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- Ep 18 - "How to: Hustle in Advertising" - Agencies 101 with Savvy's Juan José Rodríguez Álvarez, Senior Account Director
We were having the BEST time chatting to our friend Juan José Rodríguez Álvarez (or Juanjo for short) about his life in agency-land. Juanjo has been in the business for 2 decades. From realising the golden opportunities that internships can present, to mentoring up and coming talent, talking about industry trends and how you too can leverage them to boost your career, this episode has it all.
PS: 2 decades in the industry also mean 2 decades of hilarious client stories, one of which may or may not include a high-speed Moped chase in Monaco ;)
Have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and have a fabulous day!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
43 min - Ep 17 - May Special!
Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with and from experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow @gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, and comment on the post about this episode to let us know what you think!
Today we have no guest for you, no fancy intro, no scripts, no fuzz. It's just Nikki and Tom chatting about what we've learnt from the sensational guests we had on the show this month, what we want to achieve with the podcast, office culture, sustainability and, as always, whatever else came to mind that day :)
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
21 min - Ep 16 - "How to: Nature Conservation" - Careers with Impact 101 with Crista Cullen MBE, Founder of The Tofauti Foundation
May is such a powerful month for us. We have decided to dedicate it to careers in sustainability, careers in social welfare, careers...with impact. This is the 3rd, and possibly our most prized, episode in the series. We have the iconic Crista Cullen MBE with us, Founder of The Tofauti Foundation. Olympic Gold medallist, coach, trainer, impact investor, nature conservationist. Crista has done what I am sure many of us have dreamt of as kids: become a living and breathing wildlife conservationist on the African Continent! In this episode, we dive into how she did, what it takes to start and run a foundation, and how the fate of our world's wildlife is inevitably intertwined with the communities it shares its habitat with.
Have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and have a fabulous day!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
54 min - Ep 15 - "How to Change Your Career and Make an Impact" - Careers with Impact 101 with Impact 17's Andrew Andrea, Co-Founder and Director
May is such a powerful month for us. We have decided to dedicate it to careers in sustainability, careers in social welfare, careers...with impact. Today on the show is Andrew Andrea, Co-Founder and Director of Impact 17, and organisation dedicated to building partnerships and bridging the divide between not-for-profits, academia, business and more to create a more sustainable and just future for all.
Andy is a true master of the universe of the United Nations, the World Economic Forum and more. If you've ever thought "wow, I'd love to get into that world", this episode is for you!
Have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and have a fabulous day!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
--
Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
46 min - Ep 14 - "How to Slay Giants" - Careers with Impact 101 with Infarm's Sudhanshu Sarronwala, Chief Impact Officer
May is such a powerful month for us. We have decided to dedicate it to careers in sustainability, careers in social welfare, careers...with impact. Kicking us off the the brilliant Sudhanshu Sarronwala, Chief Impact Officer at Infarm. We are still salivating over his amazing career journey: Tech Entrepreneur, Corporate powerhouse, slayer of giants such as ivory trade with the WWF, the list goes on.
One of the stories Suds is telling us about is the story of Ivory Lane. We'll let you listen to get all the tea, but here is a youtube clip that shows you the genius behind the WWF Singapore's action to illegalise Ivory Trade for good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHQEBVGDjgc
Have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and have a fabulous day!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
--
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
49 min - Ep 13 - April Special!
Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with and from experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow @gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, and comment on the post about this episode to let us know what you think!
Today we have no guest for you, no fancy intro, no scripts, no fuzz. It's just Nikki and Tom chatting about what we've learnt from the sensational guests we had on the show this month, how the podcast is going overall, minority representation, sustainability and, as always, whatever else came to mind that day :)
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
35 min - Ep 12 - "How to: Lego" - Corporate 101 with Lego's Matt Guenigault, Associate Creative Director
The month of April is dedicated to exploring some Corporate 101 together. Today's guest is working for a company we all know, and at least at one point in our lives, LOVED. Give it up for the wonderful Matt Guenigault everyone, who was kind enough to take us into the virtual halls of The Lego Group. We talk about his career, the many windy roads he has traveled to get to where he is today, what it is like to work at Lego, and what his secrets to success in the creative field are.
Have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and have a fabulous day!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
--
Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
--
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
44 min - Ep 11 - "How to: Human Resources" - Corporate 101 with PILOT Inc's Ben Brooks, Founder and CEO
The month of April is dedicated to exploring some Corporate 101 together. Today's episode was a surprise to us, and we promise you: it'll be one for you too. Human Resources doesn't have the same glitz and razzle dazzle to it as marketing or sales do at first sight. But let us tell ya: you are in for a treat!
With us today is Ben Brooks, Founder and CEO of PILOT Inc., an award-winning coaching software product that runs under the mission "everyone feels powerful at work" and was the named the #1 HRTech Startup to Watch in 2020.
