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Propelling Careers
by Lauren Celano
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould launched this podcast in 2024, when Jim was the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School. Jim is now the Executive Director of the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.As we develop new episodes, we will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions.
Episodes
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Ep 121: Tip of the Iceberg Episodes part 2 - Image, branding, and networking - Propelling Careers Podcast
Propelling Careers Podcast episode 121 is the second in a series of podcasts focused on the tip of the iceberg topic.We are trying to highlight all the work that goes into what looks like the perfect thing. In this episode, we will cover image, branding, and networking. On the surface, you may…
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Ep 120: Tip of the Iceberg Episodes - part 1 - Propelling Careers Podcast
Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 120. This will be the first in a few series of podcasts focused on the tip of the iceberg topic - we are trying to highlight all the work that goes into what looks like the perfect thing - the resume, or the interview answers, or the career choice. On...
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Ep 119: Building your Personal Board of Advisors - Propelling Careers Podcast
In the last episode, 118 we mentioned that having a personal board of advisors is helpful. For this episode, we thought we would go over what a personal board of advisors is, how youmight create one and why this is important since we realize that not everyone may be aware of this term. We hope…
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Ep 118: Myth Busting - Leadership and Failure - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode we will focus on two myths that we hear often. One is Leadership skills are only important for people in formal leadership positions - like being a manager of people and the second one is that failure is a sign that I don't belong. We hope you find this helpful and that you enjoy...
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Ep 117: Myth Busting - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode we focus on myth busting including these points below. This is one of our favorite topics. The myth busting is one of the reasons we started the podcast. We like being a source of truth for people seeking relevant and real time career advice. We hope you find this helpful and that...
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Ep 116: How to sell yourself without being salesy - Propelling Careers Podcast
Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 116. In this episode we will focus on how to sell yourself without being salesy - this topic has come up multiple times in many of our coaching discussions so we thought we would do this episode to provide advice. We hope you find this helpful and…
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Ep 115: Informational interview Advice - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode we will focus on tips to do effective informational interviews. In the last episode, 114, wetalked about networking tips. Since one way to follow up from networking could be an informational interview, we thought this episode would be timely in case any of our listeners have...
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Ep 114: Building and Connecting with your Network - diving deeper into one of the topics from ep 108 - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode we will focus on tips to build and connect with your network especially during more informal get togethers that happen over the summer. We briefly discussed this topic in episode 108 and will dive deeper in this episode covering points including these below. We hope you find this...
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Ep 113: Part 4: Q’s from Optimizing your CV in the Era of AI talk at Festival of Genomics - Propelling Careers Podcast
Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 113. This is a continuation from episode 110, 111, and 112 - to cover more Questions that we received from the Festival of Genomics talk on Optimizing your CV in the Era of AI that we did in Boston recently. This will be the last podcast in this…
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Ep 112: Part3: Q’s from Optimizing your CV in the Era of AI talk at Festival of Genomics - Propelling Careers Podcast
This episode is a continuation from episodes 110 and 111 - to cover even more Questions we received from the Festivalof Genomics in Boston - our talk was Optimizing your CV in the AI Era. We want to give a shout out again to Jennifer K. Ocasio Adorno, PhD, at North Carolina State University who...
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Ep 111: Part 2: Q’s from Optimizing your CV in the Era of AI talk at Festival of Genomics - Propelling Careers Podcast
Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 111. This is a continuation from episode 110 - to cover more Questionswe received from the Festival of Genomics in Boston. We want to give a shout out again to Jennifer K. Ocasio Adorno, PhD, at North Carolina State University who wrote down all the...
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Ep 110: Part 1: Q’s from Optimizing your CV in the Era of AI talk at Festival of Genomics - Propelling Careers Podcast
Jim and Lauren recently gave a talk at the Festival of Genomics in Boston on Optimizing your CV in the AI Era. Wecovered a range of topics on resume creation, development and branding and we had a lot of questions during our talk. One of the audience members, Jennifer K. Ocasio Adorno, PhD, at...
