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The Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 100 - Engineer Origins, Go Make Yourself An Awesome Story...Let me ask you this. Going through university, did you ever think, "I shouldn't have picked this"? Since it wasn't your natural state to be building Legos, taking things apart, and figuring out how they work, did that thought ever cross your mind?Absolutely. I had my eye on the prize: get the degree and start working in the field. College is an experience, to put it lightly. About halfway through, I looked up from my textbooks and thought, "Where am I? What am I doing?"But I was already so far in. I’m so...2025-05-0532 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 99 - Conversations For Outcomes, Not "Hard Discussions"...Three weeks? Perfect. I had three and a half. I actually had about two months, because we still had to order the material and wait for delivery.I easily could have said, because I’m a high achiever and didn’t want to upset anyone on the call, "No problem, we’ll get it done next week." But that’s exactly the trap. Avoiding the hard conversation — or even these mini conversations — is a huge mistake. I want to bring awareness to it because so many people fall into it. And it’s usually because of fear or discomfort...2025-04-2824 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 98 - What Stands in the Way Becomes the Way...There's this quote that I have been kind of living with this week because I really liked it. And of course it's from Marcus Aurelius, the stoic—you know, that it just is what it is. I love the way they think. But it says:“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”And what that means, of course, is that the thing in front of you that you think is an obstacle or perceive as an obstacle that you want to go around so badly is actual...2025-04-2118 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 97 - How To Receive Critical FeedbackEven as high performers, we do get critical feedback. Sometimes this feedback can really dig into our egos. And if we aren't careful, it can push us to an emotional response that is going to hurt more than help our situation. Today, I want to quickly cover the do's and don'ts of getting critical feedback.First, let's talk about the don'ts.Don’t react defensively. Avoid responding with immediate justification or counterarguments. Being defensive shuts down meaningful dialogue.Don’t take it personally. Keep the focus on your work or behavior rather than your character.......2025-04-1409 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 96 - Interview With Bug Meehan - Engineering Growth: From CAD to Clarity...Exactly. And even in emails now, I’ll start off with one bolded sentence that’s basically, “Here’s what this whole thing is about,” and then the rest is detail. Because I don’t expect everybody to read the whole thing. But I want to make sure they get the point... ...It's respect and it's clarity. It shows that you’ve thought through what you’re asking or delivering. If I get an email that’s just a brain dump, I think, “Cool, you just passed your homework to me.” Yeah. And as engineers, we tend to think in proc...2025-03-3157 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpiosde 95 - How To Become Valuable Quickly - Interview With Edwin Montas - ACE Alumni, Gilbane Building Co...Someone once told me: "You need to be valuable. If you're not valuable, you're not going anywhere." That stuck with me. So I told myself I wanted to be cross-trained. If there’s no work in one area, I should have the skills for another. I told my supervisors, “I’m doing project engineering, but I want to learn superintendent work. And when I did that, I said, ‘Now I want to know how to be a project manager.’”So that’s what I did early on: made sure I got exposure to a bit of everything. I also stepped...2025-03-2449 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 94 - How To Create Less "Meetings That Could Have Been Emails"...So it was basically the person doing a loop around the office. Meeting time, meeting time, meeting time, meeting time, you, you. And then we'd all get in the thing. It's like, holy shit, okay. And then we would show up in the meeting room, big old table. We're all around it. And then the person would proceed to tell us, why don’t you guys have drawings? Does anybody come prepared to meetings? Literally. I am not exaggerating at all.It was the Twilight Zone, I think I said that before. I'm like, where am I? An...2025-03-1735 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 93 - How You Actually Find Fulfillment At Work... So I said, what is the most Googled search: how to find career success? You know, because that's kind of what we like to talk about. And so what do most people search about when they're looking for that? So it says according to available information:"The most common Google search related to finding career success is likely how to find a fulfilling career or variations like how to find a career that you love as it focuses on identifying personal interests and values when choosing a career path."So I thought that was interesting...2025-03-1027 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 92 - There’s a Bigger Picture to Everything—Do You Ever Challenge Your Perspective?...but today? Not normal.I put together a list of quotes from people we listen to, respect, or at least keep an eye on. We’re gonna break them down, figure out what they mean for high performers—not saying we are, but, you know...Yeah, they’re going to be good.All right, let’s start by lifting people up with this one...