The Career Butterfly

What if you follow your passion - only to find that your passion doesn't feel the same way once it's your career?

Amy Rowland, an NCAA champion tennis player, assumed she'd excel at and love a job coaching tennis at the college level. While she succeeded in the position, she didn't love it the way she'd enjoyed playing. In search of more, she got another degree and added Professor to her resume. But that didn't fix the issue either.

Amy became a pro at career pivots and left the collegiate world for law school. The timing coincided with the beginning of her family which added a pause to the pivot. In this interview, she shares her journey as an attorney and what made her eventually leave law to open her own legal recruiting firm, Varia Search.

She also gives her own recruiting tips for 2021 - how to own your pause, where the world of remote work is headed, and what's changed in interviews.

Today, Amy has another new passion - hosting the Fashionably Late podcast where she shares the stories of those who arrive late to their career fulfillment.

Carol Parrish, a Financial Advisor from Utor Wealth, is helping us kick off a new year with great advice on all things money. She covers everything from taking a financial inventory and tracking your cash flow and savings to protecting your future.

Regardless of whether you are the primary breadwinner or haven't received a paycheck in years, your family's finances deserve your attention - and January is the perfect time to turn your attention in that direction.

Carol is available for individual consultations. For additional online resources, she recommends TillerHQ or Nav-It.

"It doesn't matter how much time has passed."

This was the conclusion that Mary Clare Kellett reached after finding herself in the role of Washington State Grassroots Leader for 2020 Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. Despite her long career pause, Mary Clare definitely still knew how to build teams and get things done!

In this interview, Mary Clare shares how she landed this role - without any political campaign experience - and where she went from there. With the pandemic just beginning, her marriage ending, and facing some health issues, Mary Clare took the opposite route of a lot of people looking for a job. In fact, she didn't even look. 

Tune in to hear what she did instead - and how the perfect job found her. 

Phew! 2020 is behind us! I have no idea what 2021 will bring, but it's a welcome change all the same!

I'm entering this year with a step away from an impossible year in oh-so-many ways and with excitement to tackle an Impossible Goal! Why impossible you ask?

Well, for starters, it's because I want to dream big! And I'm ready to embrace whatever failure I need to face to make this goal a reality. If I picked a goal that wouldn't involve potential failure, I might be stuck playing too small.

But more than anything, I want to help YOU - my listeners - achieve your goals this year. That's why my goal is to guide 50 women to the path they are meant for in 2021!

Ready to get started? In a few weeks, I'll be sharing my Back-to-Work Success Blueprint: 6 Secrets for 6-figure Success. Stay tuned for dates and registration info.

Radha never intended to take a career pause, but when her dad became ill the same year she had her second child, she knew she needed to focus on her family. She stepped away knowing it was the right choice, but with a strong warning from her colleagues that she would never be able to return.

Of course, Radha now knows that wasn't true, but it was a big hurdle to overcome. Not only did she overcome it, but today she is back in a job she loves at the same company she left several years earlier!

In this episode, she tells us how she rebuilt her skillset and her network to make this possible. While she was able to make Plan A work, she also shares all about her Plan B and Plan C!

With 7 cross-country moves under her belt, Rachel Chittick is an expert at managing change. But her last move came with a new wrinkle. While she'd successfully managed all of the family transitions through the past several moves, this time she was also looking for a new job.

Her kids were either in college or on their way and, with that expense as well as living in a more expensive city, Rachel was ready to return full-time to her marketing career. A few years earlier, she'd easily landed a part-time consulting gig, but this time the search was more challenging. Not only was she in a new city, but the pandemic descended on the country during her job search.

Listen to be inspired by her story of resiliency and to learn how she landed her current position with a boutique PR agency.

Despite an educational background in Chemistry and a professional background in journalism, Swati Padmaraj's true passion has always been with the world of fashion. When she had the opportunity to reinvent herself in her second career once her kids were older, she decided to merge her education, experience, and passion as a clothing designer, stylist, and entrepreneur.

Come along on her journey and hear how Swati earned an additional Bachelor's degree in Fashion and created her own fashion line. Today, she's launched a fashion tech company, Style-At-Iz, focused on the styling experience - and even found a way to pivot in 2020 to provide an online shopping experience for local businesses.

The November pick for Butterfly Book Club was Loving What is by Byron Katie and that's what we're talking about in this week's podcast.

For me the subtitle says it all... who wouldn't want to know the 4 questions that can change your life?

1. Is it true?
2. Can I absolutely know it's true?
3. How do I react when I believe that thought?
4. Who would I be without this thought?

But it's more than that. It's doing The Work. I hope you enjoy this brief introduction to Byron Katie and will go read the book. If you already have it, keep doing The Work!

This week is all about gratitude so I'm sharing a gift with you.

On my journey back to work, I collected hundreds of websites, books, podcasts and tools that inspired and guided me.

This week, I'm sharing my curated list of the top 55 of these incredible resources in my Essential Toolkit in hopes that they will inspire and guide you.

Enjoy!

These are two different concepts, but what if both could be true? Today, I explore that option with my own two distinct, but simultaneous career paths. What if loving what you do leaves you open to more possibilities?