🎙️ In this episode, I sat down with Howard Longstaff, retired recruiter, entrepreneur, and now coach and mentor.Howard’s journey is a fascinating look at what happens when an “accidental recruiter” builds global businesses, sells them, and ultimately chooses a path of coaching and grounded spirituality. From hotel kitchens to executive search across three continents, Howard shares the lessons of business building, the importance of cultural fit in recruitment, and the clarity that comes from slowing down and finding balance in nature.
Some of the highlights of our conversation include:
🔸 Accidental beginnings : How a chance interview led to a 30-year career in recruitment.🔸 Building global businesses : The highs and lows of running firms across multiple countries.🔸 Coaching by choice : Why mentoring was always part of recruitment and how it became his true focus.🔸 CVs in the age of AI : What candidates need to know about ATS systems.🔸 Spiritual grounding : How fly-fishing became a powerful tool for clarity and resilience.
🎧 Listen now for a grounded and insightful conversation about career change, entrepreneurship, and the role of spirituality in finding clarity and choice.
To connect with Howard:
✅ www.william-howard.com
✅ www.linkedin.com/in/howardlongstaff
Career & Spirituality Conversations is hosted by Julie Pône:
✅ Connect with me on www.juliepone.com
✅ Get my free guide: "3 Reasons Why You're Unfulfilled At Work And The Spiritual Tools To Fix It" → www.careerandspirituality.com/Free-Guide
🎙️ In this episode, I sat down with Jenn Cohen, intuitive mentor, spiritual coach, and former entertainment industry executive.
Jenn’s story is a moving example of how grief, intuition, and guidance from the other side can shape a career and a life. After the sudden passing of her father, Jenn began noticing signs from him, signs that would quietly guide her through a 27-year corporate career and eventually into her true calling as an intuitive mentor and channel.
From navigating the corporate world with intuition to helping others connect with their higher selves and loved ones who’ve passed, Jenn shares how to trust your inner knowing, even (and especially) when life feels noisy and uncertain.
Some of the highlights of our conversation include:
🔸 Guidance from the other side : How her father’s signs helped shape her career path.
🔸 Intuition at work : What it feels like in the body and how to tell it apart from fear.
🔸 Trusting the process : Why your spirit never leaves you stuck without a way forward.
🔸 Strengthening your intuition : Simple, practical ways to reconnect to your inner guidance.
🎧 Listen now for an inspiring and practical conversation about intuition, grief, and the quiet guidance that’s always available to us.
To connect with Jenn:
✅ www.instagram.com/jenncohenintuitive
✅ www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-cohen-intuitive-consultant/
Career & Spirituality Conversations is hosted by Julie Pône:
✅ Connect with me on www.juliepone.com
✅ Get my free guide: "3 Reasons Why You're Unfulfilled At Work And The Spiritual Tools To Fix It" → www.careerandspirituality.com/Free-Guide
In this episode, I sit down with Shantanu Saha, seasoned HR leader, executive search consultant, and survivor of multiple near-death experiences.
His story is one of quiet strength, radical kindness, and unwavering belief in something bigger than himself.
From losing his father as a child to surviving organ failure and out-of-body experiences, Shantanu shares how these profound challenges shaped his leadership, his outlook on life, and his purpose.
Some of the highlights of our conversation include:
🧠 Resilience and belief – How surviving death twice rewired his mindset and deepened his faith.
💼 Leadership with heart – Why kindness and humility matter in the boardroom, especially in HR.
🌍 Purpose through adversity – How extreme challenges led to meaningful contribution and service.
🧰 Staying relevant – Practical career wisdom on staying valuable in a fast-changing job market.
Listen now for an honest and deeply inspiring conversation on navigating illness, leadership, and the inner strength that carries us through it all.
To connect with Shantanu:✅ www.therecruiters.net
✅ www.linkedin.com/in/shantanusaha/
✅ www.instagram.com/shantanusaha23/
✅ www.facebook.com/shantanusaha23/
✅ www.youtube.com/@shantanusaha1
To learn more about Kidney Warriors Foundation:✅ www.kidneywarriorsfoundation.org
Career & Spirituality Conversations is hosted by Julie Pône:✅ Connect with me on www.juliepone.com✅ Get my free guide: "3 Reasons Why You're Unfulfilled At Work And The Spiritual Tools To Fix It" → www.careerandspirituality.com/Free-Guide
In this episode, I sit down with Rosemary Loughlin—a lawyer, actor, writer, and lover of Shakespeare —who, following a trail of clues that seemed almost thrown her way by the Universe itself, conducted personal research around the Shakespeare authorship debate and wrote and produced her own one-woman show telling the tale of her discoveries.
