Bringing Authenticity into the Workplace with Joanie Connell

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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

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

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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.

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

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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

Follow Caroline on Twitter: @DeterminedMoms.

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

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

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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.

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Uncover Your Signature Sauce and Redefine Your Story with Paul Angone

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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

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Patience In the Evolution of Your Career with Jaime Masters

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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.

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Mastering Your Side Hustle with Tracey Minutolo

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We talk about career transitions and finding and turning your passions into a career you love all the time, but what happens when you love where your career is now and you want to work on incorporating some of your other passions into your work life?

Maybe your career has nothing to do with the additional knowledge, skills, or passions that you want to leverage to create a better future for yourself. All you know is that you’re motivated and ready to make some moves to start working on something big for yourself.

That’s where the side hustle comes in.

Our guest, Tracey Minutolo, has quickly become a side-hustling professional on the topic of side-hustling. She’s a full-time lab supervisor at a medical device and diagnostics company by day, and a side-hustling rockstar by heart.

Tracey got her start in the side-hustle business when she decided it was time to get herself out of debt.

After years of feeling stuck, she found the world of business podcasts and decided to start a small virtual assistant side business, providing social media and community management and other support services for podcasters with purpose.

With the side-hustle fire lit under her, her skill set continues to grow and she is currently coaching others with their side-businesses as HTYC’s Side Biz Coach.

Listen as she shares her career and side-hustle journey!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • How to leverage your knowledge, skills, and passions to create a better life for yourself with a side hustle
  • That you don’t have to quit your day job to enjoy work you’re passionate about
  • That there is a way to balance your life with a side business- people do it all the time
  • That knowing yourself- what you want, the type of environment you excel in will help you find a successful side hustle that won’t feel like a job
RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Follow Tracey on Twitter: @TraceyMinutolo

Check out Tracey’s website and her community of Side Hustlers and Financial Freedomfighters!

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Not quite ready to quit your job and make a jump to your next career? Test it as a side hustle first.
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Build Your Value and Set Yourself Up For Success with Paul Maskill

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Have you realized that the career path that you’re currently on might not be the one that you see yourself on for the rest of your life?

If you’re ready to put an end to your career burnout and start doing something that matters to you, listen in on our conversation with today’s guest, Paul Maskill.

ABOUT PAUL MASKILL

Paul Maskill began his career journey in the world of corporate finance. Not long into his career in Corporate America, he realized that sitting in a cubicle for 10-12 hours a day, building someone else’s business wasn’t the life he wanted for himself. So, he quit his job, traveled for a couple of months and relocated to start a more rewarding career.

Paul did his research and decided to invest in a franchise called TGA (Teach Grow Achieve). This new business venture combine both his passions for business and sports while creating a positive impact on the lives of thousands of kids every year.

Listen as he shares his career transition experience!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • You will learn that you have the power to control your own destiny
  • Taking a step back to re-evaluate your current situation will give you the insight you need to set yourself up to succeed
  • Working at your passion will continue to open doors for you
  • Staying disciplined and keeping your sights on your long-term goals is key to your success

Follow Paul on Twitter: @PaulMaskill

Check out TGA Tennis & TGA Golf on Facebook!

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Negotiating What You Are Worth with Josh Doody

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Are you ready to put yourself in the position to make more money?

Whether you are changing your career entirely, aiming for a promotion within the company you already work for, or wanting to negotiate a raise, our guest, Josh Doody, is here to share some insight on how to negotiate what you are worth.

Listen as he explains the process of negotiating effectively.

You can also find your step-by-step approach to negotiate a raise, promotion, or salary offer below.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • How-to determine your target salary or job title
  • How to negotiate a raise
  • How-to deliver your pitch for that raise, promotion, or salary requirement for a new job offer
  • What happens when your negotiation doesn’t turn out the way you want it to
  • How-to get over the fear of negotiating
HOW-TO NEGOTIATE A RAISE, PROMOTION OR SALARY OFFER

Set Your Target Goal

Whether it is a new salary or an upgraded job title that you are pursuing, make sure your target goal is something that makes sense to the company.

Wondering how to find your target salary or new job title? Think of your target salary as the dollar amount that you think you should be paid because of the value that you add to the company. Likewise, think of your targeted job title as something that represents your responsibilities and the value that you’re adding to the company in that new position.

Do your market research on both salaries and job titles. Estimate your market value to determine your proposed goals. If you’re still having trouble, try to look from your manager’s perspective, a business perspective. Your ask should demonstrate how you are profiting the company. Show the company the realistic value that you add for their benefit.

