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Bucket List Careers

Bleav, Christa Lauri

Join host Christa Lauri for Bucket List Careers, a podcast that delves into cool jobs with the people who do them, the HOW behind their pivots, and secrets to successfully monetizing doing what you love. Christa was a New York-based news anchor, business show host, and reporter in the field for years. Now she"s made her pivot to share stories that will inspire you to identify your purpose, remove roadblocks, and initiate the launch of your Bucket List Career!

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00:17:46

Kripalu Outdoor Guide: Cindy Olsen's Leap from...

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2022/10/20

Cindy Olsen built a career in entertainment finance by climbing the ladder from the start of her career, but a pivotal moment happened when she was pregnant with her second child which changed everything - prompting her to reevaluate her professional life and redefine what success meant to her. Today Cindy Olsen is a certified Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Guide and founder of Cindy By Nature. She is passionate about sharing the powerful physical and mental benefits of nature and mindfulness with others

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00:18:26

Boudoir Photographer Stephanie Bordas: Empowering...

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2022/10/13

Stephanie Bordas, owner of @brooklynboudoir, started out her career in the world of New York City television and film production as a director's assistant. After years of feeling something was missing and struggling to balance family life with demanding hours, she dipped her toes into her second act, starting out with a side hustle in freelance boudoir photography, which eventually became her full-time gig in a Brooklyn-based studio of her own. Stephanie says that boudoir, a photographic style

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00:19:29

Hollywood Film Producer to Reinvention Guru: John...

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2022/10/06

Fired 39% of the time in his career as a Los Angeles-based film producer, studio executive, and tech entrepreneur, John Tarnoff had learned the secrets of turning setbacks into successes. And when his tech startup folded at the end of the dotcom bubble in 2001, his "aha moment" happened - sending him back to school at age 50 to earn a master's degree in spiritual psychology. Pivoting to a focus on people and career counseling, John networked his way to a new role as Head of Show

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00:19:37

BAM Art Advisory Founder Brooke Molinaroli's Bold...

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2022/09/29

Brooke Molinaroli tried her hand at various creative fields early on in her career but found herself continuously compromising with the pressure to find a more business-centric role. After graduating from Bucknell University, Brooke started working in galleries and then for design firms and photographers. This led to a ten year stint in digital, brand and social media marketing at British Telecom until she found a role that combined that experience with her love of art, working at the Dallas Museum

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00:15:15

Event-Centric Marketing From Real Estate: How David...

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2022/09/22

David Kean became Founder/CEO of DDK Productions after merging his lifelong passions and professional experience to craft his ultimate Bucket List Career gig. Prior to striking out on his own, David worked at GroupM ESP (Entertainment & Sports Partnerships), where he served as a VP of Event Production, responsible for a wide variety of GroupM clients within the sports and entertainment landscape working closely with major Fortune 500 brands. In this conversation we get the ins and outs of a

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00:10:51

Christa's Takeaways: SMART Goal Setting for Your Pivot

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2022/09/15

Listen in as Christa shares the wisdom she's gained from recent guests on how to use the SMART goals framework to bring your second act or career pivot dreams to life, the pros and cons of "diving in" as a solopreneur and actionable steps for feeling motivated throughout the end of the year!

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00:19:04

Human Resources Pro to Successful Coach & Author:...

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2022/08/18

Susan Ross left 15 years in Human Resources (and eventually as an SVP) at Mastercard Inc. to pursue the "leap of her professional life". She says her transition phase began when she could no longer ignore that voice telling her to take the risk. Susan then successfully transferred coaching skills gained from her experience in HR to began a new career as the CEO and Founder of INTENTION Personal Development Group. She also recently authored a children's book, Welcome to Planet Positive. A title

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00:19:41

Building Career Organic: Briar Dougherty's Pivot to...

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2022/08/11

Briar Dougherty is one of those guests who embodies the tenacity of many of the career pivots we've seen on Bucket List Careers. She built career confidence and her own company at a young age, despite a number of personal challenges thrown her way as a mom and 2x cancer survivor. Briar is Founder & CEO of Career Organic, a boutique career acceleration and coaching agency for professionals across multiple life stages. After a decade of successfully navigating her corporate career in New York City,

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00:25:40

Singer Turned Interior Designer: Emily Meszkat Hits a...

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2022/08/04

Before starting her interior decorating business Emily Meszkat was classically trained in opera and worked at a major international bank while raising a family in the suburbs of NY. While she was fulfilled for a time, Emily felt her creative juices needed more opportunity to flow. She had always been passionate about design, coming from a background in the arts. But it wasn’t until she teamed up with a friend, an interior designer in San Francisco, working together on e-design projects, that Emily

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00:11:10

Christa's Takeaways: Resilience & Power of Pushing...

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2022/07/28

What do the last few Bucket List Careers guests have in common and what is most compelling about their transformations? Kicking off a series of new solo episodes, Christa shares her most valued takeaways from her last several guests. This episode focuses on the power of resilience and pushing through uncertainty whether starting from scratch in a new industry, pivoting in midlife or becoming an entrepreneur at any age.

