Livelihood: Reinventing Your Career

This week on Livelihood Show, host Marcy Rosenbaum presents a career navigation strategy that rides change instead of trying to manage it. This week’s introduction to the Livelihood Show interview of Marcy Rosenbaum was conducted by Anna Drezen, an actor, writer and producer living in New York City. She interviewed Marcy using an adaptation of the famous Proust questionnaire featured by James Lipton on Inside the Actors’ Studio…. “Marcy Rosenbaum is the host of “Livelihood,” a weekly radio...

[powerpress] Ernie Urquhart, built a career by making choices, not waiting to be chosen. And when he found his path hidden by unplanned and unexpected events, he found a way to continue to tell his personal career path story. Ernie’s a role model for the facing the truth and finding the personal meaning inside the story. Ernie Urquhart sees life as a series of transitions. Some are expected and planned, like the transitions from childhood to adulthood. Some are expected but unplanned,...

[powerpress] “Uh oh.” Just the sound of it makes you freeze; and look around to find the danger you need to avoid. Michelle Villalobos Today’s guest, Michelle Villalobos, rewires the uh oh experience. In her world, those moments of dismay can serve as early signals. They let you know that the path you’re on will no longer take you where you hope to go. Uh oh is the sound of waking up, and realizing that something unexpected is happening. It’s not really welcome, and not wholly unexpected....

[powerpress] Could there be an energy crisis in our professional and personal lives? In science, energy is defined as the capacity to do work. We all know it is important to renew our energy levels so that we have the capacity to accomplish our everyday tasks. When we are all work and no renewal our energy and our ability to do work stalls. Our guests, Charles McFall and Mordant Mahon, call themselves Success Freaks, Success Ninjas and Comedic Motivational Speakers. They have some energizing...

Jennifer Bradley is a fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program and the co-author of The Metropolitan Revolution (Brookings Press, 2013). The book, and her work in general, explain the critical role of metropolitan areas in the country’s economy, society, and politics. Jennifer has written for The New Republic, the Atlantic Monthly, Democracy, and the American Prospect. During a brief legal career, she co-authored Supreme Court briefs in cases that affirmed the constitutional...

Seth Werner took a different path. He sought answers to the how of success- what drives entrepreneurs? What sustains them? And then, an even bigger question: what do you do next? The Strategic Forum This stage of life- psychologist Erik Erikson calls it Middle Adulthood- is characterized by the battle between Generosity and Stagnation. The achievement of goals requires setting new goals: the need to create or nurture things that will outlast you. Success at this, Erikson writes, leads to...

Nonprofit leaders know that solving pervasive social problems requires passion and creativity as well as tangible results. The The Non Nonprofit: For-Profit Thinking for Nonprofit Success shares the same business principles that drive the world's best companies, showing how they can (and should) be applied to the realm of nonprofits. Steve Rothschild personally crossed sectors when he left corporate America to found Twin Cities RISE!, a highly successful poverty reduction program. His honest...

Ken Tucker has written with Kevin Ford called The Leadership Triangle, Three Gifts that Will Change the Way you Lead. Ken begins the book with an interesting challenge. He says if you’re not making progress solving the problem you’re facing, you’re probably trying to solve the wrong problem. Ken tells us a little bit about what he means by that. Ken Tucker: There’s a…a premise upon which that statement is built and it has to do that our conventional approach to problem-solving as leaders is...

Just because a job or position doesn't exist where you currently work doesn't mean you can't do it... Aspiring writers, musicians, photographers, and producers are no longer beholden to “the studios” to provide the equipment, produce and finance a project. That technology is available on your personal computer, iPad—even on your telephone. Trina Sargalski grew up in Miami. She transitioned from a career in education to a career as a freelance writer and radio producer/reporter. She shares...

Here’s an interview question you might not have run into before: Do you believe that life is (a) a set of circumstances one makes the best of, or (b) that life is a result of choices one has made? Today’s guest, Rhonni Dubose asks this question to every person she interviews. She is a Festival Professional, who has crafted a career as an entrepreneur within the world of outdoor theme parks known as Renaissance Festivals. Privately owned Renaissance festivals are big business, plunging...

