95. When You Can't Afford to Leave
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Episode 95: When You Can’t Afford to Leave The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome back to The Career Clinic Podcast 🤎. We’re officially beyond the January Intensive and settling into our regular rhythm — with new episodes dropping every Wednesday. In Episode 95, Ronnie addresses a reality that doesn’t get talked about enough: what to do when you know you need to leave a role, but you can’t afford to leave yet. This episode is for seasoned professionals — people who’ve built full lives, reputations, and responsibilities over time....
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94. Side-Hustling, New Roles, Motivation | Ask OhHeyCoach
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Episode 94: Side-Hustling, New Roles & Staying Motivated | Ask OhHeyCoach The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome to Episode 94 — and the final episode of The Career Clinic Podcast January Intensive Series 🤎. Over the last four weeks, we’ve spent intentional time together resetting, recalibrating, and strengthening how you approach work, leadership, provision, and agency as you move into the year ahead. This final Ask OhHeyCoach episode brings the series home with listener questions about: Knowing when to leave a role Positioning...
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93. How to Know When to Go
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Episode 93: How to Know When to Go The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome to Week Four — the final week — of The Career Clinic Podcast January Intensive Series. In Episode 93, Ronnie tackles one of the most consequential career questions many people face: How do you know when it’s time to go? Not quitting reactively. Not staying out of fear, loyalty, or inertia. Not confusing a hard season with a finished one. This episode offers a grounded, practical approach to discerning when a chapter is complete — and when what’s actually required is a...
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92. Managing Your Stakeholders (Without Losing Yourself)
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Episode 92: Managing Your Stakeholders (Without Losing Yourself) The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome to Week Four — the final week — of The Career Clinic Podcast January Intensive Series. This week is focused on designing your career on purpose, with practical tactics you can apply immediately. In Episode 92, Ronnie tackles a topic that consistently trips up capable, thoughtful professionals: managing your stakeholders — without burning out, people-pleasing, or losing yourself in the process. This conversation reframes stakeholder...
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91. Negotiation as Self-Advocacy
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Episode 91: Negotiation as Self-Advocacy The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome to Week Four — the final week — of The Career Clinic Podcast January Intensive Series. This week centers on designing your career and life on purpose, and in Episode 91, Ronnie reframes negotiation as something far bigger than salary discussions or offer letters. This episode positions negotiation as self-advocacy — a posture and practice that helps create provision and margin across your work and life. Whether you’re staying put, stepping up, or preparing for...
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90. Stop Waiting For Permission
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Episode 90: Stop Waiting for Permission The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome to Week Four — the final week — of The Career Clinic Podcast January Intensive Series. This week brings together the core themes of the series: agency, design, decision-making, and forward movement. In Episode 90, Ronnie names a pattern she sees repeatedly among capable, accomplished people: waiting for permission. Permission to apply. Permission to pivot. Permission to leave. Permission to want something different than what once made sense. This episode is a grounded...
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89. Introversion, Rebuilding Networks & Awkward Moments | Ask OhHeyCoach
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Episode 89: Introversion, Rebuilding Networks & Awkward Moments | Ask OhHeyCoach The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome to Ask OhHeyCoach Friday during Week Three of The Career Clinic Podcast January Intensive Series. In Episode 88, Ronnie responds to listener-submitted questions that get very real about networking fatigue, introversion, rebuilding dormant relationships, and the awkwardness that often comes with reconnecting — especially after long periods of silence. This episode builds directly on the week’s themes of voice, visibility,...
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88. Networking vs. Not Working
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Episode 88: Networking vs. Not Working The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome to Week Three of The Career Clinic Podcast January Intensive Series. In Episode 88, we take on a word that makes a lot of capable, thoughtful people tense up: networking. This episode reframes networking not as performative relationship-building or forced small talk, but as proximity, intention, and stewardship of relationships. Ronnie names why opting out of networking may feel safe or principled — yet at a certain point in your career, it quietly limits momentum,...
