Catch Fire Careers with Simon Yost

What is the difference between complaining and holding people accountable? It is not the most light-hearted question, and our conversation with Tyler is not short of other lighter-hearted moments. Tyler Huckabee is RELEVANT's, executive editor. He lives in Nashville with his wife, dog, and Twitter account. Tyler shares about his service of people who feel crazy, creating meaningful space in a digital world, and three filters that guide is creating. Tyler is no stranger to podcasting, contributing to both RELEVANT's podcast as well as Cape Town. What are we reading? This week we discuss When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. It's a memoir the publisher summarizes well: "At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated."

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What if you got hit by a bus? Would your work and organization be able to continue? Today Jeff Pawlow joins us and shares the importance of building your organization to succeed outside of yourself. As the Founder and Managing Shareholder of The Growth Partnership, Jeff leads a dynamic team of professionals dedicated to helping their clients succeed as business owners. He has repeatedly been named one of the profession's "Top 100 Most Influential People" by Accounting Today. Currently, the client "footprint" of The Growth Partnership consists of 452 accounting firms in the United States – including 56 of the Accounting Today "Top 100" firms"; 39 associations/state societies, and 13 international firms. Jeff currently resides in suburban St. Louis with his wife Cindy and their four children. In his free time, Jeff enjoys escaping to his family retreat in remote McCloud, CA, and serving as the "voice" of the St. Louis University High School and Affton Americans hockey teams. 

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Darren Jxn joins the show this week with a genuinely unique path. He is a co-founder of Create a Loop, an organization that teaches kids to code. Darren is also the co-founder and CEO of All Black Creatives, a community, and agency celebrating black artists and helping brands celebrate.

On the show, he shares with us about empowering people through leadership, protesting, celebration, and tension between creativity and computer science. We also discuss his vision for the future of designers and organization's belief that black is the future. What stood out most is the community around his organization and their superpower: empathy.

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Aligning the Who/How/What for six figures. Gain skills to succeed without the university price tag. Simon provides tips for designing your career path, exclusive interviews with expert guests about success designing their own paths. 

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When we consider leaders, it is easy to folks on their power, responsibility, and capability. In this episode, our guest, Sheila Burkett, frames leadership in terms of giving back. Sheila suggests that leadership is giving of your time, talent, and treasure. Sheila Burkett is the Founder and CEO of a successful St. Louis interactive agency, an advocate for women in technology, and a dynamic networker. Combining her business and technology experience, Sheila Burkett helped start Spry Digital in April 2010, along with her three partners.

As CEO of Spry Digital, Sheila believes that every organization, regardless of size, can afford and maintain a robust presence and technology platform that contributes towards its business objectives. Spry Digital bases its work on providing the highest quality, customized, and scalable solution for every client.

Before Spry Digital, Sheila was a partner at Edward Jones with over twenty years of experience in their Information Systems division. At Edward Jones, she was the Sr. Director and Partner responsible for leading the strategic technology planning process, Project Management Office, IS Internal Controls, and executed a worldwide communication effort on the vision for technology at Edward Jones.

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Are you in search of the perfect job? The perfect tasks to fit your passion? This week Todd Henry, a five-time author and founder of The Accidental Creative, challenges us with our idea of the perfect job. He believes a myth that our society holds is that we will find tasks that we will enjoy all day. Instead, Todd thinks the ideal job is the job one that enables you to achieve the outcome you desire, even if you don't love all the tasks that you have to do all day. His challenge: "What if you brought your motivation to your tasks instead of relying on your tasks to bring you motivation?" Todd's new book, The Motivation Code, aims to help each of us discover the hidden forces that drive our best work. The research in The Motivation Code began in the late 1960s and includes the largest repository of achievement stories in human history.

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How do you follow up from a Grammy? That’s the question we pose to our first guest of Catch Fire Show: Season Two, Courtney Orlando. The answer may not be what you expect. In this episode, Courtney Orlando tells his story of winning a Grammy award and his struggles. His story weaves through heartbreak—illness, depression, death of loved ones—and coming back to a place he never thought he would create new music to share with the world. You can find his new single, “Me,” as well as the song played on today’s show, “Anti-Hero,” on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get your music.

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Tamarah Usher is a passionate digital strategist, business architect, service designer, sustainability consultant, and certified futurist. She serves as the Strategy Practice Lead at Slalom St. Louis. Tamarah's super strength is helping organizations make the future.

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David Dolak is a partner and creative director at Phoenix Creative Co. in St. Louis, Missouri. David and I started our careers together and had the privileged of seeing each other group up professionally, starting families, and enduring some ups and downs. In this episode, we talk about our first job together, memorable projects we worked on, and how craftsmanship guides so much of the work we do.

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Aligning the Who/How/What for six figures. Gain skills to succeed without the university price tag. Simon provides tips for designing your career path, exclusive interviews with expert guests about success designing their own paths. 

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