Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search

What's your dream career?  Are you convinced there's something more out there for you than what you're doing currently?  You might be on the Dreamer's career path.  Expert Career Coach on theMuse.com and founder of Ready Set Rock, delivering powerful career and business training, Evangelia Leclaire helps us understand that even dreamers' careers go through phases.  She walks us through her own per...

How do you make a career change when you're burnt out, have no time and can't figure out what fits you? That's what Eric wanted to know! He was an engineer working for an oil company. He realized his job was not aligning with his values and felt the pull to do something that would make the world a better place. Learn how Eric found a career that fits (plus how he landed it!)   What you'll learn  ...

Dave Stachowiak is the founder of Coaching for Leaders and the host of the Coaching for Leaders podcast.  He's the Executive Vice President of Talent Development with Dale Carnegie of Southern Los Angeles and has led training programs for top organizations like the Northrop Grumman Corporation, The United States Air Force, the Boeing Company, and the University of California system.  He's a senior...

Think being a park ranger is about as far from the business world as you can get?  Think again.  Jody Maberry says the time he spent as a park ranger gave him a solid education in public relations, public speaking, negotiation, and the customer experience.  He traded the cubicle for the great outdoors, got his MBA, and discovered that not only could business lesson be applied to the parks system b...

Have you been wanting to start a business of your own?  Is overwhelm about all of the aspects of running a small business held you back?  Christy Wright works with entrepreneurs through coaching and through her speaking events as part of Dave Ramsey's team.  She talks to us about the unique issues that women face in starting and maintaining businesses.  They think differently.  They run their busi...

Not where you want to be in your life?  Your career?  Have you embraced the fact that it's all within your control and you have the power to change what's not working?  Ashley Stahl is a career coach who helps 20-somethings and 30-somethings to find their purpose and land more job offers.  She also helps up and coming coaches to launch and succeed with their practices. What your life looks like is...

Geoff Woods is the host of the Mentee Podcast.  His approach to connecting and building mentor relationships has taken him from medical device sales to now, starting a company with the founder of Keller Williams, the largest real estate company in the world.  In episode 66, he gives us some very tactical advice on how to find and land your own "army of mentors".  He's back again, but this time to...

We're told to go to school, get a great job with the best salary possible, and then to build our lives accordingly.  But, what if we could turn this approach around?  What if we designed our lives FIRST and then went out and earned to support the life we truly wanted?  Clark Vandeventer and his family have done just that.  They've identified what they want and have developed a diversified method f...

Jerrad's work was literally making him sick. The long hours and constant demands of the job had begun to wear on him to the point where he was waking up in the night with stomach pains. He knew something needed to change. This wasn't what he wanted for himself or his family. He and his wife took action. Together they began designing the life they wanted. We know that there are a lot of other folks...

"You can't do what you want to be doing and get paid for it." "I need to find my passion first." "Stuff that comes easy can't be valuable." "I've seen other people have success with that, but it would never work for me." What mental barriers are you carrying around with you? You may be aware of some of them. Some of them might be buried a little deeper. We run through a handful of the most common...

Are you stuck? Have you had the realization that you need a new job, entirely new career or maybe even want to start your own business, but you can't see a way to make it happen? Know where you want to go, but just can't seem to get there? So, what's holding you back? Debt? Fear? No time? Something else? We've got you covered. We walk through 5 of the most common barriers that most people come up...

Does the idea of having just "one true calling" seem a little too limited for you? Do you find yourself being drawn to a variety of different career options? You might be a multipotentialite! In her last year of law school, when she decided that she didn't want to become a lawyer, Emilie Wapnick began studying entrepreneurship.  Frustrated by her own inability to settle on a single "calling", she...

How would more success or more money change your life? Would you buy a better car? A nicer house? Live by the beach? Dan Norris tells us that life hasn't changed very much at all for him following the success of his company WP Curve, one of the world's fastest growing WordPress support providers. And it's by design. When you know what you want in your life it becomes possible to build your life ar...

