Find your dream job without ever looking at your resume | Laura Berman Fortgang | TEDxBocaRaton

Laura has put in tens of thousands of hours over twenty years to help people make career transitions and improve their lives. Through her coaching company, books, corporate and civic speeches and her media appearances on such shows as The Oprah Winfrey show, CBS This Morning, GMA, The Today show and more, Laura has reached millions of people and showed them how to figure out what to do with their lives without ever looking at their resume.

Laura Berman Fortgang is the author of Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction and a pioneer in the personal coaching field. Her five books in total are published in thirteen languages, have graced bestseller lists and one, The Little Book on Meaning, was up for a Books for a Better Life Award alongside the Dalai Lama and Pema Chodron.

[Christina-qhwo]

"50% of people don't know what they want to do with their lives" because education stopped being acquiring a knowledge of one's self and became training in some set of skills.

[EugeniaPortobello]

"Career satisfaction doesn't come from what you do. It comes from who you get to be while doing it" Great talk. Thank you.

[LauraBermanFortgang]

Thank you to all of you who have taken the time to comment and 'like'. Please share the video with anyone who you think could use it. Every ah-ha means the possibility of another person feeling better and contributing to the whole. :-)

[salmanisrar]

She is doing what she dreamt: Performing on the stage and making audience moved!

[windyskyrim]

"I don't believe anyone who tells me they don't know what they want to do. I believe they do know. They are just too afraid to speak it because they they have to do something about it." This resonated with me so much.

[viddy]

This word are magically, " Career Satisfaction doesn't comes from what you do it comes from who you get to be while you're doing it and the beauty is who you get to be is the real you."

[laurenerickson]

Any child that grows up having to keep their guard up feel like they can’t dream is SOOOO TRUE

[lynns]

Wow wow wow. At 55 years old I’m still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up...at a time when many of friends are planning their early retirement. This talk hit me like a ton of bricks. Thank you for inspiring me like nothing I’ve heard before. 🙏🏻

[daviddawson]

"If I were a successful performer people would see me on stage and be moved to change something in their life.." As she stands on stage and changes something in someone's life. I almost cried. Great TED talk.

[travelandtash]

Doing a job that allows you to be the real you. I love it.

[skarsms]

"Any child who has to keep their guard up all the time and doesn't feel safe can't dream."

[ApexBovine]

I'm seeing a lot of comments like "what about the sad kids that can't dream?" "I genuinely don't know what I want to do..." And such. Well I can't tell you definitively what you should do (not without actually meeting you and seeing what kind of person you are, anyways.) but I can give you the bit of advice someone gave me about finding somewhere to start. He told me to picture the last time I'd smiled while doing something. After stressing about unsuccessfully finding work for like 5 weeks, smiles where few and far in between. So I thought about it and came up with gardening. Just for shits and giggles I had planted a potato plant a week back and I'd taken great care to keep that little bugger alive. And I realized just how much I liked it - I was actually having a blast. So I started there and thought "how can I make this into a job?" The logical answer was a plant nursery ofc. I was lucky enough to have a few within reasonable distance of home so I applied as a yard hand.

I'll spare you the rest. The long and short of it is this: what makes you happy? Decide that and you're set. :) hope this helps, friends.

[samaxamen]

"Career satisfaction doesn't come from what you do. It comes from who you get to be while you're doing it..."

[Jim-yntt]

As a firefighter/medic for over 16 years in a small city, I can honestly say, I hate it, and its killing me. I love your video and agree with all you said. Being a divorced dad with a teenage son in a small city limits me a bit, but videos like this keep me going I hope to one day have that aha moment.

[vineetkhurana]

"What we are qualified to do is not necessarily what we are meant to do "

[NRM]

"Who your job allows you to be..." THAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION....

[zephyrkhambatta]

Wow just watched it again. It's so true. My resume looks like a Safari. The only thing holding it together is... me. I like that.

[sreevidhyaea]

We're are told we can be anything we want to be when we grow up but when we go to pick that college major tho, the question changes from "what you want to be when you grow up?" to "how are you going to make a living with that?" Story of my life.

[hanans]

You don’t understand how much I needed this video. I have been struggling to find a new job that will be rewarding and fill my heart and spirit.

[grankaa]

Laura, could you please write a book specifically about people who had a terrible childhood and weren't allowed to dream? This could literally save my life... And thousands of others, I'm sure! Thank you for your amazing and inspiring speech :)