Podcast appearances and mentions of alison cardy

Alison Cardy, author of “Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career,” is a certified career coach who has guided hundreds of people at career crossroads to find innovative and functional career solutions. She encourages people to get clarity by self-analysis, but just as important, by taking action. In this interview she shares why people get stuck at crossroads and recommends steps to get unstuck. Alison’s work has been featured on Monster, Forbes, the Huffington Post, and the Chicago Tribune.

Hello everyone and thank you for joining me. I have a special episode for you this week. As we are heading into the New Year and you are visualizing and commenting to what you want to create in the coming year I thought we could get some inspiration from some of my recent guests. I hope you are as energized and inspired by their words as I am.   201: Dana Malstaff on Seeing Your Value as a Mom and Businesswoman “Ah, but a man's [or woman’s] reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?” ~ Robert Browning boss-mom.com   202: Elizabeth Williams-Riley on Being Open to Loving Everyone “You never know how much your past will affect your future until it shows up in your present.” ~ Elizabeth Williams-Riley americanconferenceondiversity.org   203: Rene Brent on Happiness & Subconscious Mind “Do something every day that scares you.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt PracticeHappyNow.com ReneBrentHypnosis.com   204: Tara Lynn Foster on Situational Confidence “Fear is stupid, so are regrets.” ~ Marilyn Monroe “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” Phillipains 4:6-7 taralynnfoster.com   205: Lee Hews on Leading with Action “It’s all about balance.” ~ Lee Hews mainewomenmagazine.com   206: Kara Lamerato on Owning You are a Leader “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” ~ Rosa Parks weddingplanningpodcast.co   207: Ariana Sylvester on Not Wanting to Be a Burden “Be the kind of leader that you would follow.” serialstartups.co/join   208: Jen Hecht on Similarities Between Business & Dating “Let’s get it together, sisters!” thedatingadvisoryboard.com   209: Lolly Daskal on How Curiosity & Self-Reflection Can Set You Free “Greatness is a destiny that is available to anyone. We just have to choose it." lollydaskal.com   210: Erin Robbins on How to Give So Everyone Wins “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~ Thomas Edison ginzametrics.com/   211: Kara Snyder on How to Overcome Type-A Burnout “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” ~Colette vitalcorpswellness.com   212: Jen Glantz on Creating a Unique Business “Never, never, never give up” jenglantz.com   213: Lindsey Anderson on Being Truthful with Yourself “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”  ~ Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple. oneclicklindsey.com   214: Andi Simon on Making Change a Doable Opportunity “We take observation into innovation.” simonassociates.net/   215: David Lee on Creating Safety in Conversations “Better results require better conversations.” humannatureatwork.com/   216: Stephanie Breedlove on Turning Point Moments “Never allow a person to tell you no who does not have the power to say yes.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt stephaniebreedlove.com/   217: Lynda Adams on Being Mindful of Those Who Influence You “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord, your God, is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 successfulbalancedliving.com   218: Diane Gardner on How to Stop Believing the Lies “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” taxcoach4you.com   219: Maggie Patterson on the Value of Unplugging “I run this day. This day does not run me, because otherwise, chaos will ensue.” scoopindustries.com   220: Joe De Sena on How to Begin Believing You Can “It could be worse.” spartan.com   221: Alison Cardy on Walking Toward Fear “Your real life, your whole life is worth getting your heart broken a few thousand times.” ~ Martha Beck cardycareercoaching.com   222: Rita Morales on Leaping to Big and Scary “You are enough.” ritamorales.com   223: Naomi Amat on the Need to Nourish Yourself “By nurturing you, you can better nurture your family too.” livinglifeonthespectrum.com   224: Lisa Woodruff on Leaning In To What You Are Good At “Done is better than perfect.” “Progress over perfection.” organize365.com   225: Megan Kelly on Creating the Experiences You Want to Have “Better to ask forgiveness than permission.” “Nevertheless, she persisted.” honorsociety.tv   226: Jenn Aubert on Identifying How You Want to Be of Service “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” learnsavvy.co   227: Elizabeth Moss on Challenges Creating Opportunities for a Thriving Art Gallery “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”  ~ Benjamin Franklin elizabethmossgalleries.com/about   228: Amanda O’Brien on Being a Leader Who Serves a Community “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed in the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do.” takeflyte.com   229: Kelly Roach on Respecting the Stages of Entrepreneurship “Be the best that you can be in everything that you do.” kellyroachcoaching.com   230: Carol Mitchell on Breaking Female Stereotypes “What do you care what other people think?” ~ Richard Feynman tsphr.com   231: Jen Brown on Making Moves When You Feel It “You aren’t pizza. You won’t please everyone.” theengagingeducator.com   232: Christina Vinters on What’s Possible When You Shed Self-Limiting Beliefs “If you want to fly, give up what weighs you down.” ~Toni Morrison modernseparations.com   233: Katie Krimitsos on Becoming the Version of You Who Can “Stay in your lane.” bizwomenrock.com   234: Katie Allen on Being Both Planner & Risk Taker “The two most important days of your life are the day that you’re born and the day you figure out why.” ~ Mark Twain viaONEHOPE.com   235: Hira Ali on Believing “You’ve Got This!” “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” ~ Henry Ford advancingyourpotential.com   236: Maegan Watson on Evolving Your Business “We are not given dreams or ideas without the ability to create them. We are not given the vision of ourselves without the bravery to being this vision to life. All you have to do is tell yourself that you are worth it, over and over.” watsonstylegroup.com   237: Melissa Hereford on How to Get What You Want “The only thing to fear is fear itself.” ~ FDR “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the shoot.” ~ Tina Fey MelissaHereford.com   238: Sari de la Motte on Trusting Your Gut “People won’t remember what you said, but they’ll remember what they felt.” ~ Maya Angelou nonverbalforte.com   239: Giovanna Capozza on Finding Your Meaning of Happiness “You’re not doing this alone.” sherisespodcast.com   240: Lynette Delane on “You Don’t Need that Piece of Paper!” “Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you are.” ~ Brene Brown kitsandbits.com.au   241: Anne L’Heureux on Empowering Those You Lead “Do and believe that which leads you to your goals.” ~ Tom Bilyeu fueltrainovercome.com   242: Alissa Daire Nelson on Not Feeling Good Enough “Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you.” daire2succeed.com   243: Elizabeth Ross Holmstrom on Using Mindfulness to Combat Stress “There’s no such thing as a weird human being, it’s just that some people might require more understanding than others.”  ~ Tom Robbins breaktogether.net   244: Suzanne Anderson on the Evolution of Women “The place life calls you to, where the most aliveness is, is where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” ~ Frederick Buechner mysterialwoman.com   245: Brian Ligotti on Rethinking What You “Have To” Do “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think” ~ Rumi dirigofitness.com   246: Kristy Wallace on Finding Balance by Releasing Perfection “Love what you do.” facebook.com/EllevateNetwork/   248: Angela Lussier on Speaking Your Voice “Stop waiting. Start creating.” angelalussier.us   249: Keisha Reynolds on the Valuable Risk to Be You “There is something inside of us that transcends the human experience of race, and culture, and class, and for me that’s the human spirit.” keishareynolds.com   250: Alexa Gilmore on Coming Back to Your Body “Be the first. The first to say hello. The first to compliment the other person. The first to give credit. The first to say sorry. The first to offer to help. The first to show up for someone else. The first to set an example. The first to offer hope. The first to shine. Be the first.” ~ Chris Winfield atxacu.com   251: Kelly Gushue on Helping Women to Succeed “Carpe Diem.” ~Horace PersonalFinanceWarrior.com   252: Randi Levin on Living Your Legacy “We tend to think of our legacy as something we leave behind at the end of our lives, but what would you do differently today if you believed that you had the choice to carve out exactly what you wanted that legacy to be in real time? Manifest that concept and magically you do have that choice. You are your own GPS in your life. Start by having a voice. Say yes by listening to that voice. What’s next? Now is your new next.” randilevincoaching.com   If you loved this episode you are also going to love The Quotes From the First 100 Episodes and Another 100 Quotes to Take on the Go. If you listened to this episode and got fired up to make things happen in the coming year but you are feeling lost or doubtful around how to make it happen, reach out to me. You can find me at jodi@womentakingthelead.com. I would love to hear from you and help you to achieve all your goals this year. As always, I hope this was of value to you and here's to your success. Thank You to Our Sponsors! Zebralove Web Solutions: Your website tells a story about your business! At Zebralove Web Solutions, Milly and her team are going to make sure your website tells the story you want your customers to hear. Connect with Milly at zebralovewebsolutions.com to create the impression you want to make! Resources Create Goals that are Worthy of you: If you are done with either pursuing vanilla goals, suffering through the struggle of goals that are not aligned with your strengths, or dealing with heartbreak of an unattainable goal this online mini-course is for you! Private Facebook Community: Chat, share and collaborate with other women listening to the podcast! Accomplished: How to Go from Dreaming to Doing: A simple, step by step system that gives you the foundation and structure to take your goals and make them happen. Subscribe to Women Taking the Lead If you enjoyed this episode subscribe in iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play Music or iHeart Radio and never miss out on inspiration and community!