*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all n...2025-03-0326 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 91 - Exceeding Expectations: Do You Even Know What That Means?....Most people think, “Yeah, I’m an awesome engineer. I get all my stuff done on time. I make the margins I’m supposed to. All the deliverables are complete, etc., etc.”Yeah, five people in my 360 review out of 30 said I had exceptional skills in something. Stuff like that.Exactly. And they’re like, “You know what? I’m awesome. I’m exceeding expectations. I’m a rock star.” Guess what? No, you’re not. You’re just meeting expectations. That is what is required of the position.Meeting deadlines.Yeah......2025-02-2434 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 90 - Interview w/ Chris Jasinski @ HGA & ACE Mentorship Program Rhode IslandChris Jasinski is with HGA (full service architecture, interior design, landscape architecture). He is a business development professional and we get into some great discussion on breaking some mindsets, but more importantly, talking the ACE Mentorship Program. We break it down and give you insights into the program from the perspective of a mentor and local RI chapter ACE board member. The ACE Mentroship Program has a mission that aligns with The Impactful Engineer in a big way, spreading awareness and access to the world of engineering and providing mentorship. From their own words AC...2025-02-171h 00The Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 89 - Not Your Average Goal Setting - This Shit WorksMost people track the wrong stuff. Let's start tracking the right stuff, doing more of what matters, and reach those goals without even tracking the output.*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be built from this project has the potential to change the lives of everyone who is a p...2025-02-1019 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 88 - Interview w/ Dominic Michaud (Engineering Expertise, Personal Growth, Business)In this episode, we sit down with Dominic Michaud ing. M.Sc, the visionary founder of SDM Consultants. Together, we explore his journey—from humble beginnings to achieving technical mastery, and eventually, taking the leap into entrepreneurship. Dominic shares how "learning how humans work" became the cornerstone of his success, allowing him to strategically partner with someone who brought deep construction and equipment expertise to the table. The result? A dynamic firm that thrives on complementary strengths, filling gaps and building a powerhouse company that’s reshaping the industry. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-m-45051286 http...2025-02-0340 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 87 - Break Through With A New MindsetLet's talk a little bit about how our habits are stabbing us in the back and how we will see the way forward much faster by breaking them if they don't serve us. Your great habits could holding you back, especially this one. *****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be...2025-01-2713 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 86 - Delegation Is StupidThis is a short presentation I gave to the team at work to stir up some thoughts around delegation and challenge those thoughts that don't serve us. This is a solid reminder of the power of delegation and why you should consider it as an excellent tool, but also as a necessary growth lever as well.*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this...2025-01-2018 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 85 - Setting Expectations Drives ResultsA short conversation Steve and I had around setting expectations with suppliers and vendors (but really in any scenario) to help everyone win. *****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be built from this project has the potential to change the lives of everyone who is a part of it. We...2025-01-1322 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 84 - New Year Dead ZoneHow do we achieve true work-life balance at the end of the year and propel us into the New Year at the same time? *****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be built from this project has the potential to change the lives of everyone who is a part of it...2025-01-0614 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 83 - Guest Shailvi Wakhlu (Self-Advocacy & Data Driven Careers)In this episode, we are joined by Shailvi Wakhlu, a seasoned expert in the tech industry with 17 years of experience, now working with teams to increase profits, productivity, and performance. Former executive at Strava, Shailvi delves into the crucial topic of self-advocacy, exploring its significance in the engineering realm.She emphasizes defining clear action plans and goals, building self-awareness, and effectively communicating your value to influence career advancement positively. For more insights from Shailvin and access to her book titled Self Advocacy, you can find her on LinkedIn and visit her website:http...2024-12-3059 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 82 - Guest Jake Kennington, PE, SE (Purposeful Routines, Writing to Think, Creating for Impact)Jake Kennington is our guest for this episode of The Impactful Engineer. Do you have someone you look up to or have admiration for, or that you aspire to be?They just seem to have what you want, or are doing things you want to do, and seem to do it despite some the reasons you give for not being able to (ouch, but stay with me). Why is that? What makes them able to do so?Jake breaks it down and helps you see how you aren't that far from doing the things that...2024-12-161h 02The Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 81 - The Debt You Hadn't Considered & Aren't Paying Off Quickly EnoughJake covers a different take on debt. Debt in your career. How do we get ahead of the interest we are accruing and pay it down?Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be built from this project has the potential to change the lives of everyone w...2024-12-1214 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 80 - The Underrated & Misunderstood Value of Face TimeSteve and I discuss why not getting enough face time will always be an anchor to your career progress.Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be built from this project has the potential to change the lives of everyone who is a part of it. We s...2024-12-0924 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 79 - Want To Accelerate Your Own Career? Lift Others Up & Have Their BackJake covers how this concept will have a huge effect on your own path and ability to boost the team's success. Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be built from this project has the potential to change the lives of everyone who is a part of it...2024-12-0510 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 78 - Don't Choose When To Be GreatSteve and I remind you that every single project you work on has a huge impact on where your career will go. We cover the common pitfall most engineers make in their mindset when looking to be on the project teams that "get the best projects."Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. 2024-12-0221 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 77 - Jake & Steve (Overcome Bias, Get Off The Soapbox, Stop Talking Shit)Steve and I reflect a little bit about some of the things you may be doing in your engineering career that are working against you. Subtle, but that have a huge impact. Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be built from this project has the potential to...2024-11-2518 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 76 - Guest Monte Pedersen @ The CDA Group (Be The Exception, Execute The Strategy)In this episode, we hosted Monte Pedersen from CDA Group, a prominent figure known for his expertise in strategic execution and leadership. With a rich background that includes a successful 30-year career in service management, Monte transitioned to strategy execution to address the commoditization within his industry. He has spent the last eight years focusing on bridging the gap between strategy and execution.His insights are instrumental in teaching organizations how to effectively move from strategy to execution, as highlighted through the STEP (Strategy to Execution Performance) process he developed with his business partner. Monte advocates for...2024-11-1852 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 75 - Guest Jim Schafer @ Nenni & Associates (Interviewing, Marketing Yourself, & Becoming Indispensable)Jim Schafer is with Nenni & Associates, a specialized recruiting firm working with engineers and executives of all experience levels, specifically in the energy sector for the built environment. His podcast, The Building Efficiency Podcast, is a top tier show highlighting some of the best leaders in the built environment and building efficiency space.Hear how this recruiting specialist and a hiring manager perceive the hiring process, how to market yourself, and what you can do to stand out as an engineer seeking opportunity!Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!2024-11-1151 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 74 - Embracing Flexibility & Adaptibility Instead of Hasty ReactivenessSteve delves into the importance of adaptability and flexibility in an engineering career. Drawing inspiration from Mike Tyson's quote about plans and unexpected challenges, Steve discusses how rigidity in thinking can hinder progress. He shares insights on handling criticism and the necessity of pivoting when facing project setbacks or unexpected career developments, such as promotions with new team placements. Emphasizing emotional resilience and proactive risk analysis as key components, Steve encourages engineers to focus on growth and continuous learning to achieve long-term success. Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!...2024-11-0606 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 73 - You Only Have So Much Energy Each Day, Do You Spend It Wisely?Where you spend your energy will dictate how much control & influence you have over your career and your life. Your ability to consciously dictate where your energy flows will have a huge impact on your career. Audit where you are spending your energy and watch as you become more and more influential and an active participant in your career and personal development. Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. B...2024-11-0421 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 72 - Peer Feedback, You've Heard It Before, But You Must Take It SeriouslyWant to instantly become more visible within your company? Want to improve yourself? Learn to receive feedback. For engineers, feedback is so hard. Overcome the typical stereotypes, and unlock a great culture within your team and the organization. If there is a structure for feedback already in place, enhance it and take advantage of it for the benefit for you and everyone else.This is especially important and has an amplified effect within your peer group. Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Im...2024-10-2831 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 71 - Tomorrow Never Comes: How To Move The Needle On Your CareerIn this episode, I cover something that really unlocked my ability to move the needle on my engineering career. It led other discoveries as well, including the need to prioritize, not just work straight through what's in front me. I invite you to listen and start discovering for yourself the power of this mindset/tactic. It will be tough at first, but then you'll discover how much you were unintentionally leaving on the table and wish you had discovered it earlier. Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!T...2024-10-2311 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 70 - Preparation to Overcome Inexperience & StressIn this episode, we discuss how you can accelerate your career and your experience through unreasonably high levels of preparation. Specifically, we talk about the process of creating operating procedures for yourself which drives understanding and lessens stress while at the same time helps you stand out in the minds of the other more experience engineers.This works at all levels of your career, but has a huge rate of return towards the beginning of a career. Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's...2024-10-2128 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 69 - Master Your Next Role While Crushing Your Current RoleIn this episode, Jake discusses the fact that high performing engineers begin to master their next role before the opportunity arises to take said next role. Doing this while also maintaining a high level of achievement in your current role does not include adding more hours to your work day. It's something completely different. Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on t...2024-10-1611 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 68 - How To Immediately Stand Out In Your First Engineering JobIn this episode Jake covers his recommendations for those egnineers just starting out or for those managing engineers just starting out. This episode's topic centers around a couple of things you can do to immediately shine in the beginner's role and that are crucial additions to a high achiever's playbook.Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast...2024-10-1413 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 67 - Taking Your Boss's Job, Chasing Salary, Flip The Job Hunt Script, SOP's, + moreIn this episode, Steve and I rapid fire some hot topics and give you our persepctive from our combined nearly 30 years experience as career engineers in two different engineering fields. This episode covers getting a job, rising through the ranks, how to appear online, and much more. All centered around giving you the edge in your career. Enjoy!*****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there...2024-10-0737 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 66 - One Small Change Leads to Giant Leaps In Your Competitive EdgeLet's talk about pairing people's strengths and weaknesses in order to win. This can happen at all levels of the business and your engineering career. It's one of those tactics that can lead to decreased frustration and friction in getting the work done. Do more work in less time with increased efficiency by deploying this properly. *****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about o...2024-09-3013 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 65 - It's Going To Happen, You Decide If It's Working For You or Against YouMost things that happen in your engineering career are not unique to your situation. Also, they are constantly occurring and changing with or without your conscious awareness. Will you become aware of these things and influence them to your benefit or will you just allow them to happen and the result "is what it is?" *****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on...2024-09-2343 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 64 - Talent Acquisition Specialists Tell Us How To Succeed & Be Known in the Job SearchWe met with talent acquisition specialists from Klein Tools to discuss their experience with hiring 0-5+ year level engineers.If you are in that category, or are involved in the process of hiring engineers in that experience range, this is a good conversation to listen in on. Meghan Pankow and Emily Gatons are the people on the front lines going to career fairs, screening applicants, and scouring LinkedIn for new talent. We have a casual conversation that gets to the real shtuffff that most people probably won't tell you. And what you might c...2024-09-161h 30The Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 63 - Think You're Undeniably Great? Then Why The Job Hopping?Please allow Steve to clear this one up in this short but impactful episode with a strong message. *****************************************************************************************Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be built from this project has the potential to change the lives of everyone who is a part of it. We sincerely hope to reach and...2024-09-0906 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 62 - Wanna Win Big In Your Engineering Career? Figure This OutMomentum = Impact * ConsistencyOur engineering careers are full of twists and turns and unknowns. It's just the way it is. It's also full of obstacles and roadblocks. What allows you to straighten the road, get into the unknowns with courage, and crush the obstacles?One huge piece of the puzzle is your MOMENTUM!Figure out what it is, how to create it, and how to maintain it through the lens of a couple of engineers who have utilized the power of momentum in their own careers. *****************************************************************************************...2024-09-0239 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 61 - Compare To Win, Not To LoseDecrease the amount of time you spend on comparing yourself to others in your career who are "further along" than you and collecting reasons why they have what you want. Instead, spend more time thinking about what actions they take consistently in getting there, then do those things. And don't let your mind trick you into thinking that they got there by some trick or something immoral. Or think that "I just won't do it that way" or "I'd be able to do that if not for...."In the realm of career success...2024-08-2620 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 60 - Huge Growth Happens Outside Your Career Job - Interview w/ Ripple IntentYou even wonder why people outside of your job are always talking about leadership? And the skills they don't teach you in school? And how understanding each other and having "empathy" will increase your success and happiness at home and at work? Or "insert here" any other handful of skills discussed by others on LinkedIn.Well, because it's true. And it's talked about & PRACTICED everywhere outside of your day to day at work because you have a job to do, and to make the company money. It takes 95% of your effort.Like most things in...2024-08-1959 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 59 - Want To Be Impactful? Do ThisIf you and your organization could stand out in others' minds as the engineers that are stress free, solutions-oriented, organized AF, helpful, clear and concise communicating, bringers of problem resolutions -------- would you do it? Is that valuable?Or, As long as the job gets done, nothing else matters? Who cares what happens along the way?I figure most people will say that the former is of high importance. And I would guess that even more people aren't tracking any metrics around if they are being successful at it or not. ...2024-08-1227 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 58 - Engineering Careers Need ThisPeople will choose to do business with those they know, trust, and respect. Even if their service they provide is not "top notch." We can argue all day long about who does what better (especially amongst ourselves and our competitiors), and it won't mean a damn thing. While we spend time thinking we are the best engineers around