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My guest today is Jason Feifer. Jason is the opposite of a one trick pony. He’s a multi-hyphenate: Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur magazine, podcast host, book author, keynote speaker, startup advisor, and my personal favourite: non-stop optimism machine. In this episode, we are going to learn about Jason’s journey to, I know this is going to sound cliché and click-bait-y… embracing change. Because as much as we all know it’s important to understand and accept change, not a lot of us like it, let alone thrive in change. Fret not, Jason is here to show us how. 

We cover a LOT during this conversation, such as:

- Jason's career pre-Entrepreneur Media. In fact, we talk about his study choices during college and whether it was obvious to him from an early age that he was meant to be a journalist.  

- How Jason pitched dozens of magazines and how one landed at Washington Post

- Jason's time at small and large media houses: Men’s Health, Fast Company, Maxim Magazine etc. and whether there's one position that massively influenced how he shows up in the world today 

- Of course, we talk about about Entrepreneur magazine. What was the company like back in 2015? How did Jason get hired there and what helped him get from Executive Editor to Editor in Chief in a very short time (one year)?

- I geek out with Jason on a couple of chapters of his book to simplify the takeaways for you, whether you want to grow your career or company, or both. 

- Jason has met with and interviewed so many famous people Jason: Ryan Reynolds, Gary Vaynerchuk, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jimmy Fallon, etc. Which interview went surprisingly different from what he expected and what did he learn from the experience?

 - Jason's advice for someone who's in a career transition and how to best make the most of the situation, while being practical and aware of the day to day needs.

Subscribe to Jason's newsletter: http://onethingbetter.email/
Get Jason's book: https://www.jasonfeifer.com/book/
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In this episode of the "How I Got Hired" podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jenna Harrison, a mindset and business coach. Jenna shared her career journey with me, which included working in corporate roles, moving to Spain to work on a nude beach, and eventually becoming a coach. We covered a range of topics during our conversation, including salary negotiation, clarity in decision-making, and the power of mindset. Jenna emphasized the importance of being grounded in one's mission and taking risks to achieve new results. I found her story to be incredibly inspiring and I hope that our listeners will be motivated to pursue their passions and create fulfilling careers.

Introduction [00:00:06]
Sonal Bahl introduces herself and the purpose of the podcast, which is to share stories of people who have achieved success in their careers.

Jenna's Corporate Role [00:05:18]
Jenna Harrison talks about her favorite corporate role as an executive assistant for the chairman of a board of an S&P 600 company and how she learned about effective communication.

Salary Negotiation [00:09:31]
Jenna Harrison talks about negotiating her salary for the first time when she applied for the executive assistant role.

Corporate Roles and Salary Negotiation [00:11:13-00:13:52]
Jenna talks about her experience negotiating her salary for a fashion job and the importance of advocating for oneself.

Working on a Nude Beach [00:14:32-00:20:12]
Jenna shares her experience working on a nude beach in Spain and how she ended up managing a restaurant there.

Choosing a Career Path [00:15:47-00:20:12]
Jenna discusses her decision to pursue a career in Spain after college and how she made the decision to prioritize her personal values over a potentially lucrative career in the US.

Corporate Roles and Career Progression [00:20:50]
Jenna talks about her experience of being interrupted in her career progression and how she trusted herself to bounce back.

Starting The Uncommon Way [00:23:24]
Jenna explains how she started her coaching business, The Uncommon Way, and how she helps women entrepreneurs create their own businesses.

Importance of Clarity in Business [00:29:03]
Jenna discusses the importance of having true clarity in business and how it can help in attracting clients and building a successful business.

The Power of Words [00:35:25]
Jenna discusses the importance of shifting language to gain clarity and how our brain responds to different commands.

Adversity as a Supercharger [00:38:22]
Jenna shares how being rejected from a business mastermind program led her to write an application for the future, which she accomplished in just one month, supercharging her business.

Methodology for Clarity [00:31:59]
Jenna and Sonal discuss the methodology Jenna uses to help people gain clarity in their lives, careers, and relationships.

Jenna's self-concept [00:41:19]
Jenna talks about how her self-concept changed after applying to a mastermind and how it affected her behavior and beliefs.

Promoting Jenna's podcast [00:42:40]
Sonal promotes Jenna's podcast, "The Uncommon Way Business and Life Coaching Podcast," and encourages listeners to check it out.

Importance of leaving a review [00:44:12]
Sonal emphasizes the importance of leaving a review for her podcast to help it reach more people and fulfill her mission of helping others supercharge their careers.

