Job Tales - I interview professionals to help you become who you wish to be

If you can picture Jabba the Hutt, you know what animatronic puppetry is. today's Job Tale is with Adam Behr, whom I initially asked to talk about his job as a voice over artist; but when I discovered that he spent 30 years of his professional life in animatronic puppetry, I had to ask him a few questions about that job. So here is Adam and his two job tales!

Welcome to Job Tales: the show where we find out about different professions from the people who know. Each week I speak to a new guest with a very interesting job. 

I am Laura Leoncini and today my guest is Marisa Copley, Costume & Fashion Designer. If you are interested in fashion, you can be a costume designer, a dressmaker, a wardrobe stylist and much more. Marisa’s job tale is interesting because she has touched on several jobs in the world of costume and will be able to give you some good hints. As always, there is not one single path to your favourite job. This is the job tale of Marisa Copley.

Welcome to Job Tales: the show where we find out about different professions from the people who know. Each week I speak to a new guest with a very interesting job. 

I am Laura Leoncini and today my guest is Tyrel Flugel, a Geographer by trade. On his LinkedIn profile he describes his job as maker of maps.. in our interview you’ll see there’s much more to his job, and it’s a very intriguing one. A couple of keyworks that will spark your curiosity: remote sensing, GIS, water investigation, food security, data management. 

Welcome to Job Tales: the show where we find out about different professions from the people who know. Each week I speak to a new guest with an inspiring job. 

 I am Laura Leoncini and today my guest is Allan Gray, Key Grip in the film industry in Cape Town, South Africa. If you have ever spent time reading the final credits of a movie or TV series, you’ll know that there are actually hundreds of specific professions related to film. Key Grip is a key role, like the title suggests, and his team, made of Best boy, Dolly grip and many more are in charge of delivering the best camera movement for each scene. But I won’t say more. Here’s Allan.

Welcome to Job Tales: the show where we find out about different professions from the people who know. Each week I speak to a new guest with a very interesting job. 

 I am Laura Leoncini and today my guest is Qi Cao, founder and investor. At school or university nobody really teaches us how to become entrepreneurs, and yet many of us choose the route of entrepreneurship. So, where can we get the skills and be good at it ? Qi Cao tells us his own story as a serial entrepreneur, and gives us some good advice on how to aim for successful ventures.

Welcome to Job Tales: the show where we find out about different professions from the people who know. Each week I speak to a new guest with a very interesting job. 

 I am Laura Leoncini and today my guest is Stephan Choiniere, performing artist in Las Vegas. He started as a competing gymnast during college, he then was introduced to contemporary dance, Antigravity in New York allowed him to refine his art, at Resorts World he became an acrobatic coreographer and in Cirque du Soleil he found his dream job: merging gymnastics and dance. Stephan is also an act designer and a teacher.

Here is Stephan's work: AcroFuzion.com

Welcome to Job Tales: the show where we find out about different professions from the people who know. Each week I speak to a new guest with a very interesting job. 

I am Laura Leoncini and today my guest is Deborah Rossouw, South African photographer. In our conversation she touches on many important points, and she gives good advice if you want to enter this line of work. But also, she has written down some answers which I find very authentic and I am pasting them for you in the description of the episode on your podcast player. Any photographers out there: please share your opinion, let me know what you think.  

 The link to her website: https://deborahrossouwcreator.blogspot.com/

Job Tales is the podcast where you find out about different professions from the people who know. Each week I speak to a new guest with a very interesting job. 

Season 4 has started and this is episode 130! 

I am Laura Leoncini and today my guest is Alexander Grevstad, Service Engineer in Bergen Norway. The reason why I am interviewing Alexander is that, when you study engineering, working on vessels at sea is not the first thing that comes to mind, but it is a very interesting job, with its perks and exciting prospects. Alex works on multipurpose vessels for oil and gas customers that need repair and maintenance on fields at sea. If computer work and 9 to 5 jobs are not your thing, then listen to this episode.

Thank you Varasha for introducing me to Alexander. 

Welcome to Job Tales: the show where we find out about different professions from the people who know. Each week I speak to a new guest with a very interesting job. 

Season 4 has started! First episode of 2024 is dedicated to the profession of Occupational Doctors. My interview to Varasha William in Bergen, Norway, is  interesting because it shows alternatives to medical students who like the preventive aspect of medicine, as with this job you are concerned with maintenance of health in the workplace. Also interesting is step out of the hospital environment, ad to be in contact with professionals from various industries. Here’s Varasha William.

Welcome to Job Tales: the show where we find out about different professions from the people who know. Each week I speak to a new guest with a very interesting job. 

You’ll hear about their personal paths to doing what they do, the skills required, and the tools they use for the job… 

I am Laura Leoncini and today my guest is Romain Vetter, Head of Western Switzerland at Swiss. Romain’s experience will be very interesting for our young listeners today, as his path was not a straight line and, despite what others suggested to him in the past, he managed to stay true to his path, believe in himself, and become the Director of a successful airline.