Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove

10 new rules for building a career in a broken system

What actually works now that the playbook has changed, but nobody will admit it

Dec 16, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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November 2025

It's time to become your own nepo baby

How to reverse-engineer their head start and build the career they never had to earn

Nov 24, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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What if Zohran Mamdani’s embarrassing rap career is actually the key to his success?

How a shirtless halal-cart music video—and every “off-brand” job you’ve ever had—might be the very thing preparing you for your next big leap.

Nov 6, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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How to pivot your career when you can't afford to fail

What reinvention looks like for those of us without safety nets

Nov 3, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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October 2025

The career ladder is broken. It's time to build a ramp.

Rethinking what progress looks like when the old playbook no longer applies

Oct 28, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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Sometimes you actually should work for free

A practical checklist for figuring out when doing unpaid labor can advance your career—and when it’s just exploitation.

Oct 20, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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The power of going quiet

Why the best creatives know silence is strategy

Oct 1, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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September 2025

Stop romanticizing your twenties

Looking back can feel comforting—until you see what it’s costing you

Sep 10, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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August 2025

There's a difference between using a city and loving it

The heartbreak of watching your city become someone else's stepping stone—and what it really means to belong to a place, even temporarily

Aug 21, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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The quiet death of workplace friendships

How AI and gig work are dismantling the last place human connection happened by accident

Aug 13, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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Nobody loves a city like someone who wasn’t born there

The particular intensity that comes from falling in love with a place instead of being born into it.

Aug 7, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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July 2025

Your white-collar job is about to get gig-ified

CEOs aren't just predicting the future of work—they're programming you to accept what Congress is about to make inevitable.

Jul 30, 2025 • Carmen Van Kerckhove

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