Samantha Alvarez spent the last 15 months in hospitals and ER’s as a front line worker helping fight the COVID pandemic. We discussed that experience in length in the last episode of the show. Today, I get the chance to jump back in with her and explore the many facets of her work and life. In this conversation we explore Samantha’s three tiered approach to…
Samantha Alvarez has done a lot of different work over the course of her career. By her count, she’s had 65 jobs. She also finds herself now pursuing two parallel tracks professional —nursing and sales — along with a few more passion projects that she takes very seriously. I intended to get into all of that. But this conversation went a surprising and unexpected direction….
Ray Blakney was haunted by a question: If they wrote a book about your life would anyone want to read it? His answer was no. So he stepped outside his comfort zone, quit his job, and had an adventure. That decision lead him down a path that has taken him to a place he could never have imagined. He’s now an entrepreneur and lives in…
When you decide to make a career change, how do you choose your new path? While you can’t know exactly where the road will lead, you can know the general direction that the path will take you. This is exactly what Ben McAdam decided to do. With a background in music, he wanted to learn business. He followed that thread and it lead to some…
Catherine Ricafort and Scott McCreary are artists who have seen the top of their fields. And when they did, they saw how difficult of a life it was — even for the best of the best. So they made a change. And that change lead them to help others make similar changes. Catherine and Scott founded Artists Who Code — a volunteer-run organization whose mission…
