Curious to explore a career in another country, but not sure how to? Get ready for this great chat with Wendy O’Mara about her work in HR, relocation and recruitment plus hear about her own relocation experience.

In this wonderful and honest chat, we share lots of examples from our own international moves, and some insider tips you want to make sure to consider for your own overseas career adventure.

Some of the things we cover: • How to run a successful business with your husband or wife • International recruitment tips for both candidates and employers • How to create a better relocation and onboarding experience for internationals • The power of a single touchpoint when moving through a complex work or recruitment process • How homesickness can really change your international career experience • The challenges and opportunities that open up when you follow a partner overseas • The different drivers that can fuel a big career move • How the practical parts of an international career often stop people from following their dreams • How to assess the pros and cons of an international work opportunity • Timing and its importance in any career move • Career matching and building a meaningful talent pipeline for your business

Wendy’s top career tips

1. 1. Choose your partners wisely 2. Don’t be naïve – it will cost money, time and energy to make great things happen! 3. Dare to make the decision or the jump, it might just work out!

Resources:

• • Feeling stuck on what’s next in your career? Start by downloading the free career checklist via ⁠https://www.thebridgecoaching.com.au⁠ or book a free chat with Emmy. • Connect with Wendy via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyomara/ or check out their websites https://engineeredmoves.com/ and https://www.contourpersonnel.com.au/

I loved this chat with Darren Allen about all things career! He loved drawing and creativity and wanted to be an architect or an engineer as a child. His path changed when he got some loving, but frank feedback during his student years, and he swapped engineering for project management and professional problem solving.

Since then, he’s spent most of his career in the community and events space. In this chat we unpack how you can be more honest, have more fun and enjoy the work you do to be more productive.

Some of the things we cover: • Finding the line between the things we love and the things we monetise or work with. • Unpacking your unique way of problem solving. • The balance between following the rules and forging ahead • Reframe the bigger picture problem you are part of solving in your work • The risk of mission fatigue, especially in the not-for-profit space • Building your work on principles and values, rather than rules • How to shape decision making filters to work better. • Creating decision making frameworks that helps you work better and more efficiently • Integrity and how to figure out if a business is doing it well • Learning to regulate your pace and well-being to keep delivering great work and build a sustainable career • The challenges with bringing your whole self to work • Crying or and dealing with grief and difficult emotions in a workplace • How to lead with heart and still deliver great results • The gift in giving and receiving mentoring for people in any industry

Darren’s top career tips - Dare to reinvent yourself when you make a career change - Fail quickly. Make mistakes, but only maker them once. - Be prepared to be surprised. You will be wrong sometimes.

Resources: • Feeling stuck on what’s next in your career? Start by downloading the free career checklist via ⁠https://www.thebridgecoaching.com.au⁠ or book a free chat with Emmy. • Connect with Darren on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darren-allen-453b4333/

In this wonderful conversation with Porschia Parker-Griffin we unpack the power of healthy positivity in career building and share lots of practical action steps you can take to really transform your career options.

She also shares how the invincible syndrome can work against you in career building. This syndrome assumes that we can do pretty much everything on our own and that our efforts will also be successful which can lead to a dangerous form of overconfidence.

Some of the things we cover: • The invincible syndrome and how it shows up in someone’s life • The career habits and tips that are even more important than your resume • The power of healthy positivity and how it’s different from toxic positivity • Perfectionism and how it helps • Beliefs around hard work, high achievers and the expected reward • The balance of acquiring knowledge and taking action • How to review and overhaul your CV and Linked In • How to audit your skills and blind spots to monitor your energy • Take stock of what resources you have available to make this happen • Decoupling input from expected (immediate) outcome • Learning to listen to the feedback from self and others to build on • How to find things that make you smile to fuel your work through healthy positivity and tapping into gratitude in a very practical way • What is a career support system and how do you build one? • The danger of unhelpful beliefs such as ‘If I just get in the room, I’ll seal the deal’ or ‘I did so well in this other area, those skills will make me successful in my new role or business’.

Resources: • Feeling stuck on what’s next in your career? Start by downloading the free career checklist via ⁠https://www.thebridgecoaching.com.au⁠ or book a free chat with Emmy. • Get in touch with Porschia and listen into her podcast: Website: https://www.fly-highcoaching.com Career 1010 Podcast: https://www.fly-highcoaching.com/career-101-podcast/

What stories do you tell yourself about when to make a change or what’s possible? If you’re feeling stuck or lacking flow at work today’s episode is for you! By the time we notice something is wrong, we have usually overstayed our welcome. So what can we do to get unstuck? And can you genuinely love what you do for work, or is that all an illusion?

