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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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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January 25, 2021

395: Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change

August 29, 2022

478: How To Achieve Career Clarity When You Feel Stuck, Bored & Unfulfilled

February 22, 2021

399: When Being “Good At” Your Role Doesn’t Lead To Career Happiness

February 6, 2023

501: Climbing Down The Corporate Ladder To Discover Career Happiness

July 12, 2021

419: Leveraging What Makes You Unique: The Key to Your Career Change

October 2, 2023

535: Empowering Career Advice From Successful Career Changers

September 13, 2021

428: Stuck in a Career You’re Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There

February 3, 2025

605: The Secret to Effectively Job Searching in 2025

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: Uncovering 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: Uncovering 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

April 30, 2018

228: Turning Your Passions Into Your Career With Christie Mims

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 […]

April 23, 2018

227: Become Unhackable with Kary Oberbrunner

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 […]

April 16, 2018

258: Why You Don’t Even Know Perfectionism Is Holding You Back

IS BEING A PERFECTIONIST HOLDING YOU BACK? What’s the meaning of perfectionism really? per·fec·tion·ismpərˈfekSHəˌnizəm noun            refusal to accept any standard short of perfection. 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 […]

April 9, 2018

225: Why Willpower Doesn’t Work, And What To Do Instead

WHAT IF YOU WERE FORCED TO FIGURE THINGS OUT? You know that scene in the Pursuit of Happyness where Will Smith is sitting on the floor in the bathroom with his son after everything has come crashing down and he has no place to live and he’s hit rock bottom? He’s put into a situation where […]

April 2, 2018

224: How Having Awkward Conversations Can Completely Change Your Life in Surprising Ways

“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 difficult and awkward conversations and how they […]

March 25, 2018

223: Making Complicated Career Decisions Insanely Simple

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? The reality is you can’t ever fully know until you’re there, but you […]

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