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Send us Fan Mail My guest today David Lancefield and I met during a storytelling mastermind, and I was fascinated by his backstory of how he made partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) when he was just 32 years old. That’s a really young age to make it to this level in the consulting industry and I wanted to dig deeper to get insights for all of you on what are the factors that lie behind such a...

Send us Fan Mail Jill Katz has had a fabulous career in Human Resources at companies that many of us dream of working in. She has served as a Vice President in leading apparel brands like Calvin Klein and Ann Taylor, media firm IAC and the renowned retailer Macy’s. The lessons she shares both from her own career and her insights as a senior HR leader, can be immensely valuable for you.       In th...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest in this episode is one of the most inspiring corporate leaders from India, who has built a career in industries spanning cars, steel, helicopters, and consulting. Bharat Wakhlu’s 35-year career brings you many insights and lessons on how to be successful in your own career, while never compromising on your values or humanity.   Set up as a trading firm in 1868, the Tata...

Send us Fan Mail 85% of jobs that will be available in 2030, have not been invented yet.    Hence the most important thing you can do to ensure your future success is to build career agility.    What is career agility? If you google ‘career agility’, you will find the top results belong to my guest today, Marti Konstant.    Marti is a workplace futurist and best-selling author of the book ‘"A...

Send us Fan Mail Once a banker, always a banker. Once a teacher always a teacher. Once an engineer always an engineer.  Nope. Take the plunge, make the leap, change careers. People all over the world do it. If you want to, you can too. In this episode, I share: - how you know when it's time to make a change - Four barriers that are preventing you from taking the leap from Career A to Career B...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today teaches people how to fall in love with their work, just like they fall in love with their life partner.  It doesn't always happen overnight, but the effort it takes to get there is worth it. Dr Benjamin Ritter has a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership with a focus on value congruence and job satisfaction, and knows a thing or two about our topic today. In t...

Send us Fan Mail "Sorry, your position has been made redundant." Similar to so many of you, this is what happened to Jay in May 2021. He lives in London, notorious for its high cost of living. Going back to his parents' home was not an option, because of the lockdown and for their own safety. So, what did Jay do? What he does best: he made a video and posted it on LinkedIn. Now, no...

Send us Fan Mail What are two occupations you would rarely hear in the same sentence? An airline pilot and a co-founder of a burger chain! Today I am speaking with Rajat Jaiswal: Senior Capitan at one of the largest airlines in India, and co-founder of Wat-A-Burger: India’s largest homegrown burger chain. What? Now that gives a burger with wings a whole new meaning. 😊 In this rich conversation, R...

Send us Fan Mail How on earth did an education and training consultant from the UK get hired for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, relocating to Oman in the Middle East? It’s a brilliant story, listen to this podcast episode to find out. Stella is a great example of what is waiting on the other side of fear and the power of taking consistent action. What action? Being visible on LinkedIn and how i...

Send us Fan Mail Bad day? Bad month? Bad year?  Want to quit your job? Wait !! Listent to this podcast episode first! Six sure shot signs you're unhappy at work. Does your job feel like a dream or scream? Does your boss make you dream or scream? What's your current situation?  𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦-𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐱? Enjoy this quick handy guide to get you thinking abou...

Send us Fan Mail "On December 2nd, 2019, I was done. That day, I handed in my resignation for a job I spent my entire career wanting & working for. The truth is ... I didn’t want to stay. My boss didn’t see my value, I wasn’t performing well & the culture, not a fit. At 56, after over thirty years in creative roles as VP at J. Walter Thompson, on the client-side & my last woo hoo...

Send us Fan Mail “I’m never going to do business.” *Goes and works at an aviation company and expands the business. “I heard about this concept called Business School. Harvard has one? Cool!” *Gets into HBS. “I had 6 job offers during MBA campus interviews.” *Takes the lowest paying job, with pretty much the worst interview experience, ever. “I wanted to move to a country where they speak French o...

Send us Fan Mail I don't know anyone who doesn't love a good reinvention story. Especially career reinvention. Think of the most famous people in the world, and they've reinvented themselves. And ordinary people like you and me? Yes, us too. But to go from industrial design, to creative strategy, to innovation, to teaching college students, to now helping leaders be the leader they...

