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174: Add Value, Grow Your Career with Michael Bigelow

IT’S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT THE LIKABILITY AND CONNECTION CERTAINLY DO HELP. BUT IT’S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT I REALLY DO FEEL THAT IT’S BOTH WHO YOU KNOW AND HOW YOU’RE CONNECTED TO THEM, AS WELL AS WHAT YOU KNOW. MICHAEL BIGELOW Whether you’re looking to make a lateral job transition to a […]

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January 21, 2019

267: 3 Creative and Strategic Ways to Show Your Strengths to Interviewers

Everywhere you look these days, you can find articles sharing why focusing on your strengths is more valuable than improving your weaknesses. Using your signature strengths in your role means you can be energized instead of drained, engaged instead of bored, and successful instead of struggling. When it comes down to it, working in your […]

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Follow the Breadcrumbs to Your Dream Career with Lisa Lewis

October 10, 2016 by eli

WHAT IS THE REAL GOAL OF HAVING A CAREER ANYWAY?

It’s a topic of conversation that comes up time and time again: SUCCESS.

It should be noted that the definition of success is subjective.

There are some people that are perfectly content on that “traditional” path of success, from getting a degree to landing a job that pays for a fairly decent lifestyle. They get promoted and continue working, perfectly content with their progress.

Or maybe they don’t even get that promotion, yet are still perfectly content with the life and career path they’ve chosen.

Then, there are those people that start to lose interest in their work and even with a promotion (and raise!), they still can’t help but feel like their career has turned into a J-O-B.

It’s become a chore to get out of bed to go and “work” at a place that previously held so much promise, but now holds only daydreams for something better.

What’s better? It could be anything, anywhere…anywhere but where they’re at right now.

If this sounds familiar, don’t sweat it just yet. There is a light at the end of that dark tunnel that you’ve gone down.

THE PROBLEM ISN’T YOU.

From the day that you started your career, you have continued to learn and grow. You’ve evolved in your role at the organization. The problem is the organization hasn’t shifted the same way you have- the work that you have been doing is no longer aligned with the person you’ve become as you’ve grown in your career.

As you pick up new skills and add more years of experience under your belt, you learn more about what you love about your job and what you could really do without. You begin to look for more work that aligns with what you value.

These little micro-pivots in what you look for in the work that you do help you along your career journey. These shifts in your values shouldn’t be looked at in a negative light. These little shifts bring you incrementally closer to your career goals.

LOOK AT IT AS AN INVITATION TO A BIGGER PATH TO GET TO YOUR NORTH STAR.

If you’re wondering how you’re going to get out of your situation when you’re not even sure what to do next, take it from Lisa and trust that “leaning towards happiness, leaning towards places where you’re already finding flow and satisfaction […] is going to be the best way to start to uncover what direction you’re growing in and what can feel really good for that next step.”

You owe it to yourself to leave your career pain for your career freedom.

If you need help to follow your breadcrumbs to your dream career, visit our career coaching page. Connect with Lisa and she’d be more than happy to help!

ABOUT LISA LEWIS

Lisa Lewis, the new HTYC Career Guru, started her career in digital marketing and contemplated going back to school to get into psychology and counseling before finally following her own career breadcrumbs and doing what came naturally to her, which is career coaching.

Here at HTYC, Lisa is involved in all things career change- from her role in the Figure Out What Fits: Career Change Bootcamp, to resume critiques and mock interviews, and also to helping people put all the pieces of their career change puzzle together through one-on-one career coaching. She specializes not only in honing in on your strengths, but also in positioning those strengths for potential employers.

If you want to learn more about our career coaching and other services, head on over to our career coaching page.

EPISODE LINKS AND RESOURCES

Send Lisa a welcome email at lisa@happentoyourcareer.com

Connect with Lisa on LinkedIn!

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Take Your Message to the Next Level with Cliff Ravenscraft

October 3, 2016 by eli

Have you ever wondered how to start a podcast or if you could do it on your own?

The answer is: Yes. Absolutely.

Whether you want to start your own podcast as a hobby or if you want to make the switch to start your own business, it is possible to get your own podcast going even if you have no experience.

