Career Coaching with Jessness – Details, episodes & analysis

Let's chat about job interviews! This is one of my FAV career topics. There is an art to interviewing, and everyone can get better at it when you know how to prep, how to connect the dots for the person you are interviewing with, how to answer questions effectively, and what to do with the follow-up after the interview is over.

Hit the Highlights

• Interviewing is a two-way street, akin to professional dating.
• Candidates should assess the company just as much as they are assessed.
• The art of interviewing involves connecting skills with personal experiences.
• Hiring is influenced by both what you do and who you are.
• Effective communication is key in interviews.
• Candidates should help interviewers understand their unique experiences.
• It's important to match your skills with the role effectively.
• The experience of working with a candidate matters to employers.
• Personal branding plays a crucial role in the hiring process.
• Understanding employer expectations can enhance interview success.

Access my Career Success Guides & Monthly Work in Progress Bulletin: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/links

Q for you: What is most challenging for you when it comes to job interviews?

DM me your answer: https://instagram.com/hellojessness/

Connect:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsmith161/
• Sign up for my monthly 'Work in Progress' Bulletin: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/newsletter

This episode is brought to you by my book ‘Thank You for Dumping Me’ — a book about a blindsided breakup turned personal growth opportunity. It’s raw and real, with witty humor and a lot of heart! Let’s rebrand breakups from something to be feared to opportunities for growth and self-discovery.

Get yourself a copy today: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/order

My books:

• Thank You for Dumping Me: A Memoir, Self-Discovery Guide, and Novel - https://amzn.to/4anyh57
• YOUR TWENTIES: No one ever teaches you how to grow up, ya know? - https://amzn.to/40nQoU3

In this episode, I share my end-of-year rituals that help me wrap up 2025 and how I look forward with intention every new year, hello 2026!

We'll touch on my Radiant Life Framework, year-in-review/vision-casting practice, and how I incorporate feng shui.

We're gearing up to birth our baby girl come this Jan, but the pod will still rock on. What's to come?

Jan: Interview Strategies / The Art of Interviewing

Feb: AI and how to partner with it to be a better employee / More efficient

Mar: Career Advancement Strategies

April: Maternity Insights, Reflections and the Corporate World

I also share, here for the first time ever, my latest creation, the "Self-Discovery Journal" full of 30 life-experiments to support you in connecting to your inner voice of wisdom. I've been secretly working on this and it's currently in review with my publisher. So excited to share this with you! Stay tuned.

00:00 Reflecting on the Year: A Personal Journey

00:00 Setting Intentions for the New Year

00:22 Reflecting on 2025: A Year-End Wrap-Up

02:11 The Year in Review: Collage of Memories

05:36 Vision Casting: Setting Intentions for 2026

11:18 Rituals and Symbols: Feng Shui and Amulets

13:39 Looking Ahead: Upcoming Podcast Themes and Projects

Access my Career Success Guides & Monthly Work in Progress Bulletin: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/links

Q for you: What end of year rituals / practices do you enjoy?

DM me your answer: https://instagram.com/hellojessness/

Connect:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsmith161/
• Sign up for my monthly 'Work in Progress' Bulletin: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/newsletter

This episode is brought to you by my book ‘Thank You for Dumping Me’ — a book about a blindsided breakup turned personal growth opportunity. It’s raw and real, with witty humor and a lot of heart! Let’s rebrand breakups from something to be feared to opportunities for growth and self-discovery. Get yourself a copy today: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/order

My books:

• Thank You for Dumping Me: A Memoir, Self-Discovery Guide, and Novel - https://amzn.to/4anyh57
  
• YOUR TWENTIES: No one ever teaches you how to grow up, ya know? - https://amzn.to/40nQoU3

Learn what “culture fit” really means and how to navigate it during interviews.

This episode is brought to you by my ‘Brain Dates’ — where we figure out your next move together on a variety of topics. You can learn more on her website: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/work-with-me

Access my free career success guides here: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/lovemyjob

Signed copies can be ordered directly from my website: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/books

Connect:

Instagram: @hellojessess

LinkedIn: Jessica Gazay

Learn how to make your answers relevant to each person you are interviewing with and show you’re the right fit for the role. Help them connect the dots!

