Blueprint Your Career Podcast with Angela Hemans

Choosing a school is one of the biggest decisions you'll make when investing in your future. Yet many students select a program based on convenience, cost, or a recommendation without fully understanding what they're signing up for. In this episode of BluePrint Your Career, Angela Hemans discusses why researching a school goes far beyond browsing a website or reading marketing materials. Whether you're returning to school after years away, changing careers, or balancing work and family responsibilities, this episode will help you make a more informed decision before enrolling. In This Episode You'll Learn: • Why choosing the right school can impact your career opportunities • Common mistakes students make when researching educational programs • The difference between a school's appearance and its actual student support system • Why reputation, structure, and outcomes matter • Questions every prospective student should ask before enrolling • How graduation rates and job placement rates can reveal valuable information • Why speaking with current and former students may provide insights you won't find online • How to evaluate whether a program realistically fits your lifestyle and responsibilities Key Takeaway The goal is not simply to find a program that accepts you. The goal is to find a program that prepares you for success. Taking the time to research a school before enrolling can save you time, money, frustration, and disappointment later. Your Action Step Before applying to any school or program: ✔ Write down five questions you need answered ✔ Contact the school directly ✔ Schedule a call, meeting, or email conversation ✔ Get the answers you need before making a commitment Coming Up Next Episode 2: Accreditation – The Detail Students Often Overlook (Until It's Too Late) Learn the difference between institutional accreditation and programmatic accreditation, why employers care, and how accreditation can affect certification, licensure, and your future career opportunities. Connect with Angela Hemans Host of BluePrint Your Career Podcast Helping professionals, career changers, and non-traditional students make informed decisions about education, careers, and personal growth. Remember: Your career is not something you leave to chance. You build it one decision at a time. 🎧 Subscribe, share, and leave a review if this episode helped you.

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Ashley Hill is a Scholarship Search Strategist and CEO of ALH Group LLC. She is a best-selling author, speaker, and creator of Scholarship Success School. She enjoys working with parents of teenagers, college admissions consultants, and higher education professionals on reducing college debt with scholarships. Creator of Scholarship Success School

Jon White is a certified critical care RN who before that spent 16 years designing and building computer systems in the public and private sectors. He has Bachelor of Science degrees in Business and Nursing and a Master of Science degree in computer information systems

On today's episode of Blueprint Your Career Podcast our guest is Shereese Maynard who is an accomplished senior-level healthcare strategist, Keynote speaker, the founder of DrWellBe. She's joined us today for a segment of the show called "Career Conversation." A career conversation episode discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly about a particular professional career. A healthcare strategist is an emerging role that didn't exist a few years ago. It's a role that has room for growth from the basic entry level to a senior level position like Shereese. What You Will Learn In This Episode: What is a healthcare strategist? What is the role of "Experience Officer" and the various titles that they are called? Top five duties of a healthcare strategist at the basic level. Why you need to take a good look at the maternity wards in some hospital. A shout out to the Mercy Hospital Systems, listen why. What educational requirement is needed to qualify for this type of position? What is the good, the bad, and ugly of a healthcare strategist How to get to the next level, once you get into this profession? Why is reading your best friend in this industry? Be on the lookout for a new app for physician burnout co-created by Shereese

Podcast Insider “What is Emotional Intelligence And The Role It Plays In Living A Healthy and Successful Life With Dr. Cynthia Howard Dr. Cynthia Howard (RN, CNC, PhD) is an expert in resilience who believes in the partnership of the mind, body, heart and soul as the foundation of success. She is a coach, teacher, adviser, speaker and consultant who has helped thousands of people dramatically change both their professional and personal lives. Our Guest: Dr. Cynthia Howard Website: Resilience Beyond Burn Out and Lead and Live More Brilliantly Twitter: @masterwellbeing Facebook: Vibrant Radian Health Book: H.E.A. L. Healthy Emotion Abundant Life Tea Drinkers: Yerba Mate Tea Wisdom Naturals (Mentioned during the interview) Cynthia shares her story on how potential employers said she was over qualified and over educated. She was, for the most part unemployable after being laid off from her nursing position. During the interview Cynthia discusses her journey from working as a nurse in ICU to entrepreneurship. And the many doors she actually knocked on to build her first business, meanwhile going to school to get her masters then doctorate degrees. She eventually create a full-time income and supported herself. As a successful entrepreneur, Cynthia’s insecurities led her back to corporate America for a short period of time, until she realize this wasn’t the path for her and didn't mind being let go from the position . We discuss “What is Emotional Intelligence and roles it plays in our lives?” Learning how to deal with your emotions during your time of career transitions and what the different emotions mean to our health. Cynthia shares the word of the day and what the “Heart Focus Breathing” is and the steps to take to help with daily stressors. She mentions how using a daily journal of gratitude keep your emotions deliberately focus. How to deal with complainers and negative emotional charge from your working environment. The role Emotional Intelligence plays to entrepreneur starting your business and what can hinder your overall success. Community Reminder Blueprint Your Career Twitter Chat Every Thursday at 5PT/8ET Follow hashtag #BPYCNetwork formerly #LetsNetwork ** Some links are an affiliate link and I will receive some compensation from any purchases made through the link, thank you in advance**

