The MECE Muse Unplugged Podcast - Helping New or Aspiring Consultants on Their Journey to Greatness

Christie answers an email from a fan that hates his first consulting project and is seeking career advice on how to find other engagements.

In this Quick Wins interview, Luis Vasquez of Mightyintrovert.com shares how he learned to maximize his introversion with a 90%+ success rate of selling new business projects. He offers his proven sales method through an online course, helping introverts discover how to enhance their ability to influence and strengthen client relationships in a way that is authentic to themselves.

Special edition of The MECE Muse Unplugged where Christie reflects on the current state of the show since launching on July 7, 2017. She also gives a special announcement on the future of the show, and shares highlights of upcoming episodes for the next month.

MECE Mentoring Moments is a new segment of the show where I publicly respond to a fan's email for real time career coaching. In this interlude, I answer a fan's email about not getting promoted based on a discussion in episode 3.

In this episode’s Crossroads interview, Joan is a successful, high performing consultant grappling with a yearning and desire to do more meaningful, impactful work potentially in the non-profit space. Christie explores and discusses possible career options that will allow Joan to follow her heart’s desires.

AMA interview with Sowm, a seasoned consultant sharing her career journey and experiences as a consultant in the oil and gas space. During this episode, Christie and Sowm give mentoring advice to a consultant that is seeking career guidance to figure out how to best manage a peer that constantly tries to take credit for his work or micromanage him in an attempt to create a business case to get promoted.

AMA interview with John Robinson, CEO of BackUp CEO, a company focused on CEO leadership coaching. John shares how he made the transition from corporate marketing to becoming an independent consultant to founding his firm. John also discusses the power of detachment, embracing vulnerability while leaning into danger, and his passion project, Mind at Ease network.

In episode 2, Christie discusses basic rules of the podcast show, provides context on the various formats available on the show, and shares highlights from a recent podcast interview she had with Stone Payton & Lee Kantor on High Velocity Radio from the BusinessX Radio network.

Christie has a Crossroads interview with Xuan, a PHD student with a strong quantitative background seeking insights on how to differentiate herself as a consulting candidate through building her qualitative skills for recruiting season.

AMA interview with Natalie, a seasoned consultant shares her career journey and how she has leveraged her consulting experience into a purposeful career in non-profit healthcare consulting. During the episode, Natalie and I provide mentoring guidance to an individual getting ready for a senior executive presentation.

AMA interview with Aija, a seasoned consultant sharing her career journey and experiences. During the show, Christie and Aija give mentoring advice provided to an individual that recently found out she didn't get promoted and is exploring her career options.

In this episode, Nitya shares lessons learned from her first consulting experience and how she overcame obstacles.

First episode providing context of The MECE Muse Unplugged podcast show, a pop-up, bi-weekly podcast series designed to help new or aspiring consultants on their journey to greatness. It is a variety show sharing ideas on how to be a great consultant in the form of interviews, storytelling, career advice, and discussing trending topics that affect consultants.