Happen to Your Career

She kicked off her career as a Social Worker in Detroit.  After a few years, burned out, and with over $50,000 in student loan debt, she switched gears, turning inward to discover her strengths, talents, and passions through some serious self-reflection.  She made a commitment to herself, developed a plan of action, and created the career of her dreams, coaching others to achieve lives of abundance and fulfillment.

Most people won't ever figure out what makes them happy and what they want in their career. I don't want you to be most people. Here are three all-to-common reasons why people don't figure out what they want... and some things you can do right now to make a change.

He spent 15 years in the corporate world honing his expertise around organization development, leadership, and the employee development experience.  With CK Bray Consulting and Development, he now specializes in career coaching, planning, and transitions for employees as well as employee motivation, development, and retention for his corporate clients.  He is also the host of the Career Revolution with Dr. CK Bray, “A Place to Fix, Change, or Create Your Best Career”.

In this episode you will learn:One of the very best ways to approach a company through LinkedIn, how to find jobs that aren’t even posted yet to the public, why you should spend the time to determine what you really want, how Scott prepared himself to not be forced to take the first thing that comes along, and much more!

Listen to this episode to discover: How you can try low risk entrepreneurship to make sure it's right for you. How to make money on Fiverr.com. What every person who is considering starting a business on the side needs to consider.

In this episode you will learn: Whether or Not You have to make less money to enjoy your job, how you can avoid wandering from job to job, and how to lay it all out, when you are faced with a difficult career decision

If you don't know Lisa Cummings, you need to! She is the multi-talented canned vegetable eating, question answering host of the Career Q&A Podcast.  Her background ranges from HR, to talent Management to Training, and much more so that when you ask her a question like... What should I do when I am in waiting mode after interviewing for an internal position... and their not getting back to me?  She delivers that answer and more in this episode/Mashup of the HTYC Meets Career Q&A Podcast! 

Ever wanted to know the story behind Happen to Your Career and how it was founded? Jody Maberry from the Park Leaders Show and Maberica LLC is co hosting on the show to help provide the behind the scenes story of Happen to Your Career.

One of the most difficult things to do for a career change is to get started. Once you begin and start taking action over and over again, you will be surprised at the results you get! In this episode you will learn: How you can get started, why you need to act now, the psycology of being in motion and how we applied the Toby Keith principle to our podcast at first (I know... you will have to listen to find out).

Making a career change can feel like a full time job in itself. This is part of the reason many people just don't ever do it. They know they are not happy with what their doing but changing careers is hard and they don't want to give up on even one night of the voice. So it never happens for them. In this episode of the Happen to Your Career Podcast we share with you several ways that you can find the time to be able to make your career change happen!

Are you wanting to make the move to work that you love and stop doing work that doesn't fit you... guess what? It's not your boss that makes this hard (ok well sometimes) but more than that it's whether or not you understand the things that you enjoy so much that it feels like play.  Scott and Mark discuss signature strengths and how they impact your career. 

Taking time for networking and building relationships sucks!... well it does if you are not good at it. What if you could not only get good at it, but do it in less than 20 minutes each day WITHOUT having to go to networking events. That's what today's podcast episode is all about! Mark discusses with us some very tactical (and actionable) ways you can become a better at networking!

Our entire lives are defined by our relationships - father/mother, husband/wife, brother/sister, friend, employer/employee, author, speaker, etc. You have things you want to accomplish and achieve. If you don’t have everything you want in your life...it’s because you have not yet found and developed the relationships that will allow you to accomplish those things. In this episode learn why focus on relationships is not just important but EVERYTHING for your career!

In this episode You learn: When it's past time for you to leave your job or your business, how to know what the warning signs are, and what to actually do about it!

Do you wonder why you can't get what you want in your career? I'll bet it's because you are not focusing on the 20% of stuff that ACTUALLY MATTERS.  Wondering what I'm talking about? Today's episode talk's about Pareto and what he observed in nature that is critical to your career (and your whole life)