The Career Queer: Recent Episodes
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Lisa was able to help me with two listener questions, one dealing with a baby on the way and the other on finding community during COVID-19. I want to thank Lisa again for being an absolute gem of a human for helping me with this content.
We are moving to once a week (hopefully) programming until December. I'm in the midst of exams and recruiting, so it is hard to schedule times with others and cut the episodes. Keep listening though!
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Lisa Maloney-Vinz is an award winning leader of the Twin Cities, MN LGBTQ+ community who has led the LGBTQ+ efforts at Ecolab for 10 years (and counting!) We discuss her coming out journey, what its like to lead an organization like that, and the process of winning her award. She's been a friend and colleague for a few years now, and I feel honored that she chose to come onto the podcast.
Lisa is also the Program Director of Global Community Relations, and she has the following advice on charitable giving:
- When making a donation to a charitable organization, remember to do your research.
- What is their mission? How are they measuring and communicating their success?
- What is their annual budget related to their mission and deliverables? Are they a reputable organization? Check Charity Navigator and Charities Review Council (for MN)
- Consider making a donation to help with food insecurity. There are thousands of food shelves around the country. Feeding America is a resource for many of those. Second Harvest is another. Search the web to find your local chapter of these organization to give locally.
- One of my favorite organization is Neighborhood House in St. Paul, MN. Their food shelf takes special care to offer culture specific foods and fresh produce to the local community.
Do a little today. See you next time.
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Alex helped me out with a listener asking how to handling tricky race conversations with biased coworkers. In addition to giving our listener some advice, we also speak about our own bias and responsibilities in this fight.
Let me know your thoughts!
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Book Recommendations:
How to be an Anti-Racist
This Book is Anti-Racist
The Color of Money
So You Want to Talk About Race
Brene Brown with Austin Channing Brown Episode of "Unlocking Us"
Brene Brown with Ibram X. Kendi Episode of "Unlocking Us"
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Alex Smith, a Darden 2022 MBA Candidate joins me for an interview on his journey thus far. We have a conversation on finding love that nourishes you (I know, barf), moving to Detroit, and finding meaning through helping others find their purpose. Its a great conversation, and I look forward to your feedback.
Alex wants to promote Teen Hype, an organization doing great work in Detroit. He also mentioned The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith.
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Podcast art done by Tara Kraft, find her on Instagram @tarakraftart or @grownassblue
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Murphy is BACK and joins me for three listener questions. We have a Christian who is also a lesbian, someone who feels trapped by transphobia, and someone who wants to know the work culture delicacies of having their tits chopped off. Its fun!
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Murphy can be found on linkedin!
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Here it is, the final part of our Murphy series! I want to thank Murphy for sharing their incredible story with this podcast, and I want to thank all the listeners hanging in there. I hope you laughed, smiled, and learned something new. Btw, there's a well deserved F-bomb at the end of this episode, just so yah know.
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This is the second part in our Jesus School Dropout series. This time Murphy details what exactly made them fall out of love with seminary. I find myself coming back to something Murphy says in this episode: that the community you live in is the community. Listen to learn more.
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When Murphy's interview clocked in at over two hours, I knew I had a heckin' of an editing pickle ahead of myself: cut out great content for the sake of time, or make the episode unbelievably long, or split the episode up into parts. I chose the parts! I hope you agree with my editorial decisions and enjoy this episode.
In the episode, Murphy dives in deep on how they lost their faith and came back to it - and why that's complicated as a non-binary trans* queer person.
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Well, now that I've recovered from the inspiration fatigue from Monday's episode, Nick joined me again for listener questions. We handle two questions, one about being "too gay" and another about pronoun usage.
Mossier is hosting the Proud to Work Career Fair on October 22nd - we hope that we'll see you there!
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Keep sparkling.
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This week, I am THRILLED to post my interview with Nick Alm, co-founder and leader of Mossier. We discuss Nick's path to co-founding Compass at the University of Minnesota, to how and why they started Mossier. We also discuss what its like to come out during a pandemic and how authenticity is needed in the next reiteration of business.
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did!
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The beautiful and delicious (yes, I stand by what I said) Cody joins me again for some listener questions! Our first listener wants to make a drastic job change and the other is dealing with COVID unemployment in the restaurant industry.
Love the advice? Hate it? Have a question of your own? Talk to me on IG/TW @thecareerqueer or email me thecareerqueer@gmail.com
You can find Cody's burlesque work on IG @anitatopp
Donate to Women for Political Change, Our Justice, and the National Network of Abortion Funds if you are able!
Podcast cover art by Tara Kraft, find her on IG @tarakraftart and @grownassblue
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This week I have Cody joining me to discuss their wild career journey (so far). From corporate offices, to political campaigns, to finding their niche in fundraising, Cody has done a lot. We discuss their career journey, what they learned from being unemployed, and why fundraising is actually the most people focused and community driven work you can do.
Ask questions and share reactions with the show via TW/IG: @thecareerqueer or email me thecareerqueer@gmail.com
You can find Cody's burlesque IG handle @anitatopp
Donate to Women for Political Change, Our Justice, and the National Network of Abortion Funds if you are able!
Podcast art by Tara Kraft, find her on instagram @tarakraftart @grownassblue
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Karina is back to answer some listener questions that deal with taking on difficult coworkers (i.e. homophobic / transphobic / racist) and creating a transitioning plan at work.
Love our advice? Hate it? Want to ask a question? Contact me via IG/TW @thecareerqueer or email me, thecareerqueer@gmail.com
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Art by Tara Kraft, find her on IG: @tarakraftart or @grownassblue
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Karina B. joins me for this episode of The Career Queer! We're talking about one of our favorite super-queers - Tony Stark - and how his relationship to Peter Parker is a model for management (or not) and mentorship. We had a lot of fun nerding out over this topic. Enjoy!
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Andy is back for three listener questions. We encourage folks to step out of their comfort zone, how to show up for an interview, how to sell your skills, and how to start your coming out process.
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Welcome to the first episode of The Career Queer! This week I'm joined by Andy Tjomsland, a wonderful gaylenniall who works in HR. Andy discusses how drove the pronoun initiative at his Fortune 500 company, why he loves learning, and hiring for skills and not fit.
Let me know what you think!
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