Work In Progress Podcast

Today’s guest is Goli, who quit her career in law when she realized it wasn’t for her and went through a year long journey to figure out what she wanted to do next. She went to meetup events to network with people from different industries and felt really drawn to the tech startup scene. At around the same time she needed to rent a photo booth for her son's first birthday, but the options are there are limited and expensive. And that's when she thought "maybe I can start a business doing just that!" And that was exactly what she did: she founded a photo booth company that grew into a business.

Fast forward to today, she currently owns a business, hosts a podcast and a blog. In this episode Goli shares with us the struggles she went through and the lessons along the wayAND we talked about what she might do next with her career.

In talking to her, we learned that quitting the job you didn't enjoy actually wasn't so scary, and that a more fulfilling life awaits after you leave behind what doesn't serve you and start anew.
Where to find Goli:
Website Lessons From a Quitter
Instagram @lessonsfromaquitter
Podcast Lessons From a Quitter

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Hillary's Career Change
From a corporate 9-to-5 to a motivated mompreneur, Hillary helps mompreneurs grow their business without growing their to-do list.

Episode Timestamps
01:47 Introducing Hillary
06:54 Difficult moments during her previous line of work
07:57 Duration of her previous career
08:55 Deciding to leave her job
11:03 Assessing the core values of Hillary’s clients
15:16 Hillary’s shifting core value assessment
19:58 Ultimately deciding to leave her job and pursue a coaching career
23:48 Friends’ and family’s reactions
24:55 Overcoming the fear of not having a stable salary
27:25 Addressing her clients’ fears
29:21 Managing her new job and momhood
31:15 Does having strict boundaries help you be more productive
32:17 Hillary’s tips on juggling work and family
34:43 Hillary’s morning routine
35:49 GSD (Get Shit Done) hour
40:52 Things Hillary learned about being a mompreneur
42:16 Finding her first client
45:19 Comparing her work life before and after her career shift
46:43 Hillary’s social links

About Hillary
Hillary always knew she wanted to help people grow. When she graduated, she joined an employee development team within the HR department; she found helping people realize their potentials to be fulfilling and meaningful. As she navigated changes in her own life - the birth of her children - she realized her priorities shifted and this led to the eventual departure from a corporate setting to starting her own business as a mother of two. Currently she provides training and consulting to business owners and leaders looking to increase the growth and revenue of their organization and develop a profitable online brand
Resources
Blog post is here
Where to find Hillary: Website, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn
Hillary's Core Values Assessment created for Work In Progress listeners
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About Us
We have more interviews on career change on our podcast! Head over there to check out more interesting stories!

• Want to learn more about why we care about career transitions? Check out Why Work In Progress
• Connect us with someone who has an amazing career story at https://www.instagram.com/work_in_progress_blogs/ and [email protected]

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Tatiana's Career Change
Computer Science to Art

What is something that surprised you about your career change?
"I'm surprised to actually be doing something creative. I never thought being an artist, much less selling apparel would ever be feasible. It's a lot simpler than I imagined it to be."

Episode Timestamps
01:00 Introducing Tatiana
03:44 Amazon FBA explanation
04:41 Costs relating to Amazon FBA
05:50 Amazon FBA vs Etsy
08:45 Discussing how owning a store is so different from what Tatiana studied
12:05 Time spent figuring out career switching
18:51 How did Tatiana’s CS degree help her with her current endeavours
20:59 Graduating/Starting a business mid-pandemic
24:42 Current state of business / Venturing into coaching
28:33 Friends and family’s attitude towards Tatiana’s focus shift
32:12 How can an artistically illiterate person start his own print shop
34:14 Highs and lows of Tatiana’s career transition
39:53 Next steps
42:20 Time spent managing an online shop
45:53 Tatiana’s social links
46:30 Closing words
Resources
Blog post is here
Where to find Tatiana Website, Instagram (personal), Instagram (store)

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About Us
We have more interviews on career change on our podcast! Head over there to check out more interesting stories!

