Heavenly Human
Welcome to the Heavenly Human podcast where we help you pause and pivot toward true fulfillment.
Have you ever felt that stirring deep inside — that quiet voice telling you there's something more for your life? That feeling that despite all your success, something still feels missing?
We’ve been there. We are you. Three years ago, co-host Laura King was at the peak of her career as an Executive Recruiter. On paper, she had it all. Awards, accolades, and a healthy bank account. But each night, she’d come home feeling slightly off, a bit disconnected, and wondering, "Is this it?"
In 2023, it all came crashing down with a triple diagnosis - severe anxiety, ADHD, and sleep issues. Her body was screaming what her heart had been whispering for years. There was another path. There was another way of being.
Co-host Mondo experienced a similar calling. Three years ago, he was living what many would consider the dream — a successful startup founder with a six-figure lifestyle. Then, his heart called him to something radical: surrendering 99% of his material possessions to pursue a completely different path.
What Laura and Mondo both discovered through deep conversations, healing, tears, breakthroughs, and countless moments of growth was that we were being called to our unique sliver of Heaven on Earth — what we now call, Heavenly Human.
We've now joined forces to create this podcast, sharing what we've learned with other believers who feel that same nudge toward something more meaningful. We're here to guide you toward fulfillment through the embodiment of heaven on earth.
Peace, Love, Joy, Freedom, Abundance.
It’s all waiting for you.
"Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."
Heavenly Human
Three ways to access the market others can’t see
In this episode, you’ll hear the contrast of two executives in the same economy with opposite results, and why numbers, specific stories, and a confident voice make you stand out when everyone else sounds the same.
We go deep on how to access the hidden job market, including why posted roles are often saturated or already earmarked, and how small, targeted artifacts—one-page plans, teardowns, risk maps—spark real conversations with decision makers. If you’ve been relying on job boards and generic outreach, you’ll learn three practical shifts: stop fishing in empty ponds, position yourself as a solution not a title, and create your own openings by engaging teams you admire. We also explore viable paths beyond traditional roles—fractional leadership, consulting, and portfolio careers—and the mindset and lifestyle tweaks that make them work.
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Hey, it's Laura. Welcome to this week's Peak of the Week, where we bridge the gap between external success and internal fulfillment. So many of you know that I have had gosh now 18 years in recruiting, and I want to address the market, right? And what I'm hearing right now, and what I'm seeing right now, and maybe a new way to look at the market. So I hear on the daily, the market is terrible right now. The market is terrible right now. And I have a strong opinion about that statement. Now let me just say this out loud. Being in transition is hard. The market is genuinely challenging, and pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone. But what I've witnessed after almost two decades of placing executives, even when market conditions are the same for everyone, some professionals experience scarcity while others find opportunity. The difference is not the market itself, it's how you see it and how you show up in it. When you approach a search believing there's nothing good out there, that belief shapes everything. You might apply half-heartedly, you might network from an air of desperation instead of confidence. You might settle for opportunities that don't actually excite you because you think that's all there is. But what if your experience of a challenging market could be different? What if it's not just about the conditions everyone is facing, but about the market you're able to access based on how you're positioning yourself. If this resonates, I have some perspectives. But if it doesn't land for you right now, maybe forward this to someone who needs to hear it. This is an invitation to think differently. Because when you think differently, you achieve different results. Recently I had two conversations that couldn't have been more different. The first executive told me there's absolutely nothing good out there. I've been looking for six months and no one is hiring. The second executive had just accepted an offer. Same market, same time frame, completely different experiences. So here's the difference. The struggling executive was approaching her search from fear, not confidence. And after 20 years of placement, all levels, I mean, more recently executive level, but in the beginning beginning of my career, really all levels, I've witnessed that you get what you're looking for. If you think it's going to be awful, it will be. If you think it's going to be a great learning experience, and you're excited to meet new people and excited to learn more about yourself, approaching it from curiosity and a genuine desire to meet new people and understand the problems they're solving and the problems they're facing, you have a completely different experience. And I want to share the good news with you. There are still plenty of people landing full-time consulting and fractional roles. Plenty of people. Now, I don't want to get into like, yeah, the numbers are down. We might not be adding as many jobs, but that doesn't mean there aren't other opportunities available. I know so many people who are looking at alternative. Like I have a friend who is opening a franchise. I have several others who are building portfolio careers. It is thinking a little bit more outside the box. And maybe, just maybe, adjusting your lifestyle. So you might not have to make as much money. So think about it this way. All right, two executives using different GPS settings to reach the same destination. One is stuck in traffic on the main highway, which is, we'll call it job boards and haphazard networking, competing with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people for the few visible opportunities. The other knows the back roads, the art of relationship building and strategic positioning, and arrives while the first is still sitting in traffic. The executive who lands three offers, she's not smarter or more qualified. She's not better. She just understood something crucial. Where you look and how you position yourself determines what market you experience. Just like your GPS setting determines which route you're gonna take. So the people I see finding opportunities right now, here's what they do. They position themselves as the solution for a very specific, I'm saying very specific expensive problem that a company needs solved. If you have not defined the very specific expensive problem that you solve in a unique way, that is where you start. And I have I have a program for that, which I will share more later, but the the work is not jumping directly to your resume or quickly applying to a million jobs online. It's really looking at patterns and seeing, gosh, there are some themes here in my career. And I I do have some really