Highly recommend their coaching and podcast! I'd listened to the Happen To Your Career podcast for several years before reaching out to Scott about getting career coaching. I'd been in my roll for nearly 10 years, wanted to stay, but felt like it was time to renegotiate. What I expected/hoped for was maybe a 10% raise MAX, as I was already near the top of my salary range for the area. Scott pushed me to ask for more, helped me feel confident I was worth that ask, and coached me through how that will probably go, what to say, when and how to say it, what not to say, etc. I walked into my boss's office prepared and he knew it. As my request went higher up the chain, they knew it as well. My preparations and HTYC's great coaching paid off, in a few week's turn around time I was given a 20% raise, and renegotiated job duties which will help me enjoy my job even more! I highly recommend both their podcast and coaching services, Scott and his team are the real deal!

Putting Advice into Action I had an opportunity to take some of the advice I received from Phillip as part of my coaching in the Fall of 2022 and put it into action. I actually got a call back from a job I interviewed for 2 months earlier and didn’t get. I guess I did really well in the interview and they put me on a shortlist for any future openings (which is often the case in the public sector). Since I had already interviewed, things were going to progress straight to the initial offer. To make sure I was ready, I consulted my ideal career profile and assessed my current working situation (which wasn’t great) to determine my salary range. Since public sector salaries are generally governed by policies and collective bargaining agreements, I anticipated that the initial offer would be quite low. In fact, it was $20,000 less than what I was making at my current gig! Since I was desperate to get out, I might have just went along with the initial offer, fearing that they might rescind the offer if I tried to negotiate to a higher salary. Thanks to my chats with Phillip and the modules recorded by Scott, I knew the importance of being honest with myself and what my bare minimum to shift jobs would be (despite my desperation!). Despite REALLY wanting out, I knew I'd also be miserable if I took this gig and was earning less in an inflationary economy! By being intentional and planning ahead, I was able to establish a range that would allow me to get a bump in salary (even when factoring my performance raise at my previous job) without putting the recruiter off. I presented this to them in an honest and transparent way by letting them know where I was now in my current salary range and where they’ll need to be for me to accept the offer. In the end, they met me at the lower end of what I proposed. Nonetheless, by doing the work in advance, I was satisfied with the result because it satisfied two important criteria I established: getting out of my current job and getting a salary bump. Having that knowledge from HTYC really gave me the confidence to approach this situation in a systematic way. Without it, I may have taken a significant pay cut out of desperation or compelled them to rescind the offer because my demands were too high. Salary negotiation is just a microcosm of what you’ll learn at HTYC! When you take the time to set parameters for your ‘ideal job’ (location, salary, commute times, etc.), the ‘overwhelm’ that can accompany these kinds of decisions is reduced significantly!

Invest in HTYC, it changed my life. Finding your podcast randomly on Spotify, investing in your program, and working with Liz and then Phillip was the beginning of an amazing journey. "Comfortably unhappy" was what you said in the first podcast episode I listened to. That single description captured perfectly how I was feeling at the time. I appreciate you, your program, and your people. I HIGHLY recommend investing in your program to anyone looking to make a career change and find work they truly want to do.

Never been on a podcast before…Scott… Never been on a podcast before…Scott made the entire experience just like a conversation. Really enjoyed sharing my story & obviously the entire HTYC team is just top tier. You all have helped me change my life in the most positive and beautiful way. Thank you!

Rewarding experience HTYC was a great experience and definitely worthwhile. The podcast is so engaging with inspiring stories of people who have taken the effort and made a meaningful change to their careers, and I found the HTYC coaching exactly all about that. Megan was so good to work with; warm, compassionate, with great prompts and challenges to think differently. Her support was invaluable going through the process and helped me to make a career shift in the right direction. Thanks Megan!