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Episode 156: Relaunching as a Human Resources Professional After 18 Years Away, with Ellie St. John

Ellie St. John is a Human Resources professional who relaunched her career after a nearly 18 year career break. Ellie wrote to us a few months ago about how much Back on the Career Track, the “Bible of career reentry” co-authored by Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin, was…

Episode 155: Relaunching a Social Work Career After a 25 Year Career Break - with Mimi Kahn

This episode is the first in our mini-series on relaunch success after extra-long career breaks. Mimi Kahn, a bilingual, licensed social worker, relaunched at the Families Forward social services organization in Orange County, CA after a 25 year career break – one of the longest we have on record! Mimi,…

Episode 153: From Adjunct Instructor to Top-Rated Tenured Professor - with Susan Samuelson

Following her graduation from law school in 1977, Susan Samuelson went immediately into big firm law where she was progressing well. After having two children however, the relentless schedule of corporate law transactions combined with the demands of family life forced a reckoning for this high achiever. She left the…

Episode 152: Taking the Mystery Out of Recruiting Video Introductions & Interviews – with Cynthia Siemens

Are you wondering about those video introductions and interviews that are becoming a more regular part of the recruiting process? Cynthia Siemens, Communications Director for HireVue, a leader in video interviewing and AI-driven video and game-based assessments breaks it down for us. Not only is Cynthia an expert on this…

Episode 151: How to Be Flexible and Fearless When Your Company Pivots During Covid - with Sarah Mills

Sarah Mills is Senior Director of Events for iRelaunch, which means she manages all iRelaunch conferences and events. She is a relauncher who took an 8 year career break but has now been back in the workforce for 10 years. Sarah had to embrace uncertainty and fearlessness when iRelaunch…

Episode 150: Relaunching in Sustainable Investing via a Public Sector Executive Fellowship - with Liz Thorne

Finance and sustainable investment professional Liz Thorne relaunched her finance career via an executive fellowship in Massachusetts Governor Patrick’s administration, with a role that continued and expanded in Governor Baker’s administration. Her work in the state’s top finance agency led to her current role in the private sector focusing on…

Episode 149: Relaunching and Industry Switching After an 8 Year Career Break - with Salli Cobb

Salli Cobb is now a Product Manager for a major HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) manufacturer. A mechanical engineer, Salli left her plant engineer role at a coal and natural-gas fired power plant to move with her family when her husband got an overseas assignment. After an eight year career…

Episode 148: Relaunching at the State of California: Persistence Pays Off - with Letitia Shen

Letitia Shen is a Hazardous Substances Engineer at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, a role she got after a career break of over 20 years. She has been an active member of our largest private Facebook group, the iRelaunch Return to Work Forum. Letitia tells us how to…

Episode 147: Physicians Relaunching in Non-Clinical Medicine with Kim Winsey Stevenson

Dr. Winsey Stevenson talks with Carol about her initial relaunch as an on-site physician advisor following an extended career break after leaving her clinical general surgery practice, and her subsequent move to medical director at an insurance company. Kim will talk about what it was like to re-take and pass…

Episode 143: Relaunching and Career Transitioning - with Kendell Brown

Kendell Brown, Founder of Ascension Careers, first transitioned her career from finance to brand management after she got her MBA. Later, after her career break, she transitioned her career again when she took a role in career services at a major university. Finally, she used all of her accumulated skills…

Episode 142: How a Lawyer Turned Hedge Fund Manager Relaunched in Regulatory Compliance - Dorothy Dewitt

Dorothy DeWitt, Director of the Division of Market Oversight at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, grew up on a Texas farm and later graduated from University of Texas at Austin and Harvard Law School. She successfully relaunched her career in 2014 in a much more junior role than when…

Episode 141: How Relauncher Kara Goldin Built Hint Into a $100 Million Business: An Undaunted Approach to Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Kara Goldin, Founder and CEO of Hint, talks to Carol about how she left a powerful career to be home with her kids, and got the idea for Hint when looking for a healthy, good-tasting alternative to diet drinks. They discuss Kara’s early career at Time magazine, CNN and AOL,…