Career Sessions, Career Lessons

About Career Sessions, Career Lessons

Career paths rarely unfold in a straight line. Some careers accelerate quickly, while others take unexpected turns, requiring us to adapt, reinvent ourselves, and seize new opportunities along the way. On Career Sessions, host J.R. Lowry sits down with accomplished leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, coaches, veterans, and professionals from all walks of life to explore the stories behind their careers. Through candid conversations, guests share the decisions, challenges, successes, setbacks, and lessons that shaped their professional journeys. Whether you're early in your career, navigating a transition, pursuing leadership opportunities, or simply looking for inspiration and practical advice, Career Sessions offers insights you can apply to your own path. Each episode goes beyond résumés and job titles to uncover how people build meaningful careers and thrive through change. J.R. Lowry has built a career across military service, management consulting, financial services, executive leadership, and entrepreneurship. Drawing on his own experiences and conversations with hundreds of guests, he helps listeners better understand the realities of career growth and the choices that can make the biggest difference over time.

Publisher

JR Lowry

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Feb 2022

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

120 of 223 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Stop Following Someone Else’s Career Playbook, with Andy Paul

   Host J.R. Lowry interviews sales expert Andy Paul about building your own career playbook by embracing curiosity and understanding others' needs.

2. 

   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Success Isn’t Enough: Building a Work Life Worth Living, with Jeff Westphal

   Host J.R. Lowry interviews former Vertex CEO Jeff Westphal about building a fulfilling work life beyond traditional success, exploring purpose and the future of human-centric leadership.

3. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why You? How to Stand Out in a Crowded Market, with April Dunford

   Host JR Lowry interviews positioning expert April Dunford on how to differentiate your career in a crowded market by clarifying unique value and embracing strengths.

Inside a recent episode

Stop Following Someone Else’s Career Playbook, with Andy Paul

Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Curiosity, I know, is really central to the way that you think about how to manage your career and your day to day work life. Else does it really factor in for you? Well, I mean, it operates on multiple levels. And one is obviously sort of general curiosity about the world and staying informed and abreast of what's going on and being a lifelong learner. That's certainly an aspect of curiosity. But I think the level I look at is more important in the long term as being curious about other people. Making an effort to truly understand them. And I write about this in my book. There's this gap between knowing something about someone and truly understanding. […]

Who has been a guest on Career Sessions, Career Lessons

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Andy Paul
• Jeff Westphal
• April Dunford
• Dave Ulrich
• Lorena Prego Ojeda

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

402,238

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

225 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

23 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

97

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

81

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