Happen To Your Career Podcast
A career change podcast for people who don’t want to settle. Stories of how high performers find meaningful work.
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View all episodesJanuary 25, 2021
395: Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change
August 29, 2022
478: How To Achieve Career Clarity When You Feel Stuck, Bored & Unfulfilled
February 22, 2021
399: When Being “Good At” Your Role Doesn’t Lead To Career Happiness
February 6, 2023
501: Climbing Down The Corporate Ladder To Discover Career Happiness
March 11, 2024
558: The Secret to Effectively Job Searching in 2024
July 12, 2021
419: Leveraging What Makes You Unique: The Key to Your Career Change
October 2, 2023
535: Empowering Career Advice From Successful Career Changers
September 13, 2021
428: Stuck in a Career You’re Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There
April 13, 2019
279: 6 Keys to Career Happiness
November 27, 2017
261: Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers
October 23, 2023
538: How To Define Your Ideal Career When Making A Career Change
April 3, 2023
509: Should I Quit My Job Without Another Lined Up?
June 26, 2023
521: How to Overcome Overthinking and Finally Change Careers
January 25, 2021
395: Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change
March 16, 2021
402: How To Stick The Landing In Your Dream Job: Linnea’s Four Title Career Leap
November 5, 2018
255: How Kristy Celebrated Small Victories on the Way to Her Dream Career
June 12, 2023
519: Leading on Empty: Navigating Burnout with Dave Stachowiak
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A premiere resource for building career happiness!
“Whether you’re trying to figure out what you want to do, have just realized you can’t keep doing what you’re doing, or are looking for ways to improve in the job you love, you’ve come to the right place!”
Thanks for everything
“This podcast has been tremendously influential for me this year as I’ve finally transitioned into my new career path. There’s so much insight and advice for every stage of the process- from trying to figure out what is even out there to interviewing, landing the job and negotiating pay.”
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April 16, 2018
258: Why You Don’t Even Know Perfectionism Is Holding You Back
IS BEING A PERFECTIONIST HOLDING YOU BACK? What’s the meaning of perfectionism really? per·fec·tion·ismpərˈfekSHəˌnizəm noun refusal to accept any standard short of perfection. As far as I know perfection doesn’t exist because it’s subjective. This of course means that if we are after perfection, then we are already setting ourselves […]
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April 9, 2018
225: Why Willpower Doesn’t Work, And What To Do Instead
WHAT IF YOU WERE FORCED TO FIGURE THINGS OUT? You know that scene in the Pursuit of Happyness where Will Smith is sitting on the floor in the bathroom with his son after everything has come crashing down and he has no place to live and he’s hit rock bottom? He’s put into a situation where […]
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April 2, 2018
224: How Having Awkward Conversations Can Completely Change Your Life in Surprising Ways
“WHAT IF THE MOMENTS IN OUR LIVES THAT FEEL THE MOST AWKWARD ARE ACTUALLY THE MOST VALUABLE?” That’s the question that Melissa Dahl poses in her new book Cringeworthy, a Theory of Awkwardness. It’s also something that I’ve been pondering for about 10 years now. Particularly, the area of having difficult and awkward conversations and how they […]
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March 25, 2018
223: Making Complicated Career Decisions Insanely Simple
When you’re faced with hard decisions like “Should I take this other job” or “How do I know if this company is worth my time” or “is this type of role really going to make me happy; how do you really know? The reality is you can’t ever fully know until you’re there, but you […]
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March 19, 2018
222: Would You Be Happier at an Independent Consultant Job Instead of Being an Employee?
How to become a consultant or get an independent consultant job is super confusing. There’s not a clear path at all, but it’s something that’s very desirable to do if you are looking for flexibility, autonomy, high pay, and have a desire to add immense value to organizations. Lisa Schulter had been interested in becoming a […]
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March 12, 2018
221: What You Don’t Know About Highly Paid and Fulfilling Creative Careers PLUS A List of Jobs for Creative People
What if you’re a creative thinker who’s in a role that doesn’t allow you to use all that creativity? I would say “square peg, round hole” but usually it’s more “well rounded” people that function in a “square” environment. They can fit in, they just don’t want to have to. Every single day we get people […]
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