My Career Journey

From retail to finance to education to Salesforce consultant | My Career Journey

Guest Nankya Senungi has been through multiple career shifts, layoffs, and other major changes, but her passion for helping people and positive outlook are two things that've stayed consistent throughout every transition. In the episode, Nankya talks about what it’s like to be a consultant and how she turned working with Salesforce into a career. She also talks about how faith influences her career, how she's navigated layoffs and turned them into opportunities, how she builds and nurtures relationships, her experience working with a career coach, and more. ------ Highlights from the episode include: 0:00 - Podcast and episode intro 2:00 - Nankya’s intro and career journey 4:47 - How faith influences Nankya’s career 6:41 - Navigating layoffs and what Nankya gained from it 12:29 - Advice for people going through layoffs 14:46 - Building and nurturing relationships 18:23 - What Salesforce is, training, 21:49 - What the Dreamforce event was like 24:04 - Salesforce training 26:26 - Motivation for starting a consulting business 29:25 - Working with a career coach 32:36 - Mindset in consulting vs. working for one client or company 35:34 - How Nankya learned the business side of consulting 37:47 - Advice on taking the next step in your career 38:54 - Closing out the episode ------ 🎙️My Career Journey is a podcast that highlights different career paths, tackles tough topics, and shares actionable tips and insights. Hosted by Emily Banzhaf and Allegra Montanari. ------ 🎧 Listen on all major podcast platforms 📺 Subscribe on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@MyCareerJourneyPod] ✍️ Subscribe on Substack [https://substack.com/@mycareerjourneypod] 📸 Follow on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mycareerjourneypod/]

Deep dive: Personal branding | My Career Journey

Learn how hosts Emily Banzhaf and Allegra Montanari approach personal branding. They talk about what it is, the biggest mistakes people make, how they define and how people know their personal brands, how they’ve navigated rebranding themselves in different points in their lives, and much more. ------ Highlights from this episode include: 0:00 - Intro 1:51 - Did you know - Facts we found while researching 2:54 - How we define personal branding 6:38 - Biggest mistakes people make with personal branding 13:01 - How we define our personal brands 14:50 - How people know our brands 20:15 - How we’ve navigated rebranding ourselves in different points in our lives 24:26 - Final advice and closing ------ 🎙️My Career Journey is a podcast that highlights different career paths, tackles tough topics, and shares actionable tips and insights. Hosted by Emily Banzhaf and Allegra Montanari. ------ 🎧 Listen on all major podcast platforms 📺 Subscribe on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@MyCareerJourneyPod] ✍️ Subscribe on Substack [https://substack.com/@mycareerjourneypod] 📸 Follow on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mycareerjourneypod/]

Interview prep guide | Now on Substack! | My Career Journey

Check out our interview prep guide, now available on Substack [https://open.substack.com/pub/mycareerjourneypod/p/interview-prep-guide-my-career-journey?r=7x9845&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true]! In the guide, you'll find: * Our simple 4-step approach to interview prep * How to organize your interview prep information * What to research before the interview * Where to find the information * Questions to prepare for * Questions you can ask interviewers * Prompts to help you write stories from your experience * A storytelling framework * Ways to practice interviewing And much more! ------ Here are the links to the deep dive episode this guide is based on: Podcast [https://rss.com/podcasts/my-career-journey/2431677] YouTube [https://youtu.be/T7ltsE7o4UY] ------ 🎙️My Career Journey is a podcast that highlights different career paths, tackles tough topics, and shares actionable tips and insights. Hosted by Emily Banzhaf and Allegra Montanari. ------ 🎧 Listen on all major podcast platforms 📺 Subscribe on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@MyCareerJourneyPod] ✍️ Subscribe on Substack [https://substack.com/@mycareerjourneypod] 📸 Follow on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mycareerjourneypod/]

Deep dive: Mentorship | My Career Journey

Learn how hosts Emily Banzhaf and Allegra Montanari think about and approach mentorship. They cover what mentorship is, myths about mentorship, when to look for mentorship, what to look for in a mentor, how to find and reach out to mentors, signs a mentor may not be a good fit, what successful mentorship looks like, and much more. ------ Highlights from this episode include: 0:00 - Intro 1:02 - Did you know - interesting facts we found while researching 1:50 - What mentorship means to us 3:38 - Mentorship myths 5:56 - When we look for mentorship 7:39 - What we look for in a mentor 9:04 - How we’ve found mentors 10:21 - How we reach out to mentors 13:02 - How often we connect with mentors 14:38 - Who’s responsibility it is to drive the mentorship 15:20 - Signs a mentor may not be a good fit 16:27 - Bad mentorship experiences 19:26 - What a successful mentorship looks like 20:48 - Our mentorship experiences 23:47 - Learnings from being mentors 27:37 - Advice and closing ------ 🎙️My Career Journey is a podcast that highlights different career paths, tackles tough topics, and shares actionable tips and insights. Hosted by Emily Banzhaf and Allegra Montanari. ------ 🎧 Listen on all major podcast platforms 📺 Subscribe on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@MyCareerJourneyPod] ✍️ Subscribe on Substack [https://substack.com/@mycareerjourneypod] 📸 Follow on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mycareerjourneypod/]

From nursing to conversation design | My Career Journey

Guest Marlinda Galapon has worked for some of the biggest companies in the world, including Yahoo, Salesforce, and Zendesk. However, the path to getting there wasn’t easy. She originally started in nursing and then realized that’s not what she wanted to do. So she dropped out and worked a mix of contract and odd jobs until she found a full-time job in tech as a conversation designer. It took her about 5 years to get where she wanted to go, but once she knew what she wanted to do, she never gave up. In the episode, Marlinda goes deep and talks about the impact of having an associate’s degree, navigating imposter syndrome, how she handles networking and putting herself out there as an introvert, what odd jobs she’s worked, the importance of mentorship and community, and much more. ------ Highlights from the episode include: 0:00 - Episode intro 2:06 - Marlinda’s career journey 5:29 - Self-consciousness about having an associate’s degree 7:15 - Paths into conversation design 8:57 - Motivation to keep pursuing conversation design 10:10 - Odd jobs in between contract jobs 14:47 - Navigating imposter syndrome 19:18 - Putting yourself out there as an introvert 22:08 - Navigating networking as an introvert 24:51 - Mentorship 27:25 - The feeling of not belonging in certain spaces and how to overcome that 29:53 - Finding community 31:25 - Keeping the joy alive in your career 32:12 - Advice for people considering a career change 34:27 - Closing out the episode ------ 🎙️My Career Journey is a podcast that highlights different career paths, tackles tough topics, and shares actionable tips and insights. Hosted by Emily Banzhaf and Allegra Montanari. ------ 🎧 Listen on all major podcast platforms 📺 Subscribe on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@MyCareerJourneyPod] 📸 Follow on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mycareerjourneypod/]