Career Unicorns - Spark Your Joy

I’m Samorn Selim.

I’m a lawyer turned career coach on a mission for us to take our careers from dread to joy. As the daughter of poor Lao refugees, I was told to pay my dues.

After coaching over 1,000 clients, I now realize that the idea that you have to pay your dues and work in a toxic place is a myth.

We can face our challenges head on, do work we are passionate about, and work with good people with kind hearts to make a big impact. So even as we struggle, we can find a sense of belonging.

Ep. 119: Repost: Making your own luck: growing up in Myanmar, getting a full scholarship to MIT, and co-founding the most popular service for gmail with Aye Moah (Co-founder and CEO of Boomerang).

Feb 27, 2024

Do you want to make a big career change? But you haven’t taken action because you’re afraid of failing?

In this episode, we discuss:

- How to make a big career change going from dropping out of college and driving Lyft to becoming a software engineer at a Fortune 50 company.
- How growing up as a Black man in...

Ep. 118: Repost: Making big career changes: driving Lyft, going to a bootcamp, and becoming a software engineer at a Fortune 50 company without a college degree with Vincent Robinson (Software Engineer at State Farm)

Feb 20, 2024

Do you want to make a big career change? But you haven’t taken action because you’re afraid of failing?

In this episode, we discuss:

- How to make a big career change going from dropping out of college and driving Lyft to becoming a software engineer at a Fortune 50 company.
- How growing up as a Black man in...

Ep. 117: Repost: Mental health for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, healing generational trauma and internalized racism, and shooting your shot with Dr. Stephanie J. Wong (Licensed clinical psychologist and Founder of Color of Success)

Feb 13, 2024

Happy Valentine’s Day! What better way to celebrate love than going to therapy to heal generational trauma?

In this episode with Dr. Stephanie J. Wong, we discuss:

- Why therapy is important, especially in Asian American Pacific Islander communities where it’s often considered taboo.

- How there’s been an...

Ep. 116: Repost: Rebuilding your life and career after PTSD and standing out as a product manager with Bosky Mukherjee (Founder of PMDojo)

Feb 6, 2024

Do you have a physical or mental illness that is debilitating? And you had to figure out how to get help to recover and rebuild your life and career? In this episode, we discuss:

- How being a workaholic in tech and ascending into leadership led to her burnout.
- How she had PTSD that was so bad she could barely...