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 map you’ve been following isn’t yours anymore?
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Shelley McIntyre, reinvention partner for Gen X professionals and creator of Burn the Map.
After decades in tech and consulting, Shelley realized she had overridden her values, lost her curiosity, and outgrown the roles she was performing.
Her return to alignment, through theater, grief r...
What if the next step in your life has been whispering to you all along?
In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Anna Quigley as she shares how intuition guided her through career shifts, personal turning points, and the deeper purpose that kept calling her forward.
You'll hear:
- How intuition communicates through your senses
- Why midlife often opens a new chapter instead of a crisis
- The breadcrumbs in your ...
Burnout doesn’t always arrive as collapse. Often, it arrives quietly, through responsibility, competence, and a life that slowly starts to feel smaller.
In this solo episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal explores the lived experience of depletion and why capable, reliable people so often lose access to their energy, clarity, and sense of possibility. This conversation looks beneath the surface of burnout to what’s really happen...
What happens when you do everything right and it still feels wrong?
In part two of the conversation Dr. Caroline Sangal had with Dr. Jessie and Omar Ferreria, they talk about the season where purpose became unavoidable. You’ll hear about layoffs, identity loss, depression, financial pressure, and the kind of career disappointment that forces you to ask bigger questions.
Dr. Jessie shares the long road of earning multipl...
Some stories begin long before the pivot. They begin in childhood, in the early shaping of identity, and in the quiet pressure to be who the world expects.
In part one od Dr. Caroline Sangal's conversation with Dr. Jessie and Omar Ferreria, they share the early chapters of their lives before A Soul’s Quest ever existed. You’ll hear about formative family dynamics, what it feels like to grow up as an outsider, the ...
As I record this episode, the news is full of a major winter storm forecast. And by the time you’re listening, you already know what happened. That’s the doorway into today’s real topic.
Because storms reveal something deeper. The forecast can steal your peace before anything happens. The fear of the future can rob your present joy. And the fear of the past can do it too.
In this short solo episode, I give you a practic...
What happens when a chemist and lifelong martial artist decides to fix his business finances like a lab experiment?
In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with with Dr. Dan Bamper, a PhD chemist, teacher, martial artist, and Profit Coach who now serves as a fractional CFO for 7 figure contractors and trades business owners.
Dan shares how an eight year PhD journey, burnout in grad school, a 270 student martial arts ...
What happens when life keeps shifting the path beneath your feet?
In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Jake Isaacs, Serial Integrator and Co-Founder of Gathering The Kings as he shares the turning points that shaped his leadership, his resilience, and his definition of success.
We explore:
- How constant childhood moves shaped his adaptability
- The cost of high performance when relationships and well-being are...
Have you ever woken up ready to follow through, and by the end of the day your goal feels far away? That experience holds a message. Your system responds to real life, real pressure, and real emotions.
In this solo action episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal helps you connect to the deeper why underneath your goals so you move with staying power, even when the calendar tightens and your energy shifts.
You’ll learn a simple way ...
What happens when the career you built and the values you hold collide?
In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Bob Martin, former federal prosecutor turned meditation teacher. Bob’s years handling mob-related cases in Miami brought intense pressure, moral complexity, and moments that forced him to question the life he was living. His wake-up call became the doorway to a radically different chapter — one ground...
Some say life will knock you down. Sometimes it knocks you down twice.
Dan MacQueen’s story began with persistent headaches that seemed like an annoying problem, until they became impossible to ignore. An optometrist visit led to a sealed envelope and a direct trip to the hospital. What followed was emergency brain surgery, a brain hemorrhage, weeks in a coma, and months of rehab where Dan had to relearn how to walk, t...
We're adding some short episodes to help you start your week taking action towards your next success!
Buzzsprout sent me my 2025 podcast recap—31 episodes, 1,336 minutes, listeners in 47 countries and 376 cities, with 2,081 audio downloads. The numbers are fun… and they don’t tell the real story.
In this short solo episode, I share how I committed to an internet radio show in late 2024—invested, planned, lined up ...
What happens when your life looks incredibly successful on paper, but inside, something feels off?
In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Alan Lazaros, Founder and CEO of Next Level University, a global top 100 podcast with more than 2,200 episodes. Alan opens up about the patterns that shaped him as a young high achiever, the instability that drove his early ambition, and the wake-up call that shifted everyth...
What if the things you do “just for fun” are actually clues to your calling?
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Adam Torres, Co-Founder of Mission Matters and host of the Mission Matters series of shows, ranked in the top 2.5% of podcasts worldwide.
Adam grew up in southwest Detroit, where survival and possibility lived side by side. As a kid, he turned hobbies into small businesses: se...
When your career suddenly shifts in a direction you didn’t choose, it can shake everything: your confidence, your identity, and your sense of what’s possible next. Dr. Caroline Sangal is joined by Kelly Schuknecht, a marketing strategist who rebuilt her professional path with honesty, clarity, and a commitment to leading authentically.
In this conversation, you'll hear:
- The emotions that show up when a job end...
What if your next career step isn’t about certainty — but curiosity?
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal speaks with Carlee Wolfe, a leadership strategist, talent advisor, and coach whose career has woven through Olympic and Paralympic programs, Under Armour, Hyatt Hotels, and purpose-driven nonprofit work.
Carlee’s story is rooted in connection, movement, and a willingness to explore what’s possib...
What if your greatest detours became your best stories?
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Dr. Danny Brassell, affectionately known as “Jim Carrey with a Ph.D.”—a globally recognized speaker, author, and coach who’s helped thousands of leaders and entrepreneurs turn communication into connection.
Danny’s journey spans journalism, teaching, speaking, and coaching. He shares...
In this episode of Your Next Success, Caroline sits down with Steve Jaffe, author of The Layoff Journey: From Dismissal to Discovery. Steve has lived through four layoffs in 25 years, and each one reshaped his understanding of identity, work, and worth.
Together, they explore the emotional reality of job loss — the grief, the shock, the shame, the pause, and the rebuilding.
If you are navigating a layoff, still processi...
What if your next chapter begins when you stop doing and start leading?
In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal speaks with Walter Dusseldorp, founder of TheDutchMentor.com — a lifelong learner, paramedic, flight instructor, author, and leadership mentor helping professionals move from doing to leading with purpose.
From the farms of Holland to hospital boardrooms and helicopter flights, Walter’s story...
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...
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