Do you want to leave your job? Do you want an entirely different career, but don't know where to start or think it is too late to make that kind of change? Listen in as Maria Scarangella and  Deedre Daniel talk about:

🎙 Figuring out when it is the right time for you to leave your job for other opportunities.    

🎙 The “Sunday Scaries” and what they signal to you.

🎙 The importance of determining your values and finding a career that aligns with them.

🎙 Understanding that you don’t have to do one thing forever. You can change career paths at any time.  

🎙 How to mitigate some of the inherent risks of starting a business.   

🎙 The main differences between working for yourself vs. corporate life.  

🎙 When you should compromise and when you should not.   

🎙 The importance of trying something new and embracing the lessons mistakes teach us.

🎙 Humanomics – Maria’s course she developed to help businesses find the ROI in treating their employees better.

🎙 A better solution to the mass layoffs recently happening in America.

This episode ends with some questions from The Very Interesting Game – some are brand new. One was written just before this podcast recording. Stick around to hear Maria’s answers.

Bio:

Mara Scarangella is a dynamic senior leader with decades of experience in business operations and human resources. She is a thought leader focused on talent strategy, leadership development, data-driven decision making, and coaching. She retired from GEICO, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc, after 37 years. Her expertise includes executive management, strategic planning, creative problem solving, P&L management, workforce planning, HR services, and sales. Maria holds an MBA from Adelphi University and a BS in Business Management from St John’s University. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), International Coaching Federation (ICF), Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), Advancing Women Executives (AWE), Executive Networks (EN), the Association for Talent Development (ATD), and WSJ Women.

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Originally recorded on December 14, 2022