Philadelphia User Experience Consultant, Author, and Media Producer
"Search and Replace" spotlights how smart, curious professionals seek balance and focus in their lives. Each episode investigates a single change that can improve effectiveness at work or increase personal enjoyment.
The pandemic provided an opportunity for people to pivot their career paths. Once lockdown hit, Danielle Spaar’s hairstyling salon shut down and she needed a new way to make a living. She combined her …
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Cheryl Meyer woke up one day in horrible pain. Her conventional doctors told her it was all in her head after rounds of testing showed nothing. Not willing to accept that diagnosis, Cheryl turned to …
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It’s never too late to reinvent yourself. After nearly two decades, Darla Powell left a secure job with a pension in law enforcement for entrepreneurship. Everyone around her thought she was crazy for …
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A point had come in Shibani Faehnle's career where she felt underappreciated and wasn't getting the roles she wanted. Consequently, she realized she had been constantly complaining to everyone around …
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Despite her best efforts, novelist Shaunta Grimes admits she's not a great employee - she just can't enjoy working for someone else. It took her many interesting jobs that weren't a good match before …
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Is The Great Resignation a result of people in the workforce looking for meaning in their work post-pandemic? Executive Coach and leadership consultant Bob Isaacson explores why meaning in our work is …
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Amy Crowe knew she deserved the same customer experience shopping for plus-sized clothes as women with smaller sizes. Rather than buying clothes online, she wanted to see the clothes first and try …
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Incivility was growing all around Donna Cameron in epidemic proportions. Through genuine kindness, she hoped to show herself and others how to overcome such incivility. Being kind requires more than …
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Negative self-talk had become too much for Michelle Kuei, so she came up with a challenge to prove that she could surpass her own worst feelings about her body. Despite relying on crutches since she …
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Steve Larsen realized the biggest block to scaling his financial planning firm was his lack of formal systems and processes that he had been resisting for years. He wanted to grow his business larger …
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As Anthony Maher transitioned into his new role as a partner in a busy development firm, he needed to take control of his morning routine so he could jumpstart the day the right way. He pulled from …
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Elizabeth Sherman needed to change up her lifestyle in a major way. She had the big house with the pool and the typical “American” dream, but found she was working all the time to support that …
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