I've teamed up yet again with fellow career coach Brian Klindworth to chat openly about some common examples (including some from our own careers) of when we felt stuck, emotionally paralysed and how we navigated out of that.

Some of the things we cover: • Growth is the intersection between challenge and support • Is 10 years long enough in any role or career? Understanding your own career growth cycles • How to listen to the little voice within • Hopelessness and despair • The importance of timing and sense checking if it’s the place that’s wrong or simply just the timing • How able you feel in accepting support, help and rescue • The difference between staying stuck and staying still • Values alignment • Being distracted by what we are good at • OK or good being the enemy of greatness • Exploring your relationship with comfortable, fine or OK • Surface and deeper level impacts of career stagnation • The loudspeaker in your head, what’s it saying?

Resources: • Feeling stuck on what’s next in your career? Start by downloading the free career checklist via ⁠https://www.thebridgecoaching.com.au⁠ or book a free chat with Emmy. • Get in touch with Brian Klindworth: https://www.brianklindworth.com/

Have you ever experienced ‘the dark pit’ of rejection? Maybe you did not get that (dream) job, miss out on the internal promotion or have your brilliant idea ignored. Having something taken away can be incredibly painful, so how can we find a way of moving forward with a giant lump of pain and rejection in the way? In this episode, I chat to Brian Klindworth about some of the most painful and insightful times in our own careers when it comes to rejection and getting a ‘no’.

Some of the things we cover: • The difference between a rejection and a no • Focusing on what’s useful instead of what’s ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ • Can rejection be useful feedback and lead us to positive places? • Dodging professional bullets • Perfectionism and hustling for worthiness • Anger, anxiety and imposter syndrome • The courage to grieve and sit with painful (work) experiences • Emotional literacy to allow emotion • Hopelessness and lack of control around rejection and getting the ‘no’ • Why you might not be considered for promotions • The power of personal responsibility • How to access free learning and development • How to make peace with a negative outcome when there is no answer • Creating a space to welcome closure

Resources: • Big feelings (book): https://www.amazon.com.au/Big-Feelings-Okay-When-Things/dp/1838858512/ • Atlas of the Heart (book): https://www.amazon.com.au/Atlas-Heart-Meaningful-Connection-Experience/dp/1785043773/ • Feeling stuck on what’s next in your career? Start by downloading the free career checklist via ⁠https://www.thebridgecoaching.com.au⁠ or book a free chat with Emmy. • Get in touch with Brian Klindworth: https://www.brianklindworth.com/

What is sustainable work? I'm here to help and I've teamed up with fellow career coach Brian Klindworth to chat openly and vulnerably about some of the trends (and big feelings) we're seeing right now and how you can be ok, even in times of intense change and challenge.

Sustainable work requires you to design a career and life that you don’t want to escape from. In this episode we unpack courage, life design, flexibility and lots more things that impact your work and relationship with yourself. We also share plenty of example of when things totally broke down and we knew we needed to change things and redesign our work. How we work is just as important as what we do.

Some of the things we cover:

• What is life and career design?
• Continuous career transition and knowing when and how to pivot
• Signals that your current work (and life) are not sustainable
• How to move the dial when you’re feeling unbalanced and unhappy
• Building up courage to change
• What you’re willing to do and what boundaries to set up and protect
• Financial impact of sustainable career decisions
• How to have courageous conversations to help you grow your career options
• Flexibility and how it feeds into career planning and career design
• Spotting toxic work situations and how to get out of them
• The power of a soft landing job and backup funds to give you healthier career choices
• How sleep impacts your productivity and happiness

Resources:

• Feeling stuck on what’s next in your career? Start by downloading the free career checklist via ⁠https://www.thebridgecoaching.com.au⁠ or book a free chat with Emmy.
• Get in touch with Brian Klindworth: https://www.brianklindworth.com/

The world sure is a strange and interesting place to live and work in right now! I've spoken to a lot of people lately who are battling a range of feelings about work and career, and many of them are driven by fear, worry and uncertainty. But I'm here to help and I've teamed up with fellow career coach Brian Klindworth to chat openly and vulnerably about some of the trends (and big feelings) we're seeing right now and how you can be ok, even in times of intense change and challenge.

Some of the things we cover:

• Healthy boundaries
• The exhaustion we’re seeing in some of our clients at the moment
• How life and career design works and can help you
• Sustainable work and career building
• Listening and honouring what we want
• What it means to never outsource responsibility
• The powerful feedback pain and resistance can provide us with.

Resources:

• Feeling stuck on what’s next in your career? Start by downloading the free career checklist via https://www.thebridgecoaching.com.au or book a free chat with Emmy.
• Get in touch with Brian Klindworth: https://www.brianklindworth.com/