Authenticity: Your Path to Success with Greg Giangrande

ABOUT GREG GIANGRANDE

Greg Giangrande has been called “one of the most highly-regarded executives in his field” by Adweek. As Executive VP and Chief Human Resources Officer for Time Inc. he oversees HR globally for 8,000 employees. He’s held executive level HR positions at News Corporation, The Hearst Corporation and HR leadership positions at Conde Nast and Random House.  Greg also writes a weekly advice column called “Go to Greg” for the NY Post and makes appearances on Good Day NY.

He’s also called all of the shots in his career, accepting only the opportunities that were aligned with what he calls his “True North.”

I never wanted to look back and regret not having spent enough time, or shortchanging my kids in that role. I could deal with regretting not having spent enough time in my professional career. But I don’t think I could deal with looking back and not having spent enough time raising my children.

Greg Giangrande

Greg’s anchor, his “True North” has always been his dedication to his family and keeping his career in balance with that has guided his decisions.

Greg believes that most people tend to overcomplicate their career decisions.  What it comes down to is holding tight to what matters to you, then focusing on providing as much value as you can, learning where you can excel and then doubling down on that!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • The importance of defining your “compass points” and your “True North” – finding direction in your career is simpler than you think!
  • How to make yourself indispensable and attract more opportunity at work.  *Hint:  it’s all about providing value
  • How to differentiate yourself from your peers.
  • The difference between “activity” and “productivity” and how knowing that difference can help you skyrocket your career to the next level.
  • What your “Reputation Index” is and how to manage it!

GregGiangrande.com

Go to Greg – Greg’s New York Post weekly advice column

Time, Inc. bio

For more info on the value of being your authentic self:

HTYC 059 The Power of Being Yourself with Jenny Foss

For more information on understanding what matters to you and discovering the work that fits:

GET IN TOUCH WITH GREG!

Twitter:  @GregGiangrande

GregGiangrande.com

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Get Intentional, Get Results with Olivia Gamber

ABOUT OLIVIA GAMBER

Olivia Gamber has climbed up the corporate ladder quickly and at a super-young age, is now the Manager of Talent and Organizational Development at Taylor Morrison. She tackled her post-graduation career uncertainty in a way that set her apart from the rest of the pack. Through self-discovery and intentional action she was able to launch an impressive career and now she’s helping her Gen Y peers to do the same through OccupationalOlivia.com.

Beforegraduating with a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology Olivia started researching possible careers for herself and began reaching out to people she felt could help her in her search.  Sending out as many as 10 messages PER WEEK to people she’d had introductions with, but also to people she didn’t know personally at all, she requested a few moments of time to learn about their different career paths.  Olivia not only got the information she was after but also greatly expanded her network AND found her first position through one of these contacts.

The insights she gained through these conversations allowed Olivia to “get inside the minds of hiring managers” and to effectively market herself as an ideal candidate.

By focusing on what she wanted on the “front end”, Olivia was able to avoid spending time and energy on the non-targeted activities that she says hold back most of her peers.  But it didn’t stop there.  She took what she learned and stepped out into the job market.  The job market is where you will get the critical feedback you need to continue growing in and shaping your career path.

Olivia says,

You can only go so far just sitting in your room thinking about your wants and your dreams – ultimately it has to intersect with the market.

Grab Olivia’s FREE 3-day Career Breakthrough course here!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • How you can stand out from the crowd by being proactive and following up after initiating contact with someone.
  • The importance of building and nurturing relationships.
  • How to start gaining clarity on what you want in your career and then how to get there through taking persistent and intentional action.
  • Why being bored in your job is something that’s very much in YOUR control (and NOT your boss’s fault after all!) how you can combat it!
RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

OccupationalOlivia.com – for “Next Level Career Success”; get Olivia’s 5-day Crash Course to get unstuck and get noticed!

How Can I Be So Bored If I’m So Busy? – Olivia’s Linkedin Pulse article mentioned in the episode

Get Olivia’s FREE 3-day Career Breakthrough video course!  It will help you get unstuck and get on the path to finding work you love!

For more information on taking action and discovering the work that fits you:

For more information on growing and maintaining your network:

GET IN TOUCH WITH OLIVIA!

Twitter: @TheOliviaGamber

Facebook:  Occupational Olivia

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It’s Now or Never with Doc Kennedy

ABOUT DOC KENNEDY

Fear of failure cripples. It keeps you from taking action on the things you know can lead you to realizing your dreams and living up to your potential. Doc Kennedy let the fear paralyze him for a long time. But, after a volunteer position gave him the skills and the confidence he needed and his dream of becoming a filmmaker started to look like a reality, he decided to go all in!  He transitioned into filmmaking full-time.

Starting out as a freelancer with little work lined up, Doc soon started to experience the more stressful side of being self-employed, living off of his “side fund” while building his business. He knew though, that if he hadn’t made the leap when he did, he wouldn’t have done it at all.

The timing wasn’t going to get any better than it was.

Doc Kennedy

Doc is now hitting his stride, after many lessons learned in his first year as an entrepreneur.  He freely acknowledges the huge role his mentors played in his new career and has set up Filmmaker’s Focus now as a way to help the next wave of aspiring filmmakers!

There’s a lot to be said for just getting started.  This is what differentiates the successful from those who just look on from the sidelines.  The time will NEVER be just right.  Get into motion and you’ll be surprised at what you can accomplish!

I’m nowhere close to where I envisioned myself, but thank God I’m not where I was.

Doc Kennedy
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • How to push past the fear of failure and move towards your dream career.
  • Doc’s advice for those getting ready to make a career transition.  He shares what he did that worked AND what he wishes he’d done in preparing for his career change.
  • The power of taking action
  • The importance of building a financial “runway” to ease your transition to a new career.
  • The role of mentors in your career development and the value in giving back and helping others in their career paths.

Filmmaker’s Focus – “dedicated to the aspiring filmmaker”; resources and inspiration for growing your craft!

Dream Warriors podcast – “the fight for your dreams”; get inspired to pursue YOUR dreams with stories from people who’ve followed theirs!

HTYC’s Scott Barlow on the Dream Warriors podcast! – Scott shares his journey to starting Happen to Your Career

For more information on pushing past the fear of failure and getting into motion:

For more information on the power of growing your network:

For more information on starting a business on the side:

Also mentioned in the episode:

The Mentee Podcast episode with the UFC’s Bruce Buffer

GET IN TOUCH WITH DOC!

