7 Best Career Boosting Podcasts
By Sarah Maher
No matter where you are in your career or what profession you’re interested in, there are a wide array of podcasts that can help you to make important career decisions.
Today’s podcasts provides career advice on a range of topics including career transitions, professional development, taking risks and finding your dream job. We have compiled a list of seven podcasts focused on career-boosting advice.
Episode: The Neuroscience of Success Mindsets
Success isn’t a goal it’s a journey. Ryan Gottfredson, author of the book ‘Success Mindsets: Your Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership’. In this podcast Ryan Gottfredson discusses the different mindsets that help or hinder success, e.g. fixed mindset versus growth mindset. These mindsets predispose us to specific learning and behavioral patterns in navigating a situation encountered. He discusses how to shift these mindsets, to activate and strengthen our positive mindsets, and blasts through our limiting assumptions.
Episode: The Effects Imposter Syndrome Has on Your Career
Imposter syndrome is defined as a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills and achievements and feels like a fraud in their job. In this podcast two brothers introduce the term Imposter Syndrome, how understanding what it means and bringing awareness to what it is can help you overcome these feelings.
Episode: Unlock Your Ideal Career with This Powerful Combination
In this episode, Jennifer Seaver Stokes a Career Transformation Coach discusses defining/figuring out what work does fit you and transitioning careers. She highlights how by discovering the connections between your past hobbies and career experiences, and acting on these you can identify your “secret” strengths and unlock your ideal career. She emphasizes the importance of giving yourself permission to pursue your ideal career by making small or large steps to be more in your strengths on a day to day basis.
Episode: What It Means to Do the Work
“Doing the work is all the things between wanting something and the having something”. Emily Thompson discusses how ‘Being Boss’ is owning who you are, knowing what you want and actually making it happen. This episode focuses on the question of ‘What do you want?’, and the prerequisites you need to know what it is you want e.g. self-awareness, sense of worthiness and understanding and destruction of learned definitions of success. She discusses why doing the work is what separates the hobbyists from the professionals, why it is vital to demonstrate a devotion to the craft of business.
Episode: Be More Visible & Satisfied with Your Career
In this episode, Johnathan Maltby, a career consultant and personal branding expert discusses a number of hot topics on career change and professional identity. He covers topics such as professional blind spots and why they are key to discovering your unique value, building more visibility, and value within and outside of your company, communication yourself and finding meaning in your work.
Episode: When You Feel Like Your Career is Going Nowhere’
Stephanie Dennis is on a mission to empower people to take charge of their careers by offering advice. In this episode she provides 22 pieces of advice to help people reignite their career progression by taking a number of steps including defining your short and long term goals, job crafting, and finding a mentor. This podcast takes a fun but insightful approach to an important professional topic.
Episode: Success Looks Different
Stephanie Dennis is on a mission to empower people to take charge of their careers by offering advice. In this episode she provides 22 pieces of advice to help people reignite their career progression by taking a number of steps including defining your short and long term goals, job crafting, and finding a mentor. This podcast takes a fun but insightful approach to an important professional topic.
What are you favorite podcasts on career development? Share in the comments.