The Career Refresh with Jill Griffin: Career Reinvention, Leadership Coaching, and Professional Brand

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The Career Refresh: Career Reinvention, Leadership Coaching, and Professional Brand is for high-performing professionals, executives, and entrepreneurs ready to lead with clarity and courage. Hosted by executive coach and strategist Jill Griffin, this show helps you navigate career transitions, leadership reinvention, and identity shifts with practical tools and bold mindset shifts.


Whether leading a team or stepping into your next chapter, each episode delivers actionable insights on modern leadership, professional branding, team dynamics, and resilience. 

 

About Your Host: Jill Griffin is a leadership strategist, executive coach, and former media executive who helps high-performing professionals pivot and grow with clarity, confidence, and intention. She’s partnered with hundreds of individuals and teams —from boardrooms to small business owners—to navigate reinvention, lead through complexity, and build a career that fits.


Jill has been featured on Adam Grant’s WorkLife podcast and published in Fast Company, HuffPost, and Metro UK. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Departures, and Ad Age have also quoted her expertise. Follow her on LinkedIn and learn more at GriffinMethod.com.


Episode Date
How to Build Confidence and Your Professional Brand with Intentionality
Sep 02, 2025
Why Thank-You Notes Still Matter: Boost Your Professional Brand and Stand Out in the Job Search
Aug 26, 2025
Job Interview Strategies That Work: How to Prepare, Stand Out, and Land the Role
Aug 19, 2025
How Anxiety Impacts Your Leadership—and What to Do About It
Aug 12, 2025
Trust Your Gut: 4 Ways to Strengthen Your Inner Voice and Navigate Career Decisions
Aug 05, 2025
Connection as Medicine: Breaking the Cycles of Workplace Isolation with Lucy Rose, Founder of The Cost of Loneliness Project
Jul 29, 2025
Listener Q&A: Leading Teams, Inspiring Growth, and Handling Emotional Hijacking at Work
Jul 22, 2025
Using AI to Upskill, Stand Out, and Stay Relevant in Your Career
Jul 15, 2025
From Hollywood to Tech: Navigating Career Transitions with Intention with Steven Puri, Founder and CEO of The Sukha Company
Jul 08, 2025
Mid-Year 2025 Career Trends: Navigating the Job Market: AI, Summer Slowdowns, and Strategic Networking with Executive Recruiter Kristian Schwartz
Jul 01, 2025
So…You’ve Been Canceled at Work. How to Recover Your Professional Brand
Jun 24, 2025
Leadership Identity: The Hidden Filter Behind Every Decision You Make
Jun 17, 2025
Greatest Hits: What really happens after you’ve been fired?
Jun 10, 2025
Confident on Stage, Awkward at Happy Hour: The Social Anxiety Paradox
Jun 03, 2025
Is Reactive Thinking Wrecking Your Professional Brand?
May 27, 2025
Intrapreneurship in Action: Driving Change from Within with Media Executive Eric Gillin
May 20, 2025
How Leaders Can Prevent Burnout by Understanding Work Styles
May 13, 2025
Networking When You’re Unclear (And a Little Freaked Out)
May 06, 2025
Excellence vs. Perfectionism
Apr 29, 2025
The Antidote to Uncertainty (It’s Not What You Think)
Apr 22, 2025
Pitching, Public Speaking, and Leading in Startups with Beth Mach, Co-founder of Spacely Media
Apr 15, 2025
The Evolution of Work: Navigating the Job, Career, and Calling Journey
Apr 08, 2025
Why We’re So Hard on Ourselves—And How to Break the Cycle
Apr 01, 2025
Empathy in the Workplace with Author and Empathy Advocate Maria Ross
Mar 25, 2025
What I Learned From A Huge Leadership Failure
Mar 18, 2025
Creating a Win-Win Workplace: Engagement, Profitability, and the Power of Feedback with Dr. Angela Jackson
Mar 11, 2025
Breaking Free from Toxic Work Cultures with Dr. William Diehl
Mar 04, 2025
Navigating the Balance of Success and Significance in Your Career
Feb 25, 2025
Career Growth Mindset: How to Change Your Mind
Feb 18, 2025
3 Types of Workplace Narcissists and How to Deal with Them
Feb 11, 2025
Why a Portfolio Career is the Future of Work (and How to Start Yours)
Feb 04, 2025
Scarcity Thinking Will Impact Your Career (Here's How to Stop It)
Jan 28, 2025
A Career Paradox: How Surrender Leads to Growth
Jan 21, 2025
Managing Up: The Career Game You Need to Win
Jan 14, 2025
Control Freak Recovery: A No-Nonsense Guide
Jan 07, 2025
The Top 5 Career Trends Shaping the Future of Work in 2025
Dec 31, 2024
Managing Professional Disappointment
Dec 24, 2024
Finding Your Motivation Again
Dec 17, 2024
Setting Boundaries in Today's Workplace: The 3 C's Framework
Dec 10, 2024
Why Avoiding Burnout is Really an Energy Game
Dec 03, 2024
The Power of Appreciation: Moving Beyond Gratitude
Nov 26, 2024
Hitting Rock Bottom: Rising Up After Setbacks
Nov 19, 2024
How Your Anxiety Impacts Your Leadership Style, and What to Do About It
Nov 12, 2024
Greatest Hits: How to Stop Negative Thinking
Nov 05, 2024
Transitioning from Top Sales Performer to Successful Leader with Sales Expert and Author Rebecca Gebhardt
Oct 29, 2024
From Fine Arts to Advertising Leadership: Lessons in Adaptability with Brent Poer
Oct 22, 2024
Congrats! You got the job. Your re-employed. Now what?
