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- Ep. 71 Rubber Meets The Road: Using Mindfulness For Career Traction (Special Guest Alicia Ramsdell)
In this episode Brad and Cassie sit down with Career Coach, CEO & Founder of Mindful Career Path Alicia Ramsdell. The conversation focused on her practice of incorporating mindfulness principles in her work and how it can help young people become grounded in their own internal compass and intentional in their career choices. Some highlights from his episodes include:
- Alicia has been a successful career coach and entrepreneur through a holistic approach and helping client gain mindfulness through an internal focus. For listeners who may be unfamiliar with the term mindfulness she talks about what it REALLY means.
- She discusses what benefits does mindfulness serve particularly for those seeking more clarity and how can listeners use it.
- What is Alicia's opinion are there ways that young people can find potential accelerators to the process of finding direction.
- What are realistic expectations for young people who’ve been told or think they should “follow your passions” or “do what you love”.
- For recent grads who are struggling to land opportunities that they want, she talks about how to work through frustration and get more success.
- What are some practical steps young people can make to find their inner compass and create their career rather than trying to fit into one.
- Alicia covers what is the best piece of career advice that she could pass along to this next generation.
Guest Info:
Alicia Ramsdell, CCSP, GCDF, MST, is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Career Path. Her role as CEO is to set the vision and thrive, guiding clients to develop their career stories in a mindfully enthusiastic approach. Coinciding with her own daily meditation practice, she brings a unique holistic approach to career coaching. Alicia has led successful client engagement with institutions and individuals. Prior to launching Mindful Career Path, Alicia gained instrumental career development experience as a 15-year corporate industry professional, where she co-led undergraduate students in their internship experience, participated in the hiring process of employees, and pioneered a career development program for young professionals.
Website: https://mindfulcareerpath.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliciaramsdell/
27 min - Ep. 70 The Journey Ahead: Looking Back To Move Forward
Capping off an incredible 70 episodes Brad and Cassie reflect on the journey of the podcast and so many of the amazing takeaways they have gained learning from 60+ guests. They each highlight a few of their most memorable episodes and the lasting lessons provided in the message. Brad and Cassie discuss plans to take a short hiatus from recording Your Career GPS, but cover the important projects they will engage in the interim to help support their clients and other young professionals as they venture in their career journeys.
From Episode 1 to 70. It's been quite a ride. Stay tuned, the journey awaits..........
31 min - Ep. 69 Enjoy The Ride: Designing Your Success Roadmap (Special Guest Eliana Goldstein)
In this fantastic episode Brad and Cassie sit down with Millennial Career Coach Eliana Goldstein to discuss the path to career fulfillment, what it takes to get there and how easily young people can get off course. Some key highlights from this episode include:
- Eliana tells our listeners about her background and how she found her way to her current career
- How Eliana defines career fulfillment and what does that look like for her clients
- As college students and young professionals, it can be really hard to figure out what – from a career perspective – would provide that fulfillment. She breaks down where people can start who may be listening and confused on the first steps
- The company or organization that someone is working for can play a big role in someone’s overall happiness with their work. What questions job seekers should be asking or red flags should they be looking out for when interviewing
- Some people feel like their job or their career is “fine” or “comfortable” and there’s a lot of fear if/when they leave their job it will be worse. Eliana talks about this common fear, how to overcome it and what happens when you ignore it
- She talks about why confidence is so important and how it impacts the work that we all do and our job searches
- What are three things our listeners could do today to help them gain more confidence
- What is the best piece of career advice that she could pass along to this next generation
Guest Info:
Eliana Goldstein
Website: https://www.elianagoldsteincoaching.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliana-goldstein/
TikTok, Instagram: @eliana_goldstein
33 min - Ep. 68 Passing Zone: Taking Interview Skills To The Next Level (Special Guest Gene Rice)
In this fantastic episode Brad and Cassie sit down with Gene Rice, the Chairman of Rice Cohen International and the Author of the new book, Grad to Grown-Up: 68 Tips to Excel in Your Personal and Professional Life to discuss how to become an expert interviewer and start landing job offers! Some key highlights from this episode include:
- Gene tells our listeners about his career journey and his background of examining talent.
- Gene discusses what has he seen to be as some of the common ingredients that so many successful young professionals share.
- He breaks down what he considers to be the top 2 or 3 things people get wrong about interviewing and how to shift to start becoming a "grandmaster" of interviewing.
- For young people just starting their first professional job search, interviewing is intimidating, Gene talks about what steps can they take to manage that fear
- From the perspective of someone who’s been in countless interviews and hired or rejected thousands of candidates, Gene talks about when he is conducting an interview what is he looking for to let them know they are hirable?
