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Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Robert Baker. Robert spent 42 years at Mercer Consulting, where he held senior roles leading Investment Consulting and Client Relationships across geographies and businesses, and also leading DEI for the international regions, before DEI was really as mainstream as it is today. So, what does Robert do after a rich 42 year career? He starts his ‘next stage’ portfo...

Send us Fan Mail We are in for such a treat! My guest today is Selena Rezwani, Leadership Speaker and 3x author. Her advice has been featured in Forbes, LA Times, Washington Post, Oprah.com, Thinkers 50 and has recently written her book Quick Confidence: Be Authentic, Boost Connections, and Make Bold Bets on Yourself, and is all about hands-on, bite sized strategies for improving your confidence....

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Kristina Mand-Lakhiani. Kristina is the co-founder of Mindvalley , the world’s most powerful platform with 20 million followers, who learn a wide range of categories from mind, body, soul, entrepreneurship, career. Kristina has been in the personal transformation industry for over 20 years and is an international speaker, entrepreneur, artist, philanthropist. But...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Niraj Kapur. Niraj is many things. An award-winning executive, Niraj has worked in corporate London for 23 years. From small businesses to a national newspaper to FTSE 100 companies, he's experienced it all and shares his insight, knowledge, big wins and horrible failures. A sales trainer, TedX Speaker, LinkedIn Top Voice, book author of 3 books including ‘E...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast episode, I interview Alan Stein, founder of Kadima Careers and former employee of top companies like Google, Facebook, Salesforce, and American Express. We talk about navigating internal politics, job loss, and transparency in the workplace. Alan shares his experiences getting hired at Google and emphasizes the importance of having someone open the door for you. He...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Jason Feifer. Jason is the opposite of a one trick pony. He’s a multi-hyphenate: Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur magazine, podcast host, book author, keynote speaker, startup advisor, and my personal favourite: non-stop optimism machine. In this episode, we are going to learn about Jason’s journey to, I know this is going to sound cliché and click-bait-y… embraci...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the "How I Got Hired" podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jenna Harrison, a mindset and business coach. Jenna shared her career journey with me, which included working in corporate roles, moving to Spain to work on a nude beach, and eventually becoming a coach. We covered a range of topics during our conversation, including salary negotiation,...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is part of my series ‘Where are they now’ to check up on how some of my past guests are getting on and how sometimes the best laid plans can go differently. Jon Tesser was a guest on the show back in Dec 2020 on episode 10 titled ‘Dream Jobs & Dream Bosses’ and we chatted about his career at  NYC & Co, New York Magazine, Viacom.  Since then, Jon has been th...

Send us Fan Mail Niall O’Caroll used to be in the Irish National Police for 18 years, then worked as a Performance Coach with British Gymnastics and as a Sports Psychologist with 27 individual Olympic champions in Canada, UK etc. Niall is now the global Chief of Partnerships at PepTalk, a team experience platform. In this fascinating conversation, Niall spills all the beans: - We talk about what i...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is one of Asia Pacific’s 50 most influential and purposeful marketers. Sapna Chadha is VP Marketing at Google (at the time of this recording), based in Singapore and runs its consumer and business products in 12 geographies in India, Southeast Asia and South Asia. Prior to Google, Sapna was Chief Marketing Officer at American Express Banking, first in New York, and...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Deepa Purushothaman who worked at Deloitte for over 20 years and was the first Indian American woman and one of the youngest to make partner. While that is impressive in and of itself, that is not the only reason Deepa is on the show. Deepa wrote this on LinkedIn a couple of years ago: I left my 22 year old job and felt like I was jumping off the cliff of uncerta...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is a Dr Pal, one of California’s leading experts in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology. There are 3 reasons I wanted to bring the good doctor on the show.  Number one is it’s pretty cool to have a doctor on the show, second, are some startling facts: 13% of the world is obese, 39% of the world’s adults are overweight, 1 in 5 children are overweight, and w...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Frank O’Connell, who has had a long and illustrious career being CEO and President at some very well-known companies like Reebok, FOX Video Games, HBO Video, Gibson Greetings so many more.  Frank has moved 25 times to new roles, across diverse industries and is now a well-known mentor to young professionals and a big proponent of taking risks to build successful...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is a Finance Firebrand, and Private Capital Advisor Sunaina Sinha, who is now at Raymond James, a global financial services leader whose total client assets are over $1.1 trillion. There are so many reasons for bringing Sunaina to the show. Even though Sunaina received her education at HBS and Stanford, her career has been anything but linear, something we love to s...

