Our Authentic Careers | Weekly Conversations with Real People Who Are Finding Their Purpose

This week’s guest, Fred Baldassaro, offers listeners a front row seat on the incredible journey he’s taking to finding his most authentic career. Show Notes Fred Baldassaro, Fred Baldassaro Photography  Do you ever think about the concept of purpose or mission; or what it is I’m doing here on this planet? [1:01] Are you today… The post Capturing The Moments: Fred Baldassaro appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

In this week’s podcast, host Gur Tsabar discusses the career pains many of us feel. The post Career Tracks 014: Career Pain appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week’s guest, Brittany Wagner (@Brittany_MSgirl), offers listeners a front row seat on the incredible journey she’s taking to finding her most authentic career. Show Notes: Brittany Wagner, Athletic Academic Advisor, East Mississippi Community College and Netflix: Last Chance U Do you ever think about the concept of purpose or mission; or what it is I’m… The post Impacting With Care: Brittany Wagner appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week’s guest, Rachel Adams (@racheladamskw), offers listeners a front row seat on the incredible journey she’s taking to finding her most authentic career. Show Notes: Rachel Adams, Real Estate Agent & Life Coach Do you ever think about the concept of purpose or mission; or what it is I’m doing here on this planet?… The post Seeking Authenticity: Rachel Adams appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

In this week’s podcast, host Gur Tsabar tackles some of the hidden challenges we face in achieving authenticity. The post Career Tracks 013: Becoming Truly Authentic appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week’s guest, Wendy Braitman, offers listeners a front row seat on the incredible journey she took to finding her most authentic career. Show Notes: Wendy Braitman, Career Change Coach Do you ever think about the concept of purpose or mission; or what it is I’m doing here on this planet? [0:44] What is it… The post Dancing With Life: Wendy Braitman appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week’s guest, Sara Garibaldi, offers listeners a front row seat on the incredible journey she took to finding her most authentic career. Show Notes:  Sara Garibaldi, SVP NY Brand Practice Director, Ketchum Do you ever think about the concept of purpose or mission; or what it is I’m doing here on this planet? [0:43]… The post Guiding Light: Sara Garibaldi appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

On this week’s episode – I set out to remind you what you might have been like when you were younger. A couple of questions I regularly ask my guests require that they think back to what they were like and what they were thinking about their careers when they were younger. And so on today’s… The post Career Tracks 012: Your Younger Self appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week’s guest, Jocelin Martinez, offers listeners a front row seat on the incredible journey she took to finding her most authentic career. Show Notes:  Jocelin Martinez, Independent Communications Coach Do you ever think about the concept of purpose or mission; or what it is I’m doing here on this planet? [0:43] Are you today in… The post Humanizing Communications: Jocelin Martinez appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

What do you do when you realize at a pretty early age that the idea of helping, promoting and lifting up other women is fundamentally your mission in life? The unstated answer from this week’s guest seems actually to be quite simple: you go about the business of doing just that. So, if you want… The post Lifting Others Up: Mather Martin appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week’s post Thanksgiving episode of Our Authentic Careers comes to us, of all places, from singer/songwriter Bruno Mars — who was interviewed last week on 60 Minutes. Bruno closed the interview by telling correspondent Lara Logan in no uncertain terms : I WAS BUILT FOR THIS. And then goes on to say : It’s… The post Career Tracks 011: Born This Way appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

What better way to mark the one year anniversary of Our Authentic Careers than to bring on a former career coaching client of mine who, as we speak, is in the process of pulling off one of the most difficult stunts, and that is: the mid-career transition.  As you’ll soon hear, Stephanie Weston found herself… The post Coaching From Her Core: Stephanie Weston appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

