Designing The Best YOU!
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! a podcast hosted by career strategist and board-certified holistic health practitioner Vennessa McConkey. This podcast is dedicated to helping you uncover hidden obstacles that are holding you back in your career. Whether those be physical conditions and symptoms, emotional blocks such as unresolved trauma, or mental blocks such as confidence and limiting beliefs. With each episode we will be sharing practical strategies, tips, and insights to help you gain clarity, build confidence and advance your career. From job searching and networking to resolving fatigue and burnout, we will help you tackle the toughest challenges in your journey that help you Design the Best YOU!
Episodes
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
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How to lead with clarity, not your title
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How to tell stories and own the room, using a very specific method
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
- The most important shift you need to make in your job search
- How to ditch the volume and focus on value
- One of the biggest saboteurs in the job search
- Tips to keep in the long game
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
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Why AI will never replace the leadership you bring to the table
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The mindset shift every senior leader needs to stay relevant in 2025
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! Today's episode was previously recorded from a LinkedIn Live - Weekly Wednesday Wisdom back in 2021. This episode's content is still vvery relevant in today's market. Listen in!
Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you ready to end the burnout and heal, advance and THRIVE in your career? Ready to find your VOICE and be who you were designed to be?
<...Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! Today's episode was previously recorded from a LinkedIn Live on April 22, 2025. In this episode you will hear about:
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4 tips you can use immediately
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what companies DON'T want
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secret tips and stories of what works!
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…and ...
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! Today's episode was previously recorded from a LinkedIn Live on April 8, 2025. In this episode, you will hear about:
- Why so many mid-senior level professionals have a fear of self-promotion (aka selling themselves)
- Tips on how to sell yourself through believing in your value
- You're wastin...
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
- messaging online that does NOT work (listen in for ones I've received!)
- what recruiters and hiring managers are looking for
- how to network without the "ICK" factor
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…and more!
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
- The constant rejection of the job search and how it takes a toll on a person
- Job search depression symptoms
- What you can do NOW to covercome the depression
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…and more!
Are you sick and t...
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
- Michael's story and how the transformation in his clinical practice happened
- Results of Michael's trauma-healing program and how this has changed people's careers, health and lives!
- Michael talks about job interviews and how we respond: how our fears take over and what to do about it
- so many other golden nuggets!
Connect with Michael:
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode we have a GUEST and are talking about:
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the pressures executives deal with and how it's affecting their career and at-home life
- what a lot of issues in life truly come down to
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what country-life has to d...
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode we have a GUEST and are talking about:
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what professionals are coming to recruiters for
- having THIS when you get laid off and advice from Joe's dad!
- the epidemic on LinkedIn
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Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
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% of people considering a career change in the next year
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WHEN and only WHEN you should look at a career change/pivot
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What career pivoting IS and ...
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
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Going back to the basics of job searching
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Stop doing THIS (the thing everyone else is doing)
- The status of the 2024 job market
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Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
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Going back to the basics of job searching
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The hidden doors we should be knocking on
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How v...
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
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What is the final wound, TRUST?
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Symptoms of the trust wound
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How the trust wound manifests at work
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
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What is the neglect wound?
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Symptoms of the neglect wound
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How the neglect wound manifests ...
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
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What is the guilt wound?
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Symptoms of the guilt wound
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How the guilt wound manifests at wor...
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
- What is the abandonment wound
- Emotional abandonment and what it feels like
- How abandonment wounds are formed
- How the abandonment wound affects your career
- How to start healing the abandonment...
Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
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The umbrella talking about our new 4-part series
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Different type of wounds you experienced as a child, and how those wounds block success in your career
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Welcome back to Designing the Best YOU! In today’s episode you will hear about:
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Why the way in which you move through any hardship matters greatly
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You were designed for more than just surviving
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