Oct 15, 2024
Overcoming Uncertainty in Negotiations
Oct 08, 2024
How Digital Habits Impact Mental Health: Insights from Anxiety Specialist Jennie Ketcham Crooks
Oct 01, 2024
The Evolution of a Culinary Career with Sarah Mastracco
Sep 24, 2024
Got Laid off? Here's What To Do Next.
Sep 17, 2024
Navigating Ageism in the Workplace: Job Search Tips for Experienced Professionals
Sep 10, 2024
Effective Strategies for Handling Annoying Co-Workers and Negative Feedback
Sep 03, 2024
Championing Community: A Conversation with New York State Assemblywoman, Jodi Giglio
Aug 27, 2024
Career Transitions: Living Between Two Worlds and Why Building Your Professional Brand is Key to Your Next Success
Aug 20, 2024
Forging an Unconventional Path: Danny Fishman’s Journey as Co-Founder and Partner of The Room, Through Entertainment, Tech, and Personal Growth
Aug 13, 2024
Silence The Noise: How to Hear Your Inner Voice
Aug 06, 2024
Careers in Law Enforcement with Deputy Undersheriff John Becker
Jul 30, 2024
Negotiation Happens in Everyday Spaces: A Conversation with Dr. Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Expert in Communication and Negotiation
Jul 23, 2024
Thriving in Finance: Career Insights with Jason Darby, CFO of Amalgamated Financial Corp
Jul 16, 2024
Building Your Career Dreams Into Reality
Jul 09, 2024
How to Stop Overthinking Everything About Your Career
Jul 02, 2024
Workplace Stress: Manage Your Mind and Boost Your Agency
Jun 25, 2024
The Steps to Increase Team Performance with Bill Lennan, Founder, 40 Percent Better
Jun 18, 2024
How to Get Unstuck: The Easier, Softer Way
Jun 11, 2024
Thank You Notes and Your Professional Brand: Do You Really Need to Send One?