Email:  doc@filmmakersfocus.com

Twitter:  @filmmakersfocus or @dockennedy37

Instagram:  @filmmakersfocus

Facebook:  Join the Filmmaker’s Focus Facebook Group!

YOUR TURN!

What’s stopping YOU from pursuing your dream?  How long will you let it continue to stop you?

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Plant Your Flag, Live Your Purpose with Matt Shoup

ABOUT MATT SHOUP

Positive. Passionate. Powerful. Purpose. Identify your “flag” then go Plant it! Everyone has their own unique gift, talent, and benefit that they bring to the world. Wrap your mind, your heart, your soul, everything about you around that, then build on it!

Highly successful serial entrepreneur, speaker, coach, and Jiu Jitsu purple belt Matt Shoup is back for the THIRD time on the show. His latest book, Plant Your Flag: The Warrior’s Battle Guide to Life, Love, and Leadership is due out in early July.

There are four ways to live your life:

1.  You can be a “No show”, moving through life unaware of your potential and the impact you may have had on the world.

2.  You can be a Spectator, watching everything from the sidelines, but never putting any “skin in the game.”

3.  You can be a Fighter.  Now you’re all in.  Taking stands and fighting. If you are in the fighting space and you find yourself wrung out, burned out…you are in the wrong fight.  You are not in the Warrior space yet.

4.  You can be a Warrior.  This is where you show up, you stand up for what you believe in, and you shield up.  You’ve chosen the fight that is tied to your deepest core values, principles you would die for.  You are living your purpose.

The Warrior stage is not a “happy ending”.  The real fight has just begun.  Now you are in the fight that really matters.  The bigger the stand, the bigger the fight.

The Warrior space is a scary, loud, yet peaceful space.

Matt Shoup

In working to identify your “flag”, make the decision to be present.  Show up.  You have to get out of the seats and off the bench, you need to show up, then decide to engage.  Start punching, start swinging. Go stand for something and see what it’s like.  Always be pushing to get to that next space.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • The importance of identifying your core values, unique skills, and talents in finding your “flag” (your greatest purpose in life).
  • The four ways to live life and how to move toward greatness in the Warrior space.
  • How your “recipe” is the key to your results.
  • Why your purpose is NOT your vocation.  You should be living your purpose in EVERY area of your life.

MattShoup.com 

Magic Brownies Will Always Get You High blog post – What’s YOUR recipe?

Pre-order Matt’s new book, Plant Your Flag: The Warrior’s Battle Guide to Life, Love, and Leadership!

Matt previously on the HTYC podcast:

For more information on getting off the sidelines and getting into motion:

Also mentioned in the episode:

Alan Watts’ What Do You Desire? 

Zen Pencils 098:  Alan Watts, What if Money Were No Object? [cartoon rendition]

GET IN TOUCH WITH MATT!

Email Matt at matt@mattshoup.com

Or visit MattShoup.com and schedule a time to chat with Matt!

Twitter: @MattShoup

YOUR TURN!

Have you identified YOUR “flag”?  What will you stand for?

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Career Q & A!

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

We’re trying something new!  Today we answer some of the most common questions we get from HTYC’ers!

Stuck in a job with no idea of what else you would or could do?

Or maybe you have some idea, but aren’t sure how to get started towards a new career?

Having trouble deciding between two different career paths?

Struggling with motivation?  Comparing yourself to others?

Feeling trapped because of debt?

Well, you’re definitely NOT alone.

Because we get these questions so often, we wanted to make sure that our answers reached as many people as possible.

Note:  This episode is heavily action-oriented.  So, if you’re ready to jump in and start moving today grab a pen!  Go through the Past Jobs Exercise with us to see how your past experiences can help guide you to your future!

The funny thing is with careers, you don’t even have to know what the exactly what the job title is, or the business title is or that thing you’re going to sell is…you just have to know enough of what you want or what’s important to you so that you can look for those opportunities and take advantage of those opportunities instead of pass them by when you see them throughout the rest of your life”  

Scott Barlow
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • How figuring out what you value, what you enjoy, and what you can be truly great at is the path to finding work you’ll love.  It’s not about attaining the perfect job first, THEN being happy.
  • How getting clear on what you want then taking action will open up more options and more opportunities than you can imagine!
  • How your past job experiences leave clues that can help you find your dream career!  Pay attention!
  • Why, when you take control of your career and make decisions that are right for you, anything is possible.  Job titles and particular fields don’t necessarily dictate your salary or number of opportunities for employment.
  • The powerful hold that debt can have on you and why you should avoid it at all costs.
  • How looking at other people’s careers shouldn’t stop you or discourage you!  Quite the contrary!  Everyone started somewhere.  It took Anthony Bourdain almost 20 years between the time he graduated from cooking school and when he finally found notoriety.
  • The importance of getting out of your comfort zone!  Trying new things is where the growth happens!
RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Get our FREE ‘Figure it Out’ 8-day email course! – packed with tools and exercises to help guide you to work that fits YOUR unique strengths and skills!

For more information on career exploration and getting into motion:

For more information on finances and debt:

GET IN TOUCH WITH SCOTT!

Email Scott directly at Scott@happentoyourcareer.com

YOUR TURN!

What are you struggling with right now?  Leave us a comment or send an email!  Let us know how we can help!

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Dating Advice (applied to your career) with Jeff Goins

ABOUT JEFF GOINS

Alright.  So, what does dating have to do with careers anyway?

As it turns out, a LOT actually. Jeff Goins, author of the new book The Art of Work, talks with us about power of commitment in finding, following , and succeeding in your “calling”, that thing you were born to do!

Jeff Goins has written four books to date.  His latest, The Art of Work, draws from his own personal experiences in creating his career as a writer, as well as case studies and additional research to take the reader through a proven process for discovering the work they were meant for.  He shows us that our “calling”, whether we believe it or not, is as much about the rest of the world as it is about us.

No one succeeds in a vacuum.  It takes the support and guidance of others along the way.

We do not get to where we’re going in life on our own. We need mentors and guides and supporters to get us there.

Jeff Goins

What’s more, tackling life’s challenges with a “go big or go home” attitude isn’t always the best approach.  Often times, it will be the more gradual, intentional, and committed approach to these questions that leads us to our greatest successes and deepest longterm fulfillment.

