The Career Studio
Career fulfilment is possible for anyone, it's just a matter of knowing what to focus on. But there’s a lot of noise out there. So, when work stops working it can be hard to know what to focus on - what do you pay attention to and what do you ignore? The Career Studio podcast is focused on boiling down the noise and focusing on the core, foundational concepts required to build an energizing career you love - one that is simply an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life. Join former marketer turned career and life coach, Anne Benveniste, as she takes you through the core concepts and tools in a structured and simple way that makes career fulfilment accessible and attainable.
Episodes
38 episodes
Redefining failure
We often fear failure because we associate it with judgment and inadequacy. However failure is inevitable and a natural part of the learning and growth process.In this episode I encourage you to embrace setbacks as learning experiences and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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23:39
How to manage anxiety
Anxiety can block you towards an energizing career you love if you don’t know how to move through it. It’s like a defense mechanism. Learning how to be with it, work with it, and learning how to not make it worse will help you take control and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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17:06
How to choose the 'right' path
It’s natural to want to choose the ‘right’ path for yourself professionally. And when people feel lost it feels hard to know what’s ‘right’. I see a lot of people get stuck here, often because their definition of right is leading them wrong. It...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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21:30
Don't say yes to the wrong job
Are you worried that you’ll say yes to the wrong job? This is a common concern when we feel lost and stuck professionally. This can happen for three main reasons:You’re scattered - you don’t have a solid foundation based on the leve...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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21:47
How to feel confident
Confidence is something everyone wants more of. And the good news is - it’s a muscle you can strengthen. As with everything, it’s just about knowing what to focus on. Confidence comes from three places: the stories we tell ourselves about the s...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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24:17
Redundancy Game Plan
Redundancy is on everyone’s lips. Have you recently been made redundant? Is your company threatening redundancies? Are you considering leaving your job and restructuring your career? Then you’ll want to listen to this episode. In it I walk you ...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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26:44
How to connect to your gut
Have you ever had a sense that you shouldn't do something ... and yet, you did it anyways. And then you kicked yourself afterwards when the result isn’t what you wanted because you felt like you had a sense that you shouldn’t do whatever is it ...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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22:45
How to cultivate mentors
I spent years thinking mentorship had to be bestowed upon me. That if I worked hard enough and got lucky some benevolent titan of industry would grant me the privilege of being their mentee. As you can imagine, I spent many years without any ki...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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33:30
How to take risks
When you’re in transition you’re thinking about what could come next. And in this moment it’s easy to focus on everything that could go wrong. It’s easy to look at an idea that’s interesting and then write it off because it sounds ‘too risky’. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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25:34
Mitigating my own burnout
I felt stuck in my business recently. Confused, tired, and overwhelmed. Everything felt hard and annoying and all the things I usually found energy in were draining me. But then it dawned on me. Wait, I literally have a system for fixing this. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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22:47
Strive for B- work
When we strive for an A in everything, when we want everything to be perfect, we are either unable to keep up with life’s competing demands or we burn out. So what if I told you the secret is striving for B- work? If you’re a chronic over-achie...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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22:17
The passion and purpose trap
Find your passion, follow your purpose are two of the biggest red herrings when it comes to creating an energizing career you love. I explain why this is and what you should focus on instead in this episode. I discuss: <...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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18:59
The 4 skills for career fulfillment
When our career stops working the way it once did it can be overwhelming. The confusion and ambiguity is uncomfortable. What do we pay attention to and what do we ignore? That’s why I started my business, to help people move through these momen...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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29:32
Lessons from getting fired
I consider getting fired one of the best things that’s ever happened to me. And even though it’s certainly inconvenient and uncomfortable, I consider it a blessing in disguise for most people. In this episode I share my own story of getting fir...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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19:37
An ode to crying
We live in a culture that is embarrassed by tears. So we resist and repress our tears when we feel them triggered. In this episode I dive into why this is a mistake and all the health and growth benefits we get from crying. In t...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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24:31
Trusting yourself with Sarah Sternberg
After nine months of maternity Sarah was looking towards returning to work with trepidation. There had been some significant changes while she was out and she had had a history of parachuting out of jobs quickly when things weren’t exactly perf...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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45:59
Follow the fun
Too often we have a narrative that work should feel like work. That fun is something that happens outside of our job. But operating from this belief creates a reality where work is indeed not fun. What you think you create. The simplest way to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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20:30
How to achieve any goal
Oftentimes the reason we aren’t taking action is because we’re worried about what could go wrong and how we will feel when it does. But if we accept that life is a 50/50 split of comfortable and uncomfortable emotions - no matter if we stay whe...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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31:39
Letting go of your parents' opinions
Oftentimes the reason we’re stuck in our careers is because we’ve been building it against someone else’s model for success and fulfillment - and this model often comes, inadvertently, from the spaces where we were raised. If your parents have ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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25:03
Finding the bullseye with Nick Wellner
When I met Nick he felt like he was treading water, clocking in and clocking out, looking up the corporate ladder without any real enthusiasm.He felt like there was something missing.After six months together Nick la...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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31:56
Careers are like romantic relationships
The process of building an energizing career you love is similar to the process of building a healthy, thriving, romantic relationship. This is good news. Because you have already had practice understanding yourself and building romantic relati...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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22:16
Panic MBAs
We hate the discomfort of feeling lost. And when we’re lost we don’t know where to start to fix it. This is why so many people reach for another degree - I did this, I did an MBA. Another degree feels like a socially-sanctioned way of addressin...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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20:13
You might be people pleasing
Most people pleasers don’t realize they’re people pleasers. Because people pleasing is more nuanced than telling people yes when you really mean no. In fact, it’s a way of operating that can actually get you quite far professionally - that is, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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20:58
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Don't update your resume
The natural place to start when you feel like you might want a new job is to head over to a job board and start scanning opening roles or open up that old resume and start adding new information. But this is the wrong place to start if you’re f...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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22:32
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Goals that feel good with Jen Lewis
By February most New Year’s resolutions will have fallen by the wayside. But what if you could think about your year in a way that felt motivating, exciting, and aligned - and set you up so that you could not fail? My friend Jen Lew...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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46:21
