951:What It’s Like to Start a Career Coaching Company With Martin McGovern, Career Therapy [Main T4C Episode]

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Martin McGovern is the founder and the lead career coach of Career Therapy, an online career coaching organization that helps its clients confidently and more easily switch careers. Previously, Martin worked at Udacity, an educational platform  that offers hundreds of online courses for both individuals and businesses. Martin also previously worked at Discover Card and MARC USA. He’s an alumnus of DePaul University in Chicago where he majored in Commerce with a minor in Art & Design. Martin has used his creative side to stand out in both marketing and now career coaching.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:

• What Martin’s early career experiences in marketing were like (3:02)
• How Martin used creativity in a non-creative role (11:02)
• How building connections and being laid-off helped Martin’s career  (14:17)
• How young people can better figure out what careers to pursue (24:11)
• What Martin learned about himself and his passion for doing art (31:34)
• When Martin learned how to respond to failure (34:28)
• Why building relationships with your teachers can help in the professional world (38:38)
• If you want to learn how to break into Career Coaching check out T4C episode #822