Ben has near two decades of HR and coaching/consulting experience, and in this episode uncovers not only what scintillating career paths await in modern day HR departments, he also gets candid about what they aren't getting quite right sometimes and why the field needs innovating. Oh, and of course: HR is not just a diverse and exciting career path, HR is also critical to your career progression wherever you work. Understand HR, and you'll understand how to make your own career fly!
Have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and have a fabulous day!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
53 min - Ep 10 - "How to: Sales" - Corporate 101 with Nike's Wanda Rozwadowska, Senior Director Sales at Nike
The month of April is dedicated to exploring some Corporate 101 together. Kicking us off is the spectacular Wanda Rozwadowska, Senior Sales Director at Nike. Yaaaaaay! Not only do we dive into what it takes to become a leader in the corporate world, but we also dive into Wanda's story, how she has morphed one career into another and continuously built her repartoire of skills and experiences that allow her to lead authentically today.
Corporates the world over are interesting animals. Endlessly variable departments and functions working in (semi) harmony to keep the big machine operational across continents and time zones. Some rules governing this complex organism operational are written, but some others, are not. We talk about career development in such entities, about staying in charge of one's own fortune, and finding mentors that matter.
Have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and have a fabulous day!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
--
Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
--
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
41 min - Ep 9 - March Special!!
DISCLAIMER: If you listen until the end, you'll hear Tom get all excited about the month of April and the topic of careers in sustainability and social impact. "oooops!!", that topic is actually only due in May (we are recording it in April), the month of April itself will have ALL the episodes on: Corporate 101 :)
Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with and from experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow @gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, and comment on the post about this episode to let us know what you think!
Today we have no guest for you, no fancy intro, no scripts, no fuzz. It's just Nikki and Tom chatting about what we've learnt from the entrepreneurs we had on the show in the month of March, our own careers, our values and how we try to bring them with us wherever we go and whatever job we're doing :)
Nikki's guesthouse in France:
IG Le5_Andernos
Homepage Le5_Andernos
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
35 min
About HIGHER! Career Podcast
From the publisher's feed
Welcome to the HIGHER! Career Podcast everyone. A show full of wicked stories from the job market and brilliant guest experts showing us how to succeed in it. Because we've all been there haven't…
we? It's time to get unstuck and make our dream careers happen. Let's go get it! -- With Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
This show is all about exploring ways to navigate one's career with ease and how the seemingly secret language of the job market is not one we have to each learn by ourselves through painstaking experience. Whether you are concerned about recruitment and finding a job, interviewing like a champion or getting that promotion in your current job, we are sure that we have an episode or two in our collection that can help you out.
Every episode is driven by industry experts and business leaders from a wide range of fields. Entrepreneurship, corporate and the private sector, marketing and creative agencies, the World Wide Fund For Nature, media, you name it.
Not only do you get to know these industries better in case you want to start your career in them, or do a career transition/change towards them. You also get to learn from these experts how they have navigated their own careers and became successful. Our show is less about philosophy than it is about real-world, practical ways in which you can have that dream career for yourself. There are no one-size fits all solutions, we don't believe in the kind of platitudes you will find on social media. Start your own unique engine, find your power and values and enable them to bring them to work with you and forge the dream career for yourself.
This means overcoming the 'my manager hates me' trap. This means being brave, vocal and present, even if you don't feel like or your energy profile is rather introverted than extroverted. This means learning how to say no in your job. This means leading teams and realising that you will only ever be as good as the people you manage and develop. This means gaining the presentation skills you need. This means learning when to leave a job, and how to leave a job. And then: how to either get a new job or start your own business. This means mastering social media and setting up your LinkedIn profile in a way that serves your entire career.
Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow created this show with two goals in mind. On the surface level, they have come to realise that all of us go through the same tough school of language learning. The language they speak of is the language of the job market and career development. It's a tough school, and it takes years to figure out how to be fluent in it. They endeavour to shorten this time period for you out there, make it easier for you to have a job, career or calling that you like and love. Which leads us to the second goal:
Nikki and Tom want you to step up as leaders, and they want you to do it now. You see, they believe in careers as part of life, not just a 9-5 that you have to do. They believe in careers that can have a positive impact on the world. They believe in everyone finding their values, what they believe in, feel passionate about, and are willing to fight for. More than ever before, ordinary folk like us have the power to make real change happen. And not just in our personal lives. Showing up at work as a vocal advocate for one's values bears the potential to change companies from within. And in turn have companies invest their substantial resources to become better corporate citizens and make the world a better place. Nikki and Tom frequently talk about diversity, equity and inclusion, bring as many diverse guests as possible, and show their audience how careers in environmental sustainability can be incredibly exciting.
Why listen to Nikki and Tom? Because they have changed their own careers more frequently than you can count to do just what they are advocating for on this show: do not feel trapped in your job. Our values, motivations and reasons to get up in the morning change over time. And retaining the flexibility of mind, heart, CV (how to write a CV), motivation letter and skillset to brave these exciting changes effortlessly.
So have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and let's go get it!
Nikki and Tom