Podcast #275 – How to Mitigate Risk in Your Life and Career Description: In this week’s episode, I am talking about how to mitigate risks. I will give you 4 methods to use when you want to mitigate a risk that you are planning to take. This is a follow-on to episode 273 where I […]
The Secret to Success to Staying Employed in Technology into Your 70s [Podcast]
Podcast #274 – Mike McNatt Explains How He Stays Employed in Tech by Contracting Description: In this week’s episode, I speak with Mike McNatt, a test and compliance engineer who continues to work contract jobs into his 70s. He was introduced to me as the guy who has got this gig work down and that […]
The Mostly Up but Hard to Decipher 55+ Job Market in 2022
Hard to Decipher 55+ Job Market in 2022 The 55+ Job Market in 2022 appears to be pretty rosy if you read the statistics from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). They certainly look better than they did when I wrote a similar post in July of 2021. However, we know that if you […]
Are You Taking Risks in Your Career and Life? Let’s Talk How to Do It [Podcast]
Podcast #273 – Let’s Talk about Risk in our Careers and Lives Description: In this week’s episode, I am exploring risk both real and perceived. This is a follow-up discussion I want to have with you. If you have not listened to episode 271 when I interviewed Angie Morgan one of the co-authors of the […]
Rebroadcast of How to Switch Industries from Executive Search Consultants Perspective [Podcast]
Podcast #272 – Glenn Zweig, an Executive Search Consultant, and Podcaster Discusses How to Switch Industries Description: This podcast episode is releasing during the US Memorial Day holiday weekend and therefore, I am going to give you a quick update on Career Pivot and the Repurpose Your Career Podcast and then I am going to […]
In Strange Times You Should Focus on What You Can Control
We Live in Strange Times I have said so many times in the last year, ‘we live in strange times.’ Who could have predicted at the beginning of the pandemic in February of 2020, that over two years later, we would still be dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic? Many think it is over but if […]
Are you Ready to Bet on You: How to Win with Risk – Author Angie Morgan [Podcast]
Podcast #271 – Angie Morgan, Co-Author of Bet on You: How to Win with Risk, tells us How to Build our Risk Muscles Description: In this week’s episode, I interview Angie Morgan one of the co-authors of the book Bet on You: How to Win with Risk. This is one of the best books on […]
Experiences from My Trip and Speaking at a Conference to 700 People [Podcast]
Podcast #270 – Interesting Experiences from My Trip and Speaking at a Conference to 700 People Description: This week’s episode is a bit different. I recently returned from a 3 week trip from our home in Ajijic Mexico to Austin where I was a keynote speaker at a financial conference. I spoke to an audience […]
4 Types of Career and Life Disruption and How to Deal with Them (Part 4 of 4)
Career and Life Disruption – Financial I started this series on career and life disruption more than a month ago. The series is based on the advice from Glenn Zweig who I interviewed in the podcast episode, How to Switch Industries from Executive Search Consultants Perspective. I reflected back on my career and life and […]