Career Buzz

From Actors to Writers and from Grips to Graphic Designers, work in entertainment has a lot of variability which affects careers, lives, lifestyle and even mental health. With all these ups and downs, how can Entertainment professionals stay resilient in their careers? One answer is finding alternative income-generating activities in the face of work inconsistency.   In partnership with ⁠The AFC⁠, the lifeline for Canada’s entertainment industry, CareerCycles is pleased to offer this special series of our Career Buzz podcast, featuring success stories of Entertainment Community Professionals who found alternative income-generating activities. In this episode of Career Buzz, in partnership with The AFC, we hear from Tony Nappo: Tony Nappo has been painting houses longer than he’s been an actor, and says they’re both a craft. Giving someone a quote is just like an audition. Show up, do a good job, be a good person to work with. If you have any comments on this episode, please email mark@careercycles.com    Subscribe to Career Buzz and find it at ⁠https://careercycles.com/career-buzz-podcast/⁠

From Actors to Writers and from Grips to Graphic Designers, work in entertainment has a lot of variability which affects careers, lives, lifestyle and even mental health. With all these ups and downs, how can Entertainment professionals stay resilient in their careers? One answer is finding alternative income-generating activities in the face of work inconsistency.   In partnership with ⁠The AFC⁠, the lifeline for Canada’s entertainment industry, CareerCycles is pleased to offer this special series of our Career Buzz podcast, featuring success stories of Entertainment Community Professionals who found alternative income-generating activities. In this episode of Career Buzz, in partnership with The AFC, we hear from Birgitte Solem: Birgitte, an actor, also works as a coach and facilitator. Her work focuses on Professional Development in Leadership, Communication, Presentation, and Media Training. If you have any comments on this episode, please email mark@careercycles.com    Subscribe to Career Buzz and find it at ⁠https://careercycles.com/career-buzz-podcast/⁠

From Actors to Writers and from Grips to Graphic Designers, work in entertainment has a lot of variability which affects careers, lives, lifestyle and even mental health. With all these ups and downs, how can Entertainment professionals stay resilient in their careers? One answer is finding alternative income-generating activities in the face of work inconsistency.   In partnership with The AFC, the lifeline for Canada’s entertainment industry, CareerCycles is pleased to offer this special series of our Career Buzz podcast, featuring success stories of Entertainment Community Professionals who found alternative income-generating activities. In this episode of Career Buzz, in partnership with The AFC, we hear from Rex Hagon:  An actor and director, Rex developed a side career as an executive coach and trainer. He uses his transferable skills in communication and presence and “holding a room,” in his work with business leaders.  If you have any comments on this episode, please email mark@careercycles.com  Subscribe to Career Buzz and find it at https://careercycles.com/career-buzz-podcast/

From Actors to Writers and from Grips to Graphic Designers, work in entertainment has a lot of variability which affects careers, lives, lifestyle and even mental health. With all these ups and downs, how can Entertainment professionals stay resilient in their careers? One answer is finding alternative income-generating activities in the face of work inconsistency.   In partnership with The AFC, the lifeline for Canada’s entertainment industry, CareerCycles is pleased to offer this special series of our Career Buzz podcast, featuring success stories of Entertainment Community Professionals who found alternative income-generating activities. In this episode of Career Buzz, in partnership with The AFC, we hear from Jenny Young: Jenny, an actor, writer and producer, also leads a Toronto shoeshine company, Penny Loafers Shoe Shine. She hires people from the film and tv industry to work as shoe shiners so they can earn extra money.  If you have any comments on this episode, please email mark@careercycles.com    Subscribe to Career Buzz and find it at ⁠https://careercycles.com/career-buzz-podcast/⁠

Landscaping is a lot harder than lawn care. Stephen Armstrong of Innovation Nation brings an entrepreneurial story of a father and son partnership that started from a local landscaping and construction company. Their first product was a wheelbarrow with an engine and now some of the equipment they sell weighs over 12000 pounds. His guest, Mahmoud Hudra shares how he utilized transferable skills from his career journey to build Mammoth Machinery, an international enterprise empowering Canadian construction businesses to improve efficiency.

