Career Compass: Mapping Your Future
Career Compass: Mapping Your Future
Podcast Description
Hosted by career strategist Tamara Loring and organizational psychologist Dr. Mike Smith, Career Compass equips listeners with the tools to navigate uncertainty, embrace risk, and design careers aligned with their ideal lifestyles. Across 10 episodes, this series unpacks the 10 Steps to Your Ideal Career, blending actionable coaching strategies from The Entrepreneur’s Source’s patented Career Ownership Coaching® system with science-backed insights on resilience, motivation, and self-efficacy.
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The podcast explores themes related to career ownership, personal development, and entrepreneurship. Topics include overcoming challenges in corporate environments, the concept of Battered Career Syndrome, and actionable strategies for goal setting, such as prioritizing self-reflection and aligning personal goals with professional aspirations. Specific episodes cover subject matter like the significance of mentorship in business ownership and the evolving nature of job markets.
Hosted by career strategist Tamara Loring and organizational psychologist Dr. Mike Smith, Career Compass equips listeners with the tools to navigate uncertainty, embrace risk, and design careers aligned with their ideal lifestyles. Across 10 episodes, this series unpacks the 10 Steps to Your Ideal Career, blending actionable coaching strategies from The Entrepreneur’s Source’s patented Career Ownership Coaching® system with science-backed insights on resilience, motivation, and self-efficacy.
Feeling stuck in your career or unsure of your next move? What if coaching could help you uncover what’s holding you back — and give you the clarity to move forward with confidence?
In this episode, Tamara Loring and Dr. Mike Smith dive into the transformative power of coaching, sharing personal stories, mindset shifts, and actionable insights to help you break free from limiting beliefs and take ownership of your future.
- Hosts Tamara Loring and Dr. Mike Smith talk about why you may want to seek the assistance of a career ownership coach.
- Tamara Loring herself didn’t realize the power of having a coach until she had a coach of her own…
- A coach isn’t there to tell you what to do but has the role of helping you gain clarity.
- “Once you have clarity, of course, it’s your own personal responsibility to take action of what you now know is going to be the best for you,” says Tamara.
- By tuning in to today’s episode and visiting CareerCompassShow.com, you can get a copy of the Your Career Revolution book sent to you.
- Dr. Mike Smith shares how he became an executive coach and the “serve pitch” approach he uses.
- The “soul searching” aspect of a coach’s job is something Tamara really gets excited by.
- Tamara and Dr. Mike unpack the “Battered Career Syndrome” concept.
- For Dr. Mike, one of the things that a coach is really good about doing is helping you discover things from a sort of neutral position, without emotions and unnecessary influence.
- Tamara touches upon the Entrepreneur’s Source patented process to help their clients, as well as her way of doing things as a coach and the limiting beliefs and labels we sometimes put on ourselves.
- Coaches have a similar approach than doctors’: First they diagnose, then they prescribe.
- Inspired by a Bill Gove, Dr. Mike explains that, like professional speakers are responsible to their audience but not for them, coaches are 100% responsible to their clients but not for them.
- Tamara points out that, even though we want freedom and control, many times we end up “outsourcing” them…
Mentioned in This Episode:
Your Career Revolution: Reimagine and Reclaim the Life of Your Dreams by Terry Powell
If How-Tos Were Enough, We Would All Be Skinny, Rich, and Happy by Brian Klemmer
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