In this episode of Talking Smack 415 we chat with Career Coach and Consultant, Kate Sargent @yourcareerplusone.  Kate is the founder of KJS Coaching & Consulting, where she has coached over 1,000 job seekers and helps businesses scale their people operations, and The Plus One Collective, a purpose-driven community for freelancers and consultants. She has 20 years of experience in People Ops at companies like The North Face, Method, and Allbirds.

We chat about: 

• How Kate got into coaching, built her business from scratch, and blew up by word of mouth and LinkedIn
• Latest buzz word “fractional”- what it is
• The generosity flywheel & abundance mindset (it’s not just woo, it works)
• Salary negotiations - you always have to ask
• Networking reframe (and how to do it even if you’re an introvert)
• Real talk about the job market, career coaching for recent college grads, career pivots in your mid 40s, how to use LinkedIn- and more.  

Plus: we take audience questions from @hey_it’st0m, @theclassieprofessor, Abby, and a surprise text mid-recording. And Kate has a  mic-drop answer to the question she wishes people would ask her—but rarely do.

And yes—somehow we end up talking about butt cheeks, which makes a bizarrely appropriate segue into my latest original song, My Bikini. Make sure you listen through to the end- we go out with it. Is it a career-limiting maneuver? We’ll let you decide.

Fasten your seatbelt for this fast-talking, takeaway-packed episode.  Share it with your peeps on the job hunt, in career transition, or wondering what’s next.  We’d love if you rate and review so other peeps can find us too.   

You can find Kate on all these links:  

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ksarge

IG: https://www.instagram.com/yourcareerplusone

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@yourcareerplusone

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourcareerplusone

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@yourcareerplusone

And on Slack channels - the Plus One Collective and Fractional People People 

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