So, if you’re looking for some guidance to start your own podcast, you’re in luck! We’ve got the Podcast Answer Man himself, Cliff Ravenscraft, as our guest.

Listen in as Cliff not only shares his experience on how he got to where he is now in the podcasting world, but he also shares some tips on how to start your own podcast (with very minimal equipment required)!

Cliff Ravenscraft has built his podcasting business from the ground up and is proof that making a big career change is possible. He is “a firm believer that if you Pursue Your Passion, The Money Will Follow!”

He’s on top of the podcast game and has shared a step-by-step process to create a podcast for those of you looking to start your own podcast. Check it out below!

FIRST THING’S FIRST – GET STARTED! HOW TO START A PODCAST:

STEP 1- Head to your nearest electronics store or hit amazon.com for a microphone

(Recommendation: Check out the audio-technica ATR2100)

STEP 2-Download the software, Audacity® – Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing

STEP 3- Plug in your new microphone & hit the record button

STEP 4- Start talking. Share your heart and your message to the world.

STEP 5- Save your audio file as an mp3 file when you’re done recording
– If you’re using Audacity, you’re going to need to download the LAME encoder (you can find more information about the download here)

Once you download the LAME encoder, update your preferences in Audacity to create mp3 files by opening Audacity’s preferences

Click on the “Locate” button

Click on the “Browse” button, and locate your LAME encoder library

(Some people may choose to record their podcast through Apple’s Garage Band application, but end up saving their file as an m4 or A-file, but the universal platform for these files is an mp3 file)

STEP 6- Setup a RSS feed – hardest step of the process!

Upload your file to a media host (i.e. Libsyn – Podcast Hosting Services)

Take that file and paste it into WordPress (or whichever RSS feed platform works for you) for publication by creating a new post and filling in the title of your podcast episode, episode description, and check the box “Post Libsyn Episode” to publish through Libsyn

Upload your episode to the post

Fill in the necessary information just as you did on Libsyn and publish your episode

STEP 7- Take that RSS feed from your WordPress (or whichever RSS feed platform you chose) to iTunes Connect and sign in with your Apple ID

STEP 8- Enter your RSS feed URL and click “Validate”

STEP 9- Review your work, fix any errors , and click “Validate” again

STEP 10- Last preview and click “Submit Podcast” (It may take 2 days to get approved after you submit your podcast for review)

BOOM! Congratulations! You now have a LIVE podcast in iTunes!

SIMPLE, BUT NOT EASY.

The real difficult part is actually coming up with what to say because you have to think about:

How do you want to say it?
How to communicate it?
How do you get better at communicating it?
How to do you say it without saying “um” a million times?

But even if you do say “um” a million times, starting your podcast now will allow you to practice and allow you to get better (without saying “um” so many times!).

SHARE AND GIVE YOUR MESSAGE AWAY TO PEOPLE.

So, ask yourself, are you discontent with your day job and have been dreaming of starting your own podcast? Maybe you’re inspired by it to make a change?

Bottom line: If you’re looking to start a podcast for a profit (or hobby), start any new business venture, or if you’re ready for a career change, GET STARTED NOW.

ABOUT CLIFF RAVENSCRAFT

Cliff Ravenscraft has successfully made the jump from an insurance agent with a hobby producing a podcast about his favorite TV show to a full-time podcast producer and a Podcasting and New Media consultant/coach. He has produced more than 2,800 individual episodes of more than 20 different shows.

Cliff continues to help people take their message and their life to the next level by creating content that is entertaining, educational, encouraging, & inspirational and bringing them closer to who they are meant to be.

RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Tune into Cliff’s podcast, Podcast Answer Man

Follow Cliff on Twitter: @cliffeotc.

Check out Cliff on youtube.

Follow Cliff on Facebook.

GET IN TOUCH WITH US!

Come join us over on Facebook in our Work You Love OneStop group!

Twitter: @htycbiz and @scottabarlow

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Making It Happen: Three Years & Counting! A Special Anniversary Q & A with Scott & Mark

September 26, 2016 by eli

THREE YEARS! YEAH!

Thank you all for continuing to tune in! Without you, these three years wouldn’t have flown by so quickly!

