Education

DePaul University

B.S., Commerce

2010

University of Illinois Chicago

M.A., Social Work

2025

Podcasts

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

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..

Career Path

Interview Highlights

“A big piece of an account manager’s role is just being that liaison between the design team, the developers and the clients.”

Best Career Advice

“As long as you keep pushing and trying to learn, trying to figure out what you’re good at and pursuing your skillset, then that will lead you in the right direction.”

Career Challenge

“I needed to quit my job. There were some management issues. There were role and fit issues. Maybe if I was on a different team with a different manager, things would have gone very differently. But I remember sitting in a coffee shop the day before I quit. I wasn’t going to tell my family because they really just wanted me to have a stable job. My father’s an entrepreneur too. But anyway, I was sitting there and I wasn’t going to tell him, but I had a buddy with me and I was kind of freaking out. I was like, should I do this? Shouldn’t I do it? What’s going to happen? … What’s going to happen? And I remember I was told I was committing career suicide at the time and it hit really hard, it almost stopped me from doing it. But I had a buddy who turned to me and he goes, “Let it go.””

Skills

Career Counseling, Curriculum Development, Career Education

Professional Interests

Growth, Entrepreneurship, Mentoring

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