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Career Blast in a Half

A third of our lives is spent working. Our careers, a source of identity and fulfillment, can often turn on us and become consuming. We obsess about how to create impact and feel valued. How can I get back to skipping to work on Mondays? We struggle to feel purposeful and at the same time feel clueless about how to go from where are now to where we want to go. If you crave career simplicity and action you’re in the right place. Career Blast, In a Half is your 30 minutes of weekly simple, powerful

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39:26

The $47m Workforce Scam that Nobody Talks About |...

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2025/07/09

🎙 The $47m Workforce Scam that Nobody Talks About | Bradley SchurmanWe Don’t Have a Labor Shortage — We Have an Age Problem The headlines say “no one wants to work.” The truth? We’ve pushed out the people who can. Bradley Schurman, author of The Super Age and a global expert on demographic change, joins Loren for a conversation that will make you rethink everything you’ve been told about the workforce crisis. It’s not a pipeline issue. It’s not a talent shortage. It’s not AI coming for your

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18:26

Ageism Isn’t Discrimination — It’s Strategic Stupidity

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2025/07/02

🎙 Ageism Isn’t Discrimination — It’s Strategic Stupidity“Overqualified.” The word that sounds like a compliment but acts like a curse. Especially if you’re 40, 50, or 60+. Most professionals don’t get rejected because they’re not capable. They get dismissed because they show up from a time and place that’s decades long gone. This is the #1 reason why the hiring game continues to confuse you. You think “I’m doing everything,” but how you did it then doesn’t fly now. I know this playbook all

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How to Reactivate Your Dormant Network (with 5 Proven...

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2025/06/25

🎙 Episode: How to Reactivate Your Dormant Network (with 5 Proven Emails) Most career doors aren’t locked. You just stopped knocking. You know these people—former bosses, colleagues, even competitors. You’ve solved problems together. Pulled off impossible deadlines. Shared memes. Shared war stories. And now? Silence. Not because they don’t care. Because you’ve been focused on something else – but either way you’re no longer on their radar. This is the perfect time to rebuild and reactivate those

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32:26

The Price of Professional Invisibility When You’re...

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2025/06/18

🎙 Episode Title: The Price of Professional Invisibility When You’re Over 40,50 or 60+ | Corey Hurley“Do I have to be on LinkedIn?" Wrong question. The right question: "Can I afford not to be?" Invisible executives don't get hired. Most professionals over 40,50 or 60? Invisible. Not unqualified. Not past their prime. Just stuck. Not because they’re not Not because they’ve lost their edge. Because they’re still in a pre-digital mindset, waiting to be discovered instead of showing up. Corey Hurley,

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37:24

The Booby Traps That Keep Women Broke I Billy Zerillo

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2025/06/11

The Booby Traps That Keep Women Broke I Billy ZerilloMoney isn't math. It's war. And most women are losing. Not because they're bad with numbers. Not because they spend too much on lattes. They're losing because they're fighting the wrong battle—themselves. Billy Zerillo learned this the hard way, watching his parents weaponize money. A single mother making every financial mistake in the book. The kind of origin story that either breaks you or makes you dangerous. Billy chose dangerous. Now he's a

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32:47

Breaking the Busyness Habit | Peggy Sullivan

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2025/06/04

Breaking the Busyness Habit | Peggy Sullivan Maybe that’s why your job search feels like a full-time job... but without the paycheck? This week, Loren is joined by Peggy Sullivan—bestselling author of Beyond Busyness, corporate performance expert, and founder of She Can—to tackle one of the most destructive myths in executive career transitions: the busier you are, the more productive you must be. Spoiler: it's not true. Peggy knows firsthand how burnout disguises itself as drive. Her own journey

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32:31

How To Not Diss The Dream I Mitch Mathews

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2025/05/28

How Not To Diss The Dream | Mitch MatthewsWhat happens when high achievers stop dreaming? In this episode, Mitch Matthews—speaker, coach, and host of the Dream Think Do podcast—shares why reconnecting with your dreams isn’t optional, it’s essential. From navigating career pivots to understanding the neuroscience behind our emotions, Mitch unpacks how small experiments, emotional honesty, and defining your “why” are key to building momentum and real growth. This isn’t about lofty ideas—it’s about

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40:06

Teacher to Google Big Tech | Keith Anderson

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2025/05/21

Teacher to Google Big Tech | Keith AndersonWhat separates those who talk about making a big move – even a pivot from those who actually do it? Being unreasonable. Tenacious and not quitting when that goal is non-negotiable. Keith Anderson - was an English teacher – with a love for linguistics (find out why this matters and how he used it) making $27k annually. With sights on working at Google and a coach who told him it was impossible. His fire was lit. How’d he do it? That’s what this episode

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29:09

The 411 on Ending Ageism and How YOU Can Make It Go...

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2025/05/14

The 411 on Ageism & How To End It Faster I Janine VanderburgFor the life of me, given the choice between a strong, more profitable business and letting go of the back-assward stigma around age, the logic is clear. But is it? Like me, Janine Vanderburg isn’t shy about why the math isn’t mathing the business reasons why it’s about impact not age.. Here’s what you’ll find out: What employers don’t want you to know You think it's your resume that needs tweaking or your interview

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20:55

Someone's Getting Hired, Here's How To Make It You...

