The Career Butterfly

I'll explain all about it in this episode, but here are the 2 words: Growth Mindset. If you live your life with a growth mindset, there is no reason that you can't find success after a career pause - no matter how long it's been.

Today, we're talking rebound jobs. Specifically, a job that you take even when you know it may not be the dream job or your forever job. I'll break down 5 different boosts you can get from one: Confidence, Skills, Connections, Resume, and Financial. It doesn't have to be the perfect job to give you some - or all - of those benefits in the short term.

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Desiree Briel Rodi thought she had her plan all mapped out - she'd go to college, establish herself in a career, get married, have kids, and stay home with them. What she learned along the way is that her journey - just like everyone else's - is unique and to just ride the waves.

Desiree has worked in both education and corporate environments, started her own chef business, and returned to school more than once. Today, she's a mom to three kids, an EQ facilitator and coach, and pursuing her Ph.D. in Organizational Development and Change.

She offers great insight into how she's transitioned amongst these varying jobs, as well as the role Emotional Intelligence played in her journey.

We're chatting policy this week because it can have such an impact on women in the workforce. We'll discuss how the United States is the only industrialized nation to not offer this benefit and how that might change in the near future.

Tune in to hear why it's still important even after you've had your babies.

Do you find yourself getting caught up in the "how" of achieving your dreams before you even get started?

This week is all about letting go of the "how" questions your brain will send your way when you decide to do something new. It's that moment when you're on the cusp of trying something new, but then you realize you don't know how to do it. Your mind will flood you with confusion, doubt, fear, overwhelm because it's easier to stay in status quo than to go for something new.

But status quo is not what we're after here. Tune in to learn how to work on your thoughts, feelings, and actions to achieve the results you want!

Addie Swartz built her company reacHIRE to provide women with an intentional onramp back to the workforce. She knew the value of this frequently untapped group because she had previously built a successful company with a specific focus on hiring moms who had taken a career pause.

Today, reacHIRE has put hundreds of women back to work with their unique model that matches qualified candidates with companies committed to this pathway. They offer custom cohorts designed to support the women along the journey back to work.

If you're interested in returning to work in a supportive environment, check out reacHIRE.

Happy Mother's Day! How much time do you give to others each week? A lot, right? How much time do you give yourself each week?

I'm asking you to consider upping that last number to 3 hours a week. Time to be alone, dream ahead, journal your thoughts, maybe even dust off that resume.

Three hours might not sound like much, but I made this suggestion to a group of women last year and some of them have had some powerful results in that tiny little time slice. Are you with me on this?

LinkedIn legitimized the Stay-at-Home-Mom title on their platform today and I am celebrating that! Tune in to hear what that means for you and for how you should celebrate the skills that you have carefully honed and developed while managing your families.

I truly believe the Stay-at-Home-Mom skills make you a rockstar when you go back to work and it's time we own these!

1. Conflict Resolution
2. Crisis Management
3. Problem Solving
4. Negotiation
5. Communication
6. Time Management

You have literally been becoming a better version of yourself during these years at home. You're wiser, more skilled, more experienced, and both tougher and more compassionate!

Getting into medical school is a major accomplishment, but it still isn't the most important part of Joan Tu's life. A mom of two, who also happens to be in medical school, she still considers being a mom her most important job.

Joan shares the journey she took from financial analyst to full-time parent to author to student.

As a first-generation medical student, she also recently decided to document the challenges of the medical school application process in her new book: Raising Doctors: The Med School Admissions Guide for Parents of Future Physicians

Some people would look at Colleen Butler's resume and be surprised to see the diversity of jobs: entrepreneur, lawyer, mortgage broker, media salesperson, to name a few. Some were full time and some were the part-time gigs that fulfilled her when her kids were small. But, the truth is that she's always been willing to say yes, which has now landed her in the job she loves so much she calls it "the last job she ever wants."

Today, she is the Business Development Lead for The W Marketplace, a digital marketplace featuring women-owned businesses.