Aligned › Engaged › Fulfilled
Why do smart, capable, good people still feel misaligned with the work they do? That's the question Clarence Maur has been exploring across every conversation on Aligned > Engaged > Fulfilled—with compensation experts, leadership professors, brand strategists, career coaches, and executives who've been on both sides of the table. This isn't a podcast about careers or business. It's about the human forces underneath both—and what it actually takes to move from just showing up, to truly thriving. If you've ever felt the gap between the work you do and the life you want, you're in the right place.
Episodes
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Job descriptions, resumes, and career ladders all assume a single answer to “So, what do you do?” What happens to the people who have many?
In this episode, author, poet, comedy writer, and multipotentialite Leslie Barber joins Clarence to explore what it costs to spend decades proving your worth to systems that weren’t built for generalists. From 28 years of kept rejection letters, to AI resume screeners th...
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Most of us were taught that success leads to happiness and happiness is fulfillment. But what if the thing holding us back isn’t fear of failure, but fear of the success we say we want?
Clarence talks with Pearl Howie, author, Zumba instructor, carer, and creator of the Pearl Escapes Fear of Success Instructor Training. At 15, her brother’s catastrophic stroke silenced her voice for decades. They explore why j...
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Some of who you are was handed to you, and some of it you built on purpose. Joining Clarence this week is Corinne "Corinne the Coach" Guirgis, an award-winning influencer marketing strategist turned ADHD confidence coach, traces that line through her own career.
She followed a run of right-place, right-time roles into a director title at 23, then lost a mentor and a job in the same month. She rebuilt her work around her gifts...
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On September 6, 1997, Jobert Abueva woke up in a Hong Kong hotel room unable to get out of bed, three and a half years into a nonstop global launch of Clairol Herbal Essences. That collapse became the origin of The Janus Plan, a six-step framework named for the two-faced Roman god of thresholds, built on the idea that real forward motion requires honestly closing the last chapter first.
Together with host, Clarence Maur, ...
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In this episode, Clarence sits down with lifelong friend John "Jopi" Consignado—Air Force veteran, former corporate HR leader, and now co-host of the Reddit on Wiki podcast—to trace his path from military service through corporate HR (Wyndham, AWS, Gartner) into full-time content creation.
The conversation covers what drove John's leap from a stable HR career into podcasting and content creation, the personal ...
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In this episode, host Clarence Maur explores the concept of fulfillment through non-traditional pathways, such as the portfolio career.
Cliff Beach, award-winning musician, author of the Side Hustle and Flow series, radio host, and business executive, joins the show to unpack what he calls "the entrepreneurship of life": the idea that whether you're building your own dream or someone else's, fulfillment comes down to min...
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In this episode, Clarence Maur delves into the intersection of personal talent and timely opportunity as the foundation for fulfillment.
Together with Gerard Holland, they explore the impact of AI technology on career sustainability and the importance of a curious attitude and continuous learning as the pathways to fulfillment are redefined in the modern workplace.
The discussion also highlights the significance of building su...
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In this episode, Clarence delves into the role of identity in habit change in the pursuit of fulfillment.
Connie Kwan, founder of StoryHabits and CEO of Product Maestro, joins Clarence to unpack why habit change so often fails. Not from a lack of discipline, but because the habit isn't anchored to an identity the person already holds. Drawing on her time leading product at a smoking-cessation company and her own winding caree...
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The impact of the global pandemic and the Great Resignation have led to a search for meaning and a shift in the value of living purpose-driven lives.
In this season of The Aligned › Engaged › Fulfilled Podcast, we're exploring the one thing we're all in search of: fulfillment.
To kick off the season, Suneet Bhatt shares his journey to purpose and discusses the urgency of purpose in the current human experience. The con...
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All season, we explored what it actually takes for a human being to engage with their work. For the Season 2 finale, Clarence goes solo—no guest, just the data and the alignment lens. He breaks down Gallup's 2026 State of the Global Workplace Report and connects its most important findings to everything Season 2 has been building toward. The result is a perspective the report itself doesn't offer: a clear, honest argum...
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What if the reason most organizations struggle with equity isn't because it's too complicated but because they've been treating it as the wrong kind of problem?
Not a compliance problem. Not a political problem. Not a special initiative to be managed by a dedicated team and measured in a quarterly report. A leadership problem. A management problem. A foundational organizational design problem that determines whether the peopl...
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What does it actually mean to build a people-centric and purpose-driven culture worth fighting for?
Not the version that ends up in the employee handbook. Not the mission statement on the wall. The real, daily, sometimes uncomfortable work of building something that holds together under pressure.
In this episode, Clarence sits down with Jodi Scott, co-founder and CEO of Green Goo, a plant-based first aid and herbal wellness co...
What happens when the people who built the broken system decide to fix it?
In this episode, Clarence sits down with career strategist, fractional HR consultant, and Emppowered co-founder Caty Toro for a candid, unflinching look at what's actually broken in today's hiring process and what it's going to take to build something better.
Caty was a guest in Season 1, where she and Clarence had a two-part conversation about career change t...
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The conversation everyone is having about generational conflict in the workplace is pointed at the wrong problem. Blame has been leveled at Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Z in equal measure—but Clarence and returning guest Lynda Harvey make the case that the real crisis isn't the people. It's the systems we've built around them, and specifically, the manager sitting at the center of all of it.
Drawing on the freshly rele...
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When we are completely burned out, the idea of having to "rewire our mindset" feels like an exhausting chore. We often blame toxic cultures and broken systems for our disengagement—but what if the exact words we are using to describe our reality are the very things draining our capacity to engage?
In this episode of Aligned > Engaged > Fulfilled, Clarence sits down with Stephanie Garcia, an award-winning digital m...
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Are we trying to fix our people when we should actually be fixing our systems?
In today’s workplace, massive invisible forces—market disruption, AI anxiety, and the shift to remote work—are actively pulling our teams apart. The result is a collective burnout that traditional leadership playbooks simply cannot solve.
In this episode of Aligned > Engaged > Fulfilled, Clarence sits down with Matt Poeps...
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In this episode, Brandon Fortino, founder of Fortino Studios, shares insights on remote leadership, building borderless teams, and transforming work culture through systems, trust, and storytelling. Discover how to lead effectively across time zones, foster engagement without micromanagement, and challenge traditional beliefs about work.
Takeaways
- How to define culture as a set of shared systems and trust rather than a phy...
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In the final installment of a trilogy on employee experience, host Clarence Maur shifts the focus from culture and architecture to the "plumbing" of a business: the backend infrastructure. Guest Kasey Devine, a veteran of industry giants ADP and Trinet, pulls back the curtain on why the Professional Employer Organization (PEO) shopping process is "broken on purpose" to profit off business owners' confusion.
The conve...
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In this conversation, Clarence and Natalie discuss the architecture of the employee journey, the impact of brand activation on the employee journey, the silos and fragmentation of the employee journey, the infrastructure of the employee journey, the candidate experience, and the transactional and dehumanized candidate experience.
They emphasize the importance of the employee journey as brand activation and highlight the s...
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In this episode, Clarence Bongalos sits down with John Formica ("The Ex-Disney Guy"), to explore tensions in the modern workplace, the crisis of employee loyalty, and the relationship between employee experience and customer experience as exemplified by Disney's magical culture.
The conversation explores the importance of defining purpose, the impact of performance and disdain for a paycheck, creating a great company to work ...
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