Happen To Your Career | Career Transition, Career Changes, Figure Out What You Want, Jobs, Strengths, Starting Businesses

Is staying at a job you hate holding you back from happiness? What if you’ve changed careers…and the new work wasn’t quite the fit you thought it would be? After helping a couple thousand people make career changes, you notice a few commonalities. We’ve realized that EVERYONE has barriers to making their change. Especially the busy, high achieving peeps that we’ve worked with. You are no exception! You know how you always hear those success stories of what other people have done? If you’re like me (or you’re human), sometimes they can make you a little jealous or depressed. How come it always works out so well for those other people? Well, here’s the hidden reality behind every single one of the success stories we’ve published: Zero of them were easy, AND none of them went perfectly. In fact, we find that much of the time we are helping our students make it easier to change to work they love by focusing on the right things, but focusing on the right things alone doesn’t automatically make you successful. In t

A little while back, I had a Skype call with a former Google employee who made a transition into a role that fits his strengths even better. He is totally thrilled! I wanted to tell you about it because you might be thinking “who on earth chooses to leave Google? That’s the holy grail of dream jobs!” And that’s what most people think from the outside, right? But a big trap that it’s easy to fall into when you’re searching for jobs is comparing your insides to someone else’s outsides. For example, being in a job that looks like a dream job on the outside doesn’t mean it’s going to be the dream fit for YOUR inner values, strengths and interests. I can’t tell you how many people find HTYC because they’re in a job they thought would be great, but isn’t — it ends up being someone else’s dream and not their own. Or, we get emails every day about people who feel like they can’t get clarity on what their next career move looks like, so they’re stuck in a mental pressure cooker wanting to make a change forward but not

So what happens when you’re in your role working for a company and, for the most part, it's been great. You've been there for a while, and you know lots of good things have come out of it. You've worked with a good team and you've had a lot of fun. It's been pretty meaningful, except … Now a lot of those things have either stopped or changed. Whether it's caused by a company merger or a new boss or a completely different situation. And that is that is where our next podcast guest found themselves. I say guest, but this is actually a bit of a different episode. We've done this once or twice before where we've shared an actual coaching session with you, allowing you to sit in as a fly on the wall, listening to somebody that we've worked with. On today’s episode, you're going to hear Elizabeth begin in the early stages of identifying what she really wants and needs. And even more importantly than that, some of the ways that I guide her through to help begin making this happen immediately. You're not going to hea

“Most of the people I know, and coach, are recovering people-pleasers…” New York Times Best Selling Author, Michael Hyatt said this to me in our recent conversation.   In fact, I’m a recovering people-pleaser myself. In my first professional job, I working between 80-90 hours a week. Part of that was because the job was a bad fit. Part of that was because there was a huge expectation to work a ton of hours. And part of that was that I said “yes” to everything my boss asked me to do. Absolutely everything. Saying “yes” to every project - to every request. “Yes, sir, I can make that happen!” “Yes, I can get that extra presentation done.” Saying “yes” to all that took a bad situation and turned it into a totally intolerable situation.   Saying “yes” to too many things can hold you back from career happiness. At first, you may be excited that you’re the person that everyone can depend on. But then it changes. People start asking you to do more and more because “______ always finds a way to get it done.” In fact,

We’ve now asked hundreds of people who’ve made successful career pivots one question after they’ve completed the journey:  “What advice would you give someone who’s decided they want to make a career change?” What came back was surprising! It didn’t have anything to do with the best resume ever or the best tactic to market your skills or even the steps to take Nope! Instead it turns out that all of them described making a career change as a journey and there is far more important advice to consider.  We’ve taken the advice from 6 successful career changers and put it into this episode.   https://happentoyourcareer.com/276    Listen to all the podcasts at http: https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Jenny Blake is the author of the books PIVOT: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One and Life After College. She is also a career and business strategist, and international speaker. Jenny has been featured as a career change expert on CNBC, in The New York Times and The Sunday Times UK. Her Pivot Podcast is a top rated show that CNBC listed among 6 podcasts to make you smarter about your career, and selected by Entrepreneur as one of the top 20 female-hosted business podcasts.  One of her personal mottos: if change is the only constant, let's get better at it. With that motto and all of her knowledge, Jenny helps people organize their brain, move beyond burnout, and build sustainable, dynamic careers they love. You’ll learn: How to stop holding yourself back by waiting to have all the time in the world for things to happen for you How to use constraints that a day job puts on your career change as a positive and make it easier rather than harder How and why creating an ideal day map for yourself wi

If we are always looking for external milestones, like a new job title or pay increase, without first addressing the internal stuff, we’ll always be on the hunt. We’ll constantly be looking for that feeling, and asking ourselves that question: “Is this it?” During this week’s podcast episode, I dug deep with Kelly, a Career Change Bootcamp graduate and a woman who went through a radical mindset shift a couple of months ago. She was in the same exact place. She had all of the external things: a great job at Linkedin, an awesome apartment in the Big Apple, a savings account that most of us could only imagine…but she still wasn’t happy. From the outside, it looked like she had everything. But on the inside, she was struggling to answer those big life questions: What does it mean to lead a meaningful, purposeful life?