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Ep 109: Disconnect and unplug with intention - Propelling Careers Podcast
Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 109. We talked in our last podcast about a few ways to leverage the summer slowdown and one of these was to disconnect and unplug with intention. Therefore we thought we would do a specific podcast just to focus on this topic covering points including...
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Ep 108: Recharging and Reinvigorate your Career Exploration during the summer slowdown - Propelling Careers Podcast
The start of summer marks a turning point in the year. This can be a great time to reflect and refocus and recharge. In this episode, we focus on tips including these below, to help you leverage the summer time, especially if you are in a career search. Often, the summer is less busy with work...
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Ep 107: Building your Target List - Propelling Careers Podcast
In many of Jim and Lauren’s coaching discussions, the topic of building a target list to identify organizations of interest comes up. This seems to happen regardless of the original focus of the coaching session. Since so many people are not sure how to build this. By developing a target list…
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Ep 106: Fighting the overwhelm: how to get started - Propelling Careers Podcast
Jim and Lauren have had many discussions recently where people we speak with just feel overwhelmed in their job search / career navigation. Therefore, we thought we would do this episode to try to give advice for how to overcome the overwhelming feeling. We cover points including these below. We...
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Ep 105: Questions from Jim’s talks at MGH, AAI and Beth Israel - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, we will talk about a few more of Jim’s recent talks at MGH, AAI’s IMMUNOLOGY 2026 conference and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The talk at Beth Israel was Jim’s talk, “Self-work to Network” and the talks at MGH and activities at AAI Immunology 2026 focused on resumes and...
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Ep 104: Defining career and professional success - Propelling Careers Podcast
In episode 102, the topic of defining success came up while we were discussing Jim’s recent talk at Wheaton College.Since this is such an important topic, and one that can be very personal and individualized, we decided to do a podcast focused on defining success. We hopeyou enjoy listening. Why…
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Ep 103: Self-work to Network - Jim’s recent talk at the 3rd Annual New Mexico Postdoc Research Symposium - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, we will focus on a few more of Jim’s recent talks. He has been busy over the last few weeks talking at places such as Wheaton College, the 3rd Annual New Mexico Postdoc Research Symposium and MGH. During this talk in New Mexico, Jim covered these points below. We hope you enjoy...
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Ep 102: Jim’s talk on Organizational Behavior - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, we will focus on one of Jim’s recent talks. He has been busy over the last few weeks talking at places such as Wheaton College, the 3rd Annual New Mexico Postdoc Research Symposium and MGH. We are looking forward to this discussion and we hope you enjoy listening. Point Jim…
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Ep 101: Advice for building your personal brand on LinkedIn - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on advice relating to building your personal brand on LinkedIn. In Feb 2026 Lauren gave two talks at the Transition to Industry Event organized by the Torrey Pines Training Consortium including one on building your brand on LinkedIn. This podcast covers...
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Ep 100: Celebration of our 100th episode and our first guest - Propelling Careers Podcast
Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 100. We cannot believe we have made it this far… One source I foundindicated that 6.25% of all podcasts make it to 100 episodes. Another source I found said about 5% - regardless, a small amount of the entire network of podcasts make it to 100. We are...
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Ep 99: Informational Interview Questions from Lauren’s recent talk at Torrey Pines Training Consortium Transition to Industry Event - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on advice relating to informational interviews. Lauren recently gave a talk at the Transition to Industry Event organized by the Torrey Pines Training Consortium. This event was developed for early career scientists who are thinking of transitioning to a…
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Ep 98: Networking Questions from Lauren’s recent talk at the Torrey Pines Training Consortium Transition to Industry Event - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on advice relating to networking. Lauren recently gave a talk at the Transitionto Industry Event organized by the Torrey Pines Training Consortium. This event was developed for early career scientists who are thinking of transitioning to a career in industry....
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Ep 97: Effectively Maximizing Your Initial Interview - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on interview advice. In the last few months, Lauren have interviewed hundreds of people for a variety of roles. Some of these people are recent graduates and others are very experienced people applying for Sr. Director and VP level roles. As she reflects on...
