Breaking Work

#440: Should you ever go backwards in your career? If you're a long term listener of the podcast, you know I think the answer is absolutely yes. Sometimes the quickest way to get out of a problem and get oriented on a solution is to go back up.

But it's not for the faint of heart. You have to have some faith and confidence in yourself and the path you choose.

Here to help us understand all of this and share her own stories is Kelli Rae Thompson.

#439: In this episode, Mike Gardon chats with Adam C. Bandelli. Founder & Managing Director of Bandelli & Associates, Dr. Adam C. Bandelli is an organizational psychologist and seasoned leadership advisor with over twenty years of corporate consulting experience. Adam's calling and purpose in life is to help the leaders identify, embrace, and unleash their true authentic selves. In his latest book Relational Intelligence, he details the five essential skills he has found to create life-changing relationships.

#438: In this episode, Mike Gardon chats with Sara McElroy. Sara McElroy is an ex-chief marketing officer and former hustle culture devotee who reinvented her career and reimagined the way she works after unexpectedly becoming The Wall Street Journal's poster girl for pandemic burnout.

Tune in to leanr how to quit a job that's taking more than it's giving!

#437: I have a tough time with expertise, I'm betting you do too.

Last week I did an overview of the Advantage Mapping Strategy. I view this exercise as fundamental to choosing what you do and how you spend your time for the greatest chance of success.

In short, Advantage Mapping is integral to designing your work-life.

Deeply understanding where your advantages lie, set you up for success and focus your energy on activities that have the highest odds of success.

This week I dive into the first source of advantage - your expertise.

#436: In this episode, Mike Gardon chats with Rebekah Bastian. Rebekah is a creator. She's created a startup, a tech movement, a book, multiple written, visual and aerial art pieces, and two humans. She is the CEO & co-founder of OwnTrail and was previously vice president of product and vice president of community and culture at Zillow. Rebekah is the author of the award-winning book Blaze Your Own Trail, a board member of JPEG Morgan and Bellwether Housing, a contributor to Forbes and an investor and advisor to AuthenTech and Web3 companies.

#435: One of the biggest lessons I learned as a trader is that great traders, gamblers and investors only play - or only bet big - when they have an advantage.

Sometimes they win, and sometimes they lose, but over the long term, if they adequately understand their advantage, they will win.

Taken to personal development, the key to investing in yourself is understanding where your competitive advantage lies, then using that advantage for growth.

It needs to be your life's mission to understand your advantage, no matter how small, and press it.

Tune in to learn more!

#434: In this episode, Mike Gardon chats with Joel Bein. Joel Bein is passionate about self-driven learning, creativity, personal growth, and human consciousness. Joel is the CEO at Career Hackers and Founder of New Orleans Chamber Players.

#433: In this episode, Mike Gardon chats with Alex Oliveira. In this episode we track Alex's career. We discuss how he found his superpower, and how he leveraged that power to make leaps into completely different industries. We also dissect how he transitioned his business to fit into his life instead of sucking the life out of him.

Finally, we discuss what skills he is trying to teach his 4 kids for the future. Heads up! These are important for anyone to have now and into the future.

#432: In this episode, Mike Gardon chats with Tareka Wheeler. Tereka Career & Mindset Strategist that helps ambitious Women of Color and Working Parents advance in their careers, and learn how to discover their defined natural abilities to level up professionally while achieving work life harmony.

#431: Theres a natural progression in how we frame choices or "options" as I tend to call them (it's the finance guy in me).

Welcome to decision overload, or what I call option overload.

In the context of any change, option overload is a killer zapping your mental energy, motivation and limited willpower.

The ones who make it through option overload, and successfully navigate a BREAK from traditional work learn how to manage the Paradox of Options.

Tune in to this episode to learn more!