Livelihood: Creating What's Next On Your Personal Career Path
By Marcy Rosenbaum
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Do you have a personal career plan? How are you navigating changes in your working life? What can you do to leverage unexpected opportunities? How do you present your qualifications for work you've never done? The Livelihood Show interviews pathfinders who are re-imagining and re-creating their professional identities, and developing personal career paths that are productive and fulfilling. You can too; listen in to learn how to re-invent what you do for a living.
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Peggy Bass: Dancing with Horses | When Peggy Bass was growing up, her passion for horses was a completely unexpected event in her family. She didn’t grow up on a farm, or on a ranch. Her love of horses launched her personal career path. When a family came to her looking for therapeutic horseback riding for their disabled daughter, Peggy created Good Hope Equestrian Training Center in South Miami-Dade to provide equine assisted therapy to children, teens and adults. Their newest program, Horses for Heroes, in partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs, pairs veterans with horses as a way to promote therapeutic change, both physical and psychological.Henry David Thoreau, author, philosopher and naturalist, wrote: "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." Good Hope Equestrian Training Center puts this philosophy into practice. Peggy Bell combined her passion for horses, and certification from the prestigious Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International, into an organization where people and horses learn to dance. Related Links: Good Hope Equestrian Center Charity Concert Want to hear how our greatest opportunities can emerge at the intersection of our expertise, purpose and marketplace opportunities? Get inspired and find ideas, resources and insights to help you navigate your personal career path. Livelihood: Create What’s Next On Your Personal Career Path with host Marcy Rosenbaum airs Wed. 9:00 am GS/; Thurs 7:00 pm EST on Radio Ear Network. This episode's book: Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life by Mark Freedman Livelihood: Create What’s Next On Your Personal Career Path with host Marcy Rosenbaum: Wed 9:00 am GST; Thurs 7:00 pm EST on Radio Ear Network. Related Links Encore Careers: a website for the growing network of people who want work that matters in the second half of life Civic Ventures: working to define the second half of life as a time for individual and social renewal | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Regal: Pet Mediator | For many couples, the bond they have with their pets turns out to be more enduring than the one they made with their spouse or domestic partner. When a couple breaks up, what becomes of their dog, cat, horse or rabbit? If courts and attorneys get involved, the only certainties are high stress and high cost. Charles Regal proposes an alternative: pet mediation. Trained in social work, but laid off with 25 years of experience resolving all sorts of landlord-tenant, workplace and neighbor disputes, Regal recognized a need and an opportunity. He created a professional practice focused exclusively on resolving custody battles over pets. On this week’s show, we’ll meet the founder of Regal Pet-Centric Mediation and learn how he helps people design mutually acceptable agreements by keeping the focus on their pets’ well being and inspiring their higher motivations. It’s working: for the people and their animals. For Regal, love is rooted in gratitude. His cat, Sapphire, actually saved his life by recognizing that while he slept, his blood sugar level had fallen dangerously low. Yowling and licking his face, she woke him up and prevented his falling into a diabetic coma. Until recent changes in American law, custody battles over the pets could be dreadful - and deadly. Animals were treated like property or worse; they could even be put down when “owners” couldn’t agree on how to resolve custody. More recently, people are recognizing their relationship with their animals is more than ownership, and the law has begun to acknowledge it as a guardianship relationship. This has opened up an innovative career path for Charles Regal. Entrepreneurship is one of the challenges he has had to meet reinventing his work life, but he is eager to share his lessons and has great confidence in his own and others’ mental and spiritual resources to generate independence and business viability by filling a market niche. Listen to his emotional stories and gain from his practical lessons. Get inspired and find ideas, resources and insights to help you navigate your personal career path. Tune in to Livelihood: Create What’s Next On Your Personal Career Path with host Marcy Rosenbaum: Wed 9:00 am GST; Thurs 7:00 pm EST on Radio Ear Network. This week’s book recommendation: Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate, by Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro, Narrated by Roger Fisher, Daniel Shapiro. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dennis Kalodish and Alicia Chipy – Therapy Dog Workers | In this week’s show, you’ll meet Dennis Kalodish and Alicia Chipy who train and partner with therapy dogs. Therapy dogs are professional visitors, making their rounds in hospitals, nursing homes and rehab centers. Dennis Kalodish parleyed his love for golden retrievers into a project in which he trains and certifies them to become “everyone’s pet” in nursing home visitors.. and even to serve as library reading partners. Dennis trains dogs through Therapy Dogs International. Alicia Chipy's Havanese, Dolly, has a temperament that’s perfect to be the family pet for children receiving extensive medical treatments at Miami’s Ronald McDonald House: Dolly even understand Spanish. And join us next week, when we learn more about service dogs, like seeing eye dogs who are specially trained to partner with handlers who are legally blind; mobility dogs who are specially trained to partner with handlers with MS, Parkinsons or paralysis; and psychiatric service dogs who are trained to work with owners whose symptoms with Alzheimers, PTSD, epilepsy or agoraphobia find it possible to rejoin the world with their partner dogs by their side. Get inspired and find ideas, resources and insights to help you navigate your personal career path. Tune in to Livelihood: Create What’s Next On Your Personal Career Path with host Marcy Rosenbaum: Wed 9:00 am GST; Thurs 7:00 pm EST on Radio Ear Network. Related Links: Library Dogs Marcy's audio book recommendation Becoming Light by Erica Jong | 4/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joan Froling: Dog Trainer, Consultant and Author | In contemporary work settings, people and dogs are finding new work related partnerships. Specially trained service dogs make it possible to pursue a livelihood despite a disability that impacts mood or mobility. Who trains the seeing eye dogs that help legally blind owners navigate the bus route to work? Who trains the mobility dogs that help owners with MS, Parkinsons’ or paralysis keep their balance, pull wheelchairs or bring a fallen chair back upright? Who teaches psychiatric service dogs to recognize the signs of disorientation and lead their owners back to a familiar space where they can regroup safely? Who understands the medical needs of illnesses such as diabetes or epilepsy so they can train service dogs to warn of an impending attack, ease a person to the ground, and fetch help or necessary medication? Meet Joan Froling, a veteran dog trainer who parleyed her skills in training show dogs... with her courage in facing a life threatening illness… and her commitment for advocacy and civil rights… to dojust this. She co-founded Sterling Service Dogs to meet the growing need to find and train dogs with the temperament and aptitude to become capable service dogs. She's also the Chairperson and co-founder of the International Association of Assistance Dog Partners which represents and advocates for disabled persons who work with guide, hearing or service dogs We also meet up with two local owners at a recent event sponsored by the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind—The Annual Walk, Waggle and Stroll Event. Janice Bartelson and Sandra Hicks talk about their seeing eye dogs, and share how they are integrated into their work and family lives. We even learn about an annual golf tournament sponsored by the U.S. Blind Golfers Association to prove that where there’s a will, there’s often a way… | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Food Entrepreneurs: Panther Coffee, Tiny but Mighty Popcorn and Scrumptious Pantry | Consumers seek affordable luxuries even as they trim their budgets elsewhere. Food entrepreneurs are paying attention, and the recent Good Food Festival in Chicago brought together thousands of growers, chefs, marketing companies, buyers and consumers—a global farmers market. A recent New York Times Magazine article called "Don't Mock the Artisanal Pickle Makers" by Adam Davidson, noted that “craft businesses may portend the future of the U.S economy.” We met some of these “hipster capitalists:" Kevin Sabo of Chicago was in the plumbing supply business and getting an MBA when he found himself in an exciting new food start-up start-up called Tiny But Might Popcorn. Joel and Leticia Pollock bring the art of roasting coffee beans to the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami. Their coffee house, Panther Coffee, is located in the nerve center of Art Basel Miami every December but it provides a community gathering place all year round. Lee Greene of Chicago used her MBA in marketing and strategy, her work as a management consultant and a six year apprenticeship in at a winery to she help Midwestern family farms create jams, sauces and pickles that are affordable luxuries for people who appreciate good food with her Scrumptious Pantry products. There is also an emerging movement of people want don’t just want to buy organic, healthy food; they want to grow it. According to Yes! Magazine, at a Mother Earth News Fair in Seattle, Washington, "more than 10,000 attended workshops on