• Want to learn more about why we care about career transitions? Check out Why Work In Progress
• Connect us with someone who has an amazing career story at https://www.instagram.com/work_in_progress_blogs/ and [email protected]

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Tony's Career Change
Tony made a career transition from finance to leadership coaching; his goal is to guide leaders to climb mountains, feel more fulfilled, and lead with an inspired purpose

Episode Timestamps
01:15 Introducing Tony
02:39 Did Tony always know he would become a coach
07:22 Tony’s work in music therapy and his internships
09:37 Looking for his first job
14:04 How to approach colleagues in a new job
17:08 Tony’s past work experience in finance before switching from biotech
21:04 Tony’s consultation business
25:30 The straw that broke the camels back
31:00 Tony’s next steps after the realisation
32:49 Deciding to switch to coaching instead of applying at a new firm
33:50 Friends’ and family reactions
34:58 Getting started with his new coaching gig
36:56 Acquiring the first client
38:07 Tony’s book
39:17 Tony’s advice on how to identify if you’re stuck in an unfulfilling job
41:04 Tony’s podcast
44:06 Tony’s social links

About Tony
Before he became a coach, he was a finance and strategy professional with experience working with some of the world's leading life sciences companies. Along his journey, he also managed small businesses and ran a financial consulting company. Today, Tony is the host of The Virtual Campfire podcast and is currently writing his first book, "Climbing the Right Mountain: Navigating the Journey to An Inspired Life."

Resources
Where to find Tony: Website, Podcast, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn
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About Us
We have more interviews on career change on our podcast! Head over there to check out more interesting stories!

• Want to learn more about why we care about career transitions? Check out Why Work In Progress
• Connect us with someone who has an amazing career story at https://www.instagram.com/work_in_progress_blogs/ and [email protected]

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Resources

• NPR Life Kit: “How to make a career change, from someone who has done it”
• Janine Esbrand's "The Career Change Maker Podcast" Episode 89
• Brittany Ramsey: From Clinical Therapist to Recruiter to Entrepreneur

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Episode Summary
In this episode we share some useful resources if you are considering changing career. Some resources we personally go to for career transitions:
1. Podcasts

• Quotes from NPR Life Kit episode "How to make a career change, from someone who has done it”:
  • The career is not a ladder anymore, that model no longer works for most industries. Rather, it’s more like a portfolio
  • You take your experiences with you to your next career
• The Career Change maker podcast by Janine Esbrand
  • Jamie talks about career change tips, strategies and inspirational stories that can help you get unstuck and transition into work that you love. She has a “Career Clarity Academy” where she helps people find clarity in what they want to do and help them do it!
  • Episodes 89-93 Career Change Academy break down steps to career transition by day

2. Use the people in your life as resources: when Angela was exploring Product Management, she asked brother in law and talked to MBA classmates

• Find people who are doing what you want to do and ask them how they got to where they are. Try this on LinkedIn and meet more people on Eventbrite

3. if you can identify an industry or specific role~

• Do your research, don’t make assumptions about what the role’s day to day is like
• Find people who are doing what you want to do and ask them how they got to where they are

4. Whether you know what you want to pivot to or not, virtual events are all over the internet. We use Eventbrite to find local events and if there are specific roles I'm interested in, there almost always is at least one online community on Facebook or LinkedIn

• We are part of Women Who Code, Women In Product, and TEDX communities in the Bay Area

5. Mindset is EVERYTHING! Have an open mind, be super clear about your WHYs and what drives you even if money is not in the equation. You never know what your next opportunity is going to come up and if you have any ounce of doubt about networking, listen to our episode where we interviewed Britt Ramsey who turned a 2 week internship into a full time job!

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About Us
We have more interviews on our podcast! Head over there to check out more interesting stories!

• Want to learn more about why we care about career transitions? Check out Why Work In Progress
• Connect us with someone who has an amazing career story at https://www.instagram.com/work_in_progress_blogs/ and [email protected]

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