Ken Coleman: Stuck in the Wrong Career? Here's How to Break Free | Career | YAPClassic
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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
1h 16m
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8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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What challenges did Ken Coleman face in his first career?
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How did Ken Coleman discover his true career path?
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If I'm not doing work that matters to me, I eventually start to wonder if my job matters, and then it gets really scary. I start to wonder if I matter. One of the three human needs that workers have to have met is meaning and purpose in their work. Two is recognition for their unique contribution. And three is a relationship with their leader. Those three needs, those are all heart stuff.
What role do natural talents play in career success?
And that just shows our humanness. Ken Coleman. He's a Ramsey personality and number one bestselling author of The Proximity Principle. career expert and a national radio host of the Ken Coleman show. A nationally syndicated radio show.
Why is boredom considered a career killer?
Where he helps people discover what they were born to do.
What are some of the feelings that people have when you're not in the right career?
So number one, there's a feeling of loss.
How can professionals find meaning and purpose in their work?
They wouldn't define it as loss, but it really is a loss. It's an emotional loss because you feel like you've lost time. What that looks like is that discouragement. You get angry at yourself. Things haven't worked out the way you want to. I also think there's a fear of the unknown.
What is the Proximity Principle and how does it impact career growth?
Talk to us about the problem of being disengaged and bored at work right now.
So the answer is...
Young Improfiters, if you're waking up every day to a job that drains you, leaving you feel stuck, unfulfilled, or like you've wasted years on the wrong path, this episode is exactly what you need to hear. Our guest today is Ken Coleman, America's career coach, bestselling author, and the host of The Ken Coleman Show at Ramsey Solutions. Ken has coached thousands through career pivots and knows exactly what keeps people stuck. Earlier this week, we explored the world of work and how it's evolving and how there's more opportunities than ever, but having more options doesn't automatically give you clarity, which is why we're replaying this classic episode with Ken Coleman. In it, we dig into how to identify your natural talents and find a thread that connects who you are to the work that you were truly built to do.
And if you're new here and this resonates with you, please make sure you follow the show. Your dream career starts with conversations like this one.
How does the Talent, Passion, and Mission Framework help in career planning?
Here's Ken Coleman. Ken, welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast.
Thanks for having me, Hala. I'm excited.
I'm excited for this conversation too. And so for everybody tuning in, you are right now living your dream career. You are a host of a nationally syndicated radio show. You are frequently co-hosting on The Ramsey Show, which is an uber popular podcast. And you are essentially living your dream career. You're known as America's career coach. But there was a point in your life where you were pretty unfulfilled. So I thought that we could start in your early career days. Talk to us about your first soul-sucking job.
Yeah. Well, it's funny that you ask that because it was working for me. I was in my late 20s and I was on a path that I had carved out or certainly envisioned when I was 16. And I was in the process, I thought, of... gaining a legitimate business resume uh and part of this journey was stepping out on my own so that i could kind of take the next step and i realized that uh the thing that i was preparing for a potential run for political office that was no longer the goal and so here i am running the small business which was just a means to an end just a day job but i was working for me
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:09
2
What challenges did Ken Coleman face in his first career?
0:09–0:50
3
How did Ken Coleman discover his true career path?
0:50–1:22
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What role do natural talents play in career success?
1:22–1:34
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Why is boredom considered a career killer?
1:34–1:45
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How can professionals find meaning and purpose in their work?
1:45–1:59
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What is the Proximity Principle and how does it impact career growth?
1:59–2:55
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How does the Talent, Passion, and Mission Framework help in career planning?
2:55–1:16:58
Speakers
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