In this episode, Devon and Sarah-Jane chatted with Vicki Noels-Cornish, who is a fellow career pro. Vicki's pathway has been a little different than Devon and Sarah-Jane's, mainly because she defines herself as "neurospicy."

If you have ADHD, a learning disability or you feel like you fall into the category of neurodivergence, you definitely don't want to miss this episode!

A few of our big takeaways:

• What it means to be "neurospicy," and how that can impact your career and your work life
• The impact of getting fired
• Seeing your neurodivergence as a superpower
• The societal and very gendered assumptions about ADHD
• Ideas of the kinds of accommodations you could ask for in the workplace
• An introduction to the Kolbe Assessment
• Flipping the script to see the world as "innovation deficient" and figuring out how you can solve that

Resources:

The Company YOU - Vicki's business

The Kolbe Assessment

On this episode, we'll meet Melissa Macfarlane Heidmiller, a Brand Marketing Manager.

We thought she meant brand marketing as in, marketing shoes. She means brand marketing like marketing businesses. It's her job to make sure that organizations look attractive to potential employees.

The industry has only been around since the 80s, and it's been in Canada for maybe 10 years.

Here are a few things we chatted about:

• The miraculous thing that is visiting career counsellors after high school
• Building a career that is a combination of working for others and working for yourself
• The ups and downs of working in a new-to-Canada industry
• How there isn't one thing only that you can do in your career
• Following a common thread in your career; in Melissa's case, her job combines communications, marketing, HR and career counselling to help her support talent management and skill development
• How plenty of employers still don't understand the benefit of being intentional about attracting the right people to their roles and organizations

Did you ever have a time when you were working in fraud investigation, and then your family history, your creativity and your joy all converged in one place, and you quit your job and opened a restaurant?

Yeah, we didn't either. But this episode's guest did! Meet Honey Abada, the current owner of La Isla Manila in Barrie, Ontario.

Honey dropped some terrific insights on her own career journey, including:

• Leading with curiosity
• Getting out of your own head, and really hearing how others see your skills
• Being open when opportunity arises
• The ups and downs of entrepreneurship
• Using your skills and talents to serve