If you’ve been here from the beginning (THANK YOU again for your support!), or if you’ve just recently joined us (THANK YOU again and welcome to the HTYC community!), I hope that we’ve been helpful to your career journey so far and I continue to encourage you to take the bull by the horns and make your dream career a reality.

Today, my good friend and one of HTYC’s biggest supporters (from DAY ONE!), Mark Sieverkropp, is here to help me shed some light on some of the questions that you have sent in over the years.

If you’ve tried to convince yourself that:

“There’s no way that I can make money doing what I’m passionate about…”

“There’s no way that I can find my dream career…a career that exists on my own terms…”

“There’s no way that I can build my own business on what i really want to do because I don’t have any experience…”

I’m here to tell you that it is possible. If I can do it, YOU can do it, too.

It can happen. You can make a living by doing what you’re passionate about. If you’re not sure about what that is yet, don’t worry. You will figure it out.

The best part is that you don’t have to have it ALL figured out right away.

Design Your Life on Your Own Terms

In order to design the life and career that you want, you are going to need to evaluate where you want to go by looking at all the other aspects in your life: family, hobbies, work-life balance needs, etc.

If you say that you want a job that is flexible, challenging, and allows you an opportunity to make a difference, you need to define what you think is flexible, challenging, and what making a difference means to you. Ask yourself the hard questions and be honest in your answers.

Embrace the thought process that will get you where you want to go. Have fun in discovering what it is that you like doing, what you don’t like doing, and what will make work interesting for you.

Once you’ve gained some clarity in what you’re looking for in your career, you can now figure out the best way to actually get there.

It’s a progression, a career journey.

Dig Away At It

Once you define what you want out of your career and are clear on the answers to those hard questions, then you can dig away at forging that path to where you’ve decided to go, but don’t rush the process.

The key is starting the movement. Don’t just sit there and daydream about it or doubt yourself. Take action, do things one day at a time to move yourself closer to what you want, whether it is starting your own business or changing careers.

Taking action NOW in the direction that you want to go, is the second biggest step to achieving your career goals.

If you find yourself running into a roadblock along the way, don’t panic. Let it sit for a bit. Then, get back to it. Develop new skills that will help you get there and keep the ball rolling.

Connect the Dots

Once you’re in a groove, you’re going to be able to look back on how far you’ve come and notice your own patterns.

These connections will allow you to continue to work through your process with more clarity to get down to what you enjoy and where your strengths lie.

I think it’s interesting how our career paths meander back and forth, and the things just kind of fall into place.
Mark Sieverkropp

Enjoy Your Career Journey

Remember to have the patience in your own process. Take advantage of your resources. Continue to evaluate and re-evaluate your progress.

When you do that, you can ask yourself, “Does my current path get me closer to what I want or does it bring me further away?”

As one of our listeners, Kelly, mentioned, “While the road will be long; I have a lot to learn. I am for the first time (maybe ever) excited about the prospect of my career and confident that I have the resources available to make it happen.”

With time, you WILL make it happen.

Just think, that once you get to that place, you’ll be able to look back and realize that it didn’t take nearly as long as you thought it would.

Whether you’re here for help in your job search, or need guidance on your career change, or if you’re looking to find some tips on how to go about starting your own business, HTYC can help with all of that!

We’re here as a resource to get you started on your path to a new career, offer you career coaching, or even mentor you in getting your business up and running.

Click below and join our upcoming live workshop on October 2nd or October 3rd and let us help you reach your goals!

RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Check out what Mark’s been working on at www.backyardsoccercoach.com

Drop Mark an email at: mark@happentoyourcareer.com

EPISODES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW

GET IN TOUCH WITH US!

Come join us over on Facebook in our Work You Love OneStop group!

Twitter: @htycbiz and @scottabarlow

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WANT HELP FINDING THE WORK THAT FITS YOU?

It IS possible! Let us help you make it happen for you! Check out our FREE 8-day course to “Figure Out What you Really Want for Your Career!”

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Ready for Career Happiness?

What Career Fits You?

Finally figure out what you should be doing for work

Join our 8-day “Mini-Course” to figure it out. It’s free!

