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Upgrade Your Career
Hosted by John Packer · EN
John Packer interviews some of the leading figures in their industry to give you professional insights and help you take your career to the next level. Upgrade Your Career podcast is for professionals who are ready for the next challenge. John and his guests give you the insights you need to make your next career move.
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How to Bet on Yourself & Become Unstoppable in your Career | Carly Taylor
Jan 17, 202301:02:58Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Carly shares tips on how to get unstuck in your career, advocate for yourself, navigate situations with leadership, and mindfully leverage your strengths to accelerate your career.Listen in to learn about how to beat imposter syndrome, lead with authenticity, and push your own boundaries as Carly breaks down her own career journey so others can leverage her experience. Carly is a data scientist, computational chemist, and machine learning enthusiast. She works as a security strategist for Call of Duty at Activision Publishing. Carly is an absolute rockstar and I’m so excited for you to get to know her better.Thanks to our guest for this episode, Carly Taylor!Carly's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carly-taylor-data/Carly's Website: https://www.rebeldatascience.com/If you have feedback on today’s episode, email me at john@johnpackercoaching.com – I’d love to hear from you.
Transcribe →#08 Why you Should be Relationshipping Instead of Networking | Jake West
Dec 20, 202200:56:06Tap to summarizeJake is a tech leader who has been an engineer, consultant, and automation specialist in the industry. He was a Summa Cum Laude student in the College of Engineering at WSU and received the colleges Mr. Mac, full ride scholarship for academic excellence, relationship building and extracurricular involvement. While he developed and automated for Qualtrics, a 6 billion dollar SaaS company, he finds his biggest accomplishment to be able to connect and relate to anyone and everyone through a philosophy he calls “relationshipping."If you have feedback on today’s episode, find me over on Instagram @johnpackercoaching, or email john@johnpackercoaching.com – I’d love to hear from you. Thanks to our guest for this episode, Jake West. Join me again next time for more tips on how to advance your career and live a more purpose-filled life. Thanks for listening.
Transcribe →#07: What an Orange Can Tell You About Getting Ahead in Your Career with Kirk Weisler
Nov 21, 202200:42:42Tap to summarizeHave you ever seen someone get a promotion over other candidates who had more experience and qualifications? How did they beat the system?That’s what our guest, Kirk Weisler, will be revealing on today’s podcast.He shares practical lessons about how getting a promotion isn’t simply checking off boxes – it’s not a mathematical equation. The people who win promotions are the ones who understand the subtleties and value of human connection.Kirk is an employee satisfaction consultant, or Chief Morale Officer, for companies and organizations around the globe. Kirk is also an internationally recognized author, speaker, coach, and researcher.Whether you are wanting to build a more engaging workplace environment or looking to land a raise or promotion, this episode is filled with gems of wisdom from one of the world’s foremost experts on workplace satisfaction.If you have feedback on today’s episode, find me over on Instagram @johnpackercoaching, or email john@johnpackercoaching.com - I’d love to hear from you. Thanks to our guest for this episode, Kirk Weisler. You can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/thecookiethiefbook/. Join me again next time for more tips on how to advance your career so you can make more money, and live a more purpose-filled life. Thanks for listening.
Transcribe →#06: Does Your Career Suck? Try These Psychological Tricks to Accelerate Your Career Forward | Dr. Paul Jenkins
Oct 31, 202200:47:47Tap to summarizeAre you feeling disappointed or stuck in your career? In this episode, Dr. Paul Jenkins, will share clever tactics to recalibrate your perspective and help you uncover hidden career opportunities.Dr. Paul is a clinical psychologist specializing in the science and practice of positivity. He is full of enthusiasm about living and teaching others how to live a positive, fulfilling life. Dr. Paul is a coach, keynote speaker, trainer, host of a YouTube channel, and the author of the book PATHOLOGICAL POSITIVITY. This episode will give you powerful tools to help you overcome mindset barriers and achieve a career that will be both financially rewarding as well as personally fulfilling.If you enjoyed this episode, follow this link for a free book! https://drpauljenkins.com/uycIf you have feedback on today’s episode, find me over on Instagram @johnpackercoaching, or email john@johnpackercoaching.com - I’d love to hear from you. Thanks to our guest for this episode, Paul Jenkins. You can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/drpauljenkins/. Join me again next time for more tips on how to advance your career so you can make more money, and live a more purpose-filled life. Thanks for listening.