Sorry, no magic in this episode, instead a highly structured thinker with a love for optimization determined the most effective, quickest path to career clarity through her work with hundreds of professionals. Host Justin Dux asks guest Alison Cardy to share her journey, insights, and offer advice for the modern job seeker to find their best career. Favorite moment: "I have a lot of smart people try to think themselves in circles. Hoping that if they think about it long enough the answer will just come to them." Check out this episode to hear her explain her signature process, or "Spell". The C.L.A.R.I.T.Y process breaks through career confusion in even the smartest clients. Producer, Omar Elkoton

Sorry, no magic in this episode, instead a highly structured thinker with a love for optimization determined the most effective, quickest path to career clarity through her work with hundreds of professionals. Host Justin Dux asks guest Alison Cardy to share her journey, insights, and offer advice for the modern job seeker to find their best career. Favorite moment: "I have a lot of smart people try to think themselves in circles. Hoping that if they think about it long enough the answer will just come to them." Check out this episode to hear her explain her signature process, or "Spell". The C.L.A.R.I.T.Y process breaks through career confusion in even the smartest clients. Producer, Omar Elkoton

Alison Cardy is a career truth-teller who believes in living a life that actually feels like your own. She and her team have helped nearly 200 professionals find a great career fit through her proven CLARITY process. She is the author of the bestselling Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured on Fast Company, Forbes, The Washington Post, and The Muse. She is a frequent speaker at universities and alumni groups including Harvard, MIT, Georgetown, and her alma mater, The University of Maryland. She leads an international team of 6 career coaches and runs a 6 figure business.

