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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Everything you’ve wished your work could be is real. It just doesn’t happen the way you think. Learn how top performers find work that fits. The Happen To Your Career Podcast is stories of real people who’ve found their ideal career.
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Popular Episodes
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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Best career podcast!
“Every time I listen to the podcast I learn something valuable to share with my career coaching clients. Scott and his guests provide cutting edge and real life examples to help listeners in their career development.”
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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February 23, 2015
62: Merging Identities as Part of Your Career Transition with Chris Wilson
ABOUT CHRIS WILSON Self-described as “the hardest working quitter you’ll ever meet”, Chris dropped out of college to pursue professional cycling, worked summers at his family’s B&B on Cape Cod, earned his way into an online ad agency by impressing the CEO, moved into sales at Hubspot, then at Nanigans, and is now officially self-employed working on UnStuckable with […]
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December 22, 2014
53: How to find Hidden Jobs with Scott MacDonald
Scott McDonald was in a job where he worked too many hours and he just didn’t enjoy after a corporate restructure. Listen to how he quit his job, went on to find a hidden job that he really wanted! In this episode you will learn: One of the very best ways to approach a company […]
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September 16, 2014
: How to ask for a Raise (and Get it)
Most people don’t realize that they can get paid more for doing the exact same work. But even the people that know it’s possible don’t ask for a raise because they are afraid to. They make up excuses, See if any of these sound familiar I have been told, it’s not in the budget, so […]
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April 14, 2014
34: Dave Ramsey and Your Career vs Your Finances
Scott’s Story of How Debt Was Stopping EVERYTHING In 2008 one of the biggest things that was holding me back in my career was my finances! Alyssa and I had all of the normal debts like car loans, student loans, a couple of credit cards but we also purchased a house with very little down […]
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April 7, 2014
33: Deacon Hayes: The Career-Finances Connection (@WellKeptWallet)
Deacon Hayes is a Financial Coach who has definitely “been there and done that”. Deacon and his wife, Kim, paid of $52,000 worth of debt in 18 months! In this episode Scott and Deacon talk about how debt and finances affects your opportunities and career decisions. [Tweet “”If your finances are not in order..you’ll have […]
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March 5, 2014
29: What Do You Want Out of Life?
This post is Day 4 of the Figure It Out – 8 Day Email Course. If you haven’t already signed up to get access to all the days, you can do that here. If you’re already signed up and loving this free resource, share it with someone else who needs it. What do you want…in all aspects of your life? […]
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