Your Next Big Thing
Neil Metzler, Founder @ Your Next Big Thing Coaching
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Your Next Big Thing shares inspiring stories of senior professionals making big changes to find more satisfaction from work and happiness from life. Host Neil Metzler (Founder, Principal at Cloud Champions Coaching) welcomes each guest to share why they made this difficult change, how they built a bridge, and what they learned. Our three messages are: 1) Careers are no longer linear. 2) You’re not in this alone 3) There’s a human underneath that armor. Join us to feel inspired, learn something new and connect!
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S2E9 Yosemite Search & Rescue to Resilient Mindset Coach | Josie McKee
Josie McKee is the Founder of Mind Athlete and Director, Operations & Communications at Responder Alliance.In this episode, we talked about her triumphs, setbacks and growth in high-pressure…
S2E8 Opera to CTO | Sarah Polan
Sarah Polan (Field CTO, Principal Director) completed a major career reinvention from opera singer to IT leadership. Early on, Sarah leveraged a bootcamp and built a bridge into IT by delivering a…
S2E7 Surface Warfare Officer to General Manager | Benin Allen, US Navy Veteran
I learned a lot from speaking with Benin about having the courage to think big about careers and plot my own course. As the host of this podcast, I'd like to remind us that the west coast tech…
S2E6 Full-time Parenting Unlocks Dream Job | Jeana Jorgensen | Your Next Big Thing
Can you imagine leaving a Senior Director role at Google to embrace parenting three rambunctious boys full-time? 🤠In this episode, I speak with Jeana Jorgensen about promoting herself to Full-Time…
S2E5 Performance with purpose in the AI era | Ugur 'Mik' Catmak, Ümit Uludag
Join us for a special year end wrap-up! My guests are big tech heavyweights, Ugur "Mik" Catmak (Founder, Lean High Performance Academy) and Ümit Uludag (expert on lifelong learning).We talk creating…
S2E4 Special Episode! Neil talks going solo, stepping back into full time & more
Special episode alert! I had the chance to be interviewed by Deborah Sgro (Global Mentorship Director, Women in Big Data). For the first time, I share:-Why I went solo-How you can launch a solo…
S2E3 Social Work to Finance + EMBA | Gabrielle D'Angelo
Today's episode is about finding the courage to make a big change - and continuing that career reinvention curve through partnership, marriage and kids. My guest today is lifelong learner Gabby…
S2E2 Learning in the Cloud | Fred Hoskyns
Welcome to Season 2! My guest is lifelong learner Fred Hoskyns (Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS). In this episode, I ask Fred how he built a bridge into the AWS cloud and created learning and career…
S2E1 Surfing Into UX Research | Chelsea Keaulani Brown
Welcome to our Season 2 Premiere! My guest is avid surfer and children's book author Chelsea Keaulani Brown (YouTube, Looker). In this episode, I ask Chelsea how she built a bridge into UX Research…
S1E6 Living Your Values - Surf, Tech and Photography | David Dennis
Welcome to our Season 1 finale! My guest today is David Dennis. David is the son of a successful software entrepeneur, and he originally went in a totally different direction than Dad. David studied…
S1E5 Marriage Broker Auntie to Billion-Dollar Startup VP | Priyanka Bharadwaj
Read more of Priyanka's work on her Substack:https://shapelygal.substack.com/I'm pleased to recognize executive coach Marie-Caroline Chauvet in this episode. Learn more about her work…
S1E4 Diplomacy to AI Principles to Tea | MJ Pham
Hello listeners, Neil here. I need to warn you that this episode contains a description of intimate partner violence. Listener discretion is advised. If you or someone you know is at risk in the…
S1E3 Appellate Law to Software Engineering | Josh Stillman
During an 8 year career practicing Law, Josh won multi-$MM victories for corporate clients and immigration relief pro bono. Josh holds a JD from New York University Law School, where he graduated in…
S1E2 Head of Customer Success to Full-Time Artist | Franziska Raffaël
During her ten year career in business, Franziska developed a side hustle as an artist, painter and muralist.In *2021, I noticed Franziska post a creative and entertaining video reintroducing herself…
S1E1 Fashion Unicorn to Enterprise AR/VR | Nassima Filali
Have you found success in your field, only to find curiosity leading you to your next big thing? Nassima Filali (Paris, Berlin) went from founding a fashion startup with her best friend, to joining…
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Your Next Big Thing has published 15 episodes since January 2022, covering topics in Business, Careers.
Your Next Big Thing is currently moderate with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 38m.
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