Ep. 132 - Ikigai & The Career of the Future - with Kate Roberts
How do you figure out what mashup of skills, interests, and passions will work for you? And how do you bring that mashup to life as a sustainable career?
Ep. 102 - Season 6 Closer: Redefining Success in a Changing World
Both my team and myself — and just about everyone else — have been riding the waves of this very weird year, personally and professionally. So we wanted to sit down as a team to reflect on what it has meant for us to redefine success as progress and what we learned from our guests this season.
Ep. 101 - The Fluid Organization: Testing, Learning, & Iterating to Create Human Connection & Business Momentum - with Jen McDonald
What does it look like to establish and lead a fluid organization in this new world of work? What does it take to pivot and adapt in real-time as the pace of change speeds up to an unprecedented degree? And how does this benefit companies and the people who work for them in the long run? Jennifer McDonald, Chief Client Officer of North America at VMLY&R, shares how an organization with hundreds of people responded to the unknowns of a global pandemic with unprecedented fluidity.
Ep. 100 - Leveling Up Your Leadership From Founder to CEO - with Alisa Cohn
Alisa Cohn is an executive coach who’s been working with startup founders to grow into world-class CEOs for nearly 20 years. In this episode, she shares valuable leadership advice from her book so that founders can start to create that traction and progress from the inside out.
Ep. 99 - Failing Epically & Pivoting Toward Progress: Pioneering an Emerging Industry - with Larisa Bolivar
What does it look like to do something that you’ve never done before — that no one has ever done before? What does it mean to be a pioneer in this new world of work? What does it look like when you take responsibility for crafting a new role for yourself, both internally and externally? Hear all about it from Larisa Bolivar, a long-time social justice advocate and a pioneer in the cannabis industry.
Ep. 98 - Creating a Side Hustle to Build Momentum & Progress - with Nick Loper
Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation and The Side Hustle Show shares how we can leverage side gigs and an experimenter’s mindset to get unstuck and move forward with confidence.
Ep. 97 - The Long Game: Principles to Help You Redefine Success in an Uncertain World - with Dorie Clark
Dorie Clark shares valuable insights and perspectives from her new book, "The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World.” And along the way, we hear about Dorie’s career mashup journey and how becoming a long-term thinker helped her get to where she is today.
Ep. 96 - Redefining Success as Progress: Season 6 Opener
Creating meaningful work-life fit in today's ever-changing world requires redefining success as progress. We’ve been thinking about this a lot, and it’s the concept driving the conversations behind season 6 of Strategic Momentum.
Biz of You Spotlight: Meet Connie Steele - Building the Business of You
In this last episode of the Biz of You mini-series, we’re getting an inside look at Connie’s own career journey and the experiences that shaped her perspective on career success. Who is Connie Steele? What inspired her to write Building the Business of You? And what does she hope people ultimately take away from the book? Today, Connie answers these questions and more.
Ep. 95 - Season 5 Recap: Aligning Passion, Purpose and Potential to Build Your Career Mashup - with Connie Steele, Alexis Anthony, and Alan Corcoran
In this episode, Connie is joined by Strategic Momentum marketing manager Alexis Anthony and operations manager Alan Corcoran to revisit key takeaways from Season Five. They tie together the trends that emerged across the interviews and what they mean for the future of work in our new normal.
Biz of You Spotlight: Fluidity for Business - Building the Business of You
In this episode, Connie Now, explains how companies can approach each of the five components in Building the Business of You to help employees reach their potential, as well as how the fluid system can help organizations stay ahead in a rapidly evolving business landscape. Because fluidity isn’t just about the future of careers, it's about the future of work.
Biz of You Spotlight: Skills — Building the Business of You
In this episode, Connie covers the fourth part of the five-part fluid career system, Building Skills. She explains why you need to focus on both hard and soft skills, how to create environments to practice those skills, and why they are essential to the business of you.
Biz of You Spotlight: Networking — Building the Business of You
In this episode, Connie covers the fourth part of the five-part fluid career system, Networking. It’s all about creating that value exchange and building your village to help you reach your potential. She explains how it fits into the overall system and why it’s so critical to career success.
Ep. 92 - Preparing for Change and taking Small Steps to Deliver Impact and Cultivate Inclusion - with Joe English
Joe English is a Yale graduate, Forbes 30 under 30 recipient and the founder of Hope In A Box, a non profit organization that works to provide classrooms with LGTBQ+ inclusive literature and resources. In this episode he shares the challenges and changes he has faced in his career and how he took small steps to deliver broad impact and cultivate inclusion in education.
Biz of You Spotlight: Preparing For Change — Building the Business of You
In this episode, Connie covers the third part of the five-part fluid career system, called Preparing for Change. It’s all about accepting change, managing fear then turning it into excitement, and pushing past the inertia we face. She explains how it fits into the overall system and why it’s so critical to career success.
Ep. 91 - Building a Career Mashup to Achieve Work-Life Fulfillment and Balance by Creating Your Compass - with Sabrina Woodworth
Sabrina Woodworth is a Fortune 500 Project Manager, Career Strategy Coach, Bestselling Author and Founder of WorkLessons101. Sabrina’s path to creating her career mashup was one where she recognized the importance of setting a goal and mapping a way to achieve it. She was able to establish her career coaching and development business and write a book while parallel pathing her corporate job. In this episode, she shares how she built her compass to realize her own vision of career success.
Biz of You Spotlight: Creating Your Compass — Building the Business of You
In this episode, Connie discusses how to Create Your Compass on your way to career success. It’s all about creating clarity on what you're aiming for, by being able to map out a strategic plan to help you see the bigger picture and identify those tasks you will need to do to help you achieve your goals.
Ep. 90 - A Career Mashup Driven by a Promise, Compassion and Connection- with Catharine Bowman
Catharine Bowman is an accomplished medical researcher, board member, medical student, speaker and change agent. At 8 years old, she made a promise to her mother to develop one of the first pharmacological treatments for lymphedema. The search for a solution began by connecting the dots around the trends, challenges and opportunities. Compassion is what started her mission and it was a source of stability through her own constantly changing journey.
Biz of You Spotlight: Spotting the Trends — Building the Business of You
In this episode, Connie covers step one of the five-part fluid career system, called Spotting the Trends. It’s all about identifying the challenges, threats, opportunities and potential to help you research and analyze where you are and where you want to go. She explains how it fits into the overall system and why it’s so critical to career success.
Biz of You Spotlight: Fluidity — Building the Business of You with Connie Steele
In this short-form series, Connie Steele shares tips from her #1 Amazon new release book, Building the Business of You. In this episode, Connie introduces the concept of “Fluidity,” the individual and operational mindset that is critical to building the business of you. What does it mean to be fluid? What are examples? And how can we use fluidity to create our career strategies?