Jun 04, 2024
Job Search and Recruitment Trends: Why the STAR Method is Flawed and What We Can All Do Instead with Recruiter Sue Gygax
May 28, 2024
What You Need to Do Before, During, and After Your Job Interview
May 21, 2024
People Pleasing VS. Codependency In The Workplace: Recognizing Signs And What To Do About It
May 14, 2024
Boost Confidence and Build Your Professional Brand with Intentionality
May 07, 2024
How to Stop Comparison and Unhealthy Competition
Apr 30, 2024
How to Navigate Embarrassment and Master a Swift Recovery
Apr 23, 2024
Your Culture is Showing: The Impact of Neglecting Essential Skills in the Workplace
Apr 16, 2024
Your Resume is a Marketing Tool with Tom Powner, CEO of Career Thinker
Apr 09, 2024
Guiding Your Team Through Uncertainty
Apr 02, 2024
How to Stop the Confusion and Start Making Decisions
Mar 26, 2024
Why Building Your Personal Board of Directors is Crucial for Your Success
Mar 19, 2024
Navigating Grief in the Workplace: Mourning, Resilience, and Workplace Empathy Explored
Mar 12, 2024
Eve McDavid's Journey from Google Executive to Cancer Survivor and Health Tech Innovator
Mar 05, 2024
Transforming the Control Freak Within
Feb 27, 2024
Mastering Cultural Fluency in Advertising with Esther 'E.T.' Franklin
Feb 20, 2024
Transforming Workplace Cultures for Career Well-Being and Personal Joy
Feb 13, 2024
Navigating Job Pivots and Setbacks with Executive Recruiter Hilary Black
Feb 06, 2024
Breaking the Stigma of Getting Fired with Christian Stein
Jan 30, 2024
From A&E Networks to BBC Studios: Sarah Shriver's Lessons in Career Transition
Jan 23, 2024
Championing Diversity and Building Brands, with Jennifer Risi, President, The Sway Effect
Jan 16, 2024
Maintain Confidence During Your Job Search
Jan 09, 2024
Sales Recruitment and Talent Acquisition with Kathy Hammond
Jan 02, 2024
How to Close The Confidence Gap
Dec 26, 2023
Navigating Evolving Career Landscapes with Google's Kristen Leone
Dec 19, 2023
Career Transitions: A Conversation with Michelle Harmon-Madsen, CMO at SponsorUnited
Dec 12, 2023
Wardrobe Wisdom: Exploring Sustainable Style and Career Success with Threads of Hershey
Dec 05, 2023
Unearthing the Power of Self-Identity in Career Development, with Ashok Sinha, SVP, Corporate Communications, Dow Jones
Nov 28, 2023
How to Answer the Most Annoying Job Interview Question: What Are Your Weaknesses?
Nov 21, 2023
Seasons of Your Career: Exploring 'Good Enough' Jobs
Nov 14, 2023
Disrupting the Cycle of Conversational Narcissism in the Workplace
Nov 07, 2023
Navigating Career Transition: Empathy, Storytelling, and Transferable Skills with Christine Stack, VP, Head of Human Resources, Capgemini
Oct 31, 2023
Mastering the Maze of Executive Search: Insider Tips with Kristian Schwartz
Oct 24, 2023
Unlocking Success in the Creative Industry with Ernest Lupinacci
Oct 17, 2023
Mastering the Art of Career Transition and Networking with Expert Jane Ashen Turkewitz
Oct 10, 2023
From Educator to Fitness Entrepreneur with Rachel Goodale
Oct 03, 2023
How Humility Unlocks Career Growth: Insights from Amy Roach, SVP of National Automotive at iHeartMedia
Sep 26, 2023
Crafting a Clear Career Vision: A Step-by-Step Guide
Sep 19, 2023
Unlocking Success: Career Growth Insights from 4A's President and CEO, Marla Kaplowitz
Sep 12, 2023
Part 2: How to Identify a Positive Company Culture
Sep 05, 2023
Part 1: How to Build a Positive Company Culture
Aug 29, 2023
How to Stop Overworking
Aug 22, 2023
How To Prevent Healthcare Worker Burnout with Dr. Sarah Nicholls
Aug 15, 2023
Necessary Endings: How to Professionally End a Business Relationship
Aug 08, 2023
Pride Leadership: Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Workspace with Dr. Steve Yacovelli
Aug 01, 2023
How to Deal with Copycats
Jul 25, 2023
How to Prepare and Get Ready for The Job Interview
Jul 18, 2023
Empathy in the Workplace with Rob Volpe
Jul 11, 2023
How to Stop Scarcity Thinking and Negative Thoughts about Work
Jul 04, 2023
Framework Thinking: 4 Paths for Career Success
Jun 27, 2023
Restoring the Soul of Business with Rishad Tobaccowala
Jun 20, 2023
Why You Need to be Both Ready and Prepared in Today's Job Market
Jun 13, 2023
How to Avoid Being a Pain Sponge at Work
Jun 06, 2023
Executive Presence Series: What to Do When You Can’t Get A Straight Answer About Your Next Internal Opportunity
May 30, 2023
{Greatest Hits} The 3 BS Blocks that are Messing with Your Career
May 23, 2023
From NYC’s Garment Center to Small Batch Chef and Baker with Ali Katz
May 16, 2023
{Greatest Hits} The Most Annoying Job Interview Question. Ever.
