Chan with a Plan

Chan with a Plan

By Max ChanEducationSelf-Improvement
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Chan with a Plan episodes

  • 3 self sabotaging behaviors you need to stop in order to move your career in the right direction

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    Max discusses 3 self sabotaging behaviors he had that stalled his career and what mindset shifts he had applied to overcome them to get to where he is today. Based on this past week's episode with Mara Palermo on how to overcome your limiting beliefs in order to achieve your full career potential.

     

    TIMESTAMPS

    • [0:31] Definition of self-sabotage
  • [1:00] Being a self-critic and overanalyzing past situations
  • [2:40] Being a self-protector and distrusting of others
  • [4:17] Avoidance and procrastination

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    RESOURCES & RELEVANT LINKS

    • Chan With A Plan
  • Chan With A Plan Facebook Group
    • 11 min
  • How to overcome your limiting beliefs in order to achieve your full career potential

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    In this episode of Chan With A Plan, host Max Chan speaks with Mara Palermo, a certified coach who helps guide people to breakthrough limitations, awaken their potential and develop a self-mastery mindset so that you can create a life that you love. Mara discusses her own battle with limiting beliefs and through her experience, share some exercises and strategies in order to help you build the career that you truly want. 

     

    QUOTES

    • “[Limiting Beliefs] will stop us from moving in the direction of our dreams and our goals, right so it’s holding us back from living our best life or taking that promotion or doing the things, advancing us in careers.”  - Mara Palermo [4:29]
  • “[When it comes to goal setting and] to know if it’s really true for you, because you can ask yourself why you want it and if you ask yourself why do you want it and if there’s any other reason besides just because I love it, then it’s not true.”  - Mara Palermo [32:03]
  • “It’s starting to build that muscle of just overcoming things, then once you start overcoming some things, you’ll be able to overcome the big things that you don’t want to do too.”  - Mara Palermo [46:23]

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    TIMESTAMPS

    • [2:02] Meet Mara
  • [4:05] Discussing the definition of limiting beliefs
  • [6:51] Limiting beliefs Mara had and what she did to overcome them
  • [9:20] Overcoming the fear of failure
  • [11:22] Validation from parents and why it’s so important even if they are no longer a big part of your day to day life as you get further into your career 
  • [16:37] Getting comfortable networking and meeting people that are perceived as higher value than you in order to grow your career
  • [19:58] Discussing mindset and strategies to help you overcome your limiting beliefs
  • [22:28] How long till you start seeing some progress when it comes to overcoming your limiting beliefs when you start implementing some of Mara’s strategies
  • [25:59] Recommendations to maintain your accountability as you go on this journey
  • [31:34] Evaluating what you truly want and not what you think you want 
  • [34:30] Fear of success and what it means
  • [36:18] Fear of growing and losing people in your current network during your self-improvement journey
  • [39:39] Finding like minded people in order to help your grow
  • [42:30] Strategies to help you if you feel stagnant in your career or are currently in a rut
  • [48:42] Overcoming limiting beliefs and imposter syndrome when you recently got a promotion
  • [51:06] The one major career challenge Mara had to overcome to get to where she is today
  • [52:40] Contacting Mara
  • [53:36] Outro

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    RESOURCES & RELEVANT LINKS

    • Self Mastery Mindset Facebook Group
  • Self Mastery Mindset Instagram 
  • Chan With A Plan Facebook Group
    • 55 min
  • How I overcame my limiting beliefs in order to start and grow my career coaching business

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    Max discusses his battle with his own limiting beliefs when it came to starting his career coaching business and what mindset changes he needed to make in order to make things happen, based on this past week's episode with Laura Sousa on how to make a drastic career change to achieve fulfillment and happiness in your work.

    TIMESTAMPS

    • [1:29] Max's limiting beliefs when he wanted to start his career coaching business and how he pushed through them to get started
  • [3:45] 3 things you need to be aware of and do before deciding to pull the trigger on making a drastic career change

    • RESOURCES & RELEVANT LINKS

    • Chan With A Plan
  • Chan With A Plan Facebook Group
    • 7 min
  • How to make a drastic career change to achieve fulfillment and happiness in your work

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    In this episode of Chan With A Plan, host Max Chan speaks with Laura Sousa, former executive turned florist, where she shares her story of how she lost her passion for her work when she started working remotely due to the pandemic and what led to her to make the drastic career change she did in order to achieve fulfillment and happiness in her work again. 