Justify Your Goal (Salary or Job Title)

After you have your goals in sight, it is best to make a list of reasons why your target salary or job title makes sense to the company.

Start thinking about things that you’ve done that add value to the company.

Have you taken on more responsibilities in terms of business operations? Do you manage more people? Do you bring in more revenue? Have you created or implemented a process that makes the company more efficient?

If you’re looking to upgrade your job title, take your current position and compare it to the job title that you want. What are the differences? Have you demonstrated the level of responsibility that comes with the upgraded title? Are you already accomplishing things that are part of the targeted job title and not of your current position? Use a level of acknowledged responsibility to help justify your request for a promotion.

Whatever your list includes, make sure it gives legitimate reason to what you’re requesting. You can even collect proof of your work from clients and coworkers to add to that list.

Articulate the Justification for Your Goal

With your target goals justified, you’re ready to deliver the pitch.

First, write an email with your raise or promotion request. This is your chance to reorganize all of the information that you’ve compiled from your market research and your performance at your job. When you’re done composing your email, save it. This will be your follow-up email after you have a verbal conversation with your manager.

Schedule a meeting with your manager to discuss your raise/promotion request. If you’re having a hard time putting your request into words, start with the facts.

For example, you can say, “My salary of $_________ was set in the past. I think that based on my research/based on what I do for the company now, that my value to the company reflects a salary that should be close to $_________ and these are the reasons why: (list your reasons).”

What Happens When Your Request is Denied?

If you’ve followed the steps but your manager is unable to meet your goal, your next step is to build a development plan with your manager to get to that salary or job title.

Ask to create a timeline and a list of what you have to do to get you to that goal.

If you are absolutely worth the request and the company that you’re working for doesn’t think that you are worth that, then it may be time to look for another company that will meet your goals.

New Job Offer and Salary Negotiation

BEFORE JOB OFFER: Set a minimum salary requirement for yourself when applying for new jobs. Ask yourself, “What is the minimum salary that I would accept to do the job as I understand it?”

When you get a new job offer, counter their offer with your minimum that you established or with 10-20% above their offer. If you are undoubtedly worth more than their offer, respond with, “Well, we’re really far apart in your offer. I’m sorry, but I really can’t accept the job for less than (your minimum acceptable salary).”

ABOUT JOSH DOODY

A former electrical engineer turned project manager and consultant, Josh Doody realized that he had left a lot of money on the table at his first few jobs without properly negotiating his salary offers. Soon after, he began his practice in negotiating his salary and doubled his salary within three years.

After gaining confidence through his successful negotiations, he began to help others drastically increase their salaries as well. Inspired by both his own experiences in his career and personal salary negotiations and the success stories from helping others, Josh Doody wrote the book Fearless Salary Negotiation in 2015.

Find out more about salary negotiation at: FearlessSalaryNegotiation.com

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Using Your Resilience and Persistence to Forge Your Path with Tayo Rockson

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Is your current job situation aligned with your career and life goals? Or is it starting to feel like a detour from the path you envision for yourself?

It’s not too late to get back on track with your journey to your dream career. Remember every experience is a learning one and your strengths develop from your experiences.

Just ask our guest, Tayo Rockson, how his life’s experiences- from childhood through college and to being rejected from over 85 jobs, have given him a strong set of unique strengths and skills that he has adapted and mastered over time.

Listen as he shares his story of how he literally and figuratively veered off the road to what he is meant to be doing with his life and career, and how he got back on track to continue pushing to stay true to his process to reach his goals.

ABOUT TAYO ROCKSON

Tayo Rockson, a citizen of the world and third culture kid, is an entrepreneur and self-made digital media mastermind behind UYD Media. He is also a founding editor of BrandEdU. Tayo has made it his career goal to help millennials follow their calling while making a global difference. He has a lot of experience communicating across all cultures and has contributed to Huffington Post, Among Worlds Magazine, Social Media Club as well as Global Living Magazine. He also currently hosts his own top-rated podcast on culture/travel/international business.

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  • Your mindset is an asset. Never lower your expectations.
  • Your environment and the company you keep are key in continuing your journey to reach your goals.
  • When you’re on a down slope on your journey, don’t forget that it takes time to reach success. It takes time to hone your craft and get stronger. Don’t give up early.

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Knowing what you want and what you can do is the perfect combination to start making things happen. Maybe you’re at a point where you’re ready get the ball rolling on your new career path. Or maybe you’re just beginning to look for that next challenge and don’t know what’s next. That’s where we can help. Check out our FREE 8-day course to “Figure Out What you Really Want for Your Career!”

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