The EnvisionAir Podcast | Personal Wellness, Self Development and Growth Mindset · Nicole Ng Yuen

Unlocking Your Potential for Success - IQ x EQ x FQ | Faris Aranki, CEO of Shiageto Consulting

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He says clients leave with one clear objective and “100 ways you could achieve it.”

1. The EnvisionAire podcast features Faris Aranki in a conversation about identity, career framing, and resilience. 2. Nicole Nguyen hosts the conversation and presents the show as a self-development podcast. 3. Faris starts with a job search that went nowhere fast. 4. He says he applied for 50 or 60 jobs and got only one response, a rejection letter from an HR director who told him to stay a teacher. 5. That letter showed him how quickly people label each other. 6. It also made clear that a teacher's skills can reach far beyond the title. 7. He changed the wording on his next CV. 8. Instead of "teacher," he wrote that he was an expert communicator able to entertain and inform audiences for eight hours a day. 9. The new framing worked. 10. People became interested, and he eventually took a job with an energy company. 11. The episode then shifts to the business he built later. 12. Faris says he started his consulting company about six months before COVID. 13. For a while, the plan seemed workable. 14. He picked up some clients and felt the project moving ahead. 15. Then COVID arrived and all four clients cancelled all their work contracts. 16. Two of them went bankrupt, so the work was never paid. 17. He describes the following six months as a stretch of absolutely no work. 18. The first task was emotional, not strategic. 19. He says he had to accept the situation, process the frustration, reflect on what worked and what did not, and then write an eight-part blog series that still brings him messages from readers. 20. The episode ends on a practical, human lesson: naming your skills clearly and staying steady through a loss can help you prepare for the next opening.

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A useful listen on labels, setbacks, and the work of presenting skills clearly.

Faris Aranki and host Nicole Nguyen center the conversation on a simple but useful point: competence counts, but it also has to be explained well enough for other people to recognize it.

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When a job title boxes you in, this conversation shows how to sell the skills underneath it.

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