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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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30:02

The Career Ladder Is Dead. What Actually Gets You...

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2025/11/26

Forget the old playbook. The linear career ladder — degree, loyalty, promotions, retirement — is gone for good.Today’s market doesn’t reward tenure, job titles, or waiting your turn. It rewards adaptability, strategic width, and leaders who can go deep without staying narrow. If you’re still measuring success by promotions instead of progress, you’re playing a game that no longer exists. The real cost of staying ladder-minded Three years. That’s the average tenure of a C-Suite leader today. The

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Signaling — The New Currency of Executive Readiness I...

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2025/11/19

Forget the idea that your résumé is doing the talking. It isn’t.And in 2025, the market isn’t hiring the most qualified — it’s hiring the most inevitable. Everyone is polished. Everyone is credible. Everyone is strategic. But only a fraction are legible — and that’s who gets fast-tracked. Cost of invisibility: Six to twelve months of lost compensation, stalled opportunities, and being quietly passed over by decision-makers who can’t feel your momentum. This solo episode exposes the new hiring

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The Widening Pay Gap for Women and What to Do About...

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2025/11/12

Forget “closing the gap.” It’s widening — for the first time since the 1960s.And if you’re waiting for the system to fix it, you’ll be waiting forever. Because as Cindy Gallop says: no one’s coming to save us. Cost of waiting: Every underpaid year compounds the gap — not just in salary, but in wealth, opportunity, and ownership. This episode isn’t about leaning in. It’s about taking over. Cindy Gallop — entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.tv — joins Loren to dismantle outdated

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Layoffs | The Hardest Thing No One Tells You About

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2025/11/05

Let’s be honest — the call hits harder than you think it will.One moment, you’re leading teams and driving outcomes. The next, your screen goes blank, and so does your sense of identity. But here’s the truth no one tells you: the hardest part of a layoff isn’t the job loss. It’s the identity freefall that follows. And if you don’t pause long enough to process it, you’ll start reacting — applying, rewriting résumés, chasing anything that feels like control — instead of rebuilding with

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The Lie We’ve Been Sold About Work: Jessica Weiss on...

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2025/10/29

Let’s get one thing straight: happiness isn’t the “perk” at the end of success. It’s the precondition for it.Jessica Weiss — Happiness Expert, corporate strategist, and author of Happiness Works: The Science of Thriving at Work — dismantles the myth that happiness is soft, fluffy, or found in a corner office. Spoiler: it’s measurable, trainable, and completely within your control.Jessica spent 15 years advising the world’s biggest brands — Coca-Cola, J&J, AmEx — before realizing something

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What Your Kids Learn When You Lose Your Job | Alyssa...

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2025/10/22

Forget being the unshakeable parent. Your kids don’t need perfection — they need to see recovery in real time.Because when layoffs hit, routines collapse, or rejection stings… your response becomes their blueprint for resilience. Every career setback is a parenting masterclass — if you let it be. Cost of silence: a generation that confuses failure with danger. Cost of honesty: courage passed down in motion. In this episode, parenting coach and educator Alyssa Smith joins Loren Greiff to talk about

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2025 Played It Safe. 2026 Pays the Disruptors I Loren...

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2025/10/15

2025 was the year of playing not to lose.2026 belongs to the ones willing to break the system. Safe is the new stuck. If you’re still polishing your résumé, chasing recruiters, or applying like it’s 2015, you’re invisible. This isn’t motivation—it’s a warning. The market no longer rewards experience; it rewards relevance. Inside: The lies you’re still buying: “Keep applying.” “Keep tweaking.” Stop. The Wisdom Dividend: scars and judgment beat jargon and polish. Keyword karaoke is dead

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The Death of Corporate Loyalty I Nick Passarelli —...

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2025/10/08

Loyalty used to earn you a pension.Now it earns you a pink slip. Nick Passarelli has protected billion-dollar companies from risk—and realized the biggest one was believing loyalty still mattered. From Wall Street to crypto to fintech, he’s watched good people blindsided for playing by outdated rules. This isn’t about layoffs. It’s about liberation. Stop renting your security from a company that can revoke it overnight. You need to listen if you’ve ever said: “I’ve been here forever.” “They’d

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10:23

Urgent. Expensive. Unfair. The Question That Unlocks...

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2025/10/01

Executives over 40 are polishing themselves into irrelevance. New résumé formats. AI-ing to death, noodling over every tweak and keyword hack. Titles that don’t matter.All distractions. And none of it wins interview momentum or the offer Here’s the only question that does knowing this: “What urgent and expensive problem do you have the unfair advantage to solve?” That’s not theory—it’s survival math. Not urgent? You’ll wait months. Not expensive? They’ll nickel-and-dime you or label you as

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Being “Qualified” Won’t Get You Hired I Gina Riley

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2025/09/24

Being “Qualified” Won’t Get You Hired I Gina RileyThis week, Gina Riley isn’t pulling any punches – teasing out the highlights of her new book, Qualified Isn’t Enough. We leave nothing behind, cracking open with the truths most executives don’t want to hear—but need to: Why résumés are an illusion – receipts, not strategies. The blind spots that sabotage even the best pedigrees. Why thought leadership, not passion, is the new differentiator. Why the final round is where most leaders fail. Gina

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My Severance Is Running Out. Now What? Three Moves...

