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The End of Career Crossroads
Career Crossroads - December 20, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAll good things must come to an end. It's been a wonderful journey over the last 3+ years but today marks the end of Career Crossroads. In this final episode of the podcast, I discuss why I'm saying goodbye and thank those who have helped me make it this far. ___________________ You can find C...
Mike Fernandes - Leaving his YouTube Career Behind for a shot at Student Affairs
Career Crossroads - December 13, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#100 - Like most kids, Mike developed his musical tastes as a teenager. He liked a wide range of bands and one day decided to try and mash up a couple of his favorite songs and publish the mix on YouTube. That simple action had a much bigger impact than Mike ever could have predicted. It was the...
Career Coach Conversations with Betty Xie
Career Crossroads - December 04, 2023 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#99 – As Betty Xie headed toward post-secondary education, she had a plan: study math because that would lead her to a good job. The closer she got to starting classes, the more she realized that while that was practical and she had a talent for it, she wasn’t actually interested in math and the...
Matt Cooksey – How A Breakdown Led Him To The Perfect Career
Career Crossroads - October 20, 2023 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#98 - Matt Cooksey ended up in his first career because he was following a family member's footsteps, and it took him almost a decade to realize he wasn't happy. He was always chasing something - more money or a promotion - that would make him happy, right? It wasn't until he unexpectedly broke...
Stephanie Chan - Leaving Law Behind to Help the Elderly
Career Crossroads - August 17, 2023 16:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#97 - Getting a law degree and passing the bar is quite the task, so it's not often people go through all that work only to leave their law career behind. That's what makes Stephanie Chan such an anomaly - she did exactly that. Today, I talk to Stephanie about how why she left law behind and wha...
Mike Gallagher – Taking his Creativity from Film to the World of Marketing
Career Crossroads - July 31, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#96 - As Mike Gallagher spent his teenage years filming his friends skateboarding around the Metro Vancouver area, someone took notice. A high school teacher recognized Mike’s aptitude for film and developed an independent study course that allowed Mike free reign over the school’s media equipme...
Collision Conference 2023 Interviews - Chatting with Tech Founders Who Changed Their Careers
Career Crossroads - July 17, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#95 – When you go to a tech conference like Collision, you might expect that all the founders attending to showcase their companies have deep roots in the tech industry, My experience at Collision, however, shows me that is not always the case. In this episode, you’ll head my conversations with...
Kelvin Beachum - NFL Offensive Lineman and Investor
Career Crossroads - July 10, 2023 09:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#94 - This week’s guest on Career Crossroads is Kelvin Beachum, a professional football player who plays left tackle for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. As an 11-season veteran who has played in over 150 NFL games, you might think that Kelvin lives and breathes football bu...
Academic Crossroads with Sam Demma
Career Crossroads - July 03, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#93 – When Sam Demma started his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto Scarborough it didn’t take long for him to realize that while he might be in the right place, he was there at the wrong time. Had he put enough thought into his programs of study? Was he just going to school becau...
Career Coach Conversations with Soma Ghosh
Career Crossroads - June 26, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#92 - When clients come to Soma Ghosh to help them with their careers, they often want support in getting out of an untenable situation. As a Career Coach Soma can certainly help them move to a new job but if there are unaddressed underlying issues outside of their 9-5 they may end up feeling th...
Dan Chan – From PayPal Mafia to Magician for Millionaires
Career Crossroads - June 19, 2023 04:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#91 – Every good magician has a stage name and Dan Chan is known as ‘The Millionaire’s Mentalist’. He has earned that name after a career of performing at events for wealthy tech moguls from companies like Twitter and Amazon but when he was first starting out he was making balloon animals at chi...
Chronicling Career Crossroads - New Format Success and Fighting Burnout
Career Crossroads - June 05, 2023 22:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#90 – Today’s episode of the podcast isn’t an interview- it’s just you and me talking. Now that we’re two months into the new show format, I wanted to give an update on how things are going and let you know about the podcast’s record-breaking month of May. I also want to talk a bit about the im...
Academic Crossroads with Ben Brown
Career Crossroads - May 29, 2023 07:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#89 – As a first-year offensive lineman on the University of Waterloo’s varsity football team, Ben Brown was supposed to be living his dream. With the support of his father, who had been his football coach, Ben received a football scholarship to an excellent school and was excited for the next c...
Career Coach Conversations with Chris M. Wilson
Career Crossroads - May 22, 2023 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen you know you want to change your career but you are unsure of where to go, you might seek the help of a professional. Chris M. Wilson, this week's guest, struggled to find the help he was looking for and that challenge led him to dedicate his life to helping people going through similar str...
CC Shorts with Andy Thibodeau
Career Crossroads - May 15, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#87 - What would you do if your ability to do your job disappeared overnight? How would you react? That's a question Andy Thibodeau wrestled with in March 2020 when Covid-19 shut down his career as a public speaker. As a 25+ year veteran of the industry, this was the only job Andy had ever rea...