Finding our true purpose, that “thing that endures” through the highs and the lows, the thing that leads us to making our mark on the world, only comes to us when we enlist the support of others and allow them to contribute to us and then stick around long enough to see what our dream can become!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • The “dating vs. marriage” career analogy:  How by spending your life jumping from dream to dream (“date to date”), and never fully committing to any one dream, you will not see the reward, that “thing that endures”, the impact you might have had on the world.   Your level of commitment in whatever you choose to do directly correlates to the results you see.
  • The importance of having a strong network of supporters and mentors.
  • Why “building a bridge” vs. “taking the leap” from where you are to where you want to go, taking the gradual, “unsexy” approach might just be the best way to make a successful career transition.
  • How what you learn working for someone else can prepare you for starting your own business.
  • How to see pursuing your “calling” not as a selfish act, but as a responsibility to yourself and to those whose lives you will impact.
RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Goinswriter.com – where you can find all things Jeff Goins!

Tribe Writers – Jeff’s online writing course

Jeff’s books:

The Art of Work:  A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

Get your FREE copy of The Art of Work until March 24th!

You Are a Writer (so start ACTING like one)

The In-Between:  Embracing the Tension Between Now and the Next Big Thing

Wrecked:  When a Broken World Slams into Your Comfortable Life

For more on finding and pursuing your calling, the work you can’t NOT do:

GET IN TOUCH WITH JEFF!

Contact Jeff at Goinswriter.com 

Twitter:  @jeffgoins

YOUR TURN!

What do YOU want to commit to but haven’t been able to up to this point?  What difference would this commitment make in your life?  In your career?

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Passion Project to Dream Job with Mark McClung

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ABOUT MARK MCCLUNG

If the idea of turning your passion into your dream job sounds exciting, this is the episode for you! Mark McClung is a man with marketing and entrepreneurship in his veins. In high school he was active with DECA, an international organization that develops emerging leaders in business. He’s had his sights set on attaining a high-level marketing position from a young age, and through persistence and leveraging the skills he was able to gain through his “passion projects”, he turned his dream into reality!

As a college student studying marketing and advertising and wanting some “real world experience”, Mark walked into small businesses and offered to help them with their marketing efforts.  A local ice skating rink took him up on his offer and his first “passion project” was off and running!  His next project involved connecting hotels with local restaurants through tabletop advertising.  He made enough money to put himself through school, learning a few incredible valuable lessons and picking up some impressive skills along the way!  Mark says he’s learned everything from graphic design to accounting to the nuts and bolts of running a business.  Working with his wife on a business that provided classroom design ideas for educators taught him even more, including SEO and Google Analytics.

Everything Mark gained from all of his projects helped him land the marketing position with Hyundai he’d had his eye for so long.  He uses his blogging and public speaking now to inspire others, particularly young adults, to pursue their “passion projects” as a way to discover more about themselves, to acquire valuable career skills, and to create the opportunities they want!

Mark’s advice is to “treat everything as a learning experience.  If it’s something you enjoy, it won’t seem like work to study it.”

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • The very important distinction between a “passion project” and a “side hustle
  • How the things you love to do can translate into a lucrative side business and ALSO teach you the skills you need to position yourself as the perfect candidate if your dream job involves working for someone else.
  • How to develop a long term, “big picture” mindset and see how the things you can start doing today can lead you to wherever you want to go in your career.
  • Why, if you have a passion and want to see where it can take you, getting started is the best thing you can do!

My Daily Mark – Mark’s home on the web

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DECA – an international non-profit organization that develops young leaders and entrepreneurs

For more on career exploration and taking action:

For more information on starting a business that fits you:

GET IN TOUCH WITH MARK!

Twitter:  @mydailymark

YOUR TURN!

What are YOU passionate about?  What skills are you looking to develop?  What’s YOUR Dream Job?

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The Disaster of Delay: Why Avoiding Hard Things Leads to Accidental Mediocrity

Ever notice how everything people want in life comes from doing difficult things (that very few people are willing to do)? This is often because you can’t tangibly see an impact right away.

From growing up on a small Oklahoma farm to leading the Walt Disney Paris expansion and the Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resorts, Lee Cockerell has navigated through one challenging situation after another (after another).  

Lee suggests that giving visibility to the toughest problems in all areas of your life and dealing with those problems daily until they are resolved is a far more successful way to approach challenges in life or work

ABOUT LEE COCKERELL

Here’s a guy who knows how to make things happen!  As Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resorts, Lee Cockerell oversaw 20 resort hotels, 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, and a lot more! He created Disney Great Leader Strategies, which has now trained 7,000 leaders at Disney World.  Now, he’s turned his focus to speaking and writing on leadership. His latest book is called Time Management Magic.  You can also get a quick dose of leadership wisdom on Lee’s podcast, Creating Disney Magic: Lessons in Leadership, Management, and Customer Service!

Lee’s accomplished all this AND managed to earn the title of “Grandfather of the Year” too!

From working on a farm as a young man to running a commercial kitchen and throughout his career at Disney, Lee noticed a recurring theme.  Facing the hard work, handling the tasks, and making the decisions that he LEAST wanted to deal with, and doing those things FIRST and foremost made all the difference in his career and in his personal life.  It never pays to put those things off.

He encourages everyone to ask themselves, “Am I doing things now that will pay off later?”  Go to the gym today to reap the benefits of good health down the line.  Move into more affordable housing or give up dining out so often in order to prepare for your future financial wellbeing. 

Evaluating your situation regularly and taking action on what requires attention will keep you from getting “stuck”.

Ask yourself…

  • What don’t I like about my life?
  • What don’t I like about my health?
  • What don’t I like about my job?

Now, ask yourself “what am I going to do about it?

Lee’s advice:

“If you don’t spend a lot of time planning the life you want, you’re gonna spend a lot of time living the life you DO NOT want.”

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN 
  • The importance of having balance in your life.  From finances and career to health, faith, and family, it ALL matters equally.
  • How to set yourself up for success by tackling the “hard” stuff FIRST.  Give visibility to the toughest problems in all areas of your life and deal with those problems daily until they are resolved.
  •  How being mindful of where you currently are in your life and in your career and thinking carefully about where you want to go in order to make the right moves is key to your success.
  • How your words and your actions affect those around you, whether or not you are aware of it.  Understand this and you’ll be better able to leave a positive impact.
  • The questions to ask yourself so you can set your priorities in line with what you want to achieve in life.
LEE’S BOOKS:

Time Management Magic: How to Get More Done Every Day and Move from Surviving to Thriving – simple time management strategies for work and life

The Customer Rules: The 39 Essential Rules for Delivering Sensational Service – how to improve service in your business or organization

Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney – on leadership at work and in life

YOU CAN ALSO FIND LEE HERE:

LeeCockerell.com

Creating Disney Magic: Lessons in Leadership, Management, and Customer Service – Lee’s podcast on how you can create magic in your organization!

