"3, 2, 1 iRelaunch" Relaunching in Senior Roles Mini Series
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A Paycut May Be Your Springboard to Success with Mara Feldman
Episode 45
Mara Feldman was a multiple award-winning pharmaceutical sales representative and regional sales trainer at GlaxoSmithKline when she left to become a stay-at-home mother. Mara decided to return to work eight years later. In this podcast, Mara describes how she knew it was time to go back to work, the difficulty in finding a job during the recession, and how contacts and experience gained by taking a lower-paying contract sales position opened doors that were originally inaccessible when she started her relaunch.
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From Goldman Sachs Returnship to Managing Director in Less Than Five Years, with Lori Taylor
Episode 211
Lori Taylor is head of America’s corporate lending and derivatives in Credit Risk at Goldman Sachs. She relaunched her Wall Street career by participating in Goldman’s Returnship program in 2015, which she joined shortly after attending our iRelaunch Return to Work Conference in the Fall of 2014. Lori advanced from her Goldman Returnship to a Managing Director role in less than five years. Hear about Lori’s experience at the Return to Work conference, the subsequent events that led to her getting hired for the Returnship program, her time during the program, and her career progression since then. Lori also discusses the valuable support she received throughout from her Goldman colleagues, family and friends -- including her best friend's perspective-setting advice that helped her make her return to work decision.
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How Networking Makes the Difference Relaunching to a Senior Role, with Mary Catherine Malley
Episode 224
Mary Catherine Malley is Senior Corporate Counsel for Juniper Networks. Her route to this huge role for a global, NYSE listed, multi-billion company following an 11 year career break is the topic of our conversation. A surprising conversation with a neighbor jumpstarted her relaunch, and ended up in a returnship-like role for his company. Mary Catherine details the key role networking played in her relaunch, and how attending our iRelaunch Return to Work Conference twice and the iRelaunch Roadmap helped guide her relaunch.
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How Persistence and Risk-taking led to a Partner Role in Silicon Valley, with Anita Rehman
Episode 241
Anita Rehman is a Partner at GSV in Silicon Valley who took a 2-year career break. Her experience encompasses roles as an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to global companies in the Technology sector. Prior to GSV, Anita was an investment professional at Vantage Point Capital Partners where she invested in early to growth stage technology companies across the Consumer, Enterprise and Energy sectors. In addition, Anita is the founder of a vertically integrated plus size womenswear retail startup.
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From Corporate Relaunch to Senior Executive Leadership to a NonProfit CEO with Kerry Carter
Episode 254
After her relaunch and subsequent rise to senior executive leadership roles in the distribution and logistics industry, Kerry Carter made the leap to the nonprofit world, taking on the role of CEO of Hope & Comfort. Hope & Comfort provides basic hygiene products to tens of thousands of adults in need in Massachusetts such as deodorant, toothpaste, shampoo. Before her current role, Kerry led a national same-day specialty logistics company focused on the medical and life sciences industry and had a long career at Staples Business Advantage, where she held numerous senior executive leadership roles and roles in sales, marketing, merchandising, strategy and acquisition integration. Kerry’s story also includes taking a six year career break to care for her family. Hear how she maintained connections during her time away and how she made the shift to nonprofit.
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Relaunching in Tech in the US and India after Three Career Breaks, with Shweta Sharma
Episode 256
"How does a technical professional prepare for relaunching her career in technical roles after career breaks of different lengths and in two countries? What kind of updating is required? How does the job search work? Did it get any easier after each career break? Did the strategies change?
A strong proponent for the benefits relaunchers can bring to an organization, and as part of her commitment to “paying it forward,” Shweta Sharma gives us the answers from her first hand experience. Shweta, a senior software engineer at Intuit in India, has had roles ranging from developing a digital marketing, product at a startup, to working on cloud technologies and architectures for a multinational company.
As part of this comprehensive discussion, Shwetha shares great advice on how to study for technical exams and why she looked forward to every interview no matter what her chances."
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Relaunchers in Senior Roles: How Carmen Park Rose Through the Ranks after an 8yr Career Break
Episode 263
Carmen Park is a technical leader with experience in the automotive, electronics, telecom, semiconductor, defense, and medical device industries. She is a senior manager at Johnson & Johnson and is pursuing a master’s degree in data analytics at Penn State University. Carmen returned to a technical role after an 8-year career break. Listen in as she describes the key role her husband had in supporting her before and during her relaunch, and how her involvement in the Society of Women Engineers had a positive impact on her relaunch. Carmen's picture was featured on posters all over the Society of Women Engineer's annual Conference in 2022, which had 16,000 people in attendance! Carmen also describes how her Master's degree has been a factor in her career progression.
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From a Wall Street returnship to DEI leader: a relauncher reflects, with Jennifer Andrews
Episode 280
Jennifer Andrews is an equity and inclusion expert who relaunched her career in 2015 as part of Credit Suisse's Real Returns program in their second cohort. After eight and a half years at Credit Suisse, Jennifer took on a new role leading the equity and inclusion efforts globally at Guardian Life, where she is today. We speak with Jennifer about her job search and experience relaunching through a returnship, how a volunteer position with her children’s school inspired her to pursue a career in DEI, as well as her career progression since her relaunch. Jennifer attended the iRelaunch Return to Work Conference in 2014 and will discuss the critical role of the Conference in her relaunch.
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Six promotions in IT at Discover following a 5 year career break, with Heather Bannon
Episode 289
In 2006, Heather left her role as a Senior Programmer Systems Analyst at Discover Financial Services to begin a five year childcare career break. She ultimately relaunched her career by returning to Discover, where she has been promoted six times over the 13 years since she has been back. Heather is currently the Senior Director of Information Technology at Discover. She is a big supporter of relaunchers, which she has posted about on LinkedIn, including her enthusiasm for our Normalizing Career Breaks mission. We will also find out how Heather graduated with a fine arts degree and was able to transition to a technical career both before and after her relaunch at Discover.
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Reaching Senior Level Management after Relaunch: Keita Young's Exciting Career Path
From thinking she would apply to the library around the corner from her house to becoming FanDuel's first Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Keita Young's #relaunch story is unmissable!
Watch Keita talk about her journey after a 11 year career break, her experience of relaunching her legal career through JPMorgan Chase’s ReEntry Program and her road to senior level management.
Tune into this video interview with the formidable Keita Young!
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