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Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon

Laverne McKinnon

Stories, tools, and strategies to conquer career setbacks, including grief work, as unresolved loss can lead to diminished resilience—a career challenge faced by everyone at some stage in life. Each podcast is an audio blog post from Laverne McKinnon, a Career Coach and Grief Recovery Specialist, Film and Television Producer, and Northwestern University Professor. Full archive of posts is available for paid subscribers on Substack. moonshotmentor.substack.com

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5:58

Why Don't My Clothes Feel Like Me Anymore?

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/04/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comRemember when lockdown happened and there were all those stories about people showing up to Zoom meetings looking perfectly presentable from the waist up — and if you got a peek below the camera line, you’d find them in their underwear and socks?I loved that. It was so human. So real.It was a great contrast to the pressure to get my wardrobe choices right. All those spoken and unspoken rules: Women wear heels,

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12:56

How Do I Get My Work Energy Back? 🔋

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/03/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comMost of us are gonna hit turbulence at one point or another in our careers. A faceplant. A missed opportunity. A project that goes sideways. A job that ends in a way that feels unfair or messy.The painful part is not just what happened. It’s what happens inside of you afterward.When a professional failure goes unprocessed, it turns inward. It shows up as imposter thoughts, burnout, low confidence, and that weird

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54:28

Live Coaching Session with Amanda Olusanya

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/03/26

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit moonshotmentor.substack.com/subscribe

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8:14

Why Is Learning So Hard Now? 😩

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/03/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comOkay confession time. When I was getting my MBA, I had to take my statistics course twice.The problem wasn’t my capacity or that I was “bad at math.” I’m actually quite good at it. The issue was the teaching method. It was lecture heavy, and that’s not how I learn. It didn’t matter how hard I worked or how tenacious I was. Nothing stuck.And I really wanted my MBA because I believed it mattered for being

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7:23

Did Your Thank-You Email Cost You? 😬

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/03/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comYou got the interview. Yay.You prepared. Well done.You had great rapport with the hiring manager. Love that.You left thinking, “That went really well.”You send your thank you email. You tell them you felt energized by the conversation, you’re excited about the opportunity, and you’d love to be considered. You add the classic closer: let me know if you need anything else.Then crickets. What the heck happened?We

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56:23

Live Replay: Career Feng Shui with Dorena Kohrs

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/03/13

If you’ve been doing everything right and are still experiencing no flow in your career, take a listen to this chat with space doula Dorena Kohrs. It’s a super inspiring and practical talk about how to make simple changes to your home to create more energy in your career. Dorena shares three specific places to take a look at for fame & recognition, money flow and career. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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13:29

Why Am I Stuck at Work? 🔄

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/03/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comWhat if the reason you’re not getting what you want at work has nothing to do with your talent and effort? What if it has everything to do with where and how your actual workspace is set up?Maybe you want more money. More growth. More work-life balance. More freedom. More stability. More belonging. More meaning.Most people try to close that gap by doing more. More special projects to prove your worth. More

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8:34

Imposter Syndrome After a Promotion: What It Actually...

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/03/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comThere’s a moment that hits a lot of people right after a promotion or a new role.You have the new title. The bigger scope. The visibility.And then your brain goes: who do you think you are?If that’s happening to you, I want to offer one reframe that changes the whole experience.Imposter syndrome is not proof you’re unqualified. It’s what doubt sounds like when your courage puts you in a bigger room.Why This

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15:08

Stress vs. Anxiety: Why It’s Important to Know the...

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/02/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comMental health is a hot topic these days - as it should be! According to the World Health Organization anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorder with approximately 4% of the world’s population affected. And stress is right there on its heels. According to the American Institute of Stress, around 35% of the U.S. population is feeling stressed. I get it! But what many people don’t get is that stress and

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9:34

The Weird Things You Do When You’re Grieving

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/02/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comCareer grief is not just an emotional experience. It’s a physiological one.Most of us expect grief to look like tears, sadness, maybe anger. But a lot of the time, grief shows up as: “What is wrong with me lately?”For me, it’s looked like this.I wore my pants inside out and didn’t realize until I was already out in the world.I left the faucet on.I ate an entire pizza by myself, and not because I was celebrating