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April 17, 2017

174: Add Value, Grow Your Career with Michael Bigelow

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January 21, 2019

267: 3 Creative and Strategic Ways to Show Your Strengths to Interviewers

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Bringing Authenticity into the Workplace with Joanie Connell

September 19, 2016 by eli

What do you like doing?

Does it make an appearance at your day job?

Bringing more of yourself and being authentic to who you are at your core into your workplace should be mandatory.

Being authentic in your life and career is more beneficial to your success in your career than being a certain persona that your career molds you to be.

Maybe you’ve come to realize that the career path that you’re on isn’t exactly as you’ve always thought it would be. Maybe you’re already playing with the idea of a career change and don’t know where to start. Or maybe you feel like you’ve invested so much of your life at your job and don’t want to start from scratch.

Does any of that sound familiar?

If it is the fear of starting fresh in a whole different career or new industry that is stopping you from finding a new path where you can be authentic in your work, don’t worry about that. All is not lost as you change careers, every experience counts and the skills you gain throughout your career journey will be carried with you, adding more value to your skill set. Changing careers to align your work with who you are is not only liberating, but it will also give you better chances for long-term career success and fulfillment.

Our guest, Joanie Connell, knows exactly how it feels to be doing work that she was slowly losing interest in as her passions began to come into light.

For her, the importance of being authentic in her work led her to leave her engineering career and go back to school to dig deeper into her passion for people. She was also able to carry her experiences in the technology and engineering field into her new business venture as a consultant.

ABOUT JOANIE CONNELL

Dr. Joanie B. Connell is a Harvard-educated engineer and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently working as a leadership coach and organizational consultant. She consults with organizations in a variety of areas, including executive leadership development, diversity, generations, flexible work arrangements, work-life balance, life transitions, character and ethics, team building, and virtual teams. Her clients are from Fortune 100 companies, not-for-profit, and government agencies and high tech, biotech, healthcare, finance, legal and other industries.

Joanie has focused her career on helping people improve their success and happiness in their careers. She specializes in maximizing leadership potential and is the author of the book, “Flying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life.”

Listen to our chat with Joanie as she shares her story of how leaving her engineering career to live a more authentic life to pursue a career that fueled her passion for helping people while utilizing her strengths in leadership.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Pay attention to that “A-ha” moment of finding what you really enjoy doing
Being authentic in your career is key – being able to align your work with who you are as a person is liberating
Having resilience to stay strong through your failures as they happen can lead to something better

RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Follow Joanie on Twitter: @ConnellLessons.

Learn more onJoanie’s website.

Like Joanie on Facebook.

Check out Joanie’s book, Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life

GET IN TOUCH WITH US!

Come join us over on Facebook in our Work You Love OneStop group!

Twitter: @htycbiz and @scottabarlow

LOVE THE SHOW? SUBSCRIBE TO THE HAPPEN TO YOUR CAREER PODCAST:

For helping finding YOUR signature strengths, enroll in our FREE 8-day video course at figureitout.co!

LEAVE US A REVIEW AND HELP US TO REACH MORE FOLKS JUST LIKE YOU AND HELP THEM “HAPPEN” TO THEIR CAREERS!

WANT HELP FINDING THE WORK THAT FITS YOU?

Are you ready to be authentic in your career? If you’re ready to align your career with who you really are, check out our FREE 8-day course to “Figure Out What you Really Want for Your Career!”

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Ready for Career Happiness?

What Career Fits You?

Finally figure out what you should be doing for work

Join our 8-day “Mini-Course” to figure it out. It’s free!

Featured Episodes

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April 17, 2017

174: Add Value, Grow Your Career with Michael Bigelow

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January 21, 2019

267: 3 Creative and Strategic Ways to Show Your Strengths to Interviewers

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Finding Your Confidence By Getting Comfortable in the Discomfort with Maxie McCoy

September 12, 2016 by eli

Discomfort: noun dis·com·fort \dis-ˈkəm-fərt\
1. Mental or physical uneasiness, 2. A feeling of being somewhat worried, unhappy, etc.

Are you comfortable with being uncomfortable?

Are you in a place in your life, whether in your career or not, that makes you feel uneasy? Maybe you’re stuck in limbo wondering if you need to start transitioning out of your current career.

