Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search

Kristy had landed her dream role traveling the world, drinking wine (and getting paid to do both!) She had put in a lot of hard work to figure out her ideal career and make a career change, but it turns out she still wasn't done! Kristy Wenz shared her initial career change story from communications to wine travel on the HTYC podcast in 2018. In today's episode, she returns to discuss how she's continued optimizing her career into better and better iterations of her dream career.

What you'll learn

• Why learning to say no is so important when optimizing your career
• How to overcome the fear of leaving your once ideal role
• The importance of creating your list of must-haves

Kristy's original episode - Episode 255: How Kristy Celebrated Small Victories on the Way to Her Dream Career (Apple Podcasts / Spotify)

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

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Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts
2. Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

This is part four of our series on the seven elements of meaningful work and covers "Growth."

If you want to do work that is meaningful, you must first understand the elements that contribute to a fulfilling career. Many things have an impact on fulfilling work, but there are seven key elements that have a significantly higher impact than all others.

In this bonus series, Scott will take you through each of these seven elements individually, so you can get a full understanding and start creating your own definition of meaningful work.

Listen to Part 1 on Contribution: Spotify / Apple Podcasts

Listen to Part 2 on Flexibility & Autonomy: Spotify / Apple Podcasts

Listen to Part 3 on Quality of Life: Spotify / Apple Podcasts

This is part three of our series on the seven elements of meaningful work and covers "Quality of Life."

If you want to do work that is meaningful, you must first understand the elements that contribute to a fulfilling career. Many things have an impact on fulfilling work, but there are seven key elements that have a significantly higher impact than all others.

In this bonus series, Scott will take you through each of these seven elements individually, so you can get a full understanding and start creating your own definition of meaningful work.

Listen to Part 1 on Contribution: Spotify / Apple Podcasts

Listen to Part 2 on Flexibility & Autonomy: Spotify / Apple Podcasts

Have you ever wondered if it's possible to pivot out of your current industry? One of the biggest challenges when it comes to career change is the inability to see outside of what you know and the career that you're accustomed to. HTYC career coach, Taj Dashaun found himself in this very place after his football career ended when he graduated from college. In today's episode, Taj gives expert advice as he details the ups and downs of his many career pivots.

What you'll learn

• The important distinction between how you want to live vs. what you want to do
• How to know it's time to make a career pivot
• How to transfer your skills to a new industry

Have career change questions? Email [email protected]

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

1. Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

2. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

This is part two of our series on the seven elements of meaningful work and covers "Flexibility & Autonomy."

If you want to do work that is meaningful, you must first understand the elements that contribute to a fulfilling career. Many things have an impact on fulfilling work, but there are seven key elements that have a significantly higher impact than all others.

In this bonus series, Scott will take you through each of these seven elements individually, so you can get a full understanding and start creating your own definition of meaningful work.

Listen to Part 1 on Contribution! (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

A career change can seem daunting, but what if your life depended on it? Thomas lay on the ground for 2.5 minutes, paralyzed. A career-ending neck injury changed his life and career as he knew it in an instant. Learn how a former NFL player used his passion to find purpose and fulfillment off the field.

What you'll learn

• How to Identify your passion vs. your purpose

• An exercise in trusting your gut when it's time to leave a career

• Who to add to your team of advisors to help navigate your career change

• How to overcome the fear that is holding you back from career fulfillment

Have career change questions? Email [email protected]

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

1. Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

2. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

If you want to do work that is meaningful, you must first understand the elements that contribute to a fulfilling career. Many things have an impact on fulfilling work, but there are seven key elements that have a significantly higher impact than all others. In this bonus series, Scott will take you through each of these seven elements individually, so you can get a full understanding and start creating your own definition of meaningful work. This episode is part one and covers "Contribution."

Climbing the corporate ladder will bring you success, but will it bring you happiness? Learn how a senior-level manager rallied after a shocking job loss, figured out his top career priority, and pivoted into multiple offers from companies he was eager to work for.

What you'll learn

• How to prioritize what is most important to you in your career
• How Dan experienced true career happiness by stepping down from the executive level
• The importance of going back to your roots to find exactly what your career has been missing
• How to pivot after job loss and use it to your advantage

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

How can you create more fulfilling work in your role and for your team? Two HTYC leaders, Scott & Cindy, take you behind the scenes to explain how the HTYC team creates fulfilling work by doing things a lot differently than the rest of the world. They share the specific processes that work for HTYC, and provide practices you can implement in your role today to begin the journey to more fulfilling work!

HTYC has evolved from a blog project that helped people get raises and promotions to a company with an entire team dedicated to changing how work is done worldwide. Today's episode discusses how the future of work is changing and how taking control of your career can help change the way the world does and thinks about work.

What you'll learn

• What it means to change the way the world does and thinks about work
• How to take control of your career
• What you can do to help change the way the world works

Our book, Happen To Your Career: An Unconventional Approach To Career Change and Meaningful Work, is now available on audiobook! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/audible to order it now! Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book for more information or buy the print or ebook here!

Want to chat with our team about your unique situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

1. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It's Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)