- Behavioral questions are a pain for many candidates. We’ve all heard about using various methods to answer these. Gene talks about the origins of these interview questions and how young people can tackle them the right way.
- Gene also highlights the importance of a great follow up after the interview is over.
- What is the best piece of career advice that he could pass along to this next generation.
Guest Info:
Gene Rice, Chairman of Rice Cohen International (Recruiting/Search Firm)
Website: www.ricecohentraining.com
Book Website: https://www.gradtogrownup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grice11
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gradtogrownupbook/
42 min - Ep. 67 Twists & Turns: Finding Fulfillment Without Waiting For Perfect (Special Guest Melissa Carson)
In this fantastic episode Brad and Cassie sit down with former HR executive turned leadership coach Melissa Carson to talk about the myths of a perfect job and how young people can still find fulfillment without chasing unicorns. Key highlights from this episode include:
- Melissa talks about her career journey through HR and how it led to her launching her own business
- She talks about her book and about this idea of a “perfect job” and why there really is no perfect job
- There may be no perfect job but there are things that make a job more perfect than others. She highlights a few things job seekers should focus on when looking for the most perfect job for them
- A section of her book tackles this idea of the "traditional" career path and encourages readers to focus on what’s possible and not the potential limitations. Melissa talks about this with examples.
- Melissa talks about what success and leadership mean to everyone is unique and not everyone aspires for leadership roles. She discusses what young people can do to still maximize their growth.
- For many job seekers, there’s fear around leaving a job that is “good enough” for fear of a new position being worse. She breaks down the practical things listeners can do when it comes to making decisions about applying to other roles and making decisions about new opportunities
- She talks about “Future proofing” a career and what this means for young people
- Melissa talks about the best piece of career advice that she could pass along to this next generation
Guest Info:
Melissa Carson
Website: https://crimdellconsulting.com/
Book: There's No Such Thing As A Perfect Job: https://www.amazon.com/-/he/Melissa-Carson-ebook/dp/B09RTPFDBT
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissaridercarson/
34 min - Ep. 66 Tune Up: Essential Career Skills You Weren't Taught (Special Guest: Mark Herschberg)
In this fantastic episode Brad and Cassie are back and talking about skills! More importantly the skills that too often colleges, and universities aren't putting enough focus and attention on that employers want and need. To discuss this important issue, they bring in Mark Herschberg, an experienced Chief Technical Officer, an Instructor, Speaker and the Author of the book, The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills For Success No One Taught You. Some highlights in this episode:
- Mark discusses his career journey and what led to him writing his book.
- Mark talks about why he saw the need to teach essential skills at MIT.
- Why he thinks that this information isn’t taught to young people considering its relevance in today’s job market
- What are the essential skills and the biggest areas of disconnect between university and industry, and more importantly what can students today do to prepare themselves
- What employers and leaders across the country are saying are needed to be successful in todays workplace.
- Networking and building professional relationships is one of the most important skills young people can develop so why is it being taught wrong and what can people do about it
- Mark talks about his quote that “leadership is not positional” and what that means.
- What are some steps that young people can take to close the gap in skill development from orientation to graduation
- What is the best piece of career advice that he could pass along to this next generation
Guest Info:
Mark Herschberg is the author of The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. Educated at MIT, Mark has spent his career launching and fixing new ventures at startups, Fortune 500s, and academia. He’s developed new software languages, online marketplaces, new authentication systems, and tracked criminals and terrorists on the dark web. Mark helped create the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, MIT’s “Career Success Accelerator”, where he’s taught for twenty years. Mark also serves on the boards of non-profits Techie Youth and Plant a Million Corals.
