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Best Way to Manage Your Time After a Layoff
One of the most unexpected (and unsettling) parts of my first layoff was staring at a completely empty calendar. I was so used to a full,...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Mar 133 min read
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After Layoff: A Resilience & Recovery Guide
Losing a job is never easy—especially when it happens unexpectedly. If you’ve been laid off, you’re not alone. More than 30,000...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Feb 274 min read
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To the Young Ones: You Don’t Have to Have It All Figured Out
love spending time with young people—listening to their perspectives, hearing how they see the world, and understanding what’s on their...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Feb 12 min read
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Feeling Stuck in Your Career? 9 Reflective Questions to Help You Move Forward
I meet so many people, at every stage of life, who feel certain they can no longer continue where they are or doing what they do. They...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Jan 173 min read
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What Truly Matters in Life? And In The Coming Year?
As each year closes, I find myself reflecting on what truly matters. While our answers may differ, the wisdom of those who’ve lived long,...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Jan 42 min read
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Gifts For a More Meaningful 2025
Happy Holidays (if you are celebrating them) and Here are My Gifts I made you some promises lately , and as the year comes to a close, I...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Dec 18, 20243 min read
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The Burden of Deserve: How Conditional Worth Shapes Our Lives
Deserve is a heavy word. Why? Because some of us heard it is very conditional. If you're like me, you grew up with a parent who said ...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Aug 22, 20242 min read
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21 Questions People Ask During Life Transitions
Life transitions are hard. It brings up many questions. Having worked with over over 1,000 people over the years, here are some of the...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Jul 2, 20242 min read
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Enjoying the journey not the destination lesson from my husband
My husband loves a challenge. He is one of those people who will start biking and then it becomes too easy; he has to bike over 100...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Jun 25, 20244 min read
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Always A Story Behind Why You Love What You Do
I always observe people around me to see if they love what they do. It is my natural curiosity, I just notice it. It shows immediately if...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Jun 6, 20244 min read
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5 Fascinating Insights on Transitioning from Corporate to Your Own Business
When that voice gets real, the one that tells you "there is no good job for you in the corporate space" and wants you to get out of the...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Sep 6, 20233 min read
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The Secrets of Staying Strong After A Layoff
I have the chance to be around many amazing people after a layoff; including myself. Because I had to go through the same transition, I...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Aug 22, 20234 min read
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No Purpose Shaming
First published at https://www.bizcatalyst360.com/no-purpose-shaming/ People like me who have been talking about individual and...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Feb 21, 20224 min read
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Who Else Wants to Quit Their Crappy Job? - Part 2
And what are your options after you do....(continued from 2019) I wrote an article on March 27th of 2019 with the same title (Part 1)...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Jan 18, 20224 min read
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Rise of Purpose during Pandemic
Work as we know died. It is not sustainable to work just to get a paycheck and live for weekends only. We need to find more meaning in...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Sep 30, 20214 min read
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Why are your people quitting their jobs?
And what can you do about it? Human beings usually do not change course until something bad happens. That hardship makes us understand...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Aug 31, 20214 min read
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Who are we without our titles?
I remember the days when I felt micromanaged. At the time I was so young and so naïve; I was kind of afraid of those managers. I was also...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Jun 15, 20213 min read
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See People as Who They Are for You
Originally published at https://www.bizcatalyst360.com/see-people-as-who-they-are-for-you/ It is very likely that we get to see our...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
May 30, 20213 min read
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Did the pandemic give you the extra nudge you need?
As we all acknowledge, the pandemic has been challenging to say the least. We can never minimize the impact it had in our world and...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Apr 22, 20212 min read
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What if we did not make 2020 all about the pandemic?
I would always feel bad in any random year when people name a year fully “terrible” with a single stroke of a brush when something bad...
Brooke Ozlem Erol
Dec 28, 20203 min read
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