Some of the highlights of our conversation include:
🌿 Passion and profession – How Rosemary balances her career as a lawyer with her love for acting and research.
🔎 Shakespeare authorship debate – Discover why many scholars and thinkers question the traditional narrative and explore the Oxfordian theory.
🌱 Living your passion alongside your career – Practical insights on how to integrate your creative pursuits without sacrificing stability.
💡 Small steps and letting go – How focusing on incremental progress and releasing control opened doors to unexpected magic.
Listen now for an insightful conversation on balancing professional life with creative passion, pursuing unconventional research, and allowing magical moments to shape your journey.
To connect with Rosemary:
✅ www.instagram.com/shakespearedevere/
Career & Spirituality Conversations is hosted by Julie Pône:
✅ Connect with me on www.juliepone.com
✅ Get my free guide: "3 Reasons Why You're Unfulfilled At Work And The Spiritual Tools To Fix It" → www.careerandspirituality.com/Free-Guide
In this episode, I speak with Sabine Gédéon, a leadership coach and former HR executive who left corporate success behind to embrace entrepreneurship. Her journey led her to a deeper faith, radical self-trust, and a redefinition of power.
Some of the highlights of our conversation include:
✨ Leaving corporate behind – How Sabine transitioned from a thriving HR career to entrepreneurship.
🛤 Faith & career shifts – Trusting the unknown and navigating transformation without a roadmap.
🚀 Breaking free from validation – Releasing the need for external approval and reclaiming inner authority.
💡 The messy middle of reinvention – What it really takes to step into your power and purpose.
🌟 Spirituality in leadership – Why now is the time for conscious leadership in corporate spaces.
Listen now for an inspiring conversation on career shifts, faith, and the courage to step into your true self.
To connect with Sabine:
✅ www.sabinegedeon.com
✅ www.linkedin.com/in/sabinegedeon
✅ www.instagram.com/sabinegedeon
✅ www.youtube.com/@CoachSabineGedeon
Career & Spirituality Conversations is hosted by Julie Pône:
✅ Connect with me on www.juliepone.com
✅ Get my free guide: "3 Reasons Why You're Unfulfilled At Work And The Spiritual Tools To Fix It" → www.careerandspirituality.com/Free-Guide
For this episode, I interviewed Karen Dufour Deschamps, a seasoned coach and mentor with decades of experience helping individuals and leaders align their careers with their true selves. With a fascinating career journey spanning multiple industries, international experiences, and personal reinvention, Karen shares how she navigated major transitions while staying true to her passion for teaching and coaching.
Some of the highlights of our conversation include:
🎓 How childhood passions shape our careers – Karen’s love for teaching started at age 5, and she never looked back. 🌍 A career of bold leaps – From working in refugee camps to coaching leaders in the Middle East, Karen embraced risk and reinvention. 💡 Overcoming financial setbacks – The reality of bankruptcy, resilience, and finding financial stability as an expat consultant. 🧠 Mental fitness & self-awareness – How the Positive Intelligence framework transformed her coaching approach. 🌊 Finding your element – The role of nature, spirituality, and self-connection in career fulfillment.
Listen now to explore Karen’s incredible journey and gain insights into aligning your work with your deeper purpose.
To connect with Karen:
✅ www.innercor.com ✅ www.linkedin.com/in/karendufourdeschamps/
Career & Spirituality Conversations is hosted by Julie Pône:
✅ Connect with me on www.juliepone.com
✅ Get my free guide: "3 Reasons Why You're Unfulfilled At Work And The Spiritual Tools To Fix It" www.careerandspirituality.com/Free-Guide
For this episode, I interviewed Jodie Crawford, a Canadian coach, teacher, and author who shares her inspiring journey from burnout to balance.
