Designing Your Career & Life

In this episode, we talk with Career Coach and Code2College's Manager of College and Career Success, Ale Garcia about her experience as a first-generation college student and valuable lessons she's learned along her career journey.  Among other insight, Ale shares why asking more questions is a key to success, how one can be nervous and assertive at the same time, and the secret to making failure your friend.  

In this episode we talk with UCLA Lecturer and Co-founder of Fascination Lab, Benjamin Radd, about how to learn, earn, and return while obtaining key skills to thrive in today’s world. Radd also shares why self-doubt is perfectly normal, why climbing one mountain is rarely enough, and how he got to be featured as an on-camera expert for a Netflix documentary series.

In this episode, we talk with Career Coach & Author, Markell Morris who has overcome tremendous adversity and now is helping others transform their own lives.  During our conversation, she shares insightful perspectives on finding one's purpose.  She also tells us why at the beginning of her career she felt like making a commitment to one employer for her whole career was the biggest risk she could take.  She also illuminates why your personal data should tell you what to do and why there's power in the "yet".  

In this episode, we talk with Roadtrip Nation Co-founder, Brian McAllister, who shares insights about what it takes to find fulfillment and live the dream.  His conclusions stem from his own experiences but also from hearing thousands of professionals from all walks of life share their secrets to finding happiness in their careers.  Among other things, Brian emphasizes finding what lights you up, the critical importance of not sitting in the grandstands of life, and how the late Kobe Bryant has inspired him as he thinks about the next act of his own life.

In this episode, we talk with Pulin Sanghvi, who has previously directed career centers at both Princeton and Stanford's Business School, about critical skills and mental shifts required to thrive in the new world of work. Pulin also shares his thoughts on the benefits of ambiguity, why perfection is overrated, and what he’s learned from the happiest people he’s met on the planet.