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Career Buzz with Reinekke Lengelle – Writing the Self toward career clarity, and through bereavement, featuring a story of love, spousal loss and resilience

In a Career Buzz episode from 2012, I interviewed the team of Reinekke Lengelle and Frans Meijers. They shared their model of writing as a transformative tool for career management. Reinekke and Frans were a professional team, and personally they were married. Sadly in 2018, Frans died. Working through her grief, Reinekke wrote. The result is her forthcoming book, Writing [...]

October 8th, 2020|Tags: blog, career, career buzz, career management, clarity, loss, management, spouse, transform, transformative learning, writing|0 Comments

Being alive, and what we learn from death, with author Ray Robertson

During the pandemic, health officials and politicians can help us stay alive, but we need writers and philosophers to help us live. Ray Robertson’s newest book, How to Die: A Book About Being Alive makes the argument that we can't be truly fulfilled until we think about and reckon with death. When his first novel, [...]

September 7th, 2020|Tags: author, book, books, death, fine arts, fulfill, fulfilled, fulfillment, how to live, life, life lesson, life lessons, live, meaningfulness, novel, novelist, pandemic, reading, staying alive, writer, writing|0 Comments

Self-Publishing with Michael Newman, Tammara Kennelly and Lee Parpart

When Michael Newman went for a walk in Berlin in 2012, it was the start of a journey that led to his writing a novel, Between These Walls. When Michael went looking for a publisher, he entered the world of alternative publishing where he spoke to self-publishing companies like Friesen Press and Iguana Books. What does publishing a book do for your life or career? What options exist to [...]

May 6th, 2020|Tags: Between These Walls, career, Friesen Press, holistic, hybrid publishing, interview, Lee Parpart, Lguana Books, life, Michael Newman, novel, press, publishing, self-publishing, Tammara Kennelly, writing|0 Comments

The Entertainment Business to Virtual Assisting – Everything You Need To Know

You’ve finished film school, now what? Film and TV is a tough business with lots of uncertainty, but those who win, win big. How do you manage your film and TV career for the future? Ask Carole Kirschner @CaroleKirsch. She’s entertainment career coach based in Los Angeles. She is also program director for Writers Guild of America showrunner training [...]

Excavate your story. Ace your interview.

Because your résumé can't do all the talking for you, Anand Patel, the co-founded InterviewDrill, explains Their app that aims to make interview preparation easier. He is a product manager that draws upon understanding his consumers to gain success in his career. Tune in Wednesday and ace the interview! Starting at 26:56: What can writing about [...]

June 12th, 2015|Tags: career writing, development, education, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, experiential learning, happiness, innovation, intentional exploration, journalism, research, self-knowledge, time management, wellness, writing|0 Comments