    QUOTES

    • “I had to really be ok with that kind of shift in status and realizing that status is not as important as my own happiness.”  - Laura Sousa [9:48]
  • “I think part of it is putting certain parameters say for example a timeframe, so if you’re feeling you know, a little bit in a rut or something and you’re feeling you know things will get better, time box it, say ok you know I’m here, how long am I willing to give myself to see if it kind of will turn itself around.”  - Laura Sousa [15:59]
  • “Be really cognizant and aware of what motivates you and really your overall happiness and don’t be afraid to kind of question and assess and you know kind of dare to think differently.”  - Laura Sousa [35:10]

    • TIMESTAMPS

    • [1:42] Meet Laura
  • [4:17] What made Laura decide to pivot into a career as a florist
  • [7:54] Limiting beliefs that Laura had when it came to deciding to pivot her career to becoming a florist
  • [10:51] Discussing the importance of status and how to make right decisions throughout your career to keep you fulfilled 
  • [15:36] Evaluating whether you are thinking about a career change due to the current circumstances or whether it is not actually for you
  • [18:12] Timeframe between the flower shop owner putting it in Laura’s head about becoming a florist to actually writing her resignation letter
  • [22:16] Resigning from her role as VP
  • [26:30] Laura’s last 2 weeks at her last job before focusing full time on being a florist
  • [28:26] Next steps after leaving her last job
  • [29:02] Financial preparation in order to successfully pivot into a career as a florist
  • [30:36] Landing her first apprenticeship
  • [33:43] Whether Laura has any regrets about making the career pivot
  • [34:58] 1 career lesson that Laura wants people to take away from her story
  • [36:15] Contacting Laura
  • [36:49] Outro

    • RESOURCES & RELEVANT LINKS

    • Laura Sousa on LinkedIn
  • Laura Sousa on Instagram
  • Hill's Florist
  • Amy Marden Podcast Episode
  • Sydney Magana Podcast Episode
  • Chan With A Plan
  • Chan With A Plan Facebook Group
    • 39 min
  • 3 career lessons you must know if you want to accelerate your career

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    Max elaborates on Paul's 3 key career lessons from this past week's episode that he has applied himself when it came to growing his career coaching business.

    TIMESTAMPS

    • [0:53] Protecting your time
  • [2:21] Building your advisory network
  • [3:50] Investing in yourself

    • RESOURCES & RELEVANT LINKS

    • Chan With A Plan
  • Chan With A Plan Facebook Group
    • 8 min
  • How to take ownership of your career growth to achieve your goals

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    In this episode of Chan With A Plan, host Max Chan speaks with Paul R. Goudreault, author of the book Own Your Career No One Else Will. Paul has had an extensive career in leadership, business development, operations and delivery and shares his lessons and insights to professionals to help them build a roadmap to achieve the career success that they desire. 

    QUOTES

    • “You’re not going to be taken care of in the workplace, you have to own it, you need to determine where you’re going, set your aspirations and make your plan.”  - Paul R. Goudreault [4:27]
  • “The role is really, I hate to say it but probably secondary, you want to be with a group of people that are compatible with the way you think, the culture that you like to work in and gives you opportunities to perform and can support you.”  - Paul R. Goudreault [16:37]
  • “I think that having a fulfilling career can help you have a fulfilled life as well.”  - Paul R. Goudreault [31:52]