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2025/05/07

In this me to you episode, I am delivering some tough love and strategic clarity for executives facing job search challenges in today's uncertain climate. Uncertainty isn't new, and someone will get hired despite the chaos - here are the 5 key take-aways to make sure it you. See uncertainty as feature, not a bug Extended interview processes are designed to find leaders who leverage uncertainty as an advantage. Companies want those who transform chaos, not merely endure it. Scarcity is a lie, not

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35:45

How to Make, Not Find Meaning to Matter I Matt Emerzian

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2025/04/30

The world is obsessed with metrics and status. But the most important currency is the one you’re missing. Most of us spend our careers chasing validation – titles and paychecks. I did too. So did our guest Matt Emerzian. The brutal reality? Your job search misery, corporate culture complaints, and endless pursuit of status are all symptoms of the same disease: The belief that mattering is something you find rather than something YOU make. Think this theoretical? Think again: Get Matt’ 5

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33:17

How To Win Over Today’s Busiest and Pickiest...

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2025/04/23

Recruiting is big business ($10B) and that’s just at the executive level. They don’t work for you, they work for their clients and it’s hard. I know, I lived it. Today’s recruiters are busier and pickier than ever. They're not looking at your resume. They're looking through you. Bottom-First Screening: While you obsess over that job title, elite recruiters scroll directly to your volunteer work and recommendations. This is where they spot the difference between performers and pretenders. The

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35:45

The Invisible Leadership Revolution | Heather Powers

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2025/04/16

Corporate America is bleeding talent pretending the needs of working parents are asking for a perk, at the expense of being a profit engine.This week Heather Powers, author of The Power Lane: Why Keeping Moms in the Workforce REVS the Economy exposes this hypocrisy. "Women are not leaving the workforce, they're leaving the workplace." Let’s get real with the facts: The undeniable math: Companies losing parents are burning money. Replacement costs run 2x salary while teams flounder for

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31:33

How To Stop Being A Hostage In Your Job Search

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2025/04/09

“Kidnappers are just businessmen looking for a great deal” That’s how Scott Walker, legendary hostage negotiator reframes his work (with a 93% success rate) in high stakes situations you can apply to yours. Let’s call a spade a spade. You can feel like a hostage in your job search. Every interview can fire off an emotion. Your future, in limbo. Your finances handcuffed Your head, unclear who to trust, including yourself. We can all learn from Scott starting with: The River of

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15:28

Doubt is Death. My 3 Secrets To Certainty In Your...

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2025/04/02

Doubt kills your job search faster than any market condition. It's not just hesitation—it's resistance holding hostage everything you want.The antidote? Certainty. That inner knowing that transcends credentials, perfect keywords, and competitive threats. My 3 secrets and your shifts: Be a swordfish, not a whale Swordfish slice forward with explosive acceleration and channel all energy toward their target. Whales circle aimlessly, stuck in familiar patterns, deliberating endlessly. Your

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44:06

The 5 Keys To Lasting Confidence I Nicole Kalil

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2025/03/26

"Confidence isn't built—it's practiced."The Confidence Myth What we call confidence is often just comfortable competence. But true confidence is revealed precisely when we don't know what we're doing. The 5 Confidence Killers External Validation: Outsourcing your worth makes you one criticism away from collapse. Comparison: Every minute comparing is a minute not creating. Comparison assassinates action. Overthinking: Analysis paralysis is fear wearing a lab coat. Fear of Failure: Confident

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31:16

Stop With The Age Labels : Shedding "OK Boomer" &...

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2025/03/19

We've created a system of fictional generational boxes that don't exist in reality."Boomer," "Gen X," "Millennial" - arbitrary labels with zero scientific basis. Yet we use them daily to dismiss, categorize, and stereotype people who were simply born during a random year span. The cost? Innovation stifled. Talent wasted. Workplaces poisoned. The coming demographic shift (longer lives, fewer births) will expose this charade. The winners will be those who see people, not labels. The question

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14:43

5 Secrets To Packaging Your 40+ Deep Experience

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2025/03/12

There's a gap in the marketplace—a gap between what you know and how you share it.Most professionals +40 make the fatal mistake of assuming experience speaks for itself. It doesn't. Experience without relevance is a timeline Past tense. The marketplace invests in your future contributions That’s what gets you hired. This week I reveal my 5 secrets for transforming decades of experience into what’s relevant – (and hiring managers can’t ignore) Craft a "Tomorrow Story" Stop

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36:50

How do I get AI tech-literate without losing my...

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2025/03/05

The game of life (and work) has changed.It’s no longer about whether to use AI, but how to wield it while preserving what makes us irreplaceable. Kate O’Neill isn’t just another tech pundit. As an early Netflix employee and a sought-after “human technologist,” she sits at the intersection of algorithms and imagination. I pulled Kate away from her book tour and speaking engagements to help us uncover: •Why and how tech literacy is crucial in today’s job market—and how to approach it •The

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35:34

The 5 Leadership Voices & Languages We Miss I Masi...

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2025/02/26

Leadership is one of those words that gets thrown around like authenticity or value. Everyone nods. Few translate.This week, we sat down with Masi Willis, Founder of The Mason Effect. She caught up with us between her work travels, helping individuals and businesses better communicate to understand each other. What changes when that happens? Everything. Here’s what I learned from Masi—and you can too: The Sherpa Principle Leaders don’t climb alone. They guide others up the mountain while

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