and provide the best service, others will be meeting and developing relationships with others in the engineering industry that we do business, and gaining more work.It doesn't mean that we don't get better (as individuals and...2024-08-0520 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 57 - The Game w/ Steve FlanaganI've known Steve for a few months. This guy amazes me with his generosity (and fiery attitude). He helps people help themselves, and advises them to play "The Game" so they can gain an audience, be seen, and win. linkedin.com/in/stevef1If you could participate in a group of professionals to show them your stuff, make connections, and unlock job opportunities, FOR FREE, would you do it? All it would "cost" is a couple hours of your time each week. Well, I discuss this with Steve Flanagan on this week's episode...2024-07-2954 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 56 - If You Can't Do This, You Won't Move UpYour ability to take vague direction and turn it into a desired outcome of the business is so important in your engineering career, but it's something I had never thought of before (in that way).I have been doing this for a long time, since day one actually, but never quite connected the dots to this line of thinking. And I realized something...It can be a goal, with a strategy, and executed upon to increase your ability to get promoted and gain more responsibility in your engineering career.I want to share...2024-07-2213 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 55 - Success Through DelegationDelegation for engineers. Ah yes, that endless debate on whether you should just do the work yourself. Are you in camp delegate, or camp do everything yourself? A healthy mixture of both? It's OK to be in either one, and there are seasons to this just like anything else. But if you are looking for support in moving up roles, expanding your team, and building a resilient operation that becomes self supporting, then we recommend taking delegation seriously and to start building the skill now.Let's dive in!...2024-07-1527 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 54 - Your Weaknesses & Your Strengths: The Actions Everyone Can Benefit FromThere is a long term and short term strategy around weaknesses and strengths in your engineering career that can have a huge impact if done correctly.Do you think about those weaknesses that you don't know about? How about the strengths you don't know about? How do you identify those, and once identified, what do you do with that knowledge?These questions are answered in today's episode, among many more.Steve drops a bit of wisdom towards the end of the episode that is simply 🔥🔥🔥🔥Let's dive in!The Imp...2024-07-0827 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 53 - The Ultimate Priority For Career SuccessCo-elevation is the key to an impactful career within an organization. How to achieve this is a broad subject that you can only "learn" so much about before you just have to dive in and start practicing it. We give you what we've learned to be the most effective tactics. I mention a great book called "Leading Without Authority" in this episode. It captures the essence and is actually where I stole the word co-elevation from. I've been implementing the actions recommended in the book with great success. I highly recommend it. Check...2024-07-0131 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 52 - Can Your Influence Really Help That Stuck Person At Work?We all know that someone that appears to be resistant to change, thinks they know everything, seems to be a brick wall to any influence, and definitely doesn't think they are the problem. I mean, I've definitely never been that person before :). Yeah right. While there are many reasons behind this perception (and let's be real, actuality), there are a few things in the best practices column that we invite you to consider!We know that at least one of these actionable tips will help someone in their quest to better understand this dynamic, for o...2024-06-2421 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 51 - What We Think of "Fake It Till You Make It"It's not a sense of delusion or hubris, it's a strategic plan to get where you want to go.But how?Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be built from this project has the potential to change the lives of everyone who is a part of it. We sincerely hope t...2024-06-1723 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 50 - How To Make The Most Out of Your First 3 YearsSteve would say that the most important thing to the beginning of your career is to "consider all options" as you search to land your first job and as you work your way through your first three years. Steve covers why he believes that choosing the right company may be better than choosing the right job. Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast...2024-06-1035 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 49 - Your Life & Career Success Is A Formula - The Lion Attitude - Our Interview With Kirby LeeThe IMPACT formula. Know it, learn it, live it.Kirby has about 3 decades worth of engineering experience in the AEC workforce that goes into the Lion Attitude System and the IMPACT formula. You don't wanna miss insights from a veteran in the space looking to make huge changes as we enter the new world of work and beyond. Check out all of what Kirby has going on from his LinkedIn page, including his highly anticipated book on leadership in the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction industry.linkedin.com/in/kirby-lee-pe-cem-cea-gbe-leed-ap-bd-c-🦁🥩-2193a367 2024-06-031h 03The Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 48 - One of Those Life Moments That Changes Everything - Steve's InterviewSteve's story will inspire you to take action on that one thing you KNOW should be addressed now, instead of when your body chooses for you. And that one THING will help you unlock some serious success in your career. Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be built from this pro...2024-05-2733 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 47 - WW Jake - Why Aren't We Focusing On "The How" More?Most companies (I could only imagine based on my experience) miss this my a country mile! I hit on something I am very passionate about. I couldn't even wait until I got home to record, so I put in the ear bud, and let it rip while I was on my way home. Hope you enjoy it and that you start implementing the concept right away. Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But...2024-05-2211 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 46 - Leadership or SME? Which One Are You Tracking?A great discussion around the two most common general paths in an engineering career. We talk about what our experiences have been and it may be surprising to you where we weigh in on these!We expect this discussion to help engineers build their big picture perspective or create a reframe around where they are in their career and how they may be making bigger progress than they think currently. Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and a...2024-05-2026 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 45 - Consider Getting Rid of That One Thing - Jake's InterviewI'm happy to share one of the greatest level-ups in my life that I have ever experienced. I hope it resonates with someone and that it helps someone else do the same. Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be built from this project has the potential to change the lives of everyone wh...2024-05-1325 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 44 - Do More Work!!!Everyone runs into that point in their career where they are expected to do more and more. Or so it seems. When the work is piling up, it's a good sign. You are counted on to do the important stuff and are known as the person that can get it done. Then something happens. Even though you are great at your job, you can't handle the work. Things start to slip. You think you just need to work more hours to keep up. And the worst part is that nobody really talks about it, has th...2024-05-0629 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 43 - WW Steve - Resume TipsGet a great tip for you resume to implement right away. Cut through the noise of everyone telling what to include on your resume and get it straight from a hiring manager. A resume is a living document that is important to keep up to date. Even if you are not planning to change jobs, keep that resume up to date with major accomplishments. This will save you a lot of frustration and time when you ultimately need to use it again. Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is...2024-05-0103 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 42 - If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It - Jake & SteveIn this episode, we discuss the old adage and how it applies to you career, what it can tell you about the company you work for, and how you can be proactive in making sure you don't fall into some of the traps it can create. Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. What we talk about on this podcast applies to seasoned engineers as well. The community that will be...2024-04-2919 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 41 - Mastering Confrontation w/ John "Goose" Dunham2024-04-2247 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 40 - It's Just One of Those Days - An Important MessageIn this episode, we are actually deploying our own mode of thinking, which includes discipline and a gain-focused mindset around continuing to do what we know we should be doing in order to win, even when we don't feel like it. Sometimes, you just have one of those days, and your energy is low. Well, in this episode, we do our best to bring the energy just like always and give some value to the community. This episode is short and sweet. In part, because of a recording failure of the software we were using (th...2024-04-1517 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 39 - AI In Engineering - How To Use ItThis episode we discuss what we are currently learning about AI in the workplace and what we are doing to integrate it. We talk about everything from using it in your every day to how we think of the technology compared to recent history and what we expect in the future. The episode was prompted from a question we received from the community!Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But it doesn't stop there. W...2024-04-0827 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 38 - IntrapreneurshipDo you have that entrepreneurial spirit, but not sure whether you wanna be an entrepreneur? Well, besides taking the leap and leaving the W2 world behind, you could focus that energy into a great company and help build it! In this episode, we discuss the why and the how you can become successful in an intrapreneurial journey that will lead to great success. And no, you aren't an intrapreneur by showing up and doing "your job." It's a lot more than that!Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Pr...2024-04-0120 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 37 - Quiet EngineersThis episode covers our recommended approach to maintain visibility and be heard as an engineer on the more "quiet" side as well as how these engineers hold tremendous value for an organization that sometimes goes unseen or unappreciated (and how you can avoid that situation yourself).We give tips for those engineers themselves that appear to be "quiet" and for those that manage these engineers.Let's dive in!The Impactful Engineering Project's purpose is to bring awareness, access, success, and mentorship to all new and aspiring engineers. But...2024-03-2530 minThe Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring EngineersEpisode 36 - Diversity, Inclusion, Equity & Belonging - Our Conversation w/ Stephanie YumYou ever wonder what you can do to increase your awareness and impact regarding diversity and inclusion efforts in the engineering industry? Stephanie tells us that solving the world's biggest challenges requires a diverse group from all walks of life to think outside the box and develop cohesive teams that support each other. Do you know some the most important facets of creating such a team?Do you know why it is important that the majority be advocates for women, people of color, or any other underrepresented group? Did you know tha...2024-03-181h 02