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The Afternoon Shift
by Brady Sadler
The Afternoon Shift is a hub for mid-career marketing, media, and creative professionals navigating what’s next.Hosted by Brady Sadler, this show explores how to thrive, not just survive, during the most pivotal stretch of our careers. What started with a few small group conversations quickly became something deeper: research, newsletter, events, a growing community, and now these recorded conversations. We're sitting down with incredible leaders across a wide range of businesses, to dig into personal stories, practical solutions, and the bigger questions shaping our work and our lives right now. This isn’t just a show. It’s part of a larger effort to turn ideas into collaborations, and connections into meaningful work.Because we believe career should be more of a team sport.If this sounds like your kind of community, please hit the follow button. That's a small way you can help us connect with more people. Thanks for listening.Join Us: https://theafternoonshift.com/Hos
Episodes
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Feeling Unmoored? How to Navigate The Rocky Waters of Career Change with Executive and Team Coach Allie Wilkinson
What do you do when you feel completely adrift, whether you're sensing a career change coming or you're squarely in the midst of one? In this conversation we sit down with executive and team coach Allie Wilkinson, founder of Walden Leadership Group, to talk through the acute challenges of a…
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What is the Actual Cost of Burnout? Featuring Alison Campbell of unBurnt
Alison Campbell spent 20 years working in corporate, most recently as Chief of Staff to the CEO of a billion-dollar company. Excelling. Traveling. Parenting. Pushing through. And feeling grateful. Until she ignored the warning signs of burnout for too long and landed in the ER, needed surgery…
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Teamwork x Scene Work: Live Events, Career Growth, and Boston's World-Class Tech Scene with Matt Crane
There's an art to scene work, whether you're getting out there or creating your own. Matt Crane of MGMT Boston joins to talk about why showing up consistently puts more things in your control, what he's learned building a media company from scratch, and the Boston tech companies that are breaking...
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A Special Workshop: Building Your Career Team
What would it actually look like to make career a team sport? Not as a philosophy, but as a tangible offering with real structure? That's what we explore in this special episode, an unrehearsed workshop with Jay Acunzo. Jay is good friend and someone who helps leaders communicate their expertise…
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The #1 Habit of Leaders Who Are Truly Flourishing, and Why Getting Out From Behind Screens and Into Scenes Might Be the Strategic Edge Worth Doubling Down On Right Now
Today’s episode goes deeper into one of the most important signals that has emerged from our work over the past year. The leaders who are truly flourishing are getting out from behind screens and into scenes. That search for people who truly embody this practice is what led me to today’s guest,...
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From Uncertainty to Optionality: The Mindset and Practices That Move Creative Leaders Forward
What does winning look when work is full of paradoxes? Today I’m joined by my friend and longtime mentor of more than 20 years, Patrick Jones, a builder at heart and one of the most multidimensional creative leaders I know. Patrick’s career has been spent at the intersection of education, media,...
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From Silos to Scenes: The Practice That Sets Creative Leaders Apart
In this episode, I dig into a leadership practice that can seem obvious but is far more nuanced than it looks, and I’ve come to believe it’s a critical discovery in our exploration of what it takes to go from fear to flow and uncertainty to optionality. I'm now referring to the people who embody...
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How to Actually Lead With Hospitality, Empathy & Creative Bravery: Lessons From Disney and Beyond
When I think about career as a team sport, I can’t help but think back to my post-college internship at Disney and the lifelong friendships that started there. That experience, grounded in Disney’s legendary Traditions training program, taught me the power of hospitality, purpose, and connection....
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Emotional Stamina, Embracing Our Truth, and The Power of Step by Step
Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to begin the next chapter? In this episode we sit down with longtime friend and powerhouse coach Katie Benway to explore what it takes to really begin a shift. Katie shares powerful tools for building emotional stamina, telling yourself the truth, and...
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Career Evolution & Previously Impossible Stories: Erich Archer on Cutting-Edge Video Editing, Finding Your AI Force Multiplier, & Diving Into a Scene
What if you could find the intersection of cutting technology with your personal passion and expertise? And what if you could develop a reputation for learning, experimentation, and generously sharing your knowledge along the way? Well, that's exactly what you'll learn from today's guest,...
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From Hollywood to Hydrogen: A Playbook for Reinvention
What does it take to really reinvent your career? This week's episode features a detailed breakdown of exactly that. After decades of success as a Hollywood producer, and later blending entertainment and tech in Silicon Valley, Derek Stoops found himself at a crossroads. Not long after launching...
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The Truth About Career Identity & Turning Sunk Costs Into New Chapters
By mid-career, Karen Kelly has reinvented herself more times than most people dare to dream. From ad agency burnout in New York City, to scrubs and red tape as a speech pathologist, to moonlighting as a photographer, to running a seven-figure media business, to CMO and later President of a tech...
