Livelihood Show

Ernie Urquhart, built a career by making choices, not waiting to be chosen. And when he found his path hidden by unplanned and unexpected events, he found a way to continue to tell his personal career path story. Ernie's a role model for the facing the truth and finding the personal meaning inside the story. Learn more about Urquhart's story by listening to this week's podcast!

Join our conversation this week with Drew Borsz, whose career path took him outside the usual business world. Imagine this as your resume: Special Forces Green Beret. Senior Noncommissioned Officer/Senior Communications Sergeant on an "A Team" in the Middle East.

In order to build a successful and satisfying personal career path, we need to be paying attention. What's going on around me? How am I doing? What do I want? Adam Liss, has some very useful skills for figuring out "what's next". Adam teaches the skills of mindfulness, which has been defined as paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally. To learn more listen to this informative show.

Are you stuck in a rut? Are you unhappy in your job? So are a majority of employees, even those who feel fortunate to have a job. This week our Livelihood host Marcy Rosenbaum and guest Zen Master Bon Soeng (Jeff Kitzes) discuss what you can do when you feel you're living someone else's plan for your life. Enjoy this week's inspirational show.

Michael Dobson's career path includes Dungeons and Dragons; the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum; and the creation of the Good Samaritan Medal. Michael talks about how he started with a deck of skills that included writing, theater, and project management played that hand in a variety of different settings.

What do you do when you don't know what to do? Rex Knowles and Sherry Landrum have an answer to the question. How do they know this? They teach the skills of improvisation. To improvise is to produce or make something from whatever is available. It is the art of experiencing, reacting and creating, in the moment, and in response to the stimulus of your environment and your own inner feelings. To learn more about this tune into this week's podcast.

Livelihoods can be achieved by a paycheck from a company, and from running a business. This week, our guest is Larry Powell from San Antonio,Texas. He has experience as an employee– his most recent corporate role was Vice President of Human Resources at the Psychology Corporation in San Antonio, Texas. He also has experience as a business owner and, most recently as a "matchmaker" between individuals and franchise organizations. To learn more have a listen to his podcast.

"How's work going for you these days?" Psychologist Barry Nierenberg, is a professor who runs the Study Center for Positive Psychology at Nova Southeastern University. Positive psychology is the science of well-being. You don't have to wait around to be 'empowered'—you can make well-being is an essential personal performance objective whether you work for someone else or you have your own business. Dr. Nierenberg reveals an innovative set of benchmarks which give us a map to increase our confidence; orient us to our sense of purpose; and deepen our relationships. This new research gives us the tools for making good things better and bad things less frustrating. The "how of happiness", Dr. Nierenberg believes, helps us become more successful navigators on our personal career journey. He invites us to look at our professional lives and assess: What exactly am I doing well? What specifically brings me satisfaction? What can I do to make an unfulfilling work environment more satisfying? What can I do to make an unhappy work environment less toxic? Your greatest opportunities emerge at the intersection of your expertise, your purpose and marketplace opportunities. Each week you'll find ways to discover your essential strengths; define your personal mission; and discover the market niches that need your products and services. Get inspired and find ideas, resources and insights to help you navigate your personal career path.

This week on Livelihood Show, host Marcy Rosenbaum presents a career navigation strategy that rides change instead of trying to manage it. This week's introduction to the Livelihood Show interview of Marcy Rosenbaum was conducted by Anna Drezen, an actor, writer and producer living in New York City. She interviewed Marcy using an adaptation of the famous Proust questionnaire featured by James Lipton on Inside the Actors' Studio….

Many of us should be getting to work and live in a new category of the workforce called "the creative class." Today's guest, Robert Fass, is one of more than 40 million Americans, over a third of our national workforce, who create for a living. The idea of the creative class was first presented by author, Richard Florida in his national bestseller, The Rise of the Creative Class, and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life.

Jeremy Houghton is a trained chef. Some of his favorite culinary experiences have been in Alaska and New Mexico where he has cooked bear, antelope, elk and moose. He wanted something more. He decided to go back to graduate school—studying wine and earning level two certification as a sommelier.

This is the high season in South Beach Florida, and we revel in the festivals that take advantage of our sunshine and mild winter weather.  Last week's event was the South Beach Wine and Food Festival.  We attended the festival and met up there Dean Mike Hampton.  He's the Dean of Florida International University's Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management.

Peggy Bass was growing up, her passion for horses was a completely unexpected event in her family. She didn't grow up on a farm, or on a ranch. Her love of horses launched her personal career path. 

Consumers seek affordable luxuries even as they trim their budgets elsewhere. Food entrepreneurs are paying attention, and the recent Good Food Festival in Chicago brought together thousands of growers, chefs, marketing companies, buyers and consumers.

In contemporary work settings, people and dogs are finding new work related partnerships. Specially trained service dogs make it possible to pursue a livelihood despite a disability that impacts mood or mobility. 

Meet Dennis Kalodish and Alicia Chipy who train and partner with therapy dogs. Therapy dogs are professional visitors, making their rounds in hospitals, nursing homes and rehab centers. Dennis Kalodish parleyed his love for golden retrievers into a project in which he trains and certifies them to become "everyone's pet" in nursing home visitors.. and even to serve as library reading partners. Dennis trains dogs through Therapy Dogs International. Please give a listen to this week's interesting episode.

For many couples, the bond they have with their pets turns out to be more enduring than the one they made with their spouse or domestic partner. When a couple breaks up, what becomes of their dog, cat, horse or rabbit? If courts and attorneys get involved, the only certainties are high stress and high cost.

According to a recent report by the BMO Retirement Institute, 61% of Americans own a pet. Of these pet 'owners", 87% consider pets to be a "family member", and 77% feel it's important to make arrangements for their ongoing care in the event that their pet outlives them.  But surveys show that only one-third of pet owners have actually made some kind of estate planning provision for them.

How would you know if the contact for your next great opportunity happened to be living across the street? How would someone who is looking for someone just like you realize that you are sitting just two tables away at Starbucks?

Kat Albrecht was an experienced police officer, cross trained in search and rescue procedures. One day her partner—a bloodhound named A.J. —went missing. He wasn't "just a dog"- with years of training and experience, he was a valuable asset to the search and rescue team. Anyone who has partnered with a working dog, and anyone who has bonded with a pet as a member of their family, knows that the connection between people and their animals is strong.