It’s hard work to reflect during these times in our lives that make us feel stuck. Reflection and being completely honest with ourselves about where we are in our lives and where we want to be isn’t an easy task. It’s difficult to identify the things that are really important to us. But, we have to do it if we want to move forward.

Our guest, Maxie McCoy, shares that one of the first things you want to do while getting out of what seems like this career crisis is to re-frame the negative. Take this situation and turn it into a chance to put work into something that lights you up again.

Do something that will allow you to show up. It’s usually in those happy, passion-filled moments where you’re able to clear your mind and re-focus on the things that you want and the things that you need to do to get what you want.

Whether you’re thinking of starting your own business, asking for what you deserve in a negotiation, or starting a blog, you need to start re-framing the negativity that surrounds the unknown- that fear that brings you discomfort. Turn it around and start developing an appetite for the discomfort. It is only in those uncomfortable, even doubtful times that something big can happen.

It’s in those trying times where you can spin that wheel of “I-CAN-DO-THIS” and move forward. The more you get comfortable with being uncomfortable, your confidence will grow. With that growth, the level of discomfort that you can handle gets bigger.

When you look back, you’ll wonder why you even worried to begin with, because when you look back at all of the times you’ve pushed through your discomfort, you’ll now have a “beautiful reflection of where you’ve moved your life to.”

ABOUT MAXIE MCCOY

Maxie McCoy, a former broadcast journalist turned career expert is obsessed with her mission to inspire billions. She is a self-described cheerleader for the people that is passionate about providing people with the tools that they need for them to believe in themselves.
Maxie began her journey to inspire by designing and building out the global offline communities for Levo League, the #1 career destination for millennials. She is now a one-woman road tour of inspiration and career advice.

Listen to our chat with Maxie as she shares how leaving her career comfort zone lead her to a much bigger and brighter future (one that she can’t stop smiling about!).

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Asking the tough questions isn’t easy, but it’s absolutely necessary. It’s hard work to reflect, but in those tough moments of reflection is where the magic happens
You’ll learn how to re-frame the negative to something that lights you up again
It’s in paying attention to everything that is happening that allows us to show up for ourselves
- Getting comfortable with the worst case scenario will give you the tools you need to figure it out and work through it

RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Follow Maxie on Twitter: @MaxieMcCoy.

Learn more onMaxie’s website.

Like Maxie on Facebook.

GET IN TOUCH WITH US!

Come join us over on Facebook in our Work You Love OneStop group!

Twitter: @htycbiz and @scottabarlow

LOVE THE SHOW? SUBSCRIBE TO THE HAPPEN TO YOUR CAREER PODCAST:

For helping finding YOUR signature strengths, enroll in our FREE 8-day video course at figureitout.co!

LEAVE US A REVIEW AND HELP US TO REACH MORE FOLKS JUST LIKE YOU AND HELP THEM “HAPPEN” TO THEIR CAREERS!

WANT HELP FINDING THE WORK THAT FITS YOU?

Have you started your path on finding a new career? Having trouble figuring out what the next career chapter is? Check out our free 8-day course to “Figure Out What Fits.” We’re here to help and keep you motivated on staying on that new path of success!

Transcript

Ready for Career Happiness?

What Career Fits You?

Finally figure out what you should be doing for work

Join our 8-day “Mini-Course” to figure it out. It’s free!

Featured Episodes

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April 17, 2017

174: Add Value, Grow Your Career with Michael Bigelow

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January 21, 2019

267: 3 Creative and Strategic Ways to Show Your Strengths to Interviewers

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Getting Off the Traditional Path of Success and Taking Audacious Action with Caroline Greene

September 5, 2016 by eli

Have you ever found yourself feeling guilty or unappreciative for wanting something other than the career and life that you’ve already worked so hard to create?

Does the doubt that lingers in your mind that maybe you’re not on the right career path even though you’ve achieved great success in your professional life make you feel crazy or ungrateful?

Stop.

Stop right there and get it out of your mind that there is something wrong with wanting something more. There is nothing wrong with having a desire to achieve something greater than what you’ve accomplished so far in your career.

