The Career Clinic Podcast

I’m so excited to introduce The Career Clinic, powered by OhHeyCoach, with your host, me, Ronnie Dickerson Stewart! I’ve coached & consulted with countless individuals from interns to C-suite leaders on how to navigate their stickiest career moments. In this clinic and in the time we get to share, I hope to do the same with you! Whether you’re in the “staying, growing or going” stage, on this podcast, no career topic is off the table. Truth Moment: Everyone does not have equal access to executive coaching and career advancement resources. I believe everyone should be able to access tools to chart a successful career path that uniquely serves them. So YOU can think of me as a coach, consultant, or mentor who is one click and download away. Welcome to The Career Clinic Podcast (powered by OhHeyCoach), I can’t wait to see how we learn and grow together!

78. Clarifying Your Capacity 01/07/2026

78. Clarifying Your Capacity Episode 78: Clarifying Your Capacity The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome to Day Three of The Career Clinic January Intensive. In this episode, we shift from intention to infrastructure and take an honest look at capacity — not as a vague feeling, but as something that can be designed, protected, and managed with clarity. Too often, we move through our weeks and years reacting to what lands on our calendars, mistaking busyness for value and availability for capacity. This conversation invites you to slow down, zoom out, and design the year ahead from a place of truth — not pressure, urgency, or other people’s expectations. This is about reclaiming your energy so you can show up fully for what actually matters. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ✔️ Why capacity is about energy, not just time ✔️ How reacting to your calendar creates burnout and resentment ✔️ What “marquee moments” are and why they should shape your year ✔️ How to plan buffers before and after demanding seasons or events ✔️ How to identify time leaks and misaligned commitments ✔️ A practical framework for reducing friction in your day-to-day life Tool #1: Identify Your Marquee Moments ✍🏾 Instead of starting with goals or to-do lists, this episode asks you to look at your year as a whole. Marquee moments are the events, milestones, projects, and experiences that matter most — professionally and personally. These might include major work engagements, travel, launches, conferences, celebrations, or family milestones. Your first task is to: Identify your marquee moments for the year Block them on your calendar now (even tentatively) Add buffers before and after to allow for preparation, presence, and recovery This is how you prevent the year from getting ahead of you. Tool #2: Track Your Time for One Week Most people think they know where their time goes — until they track it. For one week, document how you actually spend your time. Then categorize each activity as: High value (energizing or moving you forward) Neutral (necessary but not energizing) Low value (draining or misaligned) This is not about judgment. It’s about awareness. You can’t protect or redesign what you can’t see. Tool #3: The Four D’s Framework Once you spot friction or time leaks, this episode introduces a simple decision-making tool to help you reset: Delegate – Transfer responsibility where appropriate Divest – Reduce energy spent on something that no longer requires the same investment Dump/Delete – Fully release what no longer serves you Dream – Reimagine a commitment or situation entirely This framework helps move your energy from friction to flow. This Week’s Easy Win: Friction → Frictionless 🙌🏾 Choose one commitment or situation currently creating friction. Ask yourself: Which of the Four D’s applies here? What would become possible if I made this shift? One decision. One action. One step toward reclaimed capacity. Links & Resources 🤎 📝 Ask OhHeyCoach (Ask, Oh Hey Coach Fridays): Submit your questions, reflections, or capacity challenges to be answered in an upcoming episode. 👉🏾 📩 Join the OhHeyMonday Newsletter: Weekly reflections, tools, and grounded guidance delivered every Monday. 👉🏾 🤝 Work With Ronnie / OhHeyCoach: Executive coaching, leadership development, and career design for individuals and organizations. 👉🏾 📬 Contact: What’s Coming Next Tomorrow, we’ll build on this work by updating your weekly operating system — ensuring your week is designed to serve you, not the other way around. Final Thought ✨ Capacity isn’t about doing more or doing things perfectly. It’s about having the energy to show up for what matters most — and designing your days in a way that honors that truth. I’ll see you tomorrow. /episode/index/show/ohheycoachcareerclinic/id/39639225

