503 | Career Direction with Shell Mendelson

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Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In today’s show, Shell Mendelson joins Eric on the podcast! Since January 2021, Shell’s Your Next Career Move MasterclassSM has empowered ADHD adults to create confident career options and was trained by Richard Bolles, the author of “What Color is Your Parachute?” With a Masters in Career Counseling, Shell offers more than 35 years of client experience while bringing her counseling, coaching, teaching, training, and nurturing gifts to help others clarify and focus on a well-defined direction and abundant livelihood. Following her own diagnosis of ADHD later in life, Shell profoundly understands how ADHD can impact one’s work and to reliably choose the best career direction: one that takes our “interest-based ADHD brain wiring” into consideration. Get in touch and find out more about Shell’s Next Career Move MasterclassSM on her website at CareerCoachingWithShell.com Questions/Topics: [00:01:23] Introducing Shell [00:02:35] Training with Richard Bolles and how it changed Shell’s life [00:07:13] What are some examples of some of the questions Shell might ask when someone is trying to figure out a career direction? [00:09:32] Looking beyond money and Safekeeping Self [00:10:32] Addressing potential deficits in self-awareness and answering self-assessment questions [00:25:44] So what is the “best” career for someone with ADHD? [00:26:55] If you were to ask 100 people if they knew exactly what they wanted to do for work, what is the percentage of people who could actually answer this question? [00:30:11] The role of stepping-stone jobs and the difference between someone who doesn’t know what they want and someone who does know what they want [00:31:44] Addressing the person who holds a marketable skill set in a lucrative profession but hates the work [00:32:19] Stories that Shell hears from people who reach out to her [00:34:40] Looking at other career options: “How do we figure this stuff out?” [00:36:36] Once you discover your “what,” the “how” appears, and a discussion next steps and different types of research [00:47:40] What is Shell’s 8-Week Masterclass and who is her class for? [00:52:21] How to get in touch with Shell, closing thoughts, and words of wisdom Resources & Honorable Mentions: Book: What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles 🌟 Want to hear the bonus questions and answer at the end of this episode? Go to adhdrewired.com/Patreon where you can get an uninterrupted listening experience of this show and bonus content when you become a Patron at $5 a month or more! You can even join Eric every 4th Tuesday of the month for a Patron-only monthly coaching call at $25 a month! 🌟 Have you heard about our Adult Study Hall Community? Go to adultstudyhall.com to join our ADHD-friendly body-doubling community! 🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on the upcoming season of ADHD reWired's award-winning Coaching & Accountability groups!

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0:00.0	It's really getting clarity and ownership and what comes with all of that is confidence.
0:07.3	That's where people become far. I hear people say, I was so unsure and miserable and lacked confidence when I
0:17.1	started and now I feel like there's hope I really know where I'm going there's
0:21.1	some places for me to go here.
0:27.0	What's up ADHD rewired listeners? Happy October and happy ADHD Awareness Month.
0:33.0	Before we get into today's episode, just a few quick announcements.
0:37.0	We are hosting another registration event on October 4th at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 Eastern.
0:42.0	We're also going to be doing a post-Q&A registration event
0:46.0	right after our live Q&A on October 10th for our coaching groups, because orientation starts next week.
0:53.2	And if our registration events don't work for your schedule,
0:56.4	I just added a new button to my website
0:58.8	that would allow you to schedule a one-on-one registration call with me. Please only do this if you were. one registration
1:05.0	call with me.
1:06.0	if your schedule truly does not work for our registration events
1:08.0	and you really do want to sign up
1:10.0	because we would love to have you.
1:12.0	All right, more about that at the break. up because we would love to have you.
1:12.5	All right, more about that at the break.
1:15.2	Now, on with today's show.
1:18.7	Welcome back to another episode of ADHD, rewired. Today's guest is Shell Mendelssohn.
1:25.0	Shell was trained by Richard Bowles of what color is your parachute.
1:30.0	With a Masters in Career Counseling, Shell offers more than 35 years of client experience
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