Career Therapy

Dan Jarvis is the founder of the non-profit 22ZERO, co-founder and Chief Healer at Anxiety Guys, and the host of the podcast with the same name, where he uses Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques to help veterans and civilians heal from anxiety, depression and PTSD. Together we discuss how trauma is stored in the body, what you can do to better understand your emotions, and how Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques can help you in your healing journey.

Natasha D’Arcangelo is a seasoned professional and speaker in the field of Mental Health Counseling. She is also a Compassion Fatigue expert and serves as a Qualified Supervisor providing outpatient counseling for Headspace Health. Together we discuss compassion fatigue in the caregiving professions, such as nursing, therapy, education, and more. Throughout the discussion, we dig into the impacts of trauma, the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and ways in which you can train your nervous system to be more tolerant of perceived threats in life and the workplace.

Zach White is the founder of Oasis of Courage, host of The Happy Engineer Podcast, and a lifestyle engineer helping leaders reach the next level without burning out. Together we discuss radical acceptance, learning how to truly know yourself, and how to bounce back when you’ve hit rock bottom in your relationships, work, and life.

Brittani Procknow is a relational therapist who strives to help individuals and couples live life passionately. Her work encourages others to move beyond complacency both personally and professionally through enhancing self and relational awareness. Together, we discuss workaholism, how it develops, what it looks like, and what you can do to break the cycle and begin living a more connected, fulfilling, and engaging life.

Shelly Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Co-founder of Good Human Work, where her mission is to combine human connection + therapy strategies to improve peoples' personal and professional lives. Together, we discuss the long-term impact of remote work on our mental health and what you can do to build and maintain relationships without going into the office. We contemplate the future of Artificial Intelligence and how it will impact human connection when it comes to the job search, therapy, and our social environment. And finally, we dig into how societal values have shifted from the community to the individual and how living in an isolation bubble can lead to disastrous outcomes, and what you can do about it.

Lydia Lincklean is a certified coach who focuses on Stress Prevention, Mental Health, Mindfulness, and Burnout. Merging a background working with Investigation Criminal Courts with her extensive experience in coaching, she has developed systems for people to listen to themselves, find peace of mind, and foster serenity in their lives. In this episode, we talk about our difficult personal experiences with medicating stress and anxiety, we talk about how to look at the big picture in order to escape the trap of stress-jumping, and we provide tips for how to stop fighting who you are in order to move into a state of flow in your work and life. 

Dr. Jax Black and Tomer Yogev are the co-creators of The Big Joy Theory, the leading coaching model and center for joy-centered leadership development. By leveraging joy as a productive source of empowerment, leaders can experience a lifetime of productive impact on their families, organizations, and communities. Together, we discuss how to find joy in your personal and professional life, how to escape the corporate “deficit” focused approach to “fixing” ourselves in order to lead with self-efficacy, and why fake it till you make it might lead to you hating yourself and your life in the long run, and what to do to change that. 

Nicole Legg, a PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology, spends her time conducting psychological research, providing therapy and assessments to her clients, and delivering talks on mental health and wellbeing. She is also the co-founder of WellIntel Talks, a wellness education speaker platform, and aims to promote wellness intelligence in the community. In this episode we talk about how to navigate workplace conflicts in healthy and effective ways, what you can do to build self-trust in yourself and your abilities, and how Dialectic Behavior Therapy DBT’s DEARMAN framework can lead to better communications and outcomes at work. 

Dr. Sharon Lo Adusei is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in the developing brain, specifically focused on understanding the role that our context, culture and social environment has on how our attention and self-regulation skills form throughout life. Over the last decade, she has worked to promote well-being and positive health outcomes in clinical, academic, and tech spaces, including the growing digital mental health industry. In this episode we talk about childhood temperament and how it shows up in our work later in life, emotional reactivity and regulation and how to improve your sensitivity to negative stimuli, and what you can do to build a self-care plan for yourself when times get tough in your career. 

Dr. Benjamin Ritter is the founder of Live for Yourself Consulting, a leadership and career coach, Talent Development Executive, values geek, international speaker, online course instructor, and podcast host of The Executive, and The Live for Yourself Revolution. In this episode we talk about the culture of fear that is growing in the tech world due to mass layoffs and career uncertainty, how to reframe your personal and professional story, and why acceptance is necessary as we develop in our career year after year. 

