Strategic Momentum

In this episode, Connie discusses how to Create Your Compass on your way to career success. 

It’s all about creating clarity on what you're aiming for, by being able to map out a strategic plan to help you see the bigger picture and identify those tasks you will need to do to help you achieve your goals.

We all have goals that we want to achieve in work and in life but oftentimes we aren’t sure where to start. There is a need, not only to bring our whole selves to work, but also to deliver meaningful impact, yet the task at hand can feel insurmountable.

Catharine Bowman knows this all too well. She’s an accomplished medical researcher, board member, medical student, speaker and change agent. And she’s only in her early twenties. At 8 years old, she made a promise to her mother that she would develop one of the first pharmacological treatments for lymphedema, an incurable and painful disease that is often a result of cancer treatments. That journey to find a solution began by connecting the dots around the trends, challenges and opportunities to create the necessary traction.

Compassion is what started her journey and it was a source of stability through her own constantly changing environment. She’s another inspiring career mashup story who’s  featured in my new book Building the Business of You.

Resources:

• Connect with Catharine on LinkedIn
• Connect with Connie on LinkedIn 
• Visit the website for “Building the Business of You: A System to Align Passion and Potential Through Your Own Career Mashup”
• Order the book on Amazon

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Strategic Momentum is produced by Crate Media

In this episode, Connie covers step one of the five-part fluid career system, called Spotting the Trends. It’s all about identifying the challenges, threats, opportunities and potential to help you research and analyze where you are and where you want to go. She explains how it fits into the overall system and why it’s so critical to career success.

The notion that “change is constant” is practically our new motto here at Strategic Momentum, as we study the workforce trends shaping the future of work in the coming years. Due to COVID-19 and the numerous crises over the last year, we’re all coming to terms with the fact that we’re living in an increasingly dynamic world.

We’re shifting from singularity to multiplicity, from linearity to intersectionality, and from rigidity to flexibility. It’s no doubt the pandemic is changing things, and we have to be more fluid now than ever to get through it.

Fluidity, of course, is a significant theme in Connie’s book, Building the Business of You. But it wasn’t a new idea that just came about during the pandemic — it's a trend that Connie has observed over the last few years, especially with interviews on this very show. We’ve had guests who have demonstrated how they’ve earned their success not by sticking to one clear path but by moving through various roles and companies, even pivoting as many as 11 times, to learn and develop the skills and perspectives that lead them to where they are today.

In this episode, Connie revisits some of these interviews, dating back as far as 2018, to uncover some of the stories that supported the development of the fluidity concept in Building the Business of You. 

These stories cover situational fluidity, mindset fluidity, and location fluidity, to name a few. And all of this points to one main idea: the way forward in this ever-changing world is embracing change and going where the “cheese” is. That’s how you create your career mashup and reach your true growth potential.

Learn more, and find the complete show notes, at https://www.strategicmomentum.co/episodes/89

Resources:

• Connect with Connie on LinkedIn 
• Visit the website for Building the Business of You
• Order the book on Amazon

Subscribe to the Strategic Momentum podcast:

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Strategic Momentum is produced by Crate Media

In this short-form series, Connie Steele shares tips from her #1 Amazon new release book, Building the Business of You. In this episode, Connie introduces the concept of “Fluidity,” the individual and operational mindset that is critical to building the business of you. What does it mean to be fluid? What are examples? And how can we use fluidity to create our career strategies? 

It may seem to some that fluidity is innate to every worker in the millennial generation, but the reality is that this flexibility and willingness to adapt can be achieved by anyone — even if it has to be worked towards. And in this new world of work, traditional paradigms and workflows have fundamentally changed. 

The model of career progression and growth used to be linear, and that’s certainly what Floss Bar and Med Bar founder Eva Sadej was conditioned to believe. But Eva is now a featured career mashupper featured in my new book “Building the Business of You: A System to Align Passion and Potential Through Your Own Career Mashup” — so don’t convince yourself that you’re too old to learn a new trick. 

While Eva’s journey started out following the traditional linear path, she chose to take a detour. She parallel pathed her way toward entrepreneurship and subsequently defined a career that could leverage all of her talents and interests, all while hedging against risk, being fluid, and still taking a systematic approach.

Resources:

• Connect with Eva on LinkedIn
• Connect with Connie on LinkedIn 
• Visit the website for “Building the Business of You: A System to Align Passion and Potential Through Your Own Career Mashup”
• Order the book on Amazon

Subscribe to the Strategic Momentum podcast:

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• On Google Podcasts 
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Strategic Momentum is produced by Crate Media

In this short-form series, Connie Steele shares tips from her #1 Amazon new release book, Building the Business of You. Today, Connie discusses the “career mashup,” a premier concept in the book and the key to the future of work. What is it and how can you use it to create your dream career?

“Building the Business of You: A System to Align Passion and Potential Through Your Own Career Mashup” releases in just a few days. It’s the first book to help professionals and entrepreneurs navigate the uncertain, post-pandemic world of work, while aligning personal purpose and professional advancement.

In this episode, the Strategic Momentum team, Alan and Alexis, flip the script on Connie to get a preview of the book, as well as learn about her own career journey. We dig into the concepts in the book and the inspiration behind them, which stem from a mix of personal and professional experiences, interviews she’s conducted on this show, and trends she’s studied in the workforce over the years.

Resources:

• “Building the Business of You: A System to Align Passion and Potential Through Your Own Career Mashup”
• Connect with Scott on LinkedIn 
• Visit Strategic Momentum for survey results

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Strategic Momentum is produced by Crate Media

It’s a new year, the early stages of a new decade, and a lot of things that used to be the norm just aren’t the norm anymore — especially when it comes to career growth and development. 

Over the last 20 years, we’ve seen a shift from linear to non-linear career paths. The reality is most people don’t stay with one company, one role, or even one field anymore. Many find themselves pivoting frequently, creating what I call a career mashup.

And as a learning management platform that supports work and career success, Strategic Momentum’s mission is to study this revolution and spread the knowledge. We wanted to learn what work and career success mean today, what it takes to reach your potential, and what obstacles people are getting stuck on.

So, we implemented a study to assess just that, and we teamed up with Scott Vanderbilt, a seasoned market research executive with over 20 years of experience across a breadth of industries and audiences to help us.

This episode is focused on sharing some of the initial findings from the survey that we fielded in the summer of 2020.

Resources:

• Connect with Scott on LinkedIn 
• Visit Strategic Momentum for survey results

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We are still in the midst of the pandemic, but these trying times have also led to an increase in  entrepreneurial activity and opportunities.

According to a Wall Street Journal analysis, “Americans are starting new businesses at the fastest rate in more than a decade.” The Foundation for Economic Education even cites that the pandemic offers a moment ripe for ‘creative destruction.’ 

That’s certainly not surprising for Tim Guleri, who has been knee deep in the startup world for much of his career. As a Managing Partner at Sierra Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on Next Generation Enterprise and Emerging Technologies, he knows all too well the journey and evolution of successful entrepreneurs. Over his 18-year career in venture capital, as well as being a former serial entrepreneur himself, he has developed an inherent understanding of those critical traits aspiring and current entrepreneurs need to possess to build businesses that thrive.

But he didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. In fact, it was his curiosity and desire to ‘Alway be Trying’ that led him down the path of expanding his skill sets, experiences, and, ultimately, his career. 

Resources:

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timguleri
• Twitter: twitter.com/timguleri
• Visit Sierra Ventures

Subscribe to the Strategic Momentum podcast:

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• On the Google Play Store
• On Stitcher Radio
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Strategic Momentum is produced by Crate Media