Jennifer K. Hill is joined by executive coach and HeartMath certified stress management resilience coach, Gilda Joffe. Gilda shares HeartMath techniques for becoming resilient in the face of stress both personally and professionally. Gilda emphasizes the importance of having tools to cope with stress before it hits you. One example she gives is cultivating positive emotions such as gratitude or love on a daily basis, and another is learning to pause and reset to neutral in the midst of an...

Common Career Questions: Bonus Episode Brandon Maslan answers commonly asked career questions from individuals at all stages of their careers. He provides insights on questions such as how to ask for a raise and/or promotion to how to get your resume recognized by recruiters. His insights included the importance of building your network, being clear on what you don't want in your next career step, and how to answer the question of why you are looking for a job.

Combatting Burnout Talk less and listen more. First and foremost listen to yourself and what your body is telling you even if your mind is trying to push you harder. This was one of many powerful insights by Elizabeth Rosenberg, Founder of the appropriately named, Good Advice Company, who joined Jennifer Hill and Brandon Maslan to share her good advice. She shared that after winding up in the hospital she finally got healthy and started listening to herself. We so often put too much...

Communication Jennifer Hill and Brandon Maslan discussed the importance of clear, authentic, and concise communication in one's career. When you are excited and passionate it is easier to elicit that same reaction in a listener. Be sure to ask questions about how a person is doing on that day and what matters most to them. We all have the ability to better understand one another, we just have to be willing to be authentic. In seeking to be understood you should always seek to first understand.

Impostor Syndrome Jennifer Hill and Brandon Maslan delved into why Impostor Syndrome is linked to one's success. When your doubt is the loudest it can show up in interviews and in fact, often results in you not putting yourself up for promotions or raises. By naming the ways you sabotage yourself, you are able to stop it. This can be done by reaching out to others for support and discovering how you help them. At the end of the day, you are ready for the job before you think you are ready....

Command your destiny Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill interview world renowned celebrity vocal coach, Arthur Samuel Joseph, about his Vocal Awareness work. Arthur shares the importance of creating a "Persona Statement," which encompasses how you believe you are currently perceived, as well as how you want to be known. He walks Brandon through an exercise called a "Conscious Loving Breath (CLB)" and the phrase "I am an extraordinary human." Arthur emphasizes the importance of being one's...

Intention X Action = Success Jennifer Hill and Brandon Maslan discussed the importance of having a clear intention in your career and your life. We all have 168 hours every week to make our vision a reality. The more time you spend in action towards that vision the better. Sometimes the best action is to trust that even a little can go a long way. To create your intent for your career the hosts suggested writing down what you want once in the morning, again in the afternoon, and once more...

Michelangelo Mindset with Dr. Mark Goulston Best-selling author, psychiatrist, speaker and thought leader, Dr. Mark Goulston, joins Jennifer K. Hill and Brandon Maslan to close out the month focused on increasing emotional intelligence. Dr. Goulston begins the show by sharing about the idea of self-discovered urgency, and his new Michelangelo Mindset. He explains that our goal is to see the good in others and ourselves. Dr. Goulston emphasizes how important listening is and that it is...

Accountability Brandon Maslan and Jennifer Hill were joined by Stephan Stubbins who is a transformative coach and whose background includes being on Broadway and co-creating a theatre company called Transcendence Theatre. He shared his inspiring takes on emotional intelligence and self-regulation to achieve one's goal of getting THE job of their dreams. He discussed the importance of seeking out the right environment. One of his mantras is that which I am seeking is also seeking me. What do...

Appreciation at Work Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill speak with best-selling author, speaker and thought-leader Dr. Paul White about how appreciation can make us better employees and managers. Dr. White emphasizes the importances of pausing and listening, as well as understanding what a person's preferred method is for being appreciated {i.e. Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Acts/Services, Gifts (not including bonus or salary), Physical Touch (such as a high five)}. He suggests...

EQ = Employability: Self-awareness Part 2 Jennifer Hill and Brandon Maslan discussed the vitalness of self-awareness in landing your dream job, keeping it, and being the best you can be in your career and your life. They shared that the more you look within the more you become aware of your impact on others. Those who seek to put others down often lack self-awareness and blame others for their shortcomings. To succeed in a career, being aware of how you impact others and constantly growing...

Self Awareness: EQ=Employability Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill kick off a month-long series on Emotional Intelligence by discussing how self awareness=employability. Hill mentions the Drama Triangle and how one way to become self aware is through being accountable. They offer tools for bringing EQ to the interview process by clearly communicating what one's needs and expectations are. Hill also shares how to use "proactive confrontation" to see if someone is able to receive what...

