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The Career Change Challenge

The Career Change Challenge

The Career Change Challenge is a comprehensive 30-day career change program for anyone who is underemployed, unemployed, underpaid, or undervalued. The program include over 6 hours of video content, 50 videos, and a 250+ page workbook organized into 4 modules that include: Create your D.R.E.A.M. Life (career & life visioning) Attract your D.RE.A.M. Career (personal [...]

The 4 Deepest Desires That Can Stop Your Success

The 4 Deepest Desires That Can Stop Your Success

1. The Need To Be In Control The need to be in control is really a lack of trust in God, The Universe, and other people. It says that only I know what’s best for me, when in fact that’s usually not true. Consider all of the times: – you’ve got in the wrong lane [...]

Why Nice Guys Finish Last in their Careers

Why Nice Guys Finish Last in their Careers

It’s sad, but true—GOOD PEOPLE aren’t always GOOD PERFORMERS. This is the hardest leadership lesson I’ve every learned. I wish you could judge someone’s PERFORMANCE by their PERSONALITY, but you can’t. Oftentimes, niceness is overcompensation for people’s inability in the areas you need them the most. We’ve been trained since kindergarten to be nice and [...]

What’s Your Magic Bullet?: 9 Years Since I Was Held Up At Gunpoint

What’s Your Magic Bullet?: 9 Years Since I Was Held Up At Gunpoint

(Celebrating 9 years after I was held up at gunpoint for my car) How come some people live a life of their own choosing while others don’t? What stops people from doing what they love every day? What would it take to get you to quit that dead end job and start making a living? [...]

How to Write the World’s Best Resume Ever

How to Write the World’s Best Resume Ever

Who has the marbles to walk into an interview and drop this resume on the table? If I was recruiting for my company and someone submitted this resume, I would probably hire them on the spot. You can write the most thorough resume with strong action verbs, the nicest layout, with the best schools and [...]

The Entrepreneur’s Checklist: How to Build a Company in a Year

The Entrepreneur’s Checklist: How to Build a Company in a Year

Every day I meet people who want to be self-employed or at least want to have a side hustle related to one of their passions that brings in some passive income. When I listen to people’s stories and challenges, I hear the same issues over and over again. This is specifically for knowledge-based entrepreneurs meaning [...]

Letter To An MBA

Letter To An MBA

Dear MBA Student, These are my thoughts as a 2007 Stanford GSB grad after sitting on a career panel at The Columbia Graduate School of Business. Let me know what you think. This has not been checked for grammar. It’s a freewrite. Thanks for reading. MBAs are risk averse. Business school students are among the [...]

Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself: Jullien Gordon’s Resume 2.0

Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself: Jullien Gordon’s Resume 2.0

Resume 1.0 is dead. A single sheet of paper with text can’t capture who you are. But perhaps you don’t want to develop a full website either. So the best way to reintroduce yourself to potential employers is with a Resume 2.0. I don’t need to say much more. It speaks for itself.

Dear Failure,

Dear Failure,

Dear Failure, I remember when we first met. You were wearing all black and I was afraid of you. At the time, I was dating Good Enough. I didn’t want to take a risk on you. With Good Enough, I was safe, secure, and comfortable. But Good Enough wasn’t good enough. I needed more. I [...]

10 Cents A Minute: UNDERemployment vs. Unemployment

10 Cents A Minute: UNDERemployment vs. Unemployment

According to the dictionary, UNDERemployment is defined in 3 ways: Employment of individuals with greater skills than the job requires Involuntary part-time works—workers who would work full-time if they could but can’t find it Overstaffing—businesses hiring workers who aren’t fully occupied when at work Unemployment occurs when a person is available to work and seeking [...]

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