Setting the pace on the pursuit of happiness. This is the Ken Coleman show where you discover what you were born to do and how to make it happen.

Now helping you get unstuck and on the path to your dream job, Ken Coleman.

Live from Ramsey Studios in Nashville, you're joining a conversation about who you are, what you were created to do, where you want to do it and how you can get there.

Oh yes, it's all about you because you were created to fill a unique role. That means you are very much needed and it means you must do it. Somebody out there needs you to be you.

So let's get serious about doing work that matters.

We all belong to make a contribution. That's what we're longing for, significant to start success that we're chasing.

It is significance to know that you matter and I'm telling you to do. And one of the ways that we manifest this is through our work.

Now we matter relationally, but we also matter in the work we do. And we want to help you reclaim your Monday mornings.

70% of Americans go to work miserable on Monday mornings. That's just the ones that told the truth in the survey Joe. That doesn't count. Who knows what the real number is.

I see 80% internationally. So I probably think it's probably that 85%.

But some people just won't tell the truth to pulsars. So it's a big problem and it's unnecessary because there is a sweet spot for you.

The intersection of what you do best and what you love to do most. Let's figure it out. 844-747-2577-844-747-2577 is the number we start off in Montgomery, Alabama, where Christina is on the line. Christina, you're on the Ken Coleman show.

Hi, Ken. Thank you for taking my phone call. Sure. What's going on today?

I am currently unemployed and I'm beginning my job search and I'm preparing for the interview and kind of the standard questions that are asked during an interview.

And I'm uncertain how to answer two questions regarding why I left my last job and how I left my last job.

All right, let's have some fun with us. Why did you leave your last job?

I left my last job because I was part of that 70% that wasn't as noble. But it boiled down to me being demoted.

I had been with the company for almost 20 years. And to help them out, I took a position that last year that really wasn't suited for me.

Stop, stop, stop, stop. That's the answer. That's the answer right there. You don't go through all that biography. You just say simply this.

They ask you, Christina, why did you leave the last job? And you're going to say something like this.

Well, I've been with the company for 20 years and I'm a loyal person. And they asked me to take a different role to help them out.

I did, but it just wasn't the right role. And I made the classic mistake of just trying to be a people pleaser and do what I thought was right.

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