In this episode of the Own Your Career Podcast, Andy’s guest is Sabina Sulat. She is an accomplished HR and organizational development and learning executive. She’s spent the better part of the past two decades studying how organizations function and how people work. She’s been a consultant to multiple global and Fortune 1,000 organizations, and Sabina Sulat considers the primary purpose of her work to advise organizations on how to enable their employees to develop and grow.

In 2020, Sabina Sulat recognized the impact COVID-19 would have on the American worker, forcing millions of people to lose their jobs in the wake of the pandemic. Inspired by her own period of unemployment, she began working on a book to help others navigate the path of being unemployed. Her new book is called Agile Unemployment: Your Guide to Thriving While Out of Work. She is dedicated to helping those who are unemployed navigate the uncertain waters.

In this interview, you’ll hear:

1. The story behind Sabina Sulat’s new book and how she and Andy became friends.
2. Why she believes everyone should write a book and how it can change the trajectory of your life.
3. The reason she almost gave up on her book and why she pushed through to the end.
4. Why she wrote this particular book and feels so passionately about this subject.
5. What you can do to combat the loss of your identity during unemployment and reconstruct yourself outside of work.
6. How you can use a period of unemployment to get intentional about what you’re doing with your career and your life.
7. Sabina Sulat’s advice for reevaluating your career and deciding if it’s time to move in another direction.
8. Why she viewed being laid off as a blessing and how it allowed her to help others going through the same transition.
9. Who her book is written for and what she wants people to take away from it.
10. The advice she’d give to someone who is out of work right now.
11. How you can support someone if you know they’re out of work.

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