Thrive 15 – Thrive15.com is “the world’s premier online education platform that helps entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, and “in-trepreneurs” (entrepreneurial-minded people who work within an organization) learn how to start or grow a successful business.” Thrive 15 offers an extensive library of training courses, and Lee has given us a promo code good for 1 month of the service for free!  Sign up with promo code “magic”. 

For more information on defeating debt and aligning your finances to fit your goals:

For more information on finding the time to do what matters to you:

GET IN TOUCH WITH LEE!

Email:  Lee@LeeCockerell.com

Twitter:  @LeeCockerell

YOUR TURN:

What are YOU working on right now?  What can we help with?  Tell us in the comments below!

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Lee Cockerell 0:03
They're learning that things have to be done, hard things have to be done and you got to go out in the 90 degrees, mow a lawn, man. And one day you wake up and things are not hard for you because you've been there, you've done it. A lot of people have too easy.

Introduction 0:22
This is the Happen To Your Career podcast, with Scott Anthony Barlow. We help you stop doing work that doesn't fit you, figure out what it does and make it happen. We help you define the work that's unapologetically you, and then go get it. If you're ready to make a change. Keep listening. Here's Scott. Here's Scott. Here's Scott.

Scott Anthony Barlow 00:46
Have you ever noticed how everything people want in life comes from doing difficult things? That very few people are actually willing to do. Now, this is often because you can't tangibly see an impact right away, which is part of what makes it difficult.

Lee Cockerell 01:04
I always tell parents, make sure your kids are getting an increasing responsibility. Make sure at every age, they have responsibilities they have to fulfill and next year, give them more responsibility more and more and more and more, you're doing them a big favor, because they're learning that things have to be done, and the hard things have to be done.

Scott Anthony Barlow 01:22
That's Lee Cockerell. From growing up on a small Oklahoma farm to leaving the Walt Disney Paris expansion and being the Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World resorts, Lee has navigated through one challenging situation after another, after another, after another. At Disney, he oversaw 20 resort hotels, four theme parks, two water parks and a whole bunch more. He ended up creating the Disney great leader strategies which has now trained something like 7000 plus leaders at Disney World. Now, he does much more in relation to speaking and writing on leadership. That's how we spends his time now, but Lee suggests that giving visibility to the toughest problems in all the areas of your life and dealing with those problems daily, until they're resolved, in a far more successful way to approach challenges in life or work. Now, listen later on in the episode where Lee shares more about how to do this. However, since he's a proud Grandpa, I actually began our conversation by asking, if you ever spend any time talking with his grandkids, about what their careers could be, or would be?

Lee Cockerell 02:32
What I do and maybe other people could think about doing this, I take them on a business trip with me alone, one at a time for two or three days. So I went to speak to the navy seals and I took my grandson to Coronado, California. He thinks I'm the best grandfather ever lived because the seals let him do the obstacle course on the beach with the nets and ropes and he spent three days with me and we got to know each other, we talked a lot about the things that he thought he want to do. And what he saw, he might end up being a seal. He's got it, he's the crazy one in the family, he's got a lot of courage. And, yeah, I took my grandson and we talked a lot about what he was thinking about doing. He's studying Biomedical Engineering at University of Miami and ended up getting him to spend a couple of days at Walter Reed Hospital with the head of orthopedic surgery and get at. And I took my granddaughter this summer, went for an hour, went out in the middle of the desert in California to speak to the troops. And she and I were gone for two days. And just, you know, when you ride in a car for six, seven hours, you really get to know them and she's decided, she may want to be an industrial engineer. And we started talking about that, what they do and how organized, disciplined you have to be, to be in that profession. And, of course, Disney has probably the best industrial engineering department in the world and...

Scott Anthony Barlow 03:50
Really?

Lee Cockerell 03:51
Able to give her a lot of feedback. Yeah, I mean, we study everything to Disney because of the lines, you know, everything, you got to move quick, it's got to be efficient, it's got to be a work. And so we have a great industrial engineering department. Yeah. So at Disney, seconds count, you know, if you do 8000 lunches in one restaurant, seconds count. They help us get the procedures correct and how to do it quicker and how to move them and how to, when you need to open another line and when you need to close one and many things. I think Disney's probably got every job exists in the world. It's such as like a city out there. But yeah, it's great travel with the kids. And they... I learned a lot from them, too, because they can help me with my technical needs.

Scott Anthony Barlow 04:33
It's mutually beneficial then. So, as some of those business trips, I love that, first of all, but I'm starting to understand how this grandfather of the Year award came about.

Lee Cockerell 04:43
Yeah, well, you know, it's very interesting. Their perspective. They see things totally different. They remember everything. You think they forgot something when there were three or four that you did for them or a time we're together and they don't forget it. It's unbelievable. So yeah, that's kind of one of the good lessons I teach. Don't underestimate the impact you're having on people when they, you don't even realize they're watching you, and are you being a good role model? Because listen, everybody's watching, judging you all the time, and especially children, they are very aware of what's going on.

Scott Anthony Barlow 05:15
So I see that in my own kids, and I think I've underestimated that, as well. I have a little kid. So I've got a seven year old little girl, you know, six year old little boy, or will be six in a few days here. But then, you know, a four year old little boy so they're all, you know, they're all pretty young. But, I mean, they remember and vividly recall different situations around, you know, even when they were three or whatever it is, and wow, I can't believe that you remember that. And two, they talk about it like it's been such an impact. So I totally understand what you're talking about, just from a different lens.

Lee Cockerell 05:50
You better be behave yourself.

Scott Anthony Barlow 05:51
I know...

Lee Cockerell 05:52
In front of them.

Scott Anthony Barlow 05:54
No joke. So I'm curious about a couple of different things here, you know, as I kind of went through and learn a little bit about the couple of books that you wrote here and, you know, what you're all about. One of the things that kept popping up is you seem to have this worry about how disorganized people are, both in their careers and at home. And just in general, and I'm curious, first of all, what do you mean when you say that? Because you've said something similar, numerous times, whether it be on the podcast or, you know, in your books, and so on and so forth. So, you know, what do you mean, what's your worry about the disorganization part? And what do you mean by that, first of all?

