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Meg Applegate is a certified resume writer and personal branding strategist with Hinge Resume, a boutique firm that offers career branding for women that opens doors. In this interview, she shares all her wisdom on these topics!
If you’re interested in working with Meg, she can be booked privately or you can check out her course, The Resume Key.
Also mentioned in this podcast:
Starting a Business During Your Career Pause with Meg Applegate (her first interview)
Overcoming Impostor Syndrome with Micha Goebig
How Toxic Work Cultures are Driving the Great Resignation with Brene Brown
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Kat Price is a perfect example of someone who says yes when the right opportunity knocks at her door. It's how she started her own business. It's how she started substituting. And now it's how she became a full-time recruiter.
What opportunities are knocking on your door right now? How could you say yes?
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Returning to work after several years away is not a simple task, but the good news is that you do not have to go it alone.
Amy Dantzler returned as a consultant to the same global health care consulting firm she had worked for several years before, but it wasn't as simple as dropping right back in. In addition to reactivating her network of contacts, she had help along the way from a team of experts for everything from her resume to her interview skills.
Today, she's expanding her career even further by transitioning her skills into a role leading onboarding efforts for others joining her company.
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Have you ever picked a word of the year? My word for this year is IMPACT. That is the word that I plan to use to guide my decisions this year.
The Career Butterfly
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What’s your thing? You know, that thing inside of you that you’ve always wanted to do. Dona Sarkar, author of #DoTheThing, is here to help you discover your thing, get out of your own way, and get it done. She’s a good one to be giving the advice as she’s had lots of “things” over the years. In addition to her career at Microsoft where she is currently the Director of Technology for Accessibility at Microsoft, she is an author and she runs her own fashion line, Prima Dona Studios.
Dona shares that she has been called aggressive, ambitious and a bit of a diva. Her response? Hell yes. She’s proud to be all those and more! In this interview, she shares the strategies she’s used to #dothething including thinking of herself in the 3rd person on her own Hero’s Journey, ruthless time management, and extending her comfort zone a tiny bit rather than completely stepping out of it.
I did the exercises in her book #DoTheThing and it is that work that inspired me to create this podcast. I highly recommend it for you too. Not sure what your thing is? She has strategies for discovering your thing too!
Mentioned in this podcast:
#DoTheThing
Prima Dona Studios
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Desiree Briel Rodi returns to the podcast this week to share her expertise on Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Not only are these skills becoming more acknowledged - and needed - in the workplace, but they are also skills that we all get to work on every day in our personal lives: the ability to manage ourselves and our relationships effectively; the ability to recognize, understand, and manage our emotions; and those of others.
Desiree also shared her own story in a previous interview.
Also mentioned in this episode:
Briel Rodi Consulting
Emotional Intelligence by Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer
Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than IQ by Daniel Goleman
Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry
Charting the development of emotion from childhood to adulthood by E. C. Nook et al
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Leslie McCaddon found her dream job as an outreach coordinator for a national non-profit mental health clinic serving military families, but not too long ago she was in a very different position. A widowed mom of three children, before she was ready to create the job of her dreams, she had to first get over the story she was telling herself - that no one would want to hire someone who hadn't finished college or worked for a company in 20 years.
In addition to her work as outreach coordinator, she is a certified professional life coach who coaches other women through The Happiest Mom Coach.
Mentioned in the interview:
Reese Witherspoon Woman of the Year speech
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Karen Rae doesn't shy away from telling other women her career break was 27 years long. With her kids grown, and facing an empty nest, she knew she was ready for something else. Even though she knew nothing about video production, she decided what she really wanted was to create her own show! That was just the beginning of Fave Lifestyles which has become a vibrant lifestyle community for women. A few years later and with a lot of entrepreneurial experience under her belt, Karen launched Fave Biz Society to help other passionate female entrepreneurs launch their dreams.
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This episode is a quick check-in and the last one you'll see under the name Ready Pause Go. Starting January 24, 2022, you will find this podcast under the name The Career Butterfly. Our website is moving too.
We're still all about inspiring, guiding, and supporting women from the career pause into their next step. Just like butterflies, we honor the cocoon phase and then find our wings. Come check out our new interviews and stories next week!
