Your Next Success

Caroline Sangal, PhD, SHRM-CP

Have you ever looked at your life or career and quietly wondered, “Is this it?” That question isn’t a crisis — it’s a signal. An invitation. A beginning. Your Next Success Podcast with Dr. Caroline Sangal is for students, job seekers, and professionals navigating career transitions, unexpected detours, and the search for authentic success. Here, we normalize questioning your path — because discovering what you truly want begins with letting go of who you thought you had to be. You’ll hear: Honest conversations about layoffs, pivots, burnout, and reinventionGuest interviews with real people navigating career and life turning pointsInsights and frameworks to help you align your work with your purposeWhether you’re just starting out, reimagining what’s next, or simply asking deeper questions — this is your space to pause, reflect, and rebuild from a place of clarity. Stop chasing someone else’s version of success.Start building the career — and life — you were made for. Tune in and begin Your Next Success.

  1. JAN 26

    Real Storms, Mental Storms: Control, Influence, Release

    Send us a text As I record this episode, the news is full of a major winter storm forecast. And by the time you’re listening, you already know what happened. That’s the doorway into today’s real topic. Because storms reveal something deeper. The forecast can steal your peace before anything happens. The fear of the future can rob your present joy. And the fear of the past can do it too. In this short solo episode, I give you a practical tool you can use in real storms and mental storms. Control, Influence, Release. This is how you shift from anxious energy to grounded energy and create your next success from where you actually have power. In this episode, you’ll learn How to sort any stressor into control, influence, or releaseThe Control Filter that calms your nervous system quicklyThe difference between preparing and rehearsingHow this applies to career uncertainty and feeling miserable at workA 30 second reset you can use anytimeIf you want to go deeper and assess how much your mind is working for you versus against you, email me. I’ll send you two free assessments and invite you to a one on one call to talk through what you learn and what it means for your next success. Email: caroline@nextsuccesscareers.comor access the assessments and scheduling now at https://nextsuccesscareers.com/mental-fitness Support the show Subscribe to Your Next Success so you never miss an episode. Watch full video episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NextSuccessMethod/ Learn more about Next Success www.nextsuccesscareers.com

    13 min
  2. JAN 22

    Dr. Dan Bamper: From Lab Coat To Black Belt CFO

    Send us a text What happens when a chemist and lifelong martial artist decides to fix his business finances like a lab experiment? In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with with Dr. Dan Bamper, a PhD chemist, teacher, martial artist, and Profit Coach who now serves as a fractional CFO for 7 figure contractors and trades business owners. Dan shares how an eight year PhD journey, burnout in grad school, a 270 student martial arts school, and a high level role at a nuclear waste repository all led to his current work. Along the way, he discovered that the same skills that helped him run complex experiments could be used to read financial data, build systems, and help business owners finally see where their money is going. You will hear how he scaled his own dojo by roughly 150 thousand dollars in a year, why he left a secure government job, and how he now helps business owners keep more of the money they make without endless hustle. In this episode, you will learn: How martial arts shaped Dan’s mindset around discipline, perseverance, and leadershipThe reality of grad school burnout and how returning to martial arts helped him reconnect with his own powerWhat he learned inside the Department of Energy working on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and how that sharpened his systems thinkingHow he turned a bookkeeping side hustle into Black Belt Ledgers and began helping 7 figure contractors add six figures in profitThe simple metrics he tracks so owners can stop guessing and start making data informed decisionsConnect with Dan - Join Dan’s free Skool community for business owners who want to get clear on their numbers and build profit driven systems:  https://www.skool.com/chief-financial-you Support the show Subscribe to Your Next Success so you never miss an episode. Watch full video episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NextSuccessMethod/ Learn more about Next Success www.nextsuccesscareers.com

    1 hr
5
out of 5
9 Ratings

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Have you ever looked at your life or career and quietly wondered, “Is this it?” That question isn’t a crisis — it’s a signal. An invitation. A beginning. Your Next Success Podcast with Dr. Caroline Sangal is for students, job seekers, and professionals navigating career transitions, unexpected detours, and the search for authentic success. Here, we normalize questioning your path — because discovering what you truly want begins with letting go of who you thought you had to be. You’ll hear: Honest conversations about layoffs, pivots, burnout, and reinventionGuest interviews with real people navigating career and life turning pointsInsights and frameworks to help you align your work with your purposeWhether you’re just starting out, reimagining what’s next, or simply asking deeper questions — this is your space to pause, reflect, and rebuild from a place of clarity. Stop chasing someone else’s version of success.Start building the career — and life — you were made for. Tune in and begin Your Next Success.