Careergasm
Careergasm is a place to help you find your way to feel-good work. These are heartfelt conversations about the human side of career navigation and career change. Including all of the squishy feelings that come along with being a human at work — things like overwhelm, uncertainty, fear, desire, intuition, and courage.
Hosted by Sarah Vermunt, bestselling author of Careergasm, whose work has been featured at Forbes, Fortune, Inc., Entrepreneur, and Fast Company.
If you've lost your career mojo and want it back, you've come to the right place. It's time to feel good again.
Episodes
22 episodes
What's Really Important. Season 1 Wrap.
In this episode we'll wrap our arms around the most important themes and questions to consider when navigating your career. 5 questions to carry with you:1. What does my outer conditioning tell me to do? Vs. What does my intuition tell ...
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35:18
But I Don't Know How!
You know that heart flutter feeling when there's something new you want to move towards? But then fear sweeps in, shouting, "but I don't know how to do that!". Not knowing how to do something can feel like an impassible roadblock. So in this ep...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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21:54
Audio Diary: Coming Out as Clairvoyant
Welp. I've been sitting on this for long enough. And I have a ton of fear about moving forward with it. Doing it anyway.For updates and invitations to Psychic Normies, join my email list.
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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32:47
Self Employment: Permission to Explore
Considering starting something of your own can feel like a seesaw between fear and desire. Like when you have an idea for a business bubble up, but then before it's even fully formed you shut it down. In this episode we'll talk about how to fee...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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20:05
The "What Ifs": Trying to Control the Future
We can't predict the future. (Dammit!) And that can make career decisions feel scary. We'll talk about why we shouldn't leak too much energy in the quest for control, and what we can do instead.
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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20:56
How Would I Behave Differently If I Trusted Myself?
How much self-trust do you have? Do you trust yourself to do what's right for you? In this episode we're talking about developing self-trust, why it's hard, and how to practice acting on your discernment so decisions feel easier.
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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17:34
How Your Childhood Conditioning is Impacting Your Career Decisions
We often make decisions largely based on assumptions, beliefs, and blind spots that were given to us by somebody else. Usually early in life. In this episode, we'll look at our childhood conditioning and why it's important to do a "cognitive oi...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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23:38
Breakdowns and Burnout: How They're Trying to Help Us
Today we'll talk about how we can come to see these very hard experiences as helping to illuminate something that needs to be addressed. Plus, I talk about my own breakdown and all the signs I ignored along the way before I got reached my break...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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17:12
The Part of You That Is Afraid Needs Your Help
The part of you that is afraid of change — even the thought of change — isn't bad. It just needs your help. In this episode, we'll talk about how to shine some light on fear, and invite it to the table, instead of trying to force it in...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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16:16
Why Pros and Cons Aren't Enough: Developing Intuition
How to help your anxious mind get more comfortable with intuition. Plus, why weighing pros and cons often isn't enough when you're trying to make a decision.The Half-Baked Ide...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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22:20
Why Can't I Hear My Intuition?
Intuition is such a powerful career navigation tool. But so many people feel like they can't connect with it. Or if they can connect with it, they have a hard time trusting it. In this episode we'll talk about why people struggle...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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26:55
Lost Your Job? A Love Letter.
Have you ever lost your job? Been let go? Fired? Laid off? You may have felt shock, panic, numbness, grief, anger, or a mix of all of those things. In this episode, we're talking about job loss from inside the human experience, and I'm sh...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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20:56
Audio Diary: I Don't Know What's Next
Sometimes I'll show up here and I'll have my shit together, and sometimes I won't. In this audio diary episode, I share some fuzzy details that I'm trying to navigate in my own career. I'm coming to you from the messy middle with no solutions o...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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21:19
But I'm So Tired
How do you move forward and start to feel better in your career when you're already so tired? When there's very little in the tank? In this episode, we talk about some different kinds of tired (frustrated tired? malaise tired? flat out full-bod...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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33:00
Fear on Steroids: Career Change Feeeelings
Treating a career change like a purely tactical, logical problem doesn't work. Because we need to address the mental and emotional side of career change. We're complicated human beings, so we need a more nuanced, human framewo...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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19:35
Are You Really Powerless?
If you feel powerless in your career you probably feel trapped, like you don't have options. Maybe you have a boss you hate. Maybe you feel undervalued. Maybe you can't see a way out of your current career path. In this episode, we'll talk abou...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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22:21
Yes, The System Sucks
We're zooming waaay out to look at our system of work and our place as people in it. Capitalism. Corporations. Huge gaps in wealth and power. It's all in the mix today, including why things need to change, and where we have some power.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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17:22
Is this safe?
Is this thing I'm considering doing with my my career safe? How do I make good career decisions for myself in a world that keeps changing? How do I choose something that feels safe? Valid question. Complicated question. And in many ways a loade...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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19:54
How To Actually Get What You Want
There are probably a few things you want this year. And you're probably already thinking about how to get them. We'll walk through that today — how to get what you want. And hold on to your hats, because how to get there is not what you expect....
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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23:34
Making a Career Change: Mistakes to Avoid
You've decided to do it. You're making a career change. But you want to be smart about it. So you're wondering, is there anything I should know? Is there anything I should do or not do so I don't screw this up?Yup. We're go...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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31:24
I Don't Know What I Want
If you're feeling lost about your career, you may be wondering WTF is wrong with me? Why can't I figure this out? The good news is there is nothing wrong with you, and there are some very good reasons why you may feel lost. We'll talk about tho...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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33:08