ReImagining Ambition: Mission driven professionals on working through the pandemic and their new relationship to work

In this penultimate episode of Season 1, I ask the question that I've been waiting all season to ask. After everything you've experienced, do you still consider yourself ambitious? Tune in to hear how our guests are reiminagining ambition and defining success for themselves in light of their lessons, insights, and experience since the pandemic began.This show is created, written, and produced by Jenn Walker Wall of Work Wonders Careers. You can learn more about working with Jenn and her team by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com. You can also find Jenn on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. If you're looking for more job search, resume or career content, you can join our members only podcast, Off the Clock, for free by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com/podcast If you'd like to learn more about the mission driven professionals we've interviewed and the other programming we have planned for ReImagining Ambition listeners, visit us at www.reimagining-ambition.com and hop on our email list. Music is by yifeitang and podcast editing is by electric park.

In this week's episodes, our guest respond to a single question: how did you make sense of the media driven narratives (i.e. "nobody wants to work anymore," quiet quitting, the Great Resignation, etc) that emerged in 2021-2022? For additional context, check out this article from WSJ, this clip of Kim Kardashian, and Anne Helen Petersen's piece on back to work bungles.This show is created, written, and produced by Jenn Walker Wall of Work Wonders Careers. You can learn more about working with Jenn and her team by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com. You can also find Jenn on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. If you're looking for more job search, resume or career content, you can join our members only podcast, Off the Clock, for free by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com/podcast If you'd like to learn more about the mission driven professionals we've interviewed and the other programming we have planned for ReImagining Ambition listeners, visit us at www.reimagining-ambition.com and hop on our email list. Music is by yifeitang and podcast editing is by electric park.

After a conversation with podcast guest, Olivia Montgomery, I innocently posed the question, "Have you ever received an employee appreciation gift that missed mark?" The answer was a resounding "Yes!" In this minisode, you'll hear about pandemic era employee appreciation gifts that ranged from unhelpful to insulting and seemed to cause more harm than good. You can also check out these videos on TikTok below: Have you received an employee appreciation gift that did more harm than good? Things Employees Got Instead of the Pay and Working Conditions They Were Asking For Part 1 Things Employees Got Instead of the Pay and Working Conditions They Were Asking For Part 2 Things Employees Got Instead of the Pay and Working Conditions They Were Asking for Part 3 Things Employees Got Instead of the Pay and Working Conditions They Were Asking for Part 4 Things Employees Got Instead of the Pay and Working Conditions They Were Asking for Part 5 Things Employees Got Instead of the Pay and Working Conditions They Were Asking for For Part 6 Painted Rock The More Important The Job... An Employee Appreciation Gift That Did More Harm Than Good This show is created, written, and produced by Jenn Walker Wall of Work Wonders Careers. You can learn more about working with Jenn and her team by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com. You can also find Jenn on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. If you're looking for more job search, resume or career content, you can join our members only podcast, Off the Clock, for free by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com/podcast If you'd like to learn more about the mission driven professionals we've interviewed and the other programming we have planned for ReImagining Ambition listeners, visit us at www.reimagining-ambition.com and hop on our email list. Music is by yifeitang and podcast editing is by electric park.

In this week's episode, you'll hear from Dr. Meghan Singh, who shares her experience working as a bilingual school psycholoist through Covid. You'll hear how rapidly Dr. Singh and her colleagues needed to shift gears to accomodate learners and their families, the complex challenges they had to navigate along the way, and the risks they took to prioritize students throughout the pandemic.This show is created, written, and produced by Jenn Walker Wall of Work Wonders Careers. You can learn more about working with Jenn and her team by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com. You can also find Jenn on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. If you're looking for more job search, resume or career content, you can join our members only podcast, Off the Clock, for free by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com/podcast If you'd like to learn more about the mission driven professionals we've interviewed and the other programming we have planned for ReImagining Ambition listeners, visit us at www.reimagining-ambition.com and hop on our email list. Music is by yifeitang and podcast editing is by electric park.

If you're like most people we've worked with over the past few years, things have changed. You're looking for opportunities that align with your values and accommodate your life (and not the other way around!). In this minisode, you'll hear about the types of career transitions folks have pursued that helped them accommodate their goals and needs and honor what matters most for them.This show is created, written, and produced by Jenn Walker Wall of Work Wonders Careers. You can learn more about working with Jenn and her team by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com. You can also find Jenn on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. If you're looking for more job search, resume or career content, you can join our members only podcast, Off the Clock, for free by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com/podcast If you'd like to learn more about the mission driven professionals we've interviewed and the other programming we have planned for ReImagining Ambition listeners, visit us at www.reimagining-ambition.com and hop on our email list. Music is by yifeitang and podcast editing is by electric park.

