Your Employment Matters with Beverly Williams

This episode of Your Employment Matters is the first in a series on labor unions and management relations. With all the recent news and headlines on unions and employment strikes, this series aims to demystify the labor framework, laws, and the underlying reasonings that shape our current system. And who better to start this series than our guest, Dean Burrell. Dean, a distinguished labor and empl...

Prepare to be moved and inspired in this episode of Your Employment Matters. Christine Macdonald, the author of "Face Value: From Working the Pole to Baring My Soul." brings a story of triumph over adversity that will leave you motivated and empowered.  Christine's life journey has been marked by trials—childhood skin deformity, surgeries, abuse, addiction, and mental illness. Yet, she emerged as...

On today's episode we're sharing an interview that Beverly did on Jen Hardy's podcast "Fabulous Over Fifty". You can find Jen in the following places: https://jenhardy.net/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thejenhardy Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thejenhardy/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thejenhardy/ Leaving a review of this podcast is encouraged and greatly appreciated. Chec...

In a special episode of "Your Employment Matters," we take a different approach to our usual interviews. Our guest today is a captivating and inspiring speaker whose perspective on life will keep you enthralled for hours. With personal anecdotes and words of wisdom, this episode has something special just for you.  Frank E. Legette, III, carries four decades of pastoral ministry experience, curren...

There are those professionals who, when you look at their portfolio, make you want to stop and ask, “How did they do it?” These are the ones who have worked for multiple high-performing companies, across multiple industries, and yet in each position they held, they delivered excellent results and contributed to the organization. One of these individuals is our guest for today, Paul Teasdale.  For...

There are some people you meet, and you start having a conversation with, start sharing pieces of your life with, and you instantly connect and feel like you can keep the conversation going on for days. That is exactly what happened in this podcast episode.  Today, I had the pleasure of conversing with Jen Hardy, a proud wife of a veteran, and homeschooling mom of 7. She is also the Podcast Host o...

In this episode, we’re still discussing employment, but more than that, we’re talking about gratitude, life’s purpose, and love. There are some people who just seem to radiate love and light, and that’s the perfect way to describe our guest for today.  Kim Sorrelle is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, activist, and author. Her entrepreneurial journey included commercial real estate, a golf course,...

Let me ask you. Are you at the place where you’re unsure about your career? Maybe you’re undecided? You probably have an idea of what you want. Or you might have no idea at all. How do you decide your path? How do you set goals?   Today’s guest, Claudia Miller, is going to help us answer those questions. Claudia is a career coach for women in tech. She helps her clients land jobs in 90 days (or le...

How good are you at handling change? Do you handle it well? How sure are you?  Joining us today is Elizabeth Powers, a sought-after speaker, facilitator, teacher, and consultant. She is also the CEO of EPower & Associates, Inc., which provides people development in the form of training, coaching, consulting, and events, and is the parent organization for The EPower Change Institute and The Trauma...

It’s easy to assume that getting the job you want is tied directly to the degree you earned and the specific skills you have. Yet, there is ample opportunity existing outside of your comfort zone that allows you to explore a different career path than the one you expected.  Charlene Shapiro, the Vice President of Human Resources for the WNET group, shares her 25 year experience building a career w...

You’ve known about the glass-ceiling for years. The difficulty you’ve faced to advance your professional career as a woman, or an ethnic minority wasn’t your imagination. Getting into a senior position may be difficult, but it’s far from impossible.  Today’s guest, Jocelyn King, is an impact life coach with a senior executive background from Silicon Valley. Among numerous accolades, she’s been vot...

 The ability to work remote has opened the opportunity for you to apply to work in any state and in any country regardless of your location. Seems like the playing field should be level, but the cultural differences and expectations can make it difficult and near impossible to secure employment if you’re not conscious of these differences.  Julia Kirst is a cross-cultural strategist that helps int...

 If your job expected you to keep everything organized, fully stocked, clean, and running smoothly from the start of your shift to the end of your shift, you’d probably expect a pretty busy day. When you meet with your boss and they also add that they need other team members managed, conflicts resolved, clean clothes, meals prepared, and everyone’s schedule accommodated, you may feel overwhelmed a...

Beverly is talking with Steven Toboroff, the CEO of Woolco Foods Inc. His employment journey is like many, diverse and not what was initially planned. He found out he loved Woolco Foods, the premiere distributor for the finest restaurants, hotels, bakeries, caterers and institutions in the New York and New Jersey area. Steven shares one of the best things about the industry and his work is the opp...

What does who you are mean? In the workforce, do you have a good understanding of who you are? How would your co-workers define you? Every decision you make is not a decision about what to do, it’s a decision about who you are. Neale Donald Walsch If you are looking for a new job, have future ambitions in your current position, or want to make a career change, understanding who you are is step one...

Having more than one interest or more than one passion isn’t so unusual. In fact, most of us have multiple interests and as you go through high school and college you are coerced into choosing one path, one direction, and one career.  But why not pursue more than one career? Aside from time, money, and effort, pursuing multiple careers, especially complementary or adjacent careers, makes sense and...

Mental health impacts millions of people and is one of those things people can avoid dealing with their entire lives depending on the culture and part of society they were exposed to. Some cultures view seeking therapy and professional help as a sign of weakness and embarrassment.  Among black communities, mental health is only recently being openly discussed. According to NAMI.org, 63% of black p...

At different stages of your career, you begin to formulate different expectations from your employer. With time and experience in different industries and different work environments, you start to assess what you can tolerate from management and co-workers, and what you’re not willing to tolerate as well.  75% of employees quit their boss, not their job (source)  Victoria Dew does not consider her...

How many times in your career have you heard; your network is your net worth? If you’re like the average person, we don’t always prioritize or value networking in our respective industries. In fact, you may cringe and shudder at the thought of going to a networking event.  For Robert T. Szyba., networking comes easier when the focus is on meeting people and making connections. This perspective has...

How you show up and present yourself in a meeting, at a workplace or corporate event matters. The problem is, often we don’t see the issue with some of the habits we have in casual environments, and we bring that into a setting that can be detrimental to our career success and growth.  Doris Young Boyer is a Global Protocol and Etiquette Expert who helps us through awkwardly embarrassing moments....

As the workplace evolves and takes on different shapes as people relocate to working from home environments, and as politics continue to find its way into nearly every corporation, ethics is more important than ever before.  Employers have their code of ethics, and many professions have a standard code of ethics that people should be familiar with to keep out of trouble. Beverly thinks of ethics a...

In your personal life, being ethical may not be a conscious thought or an idea you have to think about too hard. You know right from wrong and as a good citizen, you abide by the rules of the society we live in. In the workplace, however, ethics may sound like a different conversation and isn’t always black or white.  In a 2015 survey, it was stated that 84% of upper and mid-level management polle...

When you consider living through a global pandemic that rendered businesses and entire economies helpless, and you consider the number of people that are one paycheck away from being homeless, you have to ask yourself how do people sleep at night knowing they are relying on one income to survive?  Technology is changing the landscape of the workforce. Jobs are becoming obsolete, and as technology...

When you think of unions and labor management, it’s easy to default to factories in the industrial age of unfair wages and poor work conditions for those employees. Are unions still relevant today or are they slowly disappearing?  Beverly recently had the opportunity to contribute to Authority Magazine to discuss the top trends in connection with the future of employment. One of those trends was t...

The Great Resignation has been receiving a lot of attention from the media over the past few months. Employers are scrambling and creating new incentives and packages to retain quality employees. Yet there are still employees who are on the fence and considering what their next move should be. Should they join the rest and leave their employer, or stay and make the best of the situation? Mitch Cas...