The Career Refresh with Jill Griffin
The Career Refresh is your source for actionable insights to lead, thrive, and succeed in today’s workplace. Each episode tackles key topics like leadership, career strategy, confidence, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps—perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities. With years of experience helping thousands of professionals achieve their goals, elevate team performance, and embrace reinvention, this podcast is your career blueprint.
Jill Griffin, a former strategist and media executive, has been featured on Adam Grant's WorkLife Podcast. She's written articles for HuffPost, Fast Company, and Metro UK. And she's been quoted by leading media outlets like Advertising Age, The New York Times, Departures, and The Wall Street Journal. Follow her on LinkedIn and join the conversation. Read more at JillGriffinConsulting.com for more details.
The Career Refresh with Jill Griffin
Serial Marketer, not Killer with David Berkowitz
David Berkowitz is a serial marketer and has woven his experience as an employee, freelancer, and business owner into a successful career. In this episode, we talk about how David:
- Pivoted from cookie-cutter roles and was able to harness his experiences to create custom roles
- Continually flexed his skills in fresh ways
- Used his experience as a consumer and end-user to reverse engineer what marketers need to know
- Used a journalistic eye to keep his take on trends realistic and actionable
- Appreciates the importance of mentors, leadership, PR, and communications professionals
- Believes marketers need marketers and why he started the Serial Marketer Community
- Used his strengths and intuition to refresh his career continually
Episode Guest:
David Berkowitz founded the Serial Marketers community and the FOAF network for fraction-of-a-fractional CXO consultants. Previously, he held marketing and strategy leadership roles with omnichannel ad tech platform Mediaocean, video production marketplace Storyhunter, social listening firm Sysomos, Publicis agency MRY, and Dentsu agency 360i. He has contributed more than 600 columns to outlets such as Advertising Age, MediaPost, VentureBeat, and Adweek, and he has spoken at more than 400 events globally. He lives in midtown Manhattan with one daughter and two cats.
Show notes:
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Fraction of a Fraction www.foaf.pro
Thanks to Aaron Strout, CMO of Real Chemistry, for the episode title.
Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).
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