Curating Career Life Stories: How Did I Get Here? Ep. 122 with Candice Kingston

Join me for the career reflections of Candice Kingston, leadership and success coach. A journey that starts with a dream of being a teacher, but it’s swashed when her good friend and role model suggests she should do something else. She decides on psychology for her major because of her interest in human beings, but then when faced with the jobs associated with psychology she’s not really interested in more school or listening to people’s problems. Just getting a job becomes her priority, she finds a sales job selling medical devices, which kicks off a career of jobs that aren’t a fit. Frustrated after being fired multiple times, she’s depressed, lacks confidence and direction so she decides to see a therapist, who quickly recognizes she doesn’t need therapy she needs a career coach. Which is exactly what she needed and where she discovers her genius and career fit – as a leadership & success coach! What’s served Candice best: “Tenacity” but with a clarifying point that it is what is serving her best now, but it probably hurt her in the beginning of her career, because she never quit. She let others end her employment, even when she knew it wasn’t a right a fit. Her words of wisdom: “It’s not rejection, it’s re-direction – keep going, you’ll figure it out.”