everything from canning to beekeeping to building the perfect chicken coop." Veterans are also finding the challenges and satisfaction of farming can provide a natural transition away from combat, providing a mission to fulfill the needs of a community for food and self-sufficiency. Veterans who want to transition into careers as farmers are getting help from a growing number of projects around the country including the Farmer-Veteran Coalition(FVC); and the University of Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture’s Combat Boots to Cowboy Boots program. | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeremy Houghton: Sommelier | Jeremy Houghton is a trained chef. Some of his favorite culinary experiences have been in Alaska and New Mexico where he has cooked bear, antelope, elk and moose. He wanted something more. He decided to go back to graduate school—studying wine and earning level two certification as a sommelier. A sommelier is a trained professional who specializes in wine selection, service and food matching. A sommelier may also be responsible for developing wine lists, for the delivery of wine service, and training for the other restaurant staff. He works with the culinary teams to pair and suggest wines that will best complement food menu items, drawing on a deep knowledge of how food and wine, beer, spirits and other beverages work in harmony. For those of us who’ve been considering going back to school for additional training, we asked Jeremy about the career path of a wine expert. It’s a lot harder than I’d imagined… Jeremy Houghton holds an associate degree in Culinary Arts and a bachelor’s degree in Food Service Management, both from Johnson & Wales. In addition to his Level 2 certification in Sommelier, he's a certified food management professional through the National Restaurant Association and a certified master TiPS trainer through Health Communications Inc. Related Links: Foodie Fight and Wine Wars Trivia Games | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Phelan and Dean Mike Hampton: Taking Hospitality in a New Direction | This is the high season in South Beach Florida, and we revel in the festivals that take advantage of our sunshine and mild winter weather. Last week’s event was the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. We attended the festival and met up there Dean Mike Hampton. He's the Dean of Florida International University's Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Hampton was kind enough to sit with us amongst the hustle and bustle in the Grand Tasting Village and share his insight on where the business of hospitality is going. Dean Hampton explained what he thinks the hospitality industry has to offer people at all points in their careers, including college students at the entry level and professionals looking for encore careers. Of course, the essential skill in the hospitality business is the art of welcoming guests and being personable. Technology is a newer component that provides new ways of connecting with guests and customers. Dean Hampton gave the example of the restaurant Bone's in Atlanta, which uses iPads to facilitate wine and food menu choices. After the festival, we connected with Brian Phelan, Director of Procurement for Feeding South Florida. Phelan and his team coordinated a massive food rescue effort after the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Food rescue means safely using unserved and still consumable food. In the case of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, chefs and restaurants have to overprepare so they don't run out of food. This year, Phelan and his team rescued about 40,000 pounds of food. Phelan worked in the restaurant industry for 25 years, but he needed a change. For one thing, he was tired of having to send back untouched plates of food to the kitchen when customers said, "I don't like the way it looks." Phelan channeled his knowledge of the food industry into a career for social good that energizes him. Feeding South Florida is a clearinghouse that provides food and meals to over 700 soup kitchens, food banks and charities in Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. If your organization is interested in connecting with Feeding South Florida for either volunteering or food donations, please contact bphelan@feedingsouthflorida.org. This episode's book: Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life by Mark Freedman Livelihood: Create What’s Next On Your Personal Career Path with host Marcy Rosenbaum: Wed 9:00 am GST; Thurs 7:00 pm EST on Radio Ear Network. Related Links Encore Careers: a website for the growing network of people who want work that matters in the second half of life Civic Ventures: working to define the second half of life as a time for individual and social renewal Sound Bite: Producer Trina Sargalski's story on Brian Phelan's food rescue | 3/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Fass: Many Measures of Success | Many of us are beginning to work and live in a new category of the workforce called “the creative class”. Today’s guest, Robert Fass is one of more than 40 million Americans—over