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018: Finding yourself after being fired from your job with Hien DeYoung

Being fired from the job you love is devastating. It is one of the most challenging career transitions a person will go through. And it’s what happened to our guest, Hien DeYoung. Hien’s passion is developing, empowering and inspiring people so they can fulfill their business mission. This is expressed in her work as head of HR, executive coach, and researcher of executive women’s leadership journeys. Her most often used tools are empathy, educated insight, and deep curiosity. Hien is a SHRM credentialed HR executive, and certified executive coach from the Hudson Institute of Coaching. For 20 years she had the privilege of working with CEOs and Founders in head of HR roles building startup and early stage companies that were able to raise $300m in venture funding including an IPO. Her executive and corporate officer experience enables relevant context and insights for her work with CEOs and Executives.

Join us this week as we discuss:

  • Being fired after climbing her “professional Everest”
  • The emotional and mental anguish of feeling betrayed
  • Leading people is a different piece of management
  • Moving through a transition from the future perspective
  • Emotional, spiritual and financial struggle
  • Vacation forces a new environmental transition to recovery
  • Beginning to research and listen: finding her herself and her courage through other women’s stories
  • Baby boomer women are pioneers
  • Breaking into the boys club
  • Recognizing the missing piece after a career transition
  • Success doesn’t come from a degree, it’s about character and courage
  • The importance of taking a leap of faith
  • Transition is a forward momentum, with several steps

Hien DeYoung’s Contact Info

DeYoung Executive Coaching & Consultancy, LLC

Phone:206.349.3728

Email:hdeyoung@gmail.com

LinkedIn:Hien DeYoung

 

017: How to guide your career transition with Ron Carucci

Ron is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership. He is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, where Navalent’s work on leadership was named one of 2016’s management ideas that mattered most. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes, and a two-time TEDx speaker. His work’s been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Inc., Business Insider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and thought leaders. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Liminal Space, the organization responsible for this podcast. In this episode, Ron discusses the need to intentionally guide a career transition and the importance of stewarding a body of work from your life. Join us this week nas we discuss:

    • Transitioning through your 20’s, 30’s and 40’s
    • Keeping your life stable through panic
    • There are digital guns pointed at you
    • Making sure your metrics are worthy of working toward
    • How many faces have you mentored
    • Taking a step out of a career path and looking into your likes
    • The work to find work is a lot of work
    • Great careers and dreams are a risk
    • How do you….Liminal Space upcoming Workshops
    • Separating the job from the career
    • The worst isn’t quitting and leaving, its quitting and staying
    • Recognizing the career transition and mapping your way through it
    • Recognizing that you have options during a transitional period
    • Changing jobs can be lateral, and that’s okay
    • Keeping your wanderlust under control

Social Media

Company: Navalent

Website:Navalent

Email:ron@navalent.com

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ron.carucci

Twitter: @RonCarucci

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/navalent

Upcoming Workshops

Launch your job search  

Delivering a WOW job interview

Rising Together

Recommended Resources

Rising to Power: The Journey of Exceptional Executives

Leading Transformation: An Owners Manual

 

016: Curiosity with our sexual brokenness is where we discover our life with Jay Stringer

Jay Stringer has spent the last decade working on the frontlines of the demand for pornography and sexual exploitation. Jay’s first book, Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing will be released in September. His book includes research on over 3,800 men and women struggling with unwanted sexual behavior, be that the use of pornography, an affair, or buying sex. Jay holds an MDiv and Master in Counseling Psychology from the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.

In this episode, Jay shares from his research an important connection between an individual stuck in unwanted sexual behavior and having a clear lack of purpose in their life. Join us this week as we discuss:

 

  • The language of addiction and placing blame
  • Growing up as the Pastor’s kid pre-cell phone days
  • Transitioning between the good and the best
  • Knowing the what and learning the why of healing sexual brokenness
  • Good as the enemy of best: knowing your ‘yes’
  • Pornography is a squatter and your body is a vacant house
  • Lacking purpose allures you to watching other people’s lives
  • What doesn’t kill you eventually will
  • Beauty as the antidote
  • The beauty behind the abstract experiences
  • Swim in the direction of the shark: facing unwanted sexual behavior as the path to our redemption and healing
  • Calling behavior into deeper meaning
  • Bringing to light the brokenness

Upcoming Book:

Pre-order Jay’s book here:

Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

Jay Stringer’s Contact Info:

Website:jay-stringer.com

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/jayelmer

Twitter:@_jaystringer

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-stringer-658a56149/

 

 

 

 

015: Finding purpose after leaving a cult and the military with Daniella Young

Daniella Young is a motivational speaker, writer, combat veteran, Army wife, Mom, and the founder and CEO of Task Force Art, an intentional team building and purposeful leadership consulting firm. Her “Bullet-Proofed” seminar inspires leaders to proactively engage in building high-passion/high performance teams, strong organizational culture, and a place where diversity and personal strengths are actively cultivated. Daniella’s wisdom on navigating major life transitions comes from her own experience of several challenging transitions including escaping from a cult, leaving the military, and becoming a parent. Join us this week as we discuss:

 

  • Escaping a cult at the age of 15 and feeling “so, so different” from others
  • What makes you different? Where do I start?
  • Underneath the obsession of getting good grades and excelling to fit in is the longing for connection
  • Tough love: “Daniella, you’re not as different as you think you are.”
  • The similarities between the cult and the military
  • This is what it means to be American
  • Winning the lottery of American privilege
  • Transitioning between post-military and family life
  • The six figure job wasn’t the right calling and purpose
  • Carrying the weight for an entry level position
  • The process and the people: a transition for veterans
  • Avoiding conflict: How companies are doing it wrong
  • Figure out your meaning, your end goal and how to give back
  • Using conflict and creating your victory with vision work
  • Conflict engaged has the power to create community