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00:18:54

Taking Sales to a Higher Level: Rhonda Petit's...

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2022/07/21

Rhonda Petit was a successful sales manager in the medical field for over three decades until she decided to break free from a job and life that weren't serving her any longer. Sound familiar? Drawing on her extensive experience in the industry, Rhonda aimed to change the narrative of how the world views sales as a career and how salespeople approach their jobs. Unlike other sales manuals, Rhonda drew on her growth in spirituality to author, "The Spirit of Selling", during the pandemic.

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00:23:13

Finance to TV Producer: Hillary Weintraub Finds...

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2022/07/14

Hillary Weintraub had a successful career in finance on Wall Street and as the COO of a startup company when, at 41, she found herself as a production assistant (PA) on the set of a commercial. PAs are entry-level workers of the film and tv industry and it was a humbling career pivot, but now? Now, Hillary is thriving with her second successful career as a producer of TV commercials based out of NYC. This week's episode of Bucket List Careers delivers authentic lessons on reinventing yourself and

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00:18:25

Multiple Careers in Parallel: Mark Herschberg's...

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2022/07/07

With a professional journey in tech startups, teaching, writing & speaking, Mark Herschberg's Bucket List Career narrative differs from most this podcast features in that it doesn't have one big pivot. Instead, Mark's success and professional fulfillment stems from his ability to add careers in parallel. Mark then drew from this varied knowledge base and nearly twenty years of teaching at MIT’s “career success accelerator” program to also write a book that is apropos of what we do here at Bucket

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00:17:53

Stacey Creem's Path to Painting After Leaving the Law

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2022/06/30

Stacey Creem was a successful New York attorney of 20 plus years when, approaching 50 and the reality of becoming an "empty nester," she was compelled to follow her lifelong passion for painting. At first, she reduced her hours in law, allowing herself Fridays to paint, but she soon realized she wanted to do this full-time. In 2020, Stacey earned her Certificate of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art in addition to her J.D. from New York University School of Law, and her B.A. from Tufts

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00:21:20

Mental Health for Moms: Why OBGYN Dr. Tracy Shevell...

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2022/06/23

What if your best friend was also a doctor? And why would a high-risk OBGYN who's delivered thousands of babies pivot her career even though she loves what she does? While Dr. Tracy Shevell took time to pause in recovery from an unexpected surgery, she was still talking with patients every day, explaining, comforting, educating, and witnessing. That's when she had the classic, "aha!" moment. This, the part of her practice she was most passionate about, could be her full-time gig. She saw a

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00:21:59

Sober Powered: Addiction Expert Gillian Tietz's...

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2022/06/16

Gill Tietz is a biochemist and former teacher who in 2019 got sober. She has since been documenting her journey online and helping others break free from alcoholism/addiction with her popular podcast @sober.powered, often utilizing her chemistry background to break down the science (and therefore, stigma) of addiction. In this insightful episode Gill shares the details of what scared her straight and how she broke a pattern of self-destructive behavior, while learning to stop equating career success

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00:23:11

When Dollar Signs Don't Cut It: Jamie McDonald's Jump...

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2022/05/26

Jamie was an Oxford-educated successful partner at a top NY-based hedge fund when at 35 years old he told his partner, "I just don't want to die and have my headstone say, "Here lies a hedge fund manager." He says it was then that he realized he was after something more soul-fulfilling, quit finance and gave himself 2 years to explore his options. Jamie pursued radio and TV with full force, even crossing the globe to create his on-camera hosting reel. In this episode, we learn how he landed many

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00:23:03

New Age DJ from Marketing Exec: Morgana's Path to...

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2022/05/19

Morgana was a Development/Marketing Executive when the pandemic sparked a bold career change. She wanted to become a DJ. But not just any DJ. Her niche is predominantly new age and spiritual music in addition to being an event and sound bath producer. Her mission? To transport her listeners to a completely uninhibited, zen, and awakened state. A yogi and nature enthusiast, Morgana employs an earthy, ethnic, tribal vibe infused with progressive techno to stir you both physically and spiritually.In

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00:20:09

Skydiving Stuntman Jeff Provenzano on Profiting from...

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2022/05/12

After graduating from The School of Visual Arts in NYC Jeff Provenzano was your average broke recent grad, except for the fact that he had one thing he couldn't keep off his mind... skydiving, a hobby he had picked up during his freshman year. Soon he moved out to Arizona to live at Skydive Arizona, the largest skydive center in the world, for what he originally intended to be a gap year before focusing on career. His first home there? A tent. He continued to live a "ramen noodle"

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00:21:01

Taking Flight After the Airlines: Victoria Victory's...

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2022/05/05

Victoria Victory was a flight attendant with 3 kids in her thirties when she decided to go back to school to become a registered nurse - a bold move inspired by a life-threatening illness in college that had her paralyzed from the head down. Vicky shares how she fought her way back to health and how that experience shaped her mindset and ability to reinvent and relaunch - leaving the airlines to care for those facing health challenges of their own. This inspiring conversation delves into finding a

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