77. Reconfirming What You Require 01/06/2026

77. Reconfirming What You Require Episode 77: Reconfirming What You Require The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome back to The Career Clinic January Intensive. In Episode 77, we slow things down to examine one of the most foundational and overlooked questions in career and life design: What do you require? Not what you want. Not what would be nice. But what must be true for you to show up as your best, most grounded self in this season. This episode invites you to name your requirements honestly, without judgment or performative restraint, and introduces a powerful framework I use with executive clients: your personal Rider. When you understand what you require, you gain clarity, permission, and a roadmap for aligned decision-making in 2026 and beyond. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ✔️ Why most people have never been asked what they truly require ✔️ The difference between requirements and preferences (and why it matters) ✔️ How unmet requirements create friction, burnout, and dissatisfaction ✔️ Why naming your requirements is not “rocking the boat” — it’s learning how to navigate it ✔️ How your requirements evolve with your season, capacity, and priorities The Core Concept: Your Personal Rider Borrowed from the entertainment world, a Rider outlines the conditions that must be true for a performer to show up at their best. In this episode, you’ll learn how to apply that same thinking to your own life and career. Your Rider is not about being difficult or demanding. It’s about self-awareness, sustainability, and knowing what allows you to thrive. Your Rider becomes a filter for decisions, opportunities, partnerships, and trade-offs — now and in the future. Today’s Tool: 15 Minutes of Truth ✍🏾 Set a timer for 15 minutes and answer this prompt honestly and without editing yourself: “To exist and operate as my best possible self in 2026, I require…” List everything: Professional and personal Big and small Practical and emotional Do not judge what comes up. Do not worry about feasibility yet. Naming your requirements does not mean demanding them tomorrow — it means telling yourself the truth. Keep the list. Let it guide you. Let it protect you. Links & Resources 🤎 📝 Ask OhHeyCoach (Ask, Oh Hey Coach Fridays): Submit your questions, reflections, or aha moments — they may be featured in an upcoming Friday episode. 👉🏾 📩 Join the OhHeyMonday Newsletter: Weekly reflections, tools, and grounded guidance delivered every Monday. 👉🏾 🤝 Let’s Work Together: Executive coaching, leadership development, and career design for individuals and organizations. 👉🏾 📬 Contact: What’s Coming Next Tomorrow in the January Intensive, we’ll focus on clarifying your capacity — how to get real data about where your time and energy are actually going before you try to redesign anything. Final Thought 🙌🏾 Naming what you require isn’t entitlement.It’s strategy. And it’s how sustainable, aligned lives and careers are built. You’re allowed to have requirements. You’re allowed to honor them. And you’re allowed to design your life around them. I’ll see you tomorrow. /episode/index/show/ohheycoachcareerclinic/id/39623610

76. Putting the Year to Bed + Our January Intensive Begins Today 01/05/2026

76. Putting the Year to Bed + Our January Intensive Begins Today Episode 76: Putting the Year to Bed | The January Intensive Begins The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview Welcome to Episode 76 and the official kickoff of The Career Clinic January Intensive. This episode sets the foundation for the month ahead and invites you to do something most people skip entirely: pause long enough to actually process the year you just lived. January often rushes us straight into fixing, planning, and performing. But before we build new systems or set new intentions, we need space to reflect, extract truth, and close the year with intention. This episode guides you through a simple but powerful audit designed to help you clear cognitive debt, ground yourself, and move forward with clarity rather than reactivity. Think of this month as being in daily community with me—less than 30 minutes a day, real tools, real reflection, and support for you as a whole human. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ✔️ Why processing must come before planning ✔️ How to avoid carrying unfinished emotional and cognitive “tabs” into a new year ✔️ Why reflection creates steadiness in seasons of change ✔️ How this January Intensive will build week by week ✔️ A client-tested reflection tool you can use in under 10 minutes The Four Reflection Questions from This Episode ✍🏾 Take your time with these. Pause the episode, write them down, and answer them honestly. What were your most trying or friction-filled moments of 2025? What brought you the most joy or ease in 2025? Where or when did you feel most like yourself in 2025? What is the most significant or consequential lesson you learned in 2025? Links & Resources 🤎 📩 Join the OhHeyMonday Newsletter: Get my reflections, tools, and insights straight to your inbox every Monday. 👉🏾 📝 Ask OhHeyCoach (Ask, Oh Hey Coach Fridays): Submit your question for the January Intensive and it may be featured in an upcoming episode. 👉🏾 🤝🏾 Let’s Work Together! If you’re a leader or organization looking for executive coaching, leadership development, or career design support, we’d love to partner with you. 👉🏾 📬 Want to Connect? Email us at Final Thought Not properly closing a year you couldn’t wait to leave is like leaving a document downloading forever in the background. It drains energy, clouds clarity, and creates unnecessary cognitive debt. This month is your invitation to pause, reflect, and reset — with intention, support, and community. I’ll see you tomorrow. 🤎 /episode/index/show/ohheycoachcareerclinic/id/39610955

