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Awareness Is Not Impact: A Letter to Podcasters About What Our Voices Are Really For
Kathy Barron Kathy Barron

Awareness Is Not Impact: A Letter to Podcasters About What Our Voices Are Really For

In my early days as a newcomer to Canada, I struggled to find the help I needed. Not because the help didn’t exist. Because nobody told me it did.

I think about that often. Especially when newcomers walk into my coaching practice today and describe the same lonely loop — searching, struggling, assuming they are on their own in a country full of resources designed exactly for them, but invisible to them.

This is the gap I built my podcast to close.

Not everyone can afford career coaching. The Thrive Careers podcast is my answer to that — a level playing ground where anyone, anywhere, can access the information that changes career trajectories.

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Women Podcasters Are Superhuman
Kathy Barron Kathy Barron

Women Podcasters Are Superhuman

Women podcasters are superhuman. There, I said it.

We can run households, take care of our children, build careers, churn out podcasts at the speed of light, and manage the other various “things” that are dumped upon us while leaving others in our dust. We do all this often without considering the impact on our mental and physical health. Our lives can feel like a hamster wheel by doing the same thing day after day. When my children were young, my husband and I often woke up and said to each other, “It’s time to make the doughnuts,” (The Dunkin’ Donuts slogan from yesteryear) because the routine was mundane and monotonous.

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