    • TIMESTAMPS

    • [1:43] Meet Paul
  • [4:59] Highlighting Paul’s career lifecycle model, ADAPT and discussing the first two points for early career developers
  • [6:57] 3 common career challenges or obstacles that Paul has found from his conversations with professionals that need the most focus to take action and solve
  • [9:02] Protecting your time
  • [11:34] Finding the fine line between being impatient with your career growth and making a move when you realize there’s no more growth in a role/company
  • [13:54] Casting a wide net early on and narrowing your focus as you get more experience in your career
  • [18:25] The pressure to accelerate your career in today’s age and the one thing you need to know about growing your career to your satisfaction
  • [19:45] Effectively growing your network both internally and externally
  • [25:39] The importance of investing in your network more so than investing in your skills from a personal development perspective as you get further in your career
  • [27:53] Maintaining connection with colleagues that have left the team/company
  • [30:17] Creating work life balance in your career
  • [32:58] Utilizing the ADAPT model to develop your career plan
  • [37:06] Discussing if your career is capped if you do not want to be a people manager
  • [38:18] What makes a good manager compared to a bad one
  • [39:22] Breaking away from the standard mindset of how moving up the ladder is the main indicator of career success
  • [41:14] Advice for professionals currently in a crossroads in their career and what is the 1st step they need to do to get career alignment and what they should do in the next few years and beyond
  • [44:11] The one tidbit out of the 75 tidbits that Paul had written in his book that significantly helped him in his career
  • [45:48] The biggest challenge Paul had faced in writing his book and what he did to overcome it to put the book into market
  • [47:17] How Paul came up with the ADAPT career lifecycle model
  • [49:11] Contacting Paul
  • [53:57] Outro

    • RESOURCES & RELEVANT LINKS

    • Enorine Partners
  • Own Your Career - No One Else Will
  • Chan With A Plan
  • Chan With A Plan Facebook Group
    • 52 min
  • How I beat procrastination, to build my personal brand on LinkedIn and grow my career

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    Max tells his story on how he overcame procrastination to start a new habit that resulted in him growing a personal brand on LinkedIn to over 20,000 followers in a year and a half. Based on this past week's episode with Heather Spiegel on how to stop procrastination in your job search and start moving your career forward.

    TIMESTAMPS

    • [1:08] How Max got his start in career coaching
  • [1:53] Discussing how Max got his start on posting content on LinkedIn and how he built the habit and maintained it over time
  • [4:10] Where Max got his initial direction and strategy so he didn't feel overwhelmed when starting to build his personal brand on LinkedIn
  • [5:51] Overcoming perfectionism and the importance of just pushing content out on LinkedIn

    • RESOURCES & RELEVANT LINKS

    • Chan With A Plan
  • Chan With A Plan Facebook Group
    • 9 min
  • How to stop procrastination in your job search and start moving your career forward

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    In this episode of Chan With A Plan, host Max Chan speaks with Heather Spiegel, Founder of Hidden Squirrel Consulting on procrastination in the job search, why it occurs and what you can do about it to overcome it, to get the job you want. In addition, we also discuss the main difference in thinking between C-Suite Executives and professionals that are early on in their career when it comes to achieving enormous career success.

    QUOTES

    • “If you do small things every single day, you get into, A a routine, and B it’s not going to have that same level of discomfort [that tends to lead to procrastination].”  - Heather Spiegel [9:38]
  • “The general sort of consensus is that a job search usually takes somewhere in the span of 3 to 4 months minimum, so people shouldn’t get frustrated and discouraged, these things do take time and particularly if you are seeking an executive role then the time horizon can be even longer. ”  - Heather Spiegel [11:09]
  • “At the end of the day, your [career] success is going to be determined by your ability to forge relationships.”  - Heather Spiegel [40:41]

    • TIMESTAMPS

    • [2:15] Meet Heather
  • [4:38] Common reasons that lead to job search procrastination
  • [8:44] Why it’s important to do a little at a time then trying to do a lot in one go
  • [10:14] The average length of a job search 
  • [13:34] Discussing cognitive distortion and how it negatively impacts your job search success
  • [21:47] The importance of not resting on your laurels after a good final round interview performance with a company and to stick to your job search strategy
  • [23:49] When should you hire a career coach to get help in your job search and when is getting more education the better decision
  • [30:34] Starting a new habit and how to be accountable to maintain the new habit in order to achieve job search success and walking through an example
  • [36:23] What you can learn from C Suite Executives as someone that just started or a few years in, into their career to help you accelerate your career growth
  • [40:49] How to reach out and build relationships with external recruiters to help you transition successfully to the next chapter of your career
  • [45:01] Few tips from Heather on what to change in your approach to your job search to start seeing better results
  • [48:38] The one habit that Heather needed to implement consistently into her life in order to get to where she is today in her career
  • [52:42] Contacting Heather
  • [53:57] Outro

