LIVELIHOOD

Michael Dobson’s career path includes Dungeons and Dragons; the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum; and the creation of the Good Samaritan Medal. Michael talks about how he started with a deck of skills that included writing, theater, and project management played that hand in a variety of different settings: as a marketing director; a writer; […]

Danny Scheurer founded Save-A-Vet after returning home to Illinois with disabilities sustained while serving in Iraq. Save-A-Vet helps dogs injured on military or law enforcement duty by hiring veterans to care for and manage them. The group, says Danny, has three objectives: “Create facilities in every state for our K-9 partners; hire retired, injured or […]

Dr. Janet Shefts has been a successful chiropractor for 25 years. An elite athlete in college, she was able to combine her passion for sports and wellness into a satisfying livelihood. When she began facing debilitating pain from prior sports injuries and rehabilitative surgeries, she sought resources that would help her nutritionally and organically. She […]

When Peggy Bass was growing up, her passion for horses was a completely unexpected event in her family. She didn’t grow up on a farm, or on a ranch. Her love of horses launched her personal career path. When a family came to her looking for therapeutic horseback riding for their disabled daughter, Peggy created […]

The author, John Greathouse, wrote this great article for Forbes Magazine where he compared inventors and innovators. Only a small percentage of innovators he says, are also inventors. Necessity is the mother of inventions he writes but obsession is the father of innovation. My guest today is Doctor Bev Gordon who is the developer and […]

What would happen to your pet if you were incapacitated or died? According to a recent report by the BMO Retirement Institute, 61% of Americans own a pet. Of these pet ‘owners”, 87% consider pets to be a “family member”, and 77% feel it’s important to make arrangements for their ongoing care in the event […]

Invention is the practice of discovery, originated after study and experimentation. Reinvention is the opportunity to bring something into use again, remade, redone or renewed. When we talk about reinventing our professional identities, we give ourselves permission to go back and rename ourselves; to act in a new and different way. Writers and artists show […]

Are you stuck in a rut? Are you unhappy in your job? So are a majority of employees, even those who feel fortunate to have a job. Livelihood host Marcy Rosenbaum and guest Zen Master Bon Soeng (Jeff Kitzes) discuss what you can do when you feel you’re living someone else’s plan for your life. […]

“How’s work going for you these days?”.  Psychologist Barry Nierenberg says that if you understand the science of well-being, this question can be the launching pad  to make good things better and bad things less frustrating. Each of us can assess how we’re doing and—most importantly— maximize the factors which bring us a sense of well-being […]

In order to build a successful and satisfying personal career path, we need to be paying attention.  What’s going on around me?  How am I doing? What do I want?I This week, our guest is Adam Liss, and he has some very useful skills for figuring out “what’s next”.  Adam teaches the skills of mindfulness, which has […]

For many couples, the bond they have with their pets turns out to be more enduring than the one they made with their spouse or domestic partner. When a couple breaks up, what becomes of their dog, cat, horse or rabbit? If courts and attorneys get involved, the only certainties are high stress and high […]

Livelihoods can be achieved by a paycheck from a company, and from running a business. This week, our guest is Larry Powell from San AntonioTexas. He has experience as an employee– his most recent corporate role was Vice President of Human Resources at the Psychology Corportion in San Antonio, Texas. He also has experience as […]

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Marcy Ernest H. Urquhart Ernie Urquhart, built a career by making choices, not waiting to be chosen. And when he found his path hidden by unplanned and unexpected events, he found a way to continue to tell his personal career path story. Ernie’s a role model for the facing the truth and […]

Rex Knowles and Sherry Landrum have an answer to the question:  what do you do when you don’t know what to do? How do they know this for Career Navigation? How do they know this? They teach the skills of improvisation. To improvise is to produce or make something from whatever is available. It is the […]

This week on Livelihood Show, host Marcy Rosenbaum presents a career navigation strategy that rides change instead of trying to manage it. This week’s introduction to the Livelihood Show interview of Marcy Rosenbaum was conducted by Anna Drezen, an actor, writer and producer living in New York City. She interviewed Marcy using an adaptation of […]