The Career Kickstart Show | Design Your Dream Career | Ready for Career Freedom?

The Career Kickstart Show | Design Your Dream Career | Ready for Career Freedom?

Your job doesn’t have to be soul-sucking! Be inspired each and every week to dive into your new career with our stories, tips, and tricks. We’ll help you go from just surviving to thriving on the job market. Your host, career coach & digital nomad, Sami Gardner, interviews unique guests, from career experts to people just like you who are designing a career and life on their own terms. Ready for career freedom? Kickstart YOUR authentic career at CareerKickstartAcademy.com.

Episodes

July 10, 2022 38 mins

Sami interviews Steven Steiner to discuss how newcomers can break into UX, his biggest career mistake, and more. 

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Jenny Chan talks about the importance of community to women in web development and how it can help your career. 

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Daniela Nătălețu is a fertility consultant who works with professionals on planning a family on their terms. We talk about options whatever your stage in your career.

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September 7, 2020 32 mins

Andrea Klunder, producer, coach, and consultant at The Creative Impostor Studios, works with organizations, companies, and leaders who want to use audio content to tell stories, create movements, and change culture. We talk about how to start your podcast right.

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Suzanne Yada is a freelance marketer who outlines how she started her business with a single email. 

Find out more here: https://www.yadacreative.com/

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Lucas Casarez is a financial Yoda to Gen X/Y professionals in tech. We discuss how to manage your finances during uncertain times Find out more here: www.levelupfinancialplanning.com

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Rosanna Lopes is a super-networker and digital nomad who created the extensive Lisbon Digital Nomad society. She shares her tips for networking like a human and building your career through word of mouth.

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Morgan McCloud is a union steward who discusses the importance of unions, worker's rights, and collective bargaining.

 

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Derek Murphy of Creativindie.com is an author and teacher for fiction and non-fiction writers. He lays out what we can do to create a self-publishing career.

Find out more at https://www.creativindie.com

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May 12, 2020 37 mins

This special episode is all about working from home in this pandemic. I share a lot about remote work too. I answer the following questions:

 

Some Questions Answered:

  • Is remote work the same as freelancing?
  • How is looking for a remote (permanent full-time, not freelance) job different from looking for an on-site job?
  • How to find remote work?
  • How likely it is that your geographical location will impact your chances of getting ...
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Dr. Larry Cornett of Brilliant Forge Coaching is a former Silicon Valley founder and tech professional turned career coach. He lays out what we can do to create a recession-proof career.

 

Find out more at https://www.brilliantforge.com/

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March 15, 2020 16 mins

In this solo episode, I talk about the power of grit in goal setting and how you can develop this for yourself.

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Richard Moss was a practicing physician before he turned meditation into medicine and became a teacher and consultant. He has been hired by startups around the world to design more consciousness into their cultures. We talk about the effect of tech on the world, the history of culture in the tech startup world, and how conscious relationships and awareness can heal.

Find out more at RichardMoss.com

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March 1, 2020 18 mins

In this solo episode, I talk about how sometimes the universe is giving you a kick in the pants to get you out the door and you can't waste time.

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In this episode, I chat with Spanish-born digital nomad, Carmen Corral, on being a digital nomad and being a multi passionate freelancer.

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February 16, 2020 24 mins

In this episode, I dive into a common issue that comes with success- haters- and how to deal with these naysayers.

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Laura Lakshmi is a yoga instructor, life coach, and she runs yoga retreats in Greece and India. We chat about how she changed careers from being an interpreter in Brussels to becoming a yoga instructor traveling the world.

Find out more at https://lauralakshmi.com

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In this solo episode, I dive into the gig economy. Love it. Hate it. It's here anyway. Let's dish on how to thrive!

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Bree Dell runs Tarot with Goddess Bree and lives the digital nomad life. We chat about how she started her tarot business, what it's like to work online, and her travels as a digital nomad.

Find out more here: https://www.facebook.com/tarotwithgoddessbree

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January 19, 2020 15 mins

In this solo episode, I share a tactic for staying focused on your dream as you are in building-mode so you keep up your morale even when it feels like its taking forever!

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