I’m consistently struck by the consistencies in our paths. One of which – whether we like it or not – is that so many of us see to grow up with dueling concepts of what it is we think we should be or want to be when we grow up. For example, for this week’s… The post Serving The Public: Seth Jacobson appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week I have one simple aim: and that is to further refine what is without question one of the most important ideas when it comes to inhabiting your most perfect and authentic career: and it’s an idea I’m calling “Core Expression” and my personal belief – after conducting nearly 100 interviews (on this podcast… The post Career Tracks 010: Expressing Yourself appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week we are talking about the gut. Our gut instincts. And this seemingly simple – but in reality: really difficult – idea of paying close attention to what those instincts are actually telling us. This week’s guest and former colleague of mine, Allison Slotnick, seems to have mastered the art of listening to hers,… The post Digging For Insights: Allison Slotnick appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week’s episode with human development consultant and entrepreneur, Daniel Pitlik, is A doozie. It is power packed with incredibly valuable and immediately actionable nuggets of wisdom and advice.  One of the best pieces of advice that Daniel shares is this idea of taking small steps, many of them, like thousands of them – to help… The post Developing Humans: Daniel Pitlik appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

What I love about this week’s fantastic, open-book-of-a-guest: Christian author and editor: Katara Washington Patton, is her no-nonsense approach to navigating fear. Fundamentally, Katara comes with a deep belief that whatever she’s about to do next is gonna work out in her favor; and a deep faith: she relies on good ol fashioned prayer and on… The post Praying To Help: Katara Washington Patton appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

On this week’s podcast, I am jumping back into some of the nuggets that my 17th (Adrianna AG Bevilaqua), 18th (Allyson Downey), 19th (Gosia Ashby), and 20th (Jaime Schwartz Cohen) guests uncovered for us and will be playing some of their words back to you in the hopes that in some way you might hear… The post Career Tracks 009: Knowing the Signs appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

If ever there was a master class in how to read ones career and in how to course correct – when said career goes spiritually off the rails – this week’s conversation with my fantastically open-hearted guest, Melissa Palazzo, would be it. Suffice it to say: that when she was a young girl, Melissa had… The post Hearting The Path: Melissa Palazzo appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

On this week’s podcast, a credit analyst and counselor by the name of James Downing. A fantastic guest with a most compelling journey who has a lot of great insights to share. And for me, perhaps the most eye opening part my conversation with James, was the realization that in thinking about our careers – and… The post Counseling From His Core: James Downing appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

So let’s jump right into this week’s topic, and that is: Leaving Your Job. What I’d like to do today is to spend a bit of time probing the first 3 steps you must take, especially as a mid-career professional, to leave your place of employment, and to find a new one. And these steps… The post Career Tracks 008: Leaving Your Job appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

Could it be that our careers are in no small part these lifelong battlegrounds where our creative side has to duke it out with our practical side? The more I talk to our amazing guests, the more I’m coming to believe that no matter how you slice it or dice it, that battle is real… The post Practicing Practicality: David Rockland appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

On this week’s podcast: lawyer and advocate for the under-served and under voiced – Karen Gross – offers us what I think is a very forthright conversation about the trials and tribulations of carving out her most authentic path. As she makes clear in no uncertain terms: the not knowing what’s coming next – that… The post Voicing the Voiceless: Karen Gross appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

It’s one thing to vaguely know that your neighbor and friend owns a jet engine company. It’s a whole other thing to come to understand how Sam Jones actually achieved the life he’s created for himself… especially given that – as Sam explains it: he’s not supposed to be here; that growing up poverty stricken in… The post Breaking The Patterns of Life: Sam Jones appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

On this week’s Career Tracks segment of Our Authentic Careers, I am jumping back into some of the nuggets that my 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th guests uncovered for us, and will be playing some of their words back to you in the hopes that in some way you might hear them slightly differently than b4 and… The post Career Tracks 007: Achieving Clarity appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