Learn more about Jenna:
 https://theuncommonway.com/
https://theuncommonway.com/podcast/
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Today’s episode is part of my series ‘Where are they now’ to check up on how some of my past guests are getting on and how sometimes the best laid plans can go differently.

Jon Tesser was a guest on the show back in Dec 2020 on episode 10 titled ‘Dream Jobs & Dream Bosses’ and we chatted about his career at  NYC & Co, New York Magazine, Viacom. 

Since then, Jon has been through a layoff and a job change, and we need an update.

In this episode, we talk about it all:
- When a job turns out differently than what was described
- Being at the receiving end of ageism, racism and sexism
- How to detext any potential red flags during the final rounds of job interviews
- How therapy and meditation are tools in Jon's toolbox to build more resilience
.. and so much more

Brace yourself, there’s a lot more honesty than you might be used to!! Hope you enjoy the listen and learn as much as I did.

Follow Jon on social media:
Jon's LinkedIn
Jon's Instagram

Previous HIGH episode with Jon Tesser, episode 10

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3. Come hang out with me LIVE on LinkedIn and Youtube every Friday at 2 pm CET where I answer your questions and often bring in fab guests:

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Niall O’Caroll used to be in the Irish National Police for 18 years, then worked as a Performance Coach with British Gymnastics and as a Sports Psychologist with 27 individual Olympic champions in Canada, UK etc. Niall is now the global Chief of Partnerships at PepTalk, a team experience platform.

In this fascinating conversation, Niall spills all the beans:

- We talk about what it was like being in the police force in Ireland for the better part of two decades,

- How he got hired by the Canadian Olympic Committee, and what being an Olympic champion is actually like once the pomp and show is over

- What Niall has noticed to be the biggest trait most elite athletes have in common, and how us non-elite folks learn from them, especially during tough moments in our careers like layoffs and rejections

Follow Niall on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niall-o-carroll-18065732/
‘Work’s broken’ podcast: https://www.peptalk.com/podcast
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3. Come hang out with me LIVE on LinkedIn and Youtube every Friday at 2 pm CET where I answer your questions and often bring in fab guests:

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/SuperChargeYourself

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My guest today is one of Asia Pacific’s 50 most influential and purposeful marketers. Sapna Chadha is VP Marketing at Google (at the time of this recording), based in Singapore and runs its consumer and business products in 12 geographies in India, Southeast Asia and South Asia. Prior to Google, Sapna was Chief Marketing Officer at American Express Banking, first in New York, and then in New Delhi. Sapna’s name is Indian and she looks Indian, but had never ever lived in India before moving with Amex. Today we are going to talk all things Google, YouTube, Marketing, being expatriated.

We talk about:
- How Sapna decided to take the less trodden path at Kellogg during her MBA
- Those 10 years at Amex with all the highs and lows
- How Sapna got hired at Google and how (a form of divine) timing made a big difference to actually getting into the company
- What life was like living in India as someone who looks Indian but never lived in the country
- What are some of the top traits Sapna looks for when recruiting for team members at Google
- Biases she has experienced repeatedly as a working mom and practical steps she is taking to change that for herself and everyone around her
- And so much more.

In a world where people only celebrate their successes publicly and leave the less flattering elements out, Sapna and her candid style are a breath of fresh air.
Follow Sapna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sapna-chadha-1128671/
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My guest today is Deepa Purushothaman who worked at Deloitte for over 20 years and was the first Indian American woman and one of the youngest to make partner. While that is impressive in and of itself, that is not the only reason Deepa is on the show. Deepa wrote this on LinkedIn a couple of years ago: I left my 22 year old job and felt like I was jumping off the cliff of uncertainty during COVID, to write and launch a business. It felt scary, uncertain, and even a little frivolous at the time. Less than a year later, Deepa released her best-selling book ‘The First, The Few, The Only, How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America’, and this is a conversation that we can ALL weigh in on, not just women or a certain race, we have a lot to learn from Deepa’s experience and work.

We cover a lot in this conversation:
-Deepa's journey to making partner,
-How there are so many Indian origin CEO's in the US but not near as many Indian women
-What 'work on your executive presence' meant as feedback for her
... and much more.

