FROM SURVIVING TO HEARD.

I was not in a good mental space at all when we met. I had been looking for a job for well over a year... it was an emotional, for me, a very emotional time because I never really had a job. I had trouble finding a job.

I had been laid off from a job that I thought was the perfect job... So to come down here to Florida and lose my job and not be able to find one, the amount of guilt that I was holding, I didn't even realize how much guilt I was holding until I got to the forgiveness section of the class.

I really felt alone. So you're stuck in your house. You're not going out, so what are you doing? I didn't have any other outlets except this.

I had looked at other companies and the biggest thing I found with Career Evolved was that you're very adamant about getting my voice back. And that to me was huge, because every other company I spoke to talked about how they would tell us what to say. But at the end of the day, I thought, well, I need to be me. I need to be my authentic self.

At the end of the day, the work I did with CE wasn't so much about finding a job. It was about finding myself. And that made a huge difference, because I had the skills. I always had them...

But to hear somebody validate my level of experience when you said, yes, we'll take you on. I believe you can get to a C-suite level. You are C-suite. Had somebody validate my skills and my talent level and my energy, it was a spark.

To have the weekly meeting, to get connected to people, meet with them outside of the regular meetings, just really helped keep me focused on what I needed to do... my second interview was on Zoom. And the first thing he said to me was, you're professionally dressed and you have a really awesome background.

Well, that's marketing. It's packaging and people that think about that.

You're actually stepping outside of the question and turning it around, say, how can I help you? So those thoughts were in the back of my head during every question that was asked... I added additional commentary to my interview so that they could see another side. It wasn't just answer the question and then be quiet.

You went into this with more of a consultative sales approach in service, right? And that's a framework and it's a mindset. But I think what's really powerful is you were also genuine, because this was a family owned business and they needed to feel that connection to trust you.

I don't think I would have gotten past the first Zoom interview where that was recorded... the father comment was, I watched your interview with the consultant. He said, I've watched it a few times. He goes, and I liked what you had to say.

I was present, very present and detached in a way that I wasn't like, oh my gosh, I'm going to starve to death if I don't get this job.

That's the key, right? Cause they need to see you as needing them less than you need them, right? The dynamic has to be, they need to need you more than you need them for you to really be able to be in your power.

Every conversation I had with outside people, every contact I made... gave me some other part that I needed to hear at that exact moment.

I am a hundred percent better off than I long before I started. I think this is my best version of myself that I've seen in a really long time.