On this week’s podcast, my former colleague, Katherine Ong, opens up about her path; and is particularly forthright about the impact that financial obligations had on the decisions she made along the way. And what I love about that is that it’s truly not dissimilar from many of the other guests I’ve had on the… The post Persuading From Her Core: Katherine Ong appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week’s guest is Ray Beharry (@RayBeharry) who in his career is part volunteer firefighter, part adjunct instructor at NYU and part digital marketer. I was struck by two things in particular about Ray’s career journey: first, that he applied to college for no other reason than seeing everyone else in his high school class doing… The post Helping Others Win: Ray Beharry appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

Today I present you yet another edition of the Career Tracks segment, which are the mini-sodes meant to showcase some of the ideas and learnings I’m picking up along the way from all the great conversations I’ve been having with my amazingly open-hearted guests. And on this week’s podcast, I am jumping back into some… The post Career Tracks 006: Things That Drive You appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week I present my now former colleague, Tim Weinheimer, who in the spirit of finding and following his most authentic career is leaving the confines of corporate America to launch a consulting venture of his own. Tim and I had a great conversation about his career journey to date, and what struck me as… The post Finding the Calm: Tim Weinheimer appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

Today, on this 5th edition of the Career Tracks segment, I am jumping back into some of the nuggets that my 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th guests uncovered for us and will be playing some of their words back to you in the hopes that in some way you might hear them slightly differently than… The post Career Tracks 005: When No One Is Looking appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

Jon Bellinger’s story is particularly potent for me because our career paths seem to have been shaped, for better or worse, by very similar forces…forces that it appears, created all sorts of weird pressures and expectations. Whether he fully intended to or not, Jon is extraordinarily nuanced and eloquent in describing these; and also in… The post Singing His Song: Jonathan Bellinger appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

I asked Abby Bilss Hodes, a longtime colleague of mine, to be on the podcast for a very specific reason, and that is: that she’s now been uniquely and specifically called out by two previous guests – AG Bevilaqua and most recently, last week’s guest – Josh Shabtai; and they both called her out for playing an… The post Relating to Her Publics: Abby Bliss Hodes appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

On this 4th edition of the Career Tracks segment – I dive back into some of the nuggets my first four guests uncovered for us – and play some of their words back to you — in the hope that, in some way, you might hear them slightly differently than before and find them even… The post Career Tracks 004: Thinking Out Loud appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

And on this week’s podcast, Josh Shabtai (@joshshabtai) provides what I think is a very entertaining look at how he’s gotten to be where he is today. And what I particularly appreciated about Josh’s recounting of his journey is the importance he’s placed and still paces on the people he works with. Their impact in… The post Disrupting Life: Josh Shabtai appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

My guest this week wrote and directed the 1998 blockbuster film, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and in this episode it is my objective to figure out how Kevin Sullivan first got and maintains his. What I love about Kevin’s story is that it’s built on top of an illustrious 30+ year career in Hollywood.… The post Deepening His Grooves: Kevin Sullivan appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week, I really want to hone in on what I believe is without question THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA when it comes to inhabiting your most perfect and authentic career: and it’s an idea I call “Core Expression” and my personal belief is that nothing matters more to your career path than identifying yours. Put simply:… The post Career Tracks 003: Your Core Expression appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

Lots of fantastic nuggets in this week’s conversation with my guest and former colleague – Melissa Flynn (@melflynn0) – who today runs her own Public Relations & Marketing consultancy, even though in college, ironically enough, Melissa was actually on path to becoming an engineer. What really piqued my interest about Melissa: was the level of… The post Navigating By Compass: Melissa Flynn appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

Towards the end of this week’s conversation, my guest makes a piercing observation, and it is this : “It didn’t matter what I wanted to be, I just wanted to make HER happy…” … and by HER, Brenda Hardson was referring simply to her mom, a woman who had given her so very much; and… The post Writing Between the Lines: Brenda Hardson appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

