We published our first weekly episode on Monday 1 March 2021 and published episode 52 on 21 February 2022. We thought we’d take advantage of the additional “bonus” Monday available to us before our first anniversary to reflect on our journey and share some of our memories.
Our 52 episodes have reached listeners in 62 countries and over a thousand cities around the globe. When we first started, I remember notching up 15 countries and thinking it’s going to get hard to keep adding new countries from here…
We quickly settled into a format for the podcast, we find out where my guest is coming to us from, we go back to their birthplace and we accompany them on a reflective journey from their earliest memories until the present day.
We pay attention to their early years experiences; their family situation, their memories of school, the roles they had visibility of whilst growing up, and the level of clarity they had about the direction they wanted to take.
We dive into the choices they made, the influencers, the lucky breaks and the mistakes. We sit alongside them as they revisit the more challenging phases of their journeys. We respect them, we appreciate them for sharing their stories and we celebrate their careers to date.
We don’t ask them to teach us, we give them space to tell it as it was from their perspective and we let the elements that resonate with us do just that. Learning from experience is powerful. Learning from others experience is a gift.
Some of my guests have achieved the job titles, the pay grades, the staff count and the airmiles that easily mark them out as successful in one widely accepted corporate sense of the word. Others have gained deep sector expertise and progressed as technical specialists. Some have been launched onto their trajectory off the back of a privileged upbringing others have navigated their way out of more challenging environments. All of them have a story to tell and all their stories contain golden nuggets of transferable experience that we can reflect on and learn from.
One of our listeners, Mike W in Japan described Career-view Mirror as an automotive podcast that's about humans not machines. I am grateful for the humanity and humility demonstrated by my guests. The openness they bring to our conversations is what makes them engaging to listen to. Their humility enables us to receive what they are sharing with us and potentially learn from it.
We hope you enjoy revisiting some of our guests from our first year in this episode and are inspired to listen to their individual episodes and those of our other guests.
Thank you for coming on our journey with us.
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Episode recorded on 25.02.22
