career transition

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Episode 156: Our Experiences Create Our Identity, How We Talk About Them Shapes Our Future

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Anna Cley was an outstanding student. And then she was a rocket scientist... and then she became an opera singer...

Her stepfather gave her the nudge she needed when she was miserable in her job as a scientist with the French Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France's equivalent to the USA's NASA. He told her that she could do anything she really wanted to do, he gave her the permission she needed to completely switch gears and follow her heart.

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Episode 103: Good Career Advice Might Not Be What You Think

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When Eddie Wilders graduated from high school, all he knew was that he wanted to go to college. He didn’t know which college, or what programs he would be interested in, but he knew he wanted to be the first in his family to get a degree and do something different.

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Episode 102: Finding Soul-Shifting Moments

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This episode’s theme is career transformation. My guest, Lorraine Flower, had a moment in her late 30s, when she was quickly and effectively moving up the corporate ladder, really on the upswing of her career, when she realized her soul wasn’t being fed.