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Can you imagine leaving a Senior Director role at Google to embrace parenting three rambunctious boys full-time? 🤠
In this episode, I speak with Jeana Jorgensen about promoting herself to Full-Time Mom 💪
The twist: Jeana's decision to live her values and honor her three boys actually attracted her dream job as Corporate VP, Worldwide Learning at Microsoft in the age of AI.
Jeana continues living her values as Executive Director at the Pepper Foundation, supporting foster kids to have their best possible holiday season.
Learn more and give directly here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7135361935520235521/
Special thanks Women in Cloud and Chaitra Vedullapalli for featuring Jeana's leadership story onstage, and Clara Schroeder for bringing me along!
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Join us for a special year end wrap-up! My guests are big tech heavyweights, Ugur "Mik" Catmak (Founder, Lean High Performance Academy) and Ümit Uludag (expert on lifelong learning).
We talk creating and claiming value in career conversations, self-paced learning, and why we can't forget to decompress!
Takeaways:
Value Creation: how to create and claim value from your work
Personal Branding: strategies for building and leveraging an authentic, meaningful personal brand
Developing through disruption: how lifelong learners adapt with AI
Follow Mik and Ümit:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ugur-mikail-catmak-mik-123226b0/
https://www.instagram.com/ugur_mikail_catmak/
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Special episode alert! I had the chance to be interviewed by Deborah Sgro (Global Mentorship Director, Women in Big Data). For the first time, I share:
-Why I went solo
-How you can launch a solo business
-How to succeed fasterThis was recorded for the Women in Big Data Solopreneuer cohort program.
Book recommendations:
Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri: https://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Build-Trap-Effective-Management/dp/149197379X
The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau: https://www.amazon.com/The-100-Startup-Chris-Guillebeau-audiobook/dp/B0081CDIGW -
Today's episode is about finding the courage to make a big change - and continuing that career reinvention curve through partnership, marriage and kids. M
y guest today is lifelong learner Gabby D'Angelo - MSW, CFP, CAIA, CFA Candidate, Business Student @ The IE Brown Executive MBA.
Gabby and I speak about:
-Pivoting from Social Work to Finance
-Becoming credible, capable and visible in a new industry
-Finding the right role & workplace culture
-Building resilient practices and a positive, growth mindset
This conversation is proudly sponsored by the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. The NGLCC is the largest advocacy organization dedicated to expanding economic opportunities and advancements for LGBTQ people, and is the exclusive certifying body for LGBTQ-owned businesses.
Become a member of your local affiliate chamber or 53 US domestic and 24 international affiliates to leverage professional benefits and complimentary national certification.
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Welcome to Season 2! My guest is lifelong learner Fred Hoskyns (Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS).
In this episode, I ask Fred how he built a bridge into the AWS cloud and created learning and career progression to the Sr. Solutions Architect role. Fred didn't start in tech - he majored in French & Italian and worked abroad in the Oil & Gas sector.
Back in London, Fred joined Amazon and progressed to a team lead position with Amazon Global Selling. -Fred describes why he made a big change from e-commerce sales into Cloud solutions architecture with AWS. That's a significant technical jump, imho!
-Fred used #5Pillars like Effective Training and Powerful certifications.
-With the help of Well-placed Mentors, Fred is becoming Credible, Capable and Visible in Cloud solutions architecture.
This conversation is sponsored by learning content creator Adrian Cantrill. Pass your next certification and practice real skills needed for YOUR next big thing: https://learn.cantrill.io/?affcode=212820_jgngprkv -
Welcome to our Season 2 Premiere! My guest is avid surfer and children's book author Chelsea Keaulani Brown (YouTube, Looker).
In this episode, I ask Chelsea how she built a bridge into UX Research from her original career trajectory in athletics and sports media.-Chelsea describes her journey into startups with Looker and Gametime.
-By building Pillars like Well-Placed Mentors and Novel Projects, Chelsea became Credible, Capable and Visible in her space.
Chelsea's career progression paralleled a personal growth journey. Having surfed in Santa Cruz with the Looker team, she set an intention to surf Pacific Islands and learn from local people in a different part of the world.
This learning and reflection culminated in a beautiful illustrated book speaking to her younger self:
https://www.thelittlewahine.com/
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Welcome to our Season 1 finale!
Women in Big Data
My guest today is David Dennis. David is the son of a successful software entrepeneur, and he originally went in a totally different direction than Dad. David studied Sociology and Political science and his first job was teaching in public schools.
During the dot com heyday of the early 2000s, David found himself experimenting with web development. In his free time, he started building websites for schools, and soon David co-founded a tech startup.
These experiences led him to a 20 year tenure at Microsoft, where he is currently a Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Outlook.
That's not the end of David's story. In this episode, you'll see how David experimented with novel projects, marquee events and well-placed mentors to create more fulfillment and balance in his career. For more about this approach to career progression, see my 5 Pillars Method.
