104. A Nurse Discovers a New Passion as a Microgreens Farmer
Release Date: 03/09/2021
128. Letting Your Personal Brand Shine in your Resume and on LinkedIn
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Meg Applegate is a certified resume writer and personal branding strategist with Hinge Resume, a boutique firm that offers career branding for women that opens doors. In this interview, she shares all her wisdom on these topics! If you’re interested in working with Meg, she can be booked privately or you can check out her course, . Also mentioned in this podcast: with Meg Applegate (her first interview) with Micha Goebig with Brene Brown
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127. Saying Yes to Opportunities When They Knock
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Kat Price is a perfect example of someone who says yes when the right opportunity knocks at her door. It's how she started her own business. It's how she started substituting. And now it's how she became a full-time recruiter. What opportunities are knocking on your door right now? How could you say yes?
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126. Returning with the Help of a Team of Experts
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Returning to work after several years away is not a simple task, but the good news is that you do not have to go it alone. Amy Dantzler returned as a consultant to the same global health care consulting firm she had worked for several years before, but it wasn't as simple as dropping right back in. In addition to reactivating her network of contacts, she had help along the way from a team of experts for everything from her resume to her interview skills. Today, she's expanding her career even further by transitioning her skills into a role leading onboarding efforts for others...
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125. My 2022 Word of the Year
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Have you ever picked a word of the year? My word for this year is IMPACT. That is the word that I plan to use to guide my decisions this year.
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124. Get Out of Your Own Way and #DoTheThing
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What’s your thing? You know, that thing inside of you that you’ve always wanted to do. Dona Sarkar, author of #DoTheThing, is here to help you discover your thing, get out of your own way, and get it done. She’s a good one to be giving the advice as she’s had lots of “things” over the years. In addition to her career at Microsoft where she is currently the Director of Technology for Accessibility at Microsoft, she is an author and she runs her own fashion line, . Dona shares that she has been called aggressive, ambitious and a bit of a diva. Her response? Hell yes. She’s proud to...
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123. Bringing Your Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to Work
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Desiree Briel Rodi returns to the podcast this week to share her expertise on Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Not only are these skills becoming more acknowledged - and needed - in the workplace, but they are also skills that we all get to work on every day in our personal lives: the ability to manage ourselves and our relationships effectively; the ability to recognize, understand, and manage our emotions; and those of others. Desiree also shared her own story in a previous . Also mentioned in this episode: by Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer by Daniel Goleman by Marc Brackett by...
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122. Creating the Job of Your Dreams from your Personal Skills/Experience
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Leslie McCaddon found her dream job as an outreach coordinator for a national non-profit mental health clinic serving military families, but not too long ago she was in a very different position. A widowed mom of three children, before she was ready to create the job of her dreams, she had to first get over the story she was telling herself - that no one would want to hire someone who hadn't finished college or worked for a company in 20 years. In addition to her work as outreach coordinator, she is a certified professional life coach who coaches other women through Mentioned in the...
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121. An Empty Nester Builds a Thriving Lifestyle & Business Community for Women
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Karen Rae doesn't shy away from telling other women her career break was 27 years long. With her kids grown, and facing an empty nest, she knew she was ready for something else. Even though she knew nothing about video production, she decided what she really wanted was to create her own show! That was just the beginning of which has become a vibrant lifestyle community for women. A few years later and with a lot of entrepreneurial experience under her belt, Karen launched to help other passionate female entrepreneurs launch their dreams.
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New Year, New Podcast Name: The Career Butterfly
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This episode is a quick check-in and the last one you'll see under the name Ready Pause Go. Starting January 24, 2022, you will find this podcast under the name The Career Butterfly. Our is moving too. We're still all about inspiring, guiding, and supporting women from the career pause into their next step. Just like butterflies, we honor the cocoon phase and then find our wings. Come check out our new interviews and stories next week!
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119. The Future of Remote Work is Now
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Remote work used to be unachievable dream for busy parents. The pandemic changed all of that. While remote work definitely has its own set of challenges, it is here to stay and that is good news for all of us! Tune in to here more about how to find your own remote job. readypausego.com
info_outlineLaura Patterson never realized how much of her identity was wrapped up in her role as a Registered Nurse until she stepped away from the career to raise her 3 children.
As she brought the next generation of children into the world, she started to think about her role in the world. In particular, she was fascinated by the food that nourishes all of us and the way children have become so disconnected from the source.
Laura found that microgreens - essentially baby plants packed with nutrition and flavor - were the perfect entry point for young kids because they have short (<10 days) growing cycles and can be grown anywhere. She eventually had so many micro-greens that she had to move beyond sharing with friends and family to selling to restaurants and finding a distributor.
Post-pandemic she's shifted her business Hand-Grown Greens and found a new love in teaching others how to incorporate microgreens into their own families.