Josh Green – From Acting, to Cookie Dough Connoisseur, to Business Consulting
Career Crossroads - May 08, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#86 -If you told 20-year-old Josh Green that he was going to be a business consultant in the future, he would have thought you were joking. How did he end up a business consultant when he was well on his way to a successful career as an actor and improv comedian? He was getting regular work, ma...
Academic Crossroads with Frank Chen
Career Crossroads - May 01, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings85 - Attending university can change your life. Sometimes, in ways you don’t expect. For Frank Chen, coming to Canada from his native China to study at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) was a way to get into a stable career, while also making his parents proud. To satisfy both desires...
Career Coach Conversations with Wei Huang
Career Crossroads - April 24, 2023 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#85 – “What can I do with my degree?” This is one of the most common questions asked by students who have nearly finished pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into completing a difficult academic program and are now realizing they are unsure of what comes next. With a decade of experience wor...
CC Shorts with Brian Millado
Career Crossroads - April 17, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#83 - In the early days of his career, Brian Millado jumped between jobs in the Department of Student Life at the University of Toronto. He wasn't jumping because he didn't like his roles, or because he was chasing higher pay; he was jumping because he was continually offered the chance to work ...
Chris Lewarne – From New York City corporate lawyer to Barry’s Bootcamp instructor in Toronto
Career Crossroads - April 10, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#82 – Chris Lewarne is well known in the Toronto fitness community as one of the trainers at Barry’s Bootcamp, helping people achieve their fitness and health goals. Fitness, however, was not the path Chris set out on when leaving high school. Growing up, his family struggled financially, and ...
Chronicling Career Crossroads #5 - Where We Stand
Career Crossroads - April 03, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsToday, we get vulnerable. In this short and final episode of the Chronicles series, we discuss what new episode formats are on the horizon and how this series has driven Jonathan's public speaking work forward. Despite the good news we share, plenty of work remains to do. If you're invested i...
Chronicling Career Crossroads #4 - Marketing
Career Crossroads - March 22, 2023 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen products change, their marketing has to change: that's the core of the fourth episode of the Chronicling Career Crossroad series. But how to market something that is still in flux? It's not a question I can answer on my own so I need to bring in an expert. Enter Ronak Patel. As a business...
Chronicling Career Crossroads #3 - Content
Career Crossroads - March 07, 2023 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsContent is king. You've probably heard or read that phrase over the last decade with the rise of online content creators, but the origins of the phrase can be traced to magazine editing in the 1970s. What does that have to do with this episode? Well, content is the subject of Chronicling Car...
Chronicling Career Crossroads #2 – Research
Career Crossroads - February 23, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen this episode was first conceived it was titled “Research – or how to make sure what I’m doing isn’t a waste of time”. As the episode title was….simplified, the core idea for the episode stayed the same: research. In order to determine if the planned Career Crossroads pivot is hitting the m...
Chronicling Career Crossroads #1 - The Career Crossroads Crossroad
Career Crossroads - February 09, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow do you handle change? Sometimes it’s forced upon us, and sometimes we just know it’s time. Sometimes change is needed. That is where I’m at with Career Crossroads. It’s changing. It’s evolving into something better and I’m going to take you along on the journey through that evolution. T...
Claudio – From Gas Station Manager, to Window Washer, to Flight Simulation Instructor
Career Crossroads - July 20, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#75 – Although he would never do it, Claudio Teixeira could probably pull a Frank Abagnale and fake his way through flying a jet aircraft. That’s because Claudio has over 5000 hours in the ‘sky’ on the Boeing 777 simulator that is the crown jewel of his company, uFly Simulator Inc, which exists ...
Evo – From Tire Sales, to Travel Blogging, to Podcast Pontificator
Career Crossroads - July 13, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#74 – As the creator of the 40th podcast in the world way back in 2004, Evo Terra has had an impact on the world of podcasting for almost two decades and was recently honoured as a 2022 inductee into the Podcast Hall of Fame. You might imagine that someone given that honour makes a career in pod...
Hailee – From Primate Rehabilitation to Police Officer Specializing in Forensics
Career Crossroads - July 06, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#73 – Have you ever wanted to collect data on wild jaguars or help rehabilitate a monkey with a broken arm? Well then let me introduce you to Hailee Hallas. Along with tree-planting in northern Ontario, studying these animals was some of the first employment opportunities she received in her you...
What I've Been Up To
Career Crossroads - June 29, 2022 06:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCareer Crossroads is back after an unplanned break! Before we get into some new interviews, I’ve got some updates about why there has been such a long break as well as some information about some other projects I’ve been working on. After you've listened, check out my wife and I's new travel vl...
Jenn – The Path to Founding Cheekbone Beauty
Career Crossroads - April 13, 2022 15:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings#71 – In 2016, Jenn Harper founded Cheekbone Beauty despite having no previous experience in the cosmetics industry. This was a major career change as up until that point she had worked exclusively in hospitality and in wholesale foods, leveraging her strong relationships with chefs to succeed. ...
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