Dr. Jessica Jackson is a passionate practitioner, scholar, and advocate in the field of counseling psychology. She divides her time between clinical practice, public speaking, advocacy, writing, and research to deliver culturally centered, evidence-based treatments to adult clients with a wide range of emotional, behavioral and adjustment problems — including anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship problems. In this episode, we discuss how to to manage our expectations and emotional reactions at work and in the job search, the importance of boundaries and how to implement them properly in the workplace, and how you can practice more self compassion in order to better handle the ambiguity of work, life, and identity in the workplace.

Dr. Brooke Wachtler is a licensed psychologist and the founder of BEW Consulting & Training and the newsletter Beyond the Buzzword. She is passionate about helping people change their thought processes, actions, and behaviors to help improve well-being at work. In this episode, we discuss how to deal with your difficult boss or coworker, ways to reframe your mindsets to reduce stress, and how to realistically integrate your work and personal lives in a way that leads to long term career success.

Dr. Julia Baron is a licensed psychologist based in San Francisco, with experience in both clinical work and consulting. She specializes in women’s health and wellness, substance use treatment, and pediatric and adolescent neuropsychological assessment. She currently works on the clinical team at Caraway - a digital healthcare company providing integrated mental, physical, and reproductive health for college women, and her private practice includes consulting and coaching for both individuals and teams, psychotherapy, and assessment. In this episode, we discuss how to cope with Sunday Scares, align your values, skills, and interests, and take a more holistic approach to your life and your career. 

Jenna Kimball is the Director of Talent Acquisition at Dentsu International, helping nationwide clients and brands identify talent from entry level positions through C-Level roles in the marketing and media space. In this episode, we discuss the Recruiter’s perspective on the job search when it comes to finding the right role for you, networking with the right people, showing up with the right presence in the interview, and negotiating the right pay. Jenna shares stories of imperfect candidates who still got the job and drops some wisdom on how to reframe your approach so that companies can’t wait to hire you. 

Mac Prichard is the founder and publisher of Mac’s List – a job board in the Pacific Northwest with a mission to make hiring more human – as well as the author of “Land Your Dream Job Anywhere” and the host of the weekly career advice podcast Find Your Dream Job. Today we talk about how to focus your job search goals, build a strong network, and utilize job boards effectively in order to make your next career change. 

Jeff Perry is the founder of More Than Engineering where he serves as a leadership and career coach for engineers and technical professionals, helping them make intentional career upgrades. Today, we discuss the question, “What do I want to be when I grow up?”, which we both hear from younger and older people alike. While exploring this topic, we touch on imposter syndrome, ideas around fake it till you make it, Career Clarity, ignoring the “shoulds” in life, and how to navigate the subjective disconnect that comes from an untethering of imagination and reality.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.105), we’re welcoming Tina DaSilva and Ali Bobb to the podcast. Together, they are the co-hosts of the 'Soulful Streaming Podcast' where they have eye-opening conversations with the wisest minds to help you build a deeper connection with your mind, body and soul. Today we flip negative thinking on its head and ask the question, “What is the best that could happen?” instead of the worst. And you’d be surprised at how big a difference a small mindset shift can make. If you’re curious about how to make more time in life for your job search or hobbies, interested in overcoming imposter syndrome, or struggling to find a balance between being and achieving, this episode is for you.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.104), we’re doing something a little different: Martin was recently a guest on Confession Radio, with David Alan of Dynamic Reverb, and they had such a great conversation that we asked if we could cross-share the podcast. David graciously agreed, and that is what we are bringing you today. In the conversation we listen to a caller’s concern about their job search application, not hearing back from recruiters, and what to do when you feel like your applications are getting lost in the job board black hole? David masterfully guides the conversation as we weave in and out of all sorts of job search topics, helping you better navigate your own search. 