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Ep 96: Applying to jobs, networking, and resumes - myth busting bad advice, amplifying good, and in between - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on myth busting as well as amplifying good advice regarding to a few areas including applying to jobs, networking, resumes, and a few other topics. We enjoy doing these episodes to help people We hope you find this episode helpful and that you enjoy…
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Ep 95: Learning to let go - getting out of your own way in your job search - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, Jim and Lauren provide advice for how to let things go so that you can get out of your own way during your career search. We decided to do this episode since many things can lead to candidates getting in their own way such as fear of the unknown, fear of rejection, fear of being…
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Ep 94: Advice to do a job search in a different location than where you live now - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, Jim and Lauren cover advice for how to do a job search in an area different than where you are living now and cover these points below. This topic has come up a lot inrecent discussions so we thought we would break it down to provide advice. We hope you find this episode helpful...
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Ep 93: Identifying mentors / managers - red, green, and yellow flags - part 2 - Propelling Careers Podcast
Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 93. This is a 2 part podcast series following episode 92. In this episode, we cover red, green, yellow and beige flags regarding identifying mentors / managers including these points below. As we heard in the last episode, there is a lot of nuance...
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Ep 92: Identifying and working with mentors / managers - red, green, and yellow flags - part 1 - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, we will cover red, green, and yellow flags regarding identifying and working with mentors / managers. There is a lot of nuance around this topic that we will cover. We cover scenarios including these below. As we mentioned in episode 91, your manager / mentor is really important…
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Ep 91: Myth Busting and Amplifying Good Advice for Career Planning Part 2 - Propelling Careers Podcast
This episode will follow up from episode 90 and will focus on myth busying and amplifying good advice for career planning and navigating your career including these points below. Jim and Lauren appreciate all of the advice our network has shared for us to cover in the last episode and this one We...
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Ep 90: Myth Busting and Amplifying Good Advice for Career Planning Part 1 - Propelling Careers Podcast
This episode is our first myth busting episode of 2026. We will also amplify good advice also. In this episode we will focus on advice for career planning and navigating your career covering these points below. We have a lot more advice that we will go into in future episodes. We hope you find…
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Ep 89 – Trends we are seeing that may influence 2026 - Propelling Careers Podcast
Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 89. We hope everyone had a nice holiday and new year. Jim and Lauren are looking forward to 2026. For our first episode in 2026, we thought we would dive right in and talk about trends we are seeing that may influence 2026. We hope you find this…
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Ep 88: 2025 wrap up episode and look forward to 2026 - Propelling Careers Podcast
As 2025 comes to an end, Jim and Lauren put together a wrap up episode to reflect on 2025 and look forward to 2026. It was helpful for both of us to do this episode to realize how much we did in 2025 and also recognize that there is still so much to cover as we look forward to 2026….. We want to...
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Ep 87: Advice to prepare for setting goals for 2026 - Propelling Careers Podcast
In the spirit of continuing with the reflecting theme that we have had over the last few episodes, Jim and Lauren planned this episode to give advice for how to use the holiday “slowdown” to help you as you set goals for 2026 and strategize for how you will accomplish or at least make progress on...
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Ep 86: Giving Thanks - Propelling Careers Podcast
Given the holiday season Jim and Lauren put together an episode about giving thanks. We talk about different ways you could give thanks as well as what we are thankful for. We hope you enjoy listening!. Why should people focus on giving thanks Advice for how people could give thanks When to give...
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Ep 85: Leveraging the holiday season for your networking - Propelling Careers Podcast
Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 85. Given the holiday season and the various networking opportunitiesthat come with it, we thought we would do this episode to provide advice for how to network during these various events/activities. We will cover advice for how to connect with your...
