Switch, Pivot or Qui‪t‬ Mayzie Media

On this episode, we chat with Lauren Legette, a senior business leader at Facebook who has navigated her career across tech, media + entertainment, and the gig economy. Through many professional pivots, Lauren has uncovered the formula for professional success making career transitions without spending thousands of dollars going back to school. From leveraging professional relationships to stakeholder management, she shares so much of what she’s learned with us this week!

We did a breakdown of the 8 habits of highly productive people back in 2019 but in this episode, I review the habits from then and add updates from now.

In this episode, we chat with Mia Lawrence, the Director of Product Development at global beauty retailer, Sally Beauty. With 10 years of experience in innovation and new product development, Mia’s career has centered around one philosophy: If you’re not innovating, you’re not growing. She shares what she thinks it takes to be successful in her field, her thoughts on treating your manager as a coach as well as navigating difficult review conversations and a behind-the-scenes look at an influencer product launch with hair and beauty influencer Mo Knows Hair.

We’re chatting with Dr. Tega Edwin, a career counselor and coach at Her Career Doctor who also uses her Ph.D. in Counselor Education as a professor to train future counselors in a large research university. We cover tips to job search with confidence, preparing for a career transition, five major keys for a fulfilling career, what you probably didn’t know about salary negotiation and so much more!

On this episode, we drop into another Cracking Corporate conversation with Elisa Segovia, Vice President, Programming and Brand Strategy at Univision. She chats with us about making a switch early in her career, navigating advancement within a single company, learning to manage and so much more!

This episode features Alexandra Carter guiding us on how to negotiate better, solve conflict and ultimately achieve goals by learning a few guiding principles and tips. We hosted this conversation on Clubhouse (new audio-only social networking app) so we had some live Q&A as well at the end!