Follow Mammoth Machinery @ https://www.instagram.com/mammothmachineryinc/ https://www.facebook.com/Mammothmachineryca/

Honest feedback built on trust can motivate us to keep going and help us grow. Dr Hoda Kilani is joined by Jo Ayoubi, CEO and co-founder of Track Surveys, who shares valuable information on 360 Degree Feedback, what it means and why you should care about the process. Jo clarifies its value to both job seekers and career coaches. In the second half of the episode, Dave Crumby, Founder of 360 Talent Solutions and Sheffield Talent Solutions, builds on Jo’s work and shares important insights about the reasons companies are using what he likes to call 360 Talent Solutions. Listen, learn and join Hoda in her journey as she raises Career Literacy one interview at a time.

Film and television careers have times of feast and famine. In the Fall of 2023, the US Actors Strike continues. Many people in both film and TV, in both the US and Canada find themselves in a serious reduction in work income. How can film and TV professionals stay resilient in their careers? In this episode, Mark Franklin speaks with actors who have diversified their careers with transferable skills. Listen to Jenny Young's career story of running her own shoe shine company, Penny Loafers Shoe Shine. In the second half, Canadian actor and television host Rex Hagon, talks about his side career as a coach and trainer.

20-35% of people age 65 and above fall at least once a year. In this episode of Innovation Nation on Career Buzz, Stephen Armstrong meets with guest Geoff Fernie, scientist, professor and CEO of Hygienic Echo. They explore biomedical engineering, a relatively new field that merges concepts in engineering, to solve a wide and diverse array of problems tied to human health for everyday issues, like the reduction of falls more common growing into old age.

Dr Hoda Kilani is joined by Martin Buckland who introduces us to the concept of coopetition and shares some branding advice as well as networking tips for introverts. Next, Dr Natascha Saunders joins Hoda sharing her inspirational story and the value of having a vision that is supported by mentors. Listen, learn and join Hoda in her journey as she raises Career Literacy one interview at a time.

Next month is Domestic Violence Awareness month. Erica Mattison speaks with Maria Duffy, who serves as the director of development at REACH, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization that provides survivors of domestic violence with safety, shelter, and a path to healing. Their community-based approach promotes healthy relationships, fosters collaboration, and empowers community members to be agents of change.

Prior to joining the staff in 2022, Maria volunteered for the organization for two years. She is responsible for strategizing and implementing a fundraising plan focusing on individual donors, corporate giving, foundation grants, fundraising events, and special campaigns. She supervises the four-member development staff and is a member of the senior management team. Maria was formerly the assistant director of development at REACH and the annual giving manager of The Children’s Room, a Massachusetts-based bereavement nonprofit.

REACH’s website: https://reachma.org/ and 24/7 hotline number: 800-899-4000.

https://www.facebook.com/reachma 

https://www.instagram.com/reach_bdv/ 

http://www.twitter.com/reach_ma 

Erica: @ericamattison on IG and Twitter ; https://www.facebook.com/EricaMattisonCoachingConsulting LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericamattison/ 

Mentorship develops self awareness, a valuable trait when it comes to career development. Join Dr. Hoda Kilani as she raises Career Literacy with Life and Success Coach, Lametra Off who shares her dream and the reasons she values mentorship to fulfil a dream. In the second half of the episode, transformational executive coach and entrepreneur, Jared Bull, reminds us that if we see value in the work we do, then we should not be shy about talking about it.

In this episode of Innovation Nation on Career Buzz with Stephen Armstrong, the topics of housing, career and employment are covered when he meets again with Bob Duff, the executive director of St. Simon's Shelter in downtown Toronto. Bob Duff revisits his personal story and career trajectory from Bay street family man, to homelessness, to becoming a tireless front-line worker with the downtown homeless population.

