To celebrate five years of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast, I invited my good friend, Soma Ghosh, the host of the “The Career Happiness podcast”, to interview me and talk careers, podcasting and much more on Episode 110 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.

In this episode, we will learn about:

Creating options in your career can give you greater negotiating power with your employer.

Overcoming setbacks and managing failure,

Being open to new opportunities and making small experiments,

How to stand out from your peers,

What different generations in the workplace can learn from each other,

Building Your Personal Brand,

Insights on starting a podcast,

How to pitch yourself as a guest on a podcast,

How to get unstuck if you’re unhappy at work,

Ideas to help you manage a difficult boss,

How I was interviewed on national TV as a child,

How to become a better communicator and

The power of creating content and how it can help your job search.

Soma is a careers adviser who has previously worked in education and helping young people with career advice and job hunting. She has a PGdip in Careers guidance as well as and degree in Psychology and Criminology.

Soma runs her own career mentoring business where she helps ambitious women find their dream job and career and understand what their idea of career happiness is.

Soma has written for Thrive Global and Happiful magazine. As well as hosting her own podcast “The Career Happiness podcast” since 2019.

Soma has been featured in BBC work life, Yahoo Finance, Stylist magazine, All Bright collective, Asian voice, Metro and has spoken about peer pressure in linking with careers on BBC Asian network.

Soma talks about women who are going through anxiety at work, workplace bullying, confidence, and the importance of wellbeing at work. As well as career change and how to build a portfolio career.

People & Resources Mentioned

Irrfan Khan

Saif Ali Khan

Robert Cialdini

Robert Green

Contact Soma

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soma-sh-oma-ghosh-26086638/

Website: https://www.somaghosh.com/

Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info

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Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career, I do appreciate it.

It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or anything else, it's always a pleasure to hear your views. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. The next episode with Ethan Bamber will be available on Weds 11th February. Thanks for your support!

*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*

Continuing with the spirit of experimentation, Alexis Redding, the faculty co-chair of Higher Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), and I discussed how to support young people in college and in their transition to the working world on Episode 109 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. This episode is available on all major podcast platforms, my website and clips on the Reframe & Reset Your Career YouTube channel.

If you're interested in the themes discussed in the episode, please check out Episode 105 with Rahul De Silva, where we discuss the challenges facing undergraduates and recent graduates in the job market and how to manage them.

In this episode, we discussed:

Managing the transition from high school to university and then to work,

Dealing with loneliness in college,

How to network and build connections authentically,

How students can manage career anxiety,

What are mirror mentors and how can they help?,

Understanding what makes you happy and provides meaning for you,

Building resilience and dealing with failure,

What is a rejection resume and how this can help?,

The Peak-End Theory, and

Self-Authorship.

Alexis is a developmental psychologist whose work focuses on supporting young adults during the college years and in the transition to the workforce. She serves as the faculty co-chair of Higher Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

Alexis is a leading expert on mental health in young adulthood and is the editor of the forthcoming Mental Health in College: What Research Tells Us About Supporting Students and is the inaugural faculty chair of the Mental Health in Higher Education professional development program at HGSE.

She co-leads the Transition to Adulthood Lab, which uses a trove of lost interviews from the 1970s to study generational continuity and lifespan development. She is the co-author of The End of Adolescence: The Lost Art of Delaying Adulthood and several articles in The Atlantic about this study.

She is a TEDx speaker and keynote speaker. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Fast Company, Teen Vogue, Inside Higher Ed, and The Harvard Business Review, among other publications.

People & Resources Mentioned

Nancy Hill

Robert Cialdini

Contact Alexis

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexisredding/

Website: https://www.alexisredding.com

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ProfessorRedding

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dralexisredding.mhincollege/

Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info

Website: https://www.harshaboralessa.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ReframeResetYourCareer

LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true

Newsletter: https://reframeandresetyourcareer.substack.com/

E-mail - reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com

Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career, I do appreciate it.

It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or anything else, it's always a pleasure to hear your views. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. The next episode with Soma Ghosh will be available on Weds 28th January, where we will be celebrating the 5th anniversary of the podcast. Thanks for your support!

*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*

Looking for ways to kick start your job search in the new year and strategies to advance with your current employer? I discussed this and so much more with Claudia Bruce-Quartey on Episode 108 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.

In this episode, we will learn about:

Taking ownership of your career development and becoming the architect of your career,

Understanding how you add value to your organisation and ensuring that the key decision makers are aware of this,

How Claudia started a career in the Tech Industry without any contacts or experience,

The value of developing your communication skills,

Focus on identifying and building your skills rather than simply following your passions,

Strategies to assist you negotiate a pay rise or promotion.

How to initiate difficult conversations,

How networking can help you understand your sector and the skills that you should be developing to stay relevant,

Kick starting your job search in 2026,

The value of updating your CV on a regular basis,

Having a positive mindset when looking for work, and

How to get unstuck if you're not advancing at work.

Claudia works at the intersection of identity, opportunity, and visibility for first-generation professionals. After rising in tech without a technical background or established network, she developed a visibility framework that helps women, minorities, and mothers navigate organizational power and advancement with clarity.

Her work brings structure to challenges many experience but rarely have the language or tools to articulate in Tech.

People & Resources Mentioned

Cal Newport

James Clear

Robert Cialdini

Contact Claudia

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-bruce-quartey/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/claudiamireku/

Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info

Website: https://www.harshaboralessa.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ReframeResetYourCareer

LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true

Newsletter: https://reframeandresetyourcareer.substack.com/

E-mail - reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com

Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career, I do appreciate it.

It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or anything else, it's always a pleasure to hear your views. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. The next episode with Alexis Redding will be available on Weds 14th January. Wishing everybody a great start to 2026!

*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*