1030: Building a Career that Lights You Up with Mary Olson-Menzel

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Mary Olson-Menzel reveals her strategies for aligning your strengths with career opportunities that excite you.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to discover what truly lights you up

2) Effective LinkedIn outreach approaches

3) The key thing that grows careers

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— ABOUT MARY —

Mary Olson-Menzel, bestselling author of What Lights You Up?, is a career expert and executive coach with 30+ years of leadership experience. As CEO of MVP Executive Development, she helps individuals and organizations unlock their potential through her compassionate, results-driven approach to “Humane Leadership.” A member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches Community, Mary is dedicated to guiding leaders toward greater success and fulfillment.

• Book: What Lights You Up?: Illuminate Your Path and Take the Next Big Step in Your Career

• Company: MVP Executive Search

• LinkedIn: Mary Olson-Menzel

• Website: MaryOlsenMenzel.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

• Book: Leading with Gratitude: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton

• Book: The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins

• Past episode: 556: What Drives Your Career Growth with Korn Ferry’s Gary Burnison

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0:00.0	It's imperative to work to keep the lights on in your house, but it's even more important to keep the lights on in your heart and do what you love.
0:16.0	Because when you're doing what you love, you'll get hired faster, you'll get promoted faster,
0:22.6	you'll make more money, whatever money is to you, whether that's time or cash or whatever,
0:28.1	and the byproduct of being happier.
0:36.4	That's Mary Orlson-Menzel.
0:38.1	She's a career expert and executive coach with over 30 years of leadership experience,
0:42.7	having worked with thousands of individuals and organizations to unlock their potential through
0:47.2	her compassionate, results-driven approach to humane leadership.
0:50.8	She's also a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches community and author of
0:55.6	What Lights You Up, Illuminate Your Path, and take the next big step in your career. So you'll learn,
1:01.4	one, how to discover what truly lights you up. Two, effective LinkedIn outreach approaches. And three,
1:07.6	the key thing that grows careers. And if you want to get a quick summary write-up of these takeaways,
1:12.5	please sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter at awesomeatyourjob.com.
1:17.8	I'm Pete Pekitis.
1:18.8	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
1:20.5	And now, here's Mary.
1:25.9	Mary, welcome.
1:27.2	Thank you, Pete.
1:28.1	Great to be here.
1:29.6	Well, I'm excited to hear about what lights us up and how to think about that for
1:35.0	career and more.
1:36.5	So I have to open up, Mary, with what lights you up.
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