In this week's episode, host Mark Franklin has a conversation with Michelle and Olivier Wagner about traveling freely while working remotely. They explore the idea of workcation and being digital nomads, a way to reconcile work and leisure to design the life that we want. Many countries worldwide have created special digital nomad visas to allow people to stay and work longer than regular visitor visas. Canada announced its own digital nomad visa program in the summer of 2023. 

What’s life like as a digital nomad? How do you get started? Michelle and Olivier Wagner have lived and worked in dozens of countries. Olivier is the CEO and U.S. tax expert of 1040 Abroad. He is also the author of the recently published Amazon Bestselling book, U.S. Taxes for Worldly Americans. Michelle is a director of finance for a Canadian organization.

Dr. Hoda Kilani is raising Career Literacy one interview at a time. In today’s episode, founder of The Wright Career Solution, Daisy Wright, shares her immigrant experience and provides career advice to new immigrants. Hoda is also joined by Career Transition Coach, Massimo Roselli, talking about the value of self-awareness, his understanding of consciousness coaching along with some career transition tips.

In this episode, Erica Mattison interviews with artist, entertainer, and restaurant manager, Ivanna Melay. 

How do people become tattoo artists? There are careers that require formal education, then there are careers like tattoo artist where the path is less structured, more colourful and storied. These stories often have their protagonists watching for clues and finding mentors, and taking inspired action to create opportunities. That’s the reality for this episode's guests, Omri Amar and Connor Yearwood. After working in 24 tattoo shops around the world, Omri Amar founded and leads Collingwood Tattoo Company in Collingwood, Ontario. Connor Yearwood is one of the tattoo artists who learned from Omri at Collingwood Tattoo parlour, and has been a contractor there and at TCB Tattoo parlour in Toronto.  

When the pandemic hit, job losses quickly followed. So, if you were in recruiting and staffing, business wasn't good. That’s what happened to Marc Belaiche and his team at TorontoJobs. So they took some of their downtime to plan and pivot. The resulting site, Guhuza.com, may just be the Uber of the recruiting and staffing sector. It’s a system that matches jobs to job seekers and streamlines the lengthy recruiting process from weeks to days. Listen to this episode to hear from president and co-founder of TorontoJobs and Guhuza, Marc Belaiche.

Dance across time with the unique career story of dancer, entrepreneur, body builder and rehabilitation therapist, Kristin Haight. At a critical turning point Kirstin accessed career counselling to help her identify her key skills and interests, link them to career possibilities and help her make a well informed choice.

She’s made many choices. After a lengthy career as a professional dancer in Winnipeg, mentored by the dance trailblazer Rachel Browne, a foot injury led Kristin to her first career change. Since then she’s made diverse career choices that have led her into Filmmaking, personal training, dance instructing, body building and now, into rehab therapy. She was even named Ms. Figure Manitoba in 2019. Of these many twists and turns and career choices, Kristin says “Any decision I’ve made has come true.” She now works at a rehabilitation therapy assistant which she calls “soul filling work”. There’s much to learn in this interview with Kirstin Haight.

Kirstin Haight on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-haight-a69406b3/

Kristin received career counselling through her connection to Dancer Transition Resource Centre https://dtrc.ca/  She accessed career counselling by CareerCycles https://careercycles.com/

Kristin learned personal training here https://manitobafitnesscouncil.ca/

Life and times of dance icon, and Kristin’s mentor, Rachel Browne https://rachelbrowne.org/

Kristin worked on this film about dance icon Rachel Browne https://agoodmadness.com/

Kristin danced this solo choreographed by Rachel Browne https://vimeo.com/128929304

Kristin’s personal training site https://www.fluidmuscle.com/

Kristin studied Rehab Therapy Assistant program at CDI https://www.cdicollege.ca/study-on-campus/manitoba/programs-by-campus/winnipeg/rehabilitation-therapy-assistant/

Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where Kristin works  https://hsc.mb.ca/

Our interviewer, Hoda Kilani, is a Certified Professional Career Coach and Founder of Right Career Fit. Find Hoda’s career info on Youtube and Soundcloud and Linkedin.