He's also Co-Founder at Ventana Surfboards & Supplies, providing adventurers from Santa Cruz and around the world with hollow-framed, reclaimed wooden surfboards; bodysurfing handplanes; eco surf apparel, and sustainable surf supplies.
Anyone with an interest in bridging their passion with their day job, or struggling to decide between one path or another will benefit from this episode.
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Read more of Priyanka's work on her Substack:
https://shapelygal.substack.com/
I'm pleased to recognize executive coach Marie-Caroline Chauvet in this episode. Learn more about her work here:
https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/mariecarolinechauvet
My guest today is Priyanka Bharadwaj. Priyanka has diverse professional experience as a senior manager at Toyota and Amazon, and as a respected and published thought leader on marriage and dating. She's now a VP at a fast-growing logistics startup with over $1.4B in funding.We speak about her perspective as a working mom during career change. Priyanka shares some practical advice and lessons learned from her MBA and work opportunities abroad in London, Barcelona and Bengaluru.
Anyone with an interest in aligning their career dreams with their partner, stepping in to thought leadership, or balancing work and family will benefit from this episode. I hope you enjoy it!
Women in Big Data
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Hello listeners, Neil here. I need to warn you that this episode contains a description of intimate partner violence. Listener discretion is advised.
If you or someone you know is at risk in the United States, or you'd like to volunteer or donate: https://www.ywca.org/what-we-do/domestic-and-sexual-violence-services/
Europe: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/saynostopvaw/helpline.html
Worldwide: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/violence-against-womenThis season, I hope you've realized that Your Next Big Thing is about more than careers and there is a human being underneath that armor. I'm especially grateful for guests willingness to share their dreams, setbacks and wisdom with our audience. With this in mind, I hope you enjoy this episode.
My guest today is MJ Pham. We spoke about her approach to career re-invention. Her impressive career arc spans from Fortune Magazine in New York, to serving in Cambodia, Saudi Arabia and Washington with the US State Department, to her current career in Communications and Marketing @ Google. MJ is an entrepeneur and founder of the Silk Tea Co where she crafts powerful tea blends that make a social impact.
MJ is a two-time winner of U.S. national journalism awards and was selected for the prestigious Pickering Fellowship in US Foreign Affairs. Moonlighting as a gastrodiplomacy scholar, her work has been cited by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Yale Review of International Studies, and Public Diplomacy Magazine.
During her current tenure at Google, her communications portfolio included responsible innovation and AI principles, including an event for AlphaGo, the first computer program to defeat a professional human Go player, and the first to defeat a Go world champion.
Anyone with an interest in reinventing their career, starting their own business, breaking into big tech or heeding the call for public service will benefit from this episode. I hope you enjoy it!
Women in Big Data
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During an 8 year career practicing Law, Josh won multi-$MM victories for corporate clients and immigration relief pro bono. Josh holds a JD from New York University Law School, where he graduated in the top 10% of his class.
Women in Big Data
In the middle of his career in Law, Josh made a big change. He's now a Senior Software Engineer at a fast growing tech company where he leads teams and helps clients build better products and applications.
In this episode, Josh and I speak about recognizing what drives you and tapping into that passion. We also go in depth about HOW to bridge into tech, including why Josh enrolled in a coding boot camp from the Flatiron School. Anyone looking for practical advice on how to do more of what they love, and HOW to use their existing skills in a new context, will benefit from this episode.
Book Rec: Josh mentions using The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron to tap into his curiosity. He created exercises to explore what matters to him:
https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary-ebook
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During her ten year career in business, Franziska developed a side hustle as an artist, painter and muralist.
Women in Big Data
In *2021, I noticed Franziska post a creative and entertaining video reintroducing herself and announcing she was leaving her job to focus on art, full time.
Anyone interested in side hustle to full time, hacking a new industry, and leveraging online communities can benefit from her story!
With a Master's degree in Marketing and 10 years of experience, you might think her pivot to Art meant those business skills were no longer useful. Her results might surprise you.
See her work:
https://www.instagram.com/franziska_raffael/
https://franziskaraffael.com/artist-video
Fun Fact: Franziska and I used to work together when she was the sales team lead for a German sexual wellness brand expanding to the United States. My role was to organize Amazon's support for marketing and brand visibility at launch. The best selling product? Advent Calendars (Adventskalender).
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Have you found success in your field, only to find curiosity leading you to your next big thing? Nassima Filali (Paris, Berlin) went from founding a fashion startup with her best friend, to joining Europe's largest fashion unicorn, leading teams and signing multi-$MM partnerships.
Women in Big Data
So why did Nassima choose to change?
"I reflected on how I need to learn something new every day and have an even greater impact for my clients. A sign it was time for a new path."
Nassima recalled her early career with two exciting and challenging years selling an AR-powered beauty mirror. She realized she had been following trends in the niche field of AR/VR for years, for fun and during her spare time. It was time to build a bridge (back) to her next big thing.
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