Your Next Success

By Caroline Sangal, PhD, SHRM-CP

Have you ever looked at your life or career and quietly wondered, “Is this it?”
That question isn’t a crisis — it’s a signal. An invitation. A beginning.

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August 11, 2026She Wrote the Book on Leadership for Scientists: Jen Heemstra on Bad Bosses, Career Setbacks, and Leading with Kindness (Part 2)
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Nobody trains you to lead. Jen Heemstra found that out the hard way, then wrote the book on it.
She became a chemist by accident. Almost went to law school. Took an industry job that quietly convinced her she was mediocre. And then came the moment most academics dread: the tenure vote where half the room votes no.
Here's the twist. That's the moment she found her purpose.
In this episode you'll hear:
How a night job in a stockroom turned into an entire career
What a toxic job does to your confidence, and how she got hers back
The tenure vote that should have ended her, and the leader who changed everything in one afternoon
The one question from her husband that finally got the book written
How she defines success now, and why kindness is the whole point
Chapters:
00:00 The plan, and a mother's advice
03:30 Changing majors and a year of exploring
07:00 Becoming a chemist by accident
23:00 The industry job
30:00 How a bad job shook her confidence
39:00 The tenure vote
41:00 The afternoon that pointed her to leadership
48:00 Writing the book
52:30 How she defines success
Jen's book, Labwork to Leadership: A Concise Guide to Thriving in the Science Job You Were Not Trained For: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674258630
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56min
August 04, 2026Achievement Was Her Drug: Dr. Jen Heemstra on High Achievers, Self-Worth, and Finding What Really Drives You (Part 1)
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If you're a high achiever, this one's for you.
Dr. Jen Heemstra figured out early that achievement was the one thing she could control. So she controlled it. Grades, awards, being the person who had it all together. She literally calls it her drug, and here's the part that gets you: it worked. It built the kind of career most people chase their whole lives.
Then she got to the top, and the drug stopped working. That's where part one begins.
In this episode you'll hear:
Why achievement became the thing she reached for, and what it was really covering
The wake-up call that made her question everything she'd built
How being told she was "bad at science" at fourteen backfired in the best way
The box of rocks that showed her what actually drives her
What changes the day you stop performing your life and start choosing it
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
03:00 The home she grew up in
05:00 Why achievement became her anchor
11:00 The worst day, and the wake-up call
13:00 Deciding to show up as herself
29:00 When we start questioning our lives
35:00 "You're bad at science"
38:00 The box of rocks
42:00 The lab she runs now
49:00 Gratitude, and the people who carried her

Jen's book, Labwork to Leadership: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674258630
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July 28, 2026From Nice to Kind | Deidre Beacham
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From Nice to Kind | Deidre Beacham on Nice Girl Syndrome, People Pleasing, and Radical Self-Ownership
Nice girl syndrome is one of the most invisible programs a woman can run, and Deidre Beacham ran it for decades before a single conversation finally made her see it.
By her 50s she had lived through more than most people face in a lifetime. And still, standing in front of her stepfather when he told her she was not being nice, she felt herself shrink. Everything she had built, everything she had survived, and that one word still had power over her. That moment became the beginning of everything she now teaches.
You will hear:
The difference between being nice and being kind and why it changes everything
How nice girl training runs like a program you never agreed to install
What she discovered about herself that decades of therapy had never uncovered
How she moved from needing outside validation to protecting herself from within
What a lifetime of seeking approval actually costs and how to stop paying it
What authentic success looks and feels like when you finally stop performing
Connect with Deidre and take the Nice Girl Index at deidrebeacham.com
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July 21, 2026Find Yourself | Alex Dumas
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Find Yourself | Alex Dumas on Identity, Belonging, and Coming Back to Who You Are
Finding yourself after years of performing, surviving, and building from the outside in is the real work underneath every career story, and Alex Dumas traces his own path back with rare honesty.
He grew up feeling out of step, performing for the laugh to keep people at arm's length, carrying a verdict about himself he made at age six. Then someone saw him, really saw him, and he wanted, for the first time, to be worth seeing. What followed was love, loss, and a slow becoming that eventually led him back to himself.
You will hear:
What it costs to carry a verdict about yourself that you made before you knew any better
How love became the catalyst that started his real becoming
How he moved through the hardest season of his life and kept going anyway
The moment something buried inside him came roaring back
What authentic success actually looks and feels like on the other side
Connect with Alex and access his gift for listeners at talk.ac/alexdumas?code=PODCAST
Work with Caroline: nextsuccesscareers.com