a third of our national workforce—who create for a living. Professionals like Robert are leading the way to an innovative definition of a professional identity about how we work, when and where we work. Defining who you are and what you do has become an an essential element of the career journey in the creative class. The challenge now: how do we measure success in relation to our livelihood? Is it the amount of money we make? The awards we win? And who defines these measures of success? What’s more important: competence or loyalty? Quality or quantity? Is it what you know, or who you know? Perhaps how you define success has everything to do with your experience of success. Robert Fass is an actor, a writer, and a photographer; he is an award winning narrator or best-selling audio books; he has been part of successful corporate programs as a trainer, coach and facilitator. To see Robert's book and exhibition "As Long As We Both Shall Live: Long Married Couples in America" : | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Creative Career Path: Warrior Diplomat. Meet Drew Borsz | Join our conversation this week with Drew Borsz, whose career path took him outside the usual business world. Imagine this as your resume: Special Forces Green Beret. Senior Noncommissioned Officer/Senior Communications Sergeant on an “A Team” in the Middle East. Then: Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School creating and teaching Special operations Forces Adaptive Thinking and Leadership course. Your audience: Special Forces soldiers; American and international diplomats. Imagine being the person they ask to develop the Cultural Support teams- women soldiers trained to reach out and build trust with women and communities in what the army euphemistically calls “current operating theaters" e.g.: war zones. How does someone from a small city in the American Midwest create a career like this? What is the work of a warrior-diplomat? And how did this Green Beret become the go-to guy for developing culturally sensitive negotiation skills which are now appear to be an essential strategy for preventing the spread of terrorism? What does he know about moving beyond your comfort zones that can help us imagine what might be possible, and what might be next? “Livelihood” is honored to be talking today with Drew Borsz, retired Special Forces Noncommissioned Officer, and president of AKB Solutions Group in North Carolina. : I am President and Founder of AKB Solutions Group LLC. My company is an executive professional development company that utilizes behavioral science professionals (psychologists, researchers, cultural anthropologists) and former Special Operators. We specialize in enhancing negotiations and collaboration training utilizing Special Operations Adaptive Leadership principles. Our clients operate in a global cultural environment and require knowledge to more effectively gain market share in a complex, evolving, and asymmetric operating space. My associates and I have worked for Army Special Operations, Marines Special Operations (MARSOC), and Fortune 500 companies in assessing, evaluating, selecting, and personally enhancing the capabilities of Senior Leaders and High Potential Executives. | 12/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adam Liss on the Livelihood Show- Using Breathing and Attention as Career Navigation Tools | In order to build a successful and satisfying personal career path, we need to be paying attention. What’s going on around me? How am I doing? What do I want?I This week, our guest is Adam Liss, and he has some very useful skills for figuring out “what’s next”. Adam teaches the skills of mindfulness, which has been defined as paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally. In the tumult of economic and organizational upheaval, it’s hard to pay attention. So many things distract us: worries about money and job security; endlessly expanding to do lists; “what if” analyses as we try to predict, prepare or prevent something in the future. Techniques for mindfulness are more important during changes in our lives than ever before. Adam, Director of Cape Stress Reduction and Optimal Health in Cape Cod Massachustes, understands that the mind is known to be a factor in stress and stress-related disorders, and that mindfulness meditation exercises can positively effect a range of autonomic physiological processes, lowering blood pressure and reducing overall arousal and emotional reactivity (that "fight or flight" response). Adam Liss graduated from of Amherst College with a BA degree in Cultural Anthropology. He established a personal meditation practice back in 1975, when “meditation” had a reputation of being “far out" of the mainstream practices of health and wellness. His center offers workshops and classes in weight management, stress reduction and smoking cessation. He partners with Cape Cod Youth Suicide Prevention Project, teaching mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) and an Inner Resilience training class for students, teachers and school-based staff members. Adam trained at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center's