Ideal Career Path: How to Uncover Roles You Didn’t Know Existed

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Best career podcast!

“Every time I listen to the podcast I learn something valuable to share with my career coaching clients. Scott and his guests provide cutting edge and real life examples to help listeners in their career development.”

A premiere resource for building career happiness!

“Whether you’re trying to figure out what you want to do, have just realized you can’t keep doing what you’re doing, or are looking for ways to improve in the job you love, you’ve come to the right place!”

Thanks for everything!

“This podcast has been tremendously influential for me this year as I’ve finally transitioned into my new career path. There’s so much insight and advice for every stage of the process- from trying to figure out what is even out there to interviewing, landing the job and negotiating pay.”

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Recent Episodes

October 27, 2014

47: Career Q&A and HTYC Mashup!

If you don’t know Lisa Cummings, you need to! She is the canned vegetable eating, drummer and singer of Spiral Mischief, and host of the Lead Through Strengths Podcast. Her background ranges from HR, to Talent Management to Training, and much more! Because of all this experience, when you ask her a question like… What should […]

October 20, 2014

46: How to Learn Your Signature Strengths

Are you wanting to make the move to work that you love and stop doing work that doesn’t fit you… guess what? It’s not your boss that makes this hard (ok well sometimes) but more than that it’s whether or not you understand the things that you enjoy so much that it feels like play. […]

October 13, 2014

45: Become Awesome at Networking in 20 minutes per Day… Without going to networking events!

Taking time for networking and building relationships sucks!… well it does if you are not good at it. What if you could not only get good at it, but do it in less than 20 minutes each day WITHOUT having to go to networking events. That’s what today’s podcast episode is all about! Mark discusses […]

relationships

October 9, 2014

44: No Really! Relationships are what takes you places.

Our entire lives are defined by our relationships – father/mother, husband/wife, brother/sister, friend, employer/employee, author, speaker, etc. You have things you want to accomplish and achieve. If you don’t have everything you want in your life…it’s because you have not yet found and developed the relationships that will allow you to accomplish those things. In […]

October 5, 2014

43: How Do You Know When It’s Time to Move On?

Have you ever wondered what the right time is to pursue different work? Sometimes it’s painfully clear! (we work with people every day that have some serious disdain for their jobs) But what if it’s not as obvious? What if you actually like your job and just aren’t sure if you should be pursuing something […]

pareto's law 80/20 rule career coaching

October 1, 2014

42: The 80/20 Rule…. And Why You Need to Know About It for Your Career!

Have you heard of the 80/20 rule? Episode 42 of the HTYC Podcast is all about it! Also called: The 80/20 law Pareto’s Principle Pareto’s Law various other names… It’s a rule that’s observed in nature over and over again. It seem’s to apply to… well just about everything! So what is it? It typically […]

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