Jazzed About Work

Austin Belcak loves his job in New York City at Microsoft, where he manages digital advertising projects. But what’s attracting more public attention is his side gig as a job search expert. What Austin does through his firm, Cultivate Culture, is help recent grads to use “unconventional strategies” to snag jobs at leading tech companies -- just like he did. Austin has come a long way since he grad...

Yvette McGee Brown was the first African American woman Justice on The Ohio Supreme Court. Today, after years in public service, Justice Brown is a prominent attorney in private practice at the firm Jones Day, in Columbus, Ohio. But her path to success wasn’t always easy. Little Yvette was born Ohio to a single, teenaged mother whose goal was just to get Yvette through high school without getting...

Journalist John McCaslin covered the White House and Congress for three decades, as a syndicated columnist, top radio host, and prominent TV news show personality. Noting John’s knack for uncovering political shenanigans, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos declared: “John McCaslin knows everything you always wanted to know about Washington but were afraid to ask.”  On this Jazzed About Work episode, John...

The nitty gritty of managing a career shift is the focus of today’s episode. Instead of interviewing a guest, Bev will talk with her colleague, Tom Hodson, about ways to navigate a transition in your work life. The two will discuss strategies and insights from Bev’s book, “Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO – 50 Indispensable Tips to Help You Stay Afloat, Bounce Back, and Get Ahead at Work...

Eva Moskowitz is a pioneering and sometimes controversial figure in urban politics and American education. And she is well known as the founder of Success Academy Charter Schools, a network of more than 40 high performing schools in New York City. On today’s episode, we will hear about her new book, “The Education of Eva Moskowitz – A Memoir.” Of course the book talks about how she built the Succe...

ESPN’s Mark Wright is a journalist whose dynamic career not only allows him to closely follow the sports that he loves, but also provides him with an opportunity to explore issues that he cares about deeply. After a long career in print and then digital journalism, today Mark creates projects for The Undefeated. That is ESPN’s premier media platform for exploring the intersections of race, sports...

It’s time for university leaders to get serious about changing the way they teach students, says higher education thought leader Dave Goldberg, in this episode. Expertise doesn’t matter so much anymore, he says. The way to go is to be “more deeply human.” Dave says it’s time to change higher education from the inside out. He says that, in preparing students for their careers, educators should help...

Artists may look like they’re just having fun. But they have to work hard and carefully every single day, says distinguished curator Merry Foresta, in this episode, focused on creating careers in the arts. Merry says that artists who enjoy professional success tend to be passionate about what they do, regardless of what other people may say about their work. And one thing that helps them to keep u...

On this episode of Jazzed About Work, Bev talks with East Orange, New Jersey mayor, Lester Taylor, about his career path from lawyer to second-youngest mayor in the history of East Orange, NJ.

On this episode of Jazzed About Work, Bev talks with Shari Jaeger Goodwin, an innovative business strategist, leadership and peak performance coach, author, speaker, and horsewoman. Shari talks about how using horses in leadership workshops helps reign in the message. Her book, "Take the Reins! 7 Secrets to Inspired Leadership", blends best business strategies in leadership and sales with lessons...

On this episode of Jazzed About Work, Bev talks with John Tarnoff, a reinvention career coach who provides career counseling for baby boomer and late career professionals looking to defy ageism, work beyond retirement, and pivot to a new job or new business as a second act or encore career. John began his career as a literary agent, film studio production executive and film producer. In these capa...

On this episode of Jazzed About Work, Bev talks with retired Marine colonel who is now the Director for Professional and Executive Education at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University. The two talk about his personal journey of becoming a leader and the keys of teaching leadership to others.

Buses, trollies, subways and ferries can be key to a lively and sustainable community. But it’s not easy to develop this kind of urban infrastructure. It typically takes carefully crafted public/private partnerships, requiring coordination across geography, political bodies, social issues and areas of expertise. On this episode of Jazzed About Work, Bev talks with Sherry Little, a founding partner...

On this episode of Jazzed About Work we'll be talking about how the digital revolution may have an impact on YOUR career, and even your well-being. Our expert guest is Randy Rieland, a veteran traditional journalist who has made the transition to multi-media storytelling. Randy started as a newspaper reporter and went on to become a magazine editor. He was one of the first of his professional trib...

This week on Jazzed About Work, we'll be talking about how its never too late to reinvent your career. We'll be talking to Larry Meyer, journalist, novelist, and consultant. Larry, who's friends call him "Bud", started as traditional reporter but then went on to reinvent his career again and again. Today, Bud has a lively career at a time when many of his age cohorts have opted for retirement. He'...

Bev Jones talks with lawyer, law professor and health-care analyst, Dayna Bowen Matthew about racial inequality in the workplace. Matthew just released a new book Just Medicine – A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care published by the New York University Press. She claims that African Americans and Latinos suffer from unconscious racial and ethnic biases by physicians, institutional...

On this episode of Jazzed About Work, Bev talks with award-winning religion correspondent for National Public Radio and a former reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, about new research that explores fable that midlife is a time when things start to go "downhill". Barbara will explain how midlife can be a great new adventure when you can embrace fresh possibilities,...

Ryan Lytle graduated from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in June 2010. In just seven years, he, as a millennial, has had a rapid rise in the job market. For the past year, he has been leading digital audience efforts, social strategy and partnerships for Scripps Network Interactive, including the Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, DIY, Cooking Channel, Great American Cou...

On this episode, Beverly Jones talks with Ira Chaleff, an author and thinker who specializes in the dynamics between "leaders" and "followers" in the workplace. His newest work is titled, "Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong".

Donning judicial robes, taking the bench, and sitting in judgment of others on a daily basis can bring great professional satisfaction but problems may also arise, say two trial judges. Judge Gayle Williams-Byers, an African-American woman judge in the South Euclid Municipal Court in Ohio and retired/visiting judge Thomas Hodson talk about dedicating part of their careers to service and the upside...

In this technological age, we all have major online vulnerabilities and each of us is easily “digitally documented,” according to author, consultant and public relations specialist John Paul David. The average person, says David, is seen on surveillance cameras an average of 75 times per day. All of this leads to online searches for potential job applicants, people seeking promotions, loan applica...

Kerry Hannon, a noted authority on work and career, has published countless articles and books about how to follow your heart to find the work you love. But, she has been hearing, as she travels across the country, that a shift in employment may not be practical for many, in these times. So, how do you make your current job more satisfying? “If you want to be happier, you have to DO something, to...

Jazzed About Work is a new series which will feature lively, informal conversations about everything it takes to create a resilient and rewarding career. In each segment, host Beverly Jones will interview professionals who can share their expertise related to the workplace. Her guests go beyond the research and get personal, as they will talk about their interesting and often surprising profession...