CC: Lindsey Pollak: Tips for Millennials (and beyond!)

Over It And On With It

Christine Hassler

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Age is a mindset so this is a great listen for any age! Lindsey and I talk the transition from student to professional, communication tips for getting hired, transitioning from working for someone else to working for yourself, what the #1 fear of Millennials who are stepping into management positions is, authenticity, work life balance and much more. This is a jam-packed, juicy episode! A little more about Lindsey Pollak: She is widely recognized as the leading voice on millennials in the workplace. Often called a “translator,” Lindsey advises both young professionals looking to succeed in today’s work environment and the organizations that want to recruit, retain and market to them. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders and Getting from College to Career: Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World. Her consulting clients and keynote speaking audiences have included over 200 corporations, conferences and universities, including Citi, Estee Lauder, GE, PwC, Ralph Lauren, Yale, Harvard, Wharton and MIT. Lindsey also works with select brands as their go-to in-house expert and public spokesperson for all things millennial, including strategic planning, media campaigns and social outreach. As a LinkedIn Ambassador for six years, she created and delivered webinars that trained over 100,000 people to advance their careers using the platform. Currently, Lindsey serves as The Hartford’s Millennial Workplace Expert and chair of Cosmopolitan magazine’s Millennial Advisory Board. Her advice and opinions have appeared in such media outlets as The TODAY Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and NPR. She appears on several lists of Best People to Follow on Twitter, including Mashable’s list of top non-fiction authors. Forbes named her blog one of the Top 100 Websites for Your Career. Lindsey’s passion for mentoring young people goes back to her student days as a dorm RA at Yale University. She is now based in New York City. https://www.lindseypollak.com/

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0:00.0	Hello everybody I am so excited about this episode of Coaches Corner because I have a very long time friend and colleague with me, Lindsay Pollack.
0:12.8	Thank you so much Lindsay for being here today.
0:16.6	Lindsay and I know each other.
0:18.5	Gosh, how did we even meet the first time, Lindsay?
0:20.6	I'm like spacing for a second. I was actually just hoping you were going to say what it was because I can't remember either just long time. Oh I know Diane Danielson introduced us and we had our first date in New York City
0:32.7	and I remember sitting by window
0:34.6	and meeting you for the first time.
0:35.7	That's it.
0:36.7	That's right.
0:37.2	Thank you.
0:37.6	Oh my gosh, I'm glad your memory kicked in.
0:39.2	It's just, I just feel like I've known you forever.
0:41.3	So Lindsay and I got to know each other because we were both 20-something
0:45.2	authors and we were in the 20-something, it was called Gen Y, soon to be called millennial space. And we just like connected on so many levels. We both were extreme
0:56.3	overachievers trying to find ourselves among this kind of transitionary period of our 20s and just became very, very passionate about speaking and writing for the 20-something experience, now the millennial experience.
1:11.0	And I know that a lot of people in your 20s, early 30s listen to the show.
1:15.0	So I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation.
1:18.0	And if you're not in your 20s 30s, I think you'll still enjoy it because first of all,
1:22.0	Lindsay's amazing. I'm going to tell you
1:23.4	more about her in a second but second of all the things we're going to be talking
1:26.3	about I think really apply throughout our life you know so many things that I wish I
1:31.9	would have known in my 20s still apply in a lot of
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