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Just Laura, a cup of coffee, and a whole lot of life lately. ☕️

This week on Wait… What’s Next?, we're having a little girl talk. Without a guest or even a big agenda, I bring to you just four life updates and a few things I've been learning along the way.

First, I'm talking about my latest Sephora adventure and attempting to pull off a whole new no-makeup makeup look for "my best friend's wedding" which you can read about on my Substack. Am I a makeup artist? Absolutely not. Are we winging it? Absolutely.

Then I'm getting into the great in-between of job searching. The agony of interviewing, the anxiety of the waiting game, the endless uncertainty, and learning how to keep enjoying your life when your next career move is still up in the air.

There's also a little long-distance relationship update as I navigate closing the gap with the love of my life while making sure I'm still present for the life happening right in front of me.

And finally, I'm officially hard-launching my Pilates era. I've basically moved into my Pilates studio over the past couple of weeks, started another successful relationship with my reformer (it's going well), been loving hot mat Pilates, and still keeping the foundation with two days of weights, all while evolving my workout routine as we enter the fall season. So, it is official. I am a Pilates girly through and through.

A little beauty, a little career talk, a little drama in love, and a lot of life I am still figuring out.

One thing I've realized is that you must keep loving and living your life to the fullest, wherever you are, while working on the next chapter. No more yearning, just doing it (Nike).

If any of these pillars resonate, leave me a comment and let's continue the convo. Even though life throws little pieces of chaos your way here and there, we don't necessarily have to do it alone.

So pull up a chair. Sip your Americano. And let's talk. ☕️

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Fun Resources Mentioned on the Episode:

Pilates Studio

New Substack where I will be writing more

Sephora

Page Lorenze Makeup look minute 28

Youtube Channel

Relevant Episodes:

The Job Search Rebrand

Skin Care Routine

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What if you stopped treating your job search like a numbers game and started treating it like a marketing campaign?

This week, Laura and Amanda are talking careers, job searching, career pivots, and one of the biggest Wait… What’s Next? questions of all: how do you position yourself for where you want to go when your experience only shows where you’ve been?

Laura is navigating her own next career move while getting more and more messages asking for help with resumes, LinkedIn, positioning, and breaking into new roles. Amanda has navigated career changes of her own. So instead of giving you another list of job search hacks, they’re looking at the entire process differently.

Think about it.

You are the product.
Your ideal companies are the audience.
Your resume and LinkedIn are the messaging.
Networking, applications, referrals, and your personal brand are the distribution.
The interview is the conversion.

But before any of that works, you need to answer a much bigger question:

What do you actually want to be hired to do next?

Laura and Amanda talk about getting clear on your next move, positioning transferable skills, telling a better career story, using LinkedIn intentionally, networking, dealing with rejection, pivoting industries, and separating a job search strategy that isn’t working from the belief that you aren’t good enough.

You’re not just looking for another job. You’re deciding what you want your next chapter to look like.

Pull up a chair. Sip your Americano. And breathe. ☕️ We got you!

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Resources for What's Next ☕️

A little something extra to help you put this conversation into action!

LinkedIn Learning is a great resource for exploring new skills, strengthening your professional profile, and building confidence as you prepare for your next career move.

Whether you're actively job searching, considering a career pivot, or simply figuring out what you want next, remember that investing in yourself is part of the process.

Have a career resource you swear by? Share it with us on Instagram @waitwhatsnextpod. We'd love to keep building this resource list with our community. 🤍

Resources are shared for informational purposes. This is not a sponsored recommendation.

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This week, Laura sits down with Lauren Atkinson, the newest member behind the scenes of Wait… What’s Next?, helping shape the production and strategy of the podcast, for a very personal conversation about love, finding your person, and the woman you become along the way.

Before Lauren met her future husband, there was a season of soul-searching. In this episode, she opens up about that chapter, how they met, what made this relationship feel different, what seven years together taught her about love, and the moment she realized she was ready for marriage.

And then there’s the wedding.

After seven years together, Lauren decided to plan the entire ceremony and event in less than six months. Now, with 30 days to go, Laura is getting ALL the details. The planning, the pressure, the excitement, the decisions, and what it feels like to stand on the edge of such a huge new chapter.

But underneath the wedding countdown is a bigger conversation:

How do you know when you’ve found your person? And how much of finding the right relationship begins with knowing yourself?

Whether you’re single, dating, wondering if you’ve met the one, in a long-term relationship, newly engaged, or thinking about your own next chapter, pull up a chair for this one. ☕️

Even when you find your person, it isn’t the end of the story.

It’s the beginning of a whole new what’s next. 🎙️

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Host: Laura Alba
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