Jay H. Tepley is the author of Unbreakable Entrepreneur, an international speaker and is a passionate mental health advocate. She helps entrepreneurs overcome depression through her proven masculine-geared system. Jay has also been featured in the Guardian, The Jeremy Vine Show and BBC 1. In this episode, we question the current state of conversation around masculinity, how to avoid falling into the guru trap, and what work is necessary to remove/replace unhealthy images of success with something more individually fulfilling.

Alisha Wolf is a psychotherapist and Executive Coach at Goldfinch Wellness, working with individuals experiencing directionlessness, anxiety, depression and a general sense of unease. She utilizes Buddhist principles of mindfulness, self-acceptance, and self-knowledge to help you find the path that works for YOU. Today we talk about self-trust and why it is so hard to cultivate in our careers. We challenge the hustle culture “always be sprinting” mindset and ask, ‘When is it ok to jog?’ Lastly, we figure out how to separate yourself from your career identity in a way that creates a healthier work/life relationship. 

Dina Grishin is a life and career coach based in London, coaching worldwide. After navigating herself out of a Quarter Life Crisis which saw her changing jobs every year to find her calling, Dina now helps other stuck professionals get clarity on their dream job and how to get there. 

Today we discuss how to navigate a quarter-life crisis, shift from passions to interests in your job search, and figure out what hidden details you NEED to know about the hiring process to get an edge up on the competition and find the right role for you.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.100!), we’re proud to welcome executive coach, neuro-linguistic psychotherapist, and author DDS Dobson Smith. DDS is the founder of Soul Trained, a certified executive coach, Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapist, and the author of ‘You Can Be Yourself Here.’ DDS helps leaders get up out of the weeds of their comfort zones and into places they didn't know they needed to go. Today we discuss why authenticity is bullsh*t, how you can learn to love your inner critic, the benefits of diversity and inclusion, how the ‘Great Resignation’ is actually a Great Realization, and what we need to do to foster more belonging in the workplace. 

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.99), we’re proud to present a talk with the Harare Institute Of Technology (a University in Zimbabwe Southern Africa). This talk premiered on Twitter Spaces this past week, and was presented to the students of the Harare Institute of Technology in Southern Africa. Rodney Mupanduki moderated the talk, which featured discussions about interview questions, storytelling, and how to tailor your CV/Resumé to fit the job you want. We also answer the taboo topic of lying on your resume. Hope you enjoy!

Sarah Burrows is a career and business coach on a mission to empower women to step out of their current unfulfilling career and forge a new path of purpose, clarity and courage. She encourages women to explore and dream of a job that fulfills them, with a healthy work life balance, supporting them to feel motivated with focus and clarity to find the right job for them. In today’s conversation we talk about limiting beliefs and how to reframe them, the power of meditation and mindfulness in your job search, and how to build the confidence you need to make your next career pivot.

Dr. Mortenson has worked with Chicago Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Center since 2012 and specializes in working with anxiety and other mood disorders in all age ranges. Originally from northeastern New Jersey, he graduated with honors from Brown University with degrees in Psychology and Sociology before beginning his formal training as a psychologist. Our conversation on the Career Therapy Podcast touches on the intersectionality between anxiety, stress, and the job search. We chose this episode as the fifth Career Therapy Rewind because Dr. Dan's advice is both calming and reassuring. This is an episode meant to helps anyone who is dealing with any kind of career uncertainty be less judgmental about themselves and their careers. Check it out!

We’re continuing our foray into the live coaching calls this week with an episode featuring a woman named ‘Kara.’ Kara is in project management, coming from an environmental science background. She’s intimidated by the idea of learning programming languages and coding skills, but loves the coordination, management, problem-solving, and communications aspect of her current job. Nonetheless, she’s worried she’ll be “stuck in the same unfulfilling role forever. In this episode, Martin takes ‘Kara’ through a full-on coaching call, helping her identify the parts of her life she wants to improve, the specific role she wants to pursue, and the companies she’s interested in working for. The call deals a lot with finding a good work/life balance, transferring skills from more physical hands-on roles to white-collar desk jobs, and creating a financial runway to reorient one’s career. If you’ve ever wondered what a live coaching call is like, this is the episode for you!

For this week’s episode of the Career Therapy Podcast, we’re shifting things up a bit! This conversation is a coaching call Martin did in February of 2020, before starting the Career Therapy Podcast. Originally, it was going to be called ‘Career Instincts,’ and revolve solely around live coaching sessions with different clients. 

