The Career Studio

Part of what I wanted to do on this podcast is introduce you to everyday people who are thriving professionally and personally. To show you that feeling energized and aligned at work isn't just for the celebrities or titans of industries that are often featured on other podcasts. It's available to every single one of us - including you.

In this episode I speak with Damien Neva, a former client of mine. Before we started working together Damien felt at sea - unsure how to define his professional focus and therefore unclear how to address the professional dissonance he was feeling in the midst of the pandemic. 

Today, Damien introduces himself as a video artist (discover his awesome work here: http://damienneva.com/) who has been producing short form serial videos for more than a decade for modeling agencies in New York including his current shop of nine years, NEXT Management, where he is the global director of social media. 

Although he never studied photography or filmmaking, his undergrad in English lit and a master’s in humanities and social thought have served him in good stead in the telling of stories. 

Damien lives in Brooklyn with his architect wife and their two children.

You can also follow Damien’s work on Instagram or Twitter or LinkedIn.

We discussed: 

• The value of having lots and lots of conversations - even before you really know what you want to do.
• How Damien turned his existing environment into exactly what he needed to progress his career 
• The importance of trusting your body and listening to its signals
• How owning who you are and what excites you draws people to you
• And much more!

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free!. Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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Part of what I wanted to do on this podcast is introduce you to everyday people who are thriving professionally and personally. To show you that feeling energized and aligned at work isn't just for the celebrities or titans of industries that are often featured on other podcasts. It's available to every single one of us - including you.

My guest is Isabelle Vandenbroucke. Isabelle is a former of client of mine who I met and became friends with in 2016 while we were both doing our MBAs together.

When Isabelle started working with me she was in big pharma. Today she is an Internal Management Consultant at CEPI - the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which develops vaccines for epidemics and pandemics in low and middle income countries.

On the side, she runs a professional organizing business, Equilibrium Organising, where she helps people declutter and organize their spaces so they can focus on what's important to them. She's especially interested on how this work can help to reduce our negative impact on the environment.

Isabelle is Mexican Belgian, grew up in the US and Asia and today lives in London. In her free time she loves swimming, freediving, scuba diving, and surfing. 

We discussed: 

• How to move past feeling like a failure
• The benefits of a portfolio career
• Breaking out of the 9-5 and designing your day to suit your priorities
• How feeling your feelings creates self-trust and a sharper intuition
• Why its never too late to make a career move
• And much more!

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free!. Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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Learning how to manage my urges to procrastinate has been one of the biggest hurdles in creating an energizing career I love. And if I can do it - so can you.

Too often we see ourselves as fixed - as someone who just IS a procrastinator. As if it’s the lot we were dealt with in life and we have to learn to live with it. In reality, anyone can learn to be the person who does what they say they’ll do when they say they’ll do it. It does require learning how to be OK with experiencing uncomfortable things. 

But when you learn how to be ok with being uncomfortable, there is nothing that you cannot do. 

You’ll learn in this episode

• Why we procrastinate and the often unrecognized impact it has on our lives
• The step by step process I use to procrastinate less
• How to make uncomfortable feelings less triggering

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free!. Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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In this episode I discuss why feelings are a superpower and how to tune into them and use them to your advantage.

Too often we try to resist, ignore, or fix our feelings, creating unwanted results in our life like procrastination, addiction, misalignment, and physical pain. When instead we learn to embrace our feelings - the good as well as the uncomfortable - we’re able to reset more quickly and avoid unwanted emotional reactions, we improve our connection to our gut - and thus our intuition, get more done, have more energy and so much more. 

Take it from someone who spent most of her life ignoring and suppressing her feelings - when you learn how to genuinely feel them your world opens up and your life changes.

You’ll learn in this episode

• What we create in our life when we ignore our feelings
• How to properly experience a feeling so that it moves through and out of your body
• What we create when we fully experience our feelings

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free!. Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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I share my own journey to create an energizing career I love and the insights I’ve gleaned along the way that are fundamental to the work I teach at The Career Studio.

From starting out in beauty and sports to landing a job in advertising in London at 25 despite knowing no one in the industry and having a tiny network in London. I discuss how I loved the adland job - until I didn’t - and how I panicked when I felt lost and made a series of decisions from a place of panic that led me off track. I dive into my experience of hating my job and getting fired and realizing that coaching was the best fit for who I was and how I wanted to spend my time.

The past 15 years have had tons of ups and downs and these experiences have given me the wisdom I’m proud to share with you today. The intention is you walk away motivated, inspired, and equipped to apply my insights to your own career and life.

You’ll learn in this episode

• How I landed a job at the biggest ad agency in London at 25 without knowing anyone 
• What to do and not to do when you feel lost in your career
• How to make a decision if a second degree is worth it
• How I found the thing I was really passionate about

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free!. Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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Do you know how to structure your days and your weeks to support your energy and therefore productivity and impact? And are you able to set, communicate, and maintain the boundaries on your time that allow you to thrive? This isn't about being dogmatic and obsessive about time management with minute-by-minute plans, loads of apps, and a variety of to-do lists. This is about having OWNERSHIP over your time in a way that supports your energy and priorities. And it’s an essential component of creating an energizing career you love.