Many of us are seekers and as seekers we may feel a deep sense that what we’re doing with our lives isn’t right for us. As seekers we may feel like we’re made for something different, something more. We may experience the unnerving feeling like we may be the crazy ones because as we look around, we ask how other people are living their lives just fine in their chosen careers.

If you’ve found yourself in this place of wonder, asking how you’re supposed to get started on getting out of your current career to find a new path or how you’re supposed to even get started on changing your career path when you don’t even know where you see your future self, then our chat with life and business coach, Caroline Greene, may be the episode for you.

ABOUT CAROLINE GREENE

Caroline Greene achieved success in a very traditional way as a graduate of Yale and the UVA School of Law and continuing on to find more success as a defense attorney. Fast forward to now, and Caroline will tell you that she is a recovering lawyer finding joy as life and business coach for determined women that want to build a life or start a business that isn’t just done right in the traditional sense, but is done right on their terms. She takes pride in her work helping her clients get where their hearts are leading them to go.

Listen to our chat with Caroline as she shares her career and life experiences and how she finally made the jump to find out what she really wanted to achieve with her career and life.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

How being honest with yourself about the things that you like and the things that you don’t like will get you started to finding what type of career path you see your future self on
The steps to start gaining that momentum start small..something as little of getting out there and talking to people could be a turning point in your process in figuring it all out
It’s important to always remember that you have the control. Even when you’re coming out of the phase of what seems like a crisis, YOU’RE IN CONTROL of what happens next
The two steps you need to follow in finding your new career path are:
1. Owning your “craziness”
  - Being able to accept your in-between place in life and know that it is okay to be there
  - Trusting yourself to find out where you want to be not in the next five years, but in the next week
2. Doing something about it
  - Taking that audacious action to get where you’re meant to be going
  - Start by taking small steps to spend time talking to people that have been in the same place as you to learn from their experiences and gain momentum to move forward in a meaningful way

RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Follow Caroline on Twitter: @DeterminedMoms.

Like Caroline on Facebook.

Find Caroline’s book on amazon here: “MATTER: How to Find Meaningful Work That’s Right For You And Your Family”

GET IN TOUCH WITH US!

Twitter: @htycbiz and @scottabarlow

For helping finding YOUR signature strengths, enroll in our FREE 8-day video course at figureitout.co!

LEAVE US A REVIEW AND HELP US TO REACH MORE FOLKS JUST LIKE YOU AND HELP THEM “HAPPEN” TO THEIR CAREERS!

WANT HELP FINDING THE WORK THAT FITS YOU?

Ready to take control and get on your path to (non)traditional success? Take those small steps and check out our free 8-day course to “Figure Out What Fits.”

Transcript

Ready for Career Happiness?

What Career Fits You?

Finally figure out what you should be doing for work

Join our 8-day “Mini-Course” to figure it out. It’s free!

Featured Episodes

View all episodes

April 17, 2017

174: Add Value, Grow Your Career with Michael Bigelow

Listen Now

January 21, 2019

267: 3 Creative and Strategic Ways to Show Your Strengths to Interviewers

Listen Now

The Science of Happiness: How to Find Joy and Get Back to Playing Through Positive Psychology with Michelle McQuaid

August 29, 2016 by eli

Are you finding yourself unsatisfied by the life path that you are on?

Do you ever feel like once you achieve a goal or you get where you want to be in your career or in a particular place in your life that all you want is more?

Some of us work a job day in and day out, content with the life that we have created for ourselves. Sometimes that contentment becomes realized as complacency as we long for more from our careers or life in general.

As we reach a level of technical success in our career, we stop learning new things and our lives become less engaging. Getting curious and staying interested in what matters to us is imperative in our lives. Keeping that sense of wonder keeps life playful and fun.

Today’s guest, Michelle McQuaid, is here to teach us about her findings in the science of happiness, also referred to as positive psychology.

Her studies encourage us to look beyond our achievement-obsessed and outcome-focused society as that culture causes us to lose sight of the things that bring us joy in the every day.

