Planned Happenstance: How Chance Influences Our Careers

About Planned Happenstance: How Chance Influences Our Careers

"Planned Happenstance" explores how chance influences career trajectories and creates opportunities for learning. Uncover stories of constructing career success from unexpected events and encounters, inspiring you to harness these moments for your own professional growth. Inspired by John Krumboltz's Planned Happenstance Theory and collective professional experience in counseling young adults through their career journeys, hosts Karissa and Priscilla are on a mission to explore the theory's 5 key themes through insightful interviews.

Publisher

Karissa Sorenson and Priscilla Vallejo

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Oct 2024

Latest episode

18 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Dec 2025

   Finding Your Zone: Career Lessons From a Counselor, Teacher, and Mentor with David Craig

   Career counselor David Craig shares pivotal career moments and lessons learned from higher education in an interview, emphasizing self-awareness and risk-taking for career satisfaction.

2. 

   16 Dec 2025

   From the Stage to Startups

   Shannon Shroyer discusses her unconventional career path from ballet to venture capital, highlighting the importance of networking and transferable skills in this interview episode.

3. 

   20 Nov 2025

   Coding Through the Doubt: From Pharmacy Tech to Front-End Dev with Maude Simpson

   Maude Simpson recounts their career transition from pharmacy technician to front-end developer, emphasizing the role of planned happenstance and support systems in overcoming self-doubt, in this interview.

Who has been a guest on Planned Happenstance: How Chance Influences Our Careers

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• David Craig
• Shannon Shroyer
• Maude Simpson
• Mike Knox
• Logan Currie

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

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Quality

63

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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