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INTERVIEW: Resilience and Importance of Self-Care

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Another Peak-Careers INTERVIEW  on Resilience for Job Seekers: The importance of having a Healthy Body and Brain.

My guests today are:

Sabrina Woods,  Holistic Career Coach & International Trainer / Speaker

Aileen Axtmayer is a Career Coach and Corporate Wellness Speaker

Kim Bilawchuk is a Career Coach

(1)- Many of our clients struggle to find their next job. Why is having a healthy body and brain so important to them?

(2) What suggestions do you have to help them take care of themselves?

https://youtu.be/7EV9C6bS49g

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE INTERVIEW

Rise Above Your Stress: http://www.sabrina-woods.com/uploads/1/0/2/3/10238814/rising_above_job_search_stress_-sabrina_woods-_handout.pdf

10 Tips to Build Resilience: http://www.sabrina-woods.com/uploads/1/0/2/3/10238814/buiding_resilience_top_10_tips_-hopesummit-_sabrina_woods_5-4-20.pdf

https://associationdatabase.com/aws/NCDA/pt/sd/news_article/471023/_PARENT/CC_layout_details/false

Tapping Solutions app https://www.thetappingsolution.com/

Calm App (on phone)

Insight Timer (on phone) Thousands of meditations to choose from, I love Mary Maddux’s Relax Into Sleep meditation and her walking meditation. Jim

Atomic Habits by James Clear
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Emotional First-Aid by Dr. Guy Winch

Yoga nidra and guided breathwork https://www.aspirewithaileen.com/workplace-wellness-guides

The On-Purpose Person: Making Your Life Make Sense by Kevin W. McCarthy

Bio’s

Sabrina Woods is a Holistic Career Coach & International Trainer / Speaker. She has 20 years in the career services field including at Harvard and Northeastern. In her coaching work, she uses holistic and mindfulness-based practices to help people with major career transitions. Sabrina also facilitates workshops on career and well-being topics such as the Myers Briggs, managing our stress, and capitalizing on Linkedin. For more info: www.sabrina-woods.com or www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinawoods. 

Aileen Axtmayer is a Career Coach and Corporate Wellness Speaker. In her practice, Aspire with Aileen, she helps exhausted professionals restore their energy, feel their best, and do what they love. Over the past 15+ years she’s helped thousands of people manage their stress and has presented to global groups of up to 300 people. Aileen believes that happiness in our careers can make us healthier and being healthier enables us to thrive in our work. www.aspirewithaileen.com 

Kim Bilawchuk is a Career Coach who is passionate about helping others live in alignment with who they are truly meant to be by slowing down to get ahead. A lifelong learner, she inspires her clients by creating unique approaches to explore and discover their greatest potential for transformation, growth, and healing, giving them individualized support and encouragement to live a life of calm and ease both personally and professionally, in a safe, supported, non-judgmental environment. Kim lives in Lowell, MA, with her amazing husband, two soccer-playing teenagers, and mutt named Albert. You can learn more about her at www.kbcareercoach.com and connect with her at www.linkedin.com/in/kimbilawchuk

Jim Peacock is the principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF, and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and The Adventure of Finding Me in New Zealand. He is also the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association and the Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association’s Professional Contribution’s Award in 2020.

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TED Talks for Self Care and Perspective Change

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Here are some TED Talks for self care in these difficult times. Recently I sent out a survey to my community and asked for TED Talk ideas, and more importantly, asked why they utilize TED Talks with their clients.

Thank you to the people who took the time to give your input here. Here are some nuggets from these folks on why they like TED Talks for their clients and for self care

  • Condensed and clarified messaging that helps educate them on something specific. 
  • I hope they will see how changing your thinking and perspective can really give you an attitude boost.
  • I hope that they will hear a nugget of information in a different way then previously presented, so it resonates 
  • Useful information about how humans operate. Invaluable insights backed by research (specific to Brene Brown’s talk)
  • The ones by Brene Brown are great for clients/students who have issues with perfectionism & difficulty letting their guard down.
TED Talks for career practitioners

Here are my 2020 TedTalks for self care and perspective change.

Most of you have the time now… check these out and please send me any other TedTalks that you discover, in particular ones you like to share with your clients to help them move forward in their career development.

Brene Brown was suggested by multiple people and was also on my list from last year. She is informative and funny and has a number of great messages.

The Power of Vulnerability

Listening to Shame

Why Your Critics Aren’t The Ones Who Count

Here are a couple that are really about challenging our perspective on ageism and one on millennial 

Ageism is kind of an opiate for the masses, according to Howard Fishman (podcast: The Anxious Boomer). “We can challenge bias unless we’ are aware of it.” ~ Ashton Applewhite. Applewhite is today’s cultural face ofAgeism. Her book, The Cradle Rocks, takes us through every part of ageism and convincingly points out how pernicious ageism can be. From the workforce, inside our marriages, at the doctor’s office. It’s everywhere.

Here is Ashton’s TEDTalk on Ageism, which garnered over 1.5 million views. It’s 11 minutes, but highly watchable.

The following TED Talk goes against current thinking and attitudes about transitioning out of college and insight to millenials.

Here is one from Alison Ledgerwood on improving positive thinking. This person submitting this says “I hope they will see how changing your thinking and perspective can really give you an attitude boost.“

I met JP Michel at NCDA a couple years ago and was impressed with his vision.

Students need to look beyond the job title to working on challenges – this is a “challenge mindset” that JP Michel is taking on helping teens make career decisions. His card  sort he’s created is awesome.  

Check out last years Ted Talks blog here

Here is my interview with Marie Eddy and Karla Wynn on “why TED Talks and how they use them for professional development. Watch now.

Bite-sized professional development – TED Talks

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching. He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move

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