Career Coach and Futurist
Career Coach and Futurist
Many a weekday I stumble downstairs from my home office dreading to hear that inevitable phrase, “Mom, what’s for dinner?” Despite hours perusing recipe sites and grocery store weekly deals, I had not really managed to solidify meal plans, and I haven’t been successful at offloading that responsibility to someone else, either. Sound familiar? Here’s …
Listen, I’m not here to pretend I’m one of those people who gets fully dressed every day. It’s winter. It’s cold. My couch has a permanent indent shaped like my body, and I’ve watched every episode of The British Bakeoff. I’m living my best life, and you should too. But here’s the thing: even lazy …
🚫 The Hidden Gatekeeper of Your Career Here’s a statistic that’ll make your coffee taste bitter: 75% of resumes never reach human eyes. Let that sink in for a moment. Three-quarters of the resumes floating around in digital hiring land are being rejected by robots before any actual human gets to appreciate your carefully crafted …
What if your greatest leadership qualities are hiding in the traits you’ve been taught to suppress? At a critical point in my career, I had to prepare for a confrontational meeting with my boss – I had reached a point of total burnout and also one of complete frustration. She had been micro-managing me, not …
🚀 The Future-Ready Professional (And Why Most of Us Aren’t) Let me be brutally honest with you: Traditional career coaching is like trying to navigate with a printed MapQuest map from 1995 while driving through a city that’s being rebuilt in real-time. I’ve been watching professionals get blindsided by AI disruption, scramble to adapt to …
Let me tell you about the time I discovered something that actually changed my approach to self-development – and trust me, I’ve tried everything. This girl has some non-stop “workshopping myself non-stop” tendencies. From meditation apps to personal assistance, bullet journals to productivity hacks that left me feeling like a hamster on a wheel, I …
Are We Doomed? A Futurist Ponders It’s easy to see how workers today can form a dystopian vision of further wealth inequality and total domination of the global sphere by the tech bros and dirty politicians and lobbyists. (See Mountainhead movie, portraying a few billionaires using global disasters to get even richer.) You don’t need …
You know that feeling when you wake up at 3 AM and suddenly wonder what the hell you’re doing with your life? When everything you’ve built feels like a house of cards, and you can’t shake the nagging voice asking, “Is this it?” Welcome to the existential crisis club, darling. You’re not losing your mind—you’re …
Condition Check The winds were headed easterly but my triangulation indicated gusts under 10mph. Turns out it would be great weather for a launch. I had been dreaming of this day for over two months. Somehow I had gotten the idea that I wanted to launch a model rocket, having never done it during my …
30 second summary In today’s tough job market, reaching career goals relies not just on your skills, but also on who you know. Networking is all about making and maintaining professional connections. It has become a vital way for people to find their dream jobs. Whether you just finished school and want your first job, …