The Career Happiness Podcast

In this episode we spoke about the following: 1.  Some background about why the 9-5 was created 2.  Why this topic may be the future of working life… 3.  Take some time to reflect on what your thoughts are first what do they tell you about your career. Career mentoring exercise for you 4.  Three reasons why it doesn’t exist anymore 5. Key things to take away from this episode Some articles that talk about the 9-5 and why working life has changed 1. https://www.business.com/articles/the-death-of-the-workday-is-9-to-5-working-obsolete/ 2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/07/25/working-9-to-5-is-an-antiquated-relic-from-the-past-and-should-be-stopped-right-now/?sh=14bc374e40de 3. https://www.redwigwam.com/articles/2022/nov/why-working-9-5-is-outdated-and-the-future-is-flexible/ Career Obstacles workshop To sign up please see page here – https://www.somaghosh.com/career-obstacles-waitlist Any questions about this episode or anything else please email me at soma@somaghosh.com or soma@thecareerhappinessmentor.com      

Being a business adviser and key tips on how to thrive as a business owner with Lee Lam In this episode we spoke to business founder and business strategist Lee Lam In this episode we spoke about the following 1.  What Lee does as a business owner and who she supports 2. Lee’s ideal client and what they are struggling with 3. What is a COO role in a company and what do they do 4. Lee’s Career and her highs and her career and lessons 5. What are some of the qualities to be a good mentor 6. What led Lee to starting her business 7. Advice and tips on how to keep going in business when you feel like giving up 8. Building relationships in your business and why this matters 9. What can we learn from business failure and how can it help us in business 10. What has changed in business post pandemic Where can you connect with Lee 1. LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/soma-ghosh-26086638/ 2.  Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/leelam/?originalSubdomain=uk

The format of this episode was as follows 1. Purpose of the episode 2. Running a business what is your purpose and why 3. Your mission for continuing 4. Thinking about Meaning vs future Other episodes you may useful 1. Episode 52 - Should I turn a hobby into abusiness2. Episode 126 - 3 ways to create a business brandand why it's so important 3. Episode 137 - Why Cliques in business can ruinyour own business 4. Episode 148 - How to keep going in your businesseven when you feel like giving up 5. Episode 180 - 3 reasons why building yourbusiness is a long game Working with me Are you interested in working with me as business owner find out more here - https://www.somaghosh.com/women-in-businessIf you have any questions about the podcast or working together please email me at soma@somaghosh.com or soma@thecareerhappinessmentor.com

The main format for this episode was as follows 1. The Idea behind this episode 2. Awards and how they can help your brand and business 3. Some reflections from 2019 to now 4. Advice and support for you Episode I mention 1.  Episode 163 - Should you start a business podcast Shoutouts on this episode 1. Neal Veglio - https://podknowspodcasting.co.uk/ 2. Sangita Pillai - https://www.soulsutras.co.uk/about-sangeeta-pillai/ 3. Ravneet thank for the clip and you can she also won an award for Best Nutritionist that night she has also been on the podcast on Episode 178 - How Nutrition can be linked to your career and happiness at work with Ravneet Panesar. She awards winners in my category best podcaster 1. Amruti Choudhry who was also highly commended podcaster - https://www.amruticoaching.com/ 2. Manpreet Johal was one the main Best podcaster Award winners - https://www.heartshappiness.co.uk/ 3. Urvashi Lad was the other main Best Podcaster Award winner - https://www.unlimitedurvashi.com/ Awards I have been nominated for and the two awards I have won 1. Podcast for business awards -https://www.lynsayanne.com/ 2. International women’s podcast awards - https://everybody-media.com/awards/ 3. National Coaching Awards - https://thenationalcoachingawards.com/ 4. We are city Rising star awards - https://wearethecity.com/rising-star-awards-what-happened-next-for-soma-ghosh/ 5. She Awards - http://sheawardsuk.co.uk/ Links you may find interesting 1.  Feedspot blog - https://podcasts.feedspot.com/uk_career_podcasts/ How you can work with me 1. Professional women - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_op9hNEHtgubM1Q5dfspOqSTonc5dsz9ktl1TpVa0Hs/viewform?edit_requested=true&fbzx=1337396816529605572#responses 2. Parents of teens - https://www.somaghosh.com/parents-of-teenagers 3. Business Owners - https://www.somaghosh.com/women-in-business Any questions about this episode please contact me at soma@somaghosh.com or soma@thecareerhappinessmentor.com Waitlist for workshop - https://www.somaghosh.com/career-obstacles-waitlist

1. Intro and aim of this episode 2. Some of the ways you may be downplaying your career potential 3. Three Ways to not downplay your career potential Other relevant episodes 1.  Episode 104 - Returning to work as a parent (Interview with Lizzie Martin) 2. Episode 198 - How understanding your personal strengths can enhance your career happiness With Biraj Nakarja 3. Episode 205- Can Change affect your Career Confidence Articles related to the episode Lilly Allen article about this - https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a60190077/lily-allen-says-having-kids-ruined-career/ Clip of what she said fully - https://youtu.be/LBdvKd1qzwE?si=j5ldpfqIAc0pOonA How to get careers advice and support 1.  Apply for a consultation - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_op9hNEHtgubM1Q5dfspOqSTonc5dsz9ktl1TpVa0Hs/viewform?edit_requested=true&fbzx=1337396816529605572#responses 2. Visit the women in employment page - https://www.somaghosh.com/women-in-employment

