Thank You for Your Interest

Samantha and Rebekah are back for the official launch of Season 2! Samantha is on fire with job applications, while Rebekah is easing iinto the process—busy with a new podcast and still recovering from 2024.

This episode, they break down a particularly cringeworthy company manifesto (no names, but plenty of 🚩🚩🚩). Come for the rejection camaraderie, stay to get hyped for an exciting season featuring expert interviews from...

How can you break through a glass ceiling when your boss says it doesn’t exist?

For our season finale, we sit down with Rachel, an HR professional from the Midwest. In her mid-twenties, Rachel joined a company known for its "boys' club" culture. Determined to make a difference, she outperformed her male colleagues,  proving her value at every turn. Along the way, she made it her mission to help others break in and thri...

Asking for help is hard, and repeated rejection only deepens the struggle. But in the end, you don’t know what you don’t know—and realizing that can spark new ideas. ( or “can help blaze a new trail” or “can open doors”) etc. 

In this episode, we sit down with Eric Silver, a fellow podcaster who found himself in the tech world during the mid-2010s, working for a quirky startup called Poncho. With a cute, weather-centri...

Everyone’s tried to use a connection to get their foot in the door, but without careful fact-checking, you might just end up with your foot in your mouth instead.

In today’s episode, Marlene takes us back to her desperate days of trying to break into Hollywood—where she was ready to do anything to make it. She thought she was on the fast track to success, but her attempt to impress a big-time talent agent was dead on arriva...

How do you showcase your best work to a potential employer—without the risk of giving away your best ideas?

Some roles require you to showcase a body of work during the interview process—a great opportunity to demonstrate your talent and qualifications, but also an inherent risk. 

On today’s episode, Kyle shares how a promising series of interviews led to a disappointing rejection and an unexpected discovery. This u...

What if getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to you?

"You can't make this stuff up"—but when you're a comedian, you absolutely can use it as material. Today's guest, stand-up comedian and former scientist Sarah Adelman, joins Rebekah Sebastian to share her journey from maternal health research to the comedy stage, and how she literally laughed in face of rejection.

With the self-deprecating humor only a co...

If a job is taken away before you start, did you even have the job to begin with?

In today’s episode, host Rebekah Sebastian sits down with Fela Davis, an audio engineer who turned learning on the job into an art form. With undeniable raw talent, Fela made waves in the music industry, but she knew she needed more to truly break through. Years of hustle, innovation, and sheer determination led her to the brink of her biggest...

What happens when a dream job disappears into thin air?

Today’s episode of Thank You for Your Interest feels like a good gossip sesh and you’re invited. Host Rebekah Sebastian interviews Morgan, an entertainment journalist who channeled her pandemic boredom into a booming business. When industry leaders took notice Morgan was sure her big break was just around the corner; but a passage of time and a social media discovery f...

Ever been hooked up to a polygraph and quizzed about your own life? Would you pass the test?

In the premiere episode of Thank You for Your Interest, host Rebekah Sebastian interviews Kim, a traveling nurse from Arizona who once found herself in that very situation. Before Kim’s healthcare calling was confirmed, she was a job-seeker on the hunt for purpose and passion. She thought she found it when she applied to a federal a...

Rejection is universal, yet seldom discussed openly. Each episode, hosted by podcaster and professional job seeker, Rebekah Sebastian, explores the most heartbreaking, hilarious, or hellish job rejection stories from job seekers just like you — a reminder that rejection happens to the best of us.

From being ghosted after nailing an audition, to bombing a high stakes interview, listen in as we laugh, cry, and conne...