Learn about Deepa and her work here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepapuru/
https://www.n2formation.com/
https://www.deepapuru.com/
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My guest today is a Dr Pal, one of California’s leading experts in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology. There are 3 reasons I wanted to bring the good doctor on the show. 
Number one is it’s pretty cool to have a doctor on the show, second, are some startling facts: 13% of the world is obese, 39% of the world’s adults are overweight, 1 in 5 children are overweight, and we need to learn more about this, and Dr Pal has his own personal journey. Thirdly, Dr Pal, (full name Dr Palaniappan Manickam) is a content creator, with 800k followers across Youtube and Instagram! (I counted 600k during the time of recording and it just keeps growing!). Dr Pal makes useful videos using his charateristic humour and the theme is always ‘making yourself a priority’ so that you don’t need to hire doctors like him,  ever. 

We talk about the following:

- How the Indian steretype of having a doctor or engineer in the family was very much alive in his family and community growing up

- The journey to study medicine in India and then eventually in the US, with all of the pitfalls in between

- The obesity epidemic, the causes and some timeless pieces of advice for maintaining good health, coming from the doctor's own experience

-  The accidental start of Dr Pal's content creation journey: how it started and how it's going

Follow Dr Pal across social media:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrPal
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.pal.manickam/

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3. Come hang out with me LIVE on LinkedIn and Youtube every Friday at 2 pm CET where I answer your questions and often bring in fab guests:

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My guest today is Frank O’Connell, who has had a long and illustrious career being CEO and President at some very well-known companies like Reebok, FOX Video Games, HBO Video, Gibson Greetings so many more. 
Frank has moved 25 times to new roles, across diverse industries and is now a well-known mentor to young professionals and a big proponent of taking risks to build successful careers and businesses. In fact, Frank has written a whole book on this theme: Jump First, Think Fast. In this conversation, Frank and I talk about the following:

- We cover Frank's long and illustrious career since 1966 and highlights the most memorable role of his career, at Indian Motorcycles, and how helped the company that had been out of business for 40+ years

- After working across multiple industries — from baked goods to sporting apparel to video games, Frank talks about what helped him to adapt and innovate at each company 

- Putting on the hat of CEO Frank, Frank shares the top 2-3 traits he repeatedly looked for, when recruiting his inner circle

Learn more about Frank O'Connell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jumpfirstfrank/
Order Frank's new book Jump First Think Fast: https://jumpfirstthinkfast.com/
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3. Come hang out with me LIVE on LinkedIn and Youtube every Friday at 2 pm CET where I answer your questions and often bring in fab guests:

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My guest today is a Finance Firebrand, and Private Capital Advisor Sunaina Sinha, who is now at Raymond James, a global financial services leader whose total client assets are over $1.1 trillion. There are so many reasons for bringing Sunaina to the show. Even though Sunaina received her education at HBS and Stanford, her career has been anything but linear, something we love to see on the podcast ; there are so few women in this space; and so few women who look like me, especially who were not born in the countries they live and work in. 

In this conversation, Sunaina shares the following:

- How a scattered childhood in Africa and South East Asia that was often difficult at times, made her the person she is today
-What helped her application to stand out at Stanford and HBS
- Why she moved from Industrial to Chemical Engineering and then to Finance
- How Sunaina secured her first job post MBA at Bridgewater
- What her first boss said to her and how she never forgot those words
- What made her start her own company and how she got hired by her first few paid clients
- The reality of running her own business while being a mom to 3 kids and breastfeeding throughout those early years
- How her company grew and caught the eye of Raymond James, and what it's been like to go from employee to founder to employee
- Her greatest superpower, and you might be surprised with her answer
..and so much more

Follow Sunaina on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunainasinha/
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My guests today are two very talented women who started a video production company, without any video production experience! 
Namrata Sirur, aka Nammy, has an MBA and worked in very serious sounding corporate roles with Schlumberger and Sysco Food and Beverage Services. My other guest Pavi Dinamani is a trained Chemical Engineer and has worked at companies like Amec Foster Wheeler. In 2016, both Nammy and Pavi left corporate behind and started this new adventure, which is this super successful video production company called Misfit Communications where they both show up exactly how they are. How did they get started, how’s it going let’s learn more about the OG Misfits.

 We talk about:

 -        What it was like being in Corporate America, as non-white women who aren’t originally from there

 -        How they got get hired in those first roles and what helped them stand out during the hiring experience

 -        How Nammy and Pavi met and what happened in 2016, and why they decided to not go back to corporate life

 -        How the idea for MisFit Communications was born and how they signed on clients and skilled themselves to learn video production professionally.

 Follow Misfit:

https://www.misfitcommunications.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/namratasirur/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavi-siva-dinamani/

https://www.instagram.com/misfitnammy/

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/SuperChargeYourself

4. Share your favourite takeaways and tag me on your Instagram and LinkedIn.