Career Therapy

Sarah Burrows is a career and business coach on a mission to empower women to step out of their current unfulfilling career and forge a new path of purpose, clarity and courage. She encourages women to explore and dream of a job that fulfills them, with a healthy work life balance, supporting them to feel motivated with focus and clarity to find the right job for them. In today’s conversation we talk about limiting beliefs and how to reframe them, the power of meditation and mindfulness in your job search, and how to build the confidence you need to make your next career pivot.

Dr. Mortenson has worked with Chicago Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Center since 2012 and specializes in working with anxiety and other mood disorders in all age ranges. Originally from northeastern New Jersey, he graduated with honors from Brown University with degrees in Psychology and Sociology before beginning his formal training as a psychologist. Our conversation on the Career Therapy Podcast touches on the intersectionality between anxiety, stress, and the job search. We chose this episode as the fifth Career Therapy Rewind because Dr. Dan's advice is both calming and reassuring. This is an episode meant to helps anyone who is dealing with any kind of career uncertainty be less judgmental about themselves and their careers. Check it out!

We’re continuing our foray into the live coaching calls this week with an episode featuring a woman named ‘Kara.’ Kara is in project management, coming from an environmental science background. She’s intimidated by the idea of learning programming languages and coding skills, but loves the coordination, management, problem-solving, and communications aspect of her current job. Nonetheless, she’s worried she’ll be “stuck in the same unfulfilling role forever. In this episode, Martin takes ‘Kara’ through a full-on coaching call, helping her identify the parts of her life she wants to improve, the specific role she wants to pursue, and the companies she’s interested in working for. The call deals a lot with finding a good work/life balance, transferring skills from more physical hands-on roles to white-collar desk jobs, and creating a financial runway to reorient one’s career. If you’ve ever wondered what a live coaching call is like, this is the episode for you!

For this week’s episode of the Career Therapy Podcast, we’re shifting things up a bit! This conversation is a coaching call Martin did in February of 2020, before starting the Career Therapy Podcast. Originally, it was going to be called ‘Career Instincts,’ and revolve solely around live coaching sessions with different clients. 

Terry, in particular, is changing careers later in life, and is primarily interested in companies with clever lifestyle marketing campaigns, including Harley-Davidson, Warby Parker, Under Armour, and even Payless. In this episode, Martin takes ‘Terry’ through a full-on coaching call, breaking down the ways in which he can re-orient his career, and find his ‘north star,’ late in the game.

If you’ve ever wondered what a live coaching call is like, this is the episode for you!

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.94), we welcome Stacey Roshan to the podcast. 

Stacey Roshan is an educator, speaker, tech innovator, and author of Tech with Heart: Leveraging Technology to Empower Student Voice, Ease Anxiety, & Create Compassionate Classrooms.  Her work has been featured in USA Today, The Washington Post, CNN, and PBS Newshour. In addition to teaching high school students to love and understand math, Stacey works closely with faculty to design tech-infused lessons aimed at providing the optimal learning environment for all students. 

In today’s conversation, we discuss the importance of leveraging technology to unlock the potential of introverts, how we can increase our confidence through both learning and teaching, and how to get away from ideas of what we’re “supposed” to do, and start doing the things we’re meant to.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.93), we welcome Scott Anthony Barlow to the podcast. 

Scott Anthony Barlow is the founder & CEO  of Happen To Your Career, where he and his team have been working since 2012 to help others make successful career changes to meaningful work.

In today’s conversation, we discuss the unconventional approaches you can take to find unicorn job opportunities, what questions you can ask yourself in order to align your values with your career, and what strategies you can implement to make your job search less robotic and more human, in order to improve your career outcomes.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.92), we welcome Joseph Liu to the podcast. 

Joseph is a TEDx speaker, career consultant, and host of the Career Relaunch® podcast. His work has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Glassdoor and he is dedicated to helping professionals bravely relaunch their careers. 

In today’s conversation we discuss healthy ways to shift your mindset from desperate to confident in your next career transition, how dabbling can lead to a wealthier life, and what physical and mental markers you should look out for to prevent burnout and career dissatisfaction.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.91), we welcome Kevin Naglich to the podcast. 

Kevin helps international students and immigrants get out of English intermediate purgatory so they can speak more confidently at work. He is passionate about helping people naturally express themselves and get better jobs. As the founder of Deliberate English, he’s built an online community designed to help busy professionals take their English to the next level faster through active deliberate practice. 

Today, we dig into the nuances of professional communications, how what you say shapes your career, and what non-native speakers can do to increase their career success through deliberate practice.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.90), we welcome Jeremy Schifeling to the podcast. Jeremy is the Principal Product Marketing Manager at Khan Academy, the VP of Marketing at Break Into Tech, and previously worked as a Senior Product Marketing Manager at LinkedIn itself - so he knows all the hidden platform secrets. Our paths first crossed at Udacity and I’ve been a big fan of his work over the years helping people start their careers in tech. Today, we dig into the nitty gritty of the LinkedIn platform, getting into the mind of the recruiter, optimizing profiles for keywords, and pairing the right tools with the right mindsets to overcome imposter syndrome, network effectively, and get the jobs that everyone is fighting for.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.89), we welcome Eddie Patzsch back to the podcast. Eddie is the CEO and Co-Founder at PartnerPortal.io. He built his sales career with companies including AdRoll, Groupon, and Searchmetrics, but he’s also responsible for some of my favorite guilty pleasure television shows from my youth. Back in the day, he was recruiting folks to be on MTV shows like Parental Control, which used to be one of my favorite cringe-worthy dating shows. 

Today we talk about how old school sales tactics are changing as new technologies, pandemic forces, and generational changes reshape our world. Eddie shares his thoughts on how non-sales-people can leverage different approaches to build confidence in their job search. Lastly, we discuss the nuances of showcasing value and faking it ‘till you make it in both sales and your career.