Nonlinear: Recent Episodes
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Everyone's career path is different, built by pivotal moments and choices. We're on a mission to amplify those stories and examine how our decisions shape our careers.
Nonlinear is hosted by Dave Fano, Founder & CEO of Teal—a genuinely consumer-first platform designed to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
Kristi Kennebrew's greatest mission in life is to help people land the dream jobs that they’ve always wanted—and now, as a talent sourcer at Microsoft and the founder of Get Me Hired Kristi, she's doing exactly that. A high school love of sports led Kristi to study sports management at the University of Texas, but after struggling with economics classes, she pivoted and went into health (kinesiology, specifically!) before taking a risk and applying for a post-graduation role in sales. After 2.5 years working in sales at Oracle, Kristi tapped into her transferable skills and, after persistently interviewing with Google, landed a contract role as a technical talent sourcer, which served as a springboard for her current role at Microsoft. In this episode, Kristi dives into the many lessons she's learned about career pivots, transferable skills, finding your passion, and reverse-engineering job descriptions to leverage your strengths.
Connect with Kristi:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristi-kennebrew
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@getmehiredkristi
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/GetMeHiredKristi
This show is presented by Teal, and hosted by Teal’s Founder & CEO David Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co.
In Jessi Sanfilippo’s life, the most important thing hasn't been worrying about a big, flashy award for her work, but rather, being herself through the process and learning from each new experience. In this episode, Jessi opens up about her first job in radio (inspired by her love of pop culture icons like the Backstreet Boys); balancing a career with raising a child; how being at home with her son enabled her to tap into her creativity; her “no regrets” mentality when it comes to her career; her “aha” moment while toasting a PopTart; and how forming a creative agency led to a role in event marketing, which then helped guide her to where she is today, working at the intersection of three of the things she's most passionate about: tech, connecting people, and live music.
Connect with Jessi:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shuggilippo
Website: http://jessisanfilippo.com
Roadie Social links:
Website: https://roadiesocial.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/roadiesocial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roadiesocial/
This show is presented by Teal, and hosted by Teal’s Founder & CEO David Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
Dayle Zielentino, Managing Director at Penny Deer, grew up in Newcastle, UK, intending to be an architect, but after graduating at the tail end of a recession, doubled down on his technical skills to land a job and found himself moving away from the future he'd imagined. From a transformational move to London to a series of career pivots that led him to where he is now in real estate development, Dayle's tapped into the power of networking (both in-person and virtually through Twitter), the growth that happens when you aren't afraid to ask questions and admit what you don't know, and the knowledge that it's never too late to switch gears.
Connect with Dayle
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dayle_design
This show is presented by Teal, and hosted by Teal’s Founder & CEO David Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
Paris native Rachel Gogel has a deep passion to use her voice to help create close-knit, inclusive communities, especially for women and the queer community. After her very first design class at the University of Pennsylvania, Rachel knew that she was where she needed to be and declared her major in design. Post-college, she took internships until she made her way into design work that kept her afloat and broadened her horizons. Not long after, she was given the opportunity to be the manager of the marketing art department of GQ at only 22 years old. Her next few years were a whirlwind, as she also worked with the New York Times and Facebook and transitioned from design to the tech world; she later started working as a design manager in a small design studio called Godfrey Dadich Partners. Presently, she is doing freelance work with clients, most notably American Express and Airbnb. Follow along with Rachel’s story from her small beginnings in design creating the yearbook in high school to one day helping build multidisciplinary teams at the New York Times, GQ Magazine, Facebook (now Meta), and more.
Connect with Rachel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rgogel
Instagram: https://instagram.com/rgogel
Website: https://rachelgogel.com
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
16 years ago, Javier Ramírez Lugo—a native of Puerto Rico—flew thousands of miles from his family and everything else he’d ever known to pursue a dual major in finance and entrepreneurship in Boston, Massachusetts. In this episode, he talks about his journey post-college, from working more structured jobs in finance to taking the plunge and moving to California to help build a startup. From Standard & Poor's to Goldman Sachs, Zenefits to WeWork, here's how family influence, risky decisions, and bulls-eye career moves have led Javier to his current role as the founder of Cuota, a B2B sales consultancy partnering with venture-backed companies across the US, Latin America, and Spain.
