Careergasm
Careergasm is a place to help you find your way to feel-good work. These are heartfelt conversations about the human side of career navigation and career change. Including all of the squishy feelings that come along with being a human at work — things like overwhelm, uncertainty, fear, desire, intuition, and courage. Hosted by Sarah Vermunt, bestselling author of Careergasm, whose work has been featured at Forbes, Fortune, Inc., Entrepreneur, and Fast Company. If you've lost your career mojo and want it back, you've come to the right place. It's time to feel good again.
Episodes
You know that heart flutter feeling when there's something new you want to move towards? But then fear sweeps in, shouting, "but I don't know how to do that!". Not knowing how to do something can feel like an impassible roadblock. So in this episode we'll talk about how to move beyond not knowing how, and step into a more empowered place.
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Welp. I've been sitting on this for long enough. And I have a ton of fear about moving forward with it. Doing it anyway.
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Considering starting something of your own can feel like a seesaw between fear and desire. Like when you have an idea for a business bubble up, but then before it's even fully formed you shut it down. In this episode we'll talk about how to feel steadier in those push-pull moments. Plus how to give yourself permission to explore entrepreneurship while still feeling safe.
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We can't predict the future. (Dammit!) And that can make career decisions feel scary. We'll talk about why we shouldn't leak too much energy in the quest for control, and what we can do instead.
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How much self-trust do you have? Do you trust yourself to do what's right for you? In this episode we're talking about developing self-trust, why it's hard, and how to practice acting on your discernment so decisions feel easier.
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We often make decisions largely based on assumptions, beliefs, and blind spots that were given to us by somebody else. Usually early in life. In this episode, we'll look at our childhood conditioning and why it's important to do a "cognitive oil change" every now and then.
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Today we'll talk about how we can come to see these very hard experiences as helping to illuminate something that needs to be addressed. Plus, I talk about my own breakdown and all the signs I ignored along the way before I got reached my breaking point.
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The part of you that is afraid of change — even the thought of change — isn't bad. It just needs your help. In this episode, we'll talk about how to shine some light on fear, and invite it to the table, instead of trying to force it into submission.
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How to help your anxious mind get more comfortable with intuition. Plus, why weighing pros and cons often isn't enough when you're trying to make a decision.
The Half-Baked Ideas Lab — A place to explore and develop a half-baked idea that keeps pulling on your heartstrings. Starting very soon!
15-minute tour of the Half-Baked Ideas Lab.
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Intuition is such a powerful career navigation tool. But so many people feel like they can't connect with it. Or if they can connect with it, they have a hard time trusting it. In this episode we'll talk about why people struggle to connect with and follow intuition in their careers, and how to lean in to it a little more.
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Have you ever lost your job? Been let go? Fired? Laid off? You may have felt shock, panic, numbness, grief, anger, or a mix of all of those things. In this episode, we're talking about job loss from inside the human experience, and I'm sharing some advice you may find helpful and validating in the immediate aftermath.
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Sometimes I'll show up here and I'll have my shit together, and sometimes I won't. In this audio diary episode, I share some fuzzy details that I'm trying to navigate in my own career. I'm coming to you from the messy middle with no solutions or answers yet, just some vague feelings I'm trying to figure out. Welcome to the inside of my brain.
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How do you move forward and start to feel better in your career when you're already so tired? When there's very little in the tank? In this episode, we talk about some different kinds of tired (frustrated tired? malaise tired? flat out full-body exhausted?), and how to tend to your specific kind of tiredness so you can start to get your mojo back.
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Treating a career change like a purely tactical, logical problem doesn't work. Because we need to address the mental and emotional side of career change. We're complicated human beings, so we need a more nuanced, human framework. In this episode, we'll talk about how to identify and soften some of your fears and assumptions so they don't sabotage your career change.
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If you feel powerless in your career you probably feel trapped, like you don't have options. Maybe you have a boss you hate. Maybe you feel undervalued. Maybe you can't see a way out of your current career path. In this episode, we'll talk about where your power is, where it isn't, and what to do about it. Plus, the strange allure of telling yourself that you have no power.
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We're zooming waaay out to look at our system of work and our place as people in it. Capitalism. Corporations. Huge gaps in wealth and power. It's all in the mix today, including why things need to change, and where we have some power.
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Is this thing I'm considering doing with my my career safe? How do I make good career decisions for myself in a world that keeps changing? How do I choose something that feels safe? Valid question. Complicated question. And in many ways a loaded question.
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There are probably a few things you want this year. And you're probably already thinking about how to get them. We'll walk through that today — how to get what you want. And hold on to your hats, because how to get there is not what you expect.
5 questions to help you get what you want:
1. What am I willing to change in order to have what I want?
2. What am I willing to release or soften in orde...
If you're feeling lost about your career, you may be wondering WTF is wrong with me? Why can't I figure this out? The good news is there is nothing wrong with you, and there are some very good reasons why you may feel lost. We'll talk about those today, and also how to finally crack that nut so you can figure out what you want.
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You've decided to do it. You're making a career change. But you want to be smart about it. So you're wondering, is there anything I should know? Is there anything I should do or not do so I don't screw this up?
Yup.
We're going to talk about 3 of those things — 3 of the most common career change mistakes, and how to avoid them.
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