Welcome everyone to this week’s episode of Our Authentic Careers, and more specifically to my newly launched Career Tracks segment. My intention with the Career Tracks episodes is to periodically give you shorter and more digestible nuggets that I’ve gleaned from all the interviews I’ve conducted to date.  This week’s episode is about the one… The post Career Tracks 002: A Piece of Advice to Ignore appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week’s guest taps into one very core question that I and many others have had for a long time now, and that is: what is this educational path of ours really all about? If you think about it, we go to school, we get an education, and then all to many of us find… The post Mothering Life: Sara Speer Selber appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week, a very powerful interview with Kelly Butler, an Associate Creative Director and Copywriting freelancer in Chicago. Kelly leaves absolutely no stone unturned in the retelling of her journey, a journey that is without question still punctuated by her lingering desire for more. And early on in our conversation, Kelly captures perfectly THAT singular… The post Solving People’s Problems: Kelly Butler appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

What I think makes this week’s conversation particularly eye-opening is that my guest and colleague, Jaime Schwartz Cohen (@JaimeSchwartzRD), quite neatly puts on display for us the various aspects of her life that literally got her to where she is today. When you look behind the curtain, Jaime’s rapid rise becomes a little bit less mysterious.… The post Stepping Into Her Own Shoes: Jaime Schwartz Cohen appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

I really appreciated the conversation I had this week with Gosia Ashby, a realtor here in Southern California. As you’ll soon hear, she brings a very open and frank perspective to the unfolding of her career and to the purposeful path that continues to be carved out for her as we speak. Plus, she also… The post Building The Dream: Gosia Ashby appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

So this week, instead of interviewing someone new, I’m taking a look back at some of the lessons I’ve learned from the first 18 guests who have so graciously shared their journeys with us. This will be the first in a fairly sporadic series I’m calling Career Tracks – and what I’m hoping to do… The post Career Tracks 001: Being In The Wrong Job appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

For those of us whose career paths have not been on the straight and narrow, for those of us who have felt the pains that come with jumping around from job to job or profession to profession, and for those of us who have perhaps struggled to weave together the pieces that make up our… The post Living Entrepreneurially: Allyson Downey appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week’s guest, Adrianna Bevilaqua (@adriannagiuls), is today the Chief Creative Officer at the M Booth marketing and communications agency. Buckle up, because this conversation is chock full ‘o nuggets; and here’s just a sampling… First, much like was the case with Sue Maloney last week, AG’s career also took pretty sharp turn to where she… The post Synthesizing Work and Life: Adrianna Bevilaqua appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

This week’s guest – a Creative Director at the Ketchum global communications agency, Sue Maloney. You know, most weeks I ask my guests a question about that one piece of advice that their friends, family or colleagues consistently come up to them for — and the reason I’m asking that is because more and more… The post Coloring In Her Path: Sue Maloney appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

Amy Romero, a colleague of mine, was incredibly forthright in our conversation about the ups and downs of her career as well as about the fears and insecurities she felt along the way. And what she was able to crystalize for me — and hopefully for you as well — is just how those insecurities… The post Chiseling Her Masterpiece: Amy Romero appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

What I love about Chris Kooluris’s career journey is that it is firmly rooted in a thought that I think many of us have, but rarely express quite so crisply, and that is: that the canvas of life is at some fundamental level so unbearably boring. And so for Chris, the workplace has simply become… The post Trolling Boredom: Chris Kooluris appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

Ever wonder how much say we actually have in the unfolding of our careers? I ask because this week’s guest – Dr. Victoria Gross – felt such a strong impulse early on in life to become a doctor that she described it to me: as feeling like a silver bullet shot into the world to do… The post Healing By Sounding Board: Dr. Victoria Gross appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.

Joe Cooper has what he calls: “a very precise life vision” for himself in which he actively sees himself as a character in a movie of his life. Now THAT’s pretty darn fascinating… What I love about it is that Joe is in effect continuously tapping into an alternate reality, literally a reality that he’s painted… The post Envisioning a Most Perfect Future: Joe Cooper appeared first on Our Authentic Careers.