COACHING CONNECTION
FOR YOUNG ADULTS
a free Positive Charge! PDX program for
BUILDING PRACTICAL CAREER & LIFE SKILLS
Has the COVID-19 pandemic obliterated your summer work or internship plans and wiped your social calendar clean? Wondering what your future holds? Is all the uncertainty and social distancing triggering loneliness or depression?
Positive Charge! PDX wants to help. So we asked experts to give their time to share with you tips and information to support you in finding your "pandemic" footing. The result is a series of FREE interactive Zoom discussions with Q&A on a variety of topics that will help young people build practical career and life skills. Maybe you'll even find a mentor or a job in the process of participating!
Each Zoom discussion, each person you meet, is one step closer to figuring out your right life. All you need to do is show up!
INTERACTIVE, VIRTUAL CALLS
TUESDAYS
6:00 pm PT, 9:00 pm ET
NEXT ONE IN THE SERIES:
Here's your Zoom link for all calls in this FREE TUESDAY series:
https://zoom.us/j/91181373570
Meeting ID: 911 8137 3570
No password required
No pre-registration required
JUST SHOW UP!
To check out recordings of past engaging, informative, super-interesting talks for this Young Adult Zoom series, check out our
YOUNG ADULTS: GOT SOME DISCUSSION REQUESTS OR QUESTIONS FOR THE COACHES?
T H E E X P E R T L I N E - U P
stepping up to support YOU!
Sept 22 - no Coaching Connection
Sept 29 - no Coaching Connection
Oct 6
OWNING YOUR OWN BUSINESS:
Do I Need an MBA or Common Sense?
with Steven Kaufman
of Red Fender Consulting, My Cup of Sugar Moment,
and author of
The Garbageman's Guide to Life: How to Get Out of the Dumps
Oct 13
GIVE A LITTLE, GET A LOT:
The Value of Volunteering & Philanthropy
in Your Career Journey
with Sonia Marie Leikam
Program Officer, Oregon Jewish Community Foundation
Oct 20
OUTSIDE-IN VS INSIDE-OUT THINKING:
Reclaim Your Power
with Bonnie Berg LCSW of
Oct 27
FINDING YOUR RIGHT LIFE:
To Boldly Go Where You
May Never Have Considered
with Steven Kaufman
of Red Fender Consulting, My Cup of Sugar,
and author of
Here's your Zoom link for all calls in this FREE TUESDAY series:
Meeting ID: 911 8137 3570 No password required No pre-registration required
MISS A PAST COACHING CONNECTION TALK?
We are ever grateful to the fabulous professionals who share their wisdom with young adults through the Positive Charge! PDX Coaching Connection. Because we know not everyone is able to attend each of the Coaching Connection talks, these generous mentors agreed to our recording their talks and sharing them widely. You can now listen and learn from past talks on our YouTube channel! The following talks are now posted:
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"Making Life Happen: Fueling Your Critical Thinking Skills to Explore Anticipate, and Be There First" with Becki Saltzman, founder of Applied Curiosity Lab
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"A Hard-Hitting, Practical, Straightforward Guide to Landing a Job" with Steven Kaufman of Red Fender Consulting, My Cup of Sugar Moment, and author of The Garbageman's Guide to Life: How to Get Out of the Dumps
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"Get Your $ Together Now: Financial Musts for your 20s - 30s" with Kim Rosenberg, CFP (R) and Managing Principal, Rosenbaum Financial
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"Your Brain on Anxiety"with Bonnie Berg, LCSW
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"How to Get Promoted" with Steven Kaufman of Red Fender Consulting, My Cup of Sugar Moment, and author of The Garbageman's Guide to Life: How to Get Out of the Dumps
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"Tech Trends Shaping Our Future" with Stephen Saltzman, Recovering Venture Capitalist, now Business Strategist and Advisor
Share our YouTube link with all young adults you know!
Coaches' Pearls...
Advice to their younger selves, if they were to start all over again...
All experience is great experience. Hard work will get you to your goals. It is OK to try things and not like them, but try them. College was OK for several of my friends, but hands-on work was best for me. I learned best in the field, and I became successful with my type of learning. I had good guidance and great respect for the person who taught me what I know, and I am passing that forward with the people who work for me. Good, honest work and relationships pay off.
I would take time to thoroughly explore and experience my career choices before starting a long and expensive academic program. The academic piece may sound exciting, but the practical application may be the last thing I want to do the rest of my life. Taking the time on the front end to properly investigate my choice for the future is worth every day of experience it brings, even if I learn it's not what I want to do after all.
I would take more time out of high school to learn about and establish a financially wise and responsible routine. This would offer me the flexibility to make my money work for me, work less than full time, and still feel confident and secure that I had everything I needed for myself and others as I grew older.
All of life is a very narrow bridge; your job is to cross it in spite of your fears.
-Rabbi Nachmin of Bratislav
Go forth with good courage.
Know that there are no Mistakes, only learning and growing.
Lean into uncertainty.
Invent Facebook.
Be gentle with yourself.
You might be graduating or have hit a turning point in your life with your career. You might feel a bit lost and not sure where to go. It's okay. Go out there and try as many different things as you can. Don't ever feel like you're wasting your time. The process that you'll be going through will shape you into who you will be. If you let your intuition guide you, you will almost certainly be in your most fulfilled place in the future when you find your purpose in life. Enjoy the journey. Don't rush. Every little path you have to go through will lead you somewhere. And looking back, you will be able to connect the dots. It will all make sense.
You can always pivot and shift. Do not define yourself too strictly. You can be more than your job.
Value Life: Spend the waking hours of your life doing what you enjoy, with people you enjoy. Don't waste the gift of life being unhappy in job, in a career, or with people who don't make you feel good.
Be the Best You: That also means being respectful of others by trying and showing your best effort, and asking for help before the
expectations you set with others become unreachable.
Collaboration is fun and often produces pleasing results.
Negotiate: If you have a complaint for your company, a manager, or anyone in general, be respectful, diplomatic,
and plan to negotiate and work on a solution together.
People like to hear how you're stepping up to be part of the solution, rather than piling more work on them to fix something alone.
Be a good friend. Have good friends.
Openly reach out and welcome those without friends.