Wish you were more productive? Mike Vardy's got some really helpful strategies for maximizing the 24 hours we all get each day. Mike is a thought leader in productivity. He's an author, speaker, and founder and President of  Productivityist.com,  a company that helps people stop "doing productivity" and start "being productive" through online and offline channels.  Before founding Productivityist,...

We're celebrating 100 episodes of Happen to Your Career, the show that brings you inspiration to make the move to a career or business you love and equips you with the tools and roadmaps to make it happen! First and foremost, we want to thank YOU for being here on this journey with us! You are WHY we do what we do! So, please grab a warm beverage, settle in and join us as we walk back through the...

What would life be like if you were working from your unique strengths and talents most of the time? What could you accomplish? Micha Mikailian has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15! From starting the first online Yellow Pages as a teen to his latest company Intently, he's learned his unique areas of talent and skill and seen a high correlation between the successes of his businesses, his o...

So, what does success look like for you? Will you know when you've reached it? What will you do afterwards? Aaron Walker has attained tremendous success by all measures. He has built and sold some of the most successful businesses in the Nashville area. But he was looking for something more and when friends Dave Ramsey and Dan Miller coaxed him into speaking and coaching, he knew he'd found it. He...

Interviews, public speaking, sales pitches - these can be intimidating. Most people don't really look forward to them. That's a given. But, would it help if you had a proven strategy for summoning the confidence you know you need to get the results you want? Michael Port is the author of Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Book Yourself Solid, Book Yourself Solid Illustrated, The Contrarian Effect, and Th...

Burnout is not a joke. Paula Davis-Laack is a self-described "recovering lawyer" whose own personal experiences with burnout landed her in the hospital 3 times. Now a burnout and resilience expert and founder and CEO of the Davis-Laack Stress and Resilience Institute she is dedicated to helping professionals manage stress and prevent burnout. She is an internationally-published author and has even...

Public speaking is one of the top fears, if not the number one fear most people face. In more severe cases it can cause people to avoid situations that might help them move their careers forward. David Nihill wants to help us all get over this fear and become better public speakers and storytellers. He was born in Dublin (and claims no one here in the U.S. understands his accent!). He earned a Mas...

Have you ever worried about losing your job? Even if it was a job that was making you unhappy? Kirby Verceles went through some wild ups and downs when the small company she worked for was in the process of being acquired. The soul-searching that she immersed herself in at that time gave her the answers and direction she needed and she came out on the other side with a position so suited for her i...

Ok. Let's talk. Today we're digging deep into what's REALLY stopping you from finding what you want in your career. Have you taken jobs because they were available? Have you started a job thinking it would be something that it turned out not to be? Are you stuck trying to decide what to do next? Trouble is, most people think finding work that fits them starts with looking forward. We think it star...

Thinking about starting a business?  You don't want to miss this interview then!  Andrea Lake is what you'd call a serious serial entrepreneur.  She's founded over 14 businesses since the age of 18, some of which include StickerJunkie.com, YogaJunkie, and Delinquent Distribution (the company that owns sales rights to merchandise for some of the world's biggest video games...think Minecraft and Wor...

Work as we know it is changing, whether we like it or not.  Are you prepared? Taylor Pearson is a "systems-obsessed entrepreneur, marketer, and philosopher" with a passion for helping other entrepreneurs. He's worked on the Tropical MBA podcast, done community management for the Dynamite Circle, a top mastermind forum for location-independent entrepreneurs, and managed marketing and sales for 7-fi...

It's time to update your job search skills!  Learn how you can be a standout candidate on platforms like Linkedin and position yourself perfectly for your dream job!  Turn your search on its head and have the recruiters find YOU!  Al Smith spent 35 years working in sales, management, marketing, and training for Xerox, Kimberly-Clark, and Systema.  His new book with co-author Jeff Sheehan is called...