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
To connect with Jody:
✅ Website: https://attractenergy.ca/
✅ Get Jody's book: https://a.co/d/hpIUCea
✅ Jody's social media:
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550841336171
www.facebook.com/groups/healthwealthandallthethings
www.instagram.com/crawford.jody/
www.linkedin.com/in/jody-h-crawford/
Career & Spirituality Conversations is hosted by Julie Pône:
✅ Connect with me on www.juliepone.com
✅ Get my free guide: "3 Reasons Why You're Unfulfilled At Work And The Spiritual Tools To Fix It" www.careerandspirituality.com/Free-Guide
For this episode, I interviewed face reading and body language specialist Joseph McGuire.
Joseph has taught Face Reading (Mien Shiang) and Body Language since 1985, originally to healthcare professionals. He later expanded his skills to negotiation and communication, even training with former FBI experts. With over 30 years of holistic therapy experience, Joseph now focuses on C-level interviewing, executive communication, and client profiling across various industries like Pharma, Aviation, and Financial Services. He is also the author of "Face Facts: The Art of Reading Your Clients and Prospects for Sales, Negotiation, and Recruitment."
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
To connect with Joseph:
www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-mcguire-face-facts/
Career & Spirituality Conversations is hosted by Julie Pône:
Connect with me on www.juliepone.com
Get my free guide: "3 Reasons Why You're Unfulfilled At Work And The Spiritual Tools To Fix It" at www.careerandspirituality.com/Free-Guide
For this episode, I interviewed Edel Swords:
Living from your Truth- That’s it! Now let’s get to work! Edel has been seeking this Truth within herself and the concept, while simple, is not easy, but it is most empowering and freeing once experienced, integrated and embodied.
She's taken many healing pathways, trained in psycho spiritual shadow work, somatics, bodywork and energy work for over 30years.
As we are made up of all of these, she works as a weaver through the patterning laid down by our restrictive conditioning and guide us to experience living in our truth.
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
Connect with Edel on www.edelswords.com
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For this episode, I interviewed David Towns:
David is the new owner/moderator of Life After Life, the website devoted to the works of Dr. Raymond Moody, the founder of the near-death experience movement.
David’s search for truth began several years ago when he underwent a series of personal challenges. This led to an exploration of a variety of spiritual pathways. David is a human resources professional with over 20 years in the field.
David is also the coauthor of “The Message of the Rose,” an unpublished memoir about his friend Adam Fulford’s near-death experience.
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
Connect with David on wwwlifeafterlife.com or on FB
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This episode is another medley of clips from previous interviews, for the purpose of sharing the example of two very successful people who found the “Holy Grail” of fulfilment even through the toughness of the professional world:
Jochen Frey from the entrepreneurial side and Tazeen Dhunna from the corporate side,
In these short clips, they share their experience of what happens when what you do for a living is aligned with who you are.
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For this episode, I interviewed Richard Spitzer:
Richard is a retired business executive with over 50 + years of professional expertise in communications/behavioral research.
He has worked for major marketers, was a partner in one of the world’s largest research consulting firms, and had his own trend analysis research firm.
After retirement, Richard encountered unexpected challenges and doubts about achieving new goals.
After years of following conventional popular and clinical practices, he became frustrated with the always advised but never defined advice to be “more positive”.
So, Richard applied his expertise and did for himself what he did for hundreds of clients over thousands of projects; he became the research subject to identify how to transform the advice to be more positive into a common sense positivity-building practice.
The results are the Positivity Intelligence Course, with the book Discover Your Positivity Intelligence, the PIQ workbook and the Positivity IQ Target and Scorecard, which includes the 36 lessons to learn to build a positivity habit.
The PIQ course is the evolution from where traditional practices stop: What is more positive? How will I know when I’m positive enough? How can I become more positive in the real world?
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
Connect with Richard on www.modernpositivity.com
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In this short episode I compiled clips of previous conversations with Tina Frey, Gina Schatz and Angela Roth, that tell the story of how embracing your career purpose leads to organic, growing influence, creating a ripple effect beyond one’s own fulfilment.
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For this episode, I interviewed Uschi Baumann:
Uschi is a Leadership Coach who spent over 20 years in a variety of corporate roles and leadership positions herself before becoming a coach.
She now helps Leaders take their Leadership to the next level, be more inspiring, authentic and balanced in their approach.
She has coached 150+ leaders across many organisations in over 20 countries, a manifestation of her keen interest towards different cultures and languages.
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
Connect with Uschi on her website or Linkedin
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For this episode, I interviewed musicologist Dr. Shireen Maluf:
Fluent in English, French, and Arabic, and enriched by diverse cultural experiences and certifications, Shireen leverages her expertise in spirituality, music, and nonprofit leadership, and has dedicated the last decade to supporting high achieving sensitive empaths and leaders transition from dysfunctional patterns into findind clarity, peace and direction.