ABOUT MICHELLE MCQUAID

Michelle McQuaid found success up the corporate ladder in public relations early on in her career. After years of hard work, Michelle had reached her career goals and had an incredibly successful professional and personal life with a growing family. Yet, with all of her external success, Michelle felt as though she was still missing something, like everything that she had achieved still wasn’t enough.

Enter the concept of positive psychology and Michelle’s life path was forever changed. She is now a best-selling author, workplace well being coach and playful change activator. She’s passionate about translating research from positive psychology and neuroscience, into practical strategies for health, happiness, and business success.

Michelle advocates to help people discover their strengths, move beyond their fears, and discover what it takes to flourish with confidence and discover the science of happiness.

Listen to our chat with Michelle as she shares her experience of reaching what she thought her career and life goals were, but then found herself wanting more from the life she created for her and her family.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

How to use the knowledge of what makes us happy to redefine our purpose
How to figure out what is best for you because knowing what is going to be good for you right now is the best thing you can do to flourish in your career and life
Your potential and your capabilities are key in aligning yourself with purposeful work
How to be okay with the lows in life

RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Follow Michelle on Twitter: @chellemcquaid.

Learn more about the science of happiness on Michelle’s website.

Like Michelle on Facebook.

Check out The VIA Survey, the only free, scientific survey to find your character strengths!

Take the PERMAH Workplace Survey recommended by Michelle to check your well being.

GET IN TOUCH WITH US!

Come join us over on Facebook in our Work You Love OneStop group!

Twitter: @htycbiz and @scottabarlow

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WANT HELP FINDING THE WORK THAT FITS YOU?

Are you ready to discover your strengths, move beyond your fears, and discover what it takes to flourish with confidence? Knowing your potential and your capabilities is key in aligning yourself with purposeful work and we can help, sign up for our free 8-day course to “Figure Out What Fits.”

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Ready for Career Happiness?

What Career Fits You?

Finally figure out what you should be doing for work

Join our 8-day “Mini-Course” to figure it out. It’s free!

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Uncover Your Signature Sauce and Redefine Your Story with Paul Angone

August 22, 2016 by eli

What’s your story? Do you even know?

Have you taken the time to look at your own story? Ask yourself: what are the biggest triumphs of your story? Find out where the biggest tragedies that you’ve experienced are in your story.

Between the times that you’ve felt the most successful- the times that made you feel the most alive, and the times that you’ve had to deal with your biggest setbacks- the hard circumstances that you’ve had to overcome, you will find your future.

Today’s guest, Paul Angone, is here to reemphasize that it’s okay to not have it all figured out yet. He encourages us to take a look back at the experiences we’ve gone through to help see what we want our future story to look like.

ABOUT PAUL ANGONE

Paul Angone is the author of All Groan Up: Searching for Self, Faith, and a Freaking Job! as well as the best-selling book 101 Secrets for Your Twenties. He is also a national speaker at universities and organizations & a frequent contributor for publications such as Business Insider, Huffington Post.

Paul began his career journey with a struggle. The struggle and frustration that plagues many of us to try and figure out the rest of our lives. By self-reflection, Paul was able to define his struggle through writing. It was through this outlet that Paul became passionate about empowering college students, twentysomethings, and thirtysomethings.

For over 10 years Paul has researched, written, and spoke about the biggest issues, opportunities, and challenges for Millennials. He is the creator of the website, AllGroanUp.com, which has been read by millions of people in 190 countries.

Listen to our chat with Paul as he shares how to take your story, uncover your signature sauce (where your passion, purpose, and career collide), and create a brand for yourself.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Why it’s important to retrace your steps to rediscover your story
How reflecting over your struggles can lead to your passion
The power behind creating a brand for yourself

RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Follow Paul on Twitter: @PaulAngone

Learn more on Paul’s website All Groan Up

Like his All Groan Up page on Facebook.

Check out Paul’s book, 101 Secrets For Your Twenties: Amazon | Barnes and Noble

Check out Paul’s book, All Groan Up: Amazon | Barnes and Noble

GET IN TOUCH WITH US!

Come join us over on Facebook in our Work You Love OneStop group!

Twitter: @htycbiz and @scottabarlow

LOVE THE SHOW? SUBSCRIBE TO THE HAPPEN TO YOUR CAREER PODCAST:

For helping finding YOUR signature strengths, enroll in our FREE 8-day video course at figureitout.co!

