Your Next Success
Have you ever looked at your life or career and quietly wondered, “Is this it?” That question isn’t a crisis — it’s a signal. An invitation. A beginning. Your Next Success Podcast with Dr. Caroline Sangal is for students, job seekers, and professionals navigating career transitions, unexpected detours, and the search for authentic success. Here, we normalize questioning your path — because discovering what you truly want begins with letting go of who you thought you had to be. You’ll hear: Honest conversations about layoffs, pivots, burnout, and reinvention Guest interviews with real people navigating career and life turning points Insights and frameworks to help you align your work with your purpose Whether you’re just starting out, reimagining what’s next, or simply asking deeper questions — this is your space to pause, reflect, and rebuild from a place of clarity. Stop chasing someone else’s version of success. Start building the career — and life — you were made for. Tune in and begin Your Next Success.
Episodes
What if the version of success you built isn’t the one meant for you?
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal sits down with Ray Martin, author of Life Without a Tie and founder of The Daily Explorer.
Ray is an entrepreneur, award-winning business leader, coach, mentor, facilitator, speaker, writer, and mindfulness teacher. After decades of achievement, he realized that success without authenticity was...
What if success isn’t something you earn—but something you align with?
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Garrett Wood, founder of Gnosis Therapy, about what happens when high achievers push too far and forget to bring their wellbeing along for the journey.
Garrett’s path spans corporate leadership, fitness coaching, and neuroscience-based hypnotherapy. After his own experience with chr...
What if your next opportunity isn’t waiting in another online application—but in how you tell your story?
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal sits down with Amy L. Adler, President of Five Strengths Career Transition Experts, to talk about how powerful storytelling transforms careers.
Amy is one of the most respected voices in the executive career space. Since founding her firm in 2009, she has hel...
What if your next chapter isn’t something you chase—but something you grow?
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal sits down with Tigrilla Gardenia, a Nature-Inspired Mentor, certified coach, and World Ambassador for Plant Advocacy, whose journey from sound engineering and Big Tech to plant intelligence and purpose will change how you see growth and success.
Tigrilla helps creative multipotentialites...
What if the biggest barrier to your next role—or your next chapter—is your own mindset?
In this episode, Dr. Al Bramante blends psychology, hypnosis, and NLP with decades of experience as a talent agent to help people rise above self-sabotage and finally step into their potential. His unique approach helps artists, career changers, and high achievers overcome internal blocks that keep them stuck.
💡 In this episode, you...
What if the next level of your success isn’t about climbing higher — but thinking better?
John Knowlton has lived that truth. From pastor to co-founder of a wealth-management firm managing over $1 billion in assets, he’s learned that growth without alignment eventually costs too much. After selling his firm and taking a family-first sabbatical, John now helps Christian CEOs lead with purpose through C12 and his upcomin...
What if your next big career decision wasn’t about climbing higher - but choosing wiser?
After more than forty years in higher education, Dr. Tara S. Singer has seen it all - great mentors and tough bosses, leaps of faith and gut-wrenching choices to walk away.
As the former CEO and President of Omicron Delta Kappa and now a senior consultant with Academic Search, Tara shares the wisdom that only comes from a lifetime o...
What happens when you refuse to succumb to your circumstances and instead choose to reinvent and rise in glory?
Dr. Naeema Olatunji’s story moves from childhood secrets to healing, heartbreak, and a cycling accident that became a divine disruption. A chiropractor, reinvention coach, and author of Raised as a Lie, Naeema shows how the hardest moments can reveal who we truly are—and what’s possible next.
In this conversat...
What do you do when life keeps throwing punches?
Neena Perez knows firsthand how to rise with grit, grace, and God. From childhood abuse, teen motherhood, and domestic violence to a God moment that released her into culinary school, Neena’s journey is proof that your past doesn’t define your future—it can fuel your purpose.
In this powerful conversation, Neena shares how she transformed survival into resilience, resilie...
What happens when a federal program manager leaves government service and turns her insider knowledge into a business that helps others thrive?
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Julia Barzyk shares her transition from managing a $6M+ geoscience and engineering research portfolio at the U.S. Army Research Office to founding Wise Investigator—a strategic coaching practice for university researchers seeking fundin...
What does it really take to let the truest version of you lead?
In this powerful episode of Your Next Success, host Dr. Caroline Sangal sits down with Natalie Siston—keynote speaker, author of Let Her Out, and the Lead Global Presenter at Positive Intelligence®—to explore how to navigate career shifts with clarity, authenticity, and internal permission.
Natalie opens up about her early corporate career, the unexpected t...
What do you do when your career has spanned the globe, your leadership has made a measurable impact, and you still feel called to something more?
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Dr. Lucinda Jackson—a global executive, scientist, author, and speaker—about the choices, turning points, and clarity that shaped her remarkable career and powerful next chapter.
Lucinda has worked in more th...
What if every twist in your path has been preparing you for the exact impact you are meant to make?
In this episode of Your Next Success, I sit down with Penda L. James—author, scribe coach, publisher, and founder of InSCRIBEd Inspiration. Penda has spent her career walking in service: from social work, higher education, and nonprofit leadership, to AmeriCorps and now helping people bring their stories to life through ...
What becomes possible when you stop trying to prove yourself and start building something that reflects who you truly are?
In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Dr. Jeff Kiplinger, a PhD chemist, bestselling author, and entrepreneur whose career has spanned scientific leadership, business ownership, and incredible growth through real-world experience.
Jeff shares how he navigated the unexpected loss of his job...
Many job seekers are taking action, following advice, and putting in consistent effort. Yet despite that, the interviews still aren’t coming.
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal shares six common mistakes that quietly disrupt even the most well-intentioned job search. These patterns often go unnoticed, but they can have a big impact on whether someone gains traction or stays stuck.
This episode off...
Today we’re diving deep into what it means to reach for control in your life and career and how often that’s actually holding you back from what you truly want.
We explore why questioning your path might be more normal, and more important, than you’ve ever given yourself credit for. We’ll also look at how to begin listening to that quiet voice inside you, your gut, intuition, or maybe God that’s been gently nudging you...
What if your career could be both brilliant and balanced?
What if everything you’ve achieved—your wins, your failures, your pivots—was actually preparing you for a life that’s more aligned, more meaningful, more you?
In this episode, Dr. Heinz Plaumann shares what it means to live a life fully lived. From global manager in the chemical industry, with over 35 years of international experience, more than 25 patents, and l...
Have you ever looked around at your life, your job, or your carefully planned-out path and wondered quietly - how did I end up here?
Today’s guest, Kristin Hiemstra, asked herself that same question—and instead of ignoring it, she followed the thread. In this honest and empowering conversation, she shares her journey from burnout to clarity, and from performing success to living in alignment.
Kristin is a TEDx speaker, ...
What if the real reason you are stuck is not your resume or strategy but your mind?
In this episode of Your Next Success Dr Caroline Sangal shares the breakthrough that reshaped her coaching method forever The story of one brilliant chemist unlocks the hidden force behind self-sabotage and explains why even the most prepared professionals fall apart under pressure.
You will learn how mental fitness changes everything fr...
In Part 2 of Renée’s story, the real transformation begins. After decades of doing everything right and feeling everything wrong, she said yes to something different: alignment.
We talk about the internal work Renée did inside the Next Success Method—what she discovered about herself, how her past shaped her leadership, and the deep clarity she found on what truly matters.
If you're feeling disconnected from your p...
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