Girlfriend We Gotta Talk

Keys to Plan B as an Entrepreneur

All month our guests have offered great ideas for reinventing your career, including Marina Spence, author of “Make Every Day a Friday”; Dr. Kristin Cardinale, author of “The 9-to-5 Cure” and Kerry Hannon, author of “What’s Next? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job.”  It has really been invigorating! 

Today is no exception because we’re talking Grace Keohohou, co-founder of the Direct Selling Women’s Alliance and author of Build it Big. 

Grace knows the keys to creating a successful Plan B by becoming an entrepreneur.  Through her speaking, writing and educational programs she has inspired and trained entrepreneurs in more than 30 countries about building a successful career in direct selling.  We can’t wait to hear her strategies about entrepreneurial success!

What’s Next for Your Career

Whether you are loving your current job, hating your daily grind, or feeling frustrated from being laid off, it’s very likely that you are wondering what’s next for your career.  Knowing you want to move from Plan A to Plan B is one thing.  Having a road map to do it is another thing altogether.

So, we talked with GPS career gal Kerry Hannon, author of What’s Next?  Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job.  As a career transition, personal finance, and retirement expert, Kerry contributes regularly to USA Today and SecondAct.com, as well as ABC News, CNBC, and CNN, among many others.  We want to get her advice on the biggest roadblock to making a career change and how to get over it, how to figure out your passion, what preparation you should do to make a major career change, and more!

 

The 9-to-5 Cure

Remember the 1980's movie "Working 9 to 5" with Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda?  "Workin' nine to five, what a way to make a livin'..."

At a time when unemployment figures are dismal and job dissatisfaction is soaring, people are hungry for a solution that will revive their career and invigorate their passion.  According to Dr. Kristin Cardinale, there’s a problem mindset preventing people from achieving these goals:  They’re too dependent on traditional nine-to-five jobs.

Today on Girlfriend We Gotta Talk radio show, we talked with Dr. Cardinale, author of the just-released book The 9-to-5 Cure: Work on Your Town Terms and Reinvent Your Life about why she believes working a traditional job is a “problem” and how to go from despondent full-time employee to happily fully employed.  We loved her insights and her two-part strategy of Life Style Design and Patchworking.  You gotta listen!

     

Make Every Day a Friday!

Between increased layoffs, workplace tension, decreased revenue and more, many girlfriends are wondering what to do with their careers.  That’s why our theme this month is “Plan B For Your Career.”  We’ve got some create guests lined up to give you ideas for reinventing your career.

TODAY’S RADIO SHOW

What if every day felt like Friday?  Wouldn’t that be fab?  Marina Spence, author of Make Every Day a Friday:  The Joy of Connecting Who You Are With What You Do, says it’s possible.  Marina developed a stress-free system when she felt trapped in a Wall Street career that she no longer enjoyed.  We talked with Marina about how to make every day a Friday and her three “inner-keys” to career change.