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Alison Cardy is a career truth teller who believes in living a life that actually feels like your own. She and her team have helped nearly 200 professionals find a great career fit through her proven CLARITY process.  Alison is the author of the bestseller, Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured on Monster, Forbes, The Muse, Undercover Recruiter, and The Washington Post.  Find out more at cardycareercoaching.com.   Ready to kick-start your career? Go to cool.careerkickstartacademy.com to start evolving your career with tested tactics.

Alison Cardy helped 200 professionals reinvent themselves and start new, fulfilling careers. Now she shares her insights in this podcast interview.

Alison Cardy helped 200 professionals reinvent themselves and start new, fulfilling careers. Now she shares her insights in this podcast interview.

In this episode, career coach, Alison Cardy shares with us her unique approach that lessens the overwhelming feeling in a successful career pivot.  Alison explains how it doesn't need to months to accomplish and is so worth the effort. Once in the right setting, the sky is the limit to your success.    Enjoy :)

Alison Cardy helped 200 professionals reinvent themselves and start new, fulfilling careers. Now she shares her insights in this podcast interview.

Alison of  Cardy Career Coaching stops in to talk to us about her journey from accountant to strategic career consultant. She is so transparent about her journey and all of the things that she felt helped her along the way. This was an awesome episode!  "How can you keep serving people that already love you?" Guest: Alison Cardy CardyCareerCoaching.com Host: Dei Lake @DeiLake  SuccessonDemand.co @_OfficialSOD FB Group: "Success on Demand" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/successondemand/support

For Episode 88 of The CareerMetis Podcast, we will be continuing the Career Expert Series; and we will be hearing from Alison Cardy.This interview is part of the “Career Expert Series“.Guest Introduction – Alison CardyAlison is a career truth teller who believes in living a life that actually feels like your own. She and her team have helped nearly 200 professionals find a great career fit through her proven clarity process.After attending university for accounting, and realizing it wasn't a good fit, Alison decided that there had to be something she could do that would be more suited to her.Episode Summary1. Alison discusses the ramifications, both internally and externally that comes along with being in the wrong job or career path.2. Alison also talks about those people who “have everything figured out” and what really went on to make that possible for them, and how other people may have more work to do.3. She expands on what a career truth teller is, and why it's so crucial to get an unbiased solution to the question “Do I even want to be doing this?”. So many organizations praise starting a business, or going back to school because of an agenda they have tied to the outcome, whereas Alison is simply trying to get to the truth of what her client really wants.4. She talks about the value of mining your history and past to find relevant things to help you determine what kind of career you would love to be a part of.5. She also brings up the value in having another person there to help guide the process, rather than trying to do exercises from a general book or program and slowing yourself down.6. Alison leaves us with some profound final thoughts. She encourages people to act in-spite of fear and give themselves a chance to get to a better place, and it makes a huge difference in their careers and lives.Quotes“I didn't know that a career coach was a career”“People can have ill health effects linked to a job that's the wrong fit”“There's nothing wrong with you”“Some people it happened for them, some people need to make it happen”“They're designed to help you on whatever path they are selling”“Not everybody has the same level of risk tolerance or ambition”“Bring another brain into the situation”“The worst day in my new career is better than my best day in my old job”Links & ResourcesTo learn more about Alison Cardy and for additional resources, you can visit his website Cardy Career Coaching.You can also connect with Alison on Linkedin or Twitter.Intro Music provided courtesy of Accelerated Ideas (www.accelerated-ideas.com). Soundtrack – Siren KickbackEnding Music provided courtesy of Accelerated Ideas (www.accelerated-ideas.com). Soundtrack – No Need to Rush See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is the moment a lot of you have been waiting for! After talking about the future of the podcast and how we're going to start Season 2, you finally get to hear from our candidates for the next host of The Mentee. Enjoy! Alison Cardy - applied as Season 3 host because she has received so much value since listening to the Mentee Podcast. She wants to give back to this community who has helped lift her up. 1. Aiming to grow coaching business to a million dollars in revenue. 2. Wants to influence the audience to take more action. Help them move forward. https://www.cardycareercoaching.com/ https://youtu.be/Grsyw3fOQ8Q https://www.amazon.com/Career-Grease-Unstuck-Pivot-Your/dp/0692654518   Tallal Gondal - has a full time job and knows he is stuck. Wants to go from employee to entrepreneur. Tallal has been a listener since Geoff started the Mentee Podcast. 1. At end of Season 3 has started a business, become an entrepreneur and will be able to leave his full time job. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTMC3LPh_m-4X4clTPdv1eA/featured   Natalee Champlin - busy mother of 3 who wants to add value to others like she has gained from listening to the Mentee Podcast. Like Tallal, Natalee has been a listener since the beginning when Geoff created the Mentee Podcast. What value can you bring? 1. Going from Entrepreneur to Purposeful Entrepreneur. Build a business she can walk away from. Wants to stop being a technician as described in the E-Myth. 2. Document her journey on YouTube. https://www.nataleechamplin.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/nataleechamplin The #1 specific measurable? 1. Build a course, a product like she's done for other companies. 2. Be consistent building her platform documenting her journey. 3. Establish relationships and build a launch team with an email list of 100,000 people. Well there you have it… our conversations with the top 3 finalists for Season 3's Mentee! Go here and vote today: http://menteepodcast.com/menteevote   Links & Tools From This Episode * http://menteepodcast.com/menteevote * http://menteepodcast.com/   Join The Inner Circle * http://www.menteepodcast.com/innercircle   If you've enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the Mentee Podcast on iTunes and leave us a review for the show. * Free Resources at http://menteepodcast.com/resources/

