The Classy Career Girl Podcast

Let’s take a peak behind the scenes at the first 6 years of growing Classy Career Girl brand. I hope this video helps you see that nothing happens overnight! Even if you are feeling behind or that you are going too slow, you aren’t. You are moving at the perfect pace as long as you are taking baby steps forward. Don’t give up and stay inspired!

When you are struggling with discouragement and being overworked or bored, I completely understand how far off your dream career can feel. I want you to know that it really isn’t that far away. If I can do it there really is no reason that you can’t do it, too. That’s why I am so excited to give you just the very first steps you need to make your dream career or business a reality. I realized I was in charge of my destiny, just like you! Don’t settle!  

Here’s the piece of career advice I wish I would have known many years earlier. I wish I would have known this when I graduated from college. So many times I see women repeat the cycle of applying to jobs and then getting stuck in the same job that they hate. This is because they don’t understand themselves. If you spend the time to understand yourself better (I know it’s not easy!!) and you figure out your motivations, your personality, your interests, your purpose and your ideal workday, you’ll be so far ahead of the rest!! This is the number 1 thing you need to do before you even start submitting applications online or considering a career change. The first month of job searching should really be about figuring out who YOU are first instead if just updating your resume and blindly submitting your applications everywhere.    

Job interviews can be very stressful, even for the most confident person. Most people get nervous to some extent before and during an interview. You want to do your best to ease your job interview nerves because if you are nervous, it will likely show. The interviewer is looking to hire someone who is confident in their skills and abilities, and shaking hands and a wavering voice doesn’t really communicate confidence. To come across as confident and in control, a little preparation goes a long way.    

I often get the question of how I manage all my programs. Here’s the important key: I didn’t start here and you can’t compare where I am now to where you are starting today. I have been working on growing my business and learning about growing a membership site for SEVEN years now and it has not always been pretty. There’s been a lot of failures and giving up on things that just didn’t work out. Running a membership site is not easy. It’s not for everyone. But it is for me. I tried and tried to build my membership sites until things finally came into place in 2016 thanks to my incredible membership site mentor, Stu Mclaren. Stu is the founder of Wishlist Member which is a software I have been using in my business and for all of my online courses since I started seven years ago. He’s also the creator of the very BEST training program out there on starting and growing a profitable membership site called TRIBE. I’ll be sharing more soon about he helped me grow my membership sites dramatically and changed my life

OK, I admit it. I will tell you a secret just between you and I…..I stayed in a job I hated for many, many years because I had a good salary and health benefits and a mortgage and other bills to pay.  I dreaded walking into the doors of the office to a job that didn’t fit who I really was. I share a lot on this blog about how to find a job you love and I hope that you have found it helpful. But for most of you, there is an amount of time where you have to stay in a job you might hate until you can find that dream job.  I don’t want to ignore you and pretend like it’s fun. It’s definitely not! So while you plan your exit route, here are some tips to stay motivated if you hate your job.  

Grateful for your paycheck but know you don’t want to work there much longer? Over my years of working with students, I have seen many women close to getting their careers unstuck BUT they have one thing holding them back, their mindset.  Today, I want to share with you some positive affirmations you should repeat to yourself daily to help you make your career transition or start a business.  You must start thinking positively if you want to get out of a negative work situation. Changing my mindset was the biggest secret behind my career and business success. I have always been a huge fan of affirmations. I actually do these every morning for 5 minutes and have notecards that I have by my bed to read. I am way more confident and calm throughout the day when I do this along with meditating. These affirmations are written to help you build confidence that you will find the right career for you. I recommend doing these every morning and creating a morning routine that gets your mind in the spot to take on the da

CCG is getting ready to celebrate our SIX YEAR anniversary in March so we decided to collect the 100 best pieces of career advice from our site over the last 6 years. We hope you get inspired! Our suggestion is to pick one tip and write it down in your journal. Read it everyday and start practicing it in your career every single day.  

Stop the social media stress and put a plan in place. Today’s training call with Anna Runyan and Aida Diaz will help you get clear on how to organize your social media plan and what social media platform you should focus on first.    

