Shine at Work®

This week I spoke with Habibah about finding her voice in her career and aligning it with her personal values. When she started college, Habibah had no idea what career path she wanted to pursue.  After taking some general courses, she chose nursing since she loves to care for others but, like many of us, as she learned more about that field realized it wasn’t right for her.  Having a love for mat...

In this week's episode, I spoke with Kris Senior about finding a mentor and finding what truly inspires you as a whole human.  Kris decided a few credits short of a forensic psychology degree that maybe it just wasn't for them.  After having a random conversation with someone in a grocery store, they became a receptionist at a construction company in NYC.  While there, Kris decided to ch...

In this week’s episode, we are focusing on the interview process;  how to prepare for interviews, how to handle the tough questions about job gaps, former employers, and the dreaded money talk.  And to add in an extra layer of complication in this whole new world since the pandemic, you also may be interviewing remotely for the first time and need to prepare for the uniqueness of that as well.  I...

In this week’s episode, we are focusing on negative self-talk.  The voices in our head that hold us back.  These can be the voices of others, voices of our past, our own voice telling us real and perceived “truths” that keep us from doing what we want to do.  I’m going to be very vulnerable with you because this subject is near and dear to my heart and you have no idea how much I live in my head. ...

This season as we focus on opportunity and confidence, I spoke with my friend, Lauren Widrick, who is also my own life and business coach.  After college, Lauren went into IT within the investment banking world.  While she was very successful in her career, leading a large team, making money and climbing the corporate ladder, she realized she wasn't happy or remaining true to her authentic se...

In this episode, I spoke with Alex Simmons about his career in private equity and investment banking, the impact it had on his life and how he took action to help others not find themselves in the same place.  He found himself burned out during the traditional high stakes nature of this career and was introduced to therapy and meditation and later coaching.  He soon realized that everyone around h...

In this episode, I spoke with Erin Galloway about her career journey and the habits that she had to continually evolve as life changed for her.  Although she had been fortunate enough to create and maintain good habits growing up, she knew she needed to keep developing different habits to keep learning, growing and moving forward.  She shares some of her most impactful tips on how to create health...

In this week's episode, we focus on when you know if you need to make a job change or not.  No job is perfect, we all know this, but is this a good time to reflect on why you are feeling this way.  There are a lot of different factors that can affect your engagement in your career.  There could be life things: you may have had a major life change, you need to be in a different city, you need...

Welcome to Season Four!   This season we are going to focus on opportunity. How to have the confidence when opportunity comes along, having the skills to seize it, plan for it and best of all, get the most out of it!  Every episode has specific and actionable tools and advice.  We also have some amazing guests this season who all have similar stories of finding the opportunity when really they wan...

Whether you have listened to previous episodes or you are just finding us now, welcome!  This season is all about “opportunity”.  Each week, we will focus on a key skill you need to shine bright and navigate your career through all the opportunities in front of you. How to find your moment, ask for help, set your goals, and be in control of your path with confidence and how to put it into play.  E...

We made it to the season finale!  In today’s episode, Karen wraps up the season to make sure you are on the best path forward.  She will share her own experiences navigating her own career and some actionable ways you can continue to Shine at Work by making sure you are running towards something and not just away from something.  In this episode you’ll specifically learn... How to identify what yo...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Aoife O’Brien.  Aoife built an incredible career in international business, focusing on  insights, data, category research and a lot of other really interesting projects.  But as she worked for different companies, she realized that she was in toxic environments more often than not, where “companies, and individuals, should have been making  better decisions”. ...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Stephan Vincent.  In college, Stephan was interested in “business” but he wanted to apply psychology to the human experience and help companies build amazing cultures.  ‘But at that point that’s not what HR did”.  So he went into marketing and thought about the customer experience instead.  Fast forward several years, and the business world caught up with Stepha...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Jessica Lackey.  Another guest that had an extremely successful career on paper with roles at McKinsey and Nike and a degree from Harvard Business School.  But what they don’t really prepare you for is the incredible pressure, competition and honestly obsession that is placed on someone (or we place on ourselves) in those roles.   For Jessica, that took a real t...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Brooke Gasaway.  As a kid, Brooke wanted to be a teacher, but like all of us, as she got into school, other interests came forward and she started her career as an architect.  But even as an architect, her favorite part of the work was communicating with clients and the feelings that came with the designs.  But it was a great job, she should like it, she was suc...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Keith Johns.  After a very successful career climbing the ranks at companies, he realized something was missing in his life.  He was not living the best life he wanted for himself and his family.   It wasn’t until he reconnected with a former colleague, who was now a coach, that he realized he didn’t want the 9-5 life anymore and he made the leap to start a side...

Happy fall!  We are more than half way through this season (unbelievable) so we are going to do another deep dive episode with our host Karen Weeks!  In this week’s episode, Karen expands upon the advice given by Keiko, Pariss, Holly and Sun. She will share her own reflections on their advice and career stories and give you FIVE challenges to turn it into actionable steps  you can take today to co...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Sun Kim.  Really from day one of his career, Sun showed the entrepreneurial spirit, he just didn’t know that’s what it was!  He wanted to find more meaning in his work, “not just climb the corporate ladder” which led to eight jobs in ten years.  After his third product manager job, he started to realize that the theme in all these jobs was that he wanted to crea...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Holly Shannon.  While Holly talks about her non-linear career path in our conversation, you will see there is a throughline around business strategy.  Through years in the hospitality and event industries, Holly has built an amazing career creating white glove services, focusing on creating experiences and using EQ to help guide leaders to grow and scale their b...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Pariss Chandler.  Pariss has had a couple of careers but then last summer she found how all her previous experiences naturally came together as the country found itself again discussing racial inequality.   After a career in acting, writing, video production, make-up and waxing she was trying to figure out what was next.  She looked to the corporate world, first...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Keiko Munro.  Keiko’s energy and approach to life is inspiring.  She has a musician’s soul and while she tried for a few years to pour that energy into a marketing career, she realized that she was “building everyone else’s dreams” but not her own.  So after an eye-opening trip to Guatemala, she decided to try to figure out what success looked like for her and i...

We hope you are enjoying the new season so far.  In this week’s episode, Karen goes deep into the advice given by Lauren, Angelica, Bo & Tevis.  She will share her own experiences navigating her career based on their stories and some actionable ways you can continue to Shine at Work using their journeys as examples In this episode you’ll specifically learn... How to design the life you want to...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Tevis Trower about her journey through many “on paper” impressive corporate roles into a career as a leadership futurist, an organization nerd and work that allows her to answer the question of “Do I Matter” with  affirmation and joy.  After years of looking around large corporations and not seeing people who reflected her values and honestly weren’t even reflec...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Robert “Bo” Brabo.  Right out of high school, Bo joined the military and had an incredibly successful career serving our country, including working directly for Presidents Bush and Obama.  He had the unique opportunity to follow mentors to amazing jobs he never would have imagined by “raising my hand once and the rest just followed” and help his fellow serviceme...

In this week’s episode, I talk with Angelica Patlan about her journey through a couple of different majors in school to years as a police dispatcher and how that led her to explore HR!  Why HR?  During her time as a dispatcher, she saw employee turnover that wasn’t addressed, she saw opportunities to improve morale and communication.  She was told that “didn’t have anything to do with HR” but she...