75. 2026 Vision + Why Community, Access, and Service Matter More Than Ever 12/15/2025

75. 2026 Vision + Why Community, Access, and Service Matter More Than Ever 2026 Vision & Expansion: Why Community, Access, and Service Matter More Than Ever | The Career Clinic Podcast Host: Ronnie Dickerson Stewart Episode Overview In this final episode of The Career Clinic Podcast for the year, Ronnie pulls back the curtain on what’s ahead—for the podcast, for OhHeyCoach, and for the people navigating an increasingly uncertain world of work. Against the backdrop of industry disruption, layoffs, and shifting economic realities, this episode is both a reflection and a recommitment. Ronnie shares why Serve, Serve, Serve is her guiding theme for 2026, what she’s learned while writing her debut book, and how she’s expanding access to leadership and career support through new and returning community offerings. This conversation is for anyone rethinking their relationship with work, craving real community, or seeking steadier ground as they design what’s next. Career Clinic_ 2026 Vision and … What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ✔️ Why marketplace disruption hits harder than headlines—and what people actually need in moments of career upheaval ✔️ How community, companionship, and access are becoming essential career resources ✔️ The behind-the-scenes reality of writing a book while running a sustainable business ✔️ Why Ronnie recalibrated her business model around capacity, integrity, and seasonality ✔️ The difference between accessible resources and effective support—and why that gap matters ✔️ What’s returning in 2026 (The Collective) and what’s launching brand new (The Career Clinic Community) ✔️ How “Serve, Serve, Serve” shows up as a philosophy, not a marketing line Links & Resources: 📩 Join the OhHeyMonday Newsletter: Get updates, early access, and community drops first—every Monday. Sign up at 🎧 Listen to The Career Clinic Podcast: Catch up on past episodes wherever you stream podcasts. 🤝 Work With OhHeyCoach: Learn more about executive coaching, leadership development, and upcoming community offerings at 📬 Contact the Team: Reach us at 🔥 If this episode resonated, share it with someone in your circle who could use community, clarity, or support right now—and tag me on LinkedIn or Instagram (@ohheycoach). 💡 Final Thought: You don’t have to navigate uncertainty alone. Community isn’t a luxury—it’s infrastructure. And in 2026, we’re building more of it. /episode/index/show/ohheycoachcareerclinic/id/39418415

74. Partners-in-Shine: The Unfiltered Truth About Making Work & Life Work w/Chris Stewart 09/05/2025

73. Boundaries, Breakthroughs & Becoming: The Growth Mindset Career & Life w/ Jessalin Lam 07/31/2025

73. Boundaries, Breakthroughs & Becoming: The Growth Mindset Career & Life w/ Jessalin Lam Boundaries, Breakthroughs & Becoming: The Growth Mindset Career & Life w/ Jessalin Lam Coach, Author, Mom & Founder of Transform & Thrive 🎧 Episode Overview In this episode, Ronnie is joined by Jessalin Lam—coach, author, speaker, mom, and founder of Transform & Thrive. Jessalin opens up about her journey from toxic workplaces to empowered pivots, and how embracing a growth mindset helped her design a boundary-conscious, limitation-free career and life. From navigating motherhood to launching new platforms like her YouTube series and newsletter, Jessalin shares practical insights and personal reflections on creating space for joy, alignment, and impact. This episode is for anyone ready to build their career and life with intention, courage, and curiosity. ✅ What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ✔️ How to lead and live with a growth mindset ✔️ Why boundaries matter—and how to create them with intention ✔️ How Jessalin is designing a limitation-free career after toxic workplaces ✔️ Provocations for navigating motherhood, leadership, and personal reinvention 🔗 Links & Resources: Transform & Thrive Show on YouTube: Joy of Jessalin Newsletter: Connect with Jessalin: 🎙️ Want to be a guest on The Career Clinic Podcast? We’re always looking to highlight inspiring voices. Submit your interest here: 📩 Join the OhHeyMonday Community: Get my insights straight to your inbox every Monday at . Let’s Work Together! Explore executive coaching, leadership development, or career design strategy at . Questions? Email us at . 🔥 Loved this episode? Share it and tag @ohheycoach on LinkedIn or Instagram. 💡 Final Thought: “You want to be in places that celebrate you—not just tolerate you.” – Jessalin Lam #GrowthMindset #CareerDesign #BoundariesMatter #LeadershipDevelopment #WomenInLeadership #WorkingMoms #TransformAndThrive #JoyOfJessalin #ExecutiveCoaching #LifeByDesign #CareerClinicPodcast #SelfLeadership #WholeLifeLeadership #CoachLife /episode/index/show/ohheycoachcareerclinic/id/37627575

