Stephanie O’Brien How to Choose a Business

Stephanie Obrien Moved by Purpose How to Choose a business

She kicked off her career as a Social Worker in Detroit.  After a few years, burned out, and with over $50,000 in student loan debt, she switched gears, turning inward to discover her strengths, talents, and passions through some serious self-reflection.  She made a commitment to herself, developed a plan of action, and created the career of her dreams, coaching others to achieve lives of abundance and fulfillment.  She’s been mentored by Dan Miller and is a certified coach in the Coaching Mastery Program with 48 days.  As a career and life coach and host of the Moved By Purpose Podcast she’s all about helping others find their purpose in life and applying that purpose daily in meaningful life work!  Also…crunchy cookie butter!

  • How Stephanie created her own business with no experience
  • What you can do to choose your own business
  • How to Develop your elevator pitch for yourself (see downloadable PDF below)

How to Get Your First Customer: Stephanie’s Video Interview with Happen to Your Career

FREE 8 Day Course: Figure out what business and career YOU want with our Work You Love: OneStop Intro Course

Download the PDF Stephanie Mentioned in the episode that includes a simple method to develop your elevator pitch CLICK HERE

GET IN TOUCH WITH STEPHANIE

Website: http://www.movedbypurpose.net

Facebook:  Personal page –  https://www.facebook.com/stefanie.obrien.121?fref=ts

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/movedbypurpose

What’s Stopping You from Figuring Out What You Want

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Most people won’t ever figure out what makes them happy and what they want in their career.

I don’t want you to be most people.

Here are three all-to-common reasons why people don’t figure out what they want… and some things you can do right now to make a change.

In this episode you will learn:

  • Why you should commit to something even if it’s not perfect (… and why it’s still committing even if it’s temporary)
  • Specific questions to ask yourself to understand what can make you happy in your career
  • Ways to determine something you are truly excited about

Links and Resources in this episode

Episode 26 What are your strengths- Part 1

Episode 27 What are your strengths- Part 2

Episode 28 What You Want… It’s NOT what you think!

Episode 29 Do you know what YOU want in life?

Episode 31 Matching Opportunities with Wants

Episode 32  Make a Decision Already!

Also our FREE 8 day course that helps you figure out what you want and sets you up to make a decision! CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE

CK Bray Career Revolution

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He spent 15 years in the corporate world honing his expertise around organization development, leadership, and the employee development experience.  With CK Bray Consulting and Development, he now specializes in career coaching, planning, and transitions for employees as well as employee motivation, development, and retention for his corporate clients.  He is also the host of the Career Revolution with Dr. CK Bray, “A Place to Fix, Change, or Create Your Best Career”.

He’s a father of six, he’s working on inventing a brand new chocolate delicacy, and at some point in the future we just might see him on TV hosting a game show or delivering the evening newscast!

In this episode with Dr. CK Bray you will learn
  • Why the polar opposite of what you are doing now is unlikely to be your dream job (learn from Dave the Dentist)
  • What Chris recommends for those wanting to start a career transition
  • If you are ever thinking of starting your own business, what you should think about first

Chris’s website: http://www.drckbray.com

HTYC 8 day intro course that helps you figure out what you want in your career http://happentoyourcareer.com/onestop

How you can connect with Chris

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/drckbray

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/DrCKBray

YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/Drckbray/

Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/drckbray

How to find Hidden Jobs with Scott MacDonald

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Scott McDonald was in a job where he worked too many hours and he just didn’t enjoy after a corporate restructure. Listen to how he quit his job, went on to find a hidden job that he really wanted!

In this episode you will learn:

  • One of the very best ways to approach a company through LinkedIn
  • How to find jobs that aren’t even posted yet to the public
  • Why you should spend the time to determine what you really want
  • How Scott prepared himself to not be forced to take the first thing that comes along
  • And much more

Scott mentions his gingerbread house (I believe it’s more of a “Frozen Gingerbread Mansion”)

You Decide 😉

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Do you want to figure out what you really should be doing for your career?

visit http:happentoyourcareer.com/onestop for our FREE 8 day course that helps you figure it out step by step!

Go Happen to Your Career!

How to Hustle on the Side

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Nick Loper is what I would call an Experimentalist, He’s had a couple businesses, really enjoys the hustle and is working slowly on dominating a website called Fiverr.com. With his Steven Leavitt sounding voice (you have to love Freakonomics to get this one) he is rapidly putting out amazing info into the world that helps you make your side hustle very very profitable (and fun!)

