The Unexpected Career Podcast
Real people’s stories to inspire at every twist and turn of building a career and a life. Did you know what you wanted to be “when you grew up” when you were small? Is that what you are doing now? Most people don’t and yet there is so much pressure at every milestone in life to know exactly what you want to be doing and make the right decision, as if there are only a few “right” ways to create a life. While there are cultural differences and systemic barriers that create real roadblocks and heighten this pressure for some, most individual decisions do not set your fate in stone. Most people I know have found themselves in a particular industry largely by accident and have built careers from there; taking steps forward, sideways and complete pivots around great (or terrible) bosses, company cultures that encouraged (or discouraged) them, changing life circumstances and evolving values. I’m excited to share the stories of people who have built their career and life on the winding road.
Episodes
Season 5 is coming!
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S4E10: Louise Humpington shares her career journey from solicitor to international development and now strategy and coaching, all tied together with volunteering and a strong purpose.
https://www.kairosynthesis.com/
https://www.diverse-ai.org/
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S4E9: Andrew Ta started his career in Software Development and has worked in emerging technologies, consulting and now as a management consultant.
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S4E8: Jennifer Makkreel dreamt of building bridges in high school and pursued an Engineering degree and while being an Engineer wasn't ultimately for her, she is building buildings.
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S4E7: Velera has taken chances in her career and has now pivoted from corporate to focus on her business, Positive Identify LLC, and career as a speaker and trainer. And she wrote a book!
http://www.apositiveidentity.com/
https://www.velerawilson.com/book
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S4E6: Lulu Laidlaw-Smith's grandfather gave her her first introduction to reading between the lines and an education in hospitality developed her strategic holistic vision. Lulu is now Partner, Commercial Growth at The IMCC and Founder of Rip It Up Start Again.
http://www.ripitup.co/
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S4E5: Rob Saltrese shares his journey into entrepreneurship and what he's building now (and what he learned from facing a divorce and a business divorce at the same time).
Rob is Co-founder and COO at Lyra Labs. https://lyralabs.co/
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S4E4: Shemina Jiwani shares her career journey and how it hasn't been a straight line to CEO. There were pivots to new industries and steps backwards on the way to stepping into the CEO role at Ascendant.
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S4E3: Ben Kinning is a Business Owner, Sales Leader, Trainer and Mentor with Sales Geek, but after stepping off of the path that had been laid out for him he first created a path for himself in Corporate.
You can learn more about the services he now provides here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-kinning/
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S4E2: Susan Walsh is Founder and Managing Director of The Classification Guru Ltd and turns chaotic business data into something businesses can trust.
Following an early career in Sales and then rebuilding after bankruptcy after a retail business failed, she found her calling in data and has built a specialist business supporting 100+ organizations globally and created a tool, Samification, to help organizations standardize their su...
S4E1: Nicole Baxby is Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Partnerships at Quantifind and she shares her career journey in financial services and how she has taken risks and showed a bit of gumption to carve her own path.
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In Season 4 we share 10 more discussions with real people about their career journeys and the twists, turns, pivots and lessons learned along the way.
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S3E10: Megan Dunford didn't know what to take in university and ended up getting a degree in Physics and ultimately built a career in international payments and foreign exchange.
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Mary Kemp, started her career as a nurse and is now the co-founder of AI Potential which helps business leaders create a culture of high performance with AI.
https://simplerwith.ai/
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S3E8: Yasmin Ulrich was pursuing a professional tennis career when injury had her face some difficult new career decisions.
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S3E7: John Turley-Ewart has a PhD in History and a MBA. He has built a career a columnist and a banker.
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S3E6: Geri Valova is the founder and COO of MetaSim Learning Solutions, CEO, and founder of Youbee and co-founder of Magna Club, a club and community for executive women.
Magna Club: https://magnaclub.circle.so/
MetaSim: https://menta-ai.com/
Youbee: http://www.mybookoflife.co.uk/
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S3E5: Jennifer had dreams of a career in the arts when she was young, but with a desire for a more stable life she started her career in recruitment and has now found her passion as a leader in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
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S3E4: Derrick Walton started his career in the Navy before transitioning to the world of payments and is the CEO and co-found of Spheros, a data company that allows you to control access and share data across industries and applications.
Check out Spheros website: https://www.spheros.io/
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S3E3: Christina Brugger is an Engineer by training and an accomplished flautist. She is now a self-employed B2B Customer Insights and Product Launch Specialist at Insight Sprint and Founder and Coach at Keys to Impact, an academy to support women in STEM find their voice and navigate in male dominated environments.
Insight Sprint - Turn Customer Conversations into Product & Market
Success: https://www.insightsprint.io/
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