Send us Fan Mail My guests today are two very talented women who started a video production company, without any video production experience!  Namrata Sirur, aka Nammy, has an MBA and worked in very serious sounding corporate roles with Schlumberger and Sysco Food and Beverage Services. My other guest Pavi Dinamani is a trained Chemical Engineer and has worked at companies like Amec Foster Wheeler...

Send us Fan Mail Today we’re speaking with Peter Zemsky, Deputy Dean at INSEAD, one of the top business schools in the world, where he wears multiple hats: Peter works closely with the Dean on leading and representing the school globally, while also being Dean of Innovation, while he's not teaching. We talk about all these roles, and I also ask him about the relevance of expensive business sc...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is an Indian born woman working in the US with a Mexican company. Tanu Grewal is based in Houston Texas and has had an unconventional career trajectory. Tanu is a marketing leader with experience in Branding + Performance +P&L + Operations which she claims is her superpower. Having worked at fortune 100 companies, she knows what good looks like and in start-up e...

Send us Fan Mail Pitching yourself for a new job is never easy.  Pitching yourself when you live with anxiety, is harder.  What's even harder?  Pitching yourself to the BBC when you have a stutter. Or doing multiple professional speaking gigs, with that stutter. The most courageous of all?  Dressing up in a fancy dress costume (think skeleton onesie!) and showing up to a work meeting on Zoom....

Send us Fan Mail Today’s conversation will be with a very very courageous woman: Lisa Bowman. Lisa has held Executive level marketing roles at UPS and was most recently the global CMO for The United Way, the international network of over 1,800 local nonprofit fundraising affiliates.  Why do I call Lisa brave? Lisa experienced harassment at her job, spoke up, made some people uncomfortable, and was...

Send us Fan Mail It's episode 100 of How I Got Hired! And I can't think of a better way to mark the occasion than share this conversation with you. My guest today is a very talented actor who has starred in hugely successful productions like the Homeland series, as well Hindi movies like The Lunchbox (screened at the Cannes Film festival), Airlift and more recently, Dasvi. We are going t...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is The LinkedIn Unlocker Angus Grady. But wait, there's much more to Angus than LinkedIn, so much more. I met Angus on Clubhouse around 18 months ago and my jaw drops every single time I hear Angus speak. The words flow out like honey, but wait, that’s not the only reason I have invited Angus on the show. Angus and I are going to be talking about some darker fa...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is like no other. Truly, one of a kind. Tova Leigh is a Writer, Performer and Content Creator with over 2 million followers on social media. But wait, she’s not like other writers and performers out there. She creates viral videos about feminism and women’s rights in a way that educates and entertains. I mean, Tova is seriously funny. And today to talk about Tova’s...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Ben Lampkin. Who’s Ben Lampkin, I hear you ask. Well, you may not have heard of Ben, but I can guarantee you’ve definitely heard of his boss, Sir Elton John! Ben is Managing Director of Rocket Sports, a sports marketing business specialising in talent management, brand partnerships, etc, co-founded by Elton John.  While that’s a pretty cool thing in and of itself...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is a US Army Colonel turned Uber driver. True Story! I’m going to take an excerpt from a LinkedIn post of his that blew up in May 2022 and got 60,000 likes and thousands of comments and shares: “I was kind of a big deal, at least I thought. I worked for some of the most recognized names in defense, served at a few national agencies. Then I started Model Citizen Coff...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is based in Montreal, Canada and has worked 13+ years at the number one beauty company in the world: L'Oréal, during which she received 7 promotions in under 10 years. Tiffany Uman is now a full-time Career Strategy Coach empowering ambitious professionals to fast track their own success, a mission right after my own heart.  In this enlightening conversation, T...