Terry, in particular, is changing careers later in life, and is primarily interested in companies with clever lifestyle marketing campaigns, including Harley-Davidson, Warby Parker, Under Armour, and even Payless. In this episode, Martin takes ‘Terry’ through a full-on coaching call, breaking down the ways in which he can re-orient his career, and find his ‘north star,’ late in the game.

If you’ve ever wondered what a live coaching call is like, this is the episode for you!

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.94), we welcome Stacey Roshan to the podcast. 

Stacey Roshan is an educator, speaker, tech innovator, and author of Tech with Heart: Leveraging Technology to Empower Student Voice, Ease Anxiety, & Create Compassionate Classrooms.  Her work has been featured in USA Today, The Washington Post, CNN, and PBS Newshour. In addition to teaching high school students to love and understand math, Stacey works closely with faculty to design tech-infused lessons aimed at providing the optimal learning environment for all students. 

In today’s conversation, we discuss the importance of leveraging technology to unlock the potential of introverts, how we can increase our confidence through both learning and teaching, and how to get away from ideas of what we’re “supposed” to do, and start doing the things we’re meant to.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.93), we welcome Scott Anthony Barlow to the podcast. 

Scott Anthony Barlow is the founder & CEO  of Happen To Your Career, where he and his team have been working since 2012 to help others make successful career changes to meaningful work.

In today’s conversation, we discuss the unconventional approaches you can take to find unicorn job opportunities, what questions you can ask yourself in order to align your values with your career, and what strategies you can implement to make your job search less robotic and more human, in order to improve your career outcomes.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.92), we welcome Joseph Liu to the podcast. 

Joseph is a TEDx speaker, career consultant, and host of the Career Relaunch® podcast. His work has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Glassdoor and he is dedicated to helping professionals bravely relaunch their careers. 

In today’s conversation we discuss healthy ways to shift your mindset from desperate to confident in your next career transition, how dabbling can lead to a wealthier life, and what physical and mental markers you should look out for to prevent burnout and career dissatisfaction.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.91), we welcome Kevin Naglich to the podcast. 

Kevin helps international students and immigrants get out of English intermediate purgatory so they can speak more confidently at work. He is passionate about helping people naturally express themselves and get better jobs. As the founder of Deliberate English, he’s built an online community designed to help busy professionals take their English to the next level faster through active deliberate practice. 

Today, we dig into the nuances of professional communications, how what you say shapes your career, and what non-native speakers can do to increase their career success through deliberate practice.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.90), we welcome Jeremy Schifeling to the podcast. Jeremy is the Principal Product Marketing Manager at Khan Academy, the VP of Marketing at Break Into Tech, and previously worked as a Senior Product Marketing Manager at LinkedIn itself - so he knows all the hidden platform secrets. Our paths first crossed at Udacity and I’ve been a big fan of his work over the years helping people start their careers in tech. Today, we dig into the nitty gritty of the LinkedIn platform, getting into the mind of the recruiter, optimizing profiles for keywords, and pairing the right tools with the right mindsets to overcome imposter syndrome, network effectively, and get the jobs that everyone is fighting for.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.89), we welcome Eddie Patzsch back to the podcast. Eddie is the CEO and Co-Founder at PartnerPortal.io. He built his sales career with companies including AdRoll, Groupon, and Searchmetrics, but he’s also responsible for some of my favorite guilty pleasure television shows from my youth. Back in the day, he was recruiting folks to be on MTV shows like Parental Control, which used to be one of my favorite cringe-worthy dating shows. 

Today we talk about how old school sales tactics are changing as new technologies, pandemic forces, and generational changes reshape our world. Eddie shares his thoughts on how non-sales-people can leverage different approaches to build confidence in their job search. Lastly, we discuss the nuances of showcasing value and faking it ‘till you make it in both sales and your career.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.88), we welcome Al Dea to the podcast. 

