Lori Bumgarner Béen

Author: Lori Bumgarner Béen

life's purpose
Inspirational/Motivational
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Sunday Inspiration: You Must Know Your Life’s Purpose

Welcome to “Sunday Inspiration,” a bi-weekly devotional for those seeking spiritual encouragement in the pursuit of their passions. Each post comes from an outside resource (as referenced). I hope these posts will inspire and motivate you in your life and career in addition to our weekly original blog posts. Enjoy!

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paycheck
Career Change/Career Transition
Lori Bumgarner Béen

You Don’t Have To Be a Slave To a Paycheck

You may remember reading about my client Robert in my post entitled “How to Know If You’re In the Wrong Job“. Robert is the one who has talents and passions in both illustration and foreign languages. But instead he had a job he dreaded going to every day. When you

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good life
Goal-setting
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Have a Good Life: Do These 7 Small Things

What does it take to have a good life? As a career coach to those currently going through career and life transitions, I often have clients coming to me because they’ve realized their jobs are eating away at their personal lives. They feel like they’re life is no longer good

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light yoke
Inspirational/Motivational
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Sunday Inspiration: Why You Shouldn’t Take On Something You’re Not

Welcome to “Sunday Inspiration,” a bi-weekly devotional for those seeking spiritual encouragement in the pursuit of their passions. I hope these posts will inspire and motivate you in your life and career in addition to our weekly blog posts. Enjoy! Jesus said: “Come to me, all you who labor and

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career disruption
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

What Happens When Your Passion Disrupts Your Career?

It was 2011 and I was waiting for my new client in his publicist’s conference room. He was a recording artist coming in to begin his media coaching with me to prep him for his radio interviews. In our first session he told me his life story, how he got

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pick your brain
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Why “Can I Pick Your Brain?” Is the Wrong Approach

I was sitting at my desk in my office when the email showed up in my inbox. It was another request for an informational interview. (If you don’t know what an informational interview is, click here.) But this request was different from all the others. It wasn’t the usual lame

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speaker
Inspirational/Motivational
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Sunday Inspiration: Strength for Speakers

Welcome to “Sunday Inspiration,” a bi-weekly devotional for those seeking spiritual encouragement in the pursuit of their passions. Each post comes from an outside resource (as referenced). I hope these posts will inspire and motivate you in your life and career in addition to our weekly original blog posts. Enjoy!

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confidence
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Do You Want to Be More Confident in Your Career?

Whenever I meet with a potential career coaching client, one of the first questions I ask is,  “What do you wish you had more of: time, money, or confidence?” The majority of people respond with confidence as their top choice. Confidence seems to elude so many people.  Why is this?

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wineskins
Inspirational/Motivational
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Sunday Inspiration: You Cannot Put New Wine in Old Wineskins

Welcome to “Sunday Inspiration,” a bi-weekly devotional for those seeking spiritual encouragement in the pursuit of their passions. Each post comes from an outside resource (as referenced). I hope these posts will inspire and motivate you in your life and career in addition to our weekly original blog posts. Enjoy!

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living in the moment
Career Change/Career Transition
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Be More Successful By Living In the Moment

I was all harnessed up and clipped in to the cables at the new Adventure Park Nashville when it was time to step out onto my first tree-to-tree bridge element. I paused for a second and thought, there’s no way I can do this. It seemed not only uncomfortable, but

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right time to leave your job
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

When Is the Right Time to Leave Your Job?

The short answer to this question is when you: a) have enough AND b) have had enough! There are several different items that can fall into both the a) and the b) categories.  When You Have Enough It may be the right time to leave your job when you have enough:

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