Connect with Javier
Twitter: https://twitter.com/javieug
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javier-ramirez-lugo
Connect with Cuota
https://www.cuota.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hitcuota
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cuota.io/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cuota
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
Nick Mancini is a builder of brands and communities, specializing in their management, leadership, and growth. Beginning in finance, moving to entrepreneurship, then sliding back into the corporate world via cloud sales, he has always had a strong focus on startup companies. Nick jumped headfirst into crypto when it was only in its infancy due to his belief in the importance of understanding the goings-on in the innovation landscape; he then later returned to it post-Covid to build a massive team of 150+ people working in the crypto market.
Connect with Nick:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickcini
Nick’s communities:
- https://twitter.com/TradeTheChain
- https://twitter.com/CryptoGeneNFT
- https://twitter.com/PlatyPunks_real
- https://twitter.com/SENTtoken
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
When Meggie Palmer was working as a journalist several years ago, she found out that her male counterparts were making significantly more than she was, and approached HR to inquire about the difference. She was told she had two choices: quit her job if she was unhappy, or hire a lawyer. So she hired a lawyer. Though Meggie’s since pivoted from her career in journalism, she’s still passionate about leveling the playing field for women across industries, helping them push for equality.
In today’s episode, our Founder & CEO Dave Fano chats with Meggie—now the Founder & CEO of PepTalkHer—about how she found her calling in coaching women to be more confident in the workplace. Listen as they dive into:
- Meggie’s first job as a local news reporter near the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and how it set her up for a career in journalism.
- Seasons of your career, and how it can ebb and flow over time to align with your needs.
- How Meggie pivoted from being a successful journalist to creating PepTalkHer, a company that supports and empowers more than 60,000 women globally and helps them advocate for raises and promotions.
Connect with Meggie:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeggiePalmer
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meggiepalmer
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meggiepalmer
Connect with PepTalkHer:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/peptalkher
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peptalkher
Website: https://www.peptalkher.com
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
Originally from Minnesota, Jessica Peltz Zatulove moved to New York post-college and began her career doing media strategy for large brands like Gucci, Puma, 20th Century Fox, H&M, and Verizon. Fairly early in her adventure in the corporate world, she became fascinated with startup companies and formulated a plan to begin working with them. She ended up joining one of the first innovation boutiques as their second employee, helping startups find their first customers and helping big brands like Kraft and Unilever learn how to commercialize emerging technology. From 2014 to 2020, she worked at a corporate VC practice, investing in companies addressing the needs of a modern CMO, and then in 2020, using the professional experiences and connections she’d gathered up to that point, she and her business partner Kate Beardsley founded Hannah Grey VC, where they invest in pre-seed founders redefining everyday experiences. Follow along as Jessica recounts her career journey, all the way back to her entrepreneurial roots selling friendship bracelets and origami to her classmates in elementary school.
Connect with Jessica:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessicapeltz
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicapeltz
Hannah Grey VC's website: https://www.hannahgrey.com
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
Jennifer Bangoura is a huge believer in finding small-world connections wherever she is in life. Starting her professional life as an Art History and French major in college, she grew very interested in West Africa and later moved to Mali as a Peace Corps volunteer. While she was in Africa between Mali and Bamako, she fell in love with not only the man who would become her husband but also the pursuit of a career path in education. From schooling in Vermont to becoming a travel coordinator, to then working as a career services specialist, follow along as Jennifer recounts the fascinating story of her life up to the point where she is now: the Director of Career Innovation with Nexford University, as well as a consultant for the Future of Learning Fund in Africa.
