Creating meaningful work-life fit in today's ever-changing world requires redefining success as progress. We’ve been thinking about this a lot, and it’s the concept driving the conversations behind season 6 of Strategic Momentum.

In this last episode of the Biz of You mini-series, we’re getting an inside look at Connie’s own career journey and the experiences that shaped her perspective on career success. Who is Connie Steele? What inspired her to write Building the Business of You? And what does she hope people ultimately take away from the book? Today, Connie answers these questions and more.

In this episode, Connie is joined by Strategic Momentum marketing manager Alexis Anthony and operations manager Alan Corcoran to revisit key takeaways from Season Five. They tie together the trends that emerged across the interviews and what they mean for the future of work in our new normal.

In this episode, Connie Now, explains how companies can approach each of the five components in Building the Business of You to help employees reach their potential, as well as how the fluid system can help organizations stay ahead in a rapidly evolving business landscape. Because fluidity isn’t just about the future of careers, it's about the future of work.

Kyle Hunter is the CEO of Rhythm Couture and is also a hip hop musician and lyricist, performing under the name K Sparks. In this episode he discusses the soft skills needed to create proper career progress. Because, despite the rise of AI and machine learning, it is still people we do business with.

In this episode, Connie covers the fourth part of the five-part fluid career system, Building Skills. She explains why you need to focus on both hard and soft skills, how to create environments to practice those skills, and why they are essential to the business of you.

How do you build meaningful connections that are fundamentally authentic, but still help you work toward your career/business goals? In this episode, Bryan Wish, founder and CEO of BW Missions, shares his career journey and his approach to aligning passion and purpose to build an authentic network. And that path started with this feeling that he didn’t fit the common mold, no matter how hard he worked.

In this episode, Connie covers the fourth part of the five-part fluid career system, Networking. It’s all about creating that value exchange and building your village to help you reach your potential. She explains how it fits into the overall system and why it’s so critical to career success.

Joe English is a Yale graduate, Forbes 30 under 30 recipient and the founder of Hope In A Box, a non profit organization that works to provide classrooms with LGTBQ+ inclusive literature and resources. In this episode he shares the challenges and changes he has faced in his career and how he took small steps to deliver broad impact and cultivate inclusion in education.

In this episode, Connie covers the third part of the five-part fluid career system, called Preparing for Change. It’s all about accepting change, managing fear then turning it into excitement, and pushing past the inertia we face. She explains how it fits into the overall system and why it’s so critical to career success.

Sabrina Woodworth is a Fortune 500 Project Manager, Career Strategy Coach, Bestselling Author and Founder of WorkLessons101. Sabrina’s path to creating her career mashup was one where she recognized the importance of setting a goal and mapping a way to achieve it. She was able to establish her career coaching and development business and write a book while parallel pathing her corporate job. In this episode, she shares how she built her compass to realize her own vision of career success.

In this episode, Connie discusses how to Create Your Compass on your way to career success. It’s all about creating clarity on what you're aiming for, by being able to map out a strategic plan to help you see the bigger picture and identify those tasks you will need to do to help you achieve your goals.

Catharine Bowman is an accomplished medical researcher, board member, medical student, speaker and change agent. At 8 years old, she made a promise to her mother to develop one of the first pharmacological treatments for lymphedema. The search for a solution began by connecting the dots around the trends, challenges and opportunities. Compassion is what started her mission and it was a source of stability through her own constantly changing journey.

In this episode, Connie covers step one of the five-part fluid career system, called Spotting the Trends. It’s all about identifying the challenges, threats, opportunities and potential to help you research and analyze where you are and where you want to go. She explains how it fits into the overall system and why it’s so critical to career success.

Fluidity is a major theme in Connie’s book, Building the Business of You. In the face of the pandemic, we have to be more fluid now than ever to get through it. But the concept of fluidity isn’t a new idea; it's a trend that Connie has observed over the last few years, especially with interviews on this very show. In this episode, Connie revisits some of these interviews, dating back as far as 2018, to uncover some of the stories that supported the development of the fluidity concept in Building the Business of You.

In this short-form series, Connie Steele shares tips from her #1 Amazon new release book, Building the Business of You. In this episode, Connie introduces the concept of “Fluidity,” the individual and operational mindset that is critical to building the business of you. What does it mean to be fluid? What are examples? And how can we use fluidity to create our career strategies?

Eva Sadej CEO of FlossBar and MedBar, as well as a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient shares her journey towards building her career mashup. While she started out following the traditional linear path, she chose to take a detour. She parallel pathed her way toward entrepreneurship and subsequently defined a career that could leverage all of her talents and interests, all while hedging against risk, being fluid, and still taking a systematic approach.

In this short-form series, Connie Steele shares tips from her #1 Amazon new release book, Building the Business of You. In this episode, Connie discusses the “career mashup,” a premier concept in the book and the key to the future of work. What is it and how can you use it to create your dream career?

To celebrate the imminent release of “Building the Business of You: A System to Align Passion and Potential Through Your Own Career Mashup,” Connie shares her own career journey and what you can expect from the book.

The world of work has fundamentally changed and so has what people wanted out of it. So Strategic Momentum, along with Scott Vanderbilt, a seasoned market research executive with over 20 years of experience across a breadth of industries and audiences, developed a study to learn what work and career success mean today, what it takes to reach one’s potential, and what obstacles people are getting stuck on. This episode is focused on sharing some of the initial findings from the survey that we fielded in the summer of 2020.