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51min
July 14, 2026Michele Novack: Who Are You Without the Title?
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Who Are You Without the Title? | Michele Novack
Career reinvention after corporate is rarely just about finding the next job. Michele Novack invested 30 years in banking and finance building her identity from the outside in, and eventually had to rebuild it from the inside out.
Her arc moves from a Yonkers childhood marked by early trauma, through single motherhood and night school, to VP roles at Bank of America and Capital One, to founding CardinalsByte, her cybersecurity risk management firm for small businesses, entirely from the ground up.
You will hear:
How a career becomes an identity, and what happens when that identity is gone
The mirror practice Michele returns to when she needs to reconnect with herself
How forgiveness, including forgiving herself, became the foundation of her reinvention
Why she built her firm entirely through referrals and real relationships
What small businesses actually need to know about cybersecurity compliance
What authentic success looks like when a three-year-old grandson is part of the picture
Connect with Michele: Free cybersecurity assessment at cardinalsbytes.com/contact-us
Work with Caroline: nextsuccesscareers.com
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55min
July 07, 2026Cameron Magee: Backstage, On Purpose
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How to Build an Event Production Career From Curiosity and Calling, With Cameron Magee
Building an event production career from scratch looks a lot like Cameron Magee's story: a curious kid, a mentor who pulled up a chair, and 20 years of showing up and giving more than he took.
In this conversation, the founder and CEO of avad3 shares how a small-town Arkansas boy with no entrepreneurial family background launched a company from his dorm room and grew it into a national production firm trusted by Walmart and the White House. More than the growth story, this is a conversation about identity, service, and what it takes to build a place where people actually want to stay.
You will hear:
How a mentor at a church sound booth gave Cameron three years of patient instruction and changed the entire arc of his life
The vending machine principle: give $1.10 back for every dollar someone gives you, and they will send three friends
How he launched avad3 in college, nearly skipped college entirely, and graduated with the company logo on his cap
The question at 25 that redirected everything: not "is this it" but "what could this become for others"
Why avad3 collects next time notes from every crew member after every event, and how 1,400 moments of honest feedback a year drive their culture
What a mentor told him about having a vibrant personal life that changed how he leads and how he lives
Connect with Cameron: Visit avad3.com to learn more about the team and how they serve event planners nationwide.
Connect with Caroline: nextsuccesscareers.com
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54min
June 30, 2026Doug Lynam: From Monk to Money Manager
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Money Mindset, the Enneagram, and Why Your Financial Patterns Go Deeper Than Money, With Doug Lynam
Money mindset work rarely begins with a monastery in the New Mexico desert, but Doug Lynam's story does, and that is precisely what makes his insights so hard to forget.
Doug is a former Benedictine monk, Marine Corps Officer Candidate, bestselling author, and financial advisor who built his practice around a single conviction: the way you handle money has almost nothing to do with math and everything to do with the wounds you have been carrying since childhood. In this conversation, he traces his own path from a home where money was weaponized in a bitter divorce, through two decades of monastic life, through a monastery bankruptcy he helped reverse, and into the world of wealth management. Along the way, he developed the framework that now anchors his books, his TEDx talk, and his work with clients: the money monster map.
You will hear:
How growing up in an affluent home where money was used as a tool of control shaped the origin of Doug's own money monster
Why taking a vow of poverty led him directly into the most intense financial education of his life
What the Enneagram actually is, and how Doug combined it with Attachment Theory to identify 18 distinct money patterns
Why capable, intelligent people keep repeating the same financial self-sabotage, and what actually breaks the cycle
How the pain of staying in the monastery finally outweighed the pain of leaving everything behind after 20 years
What authentic success looks like after that many complete reinventions
Connect with Doug: Visit douglynam.com to explore his books, TEDx talk, coaching, and speaking work.
Connect with Caroline: nextsuccesscareers.com
