How to Make Friends with Career Columnists and Influence Mainstream News Organizations

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!For readers in the States, the 4th of July is [...]

My Personal and Professional Development Goals for 2008

Earlier in the week, I discussed how to set meaningful goals for 2008. I described how to take a roles-based approach to make your “resolutions” for the year more relevant and personally meaningful to you. We reviewed how visualizing each of these areas of focus in your life–your desired outcomes, and the way you’ll feel [...]

It’s Time for Some Thrilling Heroics: Commit to Pursuing Your Wildest Dreams with Me in 2008!

Over at CodyMcKibben.com in November, I wrote about my experiments with freelancing, and about my desire to shift my career so that my work is not just means to pay the bills, but more of a way to express my passions and continue to increase my personal growth. See the post here. In response [...]

Experimenting with Career Options

It’s been a while since I really wrote regularly on either of my blogs. Somewhat unfortunately, I’ve been tied up with work. In the last several weeks, I’ve experimented with a few different things.
I left my full-time employment at Sacramento State University almost two months ago, after which I took a short break while my [...]

An Interview with Karen Seeh, Corporate Sustainability Strategist

Karen Seeh is a young environmental professional and consultant in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, with over ten years of experience at the intersection of business and environmental sustainability. In other words, Karen has been doing this since before it was the cool thing to do! Karen exercises her passion for launching mission-based ventures as Principal [...]

Global Marketing, Six Sigma, and The Donald: An Interview with 23-Year-Old Personal Branding Expert Daniel Schawbel