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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View all episodesJanuary 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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September 25, 2017
197: Remote Workers and Travel with Adda Birnir
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO FINDING AND DOING REMOTE WORK The number of people that have come to us recently to have us help them find remote work that they can do from home or at least on their terms is huge! Even right before I started writing this guide, I was on a coaching call […]
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September 18, 2017
196: What Brene Brown and The Art of Charm Have in Common
So, true story: almost everyone on my team here at Happen to Your Career is an introvert. (Myself included!) Which is kind of surprising for a company that teaches people all about how to use relationship-building and presentation skills to create new opportunities in your professional life, right? Well, contrary to popular belief, we introverts […]
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September 11, 2017
273: Beating the Perfectionism Out of You and Starting That Coaching Business with Marc Mawhinney
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 […]
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September 4, 2017
242: Reverse engineering impossible situations with Karenina Jahnigen
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 […]
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September 1, 2017
363: Not Hiring? How to Apply Anyway (and Get an Interview)
Writing like a Pro in the business world seems like a huge undertaking that is easier said than done. Luckily, we have Danny H. Rubin as our guest today. Danny Rubin is “THE writing guy.” Danny has studied communications since college and has worked as a TV News Reporter and Consultant and has come back […]
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August 23, 2017
: Have we met before?
Question time! Would you commit years of your life to someone who you’ve just met and only spent just hours with? Of course not! Except that most of us have (including me!) Think about it, this is often what happens when we say “Yes” to jobs. We see or hear about an opportunity, we do a […]
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