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Dec 2024
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201: The Worst Advice Coming in 2025 and...

Zach White
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When you’re ready, here are three ways I can help you build your engineering career:

 

1. Engineering Career Accelerator Scorecard … foundational development actions and key points you can check, score, and apply immediately to stand out and excel at work.

 

2. Join us at Happy Hour … a limited-attendance LIVE monthly workshop where we dig deep into career growth strategies and provide 1:1 open coaching for you at the end of the session.

 

3. Work with me directly … start with a free chat and ensure it’s a great fit, then work with me and my team privately in our intensive coaching program, exclusively for engineers.

 

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What if the key to a better 2025 isn’t doing more, but believing more?

 

In this episode, I share why hope is the word of the year for 2025 and why lowering your expectations to avoid disappointment might be sabotaging your growth. 

 

I break down how hope, when combined with confidence and intentional action, becomes a powerful force that fuels progress in your career and personal life. 

 

Whether you’re reflecting on 2024 or setting ambitious goals for 2025, this episode is your reminder to dream big, aim high, and step into the new year with a sense of purpose and optimism. 

 

So press play and let’s chat… about how hope can transform your future.

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