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"On December 2nd, 2019, I was done. That day, I handed in my resignation for a job I spent my entire career wanting & working for.
The truth is ... I didn’t want to stay. My boss didn’t see my value, I wasn’t performing well & the culture, not a fit. At 56, after over thirty years in creative roles as VP at J. Walter Thompson, on the client-side & my last woo hoo as a Managing Consultant, I jumped back into the job market. Realizing all over again how painful & difficult the process was. That's precisely why I started Portfoliorocket.com."

If you're in the mood for powerful storytelling full of hope, suspense and drama, then you are in for a treat!

Loren Greiff comes from the world of Advertising, Marketing and Recruiting. And has pivoted to entrepreneurship during the biggest pandemic the world has ever seen.
How did she do it? What does it take to get hired in Advertising for roles that aren't, well, advertised?

Listen to the show to find out!

Follow Loren on LinkedIn here.
For more on Loren, check her website here.

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“I’m never going to do business.”
*Goes and works at an aviation company and expands the business.

“I heard about this concept called Business School. Harvard has one? Cool!”
*Gets into HBS.

“I had 6 job offers during MBA campus interviews.”
*Takes the lowest paying job, with pretty much the worst interview experience, ever.

“I wanted to move to a country where they speak French or German”
*Gets transferred to a country where they speak neither.

Careers are built not by meticulously planning every detail, but by embracing unexpected and unimagined opportunities.

If you are looking for lots of laughs and lots of learnings, this is a conversation you cannot miss.

The episode is called: Embrace the Unexpected

My guest today: Brenda Bence has built mega brands for Fortune 100 companies like Procter & Gamble where she headed multi-million dollar brands, first based in the U.S., then in Europe and then in Asia.

Then in 2002, at her career peak, Brenda made the leap, and started her own coaching business, which now has offices in Asia and the US.

There’s so much in this chat:
-How Brenda got hired right out of university, and how she turned a NO to a YES
-How she got hired by P&G (lots of giggles guaranteed)
-How she got hired by her very first paying client

Each story is unforgettable and the 51 minutes fly by!

Join Brenda and me in the unexpected and fascinating journey through her very successful and very squiggly career. You won’t fail to be inspired!

Brenda's new book The Forgotten Choice can be purchased here. If you'd like the companion guide, send your proof of purchase to [email protected]
Follow Brenda Bence on LinkedIn here.
For all other social channels as well as to sign up to Brenda's newsletter: www.BrendaBence.com

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I don't know anyone who doesn't love a good reinvention story.
Especially career reinvention.

Think of the most famous people in the world, and they've reinvented themselves.
And ordinary people like you and me? Yes, us too.

But to go from industrial design, to creative strategy, to innovation, to teaching college students, to now helping leaders be the leader they want to be...

How do you even start?
How do you deal with that fear?
And can social media help or hinder?

To talk about all of this and more, I'm delighted to have Stefano Di Lollo on the podcast.

In this episode, Stefano shares the exact steps he took to leave a safe, well paying career in industrial design and the journey he took to the Leadership Coach and Facilitator path he enjoys today.

Follow Stefano on here on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

The livestreams I referred to during the podcast:
1. How to be creative in your career (April 2021)
2. How to reinvent your career (May 2021)


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'Carpe Diem' is a famous Latin phrase roughly translating as 'Sieze the Day!'

Our next guest embodies this spirit and how!

What is it like to work out of a boat? Not on holiday, not for fun, but as your new permanent office? Are you ready to 'Seas the day'? 

I invite you to google search the following:

a. Digital Nomad
b. Laptop lifestyle

I can bet you, the images that come up are of 20 something's on a beach with Ray Bans and a drink. Am I right?

The last person you would imagine leading a digitally nomadic life is a CEO with 25 years of senior corporate experience.

In his corporate career, Abel Staveren has held CFO and CEO positions in the shipping industry with postings in London, Singapore, Norway, Switzerland and Luxembourg

Now, Abel and his wife Adrienne travel full-time as digital nomads. They divide the year into three or four blocks, spending each block in a different country. In 2020, Q1 was spent in Stellenbosch South Africa, Q2 in Singapore, Q3 sailing their boat back from Scotland to the Netherlands and Q4 in Algarve, Portugal. They just arrived back from Portugal and are getting the boat ready to go sailing around the UK.

In this fascinating episode, Abel shares:

> The highly unusual circumstances in which he was hired at his first job

> What prompted him to stop traditional work where he needed to be physically present, and become a digital nomad - the answer will surprise you

> How he got hired by his first paying client

> His favourite career advice, which he learnt from the creator of the most famous syndicated daily comic strip in the world

> How a cuss word is the best piece of financial advice you've probably ever heard

This episode has been an eye opener for me and it will certainly be for you, hope you enjoy listening! So let's lift the achor and sail into this delightful conversation.

Connect with Abel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abelvanstaveren/

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What is one thing that's free, and can make a deep impact on your job search, as well as your career?

It's LinkedIn: both your presence and engagement on the platform.
In this episode, I share 4 tips to help you self audit your profile: related to your profile pic, background banner, headline and the 'about' section.

Download the LinkedIn profile checklist here: https://www.superchargeyourself.com/LIprofile


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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was a famous book written by the great novelist John le Carre.

Inspired by that title, today's episode has a special guest who has hired talent for the Intelligence community and has reinvented her own career many times over.

Lee Andrese has had a phenomenal career as a secondary school teacher, a cowgirl and tractor trailer driver, before moving to Talent Aquisition!

Over her career, Lee has personally filled 3000 positions at Fortune 100 companies and trained 2000 recruiters.
 
