The Causey Consulting Podcast
Are you an entrepreneur, solopreneur, or a small business owner? The Causey Consulting Podcast is designed especially for you! Our episodes are guaranteed to ALWAYS give you valuable insights that you can use in your life and your business immediately. You'll never walk away from an episode without learning something new. Your host, Sara Causey, is a business consultant for Fortune 500 companies and a coach for solopreneurs and small business owners Sometimes Sara flies solo with her own insights and experiences, and other times she interviews a fantastic, bad-a$$ guest with expertise in topics like work/life balance, financial freedom, marketing, social media management, business communication, etc. Connect with Sara on LinkedIn and visit her website at causeyconsultingllc.com for more. Like our theme music? It's "Rainbow" by Scandinavianz. Show them some love at: https://soundcloud.com/scandinavianz. Need music of your own? Check out https://www.free-stock-music.com.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 351
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
QTIP & Freelancing Pitfalls People Don't Talk About
People who say they've never had a project go sideways or never had a client from hell are either lying through their teeth or they haven't done much business. The anagram QTIP, i.e., quit taking it …
Bonus episode: The gross Salesforce Slack message
Asking for a friend. 😇
As we said back in the day: eww, grody.
Marc Benioff of Salesforce sent the following Slack message to employees on 12/16:
How do we increase the productivity of our employees at…
Saturday Broadcast 28
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 12/11 - 12/16.
✔️ Hybrid workers are the most loyal? What goofy пропаганда is this?
✔️Are remote opps dwindling away? Yep. And I have warned you this would happen for quite …
The Power Brokers Wanna Be Clear: It's All YOUR Fault!
Regardless of the topic, when it comes to the job market, any and all problems will be blamed on working class folks. The power brokers will not blame themselves. They will twist themselves into pret…
Bonus Episode: "Her search is starting to feel impossible..."
But just as the market can't sustain obscene real estate prices, I don't think the job market will remain so heavily candidate-driven forever either. In the event of a recession, I think we will see …
Saturday Broadcast 27
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 12/5 - 12/9.
✔️ So... people are shoplifting and doing "buy now, pay later" for food, yet we're also supposed to believe that people are still flush with cash. What?!?
✔️Even…
Continuing Job Market Insanity
👻 Ghosts and bad hiring managers and lack of remote work, oh my.
Allegedly, the job market is still BLAZING HAWT! Yet simultaneously, job seekers are looking for back-up employment, side hustles, and/…
Bonus Episode: Men are Being Demonized for the So-Called "Labor Shortage" 🦜
Not content to settle for generational clickbait, now we need to point fingers based on gender. 😒
On November 13th, I published the article, "The poop storm is your fault" because that's where we're a…
Saturday Broadcast 26
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 11/28 - 12/2.
✔️ Forced fun is not fun? Wowee, ya don't say!
✔️Some candidates will apply to a job they don't actually want in an effort to get a raise, a promotion, etc. IMHO…
Lenny the Liar
It would be nice if those Progressive Insurance commercials where you could ask for an official review/replay in life actually existed! Unfortunately, in the business world, you may occasionally enco…
Bonus Episode: Complete 💩 Job Market Advice
Even people with little or no expertise in the job market have started to look around and say, "Uh-oh. Maybe, um, things are not so great after all... maybe these stats we're hearing are complete non…
Saturday Broadcast 25
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 11/14 - 11/18.
✔️ More six-figure earners are shopping at Walmart because they have to. We're also finally allowed to know that credit card debt is going through the roof.
✔️A…
The Great Remorse?
According to Fortune.com, "The Great Remorse takes over the Great Resignation as most workers who quit their job are having a hard time finding a new one." And so it begins...
Back on April 4th, I pub…
Saturday Broadcast 24
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 11/7 - 11/11.
✔️ Post midterms we see a tale of two economies. People'r'doin' great and inflation is coming down - but ha ha not really.
✔️Also: mortgage rates are going down…
Dire Hedge Fund Warnings & Blaming the Peons for the Recession
Last week, a couple of important yet relatively unnoticed articles popped up on MarketWatch: "Hedge-fund giant Elliott warns looming hyperinflation could lead to 'global societal collapse'" and "A U.…
Bonus Episode: Whatever Happened to the Middle Class American Dream, Redux
On September 1st, I published the episode, "Whatever Happened to the Middle Class American Dream?" Apparently now, even the MSM is asking that question. Better late than never, I guess.
Key topics:
✔…
Saturday Broadcast 23
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 10/31 - 11/4.
✔️ So... wait a minute. Is it a buyout for "underperforming" people or is it just an attempt to get rid of workers 55+? Let's be real about things.
✔️A 3.7% unem…
A Job Market Sucker's Rally: Just tell people what they wanna hear! 😒
"The war for talent is over. Talent won, says PwC U.S. chairman Tim Ryan."
Uh... OK.
"Companies are moving back to mandates, anywhere from two days to five days in the office citing the need for conne…
Bonus Episode: "Cut corners somewhere or try to pick up a part-time job" 😣
It's easy for someone else to tell you what to do. Ya know, like "rules for thee, but not for me." I heard it a lot when I was running my business that failed. "Well, I mean, I wouldn't go work an o…
Saturday Broadcast 22
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 10/23 - 10/28.
✔️ The Dollar Tree is the $1.25 tree with some items now $3, $5 & $7. Even the discount stores are not very discount anymore.
✔️More and more neighborhoods sho…