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Justin Nelson enjoyed a successful real estate career before identifying a big gap in the market.  True to his calling, to fill that gap he transitioned into entrepreneurship as the Founder and CEO of Sphere Rocket VA, an industry leading virtual workforce company. 
 
Since 2020 Sphere Rocket has placed over 4,000 virtual assistants, serving over 1500 growing small businesses. 
 
Justin began in real estate at the age of 17, running marketing, lead generation, and inside sales campaigns. 
 
After getting licensed, he quickly became a top producing agent, generating $320,000 in gross commissions his first year using social media and marketing growth hacks. 
 
In 2019 Justin started coaching new and veteran agents to create leverage in their businesses through social media, hyper growth strategies, and eventually virtual assistants. 
 
The need for a service to help small business owners hire and effectively use virtual workers quickly became apparent, so Justin transitioned from corporate to entrepreneurship and Sphere Rocket was born. 
 
Justin is an in-demand speaker and coach, teaching the principles of leverage, passionately creating freedom for tens of thousands of people every year.
 
Find out more about Sphere Rocket and how his VA services can help you.



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Changing career later in life has become a notable trend in Australia, as it has in many other parts of the world, due to a combination of factors.


While each individual’s reasons may vary, several common trends and drivers contribute to this phenomenon.   


I was invited to discuss this on Sunrise on Channel 7 recently, as a career coach and career transition specialist, and enjoyed having the film crew turn up at my home to film the interview for the broadcast (watch the interview on my YouTube channel).


The condensed interview is included in this podcast episode.  Let’s understand the key drivers for this change in careers for older workers in Australia, and listen to the episode for details and inspiration if YOU are thinking of making a career change. 


Main reasons for making a change are:
·      A longer life expectancy
·      The evolving workforce
·      A desire for personal fulfillment
·      Financial security
·      Redundancy and Job Insecurity
·      New education and training opportunities
·      Age Discrimination protections
·      Work-Life balance
·      Retirement redefined (listen to my interview on the 'Retirement Success Podcast' with Dennis Heath)
·      Personal growth
·      Mentorship and experience
 
The increasing prevalence of career changes later in life in Australia reflects the shifting of priorities and recognition that one’s career journey can be dynamic and multifaceted.


What are your thoughts? Please join the conversation and add your opinion and thoughts on this LinkedIn Post (which features my Sunrise on 7 interview) or on my YouTube channel.


For affordable career management and career transition support to create the career you'll love, visit my CAREER SUCCESS PROGRAM
 


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Today’s very special guest is Adam Scougall,  corporate professional turned Interior Designer who now successfully combines two careers!

I’ve had the great pleasure of working with Adam through his career reinventions and delighted that Adam now blends the best of both worlds and has created the satisfying and rewarding career he loves. 
In episode 251 of Your Career Podcast he shares his fascinating corporate, creative and entrepreneurial journey.  

A little known fact about Adam is that he was a child actor and featured in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with Mel Gibson and Tina Turner in 1985! 
Adam’s story is one that is a little out of the box. We hear a lot about interior designers aspiring for luxury clients and an office full of staff. But Adam couldn’t imagine anything worse. 
After 18 years of people, leadership in his corporate life, he ventured out in in 2018 to running his solo design biz full time. This lasted for 3.5 years before he returned to where he started. Corporate [with a buzzing design side hustle]
After working with a broad range of clients, some great and some a nightmare, Adam became tired of having to accept jobs that could make ends meet, as opposed to fulfilling his creative juices. 
Covid didn’t help financially, nor an always ‘pending’ recession, and after those years, Adam realised he did not wish to pursue a ‘be all and end all’ approach to his design career. 
He wanted stability, steadier finances and the ability to only take on design work that fulfilled both his own and client vision.
Adam now enjoys what we call a lifestyle business, balancing projects he only wants to take on whilst [now happily] holding down a full-time gig at his corporate firm of choice. 
He has also developed his own signature design implementation system that employs other designers to assist day to day, with Adam coming in only at key points in the project.
Adam is about to launch his podcast telling all his experiences.  Watch out for the launch on podcast platforms on 5th September 2023!  “SO YOU WANT TO BE AN INTERIOR DESIGNER?”
His aim for the show is to teach you the thrills, reveal the spills and show you how you can create an Interior Design career that suits your lifestyle.
Where to find Adam:  
Adam's Podcast, "So You Want to be an Interior Designer?"  https://www.soyouwanttobeaninteriordesigner.tv/

Adam Scougall Designs https://adamscougall.com/ 
Adam on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/adamscougall/ 
Adam on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV055_s7AX_Nsd--zbmf7cg

Adam  in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

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Andrew Seaman is the senior managing news editor for jobs and career development at LinkedIn News and my special guest in episode 250 of Your Career Podcast.

