The Classy Career Girl Podcast

If you want to build and grow your business but you don’t know where to start, this podcast is for you. In my work in the Corporate Rescue Plan helping hundreds of women quit corporate and launch their business dreams, there are five keys that you need to have built into your business plan before you take the leap. Most of the time I see women have 1 or 2 of these clarified and then they get stuck and struggle. It’s so important to have all five of these planned out and ready and then when you actually get to the Side Hustler phase, you know exactly what you should be doing! I am all about decreasing overwhelm and stress as you start and grow your business and that’s exactly what we do in the CRP. If you want less stress and are sick of searching online for the exact steps you need to take, make sure you add your name to our waitlist for when we re-open our membership community. at corporaterescueplan.com. Today, let’s take a peek inside our community and listen in on one of my favorite CRP trainings. This la

Ok, I have been putting this off for August. Every month I hop on a podcast and report my actions for August. Well, August was not the normal month of action and I so want to skip it but I also want to be very real with you. I have heard from many of you that our monthly action reports are your favorite part of this podcast. So I couldn’t just skip a month because I was embarrased by my lack of action. Ever had a month you wish you got more done? I met with a client last week and actually met her in person for the first time. She told me, You know Anna what your impression is from the outside. This is what people think of you. You are the most productive woman on the planet. You go-go-go. Get things done. Do this and do that. Wake up at 5am and go! It stopped me in my tracks because that is not the impression that I want to report in August. It’s actually the opposite.  

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 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.  

Today we are diving into our second day of the Fall in Love With Your Work and Life challenge. I had a ton of great questions that came in about how to figure out what step to take first when you are making a career transition. This podcast today shares exactly what you need to do that will make all the difference in creating amazing results for your career success. Today’s podcast is a previously recorded Facebook Live but I hope you enjoy the informal nature of these podcasts because I get to be myself a little more. I hope you realize I am just like one of you. I started where you are and just took baby steps to getting the knowledge and expertise that I needed to launch my dream career. So hopefully you get to see the goofy fun side of me in these Facebook Live recorded podcasts too. That is my hope!! 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 p

It is here! Our Fall in Love With Your Work and Life challenge is HERE! And the podcast today kicks off the first day. If you are feeling a change is in the air and you are ready to uplevel your career and life before 2017 hits, please join me and 2,000 other women in the challenge. You can learn more about at www.classycareergirl.com/challenge. To get access to the workbooks and videos. This challenge only happens once a year and it’s truly the work that I am most proud of in my business.  So let’s dive into some Q&A today about passion and purpose in your career, one of my absolute favorite topics! So today’s podcast is a previously recorded FB Live event so there are questions coming in from the audience and I am answering them in real time so it’s fun and exciting and I hope you enjoy it!  

Things are about to get really busy around here at CCG Headquarters. Our Fall in Love With Your Work and Life Challenge starts on September 6th and then our Love Your Career Formula 2.0 programs finally re-opens again on September 9th! I am so excited for September and to serve you all the best that I can but before we start all these fun festivities this month, I wanted to make sure I had all your questions answered. Over the last month we have had a lot of questions come in at CCG. So I decided to dedicate an entire hour to answer your questions last week on Facebook and today I am sharing the recording just in case you missed it. And if you are feeling a change is in the air and you are ready to uplevel your career and life before 2017 hits, please join me and 2,000 other women in the challenge. You can learn more about at www.classycareergirl.com/challenge. To get access to the workbooks and videos.   Alright let’s dive into your questions today!  

I wanted to give you a peek inside one of the trainings I am most proud of. It’s the first training in Love Your Career formula 2.0 Prep School that is designed to help you get your mindset ready to launch your dream career or business. As you may know, our mission at CCG is to help 2,000 women launch their dream careers and businesses by 2018. If you listen to this podcast today, you can be one of them! So enjoy this sneak peek of our Love Your Career Formula 2.0 membership community which is actually closed at the moment but will be opening up again for a few days in September and we hope you will join us.  So today…let’s dive into how  how successful people think….