LEAVE US A REVIEW AND HELP US TO REACH MORE FOLKS JUST LIKE YOU AND HELP THEM “HAPPEN” TO THEIR CAREERS!

WANT HELP FINDING THE WORK THAT FITS YOU?

Have you taken a look at your past story to see what you want your future story will look like? If you’re ready to figure out where your story will take you, check out our FREE 8-day course to “Figure Out What you Really Want for Your Career!”

Transcript

Ready for Career Happiness?

What Career Fits You?

Finally figure out what you should be doing for work

Join our 8-day “Mini-Course” to figure it out. It’s free!

Featured Episodes

View all episodes

April 17, 2017

174: Add Value, Grow Your Career with Michael Bigelow

Listen Now

January 21, 2019

267: 3 Creative and Strategic Ways to Show Your Strengths to Interviewers

Listen Now

Patience In the Evolution of Your Career with Jaime Masters

August 15, 2016 by eli

Have you decided to take the leap into a different career? Or maybe you’ve decided to start your own business?

Making the decision to start a new business or completely head in a different direction into a new career path isn’t an easy one.

One of the things that you absolutely have to understand is that failure at any point in that journey to where you want to go is definitely a welcomed opportunity. It may not seem like it, but it’s okay to not have all of the answers to whether or not what you’re doing is the right way to do it.

Enjoy the time that you have to get there. Enjoy the time not knowing. Take that time and see what you like. You may not see it until you’re where you want to be, but it’s fun to be in a spot where you can test new ideas and things you are passionate about. It’s in that space where you can dream a little.

Our guest, Jaime Masters, speaks from her very own experience of leaving her successful career as a project manager behind and jumping into the unknown. She is now an incredibly successful business coach with a strong network of millionaires. Her journey into the unknown opened her eyes to what is possible.

Jaime discovered that her strengths were in helping people. Her lessons to be learned are centered around the fact that “you have no idea what you’re good at until you do it.”

ABOUT JAIME MASTERS

Jaime Masters is the author of a book and host of a podcast by the same name, The Eventual Millionaire.
Her rise to success wasn’t achieved over night. It took her years of fine tuning to get where she is now.

Her story starts with a six-figure income career out of college with a spending habit that matched. By the time she was 24, she hated her job and was in over $70,000 in debt.

After realizing that an enjoyable life was worth far more than a million dollars, she made it her mission to get out of debt & find work and a life she loved.

Now a successful business coach, Jaime helps entrepreneurs focus their money and their strengths to create an amazing life while they build their net worth. She also interviews millionaires to get their best tips, tactics and advice from their successes and failures.

Listen in on our conversation with Jaime Masters. Jaime shares tips on how to be patient in the evolution of who you are. Every time you are asked to make a hard decision, you have to realize that it is a test to see how good you are at a skill.

You won’t know how good you are at something until you are on the path to where you want to go.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

The importance of being completely honest with yourself to see what you need to do to get where you want to go in your career
How strengths & knowing what you’re innately good at, what you’re not good at, are key in your success
That when you’re starting a new job, career, or side hustle, it is slow-going at the beginning.
- Have patience and continue to trust the process.

RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Follow Jaime on Twitter: @eventualmillion

Like her Eventual Millionaire page on Facebook.

Check out Jaime’s Eventual Millionaire book, website,and her podcast.

GET IN TOUCH WITH US!

Come join us over on Facebook in our Work You Love OneStop group!

Twitter: @htycbiz and @scottabarlow

LOVE THE SHOW? SUBSCRIBE TO THE HAPPEN TO YOUR CAREER PODCAST:

For helping finding YOUR signature strengths, enroll in our FREE 8-day video course at figureitout.co!

LEAVE US A REVIEW AND HELP US TO REACH MORE FOLKS JUST LIKE YOU AND HELP THEM “HAPPEN” TO THEIR CAREERS!

WANT HELP FINDING THE WORK THAT FITS YOU?

Ready to create a life by doing work you love? If you need help figuring out what you want to do next, check out our free 8-day course to “Figure Out What Fits.”

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