150: Expert Interview: Defining Success for Yourself, with Kathleen Brady

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Kathleen Brady, a certified career/life coach, author and speaker, has helped people identify goals and embrace their dreams for 25 years. Director of career development at Georgian Court University, she is head of Brady & Associates Career Planners, LLC. How well you distinguish between your own definition of success and society’s definition—aligning your inner desires with their outward expression—makes all the difference between deep satisfaction and drudgery. Gaining clarity and self-knowledge requires plenty of quiet time for reflection and stepping away from day-to-day pressures.

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0:00.0	Hello world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 150. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.3	Every day I interview someone around the world who has discovered her
0:21.9	talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:28.6	Once a week, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal development,
0:32.9	education, career, and life planning, and other professions who share experiences, tools, insights to help our listeners
0:39.2	along their journey. Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert, Kathleen Brady. Welcome,
0:45.1	Kathleen. Hello, Don. How are you? I am great. It's so nice to have you on the show.
0:50.6	Kathleen Brady is a certified career life management coach, author and motivational speaker with more than 25
0:56.9	years of experience helping students and professionals identify and integrate their personal and
1:02.8	professional goals leading to purposeful and joyful lives. Currently, the director of career services
1:09.0	at Georgian Court University.
1:16.8	She also maintains a private practice as CEO of Brady and Associates Career Planners LLC since 2003 and is the author of Get a Job, Ten Steps to Career Success.
1:23.6	Kathleen, today's topic, as you've outlined it, is how to define success, how the world defines it versus how you define it, short term, long term, and what impact it has on living a happy, joyful life.
1:36.2	So take it away for a minute and set the table for this topic and we'll have a discussion here.
1:41.7	Right. You know, I thought it was so important that we talk about success because the whole purpose of
1:46.4	your podcast is to help people be successful.
1:50.2	And I think everyone who's listening to the podcasts is likely to have a slightly different
1:55.3	definition of what it means to be successful.
1:57.7	And the challenge for most of us is that our culture equates success with
2:03.6	money, power, and status. And so, you know, when we think of successful people, we think
2:08.9	of celebrities or investment bankers or doctors and lawyers, et cetera. And we rarely think of,
2:14.5	you know, the guy who works in the DMV as being successful. But that's,
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