Alison Cardy shares her story of helping others find the right career leading them find fulfillment in life. This journey of discovery of the dream career needs the support of others. Their perspective can help you gain new perspective on things you may have been missing. Alison give us insight into how we can start this journey that will lead us to the career of our dreams. In the episode we learn how we can get unstuck, remove the obstacles, push past fear, and build momentum in our journey.Alison Cardy is a career truth teller who believes in living a life that actually feels like your own. She and her team have helped nearly 200 professionals find a great career fit through her proven CLARITY process. She is the author of the bestselling Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured on Fast Company, Forbes, The Washington Post, and The Muse. She is a frequent speaker at universities and alumni groups including Harvard, MIT, Georgetown, and her alma mater, The University of Maryland. She leads an international team of 6 career coaches and runs a 6 figure business.Website: https://www.cardycareercoaching.com/

My guest today, on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots free podcast interview is a lady who like most of us start on a career path that was right for our parents, but not necessarily ourselves. To be honest it probably wasnt even right for our parents, which makes it doubly mad that we passively follow suit First, she followed the engineering path of her father and older brother, then stepped onto her mother's career path in accounting. “I was just showing up. I was physically there, but I wasn't bringing a whole lot to the table.  I knew it wasn't the right path for me, but I struggled for a couple of years.” And struggling is what its all about when we arent doing the thing that is right for us. But how do we break free from the struggle and start lighting up the passions of a life which may actually have no idea that we want? Well while still working as an accountant, our guest volunteered for a crisis and suicide hotline and as she say. “That was a real breakthrough for me. It gave me an opportunity to be in the kind of helping role I had thought I would like. I received amazing training there. I got experience actually helping people. I got validation and learned for the first time that I was really good at it. I was quickly promoted to be a trainer within that organization.” And that is how it starts people. You try lots of things. Some work, some don't. But when other start seeing your talents and saying great things, then perhaps that is where your attention should go. You may not see it at the time, but being told nice things about your performance is a great indicator that you have talents that can be used for a business. And now our guest, is an author of Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career, and an expert career coach who has guided hundreds of people to innovative and functional career solutions. She is a practical advocate for achieving your heart's desires, improving your workweek, and making a difference, all while keeping an eye on your financial success. So why does she think that now she has found her thing, it took her several missteps to find it? And is there a real path for everyone, or are someone people never going to find it as it simply doesn't exist for some? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Alison Cardy Show Highlights During the show we discussed such weighty topics with Alison Cardy such as: Alison shares how she struggled with marketing her business, which held her back from truly expanding in the direction she wanted before realising her mistake. Alison shares how we can all pivot in our careers, and believes that the first step is to find a champion that can support you moving forward. How the world cannot believe that they can do what they want in life, and they can actually make it happen too. Total mindset shift. and lastly…. Alison shares how she spent many years living in her head, unhappy, depressed, not uncommon to many of the people who now uses her services.  

Alison Cardy, founder and CEO of Cardy Career Coaching, developed her signature career CLARITY method because she experienced firsthand the pain, frustration, and worry that grows out of being in the wrong career, particularly when you know you have more to offer the world. She is the author of the bestseller: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her insights and writing have been featured on over forty podcasts and prominent blogs. Alison runs an international career coaching team specialising in guiding people and career changes. Her unique ability is zeroing in on the perspective shifts and those small tweaks that create the biggest positive results. We talked about the emotional and psychological effects of staying in a job or career that really doesn't light you up. The difference between internal happiness and external success and what's really going on when you look like you have it all together but inside you feel lost. Alison shared some positive steps and strategies that you can use straight away to start making a difference. I hope you enjoy our conversation Diana