Transcribe →#05: How to Align Your Career with Your Purpose & Passion | Elizabeth Saunders
Oct 14, 202200:32:16Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Elizabeth Saunders explains the value of “time investment” and shares her personal story about how she invested her time on her purpose and passions was able to build a career that was not only lucrative, but personally meaningful and fulfilling.Elizabeth is a writer, entrepreneur, and time management coach. She coaches clients on how to develop the right habits, career choices, and perspectives that lead to a happy, successful, and productive career. She shares how taking realistic rest between work hours will ultimately improve the quality of your work and the amount of work done. Listen in as Elizabeth Saunders walks us through her early challenges as an entrepreneur, and how she leveraged the power of networking to both upgrade her career and attain an optimal work/life balance. If you have feedback on today’s episode, find me over on Instagram @johnpackercoaching, or email john@johnpackercoaching.com - I’d love to hear from you. Thanks to our guest for this episode, Elizabeth Saunders. You can find her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethgracesaunders/. Join me again next time for more tips on how to advance your career so you can make more money, and live a more purpose-filled life. Thanks for listening.
Transcribe →#04 How to Turn Your Big Career Mistakes into Big Career Opportunities | Mark Rogers
Sep 14, 202200:41:57Tap to summarizeIn this episode we’ll take a deep dive together on a specific business case with a leader who successfully climbed the corporate ladder using feedback as a competitive career advantage. You’ll hear how our guest, Mark Rogers, gathered feedback the right way and applied a daily helping of humility to accelerate his learning curve and propel his career trajectory.In fact, his pathway was anything but ordinary. Rather than following the blueprint of getting an MBA right out of college, he followed in the footsteps of his fathers’ long and lucrative 40-year career at IBM. Mark plunged himself into the fast-moving sales division of the tech giant and, to this day, credits much of his success to the feedback he received along the way.For Mark, the willingness to regularly seek out feedback about what isn’t working correctly is essential. While not always an easy task, anyone with ambition must have the courage to embrace the discomfort of receiving potentially painful feedback, internalizing it and charting a new course of action based on the input. For him, that meant staying hungry to learn from anyone willing to teach.But how exactly did he do it and what can we apply to our own career today? You’re about to find out. Listen in.If you have feedback on today’s episode, find me over on Instagram @johnpackercoaching, or email john@johnpackercoaching.com - I’d love to hear from you. Thanks to our guest for this episode, Mark Rogers. You can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksrogers01/. Join me again next time for more tips on how to advance your career so you can make more money, and live a more purpose-filled life. Thanks for listening.
Transcribe →#03: How to Enter a Flow State to Be More Productive at Work | Dr. Bruce Jackson
Aug 30, 202201:22:08Tap to summarizeIn this podcast, we’ll hear from Dr. Bruce Jackson about how achieving a state of flow is crucial to acquiring a career upgrade. Bruce is one of the world’s foremost experts on the concept of flow. Flow is a mental state of sustained focus and productivity and Bruce has developed systems to create the conditions of confidence and clarity in your career.Bruce has worked with Fortune 500 companies, colleges/universities, and non-profit institutions to develop and implement principles of leadership and change. In this episode, Bruce shares profound insights on how to maximize the concept of flow so that you can increase your performance and job satisfaction. Despite earning multiple graduate level degrees, Bruce was not always a great student, but he quickly found his calling as a talented tennis player. To improve his performance on the court, Bruce studied sports psychology to uncover the mentalities that made him a better player. He began to decipher the processes that lead to a high functional flow on the court and developed a framework that could be shared with individuals, teams, and organizations to optimize their performance. Listen in as Bruce shares his knowledge on attaining flow and how you can leverage it to acquire your next career upgrade.If you have feedback on today’s episode, find me on LinkedIn or email john@johnpackercoaching.com - I’d love to hear from you. Thanks to our guest for this episode, Bruce Jackson. You can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucehjackson/ or text him at 801 358 8450. Join me again next time for more tips on advancing your career so you can make more money and live a more purpose-filled life. Thanks for listening.