Connect with Jennifer:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmbangoura
LinkedIn: https://mw.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-bangoura
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
Lia Zneimer, now Head of Brand & Content Marketing at Teal, began her professional career in a totally different field. In college, she double majored in English and theater, then post-college she worked professionally in theater in New York. She loved her time doing that, but it was a tiring lifestyle, and she wanted something more stable financially. Through a great deal of self-reflection, she ended up stepping away from theater and moving toward something new—a complete 180° career shift. She found her way into public relations with Scholastic, and later stepped into a role assisting with social media responsibilities, due to the burgeoning new form of marketing social media was becoming at the time. She worked with Scholastic for four years, then ended up accepting a role with a startup called WeWork as a social media manager, where she grew through the next five years. Follow along with Lia as she describes the trajectory of her life into her current role at Teal from the initial whiplash of her complete career pivot over a decade ago.
Connect with Lia:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/liazneimer
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liazneimer/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liazneimer
The MarketHer website: https://themarkether.co
The MarketHer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.markether
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
Lakshmi Rengarajan is fascinated by how people meet and get to know each other. First honing her people skills as a bartender, she later jumped on an opportunity and got a master’s degree in marketing at her local college. Not too long after, inspired by the recent growth of online dating, she ended up creating her own company, which held singles events modeled after TED Talks. Through time and her unending dedication and commitment, Lakshmi has become an in-demand, professional people-connector at companies like WeWork and Match.com. In 2020, she launched a podcast of her own called Paired By the People, which looks at the modern dating landscape through the lens of the set-up.
Connect with Lakshmi:
Podcast: https://www.pairedbythepeople.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pairedbythepeople
Website: https://www.lakshmirengarajan.com/
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
Emily Kramer has spent most of her life in the field of marketing. Through multiple marketing jobs—from her very first at an ad agency in San Francisco to roles at both startups (like Asana) and larger corporations (like Carta)—she realized her love for helping startups grow into flourishing companies. Emily also discovered she enjoyed hiring and building teams, which fit cleanly with her interest in investing in startups. Listen as Emily speaks about the amazing passage of her life leading up to her creation of MKT1, an advisement and investment company for startups.
Connect with Emily:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/emilykramer
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilykramer
MKT1's website: https://www.mkt1.co/
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
After graduating with a psychology degree, Lara Perlstein wasn’t really sure where to go next. She decided to take a job in retail and worked her way up to store manager. Over the next few years, she worked multiple different jobs as office managers and administrative assistants, believing that all of the unique experiences she was having would only help to benefit her future. Eventually, she found herself running out of ways to gain new experiences in the corporate world and began seeking something new. A friend from college had joined a startup called WeWork that was growing quickly at the time. She applied there, and it ended up being her home for the next 4+ years until she found her way to Teal, where she's currently the Vice President of Operations. Join Lara in this episode of Nonlinear as she shares her life’s journey of specializing in being a generalist.
Connect with Lara
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-perlstein/
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
Rebekah Bastian, the Co-Founder and CEO of OwnTrail, started off her professional life with a mechanical engineering degree because she wanted to be an inventor. She ended up realizing it wasn’t what she expected, and later got a job with Microsoft as a program manager. After about three years there, she sought something different from a large, corporate environment. That’s how she ended up at a new startup called Zillow, where she worked for the next 15 years, essentially touching every part of the company. Rebekah then wrote a book, which ended up becoming an entire startup—and she left her career to pursue it.
Connect with Rebekah
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rebekah_bastian
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebekah.bastian
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekahbastian
Explore OwnTrail
Website: https://owntrail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OwnTrail
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/owntrail
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/owntrail
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building the first genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co.
Alexa Meyer, the Co-Founder and CEO of Coa, has approached her career from the mindset of wanting to build something herself someday. Early in her career, she was recruited into a sales role, which later led her to work for Interbrand, the world’s largest brand strategy company. That experience gave her an understanding of how Fortune 500 companies build brands and marketing strategies that keep them relevant in our constantly changing world.
