Coffee With Convery

Brien Convery
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Explore how success isn’t just about climbing the corporate ladder, sometimes it’s about building your own jungle gym. From students to seasoned professionals, this career development podcast is your launchpad for job search strategies, personal branding, leadership growth, and workplace success. Dive into real-life career transitions, resume tips, interview preparation, mentorship, and future-ready skills. Produced by talent, for talent to empower emerging professionals, entrepreneurs, and executives to thrive in today’s evolving job market. Listen now to level up your career!

  1. From Self-Erasure to The Blue Hour Gospel with Colin Belcourt

    4D AGO

    From Self-Erasure to The Blue Hour Gospel with Colin Belcourt

    Welcome to Coffee With Convery, the podcast that’s your launchpad for career inspiration. Today’s guest doesn’t just work inside systems -- he questions them, rewrites them, and asks who they were actually built for in the first place. Colin Belcourt is an author, certified sustainability practitioner, award-winning DEI & belonging leader, business intelligence professional, and a queer systems thinker. Colin’s career didn’t start with a title or a straight line. It started at the front desk…and moved through administration, HR, recruitment, project management, DEI leadership, international talent, public-sector innovation and now into technology, AI governance, and authorship. His journey is proof that your first job doesn’t define you - but how you learn, adapt, and stay true to yourself absolutely does.

    52 min
  2. From Chapters to Careers with Ella Weartherilt

    JAN 29

    From Chapters to Careers with Ella Weartherilt

    Welcome to Coffee With Convery, the podcast that’s your launchpad for career inspiration. Today’s guest understands something most people don’t realize until much later: careers aren’t ladders — they’re stories. Ella Weatherilt is the Director of Talent Acquisition at Medcan, with leadership experience at Walmart Canada, Spin Master, and across agency recruiting. But beyond titles, Ella is a storyteller at heart - an English Literature grad who turned narrative thinking into a career helping people move from one chapter to the next. She doesn’t just hire talent. She helps people make sense of their futures.

    36 min
  3. From Wall Street to Redefining Purpose with Christine Lai

    JAN 22

    From Wall Street to Redefining Purpose with Christine Lai

    Welcome to Coffee With Convery, the podcast that’s your launchpad for career inspiration. Today’s guest is someone who didn’t just notice a broken system, she chose to stand between families and it. Christine Lai is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Special Education Legal Fund. Since 2018, her work has helped provide over $1.3million in grants and thousands of hours of legal support to families navigating special education, families who too often feel unheard, overwhelmed, or alone. Christine’s journey spans Wall Street to nonprofit leadership, but this conversation isn’t about titles. It’s about advocacy. About translating skills into meaningful impact. And about building systems that protect families when they need it most.

    40 min
  4. From Community Care to Building Ecosystems with Adam Castle

    JAN 15

    From Community Care to Building Ecosystems with Adam Castle

    Welcome to Coffee With Convery, the podcast that’syour launchpad for career inspiration. I’m your host, Brien Convery, and around here we believe success isn’t just about climbing the corporate ladder - it’s about building your own jungle gym. Each episode, we share real stories from all kinds of careers and all levels, to help you design a careerportfolio of sorts that fits you and your passions. Let’s dive into today’s conversation. Today’s guest is someone who reminds us that careers don’t start in boardrooms, they start with people. Adam Castle is a developer and growth coach, mental health ambassador, and the Director of Venture Services & Partnerships at WEtech Alliance. But before startup accelerators, innovation programs, and ecosystem building - Adam’s career began in social work, youth services, recreation, and community care.

    38 min
  5. From Gridiron to Boardroom with Kofi Boateng

    JAN 8

    From Gridiron to Boardroom with Kofi Boateng

    Welcome back to Coffee with Convery, where we caffeinate your curiosity with bold stories, real conversations, and fresh perspectives on how you define success - in work and in life. Today’s guest represents something I love spotlighting on this show: drive without entitlement, ambition with humility, and discipline with heart. Kofi Boateng is a second-year Commerce student-athlete atMcMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business, a Defensive Lineman for the McMaster Marauders, a former Commercial Banking Analyst Intern at BMO, an award-winning entrepreneur, and a young leader who’s already built impact across finance, community, and business. From founding a lawn care company that served seniors and earned youth entrepreneur awards…to interning at BMO and KPMG…to leading corporate relations for Black in Business and representing firms like ICON Talent Partners and KPMG on campus… Kofi’s story isn’t about having it all figured out - it’sabout showing up, stacking reps, and building optionality early.

