076: Stay Open to Reinvent Yourself - Dorie Clark

05/27/20 • 48 min

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As a child Dorie Clark loved to write and use her imagination. Back then, she wanted to become a spy and was intrigued by the character James Bond. Her parents would take her on beach vacations, but she preferred to stay inside and write. By age 12, she was submitting poems to New Yorker magazine, none were published, but that didn’t stop her from trying!

Dorie went to college at 14, studied philosophy, and went on to earn her Masters in Divinity at Harvard. She then launched a career in journalism as a political writer with a newspaper in Boston. On September 10, 2001, yes... the day before 9/11, she was laid off from her job. Needless to say, it was a devastating time.

Through her networks, Dorie quickly found freelance writing jobs and realized she needed to develop a plan. She never wanted to be caught off guard ever again. Within a year, she was working as the spokesperson on a presidential campaign and subsequently, worked on other political campaigns. Dorie then pivoted from politics, becoming the Executive Director of a nonprofit in Boston where she improved bike riding safety and accessibility across the region. That experience lit the lightbulb on the entrepreneurial experience that she stepped into next.

In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, learn about Dorie Clark’s career journey:

Dorie has been described by the New York Times as an expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.
As a consultant, speaker, author, teacher, and coach, Dorie Clark helps individuals and companies get their best ideas heard in a crowded, noisy world.
Dorie is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and the author of 3 books: Reinventing You, Stand Out, and Entrepreneurial You.
She was named one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinker's 50 and was honored as the number one communication coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith leading global coaches awards.
Dorie is a global keynote speaker and teaches executive education for Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School.

Learn more and connect with Dorie here:

Dorie Clark’s website
Dorie Clark’s Twitter
Dorie Clark’s Instagram
Dorie Clark’s YouTube
Dorie Clark’s LinkedIn

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In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, learn about Dorie Clark’s career journey:

Dorie has been described by the New York Times as an expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.
As a consultant, speaker, author, teacher, and coach, Dorie Clark helps individuals and companies get their best ideas heard in a crowded, noisy world.
Dorie is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and the author of 3 books: Reinventing You, Stand Out, and Entrepreneurial You.
She was named one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinker's 50 and was honored as the number one communication coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith leading global coaches awards.
Dorie is a global keynote speaker and teaches executive education for Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School.

Learn more and connect with Dorie here:

Dorie Clark’s website
Dorie Clark’s Twitter
Dorie Clark’s Instagram
Dorie Clark’s YouTube
Dorie Clark’s LinkedIn

Stay Connected:

Connect with Tammy on LinkedIn
@TammyGoolerLoeb on Instagram
Work From The Inside Out Website
Subscribe to newsletter

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075: Small Pond, Big Impact - Michael Roderick

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Mike Roderick has always been interested in solving problems and looking at things differently. His elementary school teachers said he had an overactive imagination, creating entire worlds out of a box of crayons.

Once he got to high school, Mike took a more entrepreneurial approach as he was often initiating and pulling things together. For instance, he noticed that the English department had far less funding that the sports department had, so he came up with the idea to have a battle of the bands’ fundraiser for his school’s English department, and filled the entire auditorium. Mike jokes that it's the night he beat George Lucas. The actual date for the Battle of the Bands had been set for when Return of the Jedi was being released. So they changed the date and then the movie theaters changed the date again. The school went ahead with the battle of the bands. Mike packed the auditorium, raising a lot of money for the English department.

Today, Mike Roderick is the CEO of Small Pond Enterprises. Small pond enterprises is a consulting company and educational resource for solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, and intrepreneurs who want to accelerate the success of their business. Mike's unique methodology comes from his own experience of going from being a high school English teacher to a Broadway producer in under two years.

In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, Mike Roderick shares his career trajectory:

Mike hosts the podcast, Access to Anyone, which shows how you can get to know anyone you want in business and life using time tested relationship-building principles.
He raised big dollars for Broadway productions while teaching high school English.

Connect with Mike here:

https://www.facebook.com/smallpondenterprises/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-roderick-1161571/
@michaelroderick
http://www.smallpondenterprises.com/

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 075

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077: Mistakes Turn Into Business Models - George McGehrin

George McGehrin did all of the things he was supposed to do. He attended great schools, studied finance at Seton Hall, and even went to Oxford in England to study Economics. When he graduated, he joined PwC and then moved to Ernst and Young a few years later. But as he told me “I was trading my life for money. I was miserable.” For one, he didn’t like the extensive traveling that his job required him to do.

Then, one day he was recruited by a startup in Florida. He was so desperate to move on, he quit his job on Friday and landed in Miami on Monday. What do they say about youth being wasted on the young? Three months later, he was laid off. George says that unemployment was the best thing that ever happened to him. From there, he started his first business in an industry that he was very familiar with...It took him approximately 18 months to recover the business and move forward in 2010.

In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, learn about George’s professional journey:

George runs The McGehrin Group, an international executive search and recruiting firm providing executive search and leadership at the C suite level, such as CEO CFO, CTO, CMO, and CIO roles throughout the US, Europe, and South America.
Based in Rutherford, NJ, his clients include small startups to global organizations.
George oversees a talented team of 30 recruitment professionals who work remotely.
Besides managing his recruiting firm, George also works with executives helping them empower their careers with branding and coaching.
George “tithes” 10% of every sale into a savings account so that he will always be ready for any downturn and can keep his ship afloat.

Learn more and connect with George here:

https://www.instagram.com/mcgehringroup/
https://www.facebook.com/execresumes/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gmcgehrin/
https://twitter.com/EXEC_HEADHUNTER
www.mcgehringroup.com

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 077