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November 13, 2025 26 mins

I didn’t always know what I wanted to do. As a college student studying technology, I wasn’t all that studious, I had no end goal, and I finished my first semester with a 1.9 GPA. I knew I needed to figure it out, but I also knew I couldn’t do it on my own. 

At the time, I was able to go to my college's guidance counselor and figure it out from there. But now we’re in the real, adult world, and it feels like there are no guidance counselors anywhere! As we grow, we evolve, and sometimes the careers we thought we wanted aren’t what we want for our future. So as a career coach, I’m going to help you align your career with your purpose today. 

In this week’s episode, we’re talking about how I aligned my soul’s purpose with my career. I could never just take a job to have a job. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a hard worker, and I can outwork anybody. But if I was going to do this forever, I needed my job to fire me up every single day. And my career in HR and coaching does exactly that. Let’s get you some of that fire by starting from the beginning. 


Resources Mentioned:

The Estresada to Employed Workbook


Follow Flaka on:

Instagram @‌hr.mami  

Instagram: @itsflakag

TikTok: @itsflakag

YouTube: Flaka Martinez 

LinkedIn: Janet Martinez 


Website:https://www.hrmami.com/ 


How to work with Flaka:

Sign up for Flaka’s Career Coaching Services here! 

Sign up for Flaka’s HR Consulting Services here! 

Sign up for Flaka’s Personal Development Services here!


Podcast production for this episode was provided by CCST, an Afro-Latina-owned boutique podcast production and copywriting studio. 


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