Send us Fan Mail 'Carpe Diem' is a famous Latin phrase roughly translating as 'Sieze the Day!' Our next guest embodies this spirit and how! What is it like to work out of a boat? Not on holiday, not for fun, but as your new permanent office? Are you ready to 'Seas the day'?  I invite you to google search the following: a. Digital Nomad b. Laptop lifestyle I can bet yo...

Send us Fan Mail What is one thing that's free, and can make a deep impact on your job search, as well as your career? It's LinkedIn: both your presence and engagement on the platform. In this episode, I share 4 tips to help you self audit your profile: related to your profile pic, background banner, headline and the 'about' section. Download the LinkedIn profile checklist here...

Send us Fan Mail Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was a famous book written by the great novelist John le Carre. Inspired by that title, today's episode has a special guest who has hired talent for the Intelligence community and has reinvented her own career many times over. Lee Andrese has had a phenomenal career as a secondary school teacher, a cowgirl and tractor trailer driver, before moving...

Send us Fan Mail Bob Burg is a hugely successful writer and sought after speaker who’s built his entire life’s work on the concept of GIVING. His magnum opus, a book called “The Go-Giver”, co-authored with John David Mann, is a  Wall Street Journal   and BusinessWeek   Bestseller, and has sold nearly a million copies and translated into 29 languages.  Arianna Huffington, Seth Godin and Stephen Cov...

Send us Fan Mail Facing a challenging scenario at your workplace? Expecting to get laid off? Having trouble dealing with your boss? Chances are, the Evil HR Lady can help. Suzanne Lucas helps you understand what your boss is thinking, whether you should contact a lawyer and what your chances are of getting severance.  Her hit blog 'The Evil HR Lady' garners half a million views across pl...

Send us Fan Mail If you're looking for confidence and clarity on your career path, AND how to get hired in your dream orgnanisations, this is the episode for you. If you think you're different and no one is going to want you because of those differences, this episode is for you.   Nikki Barua is co-founder of a company called Beyond Barriers which helps global organizations accelerate wo...

Send us Fan Mail Interesting careers are always squiggly and this isn't any different in John's case. John Espirian, a LinkedIn superstar, has worked as a Call Center agent, then manager, then Quality Assurance tester at large companies like Fujitsu, then technical copyrighter and now, B2B website writer and overall LinkedIn nerd. If you follow John on LinkedIn, there's a good chanc...

Send us Fan Mail  This is probably one of the most unique career stories you would have ever heard.   Dirk De Muynck had it all: a cushy executive job at a large Swedish automotive giant, a comfortable life and wide acclaim as a manager of reputation. Till one day in 2014 when it was all taken away from him and Dirk had to re-invent himself.    One day, in the midst of a traffic jam, Dirk had an e...

Send us Fan Mail Which is the dream company you always wanted to work for?  Many people say these two: Apple and Disney.  Jeff Archambault has worked with both of these iconic companies. A short stint at Apple, followed by a long and illustrious 25 year career at the Walt Disney Company, where he served in leadership roles in Finance, Operations, Corporate Communications and CSR.  Drawing on all h...

Send us Fan Mail I'd like you to close your eyes for a moment. Go ahead, do it. I want you to think of the biggest truck out there.  Now I'd like you to think of who's driving that truck. Now think of where that truck goes to get washed, after a night of driving. And who do you see running that truckwash place? Open your eyes now. I bet the last thing you pictured is a petite, deter...

Send us Fan Mail Job search shouldn't be this hard.  That's what she said. Who? Kamara Toffolo, ladies and gentlemen! Who is she and what does she do? She is the "Door Opener" who helps you get inside and interview for your dream job.  Kamara Toffolo is a resume writer, LinkedIn consultant, and job search strategist who helps her clients to land great-fitting gigs. How? Through...

Send us Fan Mail Coaches always need coaches. Today's episode is a very special one for me. Dorothy Dalton, global Talent Management Strategist and Certified Career Coach, has been my coach for over two years. In this episode, Dorothy shares her career story where she: - Talks about how she started her career in the heavily male dominated steel industry in the 1980's - Worked with unions...