Lee Cockerell 06:32
The biggest worry I have is I think people don't do the right things at the right time and start early enough in their lives to get the right things going, that'll pay off later in their life. And then they underestimate that they could have had a really great life and they didn't pursue it because they didn't know how. And I think at the end of the day, you know, time goes by pretty fast and next thing you know, you should have, you know, I always say things like, "if you don't save your money when you're young, you're not going to have a good retirement. If you don't exercise, least when you're 30, start. You're going to end up with in a wheelchair when you break your hip or have osteoporosis or worse, I mean, heart bypass surgery or, and I just think people, a lot of people just don't realize that there's not just your job. There's other things, there's 10 or 12 things that I always think about, I even put them on the back, I put them on a clock. One for each time, 12 o'clock, you know, your face, one o'clock your job, to treat your savings, your children here. And are you spending time on those subjects in a balanced way? And are you thinking about time every day what you should be doing? Where do you spend your time? It's one of the most important things you can think about. Where do you spend your time? Where don't you spend it? Where should you spend it? Why aren't you spending it in the most important places? And you look around and one of the problems is people to keep wanting to do the easy things. And when you do easy things, life gets harder. If you don't have those tough conversations with your boys at work, they're gonna, their performance not gonna get better. If you eat too much, you're going to get overweight and you're going to be in bad health, you don't save your money, you're not going to have a retirement. If, you know, it's, if you do hard things, life gets easier, if you do easy things all the time, life gets harder. So you got to start getting at this concept in your brain that, what are you doing hard this week that's going to pay off down the road? Are you having those discussions with your children? Are you, you know, are you spending the right amount of time with your kids? Having dinner with him at night? You know, just things that just slip by and, you know, I said, you know, I've been married 46 years, how'd that happen? And I got a 45 year old son, where'd he come from? I mean, this is how time flies by and people, all of a sudden you've been working 10 years and you're not doing the right things and you get bad habits and that's how people get unhealthy. That's how they end up not getting their power of interest and savings working for them. So it works out over 40 or 50 years that they have a nice retirement and they can enjoy their life. And so there's a lot of concepts in this book, "Time Management Magic" how to get more done every day because a lot of things, the reason we don't do things in life is because we just haven't thought about it. And a lot of people have no way, nobody's learned a system in high school or college about how to approach your day, how to work on the priorities in life and how to get things done. And it's like any other lesson, you can learn how to do this. It's not a lost cause when you're born. And that's, I hope this book really catches some people's attention and gets them doing the right thing. So they have a better life and they are going to have the way they're working now.

Scott Anthony Barlow 09:44
So I really want to talk to you about some of those principles and lessons. But before we get into that, I really want to ask you, you talked a lot, you know, just a moment ago about how doing the easy things, you know, often won't lead to necessarily where you want to go. And I'm curious, first of all, you know, if we go back a couple of years, where has that happened for you? Or where did you first learn that lesson the hard way?

Lee Cockerell 10:16
I think sometimes, you know, parents have the biggest impact on that ability for people to do hard things in your life, you know, I grew up a little farm in Oklahoma. We always had jobs, we work. If you have a farm, you work. It doesn't matter how old you are, you have something, you have to do, you have to clean the barn, you have to do something. And then my brother and I always had jobs, you know, when I was in high school, I worked in a lumberyard. I'm loading boxcars, same at sheetrock and I drove a delivery car. We had jobs. My first two years, I was in college, I worked in the kitchen. And it was just the way it was and I think, when you learn early, it's not like punishment, but it's just the way it is, it becomes who you are. And I always tell parents, make sure your kids are getting an increasing responsibility. Make sure at every age, they have responsibilities they have to fulfill whether it's just taking the trash out or feeding the dog or taking the dog for a walk or babysitting or something. And next year, give them more responsibility more and more and more and more, you're doing them a big favor, because they're learning that things have to be done. And the hard things have to be done and you got to go out in the 90 degree and mow the lawn, man, you know. And one day you wake up and now things are not hard for you because you've been there, you've done it, you know, a lot of people have too easy. And so I think a lot of it starts early on are just getting better habits. And I think that's one of the ways people need to think about it. So...

Scott Anthony Barlow 11:42
So you got some of this stuff early on then. Has it always been, and this is gonna sound like a funny question. But you know, has it always been easy for you to do some of the harder things in comparison to most people? Or did you have some of those times where you stumbled and fell? And I'm curious, what one of those times would be?

Lee Cockerell 11:59
You know, yeah. Now, I did. I was not good at a lot of things, I was very insecure, I was kind of this introverted young little kid. And as I grew up, I didn't like confrontation. And I remember I had a chef who worked for me at one of the Marriott Hotels, I brought him with me. And he wasn't performing. I didn't have the guts to deal with it. And my boss called me in one day, and he said, Lee, either you deal with the chef or I'm gonna deal with you. And that was eye opener. And I just kind of started after that. And, then I went to the time management class in 1980, I was in my early 30s then. That's where I learned about, really learned this concept of write down every day in your day planner. Make sure you got hard things in there. The biggest personal problem you have in your life ought to be in there and your biggest business problem ought to be in there and make sure you work on it every day till it goes away. And I started putting hard times have that hard discussion. You know, I got a guy working for me. He's not performing, I'd write on Wednesday deal with Joe. Fix Joe today, all in and have that tough conversation. And you know what, after it's over, he feels better and I do too, because we're on the same page and he already knew he was in trouble. And now we've talked about it and our goal is to getting turned around. But if I don't have that hard discussion, I'm going to end up firing him and it's not even going to be... it's going to be 50% my fault because I didn't deal with it. You know, it's like your kids, if you don't deal with kids, when they do inappropriate things, they grow up and have all kinds of problems. You're gonna have to take a big part of the blame. And so yeah, it's... I've had a lot of things that are hard for me, you know, I mean, I've been exercising a lot but there's been periods when I was working, I gave it up and gained 10 or 15, 20 pounds and I get back to it, because when you... when I take it easy, the couch, you don't lose a lot of weight on the couch.

Lee Cockerell 13:50
I know how that works, right?