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2025/09/18

My Severance Is Running Out. Now What? Three Moves That Matter.Most people treat severance like a parachute. Safe. Cushioned. Time to drift. Wrong. Severance isn’t a parachute—it’s a timer. And when it hits zero, panic sets in, options shrink, and desperation takes over. This episode is about flipping that script. Turning panic into power with three moves that matter: Stop polishing, start positioning. Resumés don’t win offers. Urgency does. Companies hire to stop the bleeding—find the problems

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The Truth About PE Jobs: High Stakes, Hidden Rules,...

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2025/09/10

The Truth About PE Jobs: High Stakes, Hidden Rules, and Hard Lessons I Kit LislePrivate equity looks glamorous—fast money, big titles, big exits. But the glossy promise hides a brutal truth: most execs flame out before they ever cash out. Step into a PE-backed role and three things hit you at once: Culture shock. The rules change overnight. Acronyms fly. Resources vanish. The stamp. Survive a deal and you’re branded a pro athlete of business—faster, sharper, battle-tested. The clock. From day

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30:19

Why Say Thank You Anyway? I Steve Dalton, Author of...

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2025/09/03

Why Say Thank You Anyway? I Steve Dalton, Author of The Job Closer & 2 Hour Job Search Most thank-you notes are nothing more than polite spam. They’re sent on autopilot, on reflex. That’s why they’re forgettable. But what if your thank you’s worked as a strategy not a formality… Even better, as he fastest way to turn a stranger into an advocate, to be referred, and re-invited? Steve Dalton—is the author of The 2-Hour Job Search and The Job Closer (translated into 7 languages) —joins me to

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Networking for Introverts Who’d Rather Get a Root...

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2025/08/20

Networking for Introverts Who’d Rather Get a Root Canal I Greg RocheNetworking advice was built for extroverts. Go to events. Make small talk. Collect business cards. For introverts, it feels like punishment. Exhausting. Fake. Pointless. Greg Roche—known as The Introverted Networker—disagrees. He’s living proof you can grow a powerful network without awkward icebreakers, or pretending to be someone you’re not. In this conversation, we expose the myths keeping executives stuck—and the truths that

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Skip The Interview Prep, Lose the Job. Here’s How To...

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2025/08/14

Skip The Interview Prep, Lose the Job. Here’s How To Fix It I Varun Puri I CEO of Yoodli Most people treat interviews like pop quizzes. They wing it. Then wonder why they keep coming in second. Here’s the thing: If you don’t rise to the occasion. You sink to the level of your practice. And even for most execs? That level can be none. Varun Puri—ex-Google, debate shark, and co-founder of Yoodli—is done watching smart people blow it because they never practiced the one thing that matters: how they

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The Future of Work > Less Work | Nirit Cohen

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2025/08/06

The Future of Less Work—And the Executive Edge AI Can’t Replace | Nirit CohenYou’ve been told: “Work smarter, not harder.” But Executives are waking up to a harsh reality: AI is cheap. Fast. Scalable. And it’s replacing parts of your job that made your title impressive. Nirit Cohen saw this coming. As a former Intel exec, Forbes columnist, and Future of Work Strategist, she’s been tracking the trends most leaders are just waking up to. Her take is clear: The future isn’t more hustle. It’s more

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Greywashing 101: The Illusion of Including Older Workers

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2025/07/30

Greywashing 101: The Illusion of Including Older Workers You’ve heard it before: “We value experience.” Then they ghost you for having it! Welcome to greywashing. The corporate costume party where age inclusion is just a mask and older professionals are quietly filtered out by AI, ATS, and coded language. Lines like, “you’re overqualified” or “we want a digital native…” simply translate to: You’re too old, too seasoned, and too expensive. The illusion of inclusion is real. But this isn’t just

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31:24

When the AI Says "You're Hired" — and Gets It Wrong I...

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2025/07/23

Joseph Burns built the perfect AI recruiter. Then he did something radical.He shut it down. This isn’t a TED Talk about tech utopia. It’s a wake-up call for every executive in career transition who’s been ghosted by a bot, sidelined by bias, or fed the myth that “applying online” is a strategy. Joseph is a former Facebook product leader turned founder who speaks five languages. including the most misunderstood one in hiring: AI. In this episode, Joseph breaks down: What elite execs are doing

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The Hiring Market You Knew Isn't Coming Back. Welcome...

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2025/07/16

Forget everything you knew about hiring. That market died in 2021 and left no forwarding address. What replaced it? A system where 75% of executive positions fill before posting. Where referrals convert 900% better than applications. Where your LinkedIn profile matters more than your résumé. This isn't temporary turbulence—it's permanent infrastructure. Cost of nostalgia: $80K per quarter of missed compensation. In this solo episode, Loren breaks down the 3 biggest myths executives over 40 are

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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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