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What it's really like working in pro sports, and why it's such an incredible training ground for marketing and media pros
What is it really like to work in professional sports? Most of us only see the highlights: the packed arenas, the high-profile players, the big sponsorships. But behind the scenes, sports is one of the most intense training grounds in business. It is relentless, unpredictable, and filled with...
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Tools for Creative Leadership and The Power of Conviction
If you’re leading a company, department, or team, this conversation is for you. If you’re running your own consultancy, doing fractional work, or guiding clients in your role at an agency, you’re in the right place. And if you believe in the power of self expression and the opportunity to make an...
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The Hard Truth of Soft Skills: How to Be More Creative and Be Kind To Yourself In The Process with Heather Doyle Fraser
In a year of research on the nature of work and mid-career evolution, one word keeps surfacing: compassion. Compassion for others, yes. But more importantly, self-compassion. It's essential for sustained performance at work, and essential for navigating the messy middle of mid-career. This week’s...
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Making Moves in Mid-Career: A Deeply Honest Take From a Senior Brand Leader
How do you find career clarity when everything feels uncertain? Frank Hwang - now Senior Director of Marketing at Viking Range and formerly a brand and marketing leader at SharkNinja, Sperry, EF Education First, Timberland, Cannondale, and more - has navigated multiple transitions, including a...
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He had a thriving marketing business in high school, then skipped college and built a content agency for pro athletes and top brands
He had a full client roster, was running paid media campaigns, and building lead gen systems before he could legally vote. Aaron Wagenheim had already lived two distinct career chapters before most of us had even picked a major. First came digital marketing. Then came the pivot: helping high…
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From morning radio to agency owner to CEO of a game-changing healthcare startup: leading different in mid-career
Brad McNamara has created companies, built teams, and learned how to lead differently at mid-career. We start this episode by diving into Brad’s unlikely journey from on-air personality at Boston’s top station to becoming an agency owner, to serial entrepreneur, and current CEO of a truly...
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Creativity, ADHD, and How to Get the Best From Your Brain
What if the way your brain works is actually your greatest strength? In this episode of The Afternoon Shift, I talk with Lindsay Binette, founder of The Wavy Brain, a Neurodiversity Coaching & Advisory Practice supporting individuals and companies. We start with her dream career in marketing,...
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Reverse Mentoring: High School Entrepreneur x Veteran Growth Marketer
Today we learn from growth marketing expert Anuj Adhiya and 16-year-old entrepreneur Sabrina Bhattacharjya as they challenge what it means to thrive in a rapidly shifting creative landscape. Anuj, who literally wrote the book on modern growth marketing, opens up about the uncertainty he feels...
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The #1 Thing We Get Wrong About Creativity
We often think of creativity as the output. But as Kaitlin Maud shares in this episode, creativity is actually a process. A way of thinking. A form of intelligence we all possess, and can strengthen. Kaitlin is a superstar strategist, coach, and now, licensed art therapist based in Austin, TX.…
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You’re Not Supposed to Start a Company Like This
Waseem Kawaf spent years leading digital transformation at global companies. Then, in 2023, he left to launch his own firm. But the start of that next chapter didn’t go as planned, and what happened instead forced a deeper kind of reset. In this conversation, Waseem joins The Afternoon Shift to...
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Who Do Leaders Lean On?
As leaders, we’re taught to tough it out. To power through. To "eat last." And somewhere along the way, many of us learn to support everyone but ourselves. In this episode, I talk with Liza Dube, a marketing and communications executive turned leadership and career coach. Liza helps leaders…
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How to Lead Without Losing Yourself
What if growing in your career wasn’t about pushing harder, but about reconnecting with what actually fuels you? In this episode of The Afternoon Shift, communications strategist and founder Rekha Sidhu shares her insights from a career spent working at the intersection of global brands and...
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How Can High Performers Avoid Burnout & Still Deliver?
What if the thing that keeps derailing you - the frustration, the emotional trigger, the moment you lose it - was actually the key to your next career breakthrough? In this episode, former technology leader, executive coach, and best-selling author Mark J. Silverman shares the framework he uses...
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Let's Build Together
Welcome to The Afternoon Shift, a hub for mid-career marketing, media, and creative leaders to build together. Created and hosted by marketing veteran, entrepreneur, author, and business consultant Brady Sadler, The Afternoon Shift exists to create more connection, collaboration, and impactful...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Afternoon Shift is a hub for mid-career marketing, media, and creative professionals navigating what’s next.Hosted by Brady Sadler, this show explores how to thrive, not just survive, during the most pivotal stretch of our careers. What started with a few small group conversations quickly became something deeper: research, newsletter, events, a growing community, and now these recorded conversations. We're sitting down with incredible leaders across a wide range of businesses, to dig into personal stories, practical solutions, and the bigger questions shaping our work and our lives right now. This isn’t just a show. It’s part of a larger effort to turn ideas into collaborations, and connections into meaningful work.Because we believe career should be more of a team sport.If this sounds like your kind of community, please hit the follow button. That's a small way you can help us connect with more people. Thanks for listening.Join Us: https://theafternoonshift.com/Hos
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