Have you ever considered trying to start your own coaching business? (A career coach, a fitness coach, a relationship coach, a leadership coach, anything like that?) You might be the kind of person who’s naturally gifted in helping others, but you don’t want to become a pastor or a psychotherapist, so going into coaching feels like a perfect next step for your career. Coaching can be an AMAZING career fit for many people -- and there’s a huge need for actually good coaches out there -- but there are a lot of realities about pursuing it as a full-time career path that you’ll want to know before you quit your job and start the business. Being in love with the dream of calling yourself a coach can be very different from truly having a passion for the day-to-day life of being one. For example, how much do you enjoy sales conversations? Working for yourself is an eat-what-you-kill kind of job, so you’re going to spend a TON of time bringing in clients so you can keep the lights on and pay the bills. And, how much

We talk about former first lady Michelle Obama, the founders of The Muse, and Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert and the impact they can make on your career happiness. Listen to learn the best career development books available right now and two hacks to help you speed through your reading list.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/271 To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast  

Steve Jobs wore the same clothing every day. A famous composer used to stand on his head for 15 minutes each morning. Nikola Tesla did strange toe exercises each night to stimulate brain cells. People are weird, and I decided it’s time to come clean on the weird habits that increase my energy levels and provide personal success. Listen in for my strange confessions and for 5 ways you can multiply your own energy levels.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/270   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast  

Wayfinding Academy is the College that’s changing everything. Learn the importance of UNLEARNING and see how this new college is changing the status quo of education with a system that tailors the classes to every individual, helping students work in their groove and teaching them how to positively impact the world.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/269   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast  

NYT Best-selling author Jen Sincero sits down with Scott to share tips for mastering the art of badassery every day. Learn how she works out her motivation muscles in the spiritual gym and how you can develop your own positive feedback loop for tackling tasks and kicking ass in your career.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/268   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast  

Bree knew she wasn’t using her strengths in her draining, repetitive role, but she wasn’t sure how to step into a position that truly fit her unique gifts. On this live coaching call, we help her build a plan for revealing and reinforcing her signature strengths in her next interview.   Listen to learn the 3 tactics that will help potential employers accurately perceive your strengths and the value you bring to their organization.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/267   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast  

Linnea is just like you. She was a listener of the HTYC podcast, and decided it was time to make a career change. She signed up for career coaching and found her ideal role! But Linnea did not stop there… she ended up jumping four titles in just six months! Learn how Linnea doubled down on the career change advice she received from her coach, became her own biggest advocate, found her strengths and grabbed her career change by the horns.    What you’ll learn  The methods Linnea used to get promoted quickly to her ideal career  How to unconventionally network and make it actually work for your career change  How to figure out if you should be switching industries  Why extreme preparation is the key to your career growth   Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email scott@happentoyourcareer.com    Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!  Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-

You’ve probably heard people say things like. “Big Dreams take time” or “that type of success takes time” or my absolute favorite. “Just give it a little time!” But what if the key accomplishing wildly unrealistic goals didn’t have anything to do with time? What if that was one of the most common misconceptions that gets repeated all over the world. This is episode 3 of a 3 part series on how to accomplish wildly unrealistic career goals.

Years ago when I first started Happen To Your Career, my good friend Mark and I created an 8 Day mini-course to help people begin to figure out what they really wanted to be doing for their career and their life. We’ve now had over 25,000 people go through that mini-course. One of the exercises in that course involves declaring 3 wildly unrealistic things you want to do, be or become these could be occupations, jobs, roles, whatever you wanted, Sky’s the limit. The only rule is that it has to be wildly unrealistic. We started getting thousands of responses emailed to us and there was something interesting that we noticed right away. They’re all big goals sure, but what else? None of them them are actually impossible or unachievable. What does this tell us? It means that the things we believe to be wildly unrealistic are only unrealistic because we believe them to be. It’s about the story that we tell ourselves. https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/podcast/wildly-unrealistic

Everyone and their mother is going to email you about your resolutions and goals now that it’s the beginning of 2018. I don’t want to do that to you. Plus you already know I have a serious aversion to doing what everyone else is doing? What do you notice about the Paradigm shifting changes? The average person can’t imagine how it can work in their own life. Most of the world can’t “just do that”. You might automatically say, “that could never work for me” It takes completely reframing your future to be able to achieve a paradigm shifting change.   In this conversation with we get deep into how: Learn how to take the goals you are passionate and excited about and take the next little steps to turn them into a reality this year. How to change your limiting beliefs from a negative into a positive. Learn how to use confirmation bias as a benefit to gain goal success. Learn how important it is to put words to and vocalize the whisper of ideas you have been feeling. Get help identifying the little secret beliefs

Wondering how you’re going to know if you like your new career or company before you transition? Good news. We’ve put together 6 ways you can get some reassurance. Take a listen! Or if you want even more detail go over to https://happentoyourcareer.com/261     Listen to all the episodes on the podcast at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Most people would call Mo’s roles with Jay-Z, Hollywood directors, and Allen Iverson “dream jobs,” but no matter how shiny the job title, he still couldn’t find fulfillment.   Hear how Mo found career happiness PLUS three of the most common questions high achievers ask about career transitions.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/260   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Katie felt trapped. She’d invested in her company for a number of years, and she felt there was nowhere left to advance. To top it off, her employer had paid for her certification so she felt indebted. In this live coaching call, you'll get a behind the scenes listen as Katie recognizes the options available to her and prepares for her career change.   What you’ll learn  How to recognize if limiting beliefs are delaying your career change Should I quit my job? The signs that you’ve outgrown your company How to avoid career burnout    Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email scott@happentoyourcareer.com    Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!  Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts) An Overthinker's Guide