Of course, the problem is most of us don't do this. Letting work or other people's requests and needs, overtake our lives is so common and so accepted we often don't question, take a stand, and push back for what we need.

In this episode I walk you through the science behind prioritizing yourself, and a step-by-step process for identifying, communicating, and holding the habits and the boundaries you need to feel at your best.

For those interested, this article has details on the studies I cited in the episode: https://nautil.us/darwin-was-a-slacker-and-you-should-be-too-236532/ 

You’ll learn in this episode:

• How much time you actually need to dedicate to work, rest, and sleep in order to achieve success and feel at your best.
• Why we typically don’t hold our boundaries and how to move around this.
• A step-by-step process for identifying, communicating, and holding the habits and the boundaries you need to feel at your best.

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after, then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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People are the lifeblood of your career. And what I mean by people is essentially learning how to have intentional, insightful, strategic conversations about whatever you need help with. 

This is the skill will help you move through the inevitable discomfort of confusion and uncertainty that comes along with transitions. Learning how to have conversations will open doors, it will introduce new ideas you hadn't thought of before, and it will uncouple you from a reliance on job postings (which have an incredibly low success rate - only 2% are ever read by human eyes) and learning to have conversations will uncouple you from recruiters (whose interests aren't always aligned with yours). Talking to people creates the energy and momentum you need to create a career you love on your terms. 

In this episode we’ll discuss why people tend to shy away from having conversations and how to reframe networking, so it feels authentic and useful. We’ll discuss how to address the questions and concerns and fears you have about the half-baked ideas in your head. We dive into the importance of honesty and how it’s the critical ingredient in having effective conversations. And you’ll get a 4-step process that will help you generate a list of people to speak to right now and what to discuss with them. 

You’ll learn in this episode:

• What prevents you from having effective networking conversations
• How to have conversations that feel authentic and useful
• What to do immediately if you feel lost in your career
• How to use honesty to build genuine relationships while networking

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after, then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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When you’re stuck in your career you’re stuck in your mind. But did you know you have agency over the thoughts in your head? You get to choose the narrative and this choice will impact how you feel, how you act, and the results you create for yourself. 

In this episode I walk you through the three biggest mindset errors I see that prevent people from going after the things they’re excited about and creating an energizing career they love. We’ll discuss the impact of these perspectives and how to shift out of them into new frames of mind that support you to feel and act in a way that supports your career adjustment.

You’ll learn how to use your brain’s wiring to your advantage and a practical exercise to start to identify and address your limiting beliefs immediately.

You’ll learn in this episode:

• The three biggest mindset errors that keep people stuck in their career (and how to move around them)
• The impact of your thoughts on your feelings, actions, and results.
• How to start taking the reins of your mind and managing it in a way that serves you.
• A practical exercise to identify and address your own limiting beliefs immediately.

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after, then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

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At the heart of creating an energizing career is getting in touch with your own brand. And I mean brand in the most authentic sense of the word. Not who you think you should be or what other people ask you to be, but who are you at your core? This is all about authenticity.

The reason this is so essential is because it takes less energy to be yourself. If you design your career around, you this is when you can really thrive and create the most impact. The thing is you waste a lot of your energy getting yourself motivated to do something that bores you or produce work that doesn't play to your strengths. And instead, when you’re aligned, you're doing the things that come naturally to you and all your energy can go into creating the impact. (And you have more fun doing it and more energy when you're done).

Join me on the podcast to discover exactly what’s getting in your way of creating an energizing career you love and how to clarify your authentic brand and use that as the north star for your career, the map for career fulfilment.

You’ll learn in this episode:

• The two most common hurdles that prevent people from creating an energizing career they love.
• The three core components of your authentic brand and how to define them for yourself.
• How to use your brand to generate career ideas.
• How to manage the confusion and uncertainty around creating something new.

Are you ready to create an energizing career you love? 

You can create a career that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. If this sounds like what you’re after, then I want to invite you to schedule a consultation. 

We'll get to the bottom of what's going on for you. And exactly where you need to focus to bring your career and life into alignment. It's free! Just head on over to thecareer.studio/schedule to find a time that works for you.

For more from The Career Studio:

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Career fulfilment is possible for anyone, it's just a matter of knowing what to focus on. But there's a lot of noise out there - so when work stops working, where do you start? What do you pay attention to and what do you ignore? How do you navigate the transition points in your career and life with intention, focus, and grace?

Hi, my name is Anne Benveniste, and I started The Career Studio to make it easier to build an energizing, fulfilling career you love - one that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life.

The good news is there are four concepts that are the foundation of any energizing, fulfilling career. And if you know what they are and how to apply them it will allow you to get into alignment and stay there - no matter how you or your life evolve. On this podcast each episode I'll take you through an idea, tool, or concept from one of these four areas so you can strengthen your own foundation and build the career and life you crave.

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