Welcome back to the "Career Therapy" podcast, where we explore the intersection of work and well-being. I’m your host, Coach Marty, and each episode I interview mental health experts, coaches, and industry insiders to bring you practical insights and tips that will help you build a meaningful, rewarding, and sustainable career. So join me as we explore the path to career satisfaction, one conversation at a time.

In today’s episode we sit down with Robyn McKenzie a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Marin County California, where she works with children, teens, adults, couples, and families. Together, we explore the role that personality plays in your career and how you can use free assessments like the Enneagram to better understand yourself, your motivations and the strengths you bring to your career. 

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Thanks for tuning in. Here is our conversation with Robyn McKenzie.

LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynmckenziemft/

Website URL: https://www.robynmckenziemft.com/

Dan Jarvis is the founder of the non-profit 22ZERO, co-founder and Chief Healer at Anxiety Guys, and the host of the podcast with the same name, where he uses Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques to help veterans and civilians heal from anxiety, depression and PTSD. Together we discuss how trauma is stored in the body, what you can do to better understand your emotions, and how Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques can help you in your healing journey.

Natasha D’Arcangelo is a seasoned professional and speaker in the field of Mental Health Counseling. She is also a Compassion Fatigue expert and serves as a Qualified Supervisor providing outpatient counseling for Headspace Health. Together we discuss compassion fatigue in the caregiving professions, such as nursing, therapy, education, and more. Throughout the discussion, we dig into the impacts of trauma, the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and ways in which you can train your nervous system to be more tolerant of perceived threats in life and the workplace.

Zach White is the founder of Oasis of Courage, host of The Happy Engineer Podcast, and a lifestyle engineer helping leaders reach the next level without burning out. Together we discuss radical acceptance, learning how to truly know yourself, and how to bounce back when you’ve hit rock bottom in your relationships, work, and life.

Brittani Procknow is a relational therapist who strives to help individuals and couples live life passionately. Her work encourages others to move beyond complacency both personally and professionally through enhancing self and relational awareness. Together, we discuss workaholism, how it develops, what it looks like, and what you can do to break the cycle and begin living a more connected, fulfilling, and engaging life.

Shelly Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Co-founder of Good Human Work, where her mission is to combine human connection + therapy strategies to improve peoples' personal and professional lives. Together, we discuss the long-term impact of remote work on our mental health and what you can do to build and maintain relationships without going into the office. We contemplate the future of Artificial Intelligence and how it will impact human connection when it comes to the job search, therapy, and our social environment. And finally, we dig into how societal values have shifted from the community to the individual and how living in an isolation bubble can lead to disastrous outcomes, and what you can do about it.

Lydia Lincklean is a certified coach who focuses on Stress Prevention, Mental Health, Mindfulness, and Burnout. Merging a background working with Investigation Criminal Courts with her extensive experience in coaching, she has developed systems for people to listen to themselves, find peace of mind, and foster serenity in their lives. In this episode, we talk about our difficult personal experiences with medicating stress and anxiety, we talk about how to look at the big picture in order to escape the trap of stress-jumping, and we provide tips for how to stop fighting who you are in order to move into a state of flow in your work and life. 

Dr. Jax Black and Tomer Yogev are the co-creators of The Big Joy Theory, the leading coaching model and center for joy-centered leadership development. By leveraging joy as a productive source of empowerment, leaders can experience a lifetime of productive impact on their families, organizations, and communities. Together, we discuss how to find joy in your personal and professional life, how to escape the corporate “deficit” focused approach to “fixing” ourselves in order to lead with self-efficacy, and why fake it till you make it might lead to you hating yourself and your life in the long run, and what to do to change that.