The Classy Career Girl Podcast

In the #MyStartupStory movement, created by Anna Runyan, CEO and Founder of ClassyCareerGirl.com, one of Forbes 35 Most Influential Career Sites, we want to support other women who are starting businesses they love and making an impact in the world. We want to tell you that it’s ok if you are NOT flying to Paris, drinking champagne in Italy and working on the beach in your luxurious laptop lifestyle.

Remember there’s nothing wrong with failure; failure is good. You can learn a lot from your failures. We covered some excellent topics on how to NOT fail in business.  

One of my secret weapons is webinars. I have been holding them for years and have tested a lot of things. I know what works and I am sharing it in our behind the scenes training today! The best thing is that if you have been on one of my webinars, I provide a ton of value. They aren’t sales videos. Don’t you hate when you get on a webinar and it’s basically an hour of them selling their product? Yuck! Here’s how I do it differently. Let me know if you have any questions in the FB group! -Anna

How do you turn an idea into a business? How do you grow a business on the side of your day job? How do you increase your revenue by 4X in a few years? All questions I ask Adda on our special interview.   We chatted about how to get into the tech industry and how she started her business on the side of her day job. There was so much good stuff!    There was SO much good stuff in this interview!! Highly encourage you to listen. My favorite part was that you need to be a painkiller not a vitamin!

Hello!! Today I am sharing with you the 15 steps I took before I quit my day job.   You don’t have to do all of these. I just wanted to give you a behind the scenes look at the steps I took before I quit. 

Today our Community Manager, Rachell Corpuz, and I sit down and chat about how we grew our Facebook group to 10,000 members.    

If you are getting ready to market yourself online, you'll definitely want to study and listen to this lesson on how to create your authentic promotion plan.

Finding a community is always worth it. Today's podcast will share my three stories of the benefits of community in my life and career.

What You'll Learn:   The 5 most common mistakes that job searchers make and how to avoid them. The very first step you should take when job searching (and it's not updating your resume!!). The exact formula to determine what your dream career is so that you never get stuck in a job you hate again. The 5 questions you must ask yourself for clear direction for your professional future. How to reduce stress and overwhelm during your job search. How to set up a simple and powerful job search system that attracts opportunities like a magnet.

Have you ever wondered what steps you need to take in your career to get to where you want to go years from now? Have you ever wished you could work with a career coach to just get a career check-up and figure out what you need to do right now? Well, today we are going to give you a career check-up and we are going to cover one of the trainings in our Love Your Career Formula membership community. We’ll dive into The 3 Phases of Your Career and How to Succeed In Each.   Also, note that depending on when you are listening to this, our Love Your Career formula membership community may be open. We only open it at select times per year but if you love what I teach her in this podcast and want to dive deeper and get my specific action plans each week to determine what your ideal career is and then find it, Love your career formula is definitely for you. You can learn more and add your name to the waiting list www.loveyourcareerformula.com.

On today's podcast, I'll tell you three stories of how I had to get unstuck and stop caring about what other people think. I'll also go over the highlights of the Get Unstuck Workshop including the 3 latest hiring trends and the three phases of your career. I'll also answer a question about whether becoming an entrepreneur is right for you.

Jasmine: Just finished watching video #2 and ready to start this 7-step process of the Get Unstuck Roadmap. Any suggestions on a strengthsfinder assessment tool that I can use that is free and reliable online?   Nina: I’m not sure what social media platform to use...Linkedin and facebook are the 2 I use today..but would like to understand pros and cons for each.     Lisette: how do you recommend college students to use instagram to reach out to company’s that they want to align themselves with? the person who reads this message will most likely be entry-level and a community manager. what question should they ask or who should they ask for? Thanks!   Teresa: What would be a good area to try and get a job in I could work here at home?  I am always proofreading other people's’ work it seems.   Anonymous. "I've mentioned wanting a career change to some people in the coworking space, and a select few people in positions I think may be a good fit for me....    My question is how loud should I be about wanting to c

This step is all about identifying not only the skills that you are good at but also the skills that you enjoy. I call these your favorite skills. It also about spending time looking at your motivations and interests. Career interests are the most important of the 3 factors because interests are a part of our core and are stable and they stay with you through your lifetime. The definition of an interest is something that is deeply held that you absolutely connect with – you want to learn more about topics. An example of this is if you really love analysis or new technology. These stay with you throughout your lifetime. Motivations can change over your lifetime and what motivates you now may be different in five years so if you haven’t thought about this lately, you must if you want to be fulfilled. Are you motivated by flexibility, autonomy, helping people, money, leadership, teamwork? What makes you work hard? It’s also about imagining your ideal work day and ideal work environment. This step also identifies

Carey is the Operations Manager at World Teacher Aid. To date, World Teacher Aid has constructed eight complete schools with a total of 40 classrooms, providing daily education for over 3000 students. So we are going to learn more about what her career is like today and also how she made a big career transition. This is all part of our month long interviews of women who have made transitions into careers they love and I hope you find it motivational if you are feeling stuck in your career. So let’s get started, thank you SO much for being here Carey!!   -Tell us about what you do at World Teacher Aid. What is a day in your life like?   -What did you do before working for World Teacher Aid and how did you make the transition into working for this organization?   Did you have any fears about transitioning out of higher education? What gave you the confidence to make the change?   -What is your advice for someone who wants to find a career that makes a big impact and allows you to travel the world? Any advice fo

Question from Erin Ford What are steps I can take after applying to a job online? Whether it's via a job board or the company's website, what are ways in which I can increase my chances of having my application seen/considered?   In our CCG Network: Raven - our intern. Busy during launch if she didn’t follow up I would have hired her. 1. Follow up by email. Don’t give up. Show your passion. Don’t let them forget about you. Ashley Nicole Hammond I submitted an application online and the company I applied for said that my application/interest was received and that if my qualities matched what they were looking for that within two weeks they would be in contact with me. A week went by and I haven't heard anything so I called to follow up and got an interview this way and interviewed this week and landed a second interview for the same position right after. This helped me. 2. Find the recruiter or hiring manager.(Make sure LI profile is professional). Tell them you applied and really want to work there. Here’s wh

Welcome to the latest edition of the “I Love My Career” series which aims to celebrate women (and my clients) who are stepping up and making HUGE leaps in their careers. I love sharing the real and raw truth on what it takes to achieve career success. One of the reasons I love my job is I get to work with ambitious women. Danielle is one of the most positive women I know and is someone you always want to talk to. I think that’s one of the biggest reasons she has had so much success in finding her dream job and now preparing to start her dream business. Listen to my interview with Danielle. Where you were before the program started? The company I was working for made a decision that they were going to move their entire sales force to Texas. So, I was really contemplating moving there even though it really wasn’t something that I actually wanted for myself, and I wasn’t super happy in my job as it was. I was really confused about what I should do. Tell us what did you find the most valuable in the LYCF program?

The Top 3 Techniques To Land an Interview With a Hiring Manager Mary Corcoran asks: "What are the best techniques to land an interview with a hiring manager? It seems with electronic applications and recruiters it's difficult to actually talk with a hiring manager these days!!"