Episodes

  • #241: 3 Habits to Advancing Your Career Today
    Jul 22 2024

    Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes

    In this episode, I share three of my favorite habits that I regularly practice in order to manage my career.

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    11 mins
  • #240: The Power of Relationships: Building Your Career Team
    Jul 15 2024

    Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes

    Your success in your career is correlated to the amount of people that want you to succeed. That’s why it’s important to have the right kinds of relationships that can help you in your career. In this episode, we talk about why relationships are important, and the kinds of people who can join your “career team” and help you advance in your career today

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    19 mins
  • #239: Professional Advocacy: How to Speak Up and Share Your Work
    Jul 8 2024

    Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes


    Working hard and doing good work is important. But if you just put your head down and do good work, you’ll miss out on a lot of opportunities. This episode focuses on helping people understand the importance of speaking up and sharing your work, and how you can use professional advocacy to elevate your work, help others, and grow your career

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    19 mins
  • #238: The Importance of Career Experiments
    Jul 1 2024

    Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes

    Sometimes, it's hard to know how you want to advance in your career, or what steps to take. We don’t have to have it all figured out, but when we use an iterative and experimentation approach to career growth, we can often find great opportunities. This episode focuses on the concept of career experiments, and walks you through how you can run your own career experiments to test, explore and learn your way to growing your career.

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    21 mins
  • #237: Networking and Building Relationships in the MBA and Beyond
    Jun 24 2024

    Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes

    Many MBA students cite that networking and building relationships are two of the most valuable parts of the MBA experience. But how does that play out, and how do MBA graduates cultivate their relationships with their peers and classmates during business school and beyond? In this episode, we spoke to three MBA alums, Margaret Nealon (USC Marshall, ‘22) Ethan Siegel (Owen, ‘22) and Jill Toner (UNC Kenan-Flagler, ‘22) about their MBA experience, and how the as recent MBA alums are using their relationships to develop personally and professionally after they graduate from business school.

    Margaret Nealon – https://www.linkedin.com/in/mknealon/ – USC Marshall 22

    Jill Toner – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-toner/ – UNC Kenan-Flagler, ‘22

    Margaret Nealon – https://www.linkedin.com/in/mknealon/ – USC Marshall 22


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    41 mins
  • #236: Networking, Mentoring, and Building Relationships
    Jun 17 2024

    Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes

    Whitnie Narcisse is an MBA Graduate from UNC Kenan-Flagler, and currently the SVP of Operations at First Round Capital. Whitnie spoke about her journey to UNC and her journey to venture capital. She also provided insight into the moves she made to land a career in VC, as well as practical advice on some important lessons when it comes to networking, and Whitnie’s practical tips for building mentor and mentee relationships.

    Links

    • Proving the Power of Mentoring with Whitnie Narcisse
    • Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC)
    • Adams Apprenticeship
    • Follow Whitnie on Twitter: @WhitniewLow
    • Here’s What Makes Mentorship Work


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    40 mins
  • #235: Advice For Admitted MBA Students
    Jun 10 2024

    Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes

    Nasim Mirzai came to Duke University (Fuqua) after spending the beginning of her career in the Art Gallery Industry. During her time at Fuqua, In addition to her coursework, Nasim speaks to lots of prospective MBA students, holds numerous leadership positions, is an MBASchooled Ambassador. During our conversation Nasim spoke about her decision to attend Fuqua, the types of questions she helps prospective MBA students answer, and her advice to prospective and admitted MBA students for how they can select the right MBA Program.

    • Nasim’s MBASchooled Ambassador Profile


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    28 mins
  • #234: Reflections and Learnings From My MBA Internship Experience
    Jun 3 2024

    In this episode, Al reflects back on his MBA Internship from a decade ago in the summer of 2014. He shares how he ended up at Salesforce (it wasn’t planned) what that recruiting experience taught him, as well as the key lessons he learned from that internship that has helped him navigate his career.

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    32 mins