In this episode, we take you back to the start of the "new normal," and hear stories from our guests as they discuss managing childcare, housing, life, and work as the pandemic continues and the fall out of the murder of George Floyd push mission driven professionals to the brink at home and in the office. You'll hear from our guests (in order of appearance)Sarah Ellinwood, PhD, Emily Kindschy, MSW, Rena B., Vanessa Corcoran, PhD, Natalie Cantave, Keisha Venson Sheedy,  Michael Mullarkey, PhD, and Danielle Marshall. You can learn more about all of our guests by visiting www.reimagining-ambition.com.This show is created, written, and produced by Jenn Walker Wall of Work Wonders Careers. You can learn more about working with Jenn and her team by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com. You can also find Jenn on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. If you're looking for more job search, resume or career content, you can join our members only podcast, Off the Clock, for free by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com/podcast If you'd like to learn more about the mission driven professionals we've interviewed and the other programming we have planned for ReImagining Ambition listeners, visit us at www.reimagining-ambition.com and hop on our email list. Music is by yifeitang and podcast editing is by electric park.

We're hard at work getting next week's episode ready - so we've got a minisode with three reflections prompts to help you with your 2023 career planning. If you're thinking about your career goals and reimagining your own relationship to your career in the year ahead, these prompts will help you build clarity for the road ahead.This show is created, written, and produced by Jenn Walker Wall of Work Wonders Careers. You can learn more about working with Jenn and her team by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com. You can also find Jenn on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. If you're looking for more job search, resume or career content, you can join our members only podcast, Off the Clock, for free by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com/podcast If you'd like to learn more about the mission driven professionals we've interviewed and the other programming we have planned for ReImagining Ambition listeners, visit us at www.reimagining-ambition.com and hop on our email list. Music is by yifeitang and podcast editing is by electric park.

In this epside, Jenn hears from mission driven professionals who share how their teams and colleagues pitched in to keep organizations afloat including transforming in person classes to online, leveraging telehealth options for the first time, and doing whatever it took to ensure business continuity in the early days of remote work. You'll also hear the challenges that emerged including generational clashes, unsustainable workloads, and retaining new best practices. You can learn more about all of our guests that you hear in today's episode by visiting www.reimagining-ambition.com.This show is created, written, and produced by Jenn Walker Wall of Work Wonders Careers. You can learn more about working with Jenn and her team by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com. You can also find Jenn on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. If you're looking for more job search, resume or career content, you can join our members only podcast, Off the Clock, for free by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com/podcast If you'd like to learn more about the mission driven professionals we've interviewed and the other programming we have planned for ReImagining Ambition listeners, visit us at www.reimagining-ambition.com and hop on our email list. Music is by yifeitang and podcast editing is by electric park.

Do you remember "the Before Times?"  Can you believe that there was a time where we *didn't* have this term? If it feels like "the Before Times" was a really long time ago, you're not alone. In this episode, you'll start to hear from some of our podcast guests as they share a bit of what life looked like, well, before the pandemic began. This show is created, written, and produced by Jenn Walker Wall of Work Wonders Careers. You can learn more about working with Jenn and her team by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com. You can also find Jenn on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. If you're looking for more job search, resume or career content, you can join our members only podcast, Off the Clock, for free by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com/podcast If you'd like to learn more about the mission driven professionals we've interviewed and the other programming we have planned for ReImagining Ambition listeners, visit us at www.reimagining-ambition.com and hop on our email list. Music is by yifeitang and podcast editing is by electric park.

In this brief intro episode, host Jenn Walker Wall shares the origins of the ReImagining Ambition podcast, what she saw in among her clients and peers as they worked through the pandemic to keep their organizations, functioning, and what to expect from future episodes.This show is created, written, and produced by Jenn Walker Wall of Work Wonders Careers. You can learn more about working with Jenn and her team by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com. You can also find Jenn on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. If you're looking for more job search, resume or career content, you can join our members only podcast, Off the Clock, for free by visiting www.workwonderscareers.com/podcast If you'd like to learn more about the mission driven professionals we've interviewed and the other programming we have planned for ReImagining Ambition listeners, visit us at www.reimagining-ambition.com and hop on our email list. Music is by yifeitang and podcast editing is by electric park.