by Angela Hemans | Apr 13, 2022 | Blueprint Your Career Podcast, Professional Career
Claudia Miller, is a bilingual (English/Spanish) Career Coach & Host of her own Podcast ‘Roadmap To The Executive Suite’. She helps serious professionals secure dream jobs, with dream salaries, at their dream companies. It doesn’t matter if the company is a fast-growing startup, midsize, or a Fortune 500 or Tech Giant. She also helps her clients negotiate salary increases of up to $50,000.
What You Will Learn In This Episode:
- When and how to approach management to discuss a higher salary.
- Job research required.
- The impact of job skills on your resume for college students/transitioning adults.
- Understanding the power of your achievements in terms of salary increase.
- Job description vs. actual job duties impact on your salary.
- Know the job market salary requirements.
- What advantages you have over HR during the hiring process.
- How to negotiate a $100K salary increase with HR.
- How to avoid the “wrong” time to ask for a higher salary.
- Understanding the fiscal year for your employer.
- When is the best time to leave if the salary is an issue.
Connect With Claudia T. Miller:
Website: https://www.claudiatmiller.com/
Podcast: https://www.claudiatmiller.com/podcast
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiatmiller?trk=people-guest_people_search-card
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by Angela Hemans | Feb 20, 2022 | Blueprint Your Career Podcast, Leadership
Input Intro:
Xavier Naville is a quadrilingual experienced international business leader with a professional track record servicing in executive roles across many organizations around the world. He is the author of “The Lettuce Diaries: How a Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China,” a revealing and humorous memoir of being an entrepreneur in China, doubling as a primer for all seeking to do business in China. He speaks French, English, German, and Chinese.
What You Will Learn In This Episode:
- Why showing vulnerability as a leader is a form of courage rather than weakness
- Understanding your role as a leader
- Utilizing the team you hired
- Effective traits of a good leader
- Turning vulnerability into productivity
- The benefits of transparency in the workplace
- The Lettuce Diaries book
- Doing business on the international scene
- Being the smartest person in the room
Guest Resources:
Website: https://www.xavier-naville.com/
Blog: https://www.xavier-naville.com/blog
Book: https://www.xavier-naville.com/the-lettuce-diaries
Connect With Xaiver Naville:
Email: xn@xavier-naville.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xaviernaville/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Xavier0624
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.lettuce.diaries/
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by Angela Hemans | Jan 3, 2022 | Blueprint Your Career Podcast, Leadership
Podcast Guest:
Kristoffer Carter (“KC”) is a spiritual teacher who borders at the intersection of consciousness and business. He is the founder of “This Epic Life” website and podcast devoted to conscious living which has created a daily meditation practice for thousands. As a meditation teacher and workshop designer, Kristoffer has over 6500 active students on an insight timer with over 120,000 streams. Kristoffer also writes music for his daughter, Elliott, and her band “Detention.”
What You Will Learn In This Episode:
- How he incorporates being a spiritual leader with executive coaching
- What are unbreakable meditation habits
- Learning the difference between an Ego vs a Healthy Ego
- What is the status quo in upper management
- Hear about his new book, Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership
- What are the 4 common frenemies leaders default to
- Learning the skills to be a conscious leader
Guest Resources:
- Website: https://www.thisepiclife.com/
- Podcast: https://www.thisepiclife.com/podcast-2021/
- Book: https://www.amazon.com/Permission-Glow-Spiritual-Guide-Leadership/dp/1774581582
- Music Group: https://www.detention.live/about
Connect with Kristoffer Carter (“KC”):
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristoffercarter/
Facebook: @thisepiclifeofficial
Twitter: www.twitter.com/thisepiclife
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/permissiontoglowbook/
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by Angela Hemans | Oct 30, 2018 | Blueprint Your Career Podcast, Networking, Professional Speaking tips
Deepak Shukla by day runs an SEO Agency, by night runs ultra marathons, plods around Ironman events and hangs out with his cat Jenny. You’ll find him at http://deepakshukla.com/ or perhaps at a local tattoo parlor getting inked.