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June 23, 2026Chanoa Inez: Dream On
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How to Dream Again and Rebuild Your Life After Grief and Loss, With Chanoa Inez
Rebuilding your life after grief and upheaval is possible, and Chanoa Inez has lived the full arc of what that actually takes. She followed her instincts toward beauty and meaning through fashion, copywriting, and entrepreneurship until the kind of loss that changes everything arrived suddenly. What followed were years of pushing through without tools, a body that started carrying what her heart could not release, and an inner transformation that became the foundation of her book and her work.
Chanoa is the author of Dream On: How to Create the New Life of Your Dreams After Upheaval or Loss, and the creator of the Magnetize Your Personal Brand program, which helps business owners develop their presence from the inside out.
You will hear:
How Chanoa built her copywriting business from genuine love of words, starting with her CEO boss as her very first client
How sudden devastating loss quietly cost her years of health, confidence, and the capacity to imagine forward
How changing her environment began healing her body, and the deeper realization about her own patterns that changed everything else
Why she waited to write Dream On until she was genuinely on the other side, and what that patience made possible
How her personal brand framework helps business owners attract from who they genuinely are
Connect with Chanoa: chanoainez.com, her book Dream On and all programs.
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52min
June 16, 2026Madelaine Weiss: Mastering Your Mind, Changing Your Life
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Mastering Your Mind With Madelaine Weiss: Career Pivots, Life Transitions, and Getting to GREAT
Mindset mastery is the through-line of Madelaine Weiss's entire life, from grieving teenager to Harvard-trained psychotherapist, from lab technician to executive coach, from student who nobody believed in to author helping others believe in themselves.
In this conversation, Madelaine shares what she has learned across decades of reinvention: that the inner compass exists even when we cannot hear it, that transitions are not detours but invitations, and that a great life begins with a great fit between who you truly are and the world you inhabit. Her 5-step G.R.E.A.T. framework gives that idea a path.
In this episode, you will hear:
How losing her father at 15 set Madelaine on a path she could only understand in hindsight
Why she walked away from lab work to pursue people, and what that pivot taught her about listening to inner signals
The G.R.E.A.T. framework: Grounding, Recognizing, Exploring, Action, and Tolerating resistance to change
The marble and the groove: a powerful mental image for understanding how habits form and how to change them
Why overthinking is a brain drain, and what to do instead
How presence and small acts of human connection can redirect the course of a life
Connect with Madelaine: Visit madelaineweiss.com to explore her blog, access the free power breathing exercise, and book a complimentary strategy session.
Connect with Caroline: nextsuccesscareers.com | @nextsuccessmethod on LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook
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54min
June 09, 2026Tabatha Jones: Building Your Corporate Escape Plan
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How to Leave Corporate and Build a Business Before You Quit | Tabatha Jones
Tabatha Jones — Executive Director turned Corporate Escape Sherpa — built her coaching business one hour a day while still inside corporate, and left with a plan already in motion. In this episode, she shares how she navigated four mergers, learned to negotiate after a decade of waiting to be recognized, and finally walked away from a Fortune 50 career when her body made the cost undeniable.
If you're a midlife woman wondering how to leave corporate without financial free-fall, this conversation is for you.
You'll hear:
Why the myth of meritocracy kept her in the same role for 10 years — and what changed when she finally asked
What Epstein-Barr and Lyme disease taught her about chronic workplace stress
The one-hour-a-day method she used to build a real business before giving notice
How she used self-advocacy to get a 19% raise and bring other women along with her
What her first Monday out of corporate looked like — and how long the rewiring really takes
Connect with Tabatha: Freedom Builder System — build your corporate escape plan: https://www.corporateescapesherpa.com/the-freedom-builder-system
Connect with Caroline: nextsuccesscareers.com | @nextsuccessmethod on LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook
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The podcast currently has 82 episodes available.