Posts in Work Life
For Moms Thinking About Going Back to Work

Diana is a career coach who specializes in helping women reconnect with their professional identities and navigate the job market after taking time away from the workforce to focus on raising their children. Her coaching business is Back to Work Roadmap for Mothers and she was kind enough to share her expertise and wisdom on this topic with us in today’s conversation.

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The Role of Your Strengths in a Fulfilling Career

“Strengths” is a word that is thrown around a lot. You’ve probably used it before, and heard it used countless times. In fact, the concept of strengths probably feels quite familiar to you. But, when it comes to defining what exactly it means… it probably suddenly feels really ambiguous!

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Positioning Yourself on Paper for Your Job Search

One of the biggest criticisms about the modern job market is that who people are “on paper” is prioritized over who they are in “real life.” As someone who has both hired employees and now helps people get hired--I don’t think this argument is worth the time. In this episode I show how to work with the "system" to get the job search results you want.

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When You're Not Hearing Back On Job Applications

This is a question I’ve seen posed a lot on LinkedIn and in articles during the Covid pandemic. When the effects of the virus reached the economy, many people lost their jobs and many companies put their hiring plans on hold. However, while the circumstances of the pandemic economy are unique, the experience of applying to jobs and not hearing back is a problem that people have experienced, and will continue to experience, despite there being a pandemic.

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Breakdowns Before Breakthroughs | Interview with Danielle Ireland

Danielle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a podcast host, speaker, ballroom dance instructor and actor—to name a few of her titles. She fully embraces being multi-passionate and has built a diverse career. But it wasn’t always that way. In this open and honest conversation, Danielle shares her journey of chipping away at her own insecurities, limiting beliefs and comforts and how she has been able to step more fully into her personhood and built a career that she’s thriving in.

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A Better Future for Freelancer Founders | Interview with Rachel Renock

Rachel is the co-founder and CEO of Wethos, a platform that is transforming how freelancers find work, do work and earn a sustainable income. There are many things that make Wethos different from other freelancing platforms and networks, including their focus on working within teams, winning large contracts and how Wethos pays their freelancers. What Rachel and her team are building truly is revolutionary, and it makes me even more excited for the future of work.

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A Story About Gender Inequality in the Workforce That Hurts Everyone

Today’s topic and episode is blowing my mind. There are pieces of it that tie into every past season of the Career Foresight podcast as well as providing insight for the future of work.

I’m going back to my podcasting roots on this episode by focusing the discussion on findings from a research article. In this case, it’s an article from the March-April 2020 edition of the Harvard Business Review.

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Feelings of Guilt While Working From Home? Some Tips

I’ve talked with several people in the past week who when talking about their experience working from home have brought up the feeling of guilt. Immediately, I knew what they were talking about. I’ve felt that burden of guilt related to my work many times in my life, but especially so when I first started working remotely.

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How to Think About the Future of Work in These Uncertain Times

I know this is a really difficult time, and everyone is being affected in some way by COVID-19 and it’s wide-ranging impacts. I have been creating specialized resources to help people during this time the best that I can. I’ll be sharing more about what those are later on in today’s episode.

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