Lee Cockerell 13:52
No, you don't. The couch can win too. So I schedule my workouts and I walk about 50 miles a week now. It's better on my knees and I have a trainer where I work out with weight training twice a week. So to build bone density, so I don't fall and break my hip and end up in a wheelchair or walker for the next 20 years. That's when you got to start to think about, are you doing things now that will pay off later? Exercise now, pays off later, you know, save your money, it pays off later. Don't eat so much pushback from the table, you won't get overweight, and which creates 10 problems with diabetes and all kinds of problems and start to think about the hard things you're not doing and what impact they're having on your life. And this is a concept that can help people dramatically.

Scott Anthony Barlow 14:38
So I love the, you know, now getting into tactics a little bit, I love what you said about, Hey, I just take that hard problem or I take what the, you know, most difficult problem is for me at the time, or the biggest problem or whatever you want to look at it as and then I'm literally writing it down in my day planner, so that I'm forced to, I think it does two things for you as I'm thinking about it, one, it forces you to define what the problem is and what you need to do about it, it seems like. And then two, it really seems like it, once you write it down or commit to it in some way, then you've got a much higher likelihood of actually following through on it. So I love that as a technique or tactic.

Lee Cockerell 15:22
Oh, it's staring you in the face when you look down at it in your planner. And by the way, if you don't know what your biggest problem is, ask your wife.

Scott Anthony Barlow 15:31
You know that's so true. Alyssa is my wife and she helps me understand my biggest problems on a regular basis, in a good way. But...

Lee Cockerell 15:40
Yeah, I tell people at work you know, you don't think, if you don't know what you should be working on, ask your boss. He will tell you. You know, if you got, if you're confused about what's the most important thing to be working on, ask your boss, "what would you like me to be working on and get finished in the next month?" And that's what you ought to get work on. Don't sit around trying to cover up, man, you know, a lot of us are just insecure about admitting we don't know something, let me tell you, that's mean you don't know something's the beginning, the good move forward. And once you know, my boss tells me something, I get it done likelihood in my career is gonna go a lot better. And so don't be bashful. Because, by the way, we don't always know we are always, we always think we're all great, we always think we know everything, and we don't. Ask people around you, they'll tell you, ask your direct reports, they know what you're not doing very well.

Scott Anthony Barlow 16:32
It's usually, I don't know, in my experience, it's kind of funny, because usually everybody around you knows. Same way, you know, you might know and you might be very aware for somebody that you work with, or somebody that reports to you or somebody that you report too. But often that communication never seems to happen.

Lee Cockerell 16:52
Well, it depends what position here and too, look at Brian Williams. A lot of people do but they didn't tell him. And next you go, you and the higher you get, and you get become more successful and all you start to kid yourself, you start to think you're hot stuff. And once you get your hot stuff, you go down the wrong path, and you think you're bulletproof. And then you need somebody to be straightening out occasionally. And that's why it's good to have a nice, honest wife or a nice honest boss, or somebody who will tell you the truth. This is where people get in trouble. They don't know the truth. Because what they dream up is not always the truth.

Scott Anthony Barlow 17:29
This is true.

Lee Cockerell 17:30
Many years, I thought I knew everything.

Scott Anthony Barlow 17:33
I still have to resist that urge daily. I'm a couple of years younger than you but I find myself, I don't know, falling into those patterns and having to actively resist that. But you know, so you mentioned you know, going down the wrong path and you mentioned, you know, knowing what the truth is or, you know, discovering the truth. And I'm curious, this is something that's challenging for people about their careers. And a lot of the folks that listen to this show, you know, they really struggle with knowing whether or not they should be putting their all into pursuing different work than what they're currently doing, versus sticking it out where they're at. And you know, what is the right path? And what, you know, what is the truth there? So I'm curious what advice you have for that, or maybe how you did some of that, throughout your career?

Lee Cockerell 18:27
I'd say the number one most important thing is, if you wake up every morning, excited about what you're doing, you know, and you want to do it, you know, and I was lucky I got fell into a career which I love my work. I mean, are there hard times? Sure. 911 was it fun? Hurricanes are not fun, recessions are not fun, but on balance. I love my work, and I loved what I was doing. I talked to a lot of people every week that are stuck. You got to be careful where you get stuck and don't, you got to make those changes early in your life before you get a two kids mortgage salary that you can't replace.

Scott Anthony Barlow 19:01
Okay, well, let me break in here really quick then and say that, you know, before you get stuck, or even if you're already stuck, you know, let's make those changes early. And one of the ways that you can do that is our free eight day course, eight day email course that helps you figure out what it is that you want to do. And all you have to do in order to make that happen is text, HTYC to 38470 and then just follow the text and then we'll set you up and enroll in the course that's, HTYC text that over to, to 38470

Lee Cockerell 19:35
People call me say they want to go to Disney. And go calls "I'm making 100,000 or I want to go to Disney and I'm 32 years old" So we'll forget it. They're not going to hire you, they got a lot of people inside, they're going to promote befor they get you. You should have done this when you were 22 because if you want to go to Disney, you're gonna have to go 40,000 and you can't do it because now you're stuck. Be careful where you get stuck. And this is what happens to most people they get stuck in the wrong town, the wrong marriage, wrong life. They get stuck in the wrong job. And then it didn't take them too long. 10, 12 years after you graduate from high school or college, you can be stuck if you're not careful. And I tell people today, if I was young, I would not buy a house, I'd rent. I would keep trying till I get the right job where I love that profession and don't get locked in too early. Because then there you are, and then what are you gonna do about it? So you gotta love it. If you don't love it, you're gonna be miserable. And how can you imagine doing something for 40 or 50 years that you hate? I mean, and that you don't like, you don't feel appreciated, you're not excited, you're not passionate about and it's hard for a lot of people because a lot most people lead a good life. You know, they have a good life, they pay the rent, make kids eventually get to college, maybe and they put food on the table, but they could have had a great life. And they settle for good because hey, you know, it's not as much risk to have a good life as it is to have a great life. You got to take risks, you got to change jobs, you've might have to do different things. You know, I always tell people, the reason people change is either education they learn there's a better way or really, they're the other reason people change is a crisis. And there's only two reasons to change in life. And hopefully, it's not because of crisis. So yeah...

Scott Anthony Barlow 21:21
So then I see a lot of people not taking your advice. Let's be clear about that.

Lee Cockerell 21:27
Right. I sell more books elsewhere.

Scott Anthony Barlow 21:30
So there's, I don't know, job security or author security, or whatever you want to call it.

