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There are 3 BS (and that's belief system) blocks between you and your next-level career. In this episode, we will discuss: 

• Imposter Syndrome, People Pleasing, and Perfectionism
• The sneaky ways these 3 BS blocks show up
• Why you go from feeling good to bad so quickly
• Why these blocks keep happening
• How to bust through these blocks

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

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• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
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Allison (aka Ali) Katz is the Owner, Small Batch Chef, and Baker of Ali Katz Kitchen in Mattituck, New York, on the North Fork of Long Island.

Ali started her career in New York City’s garment industry as a merchandiser for brands like The Gap, Perry Ellis, and Reebok. After September 11, she pivoted to the French Culinary Institute in New York City. Since graduation, Ali has worked at The Boathouse in New York’s Central Park and North Fork Table and Inn in Southold, NY. She’s freelanced in test kitchens around New York City and wrote and tested recipes for Hearst Magazines and Martha Stewart. She ultimately created her dream and launched Ali Katz Kitchen. In this episode, we discuss: 

• Her journey from employee to unemployed, from student to business owner 
• How she learned everything she needed to know without going to business school
• How she managed her mind through the various career pivots
• What it’s like to own a business and work with your spouse
• The importance of community when launching a business

Show Guests: 

Ali Katz, is the Owner, Small Batch Chef and Baker, of Ali Katz Kitchen, in Mattituck, NY, on Long Island’s North Fork. After a career in the fashion industry, Ali decided to go to the French Culinary Institute in New York, NY, and in 2018 they launched Ali Katz Kitchen.

Ali Katz and her husband Fritz Beckmann have created Ali Katz Kitchen. They combine baked goods, healthy salads, and savory items, all with ingredients sourced from local farms, small businesses, vineyards & restaurants.

You can follow Ali on Instagram and order online - Ali Katz Kitchen ships.

Mentioned on the show:

Ali Katz Kitchen

Browder’s Birds

KK The Farm

Castello di Borghese Vineyard

North Fork Table and Inn

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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“Tell me about your weakness” could be the most annoying and confusing question to receive during a job interview. Should you answer honestly? Should you find the silver lining and tell the interviewer how you grew as a result of your weakness? So many questions. In this episode, I discuss: 

• What this question is really about
• How to reframe the question in your brain
• The best way to lean into your blindspots to answer this question

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
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David Berkowitz is a serial marketer and has woven his experience as an employee, freelancer, and business owner into a successful career. In this episode, we talk about how David: 

• Pivoted from cookie-cutter roles and was able to harness his experiences to create custom roles
• Continually flexed his skills in fresh ways
• Used his experience as a consumer and end-user to reverse engineer what marketers need to know 
• Used a journalistic eye to keep his take on trends realistic and actionable
• Appreciates the importance of mentors, leadership, PR, and communications professionals
• Believes marketers need marketers and why he started the Serial Marketer Community
• Used his strengths and intuition to refresh his career continually

Episode Guest: 

David Berkowitz founded the Serial Marketers community and the FOAF network for fraction-of-a-fractional CXO consultants. Previously, he held marketing and strategy leadership roles with omnichannel ad tech platform Mediaocean, video production marketplace Storyhunter, social listening firm Sysomos, Publicis agency MRY, and Dentsu agency 360i. He has contributed more than 600 columns to outlets such as Advertising Age, MediaPost, VentureBeat, and Adweek, and he has spoken at more than 400 events globally. He lives in midtown Manhattan with one daughter and two cats.

Show notes: 

Serial Marketer Community

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Fraction of a Fraction www.foaf.pro

Thanks to Aaron Strout, CMO of Real Chemistry, for the episode title.

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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Sometimes when we've been looking for a job for a while, it's hard to believe that a new job is coming. Searching for a job when we are frustrated or in doubt makes the whole process harder. In this episode, I talk about:

• The three pieces of our career story we have to tell
• Why we must examine our thoughts
• Why affirmations and thought journaling alone don't create results
• How to create belief and stay there!
• What you need to practice regularly

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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This episode was originally a Linkedin Live where I talked to my friend and style coach Naana Badu founder and owner of BaduBasics.com

In this episode, we discuss how to be confident and authentic in any room, why your style matters even if you are WFH, how to figure out what works for you, and the simple steps you can take today to get started on discovering your authentic style. 

Speaker Bio,
Naana Badu, Style Coach and Speaker,

Naana Badu changes lives through style! As a Style Coach and Speaker, Naana coaches high-performing women of color to elevate their wardrobe to exude confidence, be instantly recognizable, and feel 100% authentic in any room. With 15+ years working as a management consultant in the Information Technology (IT) industry, she's navigated corporate spaces and learned firsthand the career-changing power of authenticity and confidence. 

With her style and image consulting firm, Badu Basics, Naana has dedicated 13+ years to helping women of color discover and embody their bold, authentic style. On the credentials tip, Naana has an Image Consultant Certification from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and is a Board Member of the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) New York Tri-state Chapter.

Naana calls Ghana and Brooklyn, NY, home and is living her best life with her fly husband, Chenits.

Show notes: Grab a Strengths & Strategy Session HERE. 

Check out my Recent Article on FastCompany.com: 4 Ways to Fight Ageism in Your Job Search

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Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on my private and group coaching programs. 

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
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Check out anyone's LinkedIn profile; it will probably tell a story with a clear career trajectory.  

Most career paths are not linear, and we often only see the lesson in looking backward. 

I am sharing the ten unexpected lessons I have learned in my career. I hope you'll see your experiences as powerful and up-leveling lessons--even if they were unwanted or unexpected. In this episode, I discuss what I learned from working in funeral homes, the record industry, start-ups, big corporate media companies, starting my own business, and as a military contractor. 

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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Erica Rooney is a chief people officer at Blue Acorn ici, an insights-driven strategic consultancy with expertise in data science, development, strategy, and design. She's also an executive coach, host of the Podcast, From Now to Next, and a consultant.

As a Culture Expert, Erica invigorates and educates her organization through change, driving a positive experience for employees and guiding executives through the change process to lead to massive success. 

In this episode, we discuss

• How her desire for continued growth led her right into a glass ceiling and what she did next
• Why she became a coach, and why she maintains her CPO role
• Recommendations for leaders who are navigating lay-off while leading teams 
• What she looks for in your LinkedIn profile when hiring
• How she manages her mind and keeps her career fresh

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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This week I am joined by my friend and fellow Career Strategist, Lee Koles, Ph.D as we discuss the Career Trends of 2023…so far.  In this episode, we discuss:

• How to think about the latest buzz of the 60-year career 
• What to negotiate in this current job market
• The continued challenges of remote work
• Employee engagement is at an all-time low, and how leaders can re-engage workers
• The shift beyond SKILLS in what companies are looking for now
• The impact of AI on hiring and why your opinion is vital to its future use in the recruitment process 

Show Guest: 

Lee Koles is an industrial/organizational psychologist, career strategist, and certified CliftonStrengths coach. Lee helps job seekers leverage their strengths to land flexible, meaningful work they love. Follow her on LinkedIn

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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Born March 21, 1923, my grandmother turns 100 today. In this episode, I am sharing her wisdom and what I learned from her about Service, Creativity, Well-being, Family, Community, and Mindset. 

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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