May 09, 2023
Serial Marketer, not Killer with David Berkowitz
May 02, 2023
How to Stay in Belief During Your Job Search
Apr 25, 2023
How To Discover Your Authentic Style And Up-Level Your Executive Presence With Naana Badu
Apr 18, 2023
10 Unexpected Career Lessons
Apr 11, 2023
Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors with Chief People Officer Erica Rooney
Apr 04, 2023
2023 Career and Workplace Trends (so far...)
Mar 28, 2023
Honoring Wisdom: My Grandmother Turns 100
Mar 21, 2023
Listener Questions: How to get over workplace conflict, when to involve HR, and how to shift a belief
Mar 14, 2023
Career Change: From Production to Sales with Margee Hocking
Mar 07, 2023
What Recruiters Are Looking For in Today's Marketplace with Recruiter Susan Gygax
Feb 28, 2023
How to Support your Colleague Who's Been Laid Off
Feb 21, 2023
Closing the Confidence Gap with Kelli Thompson
Feb 14, 2023
Workplace Friendships and Betrayal
Feb 07, 2023
How to Recession Proof Your Career
Jan 31, 2023
Mentoring Women to Achieve Pay Equity with Bhavana Smith
Jan 24, 2023
Cultivating Teams and Culture with Rebecca Panico, Media Strategy and Planning, Hilton
Jan 17, 2023
From Sales Leaderboard to Sales Leadership, with corporate sales leadership trainer, Rebecca Gebhardt
Jan 10, 2023
Choosing your Word of the Year (with examples)
Jan 03, 2023
Greatest Hits: How to Increase your Career Well-being and Reduce Burnout
Dec 27, 2022
Greatest Hits Episode: How to Manage Your Boss
Dec 20, 2022
The Seasons of Your Career
Dec 13, 2022
You got laid off. Now what?
Dec 06, 2022
Necessary Endings: How a Global Pandemic Launched a New Career with Designer and Founder Amy Kimball
Nov 29, 2022
Is Your Mindset Holding You Back? What to Do When You Have a Case of the But..Firsts
Nov 22, 2022
Building a Career Based on Trust with Sky Holden, Head of Industry, Global Business Solutions at TikTok
Nov 15, 2022
An Effective Approach to Executive Decision Making
Nov 08, 2022
Storytelling for Leaders with Michelle Barry Franco
Nov 01, 2022
What to do When You Get a Case of the Yeah, Buts
Oct 25, 2022
Creating Career Success While Caring for a Neurodivergent Child with Amanda Lawrence
Oct 18, 2022
Why We Need to Rethink Pre-Employment Assessments
Oct 11, 2022
Validation is for Parking with Nicole Kalil
Oct 04, 2022
The Myth of Work-Life Balance
Sep 27, 2022
From Editor To Owner. How Heather Keets Wright Went From Building Equity For Others To Building Equity and Ownership For Herself
Sep 20, 2022
How Creating Millions in Equity Value Led Entrepreneur Lizzy Klein to Start Her Own Business
Sep 13, 2022
Chutes and Ladders: a Story of Career Pivots and Transitions
Sep 06, 2022
Don’t Quiet Quit, Deliberately Decide
Aug 30, 2022
Not Feeling Like Yourself Lately? How to Get Out of a Funk.
Aug 23, 2022
The 3 BS Blocks that are Messing with Your Career
Aug 16, 2022
How to Develop your Confidence to Increase Your Performance
Aug 09, 2022
How to Improve Team Dynamics at Work Part 2
Aug 02, 2022
How to Improve Team Dynamics at Work Part 1
Jul 26, 2022
How to Become a Thoughtful and Powerful Decision Maker
Jul 19, 2022
New Work Dress Codes: How To Create The Mindset And The Style You Want As You Return To Work with Judith Gaton
Jul 12, 2022
Greatest Hits Episode: Smart Ways to Effectively Manage Your Boss that are Crucial for your Success
Jul 05, 2022
Top Career Trends of 2022 (so far…)
Jun 28, 2022
Your Resume is Not About You
Jun 21, 2022
Effort Versus Progress and Why You May Not Be Seeing Results
Jun 14, 2022
How to Get out of Your Own Way with Author and Cancer Survivor Elena Sonnino
Jun 07, 2022
How to Answer the Most Annoying Job Interview Question: What Are Your Weaknesses?