72. Impact, Intention & Shifting the Script - featuring Jason Rosario, Founder, The Lives of Men 07/17/2025

71. We're So Back 07/14/2025

70. Future-Proofing You, Inc. 01/31/2025

70. Future-Proofing You, Inc. In this episode of The Career Clinic Podcast, we’re diving into a conversation that is more important now than ever: Future-Proofing You, Inc. With the business landscape shifting rapidly—record reorgs, layoffs, and strategic pivots—it’s never been more critical to take full ownership of your career and ensure you’re set up for long-term success. Your job? It’s a situationship. And whether you’ve accepted that truth or not, the key to stability is realizing that you work for YOU, Inc. The company you work for is just one of your revenue streams. You are the product, the strategy, and the future. So, how do you ensure that YOU, Inc. remains solvent and positioned for longevity? I’m sharing a Micro Playbook for protecting your career, securing your options, and ensuring that no matter what happens in the broader market, you remain in control. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ✔️ How to read the room in your company and understand the signals of change ✔️ How to read your own room and assess where your work adds value—or exposes vulnerabilities ✔️ The importance of playing the “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?” game ✔️ Why you need “incase-ance” (not just insurance!) across financial, network, and skill-building pillars ✔️ How to build your executive team for career and financial stability ✔️ Why trusting your gut is one of your most valuable assets If you’ve ever wondered how to actually future-proof your career and make sure you’re in control—this episode is for you. Links & Resources: 📩 Join the OhHeyMonday Newsletter: Get my insights straight to your inbox every Monday! Sign up at . 🤝 Let’s Work Together! If you’re a leader or organization looking for executive coaching, leadership development, or career design strategies, we’d love to partner with you. Learn more at . 📬 Want to Connect? Reach out to our team at . 🔥 If you loved this episode, share it with a friend and tag me on LinkedIn or Instagram (@ohheycoach)! Let’s keep this conversation going. 💡 Final Thought: You, Inc. is your only true job security. Build it, protect it, and lead it with intention. /episode/index/show/ohheycoachcareerclinic/id/35092660

69. Are They Playing In Your Face? Here's How To Tell 01/23/2025

68. Reminder (Again) Your Job Is A Situationship 01/08/2025

68. Reminder (Again) Your Job Is A Situationship Episode 68. Reminder: Your Job is a Situationship – And That’s Okay Episode Summary: Welcome to another episode of The Career Clinic Podcast! Today, I’m bringing you a timely reminder: Your job is a situationship—and that’s okay. This topic is near and dear to my heart because the way we view and engage with work has a profound impact on how we navigate our lives. As we enter a year full of cultural shifts, economic changes, and organizational pivots, it’s more important than ever to step back, take a breath, and get clear about the nature of our work relationships. Companies invite us into their missions—not to build around ours. And while they may care about their people, their ultimate focus is their bottom line and impact. This reality doesn’t make them “bad,” but it does call for us to remain clear-headed and intentional about how we engage. In this episode, I break down why jobs are situational partnerships, how to balance your goals with the needs of your employer, and what it looks like to show up as the CEO of “You Inc.” This isn’t about demonizing work or companies—it’s about reminding you to protect your agency, set boundaries, and align your work with the life you want to live. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: Why your job is a partnership, not your identity. How companies invite you into their mission but rarely ask about your goals—and what that means for your career strategy. The importance of reading the seasons and rhythms of organizations to make empowered career decisions. Why it’s critical to start every role with clarity about where your interests overlap and where they don’t. Key Takeaways: Your job is one chapter in your life’s book—not the whole story. Companies have their own goals and intentions. Your challenge is to align with them while staying true to your own mission. Be intentional about what you give and take from any work relationship—and always know when it’s time to pivot. Key Quote: "Every role and every job is a partnership—a situationship. Be intentional about the value you bring and the value you extract. And don’t lose sight of the bigger picture: your life, your goals, and your agency." Links and Resources: Follow me on Instagram for more insights: or Join the OhHeyMonday Newsletter Community for exclusive updates: Connect with our team to bring impactful coaching and development to your organization: Let’s Stay Connected: If this episode spoke to you, share it with a friend or colleague who might need this reminder! Subscribe, leave a review, and let’s keep the conversation going. Thank you for joining me on The Career Clinic Podcast! /episode/index/show/ohheycoachcareerclinic/id/34779835