Have you ever wanted to reinvent yourself and start all over? I know when I was back in my corporate days and feeling totally stuck, I wanted a brand new life. I was also going through some personal issues at the time and the prospect of reinventing myself was something I needed like yesterday. But the truth is reinventing yourself and transitioning your life and career does not happen overnight. It’s tough and that’s why I wanted to make sure I got this interview I did with Linda Rossetti, author of Women and Transition on the podcast today. Get ready for a special Career Transition Workshop where you’ll find the necessary tools you need to successfully progress from one transition to the next.

Today we are diving into the world of entrepreneurship.   It’s getting noisy out there, huh? Hard to stand out and make an impression if you are starting your own business or creating your own brand. As Classy Career Girl just celebrated our six year anniversary, I can’t help but be a little jealous of how things used to be a few years ago. Less hype. Less drama. More giving. It’s a different world online these days.   I try to stay out of the noise. I try NOT to consume everyone else’s stuff. I unfollow people like crazy every single day and I absolutely can’t stand when people invite me to their Facebook groups repeatedly. I have my few mentors that I don’t miss, but that’s it. I am creating my own stuff and trying to not be overtaken by the noise. I try to stay positive and do it how I want to do it, not like everyone else.   But, it really got to me this week. The online business world and what is happening got me down after a few experiences with new entrepreneurs in this online business space. I got bum

If you have an idea for a new business, there is always one place you should start. Gathering feedback from your potential future clients so you can identify the frustrations that they are facing, what their goals and dreams are and how you can help. The best way to get this feedback is either by talking to them or by doing a survey. Today I am excited to introduce you to someone who has worked on the Classy Career Girl team and who helped me re-design and re-launch our Love Your Career Formula 2.0 program in September-15. She created an AMAZING survey for all of the clients who had been through the program previously and gave me an improvement plan that I used during the entire launch to make the 2.0 program better than ever for our participants. Since helping me, Rebecca has also actively gotten involved in our Corporate Rescue Plan membership community and officially launched her business, Creative Habitat, to help busy moms and mompreneurs carve out time to invest in their creativity. I couldn’t be more p

Here is every action we took in our business in July 2016. What worked and what didn’t work and all our lessons learned. I would love to hear and if you are enjoying this Classy Career Girl podcast, please leave a review for us on iTunes as well. I would really appreciate it, thank you!  Why am I doing this? There are a lot of bloggers out there sharing their income reports. I have decided to start a different type of monthly post, an action report. Everywhere we look online these days we hear about someone’s six figure launch and how someone else made a million dollars on a course, etc. Am I the only one completely fed up with this? I have been growing an internationally recognized online career platform for 6 years. Telling you what I earn after 6 years of growing my business in detail isn’t going to help you as you start a business. Why? Because the only way my business has grown each year is through ACTION and self-reflection. That’s why I want to help you take the action you need to take to create the dr

Today I‘d like to introduce you to one of the top digital experts that I had the pleasure to interview a few months ago in my Corporate Rescue Plan membership community. I wanted to open up this special interview with you all on the podcast because I was blown away by the amazing content she shared.  So ladies, it’s my pleasure to introduce you to Vix Reitano today.   What Vix shares in this interview really helped me figure out how to better create our own social media content for our entire Classy Career Girl team, how to decrease our overwhelm by scheduling our content in advance and where to find amazing content ideas for our blog and social media. Creating your digital presence is so very important whether you are job searching or growing your own business so that is why this interview will help you unleash your digital superstar.   And since I didn’t mention it in the actual interview, I wanted to also make sure that Vix wants to invite you to her next upcoming webinar and you can learn more about that

Today, we are diving into how to succeed as a career coach. There is a lot of noise online these days and it seems like there are a ton of career coaches out there right? It might seem a little overwhelming.   Well, I started my career as a career coach and for the past 6 years have learned a lot and witnessed a lot of changes in the industry. I gathered some of the top questions about how to succeed as a career coach on the podcast today. If you have ever thought of becoming a career coach or want to grow your career coaching business even more, you will love this episode. So let’s dive in!