Lee Cockerell 21:36
It's exactly what it is, it's security.

Scott Anthony Barlow 21:39
Yeah. So I think that's what's causing people to not make some of those choices to some degree. But I'm curious, so, you know, I, you know, you know a little bit about the show now, but really, the people who are listening to this are those that have already started to go down that road where they're starting to get stuck, or they already feel stuck. So they've already made some of those wrong choices. And I, you know, I've been there too. I, you know, part of the reason I do what I do now and the reason I have Happen To Your Career is because I've been down that road and, you know, I've been in a job where I wasn't excited to get up in the morning and determined that I was going to change that. But that's not an easy thing. So, since there's so many people out there that are flat out not taking that advice, and quite frankly, it's really, really difficult. You know, what would you advise people to do just to get started when they're already in that kind of stuck place?

Lee Cockerell 22:40
Yeah, you know, I think the big reasons people get stuck is they have a mortgage. Then they got really stuck in the last few years because couldn't sell your house and it was underwater. So I would say if housing come back, I'd get out of as much debt as I could. I'd work on that first to get unstuck with a lot needing so much money that you're earning. And kids don't care where you live, by the way, they don't care. We moved 11 times, our son's moved all over the world. He's totally normal. He's totally well adjusted. Kids make friends much quicker than adults do. Don't say I'm not moving because of the children. Children are great. As long as they have a loving family and it's safe and you take good care your kids, they'll go, they may be, when they're teenagers and you move on, they'll yell at you over the weekend, because they're mad, but they'll get over in two weeks, so have more friends than you do. So I think you just got to get yourself in a position, I don't, maybe have to go borrow money from your family, I don't know, you've got to get you just got to work on it, you got to figure it. And most things people are stuck is economics. This is why they can't make the move to go try something else, you know, and when I got my own career, I had a few problem but we didn't have a house till we were in our 30s because we just rented apartments and when I got fired, it's no big deal. I quit, it was no big deal, we could just pick up and move, I didn't have to go to all that trouble. And so you got to get yourself in a position where you can survive for a while to try something new or/and a lot of people don't have that kind of courage, they just can't do it, or your wife won't go along with it or, and so you end up and you lead a pretty average good life, which there's nothing wrong with that. It's just that the difference between good and great is so big, it's unbelievable. And I... that's how I think about it every day. I mean, like when you have surgery, you want to have a good surgeon or a great, you want to have good children or great children. You wanna... so, you know what great feels like. You want to have great children, you're going to do whatever you have to do, right? You're going to do whatever you have to do for them. And we've got to start thinking about that better. And hopefully we can hit kids earlier so that they don't get stuck so often, you know, maybe some part of us get stuck and a lot of people are not wired to take risk either. Some people are just so insecure, they just are paralyzed. Some people are not gonna be able to do anything but maybe we can give some advice to people about here's some other alternatives or maybe you got to get your wife's, got to take a job now when she's not working, and she has to work, so you can go do your thing and build your career over two or three years. And then, you know, it's not so important what you make in the first few years, what's more important is what you're making in those last 10 years. So a lot of people get too stuck too early with not a lot of income, but they think it's enough and it works. So you got to just dig down deep, you got to go try to get help, you got to get counseling and got my father in law.

Scott Anthony Barlow 25:36
All those hard things, right?

Lee Cockerell 25:37
Yeah, it's hard. It's very hard. And I mean, we sold our house in Springfield, Massachusetts, and took a loss. I had to take a check closing, you know, that was another good lesson. I knew I was only gonna be there a couple years, I don't know why I bought that house. You know, cuz everybody buys a house. You got to be careful about doing what everybody else does.

Scott Anthony Barlow 25:57
I did that exact same thing. They did that exact same thing. We, I literally have a photocopied picture of the two checks for a total of $72,000 that we took to closing. Because we made that exact same mistake. I have them available right here in my studio reminding me never ever to do that again. But...

Lee Cockerell 26:20
It's true. That's sucking sound your hear is when you own a house, and takes all your money. To maintain it.

Scott Anthony Barlow 26:27
So I don't think people are thinking about it that way though. But one of the things I just realized listening to you, you know, listen to it, tell I guess some of those stories and stuff is that what you talked about just a little bit earlier about even the simple, you know, simple tactic or technique of no defining what the biggest problem is that I need to deal with today. And then writing it down so it's staring you in the face, like it really seems like that's a, amazing way just to get started with that because, you know, I'm sitting here thinking and you know, I'm thinking about it from the lens of careers and everything like that. But you're right,, you know, so many people do get stuck because of those economic, you know, economic motivations. And...

Lee Cockerell 27:08
I can give your listeners a, you know, on page 28 of my new book "Time Management" there are a few questions says, "ask yourself these questions. What don't you like about your life? Second question, what don't you like about your health? Third question, what don't you like about your job, your friends, your relatives or your salary? What is the biggest problem in your personal life? What is the biggest problem in your work life? And the last question is, what are you going to do about it?"

Scott Anthony Barlow 27:38
I love those questions.

Lee Cockerell 27:40
And I'll tell you there's one other quote in the beginning that makes people sick almost. This is if you don't spend a lot of time planning the life you want, you're going to end up spending a lot of time living the life you do not want. So you can think about it from that perspective.

Scott Anthony Barlow 27:55
So that's an interesting note to start wrapping up here. And I know we're starting to run out of time. I...

Lee Cockerell 28:01
Now we've depressed everybody.

Scott Anthony Barlow 28:03
Well, you know, I think there's two ways you can look at it though, Lee. Because I think you can, I mean, if the answer to that is depressing, then that means you have to change it, right? And I know people are listening to this podcast because they want the change regardless of whether you're making the decision to make the change or not, that's a different story but you have to, you know, using some of those types of questions, you've got to be able to commit and make that change even if it's small steps, even if it's just dealing with, you know, one hard thing a day. But I would highly recommend that if you don't have it out there, you know, check it out Lee's book "Time Management Magic" and you've got a couple other ones too, you've got "Creating Magic" as well. Which I apologize, I haven't read that one. But if it's anything like "Time Management Magic" then I'm gonna guess it's pretty darn good. So...