Recommended Resources:

Bunker Labs

Task Force Art

Bullet Proof Yourself Blog

Daniella Young’s Contact Info:

Company: Task Force Art

Website:taskforceart.com

Email:daniella@taskforceart.com

Twitter:@daniellamyoung

 

014: Navigating the Transition to Adulthood with Cory Smith

Cory is a Virginia native and attended Virginia Commonwealth where he received his undergraduate degree in biology and his Masters in Teaching. During his time at VCU, Cory played on the soccer team and was a full-time volunteer for Young Life. After finishing college, Cory entered the Young Life intern program for two years and continued on staff for two additional years in Virginia. Cory and his wife Christine were married in 2001 and have lived in Colorado since 2002. They have two children : a beautiful children, daughter daughter, Sage and, born in 2009 and a son, Cedar., who was born 2013. Christine and Cory love being parents and will soon be celebrating 15 years of marriage. Cory enjoys fly fishing, wearing flip flops and shorts, and hanging with friends in his garage. Cory is one of the founding directors of Training Ground, an organization that provides evaluated real life experiences, mentoring, and intentional Biblical teaching in the context of work, wilderness, and worship.

In part one The Path of a calling is not a straight line Cory shares about how a challenging 2-year season of remodeling a barn with a friend led to discovering a calling and career. In this episode, part two, Cory talks about the unique challenges of transitioning into adulthood, and how risk, failure and community are essential elements to the transition. Join us as we discuss:

  • Founding and Design of Training Ground
  • Refining Energy within Perspective Spaces
  • The Value of Conflict and Tension
  • The Permission to Fail and Experiment
  • Who is Training Ground
  • Fifty Bucks and a Phone Number
  • Risk is Necessary to Shape a Life Worth Living
  • Death Bringing Life
  • The Different Challenges Through Different Generations
  • Navigating the Transition To Adulthood
  • The lesson of “Do What’s in Front of You”
  • What Doesn’t Look Safe May Be Safe
  • The Paradox of the Gospel in Finding Your Calling

Upcoming Workshops and Events:

Gap Year in Sarasota

Cory Smith’s Contact Info:

Website:

Training Ground

Email:cory@trainingground.com

Instagram:@traininggroundcolorado

Twitter:@Training_Ground

013: The path of a calling is not a straight line with Cory Smith

Cory is a Virginia native and attended Virginia Commonwealth where he received his undergraduate degree in biology and his Masters in Teaching. During his time at VCU, Cory played on the soccer team and was a full-time volunteer for Young Life. After finishing college, Cory entered the Young Life intern program for two years and continued on staff for two additional years in Virginia. Cory and his wife Christine were married in 2001 and have lived in Colorado since 2002. They have two beautiful children, daughter Sage and son, Cedar. Cory is one of the founding directors of Training Ground, an organization that provides evaluated real life experiences, mentoring, and intentional Biblical teaching in the context of work, wilderness, and worship.

In this episode, Cory shares about his early career moves and how a challenging 2-year season of remodeling a barn with a friend led to discovering a calling and career. Join us as we discuss:

 

  • The circuitous path of Cory’s calling
  • Work that “grinds” and deeply shapes character
  • Recognizing passion and finding what you’re made of while doing less than desirable work
  • Know the difference: escaping to get relief vs. choosing something desired
  • Faith and God’s gift to us to choose our way
  • Work that “pays the bills”
  • “Everything is spiritual” in the gritty work we do
  • “Staying in the pocket” – the value of tensions that shape our character over time

Upcoming Workshops:

Cory and the Training Ground team will be doing a Gap Year in Sarasota this coming fall. 

Cory Smith’s Contact Info:

  • Website:Training Ground
  • Email:cory@trainingground.com
  • Instagram:@traininggroundcolorado
  • Twitter:@Training_Ground

Head over to Cory’s website and check out Training Ground, and be sure to be on the look out for events and upcoming workshops!

 

012: Pushing Boundaries while Balancing Expectations and Reality with Craig Detweiler

Craig Detweiler’s background is in filmmaking and screenwriting, and he was recently hired on as the president of a seminary called The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. He and his family uprooted to the Seattle area from Los Angeles, taking on a new challenge both in career and life. Craig works with graduate students who are looking to deepen and broaden their calling and leadership skills, all while trying to transition himself into a new place. He is the author of several books including, Selfies: Searching for the Image of God in a Digital Age and iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives .

 

In this episode, Craig shares his experiences of transition that from a young age helped shape his desire to push boundaries. Join us as we discuss:

  • Transition:it’s all material intended for our growth – even if its painful it’s all good
  • Choosing a new career path in an act of hope
  • Seattle in transition- who we are and whose we are
  • The Third Act: Life Drama
  • How the overflow of choices creates a problem
  • All the way back to Florida and the inability to vote
  • Billy Graham and a spiritual crisis, alone in a hotel room
  • Sending self confidence back to 12 year old Craig
  • Wayfinding and welcoming new adventure
  • Screenplay of hope and expectation
  • The already and the not yet
  • Grit and determination are the muscle of resilience
  • The Psalms of Life: Finding hope and love in a new community
  • Transitioning without the invisibility cloak and finding fellowship
  • The risk is worth it