Stress Reduction Clinic founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Tune in to our conversation on Radio Ear Network on Thursday evening December 1 at 7:00 pm (Wednesday morning 9:00 am London time for our European listeners), and discover how awareness of your breath, and paying attention to to your emotions, can give you a trustworthy compass for navigating your personal career path. To learn more about Adam Liss and his projects, click here | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ernie Urquhart. “It is what it is”. | Posted on August 25, 2011 by Marcy Ernest H. Urquhart Ernie Urquhart, built a career by making choices, not waiting to be chosen. And when he found his path hidden by unplanned and unexpected events, he found a way to continue to tell his personal career path story. Ernie’s a role model for the facing the truth and finding the personal meaning inside the story. Ernie Urquhart sees life as a series of transitions. Some are expected and planned, like the transitions from childhood to adulthood. Some are expected but unplanned, including where you work, what you do, where you live, and who you find to be part of your personal and professional circles. Then there are the transitions Ernie calls “boulders”- those that drop on your life, unplanned and unexpected and often unwelcome, and cause you to face your life, your values and purpose in order to move forward. He has held senior Vice President responsibilities for Human Resources at Catholic Healthcare West; Harcourt; and Johnson & Johnson. His current interests involve a new business about facilitating career transitions for executives who want to be intentional about their future changes and transitions, and realizing the dreams of college-bound African-American students through his Urquhart family foundation. Ernie has been described as “ a seasoned executive who listens carefully, thinks creatively, and helps you through the knotholes of your own problems. He is excellent at the role of a trusted advisor”. Ernie's website Ernie's foundation | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barry Nierenberg: Well-Being as a Personal Performance Objective | “How’s work going for you these days?”. Psychologist Barry Nierenberg says that if you understand the science of well-being, this question can be the launching pad to make good things better and bad things less frustrating. Each of us can assess how we’re doing and—most importantly— maximize the factors which bring us a sense of well-being and minimize the disappointments that diminish us." Barry runs the Study Center in Positive Psychology at Nova University. In this week's Livelihood Show, he shares some of the exciting new research: by understanding the characteristics of people who are thriving at work, and the characteristics of work places which allow their employees to flourish, we can make our own well-being at work our personal performance objective. You don’t have to wait to be ‘empowered’. Each of us can increase our fulfillment and well-being in the workplace through our own actions and decisions. Even when the work is hard and frustrating-- whether you work for someone else or you have your own business-- a sense of well-being is always a reasonable personal performance objective. Dr. Barry Nierenberg, PhD, ABPP, is an Associate Professor of Psychology within the Nova Southeastern University Center for Psychological Studies, where he leads the Study Center in Positive Psychology- an emerging field of study which focuses on what makes people thrive and groups flourish. He holds a Diplomate in Rehabilitation Psychology, is a member of the Executive Board of the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology. For the past 30 years, Dr. Nierenberg held numerous leadership positions as a psychologist and director of training , working with other healthcare professionals in hospitals across the country. He currently serves on the Executive Board of the Florida Department of Health’s Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Advisory Council where he previously held the post of Chairman. He is a Past President of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Rehabilitation Psychology. His research interests are focused on the interplay of biopsychosocial factors in chronic illness, wellness and disease When he turned 40, he reclaimed a dream and took up the saxophone. He now plays a rock and roll tenor sax with fellow musicians at gigs including university events, professional conferences and local bars. And perhaps best of all: Barry Nierenberg and Marcy Rosenbaum celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last month. For more information about Dr. Nierenberg at Nova Southeastern University http://cps.nova.edu/faculty/profile/nierenberg.html | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Livelihood Show
Marcy Rosenbaum does a great job interviewing interesting people about work being more than work, about how they took their journeys through work, and lessons for transforming our own work to enrich our lives.
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