Join our conversation this week with Drew Borsz, whose career path took him outside the usual business world. Imagine this as your resume: Special Forces Green Beret. Senior Noncommissioned Officer/Senior Communications Sergeant on an “A Team” in the Middle East. Then: Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School creating and teaching Special operations Forces Adaptive Thinking and Leadership course. Your audience: Special Forces soldiers; American and international diplomats. Imagine being the...

Danny Scheurer founded Save-A-Vet after returning home to Illinois with disabilities sustained while serving in Iraq. Save-A-Vet helps dogs injured on military or law enforcement duty by hiring veterans to care for and manage them. The group, says Danny, has three objectives: “Create facilities in every state for our K-9 partners; hire retired, injured or disabled law enforcement and military veterans to live and work in the facilities; and lobby to have the dogs classified as veterans...

Here’s how today’s guest Jody Johnson, caught my attention: she sent me a marketing email which reads: Have you planned your summer vacation yet? Why not? Is it because business is keeping you busy? Being a business owner is more than owning your own business. It's having the freedom to go on vacation with your family and having your business run without you. Jody Johnson is Founder and Co-Owner of Action Coach, a business coaching program designed to help smaller businesses achieve...

Have you heard the expression: what doesn't kill me makes me stronger? I think that’s what Barbara Beach had in mind when she launched RadioActive Broadcasting Network . For some, radioactive means break down and decay- a deadly uncontrollable force. But when harnessed and channeled, it kills cancer cells and stop them from spreading. Indie rock group Imagine Dragons had a hit song in 2013 called Radioactive in which it represents becoming empowered and rising above anxiety and depression--...

What would you do if your partner went missing? Kat Albrecht was an experienced police officer, cross trained in search and rescue procedures. One day her partner—a bloodhound named A.J. —went missing. He wasn’t “just a dog”- with years of training and experience, he was a valuable asset to the search and rescue team. Anyone who has partnered with a working dog, and anyone who has bonded with a pet as a member of their family, knows that the connection between people and their animals is...

Leading under pressure—is there any other kind of leadership? Livelihood guest Dr. Gaby Cora believes that people can avoid burn out by anticipating stress and building daily reserves by continually recharging our energy. Doing work you love can be dangerous to your work-life balance. When you love what you do, it’s hard to shift gears away from work. Think of the Prius hybrid electric car: it’s a "charge sustaining" hybrid vehicle. This means that it recharges itself while its operates...

In August 1995, shortly after moving to Washington, D.C., 24-year-old Darell Hammond read a story in the Washington Post about two local children who suffocated while playing in an abandoned car because they didn’t have anywhere else to play. Darell realized this tragedy could have been prevented. The passion was born, the idea was conceived. After attending community college and Ripon College, he helped lead the start-up of City Year Chicago. Under Darell’s leadership, 600 City Year...

Sometimes we seek out change. Sometimes, changes find us. Psychologist Dan Lobovits had a satisfying career helping people and communities deal with the emotional impact of trauma. An accomplished athlete, he logged more than 40,000 marathon miles. Recently, he expanded his focus to include the challenges of aging. He did post-doctoral work at University of Southern California, earning an additional degree in gerontology, the science of aging. Dr. Dan Lobovits brought a unique perspective to...

If you can imagine your future, you can create it. Dorie Clark, who writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review, describes the essential elements for this process: insightful self-inventory; awareness of your unique and essential values; crafting a new narrative. Dorie Clark is President of Clark Strategic Communication, a marketing and communications firm doing brand development work with clients as diverse as Google; Yale University; and the National Park Service. Clark served as the New...

Many of us should be getting to work and live in a new category of the workforce called “the creative class.” Today’s guest, Robert Fass, is one of more than 40 million Americans, over a third of our national workforce, who create for a living. The idea of the creative class was first presented by author, Richard Florida in his national bestseller, The Rise of the Creative Class, and how it’s transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life. Professionals like Robert Fass are leading...