Purpose Rockstar: Daily Career Stories Including Grammar Girl And Gretchen Rubin

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Synopsis

Purpose Rockstar tells inspirational stories of people who have found purpose in their careers, 5 days a week. We interview guests from every type of job. Bring out your inner rockstar and be inspired to create the career you have always wanted.

Episodes

  • 196: Paula Berg - Making it in the PR & Digital Marketing World

    14/08/2015 Duration: 26min

    Paula Berg is a PR and marketing expert and is the current Digital Media Manager at Hewlett Packard (HP). At Southwest Airlines, she was able to work her way up in their communications department and eventually get her job at HP.  Continue Reading →

  • 194: Mario Jannatpour, Honest Real Estate Agent

    13/08/2015 Duration: 29min

    Mario Jannatpour is a successful realtor and author of the Honest Real Estate Agent , a training guide on how to become a successful real estate agent. Mario has a simple philosophy he follows in his career: help your customers find what they want and in return you'll get what you want. Read more →

  • 193: Blaz Jemc - A Kickstarter for Local Tourist Businesses

    11/08/2015 Duration: 24min

    Blaz Jemc is the COO of Travel Starter, a global crowdfunding platform for tourism businesses by helping them connect with the local community to raise funding for their projects.  Continue Reading →

  • 192: Jen Gurecki - Radically Changing Lives and Elevating the Status of Women

    10/08/2015 Duration: 30min

    It's not easy running a women's sports clothing company and a nonprofit organization simultaneously. Jen Gurecki, however, is doing just that. She is the CEO of Coalition Snow and is also the Chief Innovation Officer of Zawadisha fund. Continue Reading →

  • 191: Hope Nicholson - How To Get Thousands of Backers for Your Kickstarter

    07/08/2015 Duration: 32min

    Hope Nicholson is a Canadian comic book publisher, editor of Nelvana of the Northern Lights, and a Kickstarter maven with 3 successful campaigns under her belt. Her current project, Secret Loves of Geek Girls has made an impressive $122,286 CAD.  Continue Reading →

  • 190: Ashley Rankin - How I Raised $25K in 30 Days

    05/08/2015 Duration: 29min

    Ashley Rankin is the founder of SHREDLY, a women's mountain bike apparel line that was one of the most funded clothing Kickstarter campaigns. Though hesistant to join Kickstarter, she learned along the way and launched a successful campaign.  Continue Reading →

  • 189: Smita Kapoor - Learning to Love Myself After Being Diagnosed With Cancer

    04/08/2015 Duration: 27min

    Smith Kapoor is the guidance coach to Sensitive Souls and author of forthcoming book "LIFE: Series of Learning Lessons and Vacation Time". We're here today to learn about how she got to where she is today after being diagnosed with cancer.  Continue Reading →

  • 188: Ja-Nae Duane - Choosing to Live Your Own Life

    03/08/2015 Duration: 24min

    The multi-talented entrepreneur, artist, author of The Startup Equation, and speaker Ja-Nae Duane started out with humble beginnings. Although faced with challenges, she was able to turn her life around and become a successful entrepreneur. Continue Reading →

  • 187: Liz Maxwell - Optimism Helped Me Live My Life

    30/07/2015 Duration: 29min

    Liz Maxwell is currently the Events Manager of Impact Hub NYC and has a strong background in the arts working as the Artistic Director of the Art Monastery Project. On this show, Liz talks to us about her optimistic point of view in life and how that has helped her along her career path.   Continue Reading →

  • 186: Lisa Fetterman - Revolutionizing the Way We Cook at Home

    29/07/2015 Duration: 28min

    Say goodbye to overcooked eggs. Lisa Fetterman is the founder of Nomiku, the first ever home sous vide appliance that brings the secret of 3-Michelin star chefs into your own kitchen. Through her hard work in creating this product and and launching the#1 funded food Kickstarter campaign, she is now running a thriving business.  Continue Reading →

  • 185: Emily Kund - Storytelling Through Data Visualization

    28/07/2015 Duration: 26min

    Emily Kund is an expert in the field of data visualization, a process that turns data into information that can be processed visually or narratively so that it is easier to understand and can be utilized. Continue Reading →

  • 184: Sarah Parsons - Improving Japanese & British Communications

    27/07/2015 Duration: 26min

    Sarah Parsons is the Managing Director of Japan in Perspective that offers a services and training packages to facilitate communication between British and Japanese companies. Continue Reading →

  • 183: Marjorie Agosin - Writing to Gain A Sense of Identity

    24/07/2015 Duration: 29min

    Marjorie Agosin is an accomplished writer from Chile and professor at Wellesley College. She is best known for her book, I Lived on A Butterfly Hill, and her recent poetry collection, Secrets in the the Sand: The Young Women of Juárez. Continue Reading →

  • 182: Abby Speicher - Starting A Drone Pilot School from the Ground Up

    23/07/2015 Duration: 24min

    Abby Speicher is the founder CEO and Co-founder of DARTdrones, a FAA certified UAV drone pilot school. Growing up in an entrepreneurial family, Abby Speicher always had a natural talent for starting companies.  Continue Reading →

  • 181: Fred Engh - Paving The Way For Youth Sports

    22/07/2015 Duration: 29min

    Fred Engh is the founder of the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS), an organization that provides programs, services, and resources to promote fun physical activity for kids and the opportunity to learn valuable life skills. Continue Reading →

  • 180: Tony Stubbleline - Building 10,000 Communities and 700 Coaches Ready To Help

    21/07/2015 Duration: 27min

    Tony Stubblebine is the CEO and founder of Coach.me (formerly known as Lift), a popular app that gives ambitious people their own team of coaches to help them achieve their goals. Dissatisfied with his well-paid, yet unfulfilling job after college, he decided to pack his bags and join the startup scene in California. He faced many points of uncertainty when he first started, but through perseverance and a great business partner, he was able to build a successful startup. Continue Reading →

  • 179: Diane Hessan - Why You Don't Need To Be A Genius In The Startup World

    20/07/2015 Duration: 34min

    Diane Hessan is the CEO of Startup Institute, an 8-week program that transforms people into skilled individuals that are ready to take on the workforce. Growing up with family members that never went to college, Diane was able to earn her Bachelor's at Tufts University and Master's in Harvard Business School. From there on, she built her first successful startup C-Space (formerly known as Communispace) and eventually found her way to Startup Institute, where she is changing student's lives everyday by teaching htem invaluable skills and life lessons.  Continue Reading →

  • 178: Carol Stewart - Empowering Women In The Workplace

    17/07/2015 Duration: 23min

    Carol Stewart is the UK's Top 50 Business Advisors and founder of Abounding Solutions, a coaching and mentoring service to help women gain confidence in their abilities and to succeed in the workplace. Growing up lacking confidence and shy, Carol has transformed into a strong individual that is sharing her expertise to women around the world.   Continue Reading →

  • 177: Amy Quigley - Cultivating a Digital Marketing Community in Boston

    16/07/2015 Duration: 30min

    Amy Quigley is the President of the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX), an organization with 7,500 professionals that provides content, networking opportunities, and education in order to bring visibility to digital marketing in New England. Her career path may have not been a clear one, but Amy was able to find her place in marketing and work in a job that she is passionate about. Continue Reading →

  • 176: Ashley Milne-Tyte - Why Women Should Just Ask For It

    15/07/2015 Duration: 28min

    Ashley Milne-Tyte is a journalist and host for The Broad Experience, a podcast that focuses on women and the issues they face in the workplace. Ashley found her passion in helping women thrive in their careers and created her show, The Broad Experience.Continue Reading →

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