How To Face Your Fears and Achieve Your Goals with Darleen Ghirardi Darleen Ghirardi Darleen Ghirardi is the voice of authentic career acceleration for women who want to shatter the glass ceiling gracefully. As founder and CEO of Darleen Ghirardi International LLC. she has created a dynamic enterprise that is devoted to empowering women leaders, to climb the corporate ladder without selling their soul. Darleen’s entrepreneurial plans were hatched while working as a corporate executive for gaming corporate giant. One day she finally realized that her passion and calling in life is to help woman climb the corporate ladder without feeling like they had to become someone they are not - just as she did herself..”Darleen is a contributing author to the book “The Power of the Platform, Speakers on Life” Contact Our Guest Website: www.darleenghirardi.com Twitter: @darleenghirardi Email: Darleen Ghirardi LinkedIn Group: Spark Your Career and Ignite Your Future Book Resource Mentioned: Coach Yourself to a New Career: 7 Steps to Reinventing Your Professional Life (Affiliate) Podcast Insider: Darleen discuss her inspiration to move forward from her corporate career into entrepreneurship. How she keeps motivated during stressful times and what she have found helpful. The benefits of having a coach/mentor and the type of coach Darleen had during and after her career transition. Challenges are a part of life, Darleen shares how she overcame them and she provides advice for others during their transition. During the interview, we discuss when someone should consider taking on a life, or business coach. Success tactics are discussed for those who are seeking a career change but are fearful and have doubts. Ways to change one's mindset when transitioning into another profession or into entrepreneurship. Some tips are shared about how to do a career transition and making it less stressful. Darleen offers advice for those who are in the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s that are seeking to make a career transition but may have obstacles and major concerns about moving forward. Career Spotlight Survey Researcher in the Social Scientist field Website for more info: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/survey-researchers.htm

Jason Frasca He’s called the Optimizer! An Evernote consultant for individuals and business looking to get started or bend Evernote to their needs. Jason Frasca Consulting specializing in small business requiring content / marketing strategy, digitization to optimize business performance and to solve operational and business inefficiencies. He is also the author of “Evernote Success- Strategy and Tactics To Set Up A Successful Evernote Environment.” This interview is pack with tips and tactics for organizing and managing Evernote, so make sure to grab a pen/pad or whatever you use to take notes. Listen to the interview for this gold nugget interview! How To Contact Jason: Website: Jason Frasca Twitter: @Jaymf Google +: Jason Frasca Book: Evernote Success Podcast Insider: Interview Highlights What other programs other than Evernote can actually compete with it. If you are new to using the Evernote program some tips were discussed on where to begin. Jobseekers tips on what to do with job postings you want to apply to. Tips for saving a resume and cover sheets to evernote to make unique edits. Features of Evernote that are free and what are premium features. And what features are user friendly for mobile users. 3 Evernote tactics for the solopreneur trying to use it in their business. Jason shares one thing that he dislikes about using the program, you have to listen to hear what that is. For the busy entrepreneur, there is insight on how long it could possibly take to learn how to effectively use Evernote. Jason dives into ways to organize your Evernote to keep you from wasting time attempting to find your information. In Jason’s Book “Evernote Success- Strategy and Tactics To Set Up A Successful Evernote Environment” he provides information about what someone can expect to learn when they purchase his book. Community Bulletin Every Thursday at 8pm ET I have a #LetsNetwork twitter chat. We discuss general entrepreneurial topics meanwhile sharing, learning, and engaging together! Arrive early and stay late and bring your links and any program/service/product you would like to share with the community. Follow hashtag #LetsNetwork