This past week turned out to be the week of talking about fears. In last weeks 100% Jodi I talked about all the fears I was confronted with when I was training for and competing in the Spartan Race. I had forgotten that the title I chose for Alison Cardy's episode was Walking Toward Fear and then the Eleanor Roosevelt quote my assistant chose for the newsletter, originally shared by Nikki Wetherell in her powerful interview in episode 104, had to do with fear. We’ve got some momentum going so let’s lean into it. One of my favorite life quotes is: "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." ~ Helen Keller Hellen Keller is one of my idols. She is right up there with Mother Teresa and Anne Frank. These three women experienced horrific adversity and risk in their life but each one found a way to remain positive, optimistic and soft. They each felt fear, found acceptance in their life situations and were able to do tremendous good as a result. According to Cheryl Strayed in her book Wild, “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, but for the most part, it worked.” We have to rewrite our fear stories if we want to free ourselves from a life of limits. If we are too afraid to roll the dice and experience risk then the risk we are actually taking is living an unfulfilled half-life. Do you wonder why so many people are bored and antsy and looking for diversion? They’ve been playing it safe for too long. For a lot of you the risk is going to look like being still and just being with yourself for a while. You’re afraid if you do so all the things you don’t like and find lacking in yourself will bubble up and overwhelm you. All those stories you have about yourself and what you fear might happen if you owned how talented, knowledgeable and experienced you are. If you owned it and started telling and showing people how amazing you are you’re afraid you’ll get called out publicly ridiculed for being a fraud. And here’s what’s going to sound crazy. That grueling, punishing story you have – that’s your way of playing it safe. You know if you continue to not believe in yourself you don’t have to take any risks. What stories do you tell yourself that induce fear and keep you playing safe? In her TED Talk, Shonda Rhimes stated, “A crazy thing happened — the very act of doing the thing that scared me undid the fear. It’s amazing the power of one word. ‘Yes’ changed my life. ‘Yes’ changed me.” When I first heard about Shonda Rhimes book, Year of Yes, I was turned off by it. I thought she wrote a book about saying yes to everything, which as you know I’m opposed to. Then I found out her book was about saying yes to the things she was afraid of and I was all in. I love the saying “do something every day that scares you” because I know by exposing ourselves to fear on a regular basis we desensitize ourselves to its paralyzing impact. In People magazine Dolly Parton shared, “The key to my success has always been that my desire to succeed has always been greater than my fear.” And that’s just it. You have to focus on the goal, the mission, your Why, however you want to say it. Your desire to be successful has to be greater than your fear. When you focus on the end goal the fear starts to dissipate and you find the ability to get in action. And if mocking and making light of fear is more helpful to you then listen in to what Elizabeth Gilbert has to say on the subject, “YOUR FEAR IS BORING. …Fear is boring, because fear only ever has one thing to say to us, and that thing is: ‘STOP!’… My fear wants me to stop, because my fear wants me to be safe, and my fear perceives all motion, all inspiration, all work, all activity, all passion whatsoever as potentially life-threatening. My fear wants me to live a smaller life. The smallest imaginable life, ideally. My fear would prefer that I never got out of bed. Your fear is the same. Exactly the same as mine. I guarantee it.” It’s perfectly normal to feel fear. And fear is like a beacon to get us to take a look at something that might be lurking under the surface (usually a self-limiting belief that needs to be rewritten), but fear is not a reason to hold back or stop. For many of you fear is causing you to hold back your gifts and your superpowers from the world. You keep them hidden so no will judge you or find you lacking. But it’s a trick. In order for you to live your best life you must risk everything you fear on the chance that you could change the world. I have to share the Eleanor Roosevelt quote Nikki Wetherell originally shared in Episode 104. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You absolutely can handle the next thing that comes along. And until it does, keep doing your thing. That’s how you prepare for the unexpected – you live each day doing your best. What I also find to be true is that we gain confidence in numbers. If you are afraid of something find some company. Stop trying to go it alone. If you can get help from me or from a community please reach out to me and we can talk through what would be the best fit for you. You can reach me at jodi@womentakingthelead.com. I’ll leave you with this gem from and unknown source, "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic." I hope this was of value to you and here’s to your success! Thank You to Our Sponsors Freshbooks: The all new FreshBooks makes ridiculously easy accounting software that’s completely transformed how freelancers and small business owners deal with their day-to-day paperwork. Get a 30 day, unrestricted free trial go to FreshBooks.com/lead and enter WOMEN TAKING THE LEAD in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. altMBA: Seth Godin’s altMBA workshop is an intensive leadership and management workshop designed for changemakers who have a fire in the belly. This is for people who are itching to level up and make a bigger impact. Find out more at:  altmba.com/womentakingthelead Zebralove Web Solutions: Your website tells a story about your business! At Zebralove Web Solutions, Milly and her team are going to make sure your website tells the story you want your customers to hear. Connect with Milly at zebralovewebsolutions.com to create the impression you want to make! Resources Private Facebook Community: Chat, share and collaborate with other women in the community! Accomplished: How to Go from Dreaming to Doing: A simple, step by step system that gives you the foundation and structure to take your goals and make them happen. The Accomplished Community: A community of entrepreneurial Type A women uniting to achieve their biggest goals with confidence, integrity and a sense of humor. Subscribe to Women Taking the Lead If you enjoyed this episode subscribe in iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play Music or iHeart Radio and never miss out on inspiration and community!