Resource handout available in my Career Success Guides: www.jessnessrequired.com/lovemyjob

This episode is brought to you by my ‘Brain Dates’ — where we figure out your next move together on a variety of topics. You can learn more on her website: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/work-with-me

Signed copies can be ordered directly from my website: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/books

Connect:

Instagram: @hellojessess

LinkedIn: Jessica Gazay

Before you say yes to that job offer, make sure the company will support the career growth you want. This ep will share how to spot real upward career potential during the interview process.

This episode is brought to you by my ‘Brain Dates’ — where we figure out your next move together on a variety of topics. You can learn more on her website: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/work-with-me

Access my free career success guides here: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/lovemyjob

Signed copies can be ordered directly from my website: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/books

Connect:

Instagram: @hellojessess

LinkedIn: Jessica Gazay

Just graduated and job hunting? Tune in for 3 strategies on where to start and how to use your time and energy to your advantage.

This episode is brought to you by my ‘Brain Dates’ — where we figure out your next move together on a variety of topics. You can learn more on her website: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/work-with-me

Access my free career success guides here: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/lovemyjob

Signed copies can be ordered directly from my website: https://www.jessnessrequired.com/books

Connect:

Instagram: @hellojessess

LinkedIn: Jessica Gazay

In this final episode of this 4-part series, I reflect on what fall teaches us about release, wisdom, and surrender. Just like nature lets go of what it no longer needs, this episode is an invitation to consider what you're ready to shed in your own life...whether it's old patterns, expectations, or timelines.

I share the lessons I’ve learned from years of navigating uncertainty, the beauty that’s come from not having all the answers, and why I now believe the unknown isn’t something to fear, but something to trust. This will be a life lesson I carry with me forever, but I’m open to embracing it, practicing it, and looking for evidence of it everywhere. (When we pay attention, it's everywhere.)

Because as we brace for our next personal Winter, we know this: spring always follows.

If you're rounding out the last season of your personal Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, or if you're in a season of transition, this episode is for you. Each person's season is unique to their own journey.

In this 4-part mini-series we will dive into how nature’s seasons mirror our own personal growth.

Just like nature, we all experience seasons in life. Some quiet, some turbulent, but all with purpose. When we open ourselves to explore them, we uncover lessons that shape who we are. Join me as I dive into a journey of transformation, resilience, and the powerful wisdom nature has to offer.

At the end of each episode, I share a self-discovery prompt from my second book, Thank You for Dumping Me.

Jessica’s books (print, kindle, audio): rebrand.ly/JSbooks

Website: www.jessnessrequired.com/

Book RECS: rebrand.ly/bookrecs

Instagram: rebrand.ly/hellojessnessIG

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Thank You for Dumping Me is a book about a blindsided breakup turned personal growth opportunity, learning to love yourself after heartache, and the challenging transitions that help us get to know ourselves more deeply. It’s raw and real, with witty humor and a lot of heart! Readers have described Thank You for Dumping Me as a genre of its own—memoir-meets-novel—and a book they “couldn’t put down,” a “real page-turner.”

I am on a mission to rebrand breakups from something to be feared, dreaded, and full of sorrow to opportunities for growth, self-discovery, and life course redirects.

Jessica's Books: rebrand.ly/JSbooks

Aww yes, finally, radiant summer has arrived! Doesn't mean life is dandy and perfect but it can be when life finally starts to feel like it’s catching up with the seeds planted long ago. I share the story of saying yes to love again.

As hinted in the last episode, Spring, I share more about reconnecting with my ex in 2022 and how it's unfolded.

You'll also hear about:

- Writing my book 'Thank You for Dumping Me' in real time…while being back with the man whose breakup planted the seed for it in the first place

- The parallels and plot twists between my first book and what really happened

- Why summer is about celebrating the bloom and honoring the messy path it took to get here

Whether you're basking in your own season of bloom or still waiting for the sun to break through, this episode is a reminder that growth is always happening. Often in ways we can't yet see.

In this 4-part mini-series we will dive into how nature’s seasons mirror our own personal growth.

Just like nature, we all experience seasons in life. Some quiet, some turbulent, but all with purpose. When we open ourselves to explore them, we uncover lessons that shape who we are. Join me as I dive into a journey of transformation, resilience, and the powerful wisdom nature has to offer.

