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We are two career coaches passionate about helping you find work that works for you. These are unfiltered conversations centered around creating a fulfilling career path: finding work you love, re-energizing your current career, and navigating the complexities of career change.
Does Your Brand Have an ECHO? Brand Echonomics by Jeff Brady
As many of you may know I am an avid reader. I will sit down with my pen, paper and a book and start to read and write. I take notes about every book I read. This helps me to recall them easier, but also serves as a reminder of the things I need to take action on. I...
Do You Have Worklife Wisdom? As Defined by Friends of CDA
What is your definition of wisdom? How do you define this life’s goal we are all seeking? A trait I have developed with a bit of my wisdom gained from experience is that I have a sharp crap detector! I seem to have a knack for detecting and questioning these rules and...
Is Our Workplace a Killer?
Career Chaos is Killing Women (and Men) Women, who have always lived longer than men in the past, are now dying younger than before. Men die 10 years earlier than Women and NOW the Female Life Span is falling! Is this work world now killing both men and women alike?...
Are We Ready to Fight the Next War = The JOBS War?
Finding a job is a war! It is not getting easier; it is getting harder and more difficult. Finding the right job that you can pursue with a passion, while having meaning and money is even more difficult. This is the focus of my work with my career clients at Career...
Tips for Entering the Age of Innovation
Our workworld is moving rapidly into the Age of Innovation! The key to career success today is quite different from what we were taught in the past. It is not stability and specialization in one field, and the “40 year Womb to Tomb” but flexibility with expertise,...
Recession Proof Your Coaching Career
During my three decades as a career coach in Dallas – helping adults replace the conventional personality Type A or Type B with the Type CC (the Career Change Catalyst) – I have experienced an infinite number of “dark nights” of recession similar to our current one. I...
Are you happy? Do you have “Ikigai”?
One of my goals for a decade has been to connect the Science of Chaos and Complexity from physics to the rapidly developing Science of Well Being from the recent focus on Positive Psychology. An article “Ikigai and Mortality” by Christopher Peterson, Ph.D., September...
Daniel Pink, Flip and what I “Crone-like” labeled “Crap in the Workplace”!
FLIP: 16 Counter Intuitive Ideas About Motivation, Innovation, and Leadership Daniel H. Pink, Author, Free Agent Nation, A Whole New Mind and Drive has written a collection called FLIP: 16 Counter Intuitive Ideas About Motivation, Innovation, and Leadership. It’s a...
? Future ? 2045: Singularity – New World/Concept Gaining Center Stage??
2045: The Year Man Become Immortal from Time Magazine Feb. 21, 2011: “sin•gu•lar•i•ty n: The moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history” If you think it’s absurd to say that by 2045 a computer...
Are you experiencing a “Dark Night of the Soul”?
In 1974, a book by Frederic Flach, M.D., The Secret Strength of Depression, was important to me in understanding how to move through what was seemingly the unrelenting chaos of a “dark night of the soul”. In his later book Resilience, he is focusing on the necessity...