Career Relaunch®

Wow, we’ve finished the first 10 episodes of Career Relaunch, which brings us to the end of Season One! Thank you so much for being a subscriber and loyal listener. With the holidays upon us, this week’s episode is going to be a little different. I’m not featuring a guest, but instead, I’ll be sharing my own reflections and lessons I’ve learned from our first 10 guests on the podcast.

If you’ve enjoyed the show, I’d love for you to write a review for the podcast, which helps build our community. Also, if you have feedback, suggestions, or questions you want covered in the next season of Career Relaunch that kicks off Jan 5, 2017, please leave me a voicemail. I’d love to hear from you!

1. Making a career change isn’t easy, but you can pull it off if you can be patient with the practical and emotional challenges.
2. You don’t have to get things exactly right the first time, you just need to take manageable steps in the right direction.
3. When you’re feeling confused or uncertain about what to do to, learn to trust your instincts, which often guides you to the right solution.

• I mentioned Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, one of the best reads out there!
• If you’re want to read more about other behaviours that help fuel a successful career change, read my article on 3 Habits of People Who Successfully Relaunched Their Careers.

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I’ve heard from so many of you recently who have suffered a career setback in the midst of the global Covid-19 pandemic. So today, I wanted to feature someone whose career has also been hit hard by events. Commercial airline pilot turned heavy goods vehicle truck driver Aaron Leventhal shares his story of dealing with personal loss, managing career upheaval, and finding a way to pivot toward something else.

Aaron Leventhal- former FlyBe pilot turned Tesco truck driver

During the Mental Fuel segment, I also share some examples of setbacks I’ve been dealt in my own career along with my three strategies of dealing with setbacks.

If you’ve been dealt a blow in your own career for whatever reason, I hope you find this episode reassuring, inspiring, and most of all, a reminder that you’re not alone.

1. When you’re managing loss, all you can do is look ahead to the future and find a way to bounce back.
2. Having a plan B in place is a good idea even if you feel like you’ve “made it” or achieved your dream.
3. Setbacks are a normal part of any career. Your ability to manage them is a muscle you can develop and strengthen over time.

• Read Aaron’s LinkedIn post that describes how he shifted from flying airplanes for FlyBe to driving trucks for Tesco.
• Access job search resources to help you navigate the challenging hiring environment during the Covid-19 pandemic
• Unexpectedly laid off? These 6 Steps Will Get You Back on Your Feet, my Fast Company article, May 2020

During this episode’s Mental Fuel segment, I talked about the importance of finding a way to manage the setbacks you’ll inevitably face in your own career.

My challenge to you, if you’ve had a major career setback recently, either because of the pandemic or something completely unrelated to the pandemic, is to first, give yourself some time to process it. Allow yourself to just feel bad for a few days or even a few weeks is an important part of dealing with any sort of loss.

However, I also want you to decide when you’re going to then start taking action. To literally circle a date in your calendar when you’re going to at least try to move forward. Not to figure everything out, but to at least start taking some small steps to begin exploring where you can go from here. Restarting is often the hardest part, but I really do believe that ultimately, action will open up new opportunities for you.

Aaron Leventhal‘s lifelong ambition was to become a pilot. Based in the UK, from the age of 6, all that he and his Twin brother would ever talk about was Airplanes and how they wanted to fly when they grew up.

At the age 13, Aaron joined Air Cadets, the real beginning to his flying bug. He then joined the British Army in 2004 as a craftsman in the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers and eventually became a civilian “Heavy Goods Vehicle” tanker driver to help fund his flight training expenses

In 2018, Aaron finished training and started working for Flybe as a First Officer, only to be made redundant A year later in March 2020 when the pandemic hit.

He now works for Tesco, driving trucks to deliver household essentials to supermarkets during these challenging times. He hopes to return to the world of Aviation in the coming years.

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What can bravery do for your career? In this episode of Career Relaunch, Raluca Comanescu, an architect turned productivity trainer shares her thoughts on an emotions-based approach to setting authentic goals, the power of accountability, and the importance of self-love. I also share some thoughts on how you can inject more bravery into your own career decisions.

1. People too often “borrow” goals from others that sound good on paper but don’t really carry the same meaning or importance.
2. Finding and having an accountability partner can help you stay on track with your goals.
3. Emotions are a big part of goal setting. That means you need to pay attention to which emotions are serving you and how you can recharge those emotions.

• Raluca mentioned that she got her first client on Odesk (now Upwork). Read more about where you can hire freelancers.
• Brave businesses learn to love failure– great article about bravery from the Drum Marketing Magazine. Geared toward marketers, but applicable to anyone who’s interested in the topic of bravery.

During this episode’s Mental Fuel segment, I talked about the importance of bravery. I’d welcome you sharing your brave decision in the comments below. Also, if you’re looking for an accountability partner, consider joining the new Career Relaunch Facebook group.

Raluca Comanescu is a Productivity Trainer, and creator of thefeathers.ink Navigator – the planner to break dreams down into actions. Passionate about design and curious about experiences and emotions, she’s gone from being a full-time architect, to unfolding her design agency, then launching two products to give people more time. After experiencing work addiction herself, she’s now training people to take control of their time, strip away all the junk, and get down to action. Follow Raluca on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

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