At the end of each episode, I share a self-discovery prompt from my second book, Thank You for Dumping Me.

Jessica’s books (print, kindle, audio): rebrand.ly/JSbooks

Website: www.jessnessrequired.com/

Book RECS: rebrand.ly/bookrecs

Instagram: rebrand.ly/hellojessnessIG

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Thank You for Dumping Me is a book about a blindsided breakup turned personal growth opportunity, learning to love yourself after heartache, and the challenging transitions that help us get to know ourselves more deeply. It’s raw and real, with witty humor and a lot of heart!

Readers have described Thank You for Dumping Me as a genre of its own—memoir-meets-novel—and a book they “couldn’t put down,” a “real page-turner.”

I am on a mission to rebrand breakups from something to be feared, dreaded, and full of sorrow to opportunities for growth, self-discovery, and life course redirects.

Jessica's Books: rebrand.ly/JSbooks

A couple weeks ago I shared the first episode in this mini series, Winter. Now it’s Springs turn. Just when I think I’m super comfy sharing my guts to the world…**cough cough** my book 'Thank You for Dumping Me' here I am posting this ep with that nervous feeling fluttering in my stomach.

Tune in to take a time machine back to 2020 where I was packing my stuff up in a moving truck, healing from grief, navigating toxic relationships, to 2022 and the biggest plot twist of my life…reconnecting with my ex (now fiancé!). This season of rebirth reminds me that growth is messy, but so beautiful. 🌸

In this 4-part mini-series we will dive into how nature’s seasons mirror our own personal growth.

Just like nature, we all experience seasons in life. Some quiet, some turbulent, but all with purpose. When we open ourselves to explore them, we uncover lessons that shape who we are. Join me as I dive into a journey of transformation, resilience, and the powerful wisdom nature has to offer.

At the end of each episode, I share a self-discovery prompt from my second book, Thank You for Dumping Me.

Jessica’s books (print, kindle, audio): rebrand.ly/JSbooks

Website: www.jessnessrequired.com/

Book RECS: rebrand.ly/bookrecs

Instagram: rebrand.ly/hellojessnessIG

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Thank You for Dumping Me is a book about a blindsided breakup turned personal growth opportunity, learning to love yourself after heartache, and the challenging transitions that help us get to know ourselves more deeply. It’s raw and real, with witty humor and a lot of heart! Readers have described Thank You for Dumping Me as a genre of its own—memoir-meets-novel—and a book they “couldn’t put down,” a “real page-turner.”

I am on a mission to rebrand breakups from something to be feared, dreaded, and full of sorrow to opportunities for growth, self-discovery, and life course redirects.

Jessica's Books: rebrand.ly/JSbooks

In this ep we explore the themes of self-discovery and personal growth through the lens of nature's seasons. I reflect on my own experiences during a prolonged winter phase in my life, and share about the importance of embracing stillness, reassessing one's life, and using nature as a guide for personal transformation. This episode includes a self-discovery activity designed to help listeners connect with their true selves and understand their motivations.

Takeaways

• Nature serves as a mirror for self-discovery.
• Each season of life has its purpose and lessons.
• Winter represents a time for introspection and reassessment.
• Personal growth often comes from navigating difficult times.
• Writing can be a powerful tool for processing emotions.
• Understanding one's 'why' is crucial for personal clarity.
• Self-discovery activities can enhance personal insight.
• Embracing stillness can lead to deeper understanding.
• Transformation can take years, and that's okay.
• Spring symbolizes new beginnings after a long winter.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Self-Discovery Through Nature

02:53 Embracing the Winter Season

24:20 Looking Ahead to Spring

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Thank You for Dumping Me is a book about a blindsided breakup turned personal growth opportunity, learning to love yourself after heartache, and the challenging transitions that help us get to know ourselves more deeply. It’s raw and real, with witty humor and a lot of heart! Readers have described Thank You for Dumping Me as a genre of its own—memoir-meets-novel—and a book they “couldn’t put down,” a “real page-turner.”

I am on a mission to rebrand breakups from something to be feared, dreaded, and full of sorrow to opportunities for growth, self-discovery, and life course redirects.

Get the book, Thank You for Dumping Me: https://rebrand.ly/JSbooks