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87. Executive-Level Visibility
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Episode 87: Executive-Level Visibility The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome to Week Three of The Career Clinic Podcast January Intensive Series. In Episode 87, we continue this week’s focus on voice, visibility, and connection by going deeper into what Ronnie calls Executive-Level Visibility — the kind of visibility that creates provision, optionality, and stability in an increasingly uncertain and shifting professional landscape. This episode reframes visibility as more than posting online or being “seen.” Ronnie explores visibility as a...
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86. Your Voice: Your Most Important Asset
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Episode 86: Your Voice: Your Most Important Asset The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome to Week Three of The Career Clinic Podcast January Intensive Series. This week, we shift our focus to voice, visibility, community, and connection — starting with the foundation of it all: your voice. In Episode 86, Ronnie leads a direct, honest conversation about why your voice — both literal and figurative — is one of your most important professional and personal assets. Many high-performing leaders are skilled at using their voices on behalf of...
info_outlineEpisode 79: Updating Your Weekly Operating System
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Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart
Episode Overview
Welcome to Day Four of The Career Clinic January Intensive.
In this episode, we bring the work of the week together and zoom in on the most practical question of all:
How are you actually setting up your weeks?
Rather than starting each week in reaction mode, this conversation introduces a simple, repeatable rhythm for designing your time with intention. You’ll learn how to create a Weekly Operating System that helps you prepare instead of scramble, protect what matters most, and show up grounded and resourced — even in high-pressure seasons.
At the center of this episode is a practice I use personally and with my clients: the Mission Control Meeting.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
✔️ Why preparation matters more than productivity
✔️ How to stop letting your calendar “take you away”
✔️ What a Weekly Operating System actually looks like in practice
✔️ How to design your week around alignment, not urgency
✔️ Why consistency beats perfection when building sustainable rhythms
The Core Practice: The Mission Control Meeting ✍🏾
A Mission Control Meeting is a 30–45 minute weekly check-in you run for yourself (or with your team) to prepare for the week before it gets away from you.
This meeting isn’t about creating a longer to-do list. It’s about designing your week around three essentials — what I call the Three B’s.
The Three B’s of Your Weekly Operating System
1. Big Rocks
Your big rocks are the 3–5 things that deserve your best time, energy, and attention this week. These might include deep work, meaningful conversations, rest, health, or time with people you love.
If it’s not on your calendar, it’s not real.
2. Boundaries
Boundaries are the decisions you make to protect what matters — regardless of what others are doing. They might include meeting limits, communication cutoffs, protected focus time, or guardrails around people or situations that drain your energy.
You can’t control whether others respect your boundaries, but you can control whether you hold them.
3. Buoyancy
Buoyancy is what keeps you out of the red zone and grounded in the blue zone — where creativity, clarity, and connection live. This might include movement, laughter, rest, music, nature, or intentional pauses.
Don’t wait until you’re drowning to look for a life raft. Be your own.
How to Run Your Mission Control Meeting 🙌🏾
Set aside 30–45 minutes once a week (same day, same time if possible) and ask yourself:
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What are my big rocks this week?
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What boundaries do I need to protect them?
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What will help me stay buoyant and grounded?
Block the time. Make it recurring. Keep it simple. This one practice can save you hours of spinning and overwhelm.
Links & Resources 🤎
📝 Ask OhHeyCoach (Ask, Oh Hey Coach Fridays):
Submit your questions for Friday’s Q&A episodes — I read every one.
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📩 Join the OhHeyMonday Newsletter:
Weekly reflections, tools, and grounded guidance delivered every Monday.
👉🏾 www.ohheyjoin.com
🤝 Work With Ronnie / OhHeyCoach:
Executive coaching, leadership development, and career design for individuals and organizations.
👉🏾 www.ohheycoach.com
📬 Contact:
info@ohheycoach.com
What’s Coming Next
Tomorrow is Ask OhHeyCoach Friday, where I’ll answer the questions you've been WAITING to ask a coach.
Final Thought ✨
A weekly pause to prepare can change how you experience every other hour of your week. Block the time. Run your Mission Control. Design your week on purpose.
I’ll see you tomorrow. 🤎