Andrew is the editor of the Get Hired and Get Ahead newsletters and the host of Get Hired with Andrew Seaman. 

Before joining LinkedIn in 2018, he was digital editor at Reuters in New York, where he previously served as the news agency’s senior medical journalist. 

He got his start at Reuters covering the Affordable Care Act and health care policy in Washington, D.C.

Listen to Andrew's fascinating career journey from his early days and transitions to his role at LinkedIn where, at the time of this recording he has over 177K followers.

Andrew shares his insights and tips into how to be an effective content creator on LinkedIn and shares his advice on:


Best practice when it comes to content creation on LinkedInHis favourite new LinkedIn featuresThe types of posts we see on LinkedIn - carousels, polls, images, videos, and moreHis top 3 tips for success on LinkedIn

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Lara Quie’s superpower is the power of connection. She connects with people very quickly and helps to connect them with whom they need to be connected. 
 
 As Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific for a Barristers’ chambers, Twenty Essex in Singapore, Lara helps disputes lawyers find the very best barristers and arbitrators for their cases. 
She is also a business development consultant and executive coach for lawyers, leaders, and founders at Lara Q Associates helping high performers achieve more success and greater happiness. 
She focuses on Managing Partners, In-House Lawyers, and C-Suite Executives and those not ready for retirement, lawyers who want to build their practice, and people who want to reinvent themselves. 
 
 Podcasting is her passion and Lara hosts The Legal Genie Podcast.
 
 In her spare time she runs a unique handmade gifts and fabric company called Lara Q Designs and enjoys spending time with her 3 daughters, 2 Dachshunds, black rabbit and long suffering husband.
Lara is Eurasian (Japanese/British) and has lived in Hong Kong and Singapore and spent long periods of time in Spain, Germany, Belgium and France.  With this varied background and multiple interests I found that we have a lot in common and thoroughly enjoyed interviewing Lara on Your Career Podcast and hearing her career journey across the globe!
Find Lara on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/laraquie/
For comprehensive career transition support visit https://www.thecareersacademy.online

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In this exciting episode of Your Career Podcast, anyone who loves to travel and fly business class using frequent flyer points will love this! 
 
I had the good fortune to interview Steve Hui who is the Founder & CEO of IFLYFLAT. The most celebrated rewards flight team in Australia. 
 
Discover how a redundancy from Macquarie Bank where Steve was Head of Accounting Operations within their Global Financial Services, travelling all around the world regularly, was a blessing in disguise for Steve and inspiration for his entrepreneurial venture.

 Steve’s team  at IFLYFLAT has the practical experience of booking nearly 1 BILLION points across the top-tier airlines such as Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Etihad, Cathay, Virgin Australia, and more.

They are experts in maximising both credit card reward points and frequent flyer points with the specific aim of flying Business class.
 
IFLYFLAT provides two flagship services:

 One is the "Flight Points Concierge," which expertly navigates reward point flight bookings for clients, if you have the points, they will find the flights – Steve’s expert team has booked 1 Billion points helping clients fly flat. 
 
 And the other services is "Points Optimiser" which offers a personalised consultancy for SME business owners, offering a clear plan that creates a fly-wheel to transform everyday business expenses into points for relaxing business class travel.

Steve, also known as 'The Points Whisperer' is regularly featured on TV, Channel 7 & 9, Sky News Business, Your Money Live, SMH, AFR, Luxury Travel Magazine, Money Magazine and many others. 
 
As the current President of the Chatswood Chamber of Commerce in Sydney, he is dedicated to building and promoting strong business relationships around Sydney's north-shore.
 

Google 'IFLYFLAT' and you’ll find Steve Hui easily!

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