If you want to be successful in your career, I have a little known secret for you. It’s not what you do to get ahead, it’s how you think.  Through my years of helping women find careers they love and succeed, I have seen many clients really close to getting their careers unstuck BUT they all have one thing holding them back, their mindset. You can’t get your career unstuck if you are not in the right mindset to get your career unstuck. If you take all the actions but don’t work on your mindset, you will not get the success you want. A few weeks ago, I shared 3 mindsets you need to attract the job you want.  Today, I want to share with you the five money mindsets you need for career success.  You may not realize it but your career success and how you think about money are very closely intertwined.  Once I was able to get my money under control, I had so much more flexibility to be able to pursue a career I loved.  I truly believe that your financial decisions and priorities directly affect your career. These m

Think you can't find a job with social media? WRONG!! Today there are so many opportunities available to you just by utilizing Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram and (of course) LinkedIn! Listen to this podcast and get up to date to find your dream job with social media.

There’s a lot of misconception about blogging and whether you can make an income from it and how long it will actually take. It takes a long time and you can’t just plan to earn you money the next month. Instead, you have to be very strategic. There are a lot of ways to make money on your blog. But, to get enough money to quit your day job from your blog income is going to take a lot of work. Are you ready to put a ton of work into your blog? I’m talking mornings, weekends and nights? That’s what I did. And I am not talking about studying and learning. I am talking about actually taking action. That’s the ground rule. You have to work really hard to make an income from your blog. If you are ready to work hard, keep on reading. Here are four ways you can make an income from your blog. I have made income doing each of these, so I’ll give you my behind the scenes and also share with you my #1 suggestion at the end.

Today we are talking about the Strengthsfinder assessment. My good friend Becky Hammond gives me a mini-coaching session and I promise you that you are going to learn so much! The most important thing about today is that you remember that the only way to move forward is to look inward first. So carve out some time and self-reflect. You will learn how you can develop your strengths more in your work and life.

Recently I was chatting with one of my clients who I have been working with over the last two years. I was remembering what it was like when she first came into our Corporate Rescue Plan program. She was a financial planner with a successful business already BUT she did not have freedom and she had a lot of stress. She also didn’t have any of these three things that I am going to share with you today which I believe are even more important than social media. It’s not about how many followers you have on Instagram. Here’s what you REALLY need to be focused on if you want to build your business.

Question: “How did you start networking boldly? I am an introvert by nature and I feel like I am bugging people when I ask for their time.” -Char

Recently, one of our members in The Corporate Rescue Plan said that she made a commitment to start her business and now has clients coming at her left and right. Great, right? Wrong! Now, she’s overwhelmed and second guessing herself. She has the employee mindset where everything would be solidly planned out over the next 6 months. She even asked me if she should say no to clients to wait until she has it all planned out.  What do you think I said? No! You learn by doing and taking action. I never had it all together when I started. I sold my first online course before I created it and it got my butt moving forward. I got prepared. I created the content. I created my business with my clients and improved and improved and improved. When you are an entrepreneur, things change SO much from month to month, especially when you are just starting out. Only now can I say that I have a solid one year plan ready to go way ahead of schedule (yep! 2017 is already all planned out! Woohoo!) But, when you first start, that

Feeling stuck? There are 3 big obstacles which are the most common in holding people back from launching their dream careers. It’s best if you can figure this out and then become really aware of your roadblocks. Once you know what is holding you back, then you can tackle it and move forward. Easy, right? Let’s get started.

Today I am taking you on a trip down memory lane and sharing some things I have never shared before. I remember just a few years ago when I had so much stress and anxiety going to work that my stomach would hurt driving in. I would just sit in the car until the last possible minute before I would have to waste my life away and walk through the doors. I couldn’t relax or enjoy the weekends because I dreaded Monday morning. Sunday blues literally hit as soon as I woke up on Sunday and then the whole day I was just stress.. Here's my entire story.

Want to find happiness in your career and find your purpose and passion? The irony is that it isn’t something you need to search for. The whole concept of trying to figure out what you are passionate about or finding a shortcut to your right career path is really about stepping into your calling to be the best you can be. This means creating the best work you can do. Being as productive as you can be and serving others by sharing your gifts with the world. This podcast will dive into how to find your passion and purpose.

Sometimes it feels like Facebook is a ghost town and it's so hard to get engagement!! And who wants to pay a ton of money for ads right? This podcast will guide you through what you need to know to increase your facebook engagement without spending money on Facebook Ads.