Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. The weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.

Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast.

Okay, so you go to school, you get a job, you climb the corporate ladder, and eventually you retire.

It's the professional model we've all been taught to follow. But here's the thing, a whopping 70% of Americans say they feel disengaged at their jobs.

And 9 out of 10 Americans say they're willing to take a pay cut to do a more meaningful work. So how can you set yourself up for career joy?

Can you make a switch, even if you're 20, 30, 40 years into your current profession? And do you have to make financial sacrifices to do what you love?

And finally, how can you help college students in your life find the right career path? Well, my guest today has the answers.

She's Andrea Coppel, the founder and CEO of Time for Coffee Podcast, and college to career academy.

Andrea has been extremely successful in multiple careers. Says it's never too late to make a career jump, and I'll back her on that no matter how big a jump.

And then for some people, it's one of the best decisions they'll ever make. After a quick break, Andrea and I are going to reveal the secrets to helping your college age family members find the career they love, the professional pivoting, and how switching up your career could lead to a happier, more fulfilling life.

So stay tuned. This episode can help you or those college age kids in your life reach full potential and get paid to do what you or they love will be right back.

Andrea, it's great to have you on the show and great to see you again.

Oh, it's wonderful to see you, Dr. Gundrey. Thank you so much for inviting me.

So your professional background is actually really inspiring. Can you share a bit about your career journey and how you got to where you are now? I think it's a really great story.

I would love to and I'm going to begin the story with when I was in college. I was a political science major who concentrated in Asian studies and Mandarin Chinese, and I studied that because while I was in school, I thought I wanted to become an American diplomat.

And then my senior year of college, I took the Foreign Service exam. I didn't study. I didn't realize you should and I failed the exam. And so there I was in the spring of my senior year, like, well, what the heck am I going to do?

And the US Peace Corps came to recruit on campus. And I love adventure. That's why I wanted to go into the Foreign Service. I love living abroad. And I thought, well, that sounds pretty good for a couple of years.

And I was accepted to go to Nepal. And then a few months later, after I graduated, a curveball came my way. It wasn't quite like the coronavirus curveball.

But it was a curveball that affected me. And I learned some troubling things about what had happened in Nepal. And so I stepped away from the Peace Corps. I decided I wasn't going to do that. And I had no plan B.

And out of the blue, a friend of my parents who usually lived in China just happened to be in the US. And he had just come from New York. And he said, oh, Andrea doesn't have a job.

I just met this woman in New York, Virginia Camp ski. And she only hires young women who speak Mandarin Chinese. And she has a job.

So I wasn't interested in business, Dr. Gundry, but my parents encouraged me to go and at least interview for the job. And what do you think happened?

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