What You Will Learn In This Episode:
- Why choose LinkedIn over other platforms when doing the initial research on the journey to becoming a TEDx speaker.
- What you should consider doing if you are NOT a professional speaker and the steps you can take.
- How do you begin with connecting with the professionals directly or indirectly with the TEDx organization?
- What does the reach out process look like for Deepak and the timeline?
- What is the one thing that people tend to skip when they are reaching out to people of influence?
- Top 3 advice for professionals seeking to be a professional speaker.
- Why “social proof” is important and what it can do for your business.
Resources:
Deepak Shukla Tedx Talk
Quotables:
“Your intuition is a form of analysis”
“Add value first, then approach the ask”
“Remember there is a person behind the tweet”
“Social proof = $$”
Connect With Deepak!
Connect On LinkedIn
Visit the Website
About the SEO Agency
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by Angela Hemans | Sep 4, 2018 | Blueprint Your Career Podcast, Finance, Podcast

How do you know when it’s time to ask for a raise? How will you know when it’s time to walk away from your current employer? In this episode of Blueprint Your Career podcast Tonya Sloans shared some of her best career advice when it comes to asking for more money and a few things to consider before you approach your employer.
Tonya N. Sloans, Esq. is an advocate for women in the marketplace who teaches women how to maximize career potential through her company, PowerWoman Enterprise, LLC. With more than 15 years of career success in Washington, DC’s halls of power, Tonya has lived out the very formula she shares with women nationwide.
Whether performing corporate trainings for employers, speaking to groups of women, or crafting an individualized coaching program for a single person, Tonya’s bold and dynamic way of connecting with her audience leads to measurable results for her clients.
In addition to leading PowerWoman Enterprise, Tonya is a senior federal ethics attorney and author of the ebook, “Signs of the Time: Is It Time for a Career Move?”.
What You Will Learn In This Episode:
- Off topic: What is a federal ethics attorney?
- Money is the hardest topic to discuss, it causes breakups in marriage and so much anxiety and resentment at work. When is it the best time to ask for a raise?
- When is the worst time to ask for a raise?
- What is your best advice for bringing up the topic of money with your employer?
- What happens if you get denied for a raise initially and how long should you wait to ask again?
- When should you consider looking for another company especially when things don’t go as expected?
- What are a couple mistakes people should avoid when asking for more money and what do you recommend they do instead?
Resources:
Website: Power Women Enterprise
Upcoming Event Information: Power Your Career Forward (Power Breakfast & Workshop Date: October 27th
Connect With Tonya!
Connect on Twitter
Connect on Instagram
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by Angela Hemans | Sep 3, 2018 | Blueprint Your Career Podcast, career conversation, Podcast

On today’s episode of Blueprint Your Career Podcast our guest is Shereese Maynard who is an accomplished senior-level healthcare strategist, Keynote speaker, the founder of DrWellBe. She’s joined us today for a segment of the show called “Career Conversation.” A career conversation episode discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly about a particular professional career.
A healthcare strategist is an emerging role that didn’t exist a few years ago. It’s a role that has room for growth from the basic entry level to a senior level position like Shereese.
What You Will Learn In This Episode:
- What is a healthcare strategist?
- What is the role of “Experience Officer” and the various titles that they are called?
- Top five duties of a healthcare strategist at the basic level.
- Why you need to take a good look at the maternity wards in some hospital.
- A shout out to the Mercy Hospital Systems, listen why.
- What educational requirement is needed to qualify for this type of position?
- What is the good, the bad, and ugly of a healthcare strategist
- How to get to the next level, once you get into this profession?
- Why is reading your best friend in this industry?
- Be on the lookout for a new app for physician burnout co-created by Shereese
Resources:
Read her articles on Healthcare Analytics News
Connect With Shereese!
Follow the hashtag #WatchMeWorkWednesday to keep track of Shereese’s work days.
Connect on Twitter
Connect on LinkedIn
Connect on Instagram
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