Website: https://www.thecareertoolkitbook.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hershey/
Instagram: @thecareertoolkit
36 min - Ep. 65 Follow The Signs II: More Lessons From The Leaders
This amazing compilation episode highlights guests from the past 30 episodes and covers their answers to our signature question: "What is the best career advice you can pass along to the next generation?" Here is a full listing of the 25 guests included in this episode in order:
- Charlene Walters (Ep.36) 0:57
- Liz Guerrera (Ep.37) 2:05
- Rosie McCarthy (Ep.38) 3:25
- James Whittaker (Ep.39) 4:13
- Tamara Raymond (Ep.40) 4:59
- Lindsey Pollak (Ep.41) 5:46
- Dominic Imwalle (Ep.42) 7:13
- Linda Gardner (Ep.43) 7:51
- Emily Steliotes (Ep.44) 9:13
- Traci Bakenhaster(Ep.47) 10:25
- Brittany Ramsey (Ep.48) 10:58
- Sarah Johnston (Ep.49) 12:27
- Carson Tate (Ep.50) 13:06
- Claudia Miller (Ep.51) 13:25
- Anil Ram (Ep.52) 14:35
- Lisa Plain (Ep.54) 15:51
- Teegan Bartos (Ep.55) 16:18
- Harleny Vasquez (Ep.56) 17:49
- Virginia Franco (Ep.57) 18:29
- Madeline Mann (Ep.58) 19:16
- Molly Cate (Ep.59) 20:28
- David Mendoza (Ep.60) 21:03
- Nadia Ibrahim-Taney (Ep.61) 21:54
- Loren Greiff (Ep.62) 23:23
- Jasmine Escalera (Ep.63) 25:13
28 min - Ep. 64 Sitting In Traffic: Developing Patience In The Job Search
In this great episode Brad and Cassie go solo and discuss a critical topic for so many frustrated job seekers: Coping with the wait of the job search! It's frustrating and difficult to say the least but in this episode they highlight some key points including:
- Why the job search process often so long and so slow
- What are some of those complicating factors and other reasons that a job search process can slow down
- What are some realistic expectations that you can ground yourself into related to the job search timeline
- Being patient with anything is hard I think even for the most patient people but what does that even mean or look like as it pertains to a job search
- What are some of the most common misconceptions job seekers may have about “being patient” with a job search
- What are some practical steps that a job seeker can do to help move the process along and/or to keep their job searching momentum going
- The hosts offer their advice as to the mental and physical habits and shifts that can go a long way
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30 min - Ep. 63 The Right Parking Spot: Finding Workplace Fit (Special Guest Jasmine Escalera, Ph.D)
In this amazing episode Brad and Cassie connect with Jasmine Escalera, Career Coach and Founder of Jasmine Escalera Coaching where she breaks down how to assess fit with an organization and what to do when it's clearly not, or worse, become toxic. Some great highlights from this episode include:
- Jasmine tells our listeners about her background and how this fueled her work
- There’s a lot of talk about finding the right “fit”, workplace culture, toxic work environments etc. but that can all mean so many different things for different people. Jasmine breaks down how she defines these things and how does a toxic work environment differ from a job that you just don’t like
- There are the more obvious benefits of feeling aligned with a position/company, like finding fulfillment in your work, and she highlights some of the other underlying benefits
- For current students and recent grads there’s often a lot of pressure when job searching which can lead individuals to have an approach where they will take any position they are offered but Jasmine cautions them on this approach and explains why
- Jasmine breaks down what advice she has for our listeners to help them get a sense of the work environment before accepting a position
- Based on her experience, she highlights what are the biggest red flags regarding toxic work environments and what can we do to prevent ourselves from being in those types of environments
- What advice she has for someone who might currently be in a toxic work environment
- She recently posted on LinkedIn about how we are all in control of our careers and specifically mentioned being in control of the spaces that we work in, but what does she say to those who take issue with that
- What is the best piece of career advice that she could pass along to this next generation
Guest Info:
Jasmine Escalera, Ph.D
Website: https://linktr.ee/jasmineescaleracoaching
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-escalera/
Instagram: @jasmineescaleracoaching
41 min - Ep. 62 Awake At The Wheel: How To Make Coffee Buzz Up Your Strategic Networking (Special Guest Loren Greiff)
In this amazing episode we break down strategic networking with the incredible Loren Greiff. She helps our listeners understand how small shifts in mentality and approach can create big gains in terms of networking and building social capital. Some key highlights from this episode include:
🌟Loren tells our listeners about her background and how this fueled her work today
🌟Young people tend to be very apprehensive about starting to network with more experienced professionals. She breaks down how young professionals can work though that.
🌟Most people, especially young job seekers search for jobs completely differently than the way recruiters look for talent. She discusses this disconnect.
🌟 She talks about making a short “coffee stop” on a consistent basis, and how this can make a world of difference and what it leads to.
🌟So many young people feel intimidated that they don’t know what to talk about in these coffee meetings. Loren discusses best ways to prepare for these type of meetings.
🌟A common albeit misguided piece of advice that many say is just go “pick their brain”. Loren breaks down why this is not the best approach.
🌟 Loren offers the best piece of career advice that she could pass along to this next generation
Guest Info:
Loren Greiff
Website: https://www.portfoliorocket.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorengreiff/
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About Your Career GPS
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In this bi-monthly episodic series, host Brad W. Minton serves as the GPS to Gen Z students and young adults ready to find their fit and make their mark on the world through their careers. He helps…
aspiring professionals develop a stronger career identity and navigate the sometimes complicated journey of career development. Throughout this series, Brad and other hosts bring together experts in the field of career exploration, growth and development, personal branding, networking, job searching, resume writing, interviewing and salary negotiation.