Your Next Big Thing shares inspiring stories of senior professionals making big changes to find more satisfaction from work and happiness from life. Host Neil Metzler (Founder, Principal at Cloud Champions Coaching) welcomes each guest to share why they made this difficult change, how they built a bridge, and what they learned. Our three messages are: 1) Careers are no longer linear. 2) You’re not in this alone 3) There’s a human underneath that armor. Join us to feel inspired, learn something new and connect!
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Booking probability
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Signup to Generate a PitchYour Next Big Thing shares inspiring stories of senior professionals making big changes to find more satisfaction from work and happiness from life. Host Neil Metzler (Founder, Principal at Cloud Champions Coaching) welcomes each guest to share why they made this difficult change, how they built a bridge, and what they learned.
Recent episodes include "Yosemite Search & Rescue to Resilient Mindset Coach | Josie McKee" (17 June 2025, 33 minutes), "Opera to CTO | Sarah Polan" (20 May 2025, 33 minutes), and "Surface Warfare Officer to General Manager | Benin Allen, US Navy Veteran" (25 February 2025, 31 minutes).
Your Next Big Thing publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 39 minutes across 15 episodes.
Booking probability for Your Next Big Thing is 17%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Your Next Big Thing requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Your Next Big Thing's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Your Next Big Thing are Business & Professional Training and Business & Management Consulting. Your Next Big Thing has a business audience.
Your Next Big Thing is a business podcast with 15 episodes published.
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Episode #9
<p><b>Josie McKee</b> is the Founder of Mind Athlete and Director, Operations & Communications at Responder Alliance.<br/><br/>In this episode, we talked about her triumphs, setbacks and growth in high-pressure teams...
Episode #8
<p><b>Sarah Polan </b>(Field CTO, Principal Director) completed a major career reinvention from opera singer to IT leadership. Early on, Sarah leveraged a bootcamp and built a bridge into IT by delivering a Novel...
Episode #7
<p>I learned a lot from speaking with Benin about having the courage to think big about careers and plot my own course. </p><p>As the host of this podcast, I'd like to remind us that the west coast tech ecosystem is NOT...
Episode #6
<p>Can you imagine leaving a Senior Director role at Google to embrace parenting three rambunctious boys full-time? 🤠<br/><br/>In this episode, I speak with Jeana Jorgensen about promoting herself to Full-Time Mom...
Episode #5
<p>Join us for a special year end wrap-up! My guests are big tech heavyweights, Ugur "Mik" Catmak (Founder, Lean High Performance Academy) and Ümit Uludag (expert on lifelong learning).<br/><br/>We talk creating and...
Episode #4
<p>Special episode alert! I had the chance to be interviewed by Deborah Sgro (Global Mentorship Director, Women in Big Data). For the first time, I share:</p><p>-Why I went solo<br/>-How you can launch a solo...
Episode #3
<p> Today's episode is about finding the courage to make a big change - and continuing that career reinvention curve through partnership, marriage and kids. M<br/><br/>y guest today is lifelong learner Gabby D'Angelo...
Episode #2
<p>Welcome to Season 2! My guest is lifelong learner Fred Hoskyns (Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS). <br/><br/>In this episode, I ask Fred how he built a bridge into the AWS cloud and created learning and career...
Episode #1
<p>Welcome to our Season 2 Premiere! My guest is avid surfer and children's book author Chelsea Keaulani Brown (YouTube, Looker). <br/><br/>In this episode, I ask Chelsea how she built a bridge into UX Research from her...
Episode #6
<p>Welcome to our Season 1 finale! <br/><br/>My guest today is David Dennis. David is the son of a successful software entrepeneur, and he originally went in a totally different direction than Dad. David studied...
Episode #5
<p>Read more of Priyanka's work on her Substack:<br/>https://shapelygal.substack.com/<br/><br/>I'm pleased to recognize executive coach Marie-Caroline Chauvet in this episode. Learn more about her work...
Episode #4
<p>Hello listeners, Neil here. I need to warn you that this episode contains a description of intimate partner violence. Listener discretion is advised. <br/><br/>If you or someone you know is at risk in the United...
Episode #3
<p>During an 8 year career practicing Law, Josh won multi-$MM victories for corporate clients and immigration relief pro bono. Josh holds a JD from New York University Law School, where he graduated in the top 10% of...
Episode #2
<p>During her ten year career in business, Franziska developed a side hustle as an artist, painter and muralist.<br/><br/>In *<b>2021</b>, I noticed Franziska post a creative and entertaining video reintroducing herself...
Episode #1
<p>Have you found success in your field, only to find curiosity leading you to your next big thing? Nassima Filali (Paris, Berlin) went from founding a fashion startup with her best friend, to joining Europe's largest...
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Director of Communications and Operations, Responder Alliance
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AWS
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