Listen to this episode to discover:

  • How you can try low risk entrepreneurship to make sure it’s right for you
  • How to make money on Fiverr.com
  • What every person who is considering starting a business on the side needs to consider.

Want to decide what type of career or business is right for you? View the video at http://happentoyourcareer.com/onestop to learn about our FREE 8 day course that helps you figure out what you want!

Learn more about it HERE

You can connect with Nick Loper at SidehustleNation.com

Moments that Matter in Your Career with Andy Hayes

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Owner of a business called plumdeluxe.com, liver of the good life, Tweeter of ridiculously delicious looking meals. Fan of both craft beer and vinegar (not necessarily together). He also appears to have an infatuation with tea that I want to dig into. Most importantly, He has built an amazing career over the last 15 years. Heiling from Portland Oregon we welcome Andy Hayes to Happen to Your Career!

Andy tells his story of making a jump to a lower paying job, not once but 3 times! Every time dropping in pay but upping his happiness. He eventually started his own business taking his skills from his past career and applying them to what he was really interested.

In this episode you will learn:
  • Whether or Not You have to make less money to enjoy your job
  • How you can avoid wandering from job to job
  • How to lay it all out, when you are faced with a difficult career decision

Plus Andy tells us about his love of tea and Scott asks him for some recommendations!

Plumdeluxe.com Andy’s business that helps you make moments matter

Twitter Reach out and thank andy for being on the show!

Are you struggling figuring out what you want in your career? Learn about our FREE 8 day course that helps you avoid spending the rest of your life going from job to job unhappy. Instead, get unstuck by figuring out what you want and making a decision now. CLICK HERE

Magic of Motion

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One of the most difficult things to do for a career change is to get started. Once you begin and start taking action over and over again, you will be surprised at the results you get

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • How you can get started
  • why you need to act now
  • the psycology of being in motion
  • and how we applied the Toby Keith principle to our podcast at first (I know… you will have to listen to find out)

Find out more at http://happentoyourcareer.com

How to make more out of the time that you have (Episode 48 of the HTYC Podcast) http://happentoyourcareer.com/48 listen to find better strategies to use the time that you do have.

****Do you work in a job that you don’t want to be in forever? Do you want to do work that is un-apologetically you?

We have put together a course that helps you figure out what work you love is for YOU

Visit http://happentoyourcareer.com/onestop and tell us where to send the first lesson

How to find time to make a career Change

Making a career change can feel like a full time job in itself.

This is part of the reason many people just don’t ever do it. They know they are not happy with what their doing but changing careers is hard and they don’t want to give up on even one night of the voice.

So it never happens for them.

In this episode of the Happen to Your Career Podcast we share with you several ways that you can find the time to be able to make your career change happen!

In this episode you will learn:

  • Why prioritizing gives you more time
  • How you can find your why (and why it’s important)
  • How to track where you are spending your time (using apps that do it for you automatically)

Links and Resources mentioned in this episode

Free Intro Course that helps you “Figure out what you want to do” for your career

HTYC Podcast Episode 42 – The 80/20 Rule and how it applies to your career. Learn about why 20% of stuff makes 80% of the results

RescueTime – The google chrome plugin that tracks where you spend your time on the internet

Daily Decisions – Marks Talk and YouTube video that dives into how to find more time and make decisions that support your goals

Career Q&A and HTYC Mashup!

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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 I do when I am in waiting mode after interviewing for an internal position… and they’re not getting back to me?

She rattles off that answer effortlessly! Listen that and more in this episode/Mashup of the HTYC Meets Lead Through Strengths Podcast!

Learn more about Lisa at LeadThroughStrengths.com or the Lead Through Strengths podcast on iTunes

You’ll also learn:

  • When you have to have 5 or 10 (or even 15) interviews for a particular company, is this good or bad…should you be concerned about the company OR Thrilled that they are taking their time?
  • If you already have an idea of what your dream job may be should you jump in and go for it (even if you don’t have experience) OR Should you get more clarity on it before moving forward?
  • Why is there so many people out there that believe that technical skills are the key to getting where you want to go?

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.

Scott and Mark discuss signature strengths and how they impact your career.

Here are some of the resources mentioned in this episode

Strengths Finder 2.0- http://happentoyourcareer.com/strengthsfinder