Influenced by her upbringing amidst conflict and facing the aftermath of a significant global disaster, Shireen pursued clarity through spirituality, music, and nonprofit leadership.
Her journey spanned continents, immersing her in ancient wisdoms and practices like Peruvian Shamanism, coaching and holistic approaches.
At McGill University, she specialized in phenomenology and piano performance, leading to roles as a university professor, concert pianist, and NGO director, championing free music education in marginalized settings.
Her diverse contributions include academic publications, fiction, and an award-winning script from the 2015 Canada International Film Festival.
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
Connect with Shireen on her website or Linkedin.
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For this episode, I interviewed empowerment & leadership coach Kasia Bradford.
Throughout her life Kasia has navigated incredible shifts which, now she sees, were preparing her for the work she does today: From battling an eating disorder for over a decade, losing a pregnancy that almost killed her, leaving a less than ideal marriage, to completely changing careers after 17 years as a CPA and IT Professional in order to start her own coaching business, she experienced her fair share of CHANGE.
She supports her clients in getting to know who they truly are. by breaking up with their old stories and fully owning their confidence so they can lead their life empowered!
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
Connect with Kasia on Linkedin
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For this episode, I interviewed former ocean sailor Lucy Thom:
A geographer and former Royal Engineers reserve officer, Lucy’s was the first woman and civilian to qualify as a Joint Services (British Forces) Adventurous Sail-Training Skipper.
Lucy went onto becoming a round the world yachtswoman and relaunching and sailing manually the classic racing superyacht, “Mariquita”.
These roles demanded good fitness and clear communication, especially in adverse weather conditions and so it was a huge shock when, just a couple of years after leaving the sea to start a family, Lucy found herself in hospital, struggling to breathe and only able to speak in a hoarse whisper.
Diagnosed with an apparently chronic, incurable breathing condition called idiopathic airway stenosis, Lucy decided to embark on a quest to find what was causing unwanted tissue to grow in her airway?
Little did she know then that it would turn out to be a 16 year “voyage” with far greater challenges than she’d ever encountered sailing round the world, ultimately leading her to work in mediation, conflict-coaching and group facilitation, and designing her own framework, The COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION S.P.A.C.E., to help people express themselves with compassion and authenticity.
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
Connect with Lucy on Linkedin, on her website
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For this episode, I interviewed former civil engineer Annette Ebbinghaus.
Annette is Canadian-Suisse living in Geneva. She began her career as a Civil Engineer, very rational, scientific mind and through the course of life.
Then she found herself living in Asia where her life trajectory completely changed, as this is when she began to study the body and the mind.
She ultimately became an ASCA certified Master Sophrologist among other things such as a Reiki Master, IQM and HeartMath coherence practitioner, hypnosis, NLP…
Her work now involved building synaptic bridges in the mind and the body whilst connecting us to all that is.
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
Stay curious!
Connect with Annette on her website.
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For this episode, I interviewed Doug Gordon, man of many skills who, after a near death experience, transitioned from the world of investment banking to becoming 5X award winning international speaker, also coach, consultant, trainer, radio presenter, healer, journalist and bestselling author.
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
To connect with Doug:
www.dougdgordon.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-gordon-216091b/
https://www.facebook.com/doug.d.gordon
Get the book! Charge Yourself Up for Success:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVWJ7SQB
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For this episode, I interviewed Kabbalah specialict Chaim Apsam. Chaim is what is called a Ba’al Teshuva (one who was not religious from birth, but chose this path) who works with digital marketing, and in parallel is teaching people about Kabbalah.
Some of the highlights of our conversation are:
To connect with Chaim:
https://www.kabbalahempowerment.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaim-apsan-562a9a96/
https://www.youtube.com/@kabbalahempowerment
https://www.instagram.com/kabbalahempowerment/
Download the Illustrated Book of Kabbalah: https://www.kabbalahempowerment.com/kabbalah-e-book/
The most recent episodes of Career & Spirituality Conversations are released ahead of time to my email subscribers. You can sign up for free: https://keap.page/max338/sign-up-csc.html and get as bonuses the masterclass Your Career is Your Karma, and all 15 episodes of the Career & Spirituality Summit - 2022