Transcribe →#02: The #1 Trick for an Easy Career in the Future | Art Coombs
Aug 15, 202200:42:55Tap to summarizeWould you rather live an easy life now, avoid challenges, and deal with the consequences later? Or are you willing to sacrifice comfort today, tackle the hard decisions now, to achieve a future of financial security, health, and life fulfillment?Today’s guest, Art Coombs, explains that there are two ways we can look at getting things done: The hard-easy method or the easy-hard method. Art Coombs is a leadership speaker, author, and business development professional with over 25 years of experience working with multi-million dollar global firms. In this episode, Art Coombs explains how small, consistent acts of delaying gratification eventually bring about outstanding success. To help others achieve their career goals, Art says this “The harder you work initially, the easier you’ll have it later.”Successful people are set apart from those who fail because they use challenges to improve their lives, while others avoid challenges and stay complacent. Even through failure, learning from our mistakes paves the path for eventual success. Art also states how motivation is essential, but habit is a better ingredient for success than motivation alone.Listen in, as every insight Art Coombs shares will leave you eager for your own upgrade. If you have feedback on today’s episode, find me over on Instagram @johnpackercoaching, or email john@johnpackercoaching.com - I’d love to hear from you. Thanks to our guest for this episode, Art Coombs. You can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/artcoombs/, and make sure you check out his book, Hard Easy: A Get-Real Guide for Getting the Life You Want. Join me again next time for more tips on how to advance your career so you can make more money, and live a more purpose-filled life. Thanks for listening.
Transcribe →#01: How to Unlock Enormous Career Success by Living on the Competitive Edge | Ben Taylor
Jul 22, 202201:04:22Tap to summarizeIt’s certainly no breaking news – artificial Intelligence is taking over the world. Yet, it appears there’s no straight path to the top in an AI career. In this episode of Upgrade Your Career, you’ll be hearing from Ben Taylor, and how he found a fulfilling connection between snowboarding, calculus, high-performance computing, and a cutting-edge career.How exactly did Ben Taylor go from living in a tent in the woods – with his entire belongings holed up in six lockers in a gym – to redesigning his life and the future of artificial intelligence? Ben’s eighteen-year journey first took him from studying chemical engineering at the University of Utah to working on photolithography, process control, and yield prediction at Intel and Micron. Next stop was taking on the role of High-Performance Computing and AI expert at AIQ, an artificial intelligence hedge fund, building models on a 600-GPU cluster to make stock predictions from the news. Seven patents later, he helped to deliver HireVue’s AI insights product for candidate interviews. He eventually co-founded Zeff.ai, to provide deep learning insights for enterprises. All of this, before a phenomenal upgrade as Chief AI Strategist at DataRobot. This podcast is all you need to reboot your career as Ben shows you there’s virtue in taking the bull by the horn and looking forward. Listen to the show and let Ben Taylor show you how.If you have feedback on today’s episode, find me over on Instagram @johnpackercoaching, or email john@johnpackercoaching.com - I’d love to hear from you. Thanks to our guest for this episode, Ben Taylor. You can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bentaylordata/ . Join me again next time for more tips on how to advance your career so you can make more money, and live a more purpose-filled life. Thanks for listening!
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