Later, Alexa used her network to find a position in marketing at a startup, working closely with the founders and using it as a learning experience to better understand the challenges and pitfalls of running a company. In this episode, Alexa reveals her journey from selling McDonald's toys door-to-door to her leap into the world of startups and her role as Co-Founder and CEO of Coa, which is fighting the stigmatization of mental health and working toward getting people as proactive about it as they are about their physical health.
Connect with Coa
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joincoa
Website: https://joincoa.com
Connect with Alexa
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexakmeyer
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexatronic
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrakmeyer
Connect with Dr. Emily Hall, Co-Founder & CCO of Coa
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dremilyanhalt
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building a genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co.
Sally Rogers has gone through multiple major career shifts in her professional life—from academia to banking, consulting, and, most recently, entrepreneurship. Through it all, she began to understand her own interests and motivations, and began to see building a career as an effort existing in tandem with self-exploration. Through this introspection, she ended up leaving behind the corporate world and creating her first startup company, finding herself happier and more unshackled than ever before. She’s learned the importance of following her dreams in her career, as well as the necessity of learning who she is outside of her professional life. Listen as Sally takes you from her darkest moments to the amazing place where she is today—the founder and CEO of Parsnip!
Connect with Sally on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-rogers.
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building a genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co.
Shay Loko began her professional life pursuing a law degree because it made sense to her—but near completion of the degree, she realized what she actually wanted was something that would help her create connections through her day-to-day life. From sales to a consulting job out of Ireland, to where she is now as a senior account manager in a tech company helping others find jobs in their fields of passion, she’s learned that you should be deliberate, clear, and confident in planning your future and building your personal brand. She’s always believed that every experience is valuable; what matters are what you put into it and what you focus on getting out of it. Follow Shay as she accounts the extraordinary trajectory of her life post-law school.
Connect with Shay:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jobswithshay
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shayloks
Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sloko
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building a genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co.
After graduating from college with a degree in English, Natalie Sportelli took on a series of internships—most notably at Forbes, where she later accepted a full-time position as an editor (and the first under the age of 30). She found herself especially inspired by founders and startups and got to work more directly with them when she moved from journalism to venture capital. Through multiple career pivots, she has had to re-establish her personal brand with her expertise in each new space. Follow along as Natalie recounts her professional life and how her internship experience ultimately informed her career.
Connect with Natalie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/N_Sportelli
Learn more about Thingtesting: https://thingtesting.com
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building a genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co.
Laura Brounstein is a storyteller, having taken up a deep interest in stories through books and other mediums from a young age. She found her way to her career path through politics, television, magazines, real estate—and now tech. Her life’s through-line is that she was able to propel herself from editing stories to helping brands (and even presidential campaigns) find unique, fresh ways to tell their stories. Join Laura as she details the major turns in her life that led her to become the Senior Vice President of Brand and Creative at Clear.
Connect with Laura:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurabrounstein
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurabrounstein
Nonlinear is presented by Teal and hosted by our Founder & CEO, Dave Fano. At Teal, we’re building a genuinely consumer-first platform to help people grow and manage their careers. Our goal is to empower people to land jobs they love with free tools that guide and automate the process. Learn more at tealhq.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Drew MacPowell as Editor and Associate Producer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co.
Dave Fano talks with Jeff Bussgang, general partner at Flybridge about evaluating startups both as an investor and an employee. When it comes to a startup, the focus is almost always on the founder ... but together, David Fano and Jeff Bussgang explore the roles and significance of the "joiners." The joiners are the ones that come onboard a company shortly after its conception and often become a tremendous and vital part of the company. Bussgang shares his experience as an entrepreneur and a mentor in helping people navigate the corporate and startup world, while breaking down startups into three distinct categories. As an investor, he provides invaluable advice to anyone exploring the startup world: When evaluating your next career move, it's important to do the math and to see opportunities as investments in your own career path and strategy.