Alison Cardy is a career coach who runs an international career coaching team specializing in guiding people through career changes. Her team’s work focuses on that crucial step before job searching: helping you figure out what it is you actually want to be doing with your life. She and her team have guided hundreds of people, in every industry imaginable, to innovative and functional career solutions. Alison is the author of the 5-star rated, bestseller, Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured on Monster, Forbes, The Muse, Undercover Recruiter, and The Washington Post.   Click to tweet: .@cardycareers is sharing her story to inspire you on Women Taking the Lead https://womentakingthelead.com/221 #inspiration Playing Small Moment Alison was so used to following the path her parents put in front of her, that she got stuck in a safe routine. Realizing she had to break out of the cycle, she hopped on the Metro to DC for a solo trip. Once she stepped out of the fear, she looked around and saw it for what it was. The Wake Up Call Alison naturally focuses internally. When she transitioned into leading team, she realized things were getting a little rocky. Alison realized there was a blindspot getting in her way and had to refocus. Style of Leadership Alison takes care of herself, but is always trying to look at ways she can lift up the people in her world. She wants people to know she is not just in it for her, but them too. What Are You Excited About? Alison is excited about her book, “Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career” Current Business Challenge Alison enjoys work and sometimes struggles to turn off her work brain in the middle of the night. Leadership Practice Alison actually cares. Advice For Younger Self “Keep doing those scary things.” Inspirational Quote “Your real life, your whole life is worth getting your heart broken a few thousand times.” ~Martha Beck Links Website: http://www.cardycareercoaching.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cardycareercoaching/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/cardycareers LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisoncardy Thank You to Our Sponsors Freshbooks: The all new FreshBooks makes ridiculously easy accounting software that’s completely transformed how freelancers and small business owners deal with their day-to-day paperwork. Get a 30 day, unrestricted free trial go to FreshBooks.com/lead and enter WOMEN TAKING THE LEAD in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. altMBA: Seth Godin's altMBA workshop is an intensive leadership and management workshop designed for changemakers who have a fire in the belly. This is for people who are itching to level up and make a bigger impact. Find out more at: altmba.com/womentakingthelead Zebralove Web Solutions: Your website tells a story about your business! At Zebralove Web Solutions, Milly and her team are going to make sure your website tells the story you want your customers to hear. Connect with Milly at zebralovewebsolutions.com to create the impression you want to make! Resources Private Facebook Community: Chat, share and collaborate with other women in the community! Accomplished: How to Go from Dreaming to Doing: A simple, step by step system that gives you the foundation and structure to take your goals and make them happen. The Accomplished Community: A community of entrepreneurial Type A women uniting to achieve their biggest goals with confidence, integrity and a sense of humor. Subscribe to Women Taking the Lead If you enjoyed this episode subscribe in iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play Music or iHeart Radio and never miss out on inspiration and community!

Alison Cardy Alison Cardy focuses on working moms who want to really make the most out of their time away from home.   In this episode, we talked about: How she started out as a dissatisfied accountant and moved into volunteering in a crisis hotline to coach training. Her team of career coaches and how […]

About Alison Cardy Alison Cardy is an expert coach who runs an international career coaching team specializing in guiding people through career changes. Her team's work focuses on that crucial step before job searching: helping you figure out what it is you actually want to be doing with your life. She and her team have guided hundreds of people, in every industry imaginable, to innovative and functional career solutions. Alison personally coaches a handful of select clients on creating greater alignment and success in their life, love, and work. Her unique ability is zeroing in on the perspective shifts and small tweaks that create the biggest positive results. Alison is the author of the 5-star rated, bestselling book, Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured on Monster, Forbes, The Muse, Undercover Recruiter, and The Washington Post. Her home on the web is at cardycareercoaching.com. She is the black sheep of her family of accountants and engineers, a rare DC area native, and unusually patient, positive, and kind. A former swimmer, soccer player, and ultimate frisbee player, she loves all things athletic. Her two current hobbies are CrossFit and yoga. Connect with Alison Cardy cardycareercoaching.com Facebook Twitter Linkedin   episode 295

About Alison Cardy Alison Cardy is an expert coach who runs an international career coaching team specializing in guiding people through career changes. Her team's work focuses on that crucial step before job searching: helping you figure out what it is you actually want to be doing with your life. She and her team have guided hundreds of people, in every industry imaginable, to innovative and functional career solutions. Alison personally coaches a handful of select clients on creating greater alignment and success in their life, love, and work. Her unique ability is zeroing in on the perspective shifts and small tweaks that create the biggest positive results. Alison is the author of the 5-star rated, bestselling book, Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured on Monster, Forbes, The Muse, Undercover Recruiter, and The Washington Post. Her home on the web is at cardycareercoaching.com. She is the black sheep of her family of accountants and engineers, a rare DC area native, and unusually patient, positive, and kind. A former swimmer, soccer player, and ultimate frisbee player, she loves all things athletic. Her two current hobbies are CrossFit and yoga. Connect with Alison Cardy cardycareercoaching.com Facebook Twitter Linkedin   episode 295

About Alison Cardy Alison Cardy is an expert coach who runs an international career coaching team specializing in guiding people through career changes. Her team's work focuses on that crucial step before job searching: helping you figure out what it is you actually want to be doing with your life. She and her team have guided hundreds of people, in every industry imaginable, to innovative and functional career solutions. Alison personally coaches a handful of select clients on creating greater alignment and success in their life, love, and work. Her unique ability is zeroing in on the perspective shifts and small tweaks that create the biggest positive results. Alison is the author of the 5-star rated, bestselling book, Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured on Monster, Forbes, The Muse, Undercover Recruiter, and The Washington Post. Her home on the web is at cardycareercoaching.com. She is the black sheep of her family of accountants and engineers, a rare DC area native, and unusually patient, positive, and kind. A former swimmer, soccer player, and ultimate frisbee player, she loves all things athletic. Her two current hobbies are CrossFit and yoga. Connect with Alison Cardy cardycareercoaching.com Facebook Twitter Linkedin   episode 295

