The Career Kickstart Show | Design Your Dream Career | Ready for Career Freedom?

The Career Kickstart Show | Design Your Dream Career | Ready for Career Freedom?

Sami Gardner - Career Coach | Digital Nomad | Entrepreneur

Your job doesn’t have to be soul-sucking! Be inspired each and every week to dive into your new career with our stories, tips, and tricks. We’ll help you go from just surviving to thriving on the job market. Your host, career coach & digital nomad, Sami Gardner, interviews unique guests, from career experts to people just like you who are designing a career and life on their own terms. Ready for career freedom?

Kickstart YOUR authentic career at CareerKickstartAcademy.com.

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Steven Steiner talks UX Careers

Steven Steiner talks UX Careers

2022-07-10

Sami interviews Steven Steiner to discuss how newcomers can break into UX, his biggest career mistake, and more.

38:32
Jenny Chan talks Women in Web Development

Jenny Chan talks Women in Web Development

2020-09-21

Jenny Chan talks about the importance of community to women in web development and how it can help your career.

24:49
Daniela Nătălețu talks Planning Fertility into Your Career

Daniela Nătălețu talks Planning Fertility into Your Career

2020-09-14

Daniela Nătălețu is a fertility consultant who works with professionals on planning a family on their terms. We talk about options whatever your stage in your career.

21:53
Andrea Klunder Talks Starting Your Podcast

Andrea Klunder Talks Starting Your Podcast

2020-09-07

Andrea Klunder, producer, coach, and consultant at The Creative Impostor Studios, works with organizations, companies, and leaders who want to use audio content to tell stories, create movements, and change culture. We talk about how to start your podcast right.

32:51
Suzanne Yada Talks Starting a Freelance Business with an Email

Suzanne Yada Talks Starting a Freelance Business with an Email

2020-08-24

Suzanne Yada is a freelance marketer who outlines how she started her business with a single email.

Find out more here: https://www.yadacreative.com/

33:09
Lucas Casarez Talks Financial Planning in Uncertain Times

Lucas Casarez Talks Financial Planning in Uncertain Times

2020-08-17

Lucas Casarez is a financial Yoda to Gen X/Y professionals in tech. We discuss how to manage your finances during uncertain times Find out more here: www.levelupfinancialplanning.com

27:01
Rosanna Lopes Talks Networking Through Community Building

Rosanna Lopes Talks Networking Through Community Building

2020-08-10

Rosanna Lopes is a super-networker and digital nomad who created the extensive Lisbon Digital Nomad society. She shares her tips for networking like a human and building your career through word of mouth.

48:36
Morgan McCloud Talks Unions and Worker's Rights

Morgan McCloud Talks Unions and Worker's Rights

2020-08-04

Morgan McCloud is a union steward who discusses the importance of unions, worker's rights, and collective bargaining.

31:51
Derek Murphy talks Creative Careers, Publishing, and Working Writers

Derek Murphy talks Creative Careers, Publishing, and Working Writers

2020-08-04

Derek Murphy of Creativindie.com is an author and teacher for fiction and non-fiction writers. He lays out what we can do to create a self-publishing career.

Find out more at https://www.creativindie.com

53:16
Work from Home - Quarantine Edition

Work from Home - Quarantine Edition

2020-05-12

This special episode is all about working from home in this pandemic. I share a lot about remote work too. I answer the following questions:

Some Questions Answered:

Is remote work the same as freelancing? How is looking for a remote (permanent full-time, not freelance) job different from looking for an on-site job? How to find remote work? How likely it is that your geographical location will impact your chances of getting a remote job, and in what ways? What specific skillset are the hiring managers looking for in a remote position? What tools should we know, when working remotely? What tools do you recommend having in your workspace while working remotely?
37:40
Larry Cornett Talks Invincible Careers, Recessions, and Being an Opportunity Magnet

Larry Cornett Talks Invincible Careers, Recessions, and Being an Opportunity Magnet

2020-05-05

Dr. Larry Cornett of Brilliant Forge Coaching is a former Silicon Valley founder and tech professional turned career coach. He lays out what we can do to create a recession-proof career.

Find out more at https://www.brilliantforge.com/

32:51
Get Some Grit In That Mindset

Get Some Grit In That Mindset

2020-03-15

In this solo episode, I talk about the power of grit in goal setting and how you can develop this for yourself.

16:11
Richard Moss Talks Consciousness, Enlightenment, and Tech

Richard Moss Talks Consciousness, Enlightenment, and Tech

2020-03-08

Richard Moss was a practicing physician before he turned meditation into medicine and became a teacher and consultant. He has been hired by startups around the world to design more consciousness into their cultures. We talk about the effect of tech on the world, the history of culture in the tech startup world, and how conscious relationships and awareness can heal.

Find out more at RichardMoss.com

38:18
Some Doors Only Open Once

Some Doors Only Open Once

2020-03-01

In this solo episode, I talk about how sometimes the universe is giving you a kick in the pants to get you out the door and you can't waste time.

18:23
Carmen Corral Talks the Multi Passionate Freelancer Life

Carmen Corral Talks the Multi Passionate Freelancer Life

2020-02-23

In this episode, I chat with Spanish-born digital nomad, Carmen Corral, on being a digital nomad and being a multi passionate freelancer.

24:28
Sami Gardner Talks Ignoring the Haters

Sami Gardner Talks Ignoring the Haters

2020-02-16

In this episode, I dive into a common issue that comes with success- haters- and how to deal with these naysayers.

24:12
Laura Lakshmi Talks Yoga, Running Retreats, and the Laptop Lifestyle

Laura Lakshmi Talks Yoga, Running Retreats, and the Laptop Lifestyle

2020-02-09

Laura Lakshmi is a yoga instructor, life coach, and she runs yoga retreats in Greece and India. We chat about how she changed careers from being an interpreter in Brussels to becoming a yoga instructor traveling the world.

Find out more at https://lauralakshmi.com

24:17
Sami Gardner Talks Thriving in the Gig Economy

Sami Gardner Talks Thriving in the Gig Economy

2020-02-02

In this solo episode, I dive into the gig economy. Love it. Hate it. It's here anyway. Let's dish on how to thrive!

15:12
Bree Dell talks Growing Her Tarot Business and Becoming a Digital Nomad

Bree Dell talks Growing Her Tarot Business and Becoming a Digital Nomad

2020-01-26

Bree Dell runs Tarot with Goddess Bree and lives the digital nomad life. We chat about how she started her tarot business, what it's like to work online, and her travels as a digital nomad.

Find out more here: https://www.facebook.com/tarotwithgoddessbree

28:06
Sami Gardner Talks Focusing on the Dream

Sami Gardner Talks Focusing on the Dream

2020-01-19

In this solo episode, I share a tactic for staying focused on your dream as you are in building-mode so you keep up your morale even when it feels like its taking forever!

15:27