Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search
You’re not totally happy with your career (obviously!) You also know that there “has to be something out there that’s better.” That hope that you can find meaningful and fulfilling work, that also pays you well, has led you here!
This is the show that provides the inspiration, tools, and roadmaps to move from where you are to work that matters to you and uniquely fits your strengths and talents.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 618
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Why Vulnerability is the Greatest Job Search Hack
This is our first podcast episode ever where we share the story of our Career Change Bootcamp graduate, Margaret Fredrickson, alongside her career coach. Margaret gives us her first-hand experience o…
How to be yourself during an interview
Interviewing can be a scary experience, because we feel like we have to fit into a certain box. But, what if I told you there are a few simple ways to be yourself in an interview, and actually land t…
Focus on creating a purposeful life, and everything else will fall into place
We are constantly told that life is about the journey, not the destination. But, what if our so-called “journey” doesn’t have any purpose? During this podcast episode, Scott will speak with Career Ch…
Give Yourself Permission To Unlock Your Fullest Potential
Do you feel like you’re living your life in fear of what you could actually accomplish if you tried? On this podcast episode, we’ll be sharing 4 essential steps on how to stop living your life in fea…
Switching Industries Without Compromising Your Career's Trajectory
Maybe you really enjoyed your job when you started…years ago. But now, you stroll into work each morning disengaged and hopeless. You're not alone. About 50% of people go through this exact cycle in …
How to Live Authentically in Your Career
Are the expectations of others holding you back from doing work that is truly fulfilling? Most of us feel like we have to behave like one person when we’re at work, and a different person when we’re …
How to Reframe your future in the New Year
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 t…
How to Start a Side Hustle with Chris Guillebeau
In this conversation with Chris we get deep into how:
- Take off some of the pressure by learning the difference between a startup and an income generating project.
- Learn how a side hustle is differen…
Connect with Anyone Using Introductions
I remember in 2006 I had just been fired from a job that I hated.
I was pretty determined to not have to go back to “just another job” where I would spend my days just waiting for the weekend as I …
How to Fight Burn Out at Work
Emilie Aries is the Founder and CEO of Bossed Up, an organization that promotes a program that helps thousands of women step into their own power as the boss of their lives and car…
When Staying in Your Job is Holding you Back from Happiness
- Learn why it’s important to be authentic and honest during the interview process and how it can put you a step above the rest.
- How can hard conversations lead to better opportunities?
- Learn how defi…
Making Difficult Career Decisions Easier Every Time
What if you could have a system to rely on to make all your important decisions?
My friend Pete Mockaitis and I had a great conversation on the podcast today about how our decisions and needs evolv…
Turning relationships into job offers
Let me tell you about a great problem to have -- and a question that came from one of our students inside of Career Change Bootcamp, our signature program.
Laura said:
“I'm really interested in…
Should I Quit My Job? How to know if it's ok
- Walk through the four questions you must ask yourself before giving yourself permission to make a substantial life change and leave the work that doesn’t fit you.
- How to determine if you can make …
The 4 Keys to a Meaningful Career
Today’s guest, Dan Cumberland, is a former youth pastor who suffered what he described as a “theological breakdown” early in his career. The power of suggestion took him down a career path that never…
Setting Boundaries in your Career: When and How to Say NO
Aaaaaand...I’m back!
I hope you enjoyed last week’s message from Lisa and Josh to celebrate our 200th episode of the podcast.
(I still cannot believe it’s already been four years of podcasting. W…
How Scott Barlow Changes Lives with Lisa Lewis and Joshua Rivers
Today marks the 200th episode of the Happen to Your Career podcast.
Can you believe it? (We hardly can!)
Scott started the podcast 4 years ago, back when he was also working in a corporate job th…
Career Confidence with guest Maxie McCoy (Revisited)
Do you want to have an answer to the “What do you do?” question that’s as powerful as that one?
If you do, you can start by asking yourself the question: “what am I on this earth to do right now?”
…
Decluttering Your Life with Angela Wagner
One thing I’ve noticed after coaching for years is that the way you do one thing in your life is usually a sign of how you do everything.
Let me explain: if you put perfectionistic pressure on your…
Remote Workers and Travel with Adda Birnir
Have you ever heard of Soccer Tots?
In 2011 I hadn’t either.
It’s where you take little kids and they jump through hula hoops, run around cones, occasionally kick a soccer ball and sort of attemp…