    • RESOURCES & RELEVANT LINKS

    • Hidden Squirrel Consulting
  • Heather Spiegel on LinkedIn
  • Chan With A Plan
  • Chan With A Plan Facebook Group
    • 56 min
  • How to write a killer cover letter that gets read and enhances your job application

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    Max highlights why you should write a cover letter for every job application and his formula on writing targeted cover letters efficiently and effectively. Based on this past week's episode with Marie Zimenoff on leveraging social media in your job search to get the job you want.

    TIMESTAMPS

    • [0:43] Why you should write a cover letter for every job application and the main reason why recruiters don't take most cover letters from professionals seriously
  • [2:46] Max's cover letter formula that he teaches all his clients in order to write highly targeted and effective cover letters for any job fast

    • RESOURCES & RELEVANT LINKS

    • Chan With A Plan
  • Max Chan on LinkedIn
    • 8 min
  • Leveraging social media in your job search to get the job you want

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    In this episode of Chan With A Plan, host Max Chan speaks with Marie Zimenoff, CEO of Career Thought Leaders and Resume Writing Academy. Marie discusses additional job search strategies that goes beyond applying online and optimizing your LinkedIn profile, such as using Facebook and Instagram to engage with companies and potential professionals that could make a huge impact on the success of your job search. She also discusses the foundation of a successful job search strategy and how to overcome procrastination in the job search process that most professionals face when they don't get the results they want right out of the gate.

    QUOTES

    • “It’s not just about the [LinkedIn] profile, and that’s where I feel like the careers industry, has kind of got stuck in the mud, talking about optimizing a [LinkedIn] profile, we really can’t just leave it at that, we got to teach clients how to use LinkedIn and how to connect, how to message, how to use the tool to continue to stay in touch with someone.”  - Marie Zimenoff [6:41]
  • “Do the research, find your audience, and then choose your [social media] platforms and that will help you reduce your overwhelm, and to just really engage where those people are. ”  - Marie Zimenoff [31:57]
  • “You can only grow, when you take a risk, you can only change when you make change, but start small.”  - Marie Zimenoff [43:35]

    • TIMESTAMPS

    • [2:09] Meet Marie
  • [3:05] Why recruiters aren’t using LinkedIn to source candidates as much as they use to
  • [7:11] The importance of networking to build your career
  • [10:19] Utilizing Facebook and Instagram as part of your job search strategy
  • [12:44] Why creating content isn’t necessary and engaging with a company’s content on social media is more important for your job search 
  • [14:07] The importance of utilizing other social media platforms besides LinkedIn as part of your job search and how to use them
  • [18:49] Recruiters loosening the importance of having relevant work experience and cultural fit for the role they are trying to fill
  • [21:42] The future and importance of video resumes and how you can get comfortable with this medium
  • [26:16] Text, video or audio messages when it comes to reaching out and networking with professionals on social media
  • [27:54] Thoughts on Discord and Slack channels as part of your job search strategy
  • [28:44] Picking the right online courses to boost your credentials and get the job you want
  • [31:29] Picking the right platforms for your job search to not get overwhelmed
  • [32:10] The increase in importance of the cover letter
  • [34:01] The importance of utilizing hashtags on social media platforms to help you with your job search
  • [34:51] Tips on building a foundation for a successful job search
  • [36:13] Overcoming job search procrastination
  • [40:02] Job search trends professionals should watch out for in 2022
  • [42:42] One big career challenge that Marie had to overcome to help her grow to become the person she is today
  • [44:20] Contacting Marie
  • [45:05] Going over Max’s pitch to have Marie come on the podcast and what made her accept the invitation
  • [46:26] Outro

    • RESOURCES AND RELEVANT LINKS

    • Jobvite - 2021 Recruiter Nation Report
  • Career Thought Leaders
  • Resume Writing Academy
  • Marie Zimenoff on LinkedIn
  • Chan With A Plan
  • Max Chan on LinkedIn
    • 48 min

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