After being shot at, threatened at gunpoint and rattled by having to catch drug runners, Robert High decided to change careers. He left the US Coast Guard and began a new career chapter as a private yacht boat captain. Hear Robert High’s fascinating career story, and take a tour of the 150 foot Cabernet yacht in the second half of today’s show.

The previous episode with John Hogan led interviewer, Mark Franklin, to think about what the public and listeners might not know about accessing career help. Career professionals often fly below the radar screen of most people. Angie Bjornson, CareerCycles associate, joined to chat about how and why people can benefit from a career professional. Like many career professionals who have previous work experience, Angie has a human resources background, and has been a career professional and senior associate CareerCycles for over 10 years.

On this episode we hear from Julie Lau, who is the Director of Engineering and Business & Operational Excellence at Chemtrade, which is an industrial chemical company based in Toronto with operations all over North America and Brazil.  Julie generously joined the career management class that host Mark Franklin teaches at University of Toronto. You’ll also hear from attentive students in the class who posed some helpful questions toward the end of the segment.

Dr. Hoda Kilani is raising Career Literacy one interview at a time. On a recent episode of Hoda’s Career Info, she interviewed Devon Turcotte owner of Careerified. purpose of changing the career conversation, and JP Michel, founder of SparkPath, creator of Challenge Cards

Our interviewer, Hoda Kilani, is a Certified Professional Career Coach and Founder of Right Career Fit. Find Hoda’s career info on Youtube and Soundcloud and Linkedin.

Dr. Hoda Kilani is raising Career Literacy one interview at a time. On a recent episode of Hoda’s Career Info, she interviewed Mike Bird and Cathy Ginsberg.

Our interviewer, Hoda Kilani, is a Certified Professional Career Coach and Founder of Right Career Fit. Find Hoda’s career info on Youtube and Soundcloud and Linkedin.

Interested in career counselling for you or someone you care about? Here’s how to get started.

What do you do if you in a job transition and finding yourself isolated and unsure what to do next? Well if you’re lucky enough to find a job search group like the one led by Janet Glover-Kerkvliet you’re in good shape. Under her leadership, the Baltimore Job Hunters Support Group has helped over 1000 people find jobs and a sense of community.

Her connection to offering career support runs deep, with a unique childhood connection to her father’s career story. But before Janet found the work she loves – now as a clinical counselor & career coach – she had a circuitous career arc starting with her fascination with biological parasites and leading to writing for the National Institutes of Health.

Mark Franklin has personally known Janet for a few years when she trained at OneLifeTools, as they share a common interest in alternative and narrative tools to support career changers. 

You browse through countless options on Netflix, unable to commit to watching any given show—and losing so much time skimming reviews and considering trailers that it’s too late to watch anything. In a book borne of an idea first articulated in a viral commencement address, Pete Davis argues that this is the defining characteristic of the moment: keeping our options open. Pete talks about being stuck in “Infinite Browsing Mode”—  jumping from place to place searching for the next big thing, and refusing to make any decision that might close us off from an even better choice we imagine is just around the corner. This culture of restlessness and indecision, Pete Davis argues, is causing tension in the lives of young people today: who want to keep options open, and yet yearn for the purpose, community, and depth that can only come from making deep commitments.

Host of Career Buzz, Mark Franklin, read Pete Davis’s book - Dedicated, The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing – and felt like he had to interview Pete for Career Buzz. It’s a book for life, but also, a career book. In it he talks about the counterculture of committers who have made it to the other side of infinite browsing. He shares what we can learn from “long-haul heroes” who courageously commit themselves to particular places, professions, and causes.  His book and hopefully this interview is an inspiring and transformative argument that purposeful commitment can be a powerful force in our age of restlessness and indecision.