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Remote work used to be unachievable dream for busy parents. The pandemic changed all of that. While remote work definitely has its own set of challenges, it is here to stay and that is good news for all of us! Tune in to here more about how to find your own remote job.
readypausego.com
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I'll explain all about it in this episode, but here are the 2 words: Growth Mindset. If you live your life with a growth mindset, there is no reason that you can't find success after a career pause - no matter how long it's been.
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Today, we're talking rebound jobs. Specifically, a job that you take even when you know it may not be the dream job or your forever job. I'll break down 5 different boosts you can get from one: Confidence, Skills, Connections, Resume, and Financial. It doesn't have to be the perfect job to give you some - or all - of those benefits in the short term.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Simplicity Consulting
OnContracting
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Desiree Briel Rodi thought she had her plan all mapped out - she'd go to college, establish herself in a career, get married, have kids, and stay home with them. What she learned along the way is that her journey - just like everyone else's - is unique and to just ride the waves.
Desiree has worked in both education and corporate environments, started her own chef business, and returned to school more than once. Today, she's a mom to three kids, an EQ facilitator and coach, and pursuing her Ph.D. in Organizational Development and Change.
She offers great insight into how she's transitioned amongst these varying jobs, as well as the role Emotional Intelligence played in her journey.
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We're chatting policy this week because it can have such an impact on women in the workforce. We'll discuss how the United States is the only industrialized nation to not offer this benefit and how that might change in the near future.
Tune in to hear why it's still important even after you've had your babies.
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Do you find yourself getting caught up in the "how" of achieving your dreams before you even get started?
This week is all about letting go of the "how" questions your brain will send your way when you decide to do something new. It's that moment when you're on the cusp of trying something new, but then you realize you don't know how to do it. Your mind will flood you with confusion, doubt, fear, overwhelm because it's easier to stay in status quo than to go for something new.
But status quo is not what we're after here. Tune in to learn how to work on your thoughts, feelings, and actions to achieve the results you want!
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Addie Swartz built her company reacHIRE to provide women with an intentional onramp back to the workforce. She knew the value of this frequently untapped group because she had previously built a successful company with a specific focus on hiring moms who had taken a career pause.
Today, reacHIRE has put hundreds of women back to work with their unique model that matches qualified candidates with companies committed to this pathway. They offer custom cohorts designed to support the women along the journey back to work.
If you're interested in returning to work in a supportive environment, check out reacHIRE.
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Happy Mother's Day! How much time do you give to others each week? A lot, right? How much time do you give yourself each week?
I'm asking you to consider upping that last number to 3 hours a week. Time to be alone, dream ahead, journal your thoughts, maybe even dust off that resume.
Three hours might not sound like much, but I made this suggestion to a group of women last year and some of them have had some powerful results in that tiny little time slice. Are you with me on this?
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LinkedIn legitimized the Stay-at-Home-Mom title on their platform today and I am celebrating that! Tune in to hear what that means for you and for how you should celebrate the skills that you have carefully honed and developed while managing your families.
I truly believe the Stay-at-Home-Mom skills make you a rockstar when you go back to work and it's time we own these!
Conflict Resolution Crisis Management Problem Solving Negotiation Communication Time ManagementYou have literally been becoming a better version of yourself during these years at home. You're wiser, more skilled, more experienced, and both tougher and more compassionate!
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Getting into medical school is a major accomplishment, but it still isn't the most important part of Joan Tu's life. A mom of two, who also happens to be in medical school, she still considers being a mom her most important job.
Joan shares the journey she took from financial analyst to full-time parent to author to student.
As a first-generation medical student, she also recently decided to document the challenges of the medical school application process in her new book: Raising Doctors: The Med School Admissions Guide for Parents of Future Physicians
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Some people would look at Colleen Butler's resume and be surprised to see the diversity of jobs: entrepreneur, lawyer, mortgage broker, media salesperson, to name a few. Some were full time and some were the part-time gigs that fulfilled her when her kids were small. But, the truth is that she's always been willing to say yes, which has now landed her in the job she loves so much she calls it "the last job she ever wants."
Today, she is the Business Development Lead for The W Marketplace, a digital marketplace featuring women-owned businesses.
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