Previously, she served as the head of the Aquent Studios’ Government practice introducing innovative solutions to attract talent for the US Federal Government, Civilian and DoD agencies, including the Intelligence Community.

So, how did Lee get there?

Listen to learn all about career reinvention.

In this juicy episode, Lee talks about:

- an incident that changed her career outlook, very early in her life
- what made her change her name in college
- how she made the change from high school teacher to heading a staffing business
- why she showed up to an important interview in crutches (and what followed)
- how she carved a niche in hiring for the intelligence community
- what prompted her to leave her employer after 21 years and start out on her own
- and much more

Don't even think about missing this episode!

Follow Lee's work on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/landrese/
Here she is jumping off a plane!

Lee's website:
https://www.akathame.com/

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Bob Burg is a hugely successful writer and sought after speaker who’s built his entire life’s work on the concept of GIVING.

His magnum opus, a book called “The Go-Giver”, co-authored with John David Mann, is a  Wall Street Journal  and BusinessWeek  Bestseller, and has sold nearly a million copies and translated into 29 languages.  Arianna Huffington, Seth Godin and Stephen Covey recommend it as a must read. 

Here's a quote I love from his book: "Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving…. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.”

In this podcast, Bob and I have a rich converstion on:

- How he started his career and why he needed to pivot pretty quickly
- How he started his firm Burg Communications and what helped him make it successful
- His definitions of selling, giving, price and value
- His views on the reputation of 'sales' over the past 40 years
- How a job seeker can use principles from the book to create value
... and much, much more

Whether you are a job seeker, business owner or an employee, I promise you: this conversation on creating a giving and value based mindset will definitely help your career.

Follow Bob's work: https://burg.com/
Click here to get a copy of 'The Go-Giver': A little story about a powerful business idea.


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Facing a challenging scenario at your workplace? Expecting to get laid off? Having trouble dealing with your boss?

Chances are, the Evil HR Lady can help.

Suzanne Lucas helps you understand what your boss is thinking, whether you should contact a lawyer and what your chances are of getting severance. 

Her hit blog 'The Evil HR Lady' garners half a million views across platforms monthly and provides valuable counsel across a range of scenarios. 

In this stellar conversation, Suzanne shares with us:

 -        How she landed up in HR at Wyeth, a giant pharmaceutical company, and there’s a great lesson here for those of us who are a little confused about our passion

 -        An unusual job interview experience that helped her decide between two job offers, and there's a great lesson there if you ever fall into that predicament

 -        Moving from the US to Europe and noticing the clear differences in employment practices

 -        How her blog 'The Evil HR Lady' got started and how she landed writing gigs at big names like CBS, Business.com etc.

 -        The perception and reputation of HR today, and whether there’s been any change in the last 20 years

 -        Her favourite tips for someone who thinks they might be losing their job.

 This is a longer conversation and worth every single minute, trust me!

Follow Suzanne's work:
Blog: http://www.evilhrlady.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealEvilHRLady
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/evilhrlady
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannemlucas/

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If you're looking for confidence and clarity on your career path, AND how to get hired in your dream orgnanisations, this is the episode for you.
If you think you're different and no one is going to want you because of those differences, this episode is for you.
 
Nikki Barua is co-founder of a company called Beyond Barriers which helps global organizations accelerate women in leadership by democratizing access to high-performance training and executive coaching. Nikki’s success has been featured in Forbes and Fortune magazine, and today we are going to have a chat about her own barriers and how she converted them into breakthroughs, so that we will distill concrete takeaways for all our listeners.

In this brilliant episode, Nikki shares:

- How she left India for the US on a one way ticket, with few hundred bucks in her pocket and a dream in her heart, sounds cliche, but this is exactly what happened! Nikki was keen on making it on her own.

- How she got hired in a country where she was a minority immigrant, and her criteria for selecting the next move, where she shares a real example in her case

- How we all have two jobs to do: our day job as well as our career, and how we need to manage both

- How she started her company and podcast a couple of weeks before the pandemic hit the stop button on all her plans, and how she adapted, very successfully!

- The process to converting her ideas and codified practices into a book, and her top tips for the aspiring authors out there!

Whatever your gender, don't miss this episode, it's worth every minute!

Connect with Nikki on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thenikkibarua/
Nikki's beautiful post on LinkedIn about her father that I mentioned during the show here.
The Beyond Barriers website: https://www.iambeyondbarriers.com/
The podcast episode I referred to with Mallun Yen: click here. 

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Interesting careers are always squiggly and this isn't any different in John's case.

John Espirian, a LinkedIn superstar, has worked as a Call Center agent, then manager, then Quality Assurance tester at large companies like Fujitsu, then technical copyrighter and now, B2B website writer and overall LinkedIn nerd.

If you follow John on LinkedIn, there's a good chance you'll be "noticed, remembered and preferred". Now who doesn't want that?

In this episode, John shares:

- His fascinating career journey where in 2009 the rug got pulled from under his feet and he was forced to give entrepreneurship a try for 6 months

- How he got hired by his first two paying clients

- How a simple but thought provoking question from his mentor changed his entire approach to his brand #RelentlesslyHelpful

- Three types of people on any social media platform: creators, contributors and consumers, which one are you?

- How a job seeker can get in front of the right audience and noticed, without selling themselves, and so much more.

This is the perfect episode for someone who wants to leverage LinkedIn to get ahead in their career, don't miss it!

John's post on the name pronunciation feature on LinkedIn is here.
Follow John's work on LinkedIn here and if you'd like to connect with him, remember to include the secret word!
John's website: https://espirian.co.uk/

Hope you enjoy the show! 
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