Career Slay

About Career Slay

What if success didn't have to come at the cost of your health, your values, or your life outside work? Welcome to Career Slay, the podcast for ambitious professionals who are done chasing titles and ready to build careers that actually fit their lives. We talk about what it really takes to lead with confidence, clarity, and courage without losing yourself in the process. If you're ready to stop surviving your career and start slaying it, you're in the right place.

Publisher

Kelly Poquiz Burke

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Sept 2022

Latest episode

23 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 49 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   23 Sept 2026

   The Comeback: Burnout, Recovery, and Four Hard Truths About Healing

   Host Kelly Poquiz Burke shares her personal journey through burnout, recovery, and unexpected health challenges, offering hard truths about healing and returning to the podcast.

2. 

   10 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Good Daughtering ft. Allison Alford

   What if one of the biggest drains on women’s time, energy, and leadership potential is something we rarely name? In this episode, Kelly sits down with Dr. Allison Alford, clinical associate professor at Baylor University, communication scholar, executive coach, and author of Good Daughtering, to explore the invisible labor of “daughtering.” Allison shares her unconventional academic journey, from earning her PhD as a mom of two to building what she calls a “portfolio career” that blends teach...

3. 

   17 Feb 2026

   Learning How to Pivot

   Pivoting can feel like failure. It can feel like quitting, like starting over, like admitting you got it wrong. In this solo episode, Kelly unpacks what it really means to pivot and why it’s often the most aligned and courageous move you can make in your career. From changing majors at University of Notre Dame, to earning her MBA, to shifting from advertising into brand marketing at Frito-Lay, to founding Career Slay, Kelly shares the defining pivots that shaped her professional path. If you’...

Inside a recent episode

Good Daughtering ft. Allison Alford

Published 10 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] My role is so cool because I'm tasked with doing teaching, but I am also tasked with doing research in my area of training, which is communication. And so I'm also given space in my schedule to do that. And I'm also rewarded for when I see outcomes, when I'm able to produce research. So for the past more than a decade, I've continued the research that came from my dissertation, and that is exploring daughtering. Daughtering is what I call the work or the role of adult daughters in relationship with their parent. And so if we think about other words, we might think about If you're in a marriage, being married is work. […]

Who has been a guest on Career Slay

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

• Dr Anthony Randall
• Catherine Connelly
• Dr Chris Sebastian

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

19,257

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

64 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

35 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100

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

Quality

54

Social presence

91

YouTube

72

Engagement

51

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