Serena Berrey is five years post-college and in a job she LOVES because she didn't waste her time in misalignment. As an Executive Recruiter, Serena has tons of motivational advice, including starting your day right, surviving any day in the industry of your choice, and filling your cup before pouring it out. Serena has hot takes and hot tips for interviewing with recruiters, networking constantly, and always finding ways to feel you're moving forward. This episode is getting me through my own survivable but challenging work days. It's worth a listen, a relisten, and some notes!

Chapters
1:12 Serena: Obnoxious Optimist
8:41 How are you going to change the world
26:09 ADHD: Attention isn’t the problem
30:00 Don’t Stay Just Because (Hot Take 1)
49:55 Always Be Networking
57:23 Fill Your Cup First
1:03:58 Diagnosed: Type I Diabetes
1:14:25 Be Curious
1:23:20 When They Ask About Your Weakness (Hot Take 2)
1:27:12 Get Outside
1:29:07 Today is Survivable
1:38:44 The Best is Yet to Come
1:41:00 It Worked For Me

Links
Serena on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-berrey/
Serena quoted Serenity’s book, The Thank You Room: https://www.serenitybohon.com/thankyouroom

This episode is sponsored by H34Contracting.com

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Please welcome Jason Benson, general contractor in Wyoming, former worship leader, and someone who never used to ask himself, "What do you want?" It's a question he learned through therapy after a series of panic attacks and a sabbatical made him realize he was headed into a very big quitting story. You know I love a quitting story. For Jason, this one felt more like Owen Wilson's line in the Loki TV series: "Burn it to the ground." (Reference mine. I have no idea if Jason watched Loki.) Jason's story is heartbreaking and inspiring, and I love that it can be simplified to the gentle question we are allowed to ask ourselves: What do you want?

Chapters
2:16 Let's talk about fame
5:53 Jason Intro: Geography and Childhood
10:25 Music Interest or Identity?
35:01 Quitting
52:53 Therapy & Learning What You Want
1:14:09 Back to school + Running a Biz
1:25:06 Telling Our Stories and Showing Up
1:41:57 It Worked for Me

Links
h34contracting.com

Books discussed
Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives by Richard Swenson

The Emotionally Healthy Leader by Peter Scazzero

Music discussed
Prizefighter, Mumford & Sons (album)
Dan Fogelberg (artist)

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Kristin Flannigan is a speech pathologist, living and working in California. It's a role that took her some time to identify. However, when she found it, she wondered if the career was made for her or if she was made for the career. Kristin loves fun and was always drawn to linguistics and to serving people. She learned the term Pura Vida on a trip to Costa Rica where she hopes to live or at least visit again one day. Pura Vida is a phrase that can mean a lot of things, and the sentiment seemed perfect for the title of this episode. Kristin followed her language interests through college but took a bit of a detour into administrative work before discovering the path to speech pathology. Her message in this episode is, "If you can be flexible, you can do whatever you want." Recently diagnosed with ADHD, Kristin is still learning about herself every day, giving the world's most healing hugs, and chasing Pura Vida. You're going to love this one.

Chapters

2:24 Who is Kristin? (And what makes the world's most healing hug)
8:19 Discovering ADHD and how to manage it
30:23 Early understanding of work
35:34 The path to speech pathology
1:13:29 Work wishes
1:17:30 If you're flexible, you can do anything you want
1:24:14 It worked for me

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