    33 min
  6. From Recruiting Rooms to Campus Impact with Kelly Hart

    2025-12-18

    From Recruiting Rooms to Campus Impact with Kelly Hart

    Welcome back to Coffee with Convery, where we caffeinate your curiosity with bold stories, actionable insights, andreal conversations about building meaningful careers.  Today’s guest is someone who embodies purpose-driven leadership in higher education and in talent development. Kelly Hart is a strategic higher education leader, a driver of successful outcomes, an advocate for equity and inclusion, and a connector who has spent nearly two decadesshaping how employers engage talent and how students prepare for meaningful work.  From staffing firms to corporate recruiting at Aramark, from managing 400+ employer partnerships to now overseeing student and employer engagement at Temple University’s centralized Career Center, Kelly’s career journey has been amasterclass in collaboration, strategic thinking, and creating opportunities at scale.  She’s an educator, a mentor, a bridge-builder, and someone who believes deeply in empowering young people to step into their confidence and their careers.

    35 min
  7. From IT Support to Global Stages and AI with Jon Levesque

    2025-12-11

    From IT Support to Global Stages and AI with Jon Levesque

    Welcome back to Coffee with Convery, where we caffeinate your curiosity with bold stories, real conversations, and fresh perspectives on what it means to build a career —and a life — with purpose. Today’s guest is someone who embodies reinvention, creativity, and the power of community: Jon Levesque - global community builder, AI and automation evangelist, keynote speaker, YouTube creator, and founder of Seeq, the world’s first Experience Network. Jon has built massive global communities at Microsoft and DocuSign, spoken on international stages, architected award-winning engagement programs, mentored over 130 MVPs, and helped millions learn how to turn technology intopossibility.   And now? He’s building Seeq — a platform designed to kill “save-and-forget” discovery and turn curiosity into action. Jon’s story is a masterclass in following your creativity, betting on yourself, and building communities that actually care.

    39 min
  8. From Finance to Freedom with Gareth Hellen

    2025-12-04

    From Finance to Freedom with Gareth Hellen

    Welcome back to Coffee with Convery, where we caffeinate your curiosity with bold stories, actionable insights, and fresh takes on how you can define and design your own success. Today’s guest is a career professional turned coach who is helping high-performing men reset, rewire, and reclaim control of their lives. Please welcome Gareth Hellen — Certified Life & Accountability Coach, founder of EvolvedMen Coaching, and experienced financial services professional. Gareth’s career spans over a decade across roles at Deloitte, Capita, Huntswood, and the Development Bank of Wales. From managing financial risk and compliance, toleading client engagement and conflict resolution, Gareth has worked at the sharp end of finance where trust, problem-solving, and resilience is essential. These experiences gave him a front-row seat to how stress, pressure, and burnout affect professionals — and inspired him to create The Reclaim Method, his 12-week coaching framework helping men reset their nervous systems, rewire their habits, and reclaim their sense of purpose. Whether you’re a student exploring a career in finance, an emerging professional balancing ambition with well-being, or someone looking for practical lessons on resilience and leadership, Gareth’s story will spark ideas for your own journey.

    36 min
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Explore how success isn’t just about climbing the corporate ladder, sometimes it’s about building your own jungle gym. From students to seasoned professionals, this career development podcast is your launchpad for job search strategies, personal branding, leadership growth, and workplace success. Dive into real-life career transitions, resume tips, interview preparation, mentorship, and future-ready skills. Produced by talent, for talent to empower emerging professionals, entrepreneurs, and executives to thrive in today’s evolving job market. Listen now to level up your career!

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  • Creator
    Brien Convery
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    258
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Brien Convery
  • Show Website
    Coffee With Convery