Our interviewer, Hoda Kilani, is a Certified Professional Career Coach and Founder of Right Career Fit. Find Hoda’s career info on Youtube and Soundcloud and Linkedin.

Interested in career counselling for you or someone you care about? Here's how to get started.

How can you be productive, especially while Working From Home? What are good routines, scheduling, and planning, space management? Today’s guest, Lucas Root, is a speaker and consultant, author and entrepreneur, and a podcaster. He’s led teams on Wall Street and has consulted with clients from Wells Fargo to Pokeman. Lucas authored the WORKING FROM HOME MASTERY COURSE. 

On this episode we listen to Hoda’s career info.

David is the creator and host of the Lead. Learn. Change. podcast, and author of a book by the same title.

He currently runs point for the Impact Project at the Professional Association of Georgia Educators. He is a former public-school teacher and administrator.

You can also watch the podcast Hoda’s Career Info on YouTube youtu.be/9AQjImzBG_o

On this episode we listen to Hoda’s career info.

Winner of provincial and national awards in career development, Dr Dave Redekopp is the president of Life-Role Development Group Limited. He has devoted over thirty years to the development of better career development and workplace concepts and practices. His work has addressed a wide arrange of issues in both career development and leadership, from helping at-risk teens manage their career paths to developing leaders in the corporate world. Dave has been privileged to be invited to work in almost all Canadian provinces and territories and in a number of countries. His passion for career and leadership development pervades his work, which includes teaching, facilitation, public speaking, product development and research.

Here are the topics we discussed in this episode
1. Clarifying “follow your passion”
2. Dr Dave's book that he co-authored with Michael Huston - Strengthening Mental Health Through Effective Career Development: A Practitioner’s Guide.
3. Value of coping skills in career
4. Career Development Competency Program

You can also watch the podcast Hoda's Career Info on YouTube
youtu.be/9AQjImzBG_o

You can contact Dr. Jim Bright on Bright and Associates Career Solutions' website
www.brightandassociates.com.a...
You can also find him on LinkedIn & Twitter.

Please remember that you can watch Hoda’s Career Info on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceGc1Fbqx94

This show is a little different. We focus on career literacy on Hoda’s career info channel. 

Dr Hoda Kilani’s project is Raising Career Literacy Awareness One Interview At A Time. Hoda’s a Certified Professional Career Coach and President and Founder of Right Career Fit.

Hoda’s Career Info focuses on interviewing experts in the Career Development field who will share with you a specific project they are working on or talk about their expertise. Her purpose is to increase awareness about the importance of career literacy and the role that career professionals can play in supporting you to career success.

Listen to episode 11 - if you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

After a few years working in technical sales, Steve Petryschuk needed help reevaluating his career and deciding on next steps. So he hired a career counsellor and found it was practical, helpful and an investment in his future. He decided to leave his job and join a fast growing startup called Auvik where he’s progressed through roles as a director of solutions engineering, and now forecasts the future as director of product strategy. 

Do you love being outside and being among the trees? Working with your hands? Seeing tangible results?  Then consider working as an arborist. In the second part of today’s show we chat with arborist Cindy Myall while she’s on a job taking down a black mulberry tree. But first...

Roads, highways, bridges, parking lots. What does it take to bring these projects to life? Today we talk to a project manager with a construction company about what it takes and what it’s like working as a project manager. I interviewed Suchit Chanana from the Miller group in front of a live audience in the Engineering Careers course I teach to grad students at the University of Toronto. You’ll hear their questions too.

On this episode of CareerBuzz, the hosts get together for the Ride the Airwaves Fall Fundraising Campaign broadcasted by CIUT.fm. Hosts Stephen Armstrong, Shellie Deloyer, and Mark Franklin each take some time to bring up powerful moments from past shows.

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