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The Lost Button
by Purposeful
We help young people figure out their future life + career. The Lost Button helps you find your place in the world and a career you love. Hosted by 20-something-year-old entrepreneurs Elizabeth Knight and Conor McLaughlin, each episode tackles a different challenge young people face, from finding a job you’re passionate about, to managing stress and burnout. Whether you’re starting a new chapter in life, like graduating from school or university, or searching for a purposeful career, we can help you. Powered by ed-tech startup Purposeful - the cooler cousin to traditional careers counselling.
Episodes
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A conversation w/ Purposeful's founder, Elizabeth Knight
Last ep for season 2 :( This time Liz is not the one asking the questions, but the one answering them. Pia (the producer) wanted to learn more about Liz and how she started Purposeful at 19, started her second business Next Revolution at 22, and where she has time for it all. If you'd like to…
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Students & Startups w/ Startmate's Cam Ensor
Are you curious about the world of startups? Want to accelerate your career journey and work on solving world problems? Or have a innovative idea you want to develop? This episode is for you! Often students feel as though after uni they must work in traditional paths, in established corporations...
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Making the most of your first year out of high school w/ Josh Farr
Have you recently graduated high school and are about to enter the big world, starting university, tafe, work or taking a gap year? This is the perfect episode for you! Hosts Liz and Conor with Josh Farr, founder of Campus Consultancy, discuss all things making the most out of your first year...
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Is purpose related to mental health?
CONTENT WARNING: Mental Health. Feeling lost is something many, if not all young people face. And this disconnect can impact our mental health. In today's episode we discuss how purpose is related to mental health and why so many young people are struggling with feeling lost. We also interviewed...
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Express Yourself
How can you share your value at work as a young person to get where you really want to go? As a graduate the workplace can be intimidating. When you have little experience, imposter syndrome can creep in. If you want to move into a new role or get promoted, this episode is for you! In this…
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Creating a career in social impact
Are you a young person interested in a career with impact? This episode is for you! Meet young changemakers Jae and Araan, founders of Radiant. Radiant empowers young people to be changemakers in their community and learn about how they can make an impact and be involved in decision making. This...
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What to know before starting a full time job w/ Jono Herman
Transitioning from school or uni to full-time work isn’t always easy, so if you are about to clock into that full-time employment life, this ep is for you! In honour of Conor starting a full time-job next year, we spoke to 4 recent grads who have incredible lessons to share and advice for anyone...
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Linear careers don’t exist w/ Joe Wehbe
When we get asked what we want to do in our life, people expect you to be set on one idea... While it’s true our parents' generation often had only one career, gen z is expected to work 18 jobs across 6 careers! This huge difference has created career expectations that don’t exactly meet reality…
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Did high school fail us? w/ Byron Dempsey
Why don’t we learn real life skills in school? The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, but how the hell does that apply to real life? School curriculums have not really kept up with our ever changing world. Leaving young people without real-world skills to enter further education and the...
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Class of 2021
Graduation means stepping into a world of unknowns… Regardless of whether you’ve just completed school, uni, TAFE or an apprenticeship - this is for you! But of course, this wouldn’t be an episode about graduations without a big fat congratulations! In this ep, we discuss all things graduation…
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Needing experience to get experience w/ Ajay Prakash
WELCOME TO SEASON 2! We are so excited to be back for another season of The Lost Button. We have curated an incredible list of guests and stories to share with you - helping you figure out your future one chat at a time. In our first episode of season 2 we talk about the catch 22 scenario of...
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Managing Expectations
We are conditioned from a young age to conform to society’s expectations. With messages from parents, teachers, pop culture and societal norms dictating what success looks like and the path to achieve it - doing your own thing can be pretty uncomfortable at first. Parents are often the first…
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Rejection is redirection
Feeling deflated after job rejections? Applying to jobs and getting no response at all? Rejection hurts. When you put in hours into applications, resumes, interviews and assessment centres - rejection can be painful. It literally feels the same as experiencing physical pain. So in this episode we...
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Not sure what your future holds? You need a vision.
What is a vision and why is it important? Having a vision for your future means you know where you’re heading and why you’re going there. Having goals puts you on track to be 10 times more successful than if you don’t. This episode we discuss how creating a vision for your life is the first step…
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How to get (career) lucky
Is luck really up to chance, or is it about creating opportunities? What if getting career lucky is less about the right place, right time, and more about the right mindset and right decisions? In this episode we talk about how to stop relying on chance and getting in the driver’s seat of your...
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Authenticity is your superpower!
What is the secret to really standing out? To landing your dream job? In a world where we’re encouraged to fit in, keep up with the trends, and follow the rules; the secret to success is not found in being the same as everyone else. It’s in being your authentic self! But here at Purposeful, we…
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When you make the wrong decision...
Got that dreaded feeling that you’ve made the wrong career choice? When you’ve felt certain about your path for so long (maybe even since you were a little kid), coming unstuck and realising that you might have outgrown your career choice can send you reeling. It’s one of the most painful…
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Burn bright...not out
Feeling burnt out? From blurred lines between work, friends, home and alone time (boundaries? what are they?), increased working hours and expectations (the 9-5 is dead), not to mention a global pandemic, it’s no wonder we’re experiencing stress at an overwhelming rate. According to Deloitte, 84%...
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99 ATARs and redefining success
How do you define success? If your definition is based on perfect grades, getting a “good” job, and doing what you’re told to do because that’s what you should do - then we need to talk. We all have a path that’s been written for our futures. The one that our family (*cough, cough* our parents),...
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Career experiments
Most of us spend THOUSANDS of dollars in uni and TAFE fees, only to get to the first day on the job to realise that actually...we don’t really like the path that we’ve chosen. Agh! What if you could save yourself money and time wasted, by approaching your search for purpose like a scientist? In...
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Values: your decision making compass
If you’re in your late teens and early twenties, you’re part of Gen Z, the ‘rudderless’ generation, aka directionless and lost! At least that’s what the media has to say. Many of us tend to float through our career decisions, or fall into our careers by accident. The BIGGEST question we get asked...
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Stop trying to find your passion
After happiness, passion is one of the top things Gen Z looks for when deciding on their future career path. We don’t just want to make money from our work, we want to do a job that we love and that has a meaningful impact in the world too. So just ‘follow your passion’ and ‘do what you love,...
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Help! I’m lost
WELCOME to the first episode of The Lost Button! We are stoked to be joining you in navigating the highs and lows that come with figuring out your future. In ep #1, we chat about why so many students + young people in Gen Z are feeling lost, and our top tips for getting unstuck and ‘finding...
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Welcome to The Lost Button
So you’ve hit The Lost Button, now what? Join 20-somethings entrepreneurs, Elizabeth and Conor, as they explore all of the challenges faced by young people in the midst of figuring out their future. We’re about real, raw honesty and all the highs and lows that come with this stage of life. Each...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We help young people figure out their future life + career. The Lost Button helps you find your place in the world and a career you love. Hosted by 20-something-year-old entrepreneurs Elizabeth Knight and Conor McLaughlin, each episode tackles a different challenge young people face, from finding a job you’re passionate about, to managing stress and burnout. Whether you’re starting a new chapter in life, like graduating from school or university, or searching for a purposeful career, we can help you. Powered by ed-tech startup Purposeful - the cooler cousin to traditional careers counselling.
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We help young people figure out their future life + career. The Lost Button helps you find your place in the world and a career you love. Hosted by 20-something-year-old entrepreneurs Elizabeth Knight and Conor McLaughlin, each episode tackles a different challenge young people face, from finding a...
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