Who is worried that they are going to do ALL the work to make a career change...and then end up exactly where they started - miserable and at another job you hate. 

The fear is real.

In this episode, I am going to take you through four examples on how to run career "tests" to make sure that you don't jump into a career that doesn't fit right - again. 

 

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FREEBIES: The Informational Interview Bible

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Are you ready to leave your job, but have zero idea what to do next?

Where was the course in college where they taught us how to figure this crap out?! I feel like I've been duped! Truth is, we were never taught how to figure out how to find work that is ACTUALLY meaningful to us. In this episode I am going to be sharing with you my top five steps to helping you find that seeming elusive thing - career clarity. This is the process that I work with ALL my clients on, so it is the real thang. 

 

Steps to Finding Career Clarity

Step One: Build Your Compass

Step Two: Mining for Jobs

Step Three: Talk to Everyone

Step Four: Test Test Test

Step Five: Take Action

 

LINKS YOU SHOULD KNOWFREEBIES: The Informational Interview Bible

GET ME OUT OF THIS JOB coaching program

Things are weird. Am I right? Industries have shut down over night, we are forced to stay at home and I am guessing for some of you, your job hunt has come to a grinding halt.

So what’s a person to do during this crazy time? In this episode, I want to help you start to figure out the answer to: What the hell do I do with my career right now?”

Questions that I address:

Should you be job hunting right now?

Should I move towards an industry that is thriving or stick with what I love?”

How do you make a career change?

Is it a weird time to ask for informational interviews?

How do you even job hunt right now?

Finally, I give you my top five tips for navigating your career in an uncertain time.

 

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Tiffany Kataria is a scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Yep. THAT NASA. She creates models that study the atmospheres of exoplanets. Since she was young, Tiffany has always been passionate about learning. She was the kid who took out 25 books at the library and read them ALL. Her love for math and science in high school led her into physics and astronomy programs in college. Thanks to her killer mind and kickass career, she has gotten to travel the world to study our universe and give talks at some festivals you might have heard of like SXSW.

On this episode, we talk about how Tiffany found her way to a career in exoplanets, what it means to be a woman of color in an industry dominated by white men, and the kickass projects she is working on now.

Tiffany doles out what it is like to be in school for 9+ years and gets real about how hard it is to be in a single the career and then possibly a single project for the rest of your life. We talk how a good mentor can change your career, what it means to be in a role that is funded by the government, how she is using her platform to make sure women in science are being highlighted and I compare studying the atmospheres of planets to figuring out your career (yeah. I did that.)

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Exoplanets!

Brittany Gash is a communications and PR guru by day, a burlesque dancer by night, and a Jane Austin fan 24 hours a day.

On the episode, we talk about how important it is to LISTEN TO YOURSELF and how to use that as a guide to making decisions. Brittany talks about her transition from freelance to a full time job, how there are many forms of being an activist, and how she routinely does a “personal program review” to check in on herself.

Brittany gets super real about her journey to dancing burlesque, how it helped her love her body, and how it has helped her celebrate and reclaim her culture. We discuss how to slowly unlearn the ideologies that your family has projected upon you, have a great conversation of the pros and cons of planning for your future, and discuss how great baths are.

HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH BRITTANY

www.Brittanygash.com

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Caramel's Charm School for Burlesque

Empowerment in Heels

Invertigo Dance

Wi Spa

Chrissa Sparkles is a fashion designer, influencer, and maker of her own destiny. She started her young entrepreneurship career out repurposing vintage t-shirts and customizing them for her high school friends. From there, she dabbled in a musical theater career, became a K-pop VJ, turned Kawaii Instagram influencer, and now she is a full on designer with her own clothing line of high end, killer fashion.  

On this episode, we talk about how Chrissa Sparkles came to be, how to remember that you are more than your instagram following, the importance of surrounding yourself with people who clap for you when you win, and how to create what you want instead of waiting for others to give it to you.

Chrissa talks about the importance of transparency in a small business, about the big lessons she learned between her first collection and her second, and what starts to happen when you value yourself in business (hiiiiiiii price points). We discuss how to stop putting yourself in fucking boxes and start living for the things that bring you joy and most importantly, how sliding into people’s DMs can actually be a good thing.

 

HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH CHRISSA

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Shop Chrissa Sparkles 

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https://chrissasparkles.com/

RAINN

Start With Your Why

Today we meet Brooke deRosa, a lady who wrote a tone poem in middle school to get out of writing a paper about Hamlet. My kind of girl. Brooke is a composer, conductor, DJ, opera singer, ex-punk rocker, basically, she is a wealth of talent and amazingness and also makes some hilarious voices.

On this episode, we talk about how every kid hates taking piano, why we thought school was dumb (for us), how DJing was actually a great primer for conducting, and how Snoop Dogg is basically the best. Brooke talks about her experience as woman in an industry that is very, very male dominated, what her creative process looks like each day, updates us on ALL the incredible music she is writing (you guys, it is a fucking lot), and we discuss our mutual love for THE ROOM.

HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH BROOKE

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Lenoria Addison, is the co-founder of the startup FounderROI, a company that focuses on how companies can reimagine workplace culture. But this girl has been a businesswoman since she was a little Lenoria. From her career in marketing, to her first app “Hooked Fashion”, to helping people crowdsource their emotions through OpenLTR, and now building workplace wellness with FounderROI, this girl is constantly thinking about community and community building.

On this episode, we talk about the necessity of expressing yourself in safe communities, the realness of burnout, and how to create the skillset of listening to your damn self. Lenoria talks about creating your own personal mission statement, the importance of finding the theme of your life, how she has learned to not self-sacrifice and how she straight up wants to be super freaking successful. Hell yes girl.

 

HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH LENORIA

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LINKS YOU SHOULD KNOW

FounderROI

OpenLTR

Jessica Gonzalez, aka, The Mommy Jane, is a mom of two and cannabis advocate. She started out just wanting to paint a different picture of what cannabis means for mothers and now she has built and entire brand with over 10 thousand followers on Instagram advocating for cannabis and the healthy changes it can make in your life.

On this episode we talk about how to navigate a growing industry that is basically the wild west, how to keep going when people don’t really understand or see your vision, and how she fights to promote the idea that you can be a great mom AND a cannabis user. Jess talks about the importance of forgiving yourself for past mistakes and moving forward, the massive need for strong female friendships and how you need to go and embrace those fears of yours.

HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH JESSICA

The Mommy Jane

LINKS YOU SHOULD KNOW

VoyageLA

Vegas Cannabis Mag

Jillian Gomez is the Editorial Supervisor at Dreamworks Animation where she currently is working on Trolls 2, BUT ALSO she is the craftiest bitch I know and is a queen at monetizing her hobbies. This girl has had a podcast, she has tutorials on cross stitching, she is a pattern maker, she has done improv, she is a graphic designer (she is the one who designed the podcast logo, wooo!!) and now she has JUST LAUNCHED her newest creative endeavor, Short + Loud a blog full of color, crafts, and so much sass.

On this episode, we talk about how freaking hard it is to say goodbye to transformative periods in your life, what it was like to figure out a career during the recession, and how to navigate fear. Jillian talks about how she incorporates her creative side into literally EVERYTHING she does, is always thinking of future Jillian, and how she thinks you should just meet more strangers.

HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH JILLIAN

Short + Loud

Jillian Gomez Designs

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