To learn more about Teal, visit TealHQ.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
David Fano talks with Mary Jantsch, People Operations & Remote Work Consultant on a variety of topics related to today's workforce. Together, they discuss how the hiring process is changing as more and more people work from home. They explain the importance of sharpening your communications skills in this remote environment and discuss the distinctions between Human Resources and People Operations. Additionally, they address the new challenges and opportunities that arise with this ever changing and evolving new world order.
To learn more about Teal, visit TealHQ.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
In this episode of Career Paths with Teal, Dave Fano chats with Craig Robinson, who successfully transitioned from tech consulting to real estate about the power of positive thinking, the importance of mentors and the key elements needed to change course in your career. From practical advice to spiritual insights, Craig Robinson pulls from his own experience to provide guidance into ways one can pivot professionally without having to take any major steps backwards. Through their discussions, Craig and Dave draw the distinctions between hard skills and soft skills, while Craig spells out the areas that must be considered when a person is looking to change direction in their career. Beyond this, Craig discusses the importance of self-care and creating boundaries in the workplace.
To learn more about Teal, visit TealHQ.com
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
In this episode of Career Paths with Teal, guest co-host Erik Martin chats with Kevin Varadian, VP at Cutover and former VP of North American Sales at WeWork, who has one main goal and priority: to fail more often and frequently. By revisiting the earlier years of his career, he explains how failures can be reframed and used to help you maximize your career. With a strong focus on sales, Kevin marks the distinction between a company that focuses on quotas versus one that strives to invest in their salesforce. Additionally, Kevin provides advice on how you can make your online presence and LinkedIn page stand out!
To learn more about Teal, visit TealHQ.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
In this episode of Career Paths with Teal, Dave Fano chats with Stephanie Manning Cohen, Senior Director of Platform at Lerer Hippeau, a venture capital firm. When Stephanie landed this role, she said she found her dream job and speaks about the significance of gaining clarity in your career to yield success. Through her own experience, Stephanie identifies the questions one should ask when considering a new role and compares the benefits of working at an early stage company versus a later stage one. Searching for and landing the job of your dreams is well within your reach, and with the right mentors, outreach approach, and even Twitter searches, it can be yours!
To learn more about Teal, visit TealHQ.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
In this episode of Career Paths with Teal, Dave Fano chats with Jason Shah, Product Lead at Airbnb. Jason began his career by launching his own company at just 15 years old, but has a surprising bit of advice for anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit: don't be afraid to work for someone else. Reflecting on his own career path, which includes years spent at companies like Microsoft and Amazon, he says it is important to treat a career like a road map, rather than a ladder you're looking to climb. Jason addresses corporate culture while stressing the importance of accountability and shared goals.
To learn more about Teal, visit TealHQ.com
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
This week on Career Paths with Teal, Dave Fano chats with Evelyn Lee, Senior Experience Designer
at Slack; whose career journey has been far from linear. She discusses her journey into architecture, from drawing a floor plan in the fourth grade to now being on the board of the American Institute of Architects. Evelyn addresses transitioning roles and also provides words of advice for those who may want to switch fields and explore other aspects of their expertise.
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This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
In an ever-changing job market, the best way to succeed is to approach your career not as an employee, but as an investor. Robin Daniels, current Chief Marketing Officer at Matterport, has worked at some of the biggest tech companies globally, including WeWork, Box, LindkedIn and Salesforce, but never for more than four years! Through conversation with Teal's host Dave Fano, we learn that growth is not always linear and the best job for you might not always translate to the highest pay or title. Together, they discuss the balancing act involved in planning your next career move. Want to listen to more? As a member you can dive deeper into all the conversations on our show. For information on how to join visit TealHQ.com.
This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
Welcome to Career Paths with Teal! Check out our trailer and stay tuned for our first episode. For more information on Teal, visit TealHQ.com.