152: The Transition Trailblazer: Navigating Career Changes with Immersive Career Coach Gretchen Skalka

Whether you’re pursuing a side business or a passion, uncertain about leaving your current job for a new opportunity, or simply seeking a change, making this kind of decision is not a clear-cut process.

In Part 2 of our two-part episode, co-hosts Nola Boea and Lori Vajda sit down with entrepreneur and immersive career coach Gretchen Skalka for an in-depth discussion.  If you've ever wondered how you can turn your talents, interests, skills, or career experience into a livelihood or whether working with a career coach is right for you, this interview is a must-listen! Prepare to be inspired as you learn how to build a business or career that genuinely motivates, excites, and inspires you.

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By the end of this episode, you’ll learn 

• How asking yourself this one simple question can help you turn your passion, purpose, or talents into a money-making career
• The signs that it’s time to make a career pivot
• How to level up your professional experience
• Working with a coach can help you accelerate your path to leadership or entrepreneurship

Key points Lori and Nola are sharing in this episode:

(04:37:00) The fundamental difference between a career mentor and a career coach.

(06:36:70) Although you might seek coaching services to help you reach a goal or with a desire to make more money, get a promotion, or have an easier time at work, all those things are generally symptomatic of a larger issue that's happening.

(09:17:30) We say you can do anything, but we don't say you can do many things. The values and goals that you had professionally in your 20s are going to be different when you're in your 40s, 50s, and beyond.

(11:15:20) How to combine setting goals with the steps to taking action so that when you feel like you are out of your comfort zone, you still feel like you're making progress.

(17:04:90) Often, people walk away from tenured careers and successful positions because they could not get through an interpersonal challenge they had with someone in the workplace. Here’s what to do first.

Resources 

Connect with Gretchen Skalka: Career Insights Consulting

The Plight Attendant: Show Link

Gretchen Skalka: LinkedIn

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