Special announcement : The Career Happiness Podcast won the “Highly commended” Best podcaster - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/soma-ghosh-26086638_awards2024-podcaster-businessowner-activity-7172863983773822976-pEFx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop 1.  Why I choose to talk about this topic? 2. How do you motivate yourself currently and why it’s important 3.    Three things to help with this topic 4.   Apply for a career consultation 3 spaces available till April 8th Other episodes you find helpful 1. Episode 157 - How can you find your career purpose and 2 ways to do this 2. Episode 201 - Why are we so unhappy at work and 3 ways to handle this? If you are interested in working with me one to one you can apply for a careers consultation to see if you want to do The Career Happiness Program - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_op9hNEHtgubM1Q5dfspOqSTonc5dsz9ktl1TpVa0Hs/viewform?edit_requested=true&fbzx=1337396816529605572#responses Further details about the program and how I work are here - https://www.somaghosh.com/women-in-employment and https://www.somaghosh.com/career-happiness-program If you have any comments or questions please email me at soma@somaghosh.com or soma@thecareerhappinessmentor.com        

What we spoke about in the episode 1. Who Aoife is and what she does in her business 2. What Aoife observed in the workplace around unhappiness at work and where it could be stemming from 3. The most common themes that Aoife is seeing in the workplace right now and how it’s affecting people’s happiness at work 4. Chronoworking and Aoife’s thoughts on this working trend for the future 5. Remote working vs hybrid working and Aoife’s thoughts on the future of how will be working with this approach. 6. Being productive vs being busy at work and what this actually means in the workplace 7.  Imposter syndrome the myth around it and of it exists. Also how to start to address it as well as building your awareness around it 8.  Redundancy and how this is affecting people in workplaces currently 9.  Fitting in at work and the research that Aoife in her masters around this 10. Flexibility at work and the importance of values in the workplace How you can connect with Aoife 1. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aoifemobrien/ 2. Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/happier-at-work/id1474115091 3. Website - https://happieratwork.ie/  

Intro – To the episode and why change is a theme that comes up a lot as well as why Confidence is something that never seems to change The main format of this episode Some more context into why I choose to speak about this Change is necessary and important Confidence and making sure you work on this through self-development is important Resilience and confidence can be connected especially through the low points Your confidence may be affected and that’s ok. Yet you have the power to control this Similar Episodes to listen to Episode 63 - Why resilience is so important in your career Episode 82 - Career confidence and Career Happiness what can you do to reignite your career now. Episode 150 - 3 tips to help you feel confident about your career Episode 160 - How to cope with change in business and why it’s actually a good thing? Subscribe to The Career Happiness Mentor Newsletter - https://thecareerhappinessmentor.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=3cbb0dae04c3c14700da9770e&id=e2f25afd53 Career Happiness Insights LinkedIn Newsletter - Subscribe on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=6936996607292809216 Details on how to work with me You can apply to work with me here – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_op9hNEHtgubM1Q5dfspOqSTonc5dsz9ktl1TpVa0Hs/viewform?edit_requested=true&fbzx=1337396816529605572#responses    

The main format of this episode is detailed below. Intro about the change up in theme for this week’s episode What promoted me to talk about this 2 reasons why being a business owner isn’t what you think it may be LinkedIn post I mentioned in the episode by Alice Lyons - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7165976568622735360/ Other episodes you may find useful Episode 52 - Should I turn a hobby into a business Episode 163 - Should you start a business podcast If you have any thoughts or questions about this episode please Email me at soma@thecareerhappinessmentor.com or soma@somaghghosh.com  

It was a real pleasure to talk to Zina Kular business owner The main themes in our conversation and what we spoke about: 1. Zina’s business and what she does - 0:00- 4:46 2. Zina’s experiences of going to school and her education whilst going to a private school - 4:47 - 7:41 3.  Learning through Failure in a positive way and how this helped Zina learn about real life and her career - 7:42 - 12:11 4. Private education and State school education - 12:12- 15:09 4. Young people and what they need from education and teachers- 15:11- 20:18 5. Pressure to do certain careers and talking about STEM careers -20:20 - 23:14 6. Working in education and what we both learnt from this - 23:15 - 25:39 7.  More insights into why Zina created her business and why she help business owners who are mums - 24:45 - 30:38 8. Advice and tips around speaking in your business and how Zina utilised this in her business and the different forms of using your voice to speak up to promote your business- 30:50 - 34:33 9.Tips and advice around helping mums and women to create a side hustle and business - 34:40 - 40:11 10. Where can you connect with Zina - 40:12 -41:22 Where can you connect with Zina Connect with here on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/zinakular/ Visit her Website here https://www.zinakular.com/