Job Search, Promotion, and Career Clarity: The Mid-Career GPS Podcast
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Are you feeling stuck, undervalued, or underutilized in your current role?
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Hosted by executive and career transition coach John Neral, The Mid-Career GPS Podcast is your go-to resource to help you confidently navigate your job search, career advancement, and workplace challenges. Whether you want to find a new job, get promoted, or simply feel more fulfilled at work, this show will help you build the clarity and strategy you need to take your next step.
Each episode features actionable advice, insightful interviews, and real-world strategies to help mid-career professionals, typically managers to senior directors, design a career they love or love the career they have.
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Episodes
364 episodes
359: The Invisible Promotion Test & Why You May Not Be Passing It
Promotions can feel deeply personal, especially when you are carrying the workload, delivering results, and still watching someone else move up.In this episode of The Mid-Career GPS Podcast, I’m asking the question many mid-ca...
358: The Curse of Competence: How High Achievers Can Set Boundaries Before They Break with Tammie Calys
You can be the most dependable person in the room and still be quietly falling apart.Many mid-career professionals have built their reputations by being capable, responsive, and willing to solve difficult problems. But when you become th...
357: How to Manage Up When Your Boss Is Not Giving You What You Need
Your boss is not a mind reader, and hoping they become a better manager is not a career development strategy.When your one-on-one meetings keep getting canceled, priorities change without warning, and the only feedback you rec...
356: How to Negotiate a Job Offer Without Losing It
You finally hear the words you have been waiting for: “We’re excited to make you an offer.”Instead of feeling relieved, your stomach drops.You know the negotiation is coming, and you are worried that asking f...
355: Style, Confidence, and Professional Presence with Caden Broussard and Jinny Chen from Cello Closet
What you wear communicates something before you ever say a word.For mid-career professionals, personal style is not simply about following trends or buying expensive clothes. It can influence how confidently you walk into a jo...
354: What Tough Feedback Is Really Telling You
This video is about My Feedback can be difficult to hear, especially when it conflicts with how you see yourself.You believe you are confident, but someone describes you as dismissive. You consider yourself collaborative, yet ...
353: Own Your Career Growth in This Job Market
What if the biggest risk to your career isn't getting laid off, but assuming someone else is responsible for your growth?For years, many professionals were told that if they worked hard, stayed loyal, and delivered results, their company...
352: When Your Career Gets Blindsided: How Sarah White Turned a Job Loss Into Opportunity
One unexpected phone call can change everything.Sarah White thought she had stability as a restaurant partner. Then she learned her partners had voted without her, planned to sell the business, and were ...
351: Retirement Is Not the End of Your Career with Rich Lucey
What happens when you stop seeing retirement as an escape plan and start treating it like a leadership decision?In this episode of The Mid-Career GPS Podcast, I sit down with my friend Rich Lucey to talk about retirement plann...
350: Summer Is Costing You More Career Momentum Than You Think
If you have been treating summer like a season to slow down professionally, this episode may challenge everything you believe about career growth at mid-career.Too many mid-career professionals mentally check out between Memor...
349: Why Your One-on-Ones Are Failing Your Team
Most managers think strong leadership means holding regular one-on-one meetings. But if those conversations are nothing more than project updates and task reviews, your team is not being led. They are being supervised.In this ...
348: Fix Your One-on-One Meetings Before Your Team Checks Out
If your one-on-one meetings keep getting canceled, rushed, or pushed aside, your team is already getting the message.In this episode of The Mid-Career GPS Podcast, I break down why consistent one-on-one meetings are one of the...
347: You Think You’re in the Right Job. You Might Be Wrong
“The right job feels like home” is a comforting idea, but at mid-career it can quietly keep you stuck.In this episode, I challenge the belief that clarity, excitement, and relief mean you’ve found the right role. Those feeling...
346: Feeling Stuck in Your Mid-Career? Stop Overthinking Career Decisions and Use This Smarter Strategy
If you are feeling stuck in your mid-career or struggling to decide whether to stay in your current job or make a career change, this episode will challenge how you think about career decisions.I see this all the time with mid...
345: Mid-Career Pivot Without Regret: How to Let Go of Sunk Costs and Build a Career You Love with Lisa Kaplin
If you are a mid-career professional who feels stuck, burned out, or questioning whether your career still fits, this episode will help you rethink what forward progress actually looks like. I sit down with executive leadership coach and psycho...
344: Why Your Career Strategy Isn't Working Anymore
If you are a mid-career professional doing everything right but still feeling stuck, this episode will challenge how you think about effort, visibility, and advancement in today’s job market.I see this pattern all the time. Yo...
343: Surviving vs. Thriving: Where You’re Settling in Your Career and Life
I celebrated my 57th birthday with a tradition that never changes, a Carvel ice cream cake. That moment took me back to something simple and familiar, but it also sparked a deeper reflection I hear from so many mid-career professionals right no...
342: You Cannot Negotiate Your Worth but You Can Negotiate Your Value with Candyce Hunt
You are not underpaid because your worth is low. You are underpaid because of what you agreed to.That distinction matters more than you think.In this episode, I sit down with leadership strategist, TEDx speaker, and career coach C...
341: How You SHOW UP Is the New Mid-Career Strategy
The mid-career job market can challenge your confidence in ways you did not expect. You make it to final interviews but do not get the offer. You hear “we will be in touch” and then nothing. You start to question whether it is safer to stay whe...
340: Change Career Direction Without Starting Over
If you have ever caught yourself thinking, “I don’t want to start over, but I can’t stay where I am,” you are not alone. Many high-performing professionals reach a point in mid-career where their success on paper no longer matches how their wor...
339: When Success Feels Empty at Mid-Career: Close the Gap Between Achievement and Fulfillment
If your career looks impressive on paper but feels hollow in real life, you are not broken. You are evolving.In this episode, I speak directly to mid-career professionals who are successful, respected, and accomplished, yet qu...
338: Why You're Not Being Promoted | Strategies to Increase Your Mid-Career Visibility
If you are doing great work but still not getting promoted, you are not alone. At mid-career, strong performance becomes the baseline. Promotions go to the professionals who signal leadership readiness, shape outcomes, and are visible to decisi...
337: When Leadership Holds You Back
Have you ever felt stuck working for a boss who will not advocate for you, invest in your development, or support your growth? Many mid-career professionals do strong work while feeling invisible, overlooked, and unsure how to move ...
336: Subtract to Succeed with Nell 3D (Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey)
Are you working harder than ever yet feeling less visible, less fulfilled, and more burned out in your career?In this episode, I sit down with leadership strategist and Forbes senior contributor Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey, Ne...
335: Mid-Career and Unsure What’s Next? Start With This One Move
Feeling stuck in your career while the job market feels crowded and unpredictable? You are not alone. Many mid-career professionals are navigating confusing signals right now. Job boards are flooded, promotion paths feel ...