This interview with Dr. Valerie Young was from 2013 but I looked at my podcast list and I never shared it with you! I blame pregnancy brain. So I know that was a long time ago but I can’t even tell you how many times I went back to this interview because the content was truly life-changing for where my career took me after 2013.  Today we are talking about the impostor syndrome…. where many high-achieving females tend to believe that they are not as intelligent as other people think. When I was asked to speak in Brazil just a year after this interview, I had some major impostor syndrome happening. Who was I to speak to 800 women internationally and be treated like royally? I had to get over this negative mentality to achieve the success that I had for my first international speaking engagement.   Here’s the key you will learn today: You will always have the impostor syndrome. No matter what, that little voice will always be in the back of your head telling you that you aren’t ready. You just have to learn to

Today I am sharing with you a topic that I have been teaching for six whole years. It’s something I am completely passionate about and if you do not know exactly what your dream job is yet, you have to listen all the way through. I am going to dive into how to figure out your calling, the three most important things that lead to career satisfaction and then I’ll finish it off with my 7 step Love Your Career Formula that has helped hundreds of women determine what they want to be when they grow up and then get that job offer in their dream job.  It’s tested. It’s proven and this little podcast today could really change your life and the direction that you go next in your career. Yes, it’s that important! I told you that I was passionate about this topic! So enough hype, let’s dive! Oh and this is a previous Facebook Live event that I did so you’ll see that I get to engage with some of the participants that came and answer questions which is always fun too. Ok, let’s do this!

Today we are diving into a hot topic if you have a business or want to start a business. One of the most common questions I get is how to start planning for taxes and keep your finances organized when you start a business. When you are just starting a business there are a lot of tasks on your plate so your accounting can easily get put on the back burner. I know it did for me when I first started and doing my own taxes was a nightmare. That all changed when I was introduced to our guest on the podcast today who has been my bookkeeper now since 2013! Wow! I am so blessed to have met her and learn so much from her and I am excited for you to get to know Carol too. I featured her as a guest expert in my Corporate Rescue Plan program a few months back and wanted to share the group call with you on today’s podcast.   Also, right now Carol has a free FaceBook Group that is designed to encourage people to develop good habits and routines about taking care of their business finances so it might be great for you if yo

This is a really important podcast because you aren’t going to streamline and improve your life if you are feeling like there is not enough time in the day. In order to be able to master your next career transition, you have to be able to master your life right now. That starts with good time management habits.   So let’s dive into these life-changing productivity hacks. My challenge for you is to pick just one habit that you are going to implement this week and do your best to start changing your mindset using the tips mentioned in the podcast. Let’s dive in.

Today is a really exciting podcast that I have been working very hard on for you. It’s actually a blog post that I have been writing and I thought why not review this blog post with you on the podcast because I think the content is SO important. I am going to share with you every single thing I did in my business in June 2016. What worked and what didn’t work and all my lessons learned.  This is the first time I am doing a podcast like this so let me know if you like it! I would love to hear and if you are enjoying this Classy Career Girl podcast, please leave a review for us on itunes as well. I would really appreciate it, thank you!  

I am getting a lot of questions lately on blogging so I decided to dedicate an entire one hour training all about it on Facebook live recently. Today you’ll get to listen to me share everything I have learned about blogging over the last 6 years since I first published my first post. We have over 1,500 articles now on CCG. Some written by me and some written by guest contributors. We’ve made mistakes. We’ve had some big wins and of course the whole blogging world has changed a lot over the last few years. Most importantly though, I am going to share with you today, what I would do if I started all over again. From what platform I would use, to how often I would blog if I was starting all over again and even to the plugins I would use to manage it all. If you are short on time but have a message to share with the world, you are going to love this. Grab a pen and paper and let’s dive in!     I’m sharing everything that I have learned about blogging over the last 6 years since I first published my first post. We

Today is really special because I get to introduce you to someone very  important on Team CCG. One of the things I have realized over the last year of running my business is that I alone can’t keep up with all the career coaching needs , so I have invited my friend and career expert, Becky Carlson, to join me as a Love Your Career Formula Certified Career Coach. You’ll see immediately why I picked her to join me in my company as a Career coach in this podcast today because of all of the knowledge she has from the past 15 years of recruiting. I'll introduce her more in a minute but if you have any type of interview coming up or are considering starting to job search, learn the behind the scenes secrets from a recruiter herself today. Nail Your Next Phone Interview With Expert Tips From Recruiter and Career Coach, Becky Carlson. She’s a Job Search Success Coach and will give you the tools to give her clients the tools she needs to get hired. She has 15 years of being a Corporate Recruiter and has interviewed th