The Career Launch Club podcast: Recent Episodes
Curtis Swisher: Career coach, speaker and author
Conversations with young adults and experts about the challenges that young people encounter during college and while launching their careers. Topics include choosing the right career, choosing the right college, paying for college, student loan debt, finding internships, landing a great job, growing a career and changing careers. For more information about how we help young people launch successful careers, visit www.mycareerquest.com
In this episode of the Career Launch podcast, Tracee Herring, owner of Davanti Salon and Spa, describes her journey from a corporate career to becoming a small business owner. https://www.davantisalon.com/
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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In this episode of the Career Launch podcast, Rachel Moon, Certified Music Practitioner, describes her work as a piano and harp teacher, and her musical performances in healthcare facilities that sooth troubled patients.
Rachel’s website is www.awakenmusicstudio.com. To learn more about the CMP certification, click here: www.mhtp.org.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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In this episode of the Career Launch podcast, Bryan Moon, Business Operations Manager of Liberty Contractors describes the variety of things he’s done in a start-up company which specializes in demolition work for FEMA.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Connor Mighell (pronounced “Mile”) is an attorney and law clerk for a federal district court judge in Dallas, Texas. He monitors about 100 cases on the court docket, and collaborates with others to assist the judge with researching and writing court documents.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Danae Pessarra is a Global Marketing Producer & Team Lead at ECCO Shoes in Denmark. In this episode of the Career Launch podcast, she shares how she launched her career in Denmark after graduating from Baylor University.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Morgan Deavenport is a Speech Language Pathologist at THERAPY 2000 in Lubbock, TX. In episode 25 of the Career Launch Club podcast, Morgan describes her journey to launch her career in pediatric speech pathology.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Melissa Leong is Director of R&D at Rise Baking Company in Orange County, CA. She discusses her work in food science formulating cookies and other baked goods.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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@Luke Deavenport is a Security and Compliance Consultant at CoNetrix. He discusses his work in cybersecurity and how he was able to launch an IT career although his college degree was in Sociology.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Jonathan Chaves is Manager of Creative Services with the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee in Colorado Springs. His wife Jordan Chaves is a sixth grade math teacher. In this interview, they describe how they landed their first career jobs.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Robert Miller is a chemical engineer with Olin. He describes his journey to launch a career in engineering, and the lessons he learned from each summer job along the way.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Weston Mighell (pronounced “Mile”) is a business analytics professional with Harman International. He describes his work in the rapidly-expanding field of data analytics after internships with two Dallas professional sports teams. Weston is now pursuing a master’s degree from Indiana University.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Mariah Arevalo describes her work in robotics to protect people from hazardous environments and how her internships and first career job guided her career path. She also reveals how she landed scholarships, and how she started a program to teach computer science fundamentals to elementary-age children while attending UC-Davis.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Kelly Chisum describes how her career has evolved from print ad designer to website designer, to owning her own business and becoming a college professor for graphic arts. She also shares advice for landing an internship and getting your design portfolio in front of other people.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Ryan Mowery describes the ups and downs of being a veterinarian, and what it took to launch her career in a challenging field of study.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Wendy Young shares her career journey from process engineer to a marketing and sales leader. She describes how involvement in AIChE has helped her career, and how she wants to give back by being elected again to their board. She also describes how she knew when it was time to change jobs.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Daniel Mowery and his father each own 50% of their family’s business. Daniel describes why he loves his work and what it takes to be successful in their business.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Fortune favors the bold. Mike Bergstrom describes what it takes to be successful in a career of professional sales. His motto is “heart to hustle”. Mike’s student loan debt is a fraction of his colleague’s student loan debt who went to higher-cost schools. He describes the Rule of 52 for landing a job: 52 applications-26 responses-13 followups-5 interviews-1 offer.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Emily Armstrong Sixta updates us on what has happened in her career and personal life since our original interview in 2015. And she offers timely career advice for high school and college students.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Emily Armstrong describes how her career evolved by following her interests. She tells about landing three jobs in three different cities during the first four years after graduating college.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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Jonathon & Madison Davies describe how they managed to graduate nursing school debt free, what nursing school did NOT teach them, and what’s exciting about their future in nursing.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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In this episode of the Career Launch Club podcast, Taylor Knox describes how she saved a great deal of money by earning a nursing degree at her local Community College. Taylor also shares how she later transitioned into healthcare education.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
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In this episode, Rachel Leong tells how she landed a job at the White House after graduating college. Learn about her calculated risk, her networking strategy and how internships played a role in her successful career launch.
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- The Top 10 Costly Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children for College
- 5 Major Challenges Young People Must Overcome to Successfully Launch a Career
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I recently interviewed Robert Miller, a real estate agent and investor in Dallas, about his career pivot from engineering to real estate. During the conversation, he described how he made the career change. Robert was a first-gen college student. During the interview, he revealed mistakes that he made simply because he didn't know better.
Robert can be reached at robert@millerhighlifehomes.com
In this episode, Katherine Swisher, the podcasts host’s daughter, describes how she found two good internships, graduated in < 4 years and landed her first career job. Because she graduated college debt free, she was able to buy a house before her 23rd birthday.
In this episode, we continue the interview with Sam Feeney - high school counselor and Certified College Funding Specialist. Sam is author of Choose the Perfect College…For You and Hire Education. Sam has saved families thousands of dollars for college. He shares tips and insights for choosing the perfect college and saving money by attending a college where you are celebrated rather than tolerated.
He shares tips and insights for choosing the perfect college and saving money by attending a college where you are celebrated rather than tolerated.
Sam’s website is www.collegefundingplanners.com
Contact Sam at sam@collegefundingplanners.com
Get our free e-book entitled The Top 10 Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children For College! at www.mycareerquest.com. Look for the pop up in the upper, left corner of the home page.
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Sam Feeney is author of Choose the Perfect College…For You and Hire Education. In this episode, Sam tells about his work as a high school counselor at North Penn High School in Towamencin, PA, and how he became a Certified College Funding Specialist. Sam has saved families thousands of dollars for college. He shares tips and insights for choosing the perfect college and saving money by attending a college where you are celebrated rather than tolerated. The interview continues in Part 2 next week.
Sam’s website is www.collegefundingplanners.com
Contact Sam at sam@collegefundingplanners.com
Request our free e-book entitled The Top 10 Mistakes Parents Make When Preparing Their Children For College! at www.mycareerquest.com. Look for the pop up in the upper, left corner.
To subscribe to our e-mail list or to contact Curtis about career counseling, visit www.mycareerquest.com/contact-my-career-quest
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In this episode, Eric and Bree Nimtz of Houston, Texas tell their stories of dealing with changing majors, managing full schedules, college expenses and launching their careers. Learn how they’ve accelerated paying off their student loans.
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In this episode, Eric and Bree Nimtz of Houston, Texas tell their stories of dealing with changing majors, managing full schedules, college expenses and launching their careers. Eric talks about the importance of planning a degree program before you go to college.
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In this episode, Amber Stark shares what has happened in her career during the five years since our first interview in 2015 (episode #1). She describes the on-going struggle with student loan debt, the impact of COVID-19 on her work, why her degree was not worth what she paid for it, and how she landed new opportunities through networking.
In this episode, Amber Stark of Bend, Oregon authentically shares her struggles with college-level science courses, changing majors, student loan debt and landing her first career job.
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