About Alison Cardy Alison Cardy is an expert coach who runs an international career coaching team specializing in guiding people through career changes. Her team's work focuses on that crucial step before job searching: helping you figure out what it is you actually want to be doing with your life. She and her team have guided hundreds of people, in every industry imaginable, to innovative and functional career solutions. Alison personally coaches a handful of select clients on creating greater alignment and success in their life, love, and work. Her unique ability is zeroing in on the perspective shifts and small tweaks that create the biggest positive results. Alison is the author of the 5-star rated, bestselling book, Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured on Monster, Forbes, The Muse, Undercover Recruiter, and The Washington Post. Her home on the web is at cardycareercoaching.com. She is the black sheep of her family of accountants and engineers, a rare DC area native, and unusually patient, positive, and kind. A former swimmer, soccer player, and ultimate frisbee player, she loves all things athletic. Her two current hobbies are CrossFit and yoga. Connect with Alison Cardy cardycareercoaching.com Facebook Twitter Linkedin   episode 295

A job search can be an emotional rollercoaster. The process of sending out resumes, getting excited about opportunities, prepping for interviews, and waiting for feedback can be stressful. And, if you don’t get the job you want, it can be a painful blow to your ego. This week’s guest expert, Alison Cardy, argues that job search stress stems from a couple basic dynamics: Putting deadlines on things we cannot control. Job seekers have limited influence on the speed of the hiring process, so setting arbitrary expectations that you’ll find a job in two weeks--or even two months--is a recipe for future upset. Internalizing rejection. Failure is the norm in the job search process; you need to be able to accept rejection without taking it personally. Don’t let one bad interview, define who you are and the value you can bring to an organization. Putting all our eggs in one basket. Don’t focus all your attention on a single interview or opportunity. Continue your job search activities so that you have fallback options. Alison urges job seekers to maintain perspective and stay in reality. Remember who you really are and what you are capable of doing. You should also make sure you’re not investing all of your time and energy into a job search. It’s important to take care of your whole self so that you remain resilient during this difficult period of your life. This Week’s Guest: Alison Cardy Alison Cardy is the Founder and CEO of Cardy Career Coaching. Her international team guides people through career changes. Alison’s firm focuses on that crucial step before your job search begins: Helping you figure out what it is you want to do with your life. She’s also the author of Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. If you are having trouble which direction you should focus your job search, Alison’s book is a great resource. This Week’s resource Ben shares a post from ThoughtCatalog: 27 People Reveal The Most Ridiculously Crazy Things They Have Said At Their Job Interviews. This is a list of funny and creative answers people have given before they have been offered a job. This Week’s Listener Question This week, Kristin Schuchman, career coach at A Portland Career, joined the Mac’s List team as a fill-in guest host. Kristin, Ben, and Mac answer Stephen’s question: “How do I explain to an employer I am interested in a job I am overqualified for?” Stay up-to-date with the Find Your Dream Job podcast. Here’s how: Get an answer to your job-related question on the air! Email your question to jessica@macslist.org, or call her at 716-JOB-TALK. If we use your question on the air, you will receive either a copy of our new book, Land Your Dream Job Anywhere, or a Mac’s List Coffee Mug, your choice. Share a job resource you think everyone should know about. Email ben@macslist.org, and tell him how it has helped you find your dream job. If you like the show, please rate and review our podcast on iTunes. We appreciate your support! Opening and closing music for Find Your Dream Job provided by Freddy Trujillo, www.freddytrujillo.com.

Alison Cardy is an expert coach who runs an international career coaching team specializing in guiding people through career changes. She personally coaches a handful of select clients on creating greater alignment and success in their life, love, and work. She has the unique ability to zero in on the perspective shifts and small tweaks that create the biggest positive results. She’s written the 5-star rated bestseller Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured in many publications. Alison is eager to share some great tips and experiences with us today. TWEET: “You get expert help for your car, and your #career should be no different.” @cardycareers Getting Unstuck Have you ever felt stuck? Most people probably feel this way at one time or another—or maybe several times! Alison’s specialty is helping people get unstuck from jobs, degrees, or careers that haven’t been a perfect fit. Sometimes we just have to ease the gunk away so we can move forward. Alison’s solution is a structured, systematic process in finding clarity. TWEET: “Going through multiple #career changes doesn’t make you an expert on career change.” @cardycareers Things that hold people back What holds people back from making changes? Alison has a few reasons that so many fail to ask for help. Some people just don’t realize that helpful resources are available. The idea that work can be fulfilling and purposeful is a relatively modern idea. Some people think “going back to school” is the solution to find what they want to do. Some go about solving the problem in the wrong way, which leads to analysis paralysis and looping thought patterns. Finally, as helpful as friends and family might be, they are not the best go-to resource for career advice, for various reasons. TWEET: “Going ‘back to school’ is a seductive idea for many.” @cardycareers Commonalities among stuck people Why do people seek help? The answer is because they are in pain. They’ve tried other things and they feel hopeless. When pain brings people to this point then they are ready to put in the work to sort things out and fix the pain. If only they could figure that out sooner, then they could increase their level of engagement and be willing to ask for help. TWEET: “The idea that “you can do anything” is really stressful.” @cardycareers GUEST RECOMMENDATION: Think of something you can do that gets you out in the world, talking to real people about what you want to be doing. OUTLINE OF THIS EPISODE: [1:25} “Career Grease”—where the book title came from [5:15] How stuck people find Alison [7:30] Get professional help for your career [9:40] Things that hold people back [21:00] The solution for the next generation [25:40] Why Alison doesn’t work with people straight out of college [27:25] Commonalities among stuck people [32:41] Taking charge and ownership [35:15] Ask for help [37:30] Alison’s action for a dream chaser to take   Resources Mentioned in this Episode: Alison’s Website Alison on Facebook Alison on Twitter Alison on LinkedIn Free gift: Step-by-Step Career Change E-Course, sign up at www.cardycareercoaching.com/ecourse   TWEETS YOU CAN USE: TWEET: “Asking for help is the quickest way to shortcut many wandering hours.” @cardycareers TWEET: “Your choice and your level of engagement will determine your experience.” @cardycareers

