Reframe & Reset Your Career: Job Search & Career Development Insights

“Think about yourself as a business, what's your USP, what's your unique selling proposition and you may not know it now and that's okay because it's something that evolves and you can certainly ask people around you in work or your friends … but if you understand yourself as a little business, it's part of a helpful journey to understand what's unique about yourself and how to put yourself forwar...

"You don't know what your perfect job is, I don't know what my perfect job is, so go exploring. It's like buying houses you have to look at a lot of houses and then one day you go in one and you go "I love this house and the price is right". It's the same with jobs, really explore as much as possible because then one day you'll have the interview or have a contact with someone and you'll just sudd...

“Internal signals can also influence decision making and I think there is space for both approaches. Sometimes our feelings can not necessarily align with what the right thing is to do and there are definitely situations where we need to make the hard decisions … there's space for that rational thing where you know why you're feeling what you're feeling and choose to override it however I think th...

“If you have self-doubt, it makes us work harder and avoid complacency … it makes us work smarter by prompting us to rethink our strategy, the self-doubt that is ongoing really makes us work smarter because we do not want to be perceived like that … it also makes us better learners … because we will seek support and ideas from other people, we always want to do a good job and therefore we don't wa...

"Goal setting is massively important … that objective setting and the key results of the milestones along the way that you need to achieve. It's helpful, it's not just for business owners or people in jobs it can help you in any aspect of your life ... if you're just blindly turning up to your job every day … that's like jumping into your car and driving randomly for an hour in a certain direction...

Interested in learning more about becoming a changemaker? Alex Budak shared his insights about this, his book and much more on  Episode 42 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Focus on the process and producing good work not the results, Making change requires strong relationships and teams, His time at UCLA and cheering on the Bruins, What is a Cha...

"You can actually also reach flow in the workplace and it happens when we have just the right mix of chemicals in our brains and those are dopamine, noradrenaline, acetylcholine. I think that's a mouthful to remember so I called it fun, fear and focus when you have fun at work, your brain releases dopamine, when you have just the right level of fear not too much not too little, your brain releases...

Looking for insights to help you become a better leader? I had the pleasure of discussing this, her book Leading Inclusion and so much more with Dr Gena Cox on Episode 40 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. Gena and I talked about the following: Being taught by Arthur Ashe, the legendary US tennis player, at college, How her father gave her book on psychology when she was young which i...

"It's also about not only allowing yourself to make mistakes but allowing other people to make mistakes, how do you acknowledge, address them? … Leadership to me is not just about talking, setting new rules, having these heartfelt conversations, … you actually have to build something that actually helps the team and you have to listen to them. If the team says that no we don't need a complicated p...

“So there's a lot of pressure in change, in trying to engineer how we feel or how we think, thoughts just come into our heads randomly, who knows why we think certain things. We can respond to the thoughts but that's effortful, takes energy. So there's an alternative conceptualization which is that confidence doesn't have to be about how you feel or feeling good or having positive thoughts, confid...

What is a career mashup and how can it help build the business of you? Connie Steele and I discussed this, her best-selling book “Building the Business of You and so much more on Episode 37 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Appreciating your achievements and talents, especially things you find easy, Studying mathematics but moving into marketing...

Looking for insights into mental wellbeing from a former investor who retrained to become a psychotherapist? Kelly Hearn discussed this, her career journey and much more on Episode 36 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Her love of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry and learning to sit with uncertainty, Overcoming the initial rejection from the finance in...

"Stop comparing yourself to people, just stop, stop doing that period. Everybody had to start somewhere, everybody you're comparing yourself to was exactly where you were at some point and it doesn't happen overnight … Even though life is short, I think if you can just kind of say hey it's going to take time, I'm never going to be a finished product, I'm going to die being an unfinished product an...

Looking for ideas and strategies to help you build your dream career? Kathy Caprino, author of “The Most Powerful You: 7 Brave Paths To Building The Career Of Your Dreams”, discussed this, insights from her corporate career and much more me on Episode 34 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Don’t underestimate your achievements and the value of your...

Looking for insights from an leader who had exposure to some of the top business minds during her MBA program at Harvard Business School but then decided to go down the path of entrepreneurship, writing and coaching? Marguerite Orane, discussed this and much more on episode 33 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast In this episode, we will learn about: Taking over the management of her fam...

"Employers hire people to solve problems and you need to recognize that and you need to explore that when you do have a job interview with a hiring manager … if you want to distinguish yourself from your competitors … one of the best ways to do that is to ask the hiring manager what's keeping him or her up at night … and you have an opportunity to reflect back on your own experience and share exam...

Looking for ways to improve your communication at work and influence those people with more power? Dr Connson Locke, the author of Making Your Voice Heard, and I discussed this and much more on Episode 31 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Graduating from Harvard and starting her career in the non-profit sector, Moving to Hong Kong and working in...

Interested in learning more about the strategies that helped Deepa Purushothaman become ‘a first’: an Indian American woman and one of the youngest people to make partner in Deloitte's history. She discussed this, her book, “The First, The Few, The Only” and much more on Episode 30 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Her starting out in consulting...

Is it possible to found a tech start up without having any experience in this area? That is what Sophia Matveeva did and she discussed this, insights from building a new business Tech For Non-Techies and so much more on Episode 29 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Our shared interest in classical literature; Studying politics at Bristol Universit...

Why is kindness such an important characteristic for leaders? Julie Adam, author of Imperfectly Kind and the Executive Vice President & General Manager at Universal Music Canada, discussed this, her successful career in the music industry and much more on Episode 28 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Her love of baseball and music from childho...

Interested in learning more about the principles of influence and the ground breaking work of famed psychologist, Dr Robert Cialdini? Brian Ahearn, author, coach and consultant talked about this, his work and much more on Episode 27 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Applying the self discipline that he picked up from sport to work and aligning th...

“We're not trying to tell people think this way, or think that way. What we're saying is just stop and think, just stop and think … Do you have what you want? Is it working for you? If not, be true to yourself. Reframe, reset what you need to, there is not one definition of success. You may have a definition of success, or a definition of how you should be going about what you want to achieve all...

Looking for insights into the four attributes that high achievers, like Olympic athletes, Nobel Prize winners and astronauts share and how this can help you improve your performance? Dr Ruth Gotian, discussed this, career development strategies and much more on Episode 25 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Her love of soccer from an early age and...

"You've got to move forward, you've got to make sure that wherever you are each day, you're somewhere in front of where you were yesterday and if you take that simple approach other stuff works because you're always going to be dealing with something in your life that's not perfect" Jamie Cox shared this insight with me about the importance of managing failure both in cricket and life on Episode 2...

Limiting beliefs impact many of us but there are strategies that can potentially help manage them. Deb Reuben and I discussed this, becoming comfortable with fear, how her business adapted to life after COVID and much more on Episode 23 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Overcoming limiting beliefs; The value of building and maintaining strong rel...