Al is an Author, podcast host, advisor, product marketer, and the founder of BetterWork Labs. He’s passionate about helping people and organizations navigate transformation and today we talk about the evolving relationship between employees and employers, the new priorities people look for in their work, and what steps you can take to quit your job in 2022.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.87), we welcome social media marketer and podcaster Catherine Colombo. Catherine is the host and producer of the ‘Careers Through the Years Podcast’ on Spotify. She is also the founder of Muse of Media, where she provides small businesses with innovative, affordable marketing. In today’s episode, Martin and Catherine talk podcast startup inspiration, the pressures a lot of us feel to pick the ‘right’ career early on in our lives, and the best (and worst) of modern-day digital marketing. Check it out!

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast, Meg Murphy talks us through her layoff story as a Brand and Product Manager, and how she leveraged her community to bounce back and land a job during the pandemic.

This episode first premiered on October 14, 2020. We chose this episode as the fourth Career Therapy Rewind because honestly, Meg's a very articulate and well-spoken guest. Also, this episode contains a lot of real, practical, genuine advice on how to DO something after a layoff, create your own future, and move forward with your life. Crucial stuff.

This episode first premiered on May 19, 2020. We chose this episode as the third Career Therapy Rewind because Martin and Lia both give very candid advice on how to approach the job search (and networking) if you're shy, introverted, or inexperienced at reaching out.

Lia James has built her career across workforce development, curriculum design, inclusive hiring, writing, and storytelling, and joins us today to cover a myriad of topics centered around getting the job that’s right for YOU. She's a “connector with an innate ability for bringing people together.” Her “mind is in a constant daydream of solution-chasing and people-matching as if a large Rolodex of puzzle pieces were magically flipping through [her] head.” Our conversation touches on vulnerability, networking tips & tricks, and what actually works in the modern day job search.

Juliet is a self-proclaimed “incubatress of ideas,” and in this conversation, she and Martin discuss their shared interest in overcoming mental blocks. Juliet also talks about how she became a creative career coach after stints in television, broadcasting (at PBS), and professional mural painting.

We chose this episode as the second Career Therapy Rewind because Martin and Juliet specifically discuss how to work with unconventional and/or off-the-beaten path pieces of a lifetime. What should you do about a resumé gap? What if you were a professional poker player for a few years?? What if, like Martin, you sang in a ska band??? (Believe it.) These are less talked-about career challenges and something that Juliet’s not afraid to tackle.

Jason is the founder, front-end developer, and UX designer at gruntmonkey LLC, a small design practice specializing in process and development. He’s also the maker of limited edition show posters (through The Poster Works), a UX and web development instructor with General Assembly, a mentor, and a coffee roaster. His clients include NASA, M&M/MARS, and Boeing, and he prides himself on providing designs that maintain a balance of beauty and functionality. We chose this episode as the first Career Therapy Rewind because it contains some real practical advice on how to get (and then manage) clients. There's also a lot of reassurance and perspective around the nightmare of dealing with HR, extended interview processes, and what companies are actually going through when they’re hiring. Check it out!

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.80), we welcome Taylor Desseyn to the conversation. Taylor is a Sr. Recruiter at Vaco, has placed over 450+ people into their dream tech careers, hosts the Guidance Counselor 2.0 live show and podcast, and is a self proclaimed Recruiter Against Recruiters. In today’s convo we take a look behind the corporate and recruitment curtain, explore what an ideal hiring process would look like, and map out the future of finding a job in 2022. The world is changing and we need to change with it.

On this week's Career Therapy Podcast (e.78), we welcome Ann Marie Carrothers back for round TWO. SPONORED BY HIRECT: https://hirect.us/invitation?bdId=15 find a job with Hirect today :) (And yes, this is the second of Career Therapy’s first two-part conversation, about the overlap of dating and job searching. So, if you haven’t listened to part one, feel free to go back and check it out before listening to this episode.) For a little background, Ann Marie is a content strategist, digital educator, and founder of Public Privates, a project dedicated to helping people find love online safely by providing guidance on algorithms, AI facial recognition, and digital privacy + security. In today’s episode (part 2) we talk about how ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) and dating algorithms control our careers and love life, how to manipulate these systems with keywords that work in your favor, and what you can do to side-step the whole online sink-hole entirely, and get back to using these apps as tools, rather than crutches for your life.