#369: The BEST Work Advice You’ll Ever Hear, Questions You Must Ask Yourself Before Starting Your Own Business + Why Cover Letters Are Your Secret Weapon w. Career Contessa
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Mimi Bouchard
4.4 • 953 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Some of the BEST work advice you’ll ever hear, with Career Contessa founder Lauren McGoodwin. So many takeaways on this episode, not just for anxious job seekers, or people hoping to rise in the ranks at work, but also for wannabe entrepreneurs looking to take that big leap to start their own businesses. The do’s and don’ts for job interviews, how to give your resume an edge, and finally how to nail that interview. Indispensable work advice in one single episode.
Topics:
-How a bad economy put Lauren McGoodwin on the path to entrepreneurship.
-The questions to ask yourself if you want to start your own business.
-Why progress is better than perfection.
-How to find a good job “fit”.
-WHY cover letters REALLY matter. And how to write a perfect one.
-Common resume mistakes, the ONE thing to NEVER include in your resume + and the CRUCIAL ingredients for a sparkling resume.
-Should you DM recruiters on LinkedIn or Instagram?
-How to overcome rejection.
-Best ways to stand out at work, make a great first impression, navigate company culture and avoid problematic coworkers.
-Should you talk about your salary at work?
-Are entrepreneurs born or created?
-The future of WFH.
-The MYTH of “hustle culture” and why everyone is NOT a founder.
-Boundaries, burnout and whether you should cry at work, and so much MORE!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Should you ever tell people what you earn at work? |
| 0:05.0 | Well, so here's the thing about salary, transparency. |
| 0:09.0 | Should you ever cry at work? |
| 0:12.0 | It used to be, don't bring any of your emotions to work. I think |
| 0:15.2 | work in life are so intertwined, but I would say that. Is work from home here to stay? |
| 0:21.5 | I don't think so. I think. |
| 0:22.8 | My name's Mimi Bouchard, founder of Superhuman, the transformational app that helps you become your future self so that you can finally |
| 0:35.3 | start attracting more joy, abundance, health, wealth, and love into your life. |
| 0:41.1 | And that's also my mission on this podcast. Meet people whose lives have been |
| 0:45.6 | transformed in big and small ways, but always for the better. They tell me how they did |
| 0:51.6 | it so that you can too. |
| 0:55.0 | First of all, happy anniversary Lauren, the career Contessa, your company, is now officially 10 years old. This is a huge achievement. Congratulations. |
| 1:06.7 | Yeah, thank you. How does it feel to have been running this successful thing for so long? |
| 1:15.0 | You know, it's so many mixed emotions. |
| 1:17.5 | I feel like one, ten years goes by very quickly and also ten years has gone by very slowly. I feel like I remember every |
| 1:24.8 | single inch and milestone that we've reached, but I think that it's a huge accomplishment to stick |
| 1:31.7 | with something and that I'm super proud of and evolve and you |
| 1:36.0 | know especially after getting through COVID you know that's that's kind of a fun thing to be able to say like |
| 1:40.0 | we've been in business for a decade and you know what that means. |
| 1:43.4 | Yeah for sure so when you first thought about starting the company taking it way back |
| 1:48.5 | what was the gap in the career counseling industry career, what were you looking for at that time? |
| 1:54.9 | Yeah, well, so I graduated college in 2009. That was not the best time to be looking for a full-time job. |
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