As always, Epic Career Tales aims to inspire and educate you with real life chronicles of people who have overcome challenges, even adversity, to make huge changes in their career that have improved their quality of life and enhanced their sense of self-worth.
Dr. Brandie and her husband, Arthur, graduated top of their class. They had every reason to believe their chiropractic practice would thrive. Today they are, and Dr. Brandie has even …
Learn how Dr. Brandie went from nearly losing one chiropractic office to growing to two with plans in progress toward five.
Jack’s grit and passion helped him overcome dyslexia, lack of a college degree, and multiple economic crisis. He knows what it’s like to be an underdog, and through his company, …
She reinvented her career once after earning her Masters in Organizational Development and transitioned again from collegiate coach to the office of the Under Armour CEO and Founder, Kevin Plank. …
We can’t all be competitive athletes, but if you’re a big sports enthusiast chances are you follow sports, either online, through mass media, like the radio and TV, and some …
Learn how one man abandoned plans of a corporate career to become successful and wealthy trading stocks.
Ellen Fisher is a female entrepreneur who has a passion for volunteering and giving back as well as a great ability to network a room and make everyone in it …
Michelle Dale has a life that many would dream of. She can work from anywhere, at any time as a digital nomad. She has managed to make a sustainable living …
Kareen Walsh is a Solutions Strategist, Career Coach, Author, and Personal Adviser. She has been running her own coaching and consulting practice, Revampologist, for the last 5 years servicing clients in Colorado, New York, Montana, and San Francisco.
Katherine Glass honed her craft as an energy healer for as many years as it would take to earn a PhD. Since she was a child, she also had psychic …
Jessica Serran, a full time artist from a small farm in rural Ontario, managed to overcome the cliché struggle of the starving artist. She is now making art at an international level, traveling, lecturing, and doing the things that completely light her up. She is also working on helping other artists find their way to thrive in this potentially terrifying career.
Alison Laesser-Keck and her husband Bryan are Event Designers who have now figured out how to balance creating huge masterpiece events and traveling the world to keep their inspiration keen and their spirits high. They also balance the design and creation of these huge hundred thousand dollar events while also running a multi-million dollar business.
Nikki Goss, had a rock bottom of sorts, where the pain of going on as it was was scarier than committing to action. She got help, and that help along …
Jordan Boyes dove in full force after carefully planning, learning and networking. What he has achieved is Epic, and I know there are a lot of readers who will be …
Stefano Mini befuddled his family and countrymen and women by choosing to master eCommerce at a time when the internet wasn't very prevalent in Italy.
David Brennan was CEO of AstraZeneca. He retired years ago, but was recently engaged to be an interim CEO for Alexion Pharmaceuticals, then transitioned into Chairman of the Board. Get inspired by David's tale.
Patrick Macias’ story is inspiring because he decided at a young age he knew what he liked (Japanese cartoons), dove in head first, and found success as the editor-in-chief at Otaku USA, among many, many, other things.
Patti Hunt retired from teaching high school science in Philadelphia to become an entrepreneur to better serve her community and help others.
As a music minister and social media sensation, Darryn Zewalk has been using music, and now also the spoken word and books, to bring encouragement to the discouraged masses.
Mike Burton knew from a young age that making people laugh as a comedian was his calling in life and he hasn't look back since.
Signe Wilkinson was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, but she measures her success more by her impact.
Kristin Naigus discovered her love of music in high school. She switched career paths, became an instrumentalist and has never looked back.
With her experience as a Philadelphia firefighter, Jennifer Leary undertook a long journey to blazing a trail for the sake of pets, the family members who are also left homeless after a fire. No one has successfully launched non-profit effort like Red Paw Emergency Relief Team.
Chris Beveridge took the leap to self-employment and gradually built a passion-led business, which he eventually sold, and then started another. This journey of self-employment eventually led him to create and run The Fandom Post.
Pennsylvania State Senator Daylin Leach changed my mind about what being a politician means. You may disagree with PA State Senator Daylin Leach’s platform and his party, but I hope you will appreciate his candor, personality and his reasons for pursuing the EPIC career of a politician.
Marji J Sherman is a PR virtuoso turned Social Media master on Twitter. She shares her story of overcoming hardships and finding empathy- which has driven her career.
While the hype, both positive and negative, over this “gig economy” continues to explode, if you can embrace it like Angela, you will find that there is freedom in not being chained to a full-time job with benefits that enables you to pursue your passions.
Dr. Zimmerman knew from an early age that he wanted to help people, but how evolved over the years, and it would appear that he was very right about his calling.
Dan Hunt has always believed that he can do anything, and he has had not just one epic career as a Director, but almost was a pro athlete, enjoyed a successful career in broadcasting, and was an Adjunct Professor at Villanova and so much more!
Ariell Johnson didn’t wait very long in her Bookkeeping role before realizing that “some day” doesn’t always happen. She followed her dreams and and has created not only a brick and mortar happy place, but a community of people who previously had no place to be themselves together.
Mary Thomas Pickett was not unlike most wayward millennials, believing, “Success is a long shot, so I’m going to have my fun.” The thing that she thankfully realized was that her talent and her dreams were being squandered.
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