Ever notice how everything people want in life comes from doing difficult things (that very few people are willing to do)? This is often because you can’t tangibly see an impact right away. From growing up on a small Oklahoma farm to leading the Walt Disney Paris expansion and becoming the Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resorts, Lee Cockerell has navigated through one challenging situation after another (after another) resulting in amazing career growth. On today’s episode, Lee discusses how to identify the toughest problems in your life and work and successfully resolve them.

What You’ll Learn 

• The importance of having balance in your life.  
• How to set yourself up for success by tackling the “hard” stuff first.  
• How to think about where you want to go in order to make the right moves to grow your career
• The questions to ask yourself to prioritize what you want to achieve in life.

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email scott@happentoyourcareer.com 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out! 

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

What if you could stand out against the millions of people on Linkedin so that companies contact you (instead of trying to chase job postings)? It’s more than just possible, it’s a realistically learnable skill for anyone who is willing to put in the effort. Once you learn this skill you can have a competitive advantage for the rest of your life (and career). Danny Rubin teaches distinct and unique writing to open doors to your ideal role. 

What you’ll learn 

• Tips on standing out in your writing to get noticed and open doors (even if you’re not a writer) 
• How to write a powerful Linkedin Profile
• How to apply for a job when a company isn’t hiring 
• Cover letter tips to use when you’re making a career change or switching industries 

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email scott@happentoyourcareer.com 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out! 

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

1. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

You’ve been ignoring that feeling in your gut for months, even years. Maybe it’s been about your job, or how you’re raising your kids or even that you think you might be settling in your relationships. Whatever it is now it’s time to start paying attention to it. Your gut can be a great indicator for you to stop, reevaluate, and choose a different direction. Alissa Penney decided to stop ignoring her gut feelings just 18 months ago and she hasn’t looked back. Learn how Alissa listened to her gut, completely changed her career, and started her own consulting business.

What you’ll learn 

• Using your gut feeling as self-awareness tool in all aspects of your life
• How to recognize the signs of burnout at work 
• How to know when it’s time to walk away 

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email scott@happentoyourcareer.com

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out! 

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

1. Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers - 6 Ways to get Reassurance that your new career is right for you (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. An Overthinker's Guide To Making Better Career Decisions (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
3. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It’s Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

One of the big things that we talk and teach about is strengths. Specifically, we help people identify their Signature Strengths.

There are a lot of people that seem to minimize the importance of identifying and understanding their strengths, but it really is one of the most important pieces to find or create your ideal career.

Today, we’re sharing a conversation with Kirby Verceles.

Kirby has been through several career transitions, but it made a huge difference in her life and in her career once she identified her Signature Strengths. The work she does now is meaningful and fits her strengths.

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Want to know high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over

https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/career-change-advice-guide-backed-by-research/ 

Or to tell us more about your situation and schedule a conversation with our team go to https://happentoyourcareer.com/schedule-htyc

On Monday, I shared our podcast episode about how career change really works and showed you .

And I mentioned a 13-step process to make a successful career change.

Today, we get into what is the step-by-step process.

Now, I say process a little bit liberally, because, in reality, this is a very squiggly line type event.

It's forwards and backwards, and up and down, and all over in order to get to work that matters to you - work that's much more meaningful, more fulfilling, just better for you - all the way around work that fits.

At the same time, still, there are pieces that everyone goes through to be able to get there. It rarely happens by accident.

So, I want you to know what the exact steps are that we use with every single person behind the scenes, but also that people that we're not even helping go through as well.

Here are the 13 steps to a successful career change:

1. What’s your goal?
2. Assess strengths, experience, and assets
3. Assess what you’d like to keep (address issue of not having to start over)
4. Assess what’s missing in your career
5. Create Ideal Career Profile
6. Design a Career Test Drive to prove that’s the right direction for you
7. Develop a job search plan (terrible name - need to come up with something better)
8. Develop target list of Companies/Roles or both
9. Begin your search/build relationships (networking! yay!)
10. Interview like a badass
11. Negotiate your offers
12. Accept your offer and happy dance
13. Scrap all your training and join the dark side

I go into detail on each of these steps on the podcast episode today.

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Want to know high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over

https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/career-change-advice-guide-backed-by-research/ 

Or to tell us more about your situation and schedule a conversation with our team go to https://happentoyourcareer.com/schedule-htyc

What if your goal isn’t just to make a simple career change? What if you want to spend your workday doing something meaningful and exciting? Oh and make a large amount of money and contribute by helping people in the way you want to... Is this too much to ask? In a world where this is not normal, I can understand how it seems impossible. But it’s far from “too much to ask.” This is the first of a 2-episode series to show you how people actually make these types of career changes. We break down this “unicorn” into a step-by-step guide. 

What you’ll learn 

• The 13 steps to a successful career change
• How to find your strengths and use them to find work you love 
• How to assess what’s missing in your career 

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email scott@happentoyourcareer.com 

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out! 

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcast)
2. Changing Careers (When You Don’t Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)