Lee Cockerell 28:52
Well the three books by the way, one, "Creating Magics" about leadership. How to be a better parent, better leader at work, better in your where you worship, wherever in your life, how to be a great leader. The second one is this "Time Management Magic" how to be a better manager, how to keep your life under control. And the third one's, "The Customer Rules", which is how to improve service in your business or your organization. And so I tried to cover those three subjects and yeah, and so that's why they're a little different. But, you know, you got to do all three if you're going to be successful.

Scott Anthony Barlow 29:24
Well, Lee, I really appreciate you taking the time, making the time to come on Happen To Your Career, and this has been a fun conversation for me and I only have one other question and that's where can people connect with you. They want more Lee, where can they go and connect with you? How can they reach out?

Lee Cockerell 29:44
I'm the most accessible guy in the world. If you go on my website, leecockerell.com it says contacts and then there's my phone number, my email, my website. And I want to mention one other thing, I'm part of an organization called thrive, thrive15.com thrive15.com. And we've made 5, 600 videos on how to be better, they're 15 minute videos and every five minutes they stop and give you a test to see if you've learned it. And at the end, you get points and you can learn about how to hire, how to fire, how to get a business loan, how to do a franchising, we're going to have 1200 videos on there. And if anybody wants it, they get it free for a month. They put in the promotion code magic at thrive15.com magic. And it's free for a month and go look at all the videos they want. If they like it, they can subscribe to it. If they don't like it, then forget it. But it's become very popular because this is a way people are going to learn in the future, video questions. I think every kid in America go to school in 15, 20 years because they'll be able to go online go to college for free. And it may not be as good as being on campus, but it's better than not having the opportunity and so we got involved in that and we think this is going to be a big way to teach and to make education available. It's really targeted at entrepreneurs who are trying to figure, they got a good idea, but they don't know how to do all the technical stuff. So that's what we're doing with that one. And so that's pretty cool.

Scott Anthony Barlow 31:08
Evaluating your situation regularly and taking action on what requires attention is one way to give visibility to the difficult areas that Lee mentioned in this episode. I want to give you four different questions to do exactly that. And to know where to address those difficult areas right away, that we can apply all the stuff that you just learned now. Ask yourself, "what don't I like about my life? What don't I like about my health? What don't I like about my job or my career?" Now ask yourself, "what am I going to do about it?" When you have those answers to the first three questions, by the way, we have so much more for you next week right here on Happen To Your Career podcast. We cover a much requested topic from our listeners, our clients and our students.

Scott Anthony Barlow 31:55
So if I go, like on FlexJobs or LinkedIn or whatever different site and I am looking at openings, if they don't say that they're remote, or telecommute or something along those lines that I don't even look any further. I just stopped there.

Scott Anthony Barlow 32:10
That's what I've been trying to figure out for a year is like, what am I stuck on? Like, for a year, I've been struggling with it. Am I in the wrong role or the wrong company or both?

Scott Anthony Barlow 32:22
Okay, we'll be covering, "how to find companies that match your values and what's most important to you?" All that and more next week right here on Happen To Your Career. Until then, I am out. Adios.

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Merging Identities as Part of Your Career Transition with Chris Wilson

ABOUT CHRIS WILSON

Self-described as “the hardest working quitter you’ll ever meet”, Chris dropped out of college to pursue professional cycling, worked summers at his family’s B&B on Cape Cod, earned his way into an online ad agency by impressing the CEO, moved into sales at Hubspot, then at Nanigans, and is now officially self-employed working on UnStuckable with friend and co-founder Stephen Warley. UnStuckable is the show that brings you “knowledge, habits, and skills to get unstuck in your career and in life”.

Chris moved from sales job to sales job, “killing it” each time and making multiple 6 figures.  The “Millennial mindset” kept him constantly looking ahead to the next great company, the next opportunity.  Along the way, he started the UnStuckable podcast with good friend Stephen Warley and began to discover that his values and his idea of “true wealth” weren’t necessarily aligned with those of his peers.  Being the “software guy with an awesome side project” wasn’t enough.  He was left wanting to give UnStuckable more of the attention he thought it deserved.

“Creating” his own “crisis”, Chris finally ended up being relieved from his full-time job after letting his management know that he wasn’t intending to stay longterm.

After recovering from being let go from his job and “recalibrating”, Chris went all in with UnStuckable.  Now, with UnStuckable taking off, growing and developing, he’s considering stepping back into sales, but on his terms and putting UnStuckable first this time.

And why not?  It really doesn’t have to be all or nothing!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
  • How to calculate (yes, we’re doing math!) the dollar amount you’ll need to put away in order to build your “runway” if you’re planning to make the leap to self-employment!
  • The importance of merging your identity as an employee with your identity as an entrepreneur.  Don’t “throw the baby out with the bath water!”
  • How the ups and downs, the tests and failures, of the entrepreneurial  journey are the way to building your confidence and gaining continual clarity.
  • How you can get your business started while working full-time.
  • The value of connecting with others who are doing what you want to do!

UnStuckable podcast – hosted by Chris Wilson and Stephen Warley,  UnStuckable will bring you the “knowledge, habits, and skills to get unstuck in your career and in life”

For more information on preparing financially for a career transition:

For more information on the power of building a strong network:

For more information on starting your own business:

GET IN TOUCH WITH CHRIS! 

Twitter:  @chrisleewilson

YOUR TURN:

Are you currently considering or working towards a career transition?  What’s the most difficult part about the transition for you?  Tell us in the comments below!

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Networking with Purpose Mark Sieverkropp @SKropp2

Mark is a man who needs no introduction on this show, not only is he one of the cofounders of Happen to Your Career, he is an amazing networker. This guy gets chocolate sauce and free samples of just about anything you can name shipped to his door of no cost to him (seriously, not joking, that’s how good at building relationships he is)

He left HTYC months ago to work on his own platform and help people work on building amazing relationships, but he’s back on the show to talk to us about not only what he has going on but to share some amazing networking tips!

In this episode you’ll learn

  • How to reach out to people in your current network if you are just beginning a business OR trying to get a new job (without the awkwardness)
  • Why you have a much larger network than you think you do (and who those people are)
  • How to network with purpose (instead of randomly)

links mentioned in the episode

Episode 6 of the HTYC podcast Matt McWilliams

Networking with Purpose LIVE Mark’s massive networking event for those people that want to start businesses or network themselves to the jobs they really want

Click here to find out more about it! http://happentoyourcareer.com/NetworkingLive

How to Network it up with Mark

Sieverkropp.com Mark’s website and home base

@SKropp2 Mark on Twitter (this guy is a twitter machine!)