The Future of Work: Agility, Communication and Leadership Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill speak with futurist and best-selling author, Alexandra Levit, about the future of work. Alex shares that the leader of the future will need to be someone who is agile and that the old hierarchical strategy is becoming extinct. She also discusses that a mature attitude and a willingness to be vulnerable is critical for the leaders of the future. She explains that what matters to Generation Z and...

Flow - Why it matters and how to get it Kelly Ceynowa, Learning and Development Expert, Career Growth Coach, and all-around inspiring human joined Jennifer and Brandon on this week's show. She shared her tips on how we can get unstuck and into the flow of our lives and careers. When we are in our flow others want to be in it with us. She suggested engaging in real conversations with our friends, colleagues, and employees where we talk about true emotions. Every morning start your day by...

Insecurity: Silencing the Inner Critic Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill explore the idea of self-worth and how to silence our inner critic. Maslan offers a technique for exploring and embracing one's super powers. Hill suggests using positive affirmations to pivot from self-doubt to confidence. They offer tools for being able to ace an interview, as well as how to gain the promotion or salary increase that one is seeking. They also emphasize the importance of understanding "why" you...

Toxic Environments Can Lead To Healthy Outcomes Jennifer K. Hill and Brandon Maslan discuss what makes a toxic environment and offer tips for coping with them. They discuss various types of toxic personalities and how shifting one’s stance or perspective can shift the perceived toxicity. Hill emphasizes that creating healthy boundaries is the key to enduring a toxic environment or individual. Maslan explains that the more you build yourself up the less likely you are to be broken down by...

Authenticity=Success Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill explore how authenticity is the easiest and best way to create greater, as well as longer lasting success personally and professionally. They focus on ways to discover your authentic self and how to show up consistently as that person and professional. Hill shares that going through challenges that may test us, can also be an access to discovering who we really are and where our strengths lie. They emphasize that our struggles help us...

Storytelling Tips From A Hollywood Screenwriter Brandon Maslan and Jennifer Hill were joined by Hollywood screenwriter, master storyteller, and story creation consultant, Justin Sternberg. He shared that every story should have 4 beats; who you were, the inciting incident, path to success, and who you are now. The key to a great story is writing and speaking of what you feel rather than what you experienced. You must understand the point of the story you are telling so that the listener can...

Leaping towards your destiny Jennifer K. Hill and Brandon Maslan interview best-selling author, Aliénor Salmon, about her new book "Finding Rhythm." She shares about the journey that inspired her to leave her dream job at the UN to dance throughout Latin America. Aliénor also discusses how to increase confidence and embrace the power of self expression in one's career. She encourages us to explore why we often feel ashamed to be ourselves and suggests that each of us asks ourselves the...

Confidence Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill explore the idea of confidence and how we can harness our inner superhero before any interview or important meeting. They discuss how having confidence is the key to rising in your career and having a positive impact. Maslan shares tips from Amy Cuddy's book "Presence," and Hill shares exercises from celebrity vocal coach, Arthur Samuel Joseph. Maslan and Hill also explore how our environment directly impacts our confidence or lack thereof.

The Future of Job Hunting Jennifer K. Hill and Brandon Maslan speak with COO of Job.com, Bill Klehm, about the future of job hunting. Klehm emphasizes that it is important for job seekers to have a plan. Klehm also suggests that entrepreneurship can be building your own brand within a company. He mentions that we all want to be respected and valued, and it is a company's job to be socially responsible and create an environment where people want to come to work and stay.

Should I stay or should I go now? Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill spoke with Jennifer Kohl, Executive Director of Integrated Media at VMLY&R, about how to stay in a job and continue to thrive in the same company or when it is time to leave. She compared it to making a great cake where you are, finding the ingredients within an organization to create the best career possible. Here is the key, if people are positively valued then they will stay and if they add positive value they will...

Dear Chairwoman - The Keys To Getting On A Board Brandon and Jennifer were joined by Rika Nakazawa, author of "Dear Chairwoman: Letters From Today's Trailblazing Women Board Leaders To The Fearless Directors of Tomorrow", who talked about the ways more women can get onto Corporate Boards. She talked about the importance of knowing your brand, having the confidence to share it, and finally knowing the right people to help. She talked about her brilliant book and key takeaways from it. They...

Do's and Don'ts of Working with Recruiters In this episode, co-hosts Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill offer suggestions regarding how to be effective when working with agency and in-house recruiters. They discuss the do's and dont's of working with recruiters. They mention that it is important always to listen to the recruiter and to communicate clearly what you are looking for, as well as to clarify expectations with your recruiter. They also emphasize to be accountable and reliable...