amazing skill sets that I could use in a variety of ways. And oh my gosh, this is the theme of the problem that I solve. And maybe you identify, okay, here are three core problems that I solve. Well, that's great. Right? You having clarity first is so important. So that's the clarity piece. And then the other is really building relationships. And there's a difference between building genuine relationships before you need them, to sort of the tit for tat, and I'm sure you can you've experienced like it feels very transactional, and you're like, there's really not much depth here when it just feels kind of empty. So genuine relationships before you need them. So you can call in people and say, hey, can you help me? Like, and you already have placed deposits that you can then withdraw, right? You've already placed deposits. And then understanding your unique value and being able to articulate it clearly. That is a gift in and of itself. And I would highly recommend having other people help you or hiring me to help you to understand and see your unique value and being able to articulate it so clearly. Because I've been on the other side of hearing everyone says the same thing. Like you're all saying the same thing. So to stand out in a sea of people who are all saying the same thing, right? You've gotta have something that is a differentiator, which is usually like your personality or your unique spin on something or a story that you can bring to life. And then finally, you're looking beyond posted positions to access the hidden job market. On the flip side, the one seeing scarcity, just apply to posted jobs, network without clear positioning, wait for opportunities to appear instead of helping create them, and blindly just believe what everyone else is saying about the market. Here are three ways to access the market others can't see. The first, stop fishing in empty ponds. If you're only applying to posted positions, you're competing with hundreds of other qualified executives for roles that may already have internal candidates. So if you have companies, you're like, I would love to work for this company, start building relationships inside that organization and get to know people, get to know the problems. I have had so many people understand a problem of a company, do some work and show, hey, this is maybe how I might solve this problem, spend an hour to present something, give it to this person that works at the company, and they might be so busy and overwhelmed, they say, Oh my gosh, can you actually come in and do that? Like I literally have had people who have written marketing plans for other people, for other people's company, and they're like, Oh my gosh, I don't even have the capacity to implement this right now. Can you come and do this? And sometimes it's on a consulting or fractional basis, but it turns into a full-time job. Okay, so that's the first one. Second, position yourself as a solution, not a candidate. So instead of I'm looking for a VP role, try, I help companies turn around struggling divisions by and then insert whatever your specific methodology is. My last turnaround generated 5 million in new revenue within 18 months. Like, have those numbers ready. Position yourself as a solution, not just a candidate, not a commodity. And then the first one, which was stop fishing in empty ponds, kind of correlates with creating your own opportunities, which is the third, creating your own opportunities. Reaching out to people you'd love to work with, whether they have a posted position or not. Be genuine. You know, share why you're drawn to the company's missions, share why you're drawn to their, you know, their unique problem that they solve, right? So share your heart. Ask them more questions, share your passion. You'll be amazed at how often just your passion alone and how you show up with that passion sparks conversations about roles that you didn't even know existed. Didn't even know existed. They're like, oh, we've actually been thinking about something like that. We'd love to keep you in mind as we are rolling this new, you know, whatever out, um, endeavor, this new project, whatever. I have had so many people, when they finally allow themselves to get passionate and show that passion, when they're in front of other decision makers, that shows. You light up and they're like, oh, I need to keep this person in mind, right? I've got countless, countless, countless examples of the market is a direct reflection of how you see it. And if you don't think there's opportunity, then there's not going to be. If you believe there's opportunity, there will be. If you're a professional, maybe you're ready to approach your transition differently, or you might even be looking to go out on your own. You know, you're like, oh, but you're scared, right? You're like, I have so many people that are like, I would love to do that, Laura, but I'm so scared about business development. Well, if you if any of this resonated with you today, then you would be a prime candidate for my uh career alignment accelerator, where we dial in your messaging, your value prop, and help you access the market others can't see by positioning you strategically and teaching you where the real opportunities live and also a different way of approaching it because it's all in your approach and your demeanor. There are good opportunities out there. I see it every day. I see businesses growing, I see so many small businesses growing. The question is though, is like, are you willing to play the long game? Right? Like this is still, it could take a little while, but it's a commitment to saying, you know what, Laura, I'm gonna do the work, the foundational work of really understanding what I do well and what I want out of this next season. I just firmly, firmly believe that you have so many gifts. And I want you to be able to see those gifts in such a beautiful light and have that light go with you wherever you go, and so that you can be attracting opportunities to you. Because I believe that so many of us are wanting to do other things, and it is a time of some great change happening, and there's a lot of different moving pieces to this. And if you're like, hmm, maybe there's another path, or maybe there's another way, or maybe I'm looking at this in the wrong way. I believe if you go to my career alignment accelerator page, I believe you can even book a 15-minute call with me. So if that's calling to you, I would love to help you see this differently and help get you on the right path. Because you deserve to be valued and to love. And maybe, maybe don't love all of it you do, but like if you could get your love of your job from a 50% to an even 70%, like what that would do for your mental health. I just believe that there are so many good people doing good work in the world. I see it every day. And I want you to also believe that you can make a pivot, you can make a change. You don't have to keep doing what you've been doing just because you've been doing it for 30 years. There are so many options, but you've got to be willing to see it differently. Um, give me a shout with feedback, share this with someone you think would enjoy this topic. Reach out if you've got ideas for future topics. I appreciate you so much. Thanks for listening, and um, just hope you have a really blessed rest of the day.