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Ep 84: Lessons learned on recent recruiting Part 2 - Propelling Careers Podcast
This episode 84 is a follow up from the last episode, episode 83. In this episode, we share a few more lessons learned during the last few months of recruiting that Lauren has been involved with. Jim and Lauren hope that you find these two episodes helpful especially if you are in a job search.…
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Ep 83: Lessons learned on recent recruiting - Part 1 - Propelling Careers Podcast
The last few months have been really busy for Lauren with the recruiting work that she does for entrepreneurial life sciences companies. In this episode, Jim and Lauren share a few lessons learned over the last few months, to help others who are on the job search (or who are in the process of...
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Ep 82: Help me help you….. - Propelling Careers Podcast
This episode focuses on ways to help your network help you especially if you are in a job search. We put this episode together to provide advice to make it easier for people to help you and we cover tips including these below. For many people, this might be their first real job search so they…
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Ep 81: 10 Pro-Active Tips for Successful Mentoring Relationships - Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, Jim and Lauren cover tips, including these below, to make mentoring relationships more successful.Jim talks about this topic a lot and Lauren has also covered it in some of her talks. This is a really important topic and we are looking forward to this discussion. We hope you find...
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Ep 80: Career Readiness, Self-Advocacy, & Mentoring Up (Cont’d from 79 ) - Propelling Careers Podcast
This episode will continue from episode 79 to continue to focus on advice on questions Jim and Lauren get often about career readiness, self-advocacy, and how to mentor up. Both episodes 79 and this one, are Inspired by a recent Q&A session Jim had at BCH. We hope you find the advice in this...
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Ep 79: Career Readiness, Self-Advocacy, & Mentoring Up - Propelling Careers Podcast
Jim and Lauren both get questions about career readiness, self-advocacy, and how to mentor up. Inspired by a recent Q&A session Jim had at Boston Children’s Hospital, in this episode, we answer the questions from the audience, and other advice to help our listeners. We hope you find the advice in...
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Ep 78: Negotiation of the 2 body problem - Propelling Careers Podcast
In the last episode, no 77, Jim and I talked about the 2 body problem and reasons why this might occur, and in this episode, we thought we would continue the discussion to talk about how to negotiate if you find yourself in a two body situation. We cover points such as these below. We hope you…
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Ep 77: Academic nomads and the two body problem - Propelling Careers Podcast
Lauren was in Chicago and Ohio a few weeks ago and the question of the two body problem came up a few times. Jim and I decided to do this episode to provide insight on the two body problem. We also cover insights on the academic nomad situation. of career planning also since this can relate to…
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Ep 76 : Lauren and Jim's activities during National postdoc association week - Propelling Careers Podcast
Jim and Lauren both had busy weeks last week as part of national postdoc appreciation week (NAPW) which is the third week in September. In this episode, 76, we will cover topics below including what we talked about, questions from the audience, and other advice to help our audience. We hope you...
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Ep 75 - Assessing opportunities / deciphering job descriptions – Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, Jim and Lauren cover advice for how to assess opportunities and evaluate job descriptions in terms of how to understand and interpret some of the language in them. Wording in job descriptions are not there just to fill space. Wording is often carefully chosen to provide…
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Ep 74 - Tips to organize your time during a job search - Propelling Careers Podcast
In our last episode, we talked about the steps in the job search process (26…). To follow up this episode, Jim and I decided to focus on advice for how to structure your time when you are in a job search in this episode. We provide advice for people who are currently working and job searching as...
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Ep 73 - Steps in the job search process… Propelling Careers Podcast
In this episode, Jim and Lauren outline all of the steps involved in a job search process. There are so many things you need to do if you are job searching and it can beoverwhelming to keep on top of everything. In the next episode we will talk about ways to help organize your schedule to help…
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Ep 72 - Job search advice if you are impacted by a RIF - Propelling Careers Podcast
With so many people impacted by RIF’s (reduction in force, layoffs, etc) we thought we would do this episode to provide advice specifically for people who have been impacted by this. RIF’s can apply to everyone - people in academia, industry, on-profits, government, etc. We will focus on a few...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould launched this podcast in 2024, when Jim was the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School. Jim is now the Executive Director of the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.As we develop new episodes, we will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions.
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