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16:23

Why Does Money Fear Hit Hard? 😰

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/02/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comIf your career is shifting, your money story gets a vote in every decision you make. And it’s not because you’re bad at math or you “should have planned better.”It gets a vote because money is not just money. Money touches safety. Options. Identity. What you can say yes to. What you have to say no to. And when work gets uncertain, money stops being background noise. It walks right up to the microphone and says,

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8:28

What Are You Not Seeing At Work? 🕵🏽‍♀️

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/02/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comMy birthday is this Wednesday.I usually like to fly under the radar but this year I’m trying something new. Instead of hiding out feeling self-conscious about my warped relationship with age and time, I’m choosing to go on a mission to spread joy along with cool things I’ve been learning.Take a full watch of this YouTube video that made me laugh so hard I cried. And then I watched it a second time and laughed so

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10:39

Why Can’t I Start Job Tasks? 😩

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/01/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comMost of us think the problem is energy.If we could just get a little more, we’d update the résumé, write the cover letter, follow up with a former colleague, get the certification.But when you keep making promises you don’t keep, the real cost isn’t momentum. It’s self trust.And once self trust takes a hit, your brain and body get conservative with energy. Not to punish you. To protect you.The problem is, that

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6:54

Are You Stuck at Work? 😬

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/01/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comYour career isn’t broken. Your heart is.And if you’ve been feeling this heartbreak for a while, you may also be feeling stuck and not sure what to do to get your mojo back. I’ve been there. And I want to talk about the kind of stuckness that doesn’t respond to a new resume, a new routine, or a new burst of motivation.It’s the kind of stuckness where you’re doing your best, but something in you feels like the

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11:19

Why Do I Feel Stuck in My Career? 🔍

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2026/01/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comBefore you decide what to do next in your career, it helps to understand why you’re doing it at all.Career strategy gets a lot of attention. Especially from me. I love vision boards. Five year plans. Action steps. And all of that has its place. But strategy on its own is not going to hold up for the long run. When things get hard, fuzzy, or take longer than you expected, your strategic plan is not going to hold

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6:28

Why Is Rest So Tricky? 😴

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2025/12/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comIf you’re anything like me, downtime doesn’t come naturally. I get the value of stepping away from work and yet I still find myself filling open space with something productive. Over the weekend I found myself filling downtime with re-organizing the pantry. And when I say downtime, I mean the kind of pause that has nothing to do with goals, perfectionism or making things better.Years ago, after I’d started a new

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14:53

Ready to Try Something Bold? 🌙

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2025/12/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comWhat It Really Takes to Pursue a MoonshotLet’s be honest. Ambition is exciting until you’re staring down the possibility that you might fall flat on your face. Moonshots bring that tension out of hiding. They ask more of us. They stretch us. They expose the gap between who we are now and who we’d need to become.Earlier this month, I stood on a TEDx stage in the Philippines and delivered a talk on career grief

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14:21

Why Do I Procrastinate? 10 Reasons 😟

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2025/12/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comYou know that moment when you say yes to something, you mean it, you see the upside… and then you can’t get yourself to actually do it?Procrastination is unbelievably frustrating. And demoralizing. And confusing. Because you care. You’re committed. So why does the follow-through stall?Most of us don’t even pause long enough to ask that question. We go straight to self-judgment. We beat ourselves up, try to

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9:46

What’s Your Next Career Move? 🚀

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2025/12/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.comLet’s be honest—most of us don’t plan our careers. We react to opportunities, chase what looks good on paper, and hope it all somehow adds up.But if you want to stop winging it and start steering it, you need a strategic career plan—think of it as your personal GPS—connecting where you are today to where you want to go, so every step actually moves you closer to your goals.Take my client Jerry. He wanted a seat

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8:43

How Do You Stay Inspired?💡

Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon ·

2025/12/01

Today is a departure from the usual career strategy talk, but still applicable to anyone who’s going after a moonshot and is in need of inspiration. I’m joining a community experiment launched by producer Ted Hope to bring together NonDē filmmakers on Substack. You’ve heard of independent filmmaking? This is non-dependent filmmaking and honestly I find that inspiring in itself – to boldly state we are no longer depending on the systems that have kept people on the outside, repressed, and denied.The

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