May 31, 2022
Increase Your Job Performance: Steps to Improve Mindset and Reduce Over-Consumption of Alcohol, Food, Social Media and More with Angelia Mascenik
May 24, 2022
The Great Reassessment: Preparing Your Mindset, Managing Perfectionism, Ageism, and the New Midlife Crisis
May 17, 2022
How To Stop Overthinking Everything About Your Career And Ease Anxiety
May 10, 2022
How to Release Productivity Guilt
May 03, 2022
A New Way to Create Your Career Vision
Apr 26, 2022
How to Manage Disappointment
Apr 19, 2022
Managing others: Ask better questions. Get better results.
Apr 12, 2022
How To Effectively Respond To A Question You Don’t Want To Answer
Apr 05, 2022
Greatest Hits: The Survivor's Guide to the Office Narcissist
Mar 29, 2022
How to fight Ageism in the workplace while navigating your job search
Mar 22, 2022
What to do when you lose your motivation
Mar 15, 2022
How to choose your purpose, think in possibility to build your future self and your Career Well-being
Mar 08, 2022
Strategies to Stop Overworking
Mar 01, 2022
How to Stay Sane During Your Job Search
Feb 22, 2022
Managing your peers. How to get people who don't work for you to work with you.
Feb 15, 2022
How to increase your self-worth and bring value to any organization
Feb 08, 2022
How to increase your career wellbeing and reduce burnout
Feb 01, 2022
How to Manage Your Boss
Jan 25, 2022
Getting fired, processing workplace drama, and finding career joy again
Jan 18, 2022
Greatest Hits Episode: Your strengths at work. How to use your strengths to up-level your career
Jan 11, 2022
Resolutions and the fallacy of January 1st thinking. How to create behaviors that stick.
Jan 04, 2022
How to set your career vision: Why a big career vision requires small career goals.
Dec 28, 2021
How to leverage your strengths to generate ideas
Dec 21, 2021
How to build (and re-build) trust in the workplace
Dec 14, 2021
A Fresh Perspective on Executive Presence (and how to up-level regardless of your title)
Dec 07, 2021
Why you need to get clear on your Workplace Values
Nov 30, 2021
Gratitude as a Tool for Career Success
Nov 23, 2021
People Pleasing and the Misuse of Your Strengths
Nov 16, 2021
How to build your personal board of directors
Nov 09, 2021
How performance-based coaching and mindset helped me recover from a traumatic brain injury
Nov 02, 2021
Company Culture Part 2: How to identify a positive company culture
Oct 26, 2021
Company Culture Part 1: How to build a positive company culture
Oct 19, 2021
Using your strengths to build resilience
Oct 12, 2021
A framework for goal setting that delivers proven results
Oct 05, 2021
Quick Tips for Effective Networking
Sep 28, 2021
How to handle annoying co-workers and negative feedback
Sep 21, 2021
How to Stop a Scarcity Mindset
Sep 14, 2021
How to Decide Your Next Career Move - Part II
Sep 07, 2021
How to Decide Your Next Career Move - Part I
Aug 31, 2021
The Confidence Gap
Aug 24, 2021
The Myth of Busyness
Aug 17, 2021
The Power of No
Aug 10, 2021
Resourcefulness is a mindset
Aug 03, 2021
How to Break-Up with Your Inner Control Freak
Jul 27, 2021
Are you Micro Quitting?
Jul 20, 2021
How to Amplify Your Strengths
Jul 13, 2021
What To Do About Other People's Opinions
Jul 06, 2021
How to Build Belief and Manage Doubt
Jun 29, 2021
Why Celebration is Key to Your Success
Jun 22, 2021
The Survivor's Guide to the Office Narcissist
Jun 15, 2021
The Return to the Office. How to reduce anxiety post COVID-19
Jun 08, 2021
Sunday Scaries and Monday Mindset
Jun 01, 2021
Stop All or Nothing Thinking
May 25, 2021
Perfectionism and your career
May 18, 2021
The Anxious Achiever
May 11, 2021
How to Stop Negative Thinking
May 04, 2021
When you are excluded in the workplace
Apr 27, 2021
What to Do When Nothing is Working Out
Apr 20, 2021
Fear and Job Performance
Apr 13, 2021
How to make drama-free decisions
Apr 06, 2021
The Antidote to Imposter Syndrome
Mar 30, 2021
How to Set Workplace Boundaries
Mar 23, 2021
Rethinking Failure
Mar 16, 2021
Self deprecating humor, when to use it or lose it
Mar 09, 2021
Refresh Your Mindset
Mar 02, 2021
The Career Refresh Trailer - Start Here
Feb 26, 2021