#WorkMomSays that the best career advice focuses on continuous learning, building strong relationships, and taking action even when you’re not ready. In this episode, Lori shares three powerful pieces of advice that can significantly impact your career growth. Learn how to adapt to change, leverage your network, and overcome self-doubt to achieve professional success. Themes discussed in this episode The importance of continuous learning for career development Building and maintaining strong professional relationships Taking proactive steps and embracing opportunities before feeling fully prepared Episode Highlights Time-stamped inflection points from the show 00:13 – Introduction and overview of the three key pieces of career advice. 01:03 – Learning how to learn: Emphasizing the need for continuous skill development, especially in fast-changing environments. 03:58 – Relationships are everything: How networking and building strong connections can open doors and provide opportunities. 05:34 – Take action before you’re ready: Encouraging proactive behavior and embracing opportunities despite self-doubt. Top Quotes 03:07 – “Learning to learn, becoming a lifelong learner, is really important to long-term success.” 04:47 – “Your network will open more doors than your resume.” 06:39 – “Get the job and then figure out how to do it. You’ll learn faster on the job than studying or taking a course.” 07:52 – “None of us are ever ready. And a great piece of advice that I tell people is don’t be fooled. Nobody really knows what they’re doing. We are all just making it up as we go along.” Transcript 00:13Hello, I’m Lori Jo Vest. Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Work Mom Says “Don’t Be An Idiot!” So I was thinking about what to record today, and what came to mind is what would be the best three pieces of career advice I could give to anybody right now that would change their career trajectory? And here’s what I came up with. It’s so true. It’s just these are the things that helped me grow in my career and that helped most people grow in their careers. So focus on learning how to learn, building strong relationships, and taking action before you feel ready. And let’s dig into this a little bit deeper. 01:03Learning how to learn. Things are changing constantly. AI is everywhere. There are all kinds of skills that will help you in your career. Everything from writing to reading a lot, learning how to digest complex information. You need to continue to learn in order to elevate your skill set and your performance. So I’ll give you a couple of examples. 01:32When AI first started, this was probably three and a half years ago that we first started hearing about it. And I run a small digital marketing shop, and we got a project that involved writing SEO copy descriptions, product descriptions for 4,000 different luxury carpets. That’s a lot of copy. And so we knew in order to hit the client’s budget targets that we would need to bring in some kind of an AI tool. That’s what they suggested. We’d never done that before. There was a really early one called Jasper. And what we did was we would go into this tool, enter in the colors, the pattern, the materials, some adjectives. After we entered that information into the tool, it would spit back, you know, different angles on that copy. And that was the hardest thing about it. When you have to write repetitively, it can be really challenging to come up with different angles. And Jasper did that. It didn’t always do it well. And it came up with some really crazy things. At one point, it suggested that this 8 by 10, you know, beautiful Persian rug would be something that you would bring with you to parties so that