Welcome to My Network, a podcast about lives and careers and next steps to keep us moving forward. Every week your host, Sara Braas, delivers fresh content on finding and growing your career path. In addition to sharing business strategies gained from 20 years in marketing and sales operations, she is also interviewing positive, career-minded people to learn their secrets and insights.What challenges will you face as you grow your career, and how will you overcome them? How will you land your next job or promotion? Considering a career change? What should you consider when picking your new path? Is it really important to have a mentor? During these challenging days of Covid-19, how can you make your resume stand out? You've always heard about the importance of networking. How can you start building or growing your own network? Join us for these hot career topics and many more.
This episode is about finishing a project. Starting creative projects has always been exciting to me, but it's finishing them that's evaded me for years...until now. Now I'm on a mission to cross the finish line, and I hope this episode helps push you to get a project you are working on Done with a capital D.
In this episode, Sara dives into 1 important lesson we are all learning over and over again in our professional lives in 2020.
Today I get personal about breast cancer and birthdays. Just a friendly reminder, to get your screenings. Even during a pandemic!
Ever wonder why you aren't being taken more seriously at work? Maybe your personal brand isn't what it needs to be. Maybe how you are being perceived isn't how you think. In today's episode unlock the 7 steps to finding your personal brand.
In this solocast, Sara uncovers 4 life secrets of Warren Buffet and what you can do to put them into action in your own life.
Interview with Chief Investment Officer, Marisa Lizak, about running as an escape, the hospitality business, the economy, and what to have on your resume.
In this latest solocast, we address that moment in a job interview when they ask you, "Do you have any questions for us?"
This solocast episode is focused on job searching. Many of my listeners are currently out looking for jobs in this strange economic time. Listen in while we talk about the K-shaped recovery and how that may impact your search.
This solocast is all about reflecting on success and what it means to you to be successful. If you don't know what you are aiming for, how will you know when you've made it? Spend a few minutes with me today thinking about what success means for you.
This interview with my old boss Ed Huzyak. He's retired now and gives us a dose of perspective. Ed is all about relationships and boosting up the next generation of leaders. He has wonderful values. He looks back on a long, successful career and there is so much to learn from his experience.
6 keys to working on your network. This is the third and final part of the August workshop - Working on Your Network.
Part 2 of our August mini-series on building your network.
This is the first part of a 3-part workshop about networking and how to work on your network.
Recorded on June 19th, 2020, this episode focused more on the important conversation of race in the US than it did on Coronavirus or business strategy.
Join me while I talk to Mary Breedlove, the founder of Breedlove Beauty Lab, an Infrared Sauna Studio. We'll talk about her experience being closed during the first shutdown of this pandemic and how tough being an entrepreneur is at times like this.
Recorded on April 24th, 2020Today we are talking with Matthew Shukaitis in Brooklyn New York. Matthew and I used to work together at BMW Group and Matthew still works for MINI Cooper in social media marketing.Matthew is currently living in NY, in a tiny apartment. Today we are going to learn what it is like for a young marketer, living in NYC, when business is slow and the most exciting thing to do there is to go grocery shopping. This is not the NY he thought he was going to be living in. But he's keeping it positive.
My dear friend since kindergarten, the extremely talented, creative, and funny Amy Finn came to my rescue. She is mother to three children and she is working full time as a speech therapist in a school setting (on Zoom these days). She is surfing the challenges of schooling kids, having three kids to feed and clean up after at home, and being one of two adults in the household who are both working full time. All of this while they are planning a move to Cincinnati for her husband's job. I'm getting stressed out just typing this!
Artist and entrepreneur K'era Morgan pulls from her experiences to create art. In this episode we dig into what influence Covid-19 is having on that. We explore the tug between feeling productive and creative vs. taking this time to reflect. https://www.k-apostrophe.com/K'era's tips: When both people in a couple work from home, it's best for each to have their own space. Tune into nature; nature is living it up right now: the birds, butterflies, flowers; Skies are so clear; Grocery shop only every two weeks; check in on your elderly neighbors; take baths followed by Abhyanga self massages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhyanga; break up the monotony; watch sports documentaries specifically the Formula 1 documentary on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80204890; Book of short stories: The Heads of the Colored People book https://www.amazon.com/Heads-Colored-People-Nafissa-Thompson-Spires-ebook/dp/B074ZNMCN8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=EKRX0ETQ9005&dchild=1&keywords=heads+of+the+colored+people&qid=1587912984&sprefix=heads+of+%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1
As a Director of Marketing Communications and single mom of a 10-year old boy in Venice Beach, CA, Amanda has been working hard throughout this. She's busy and not taking her time or energy to worry about getting sick. Amanda's tips:Keep your immune system strong and avoid the over-coverage on news and social media. Don't have your head in the sand, but don't seek out information that overwhelms you as you are trying to live life though this. About home supplies she recommends "running 24 rolls deep" in toilet paper if you can find it and keep a stock of other supplies. She highly recommends homeopathy; Vitamin C; Elderberry gummies; eating donuts! And doing donut puzzles; short walks on Venice side streets and scooter rides, Medmen, and Thrivemarket.com
In this episode, we talk with Dr. JB Foshee in Dallas, TX. As a dermatologist, Dr. Foshee is not on the front lines, but she is serving her clients in the hospital that had the Ebola case. She brings her demand for data and information sharing to this episode. She also brings her huge heart, strong family ties, her sense of supporting her community, and her sense of humor. JB's tips:Get your routine skin exams over telehealth with your MD rather than skipping them; plant a garden for your parents and family; laugh at #dadjokes; post pandemic makeovers; helping neighbors; be careful of feeling isolated when living alone.JB's recommended news media: Rachel Maddow https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show; Pubmed https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/, Sanjay Gupta's Coronavirus podcast https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/corona-virus; High praise for Dallas Judge Clay Jenkins https://www.dallascounty.org/government/comcrt/jenkins/JB's Entertainment: Go for laughs, amuse your nephew on his favorite app. Saucy Velocy on tiktok.com; Book Where the Crawdad Sings https://www.amazon.com/Where-Crawdads-Sing-Delia-Owens/dp/0735219095Ozark Season 3 on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552Orthodox on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/81019069
In this very first episode, we are speaking with Nicole in Santa Monica, CA. Nicole has a great outlook and perspective on life in general, as well as on this current crisis. It's interesting to get her take on life in LA during quarantine and what she is doing to stay connected and to get through. Nicole’s tips:Shop small, local grocery stores (like https://www.shoopsdeli.com/ and http://www.bobsmkt.com/); Make fresh pasta - (Imperia pasta machine); Jumping in the ocean without getting busted by lifeguards; Doing Katonah Yoga https://www.katonahyoga.com/about http://www.loveyogaspace.com/; Jumping rope; Watching rom coms
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