Alison Cardy is an expert coach who runs an international career coaching team specializing in guiding people through career changes. Alison personally coaches a handful of select clients on creating greater alignment and success in their life, love, and work. Her unique ability is zeroing in on the perspective shifts and small tweaks that create the biggest positive results. Alison is the author of the 5-star rated, bestseller, Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured on Monster, Forbes, The Muse, Undercover Recruiter, and The Washington Post. In this podcast we are going to discuss: What's really going on when you look like you have it all together, but inside you feel lost or empty?What's the difference between internal happiness and external success?What are the 5 characteristics of internal happiness? Connect with Alison Cardy Website | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | FREE Gift: Step-by-Step Career Change E-Course

Alison Cardy, international bestelling author, coach, and speaker, who runs a global career coaching team, joins the A Desire to Inspire with Manny Patrick show, to discuss her journey of guiding people through career changes. As an expert in her space, Alison personally coaches a handful of select clients on creating greater alignment and success in their life, love, and work. Her unique ability is zeroing in on the perspective shifts and small tweaks that create the biggest positive results. Her book, the 5-star rated, bestseller, Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career, is a great resource to create even more fulfillment! Her work has been featured on Monster, Forbes, The Muse, Undercover Recruiter, and The Washington Post. Her team’s home on the web is at cardycareercoaching.com.   In This Episode You Will Learn About: -Why Alison decided to write her book Career Grease -Who Alison is through her own voice -What Alison was doing before she became a coach and a speaker -What activity inspired her to pivot in her own life -What her definition of happiness is -A quick blueprint for making an adjustment in your career -Why Alison knows that having an open mind helps move you through being stuck -Her views on goals -Why people get discouraged along the way -Where she finds her inspiration AND MUCH MORE!

Thinking about what it would take to change your career? Expert Alison Cardy shares her story and coaches you through a career shift. More info. The post [Adulting B015] When You Change Your Career ft. Alison Cardy appeared first on Adulting.

Alison Cardy, author of “Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career,” is a certified career coach who has guided hundreds of people at career crossroads to find innovative and functional career solutions. Both realistic and optimistic, Alison encourages people to get clarity by self-analysis, but just as important, by taking action. In this interview, she shares why people get stuck at crossroads and recommends steps to get unstuck. Alison’s work has been featured on Monster, Forbes, LearnVest, the Huffington Post, and the Chicago Tribune.

Alison Cardy could see that her mother’s career change from teaching to accounting had been perfect for her, but Alison was just going through the motions at her own accounting job. “I knew it wasn't the right path for me, but I struggled for a couple of years.” Then, volunteering for a crisis and suicide hotline changed her life. Today, she is the author of “Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career.” As a career coach, she has guided hundreds of people to innovative and functional career solutions.

Have you ever felt like you were just drifting in your career without any real sense of direction, purpose, or intention? Perhaps you've felt stuck working at a job you're simply not happy doing. According to a recent study conducted by the University of Phoenix School of Business, 73% of professionals in their 30s are wanting to change their career paths. Our guest today, Alison Cardy, is the founder and CEO of Cardy Career Coaching and the author of Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career.  Alison has worked with hundreds of individuals and professionals to find innovative and functional career solutions that help balance the “see-saw” scale of the workforce. Today, we'll talk about some of the bad reasons people choose a career path and how to avoid them, the various levels of figuring out where you want your career to go, the steps to take to successfully change your career, and how Alison helps her clients through the “drifting phase” to find a career path that works for them.

In this episode of The Quarter Life Comeback podcast, I chat to career coach Alison Cardy about navigating a career crossroads, how to get unstuck and pivot or change directions. Get the full show notes at https://bryanteare.com/041 The post QLC 041: Navigating a Career Crossroads with Alison Cardy appeared first on Bryan Teare.

Out of work, stressed out, bored or simply uninspired by your current job? For months now you’ve researched, pondered, talked and dreamt about career change but you remain stuck. Don’t give up hope! Acclaimed author and career coach Alison Cardy explains why you may be on the threshold of something great–a real career breakthrough! Tune in to discover the […]