Career Coach

Episode 181: When Did You Realize Your Behavior is a Choice?

Stories of Self-Transformation Through Emotional Intelligence

"Who are you? I don't even know you!"

A friend of Teresa Quinlan witnessed a different person when they visited her family. Around her mother Teresa regressed to a surly teenager, and that was her friend's reaction.

Episode 153: Humans are Complicated! Stories of Life, Discovery, and Ambition

"People's lives are largely a product of the decisions they make."

The theme throughout this conversation is self-reflection. When we understand ourselves, and can reflect on how we're showing up to the people and environment around us, we can make decisions in alignment with our ideals, our ideal vision of who we want to be and how we want to be.

Episode 148: Your Stories Don't Define You. How You Tell Them Will

This week’s episode of the podcast is a sneak peek of the audiobook, Your Stories Don’t Define You, How You Tell Them Will, to be released in mid-November. For a limited time, the ebook is just $0.99!

As a special bonus for listeners, the book will include two songs recorded by my band, Spare Change, in my living room in Montana. Keep an eye out for announcements through LinkedIn and via my Elkins Consulting Facebook & Instagram pages, or visit my website to learn more.

Episode 135: Obstacles Can Be the Key to Building Resilience and Self Love

It's not unusual to have a "Series of Unfortunate Events" in our lives, those multiple years of trauma, grief, and struggle, that can either make us bitter, or help us develop resilience in a positive way, to become even more compassionate toward others.

Kerrian Fournier went through two of those phases, once in her early career, and again years later.

Episode 108: Real Change Requires the Right "Gear", Creating the Right Environment, and Celebrating Small Wins

I’ve been thinking a lot about motivation, habit, and successful, sustainable changes in both. On The Hidden Brain, an NPR radio show, I heard a researcher talking about the fact that successfully developing strong habits like everyday workouts and healthy eating isn’t a result of better self-control or motivation, it comes from developing the habits themselves.

Episode 104: Truly Effective Leadership Begins with Self-Reflection

Rajkumari Neogy loved her job, but couldn’t shake the feeling of being excluded. As a leader in the organization, it was difficult to pinpoint where that feeling of dissatisfaction and exclusion was coming from because she had a great boss and an engaged team, but something just wasn’t right.

Episode 103: Good Career Advice Might Not Be What You Think

When Eddie Wilders graduated from high school, all he knew was that he wanted to go to college. He didn’t know which college, or what programs he would be interested in, but he knew he wanted to be the first in his family to get a degree and do something different.