Career Tipper®

About Career Tipper®

Workforce Development Strategist and Program Manager Michele Badie is championing conversations about keeping your stride while keeping your skills recharged, competitive, and hire-ready. The Career Tipper® podcast curates mental health, workforce development, and project management-themed discussions monthly. * Career Tipper podcast has been recognized by Mac’s List in the 2019 Top Career Podcast guide. * The Career Tipper podcast was recommended as a podcast to listen to in 2019 by Women on the Rise Orlando.

Publisher

Michele Badie

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 Feb 2018

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 128 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   AI Raised the Bar, and It's Not the One You Think

   Program Manager and Mental Health Advocate Michele Badie discusses AI fluency and judgment in project management, offering a key question to consider before using AI-generated content.

2. 

   16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Plan is Never the Whole Job

   Are you the one who always spots the elephant in the room your team refuses to see? Ineffective communication is the primary driver of project failure one out of every three times, according to PMI. Not the plan. Not the timeline. The communication. A new season of Career Tipper® is ready for you, Reading the Room. Episode 1: The Plan is Never the Whole Job. Identifying what's invisible in the room is the baseline. Michele is sharing four things she has learned to look for, and one question to ask before your next meeting.

3. 

   16 May 2025

   Calm In The Chaos: Creating a Culture of Care

   Valeir Carmel Dorsainvil, a licensed therapist, joins the host to discuss how project managers can cultivate team cultures that prioritize well-being, psychological safety, and healthy boundaries in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

AI Raised the Bar, and It's Not the One You Think

Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] PMI breaks that down further into two types that matter for how we actually work. Generative AI is what most of us think of first. You prompt it, it produces text, an image, a draft. Predictive AI is quieter, but just as useful. It leans on machine learning to forecast things like cost overruns or capacity needs using historical and real-time data before they happen. I'm grounding us here in PMI's own language because everything I'm about to say builds on that foundation. Many of us are still figuring out how to work with both types in real time. And that's the new standard, not something to possibly shy away from as workforce development. […]

Who has been a guest on Career Tipper®

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

• Michele Badie
• Valeir Carmel Dorsainvil
• Valerie Carmel Dorsainvil LCSW
• Valeris Carmel Dorsainvil LCSW
• Valerie Carmel Dorsainvil

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

3,691

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

21 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100

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

Quality

90

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

51

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