# carmen van (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover carmen van. Page: Feed: --- ## [10 new rules for building a career in a broken system](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/10-new-rules-for-building-a-career) _2025-12-16 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ What actually works now that the playbook has changed, but nobody will admit it ## [It's time to become your own nepo baby](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/its-time-to-become-your-own-nepo) _2025-11-24 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ How to reverse-engineer their head start and build the career they never had to earn ## [What if Zohran Mamdani’s embarrassing rap career is actually the key to his success?](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/what-if-zohran-mamdanis-embarrassing) _2025-11-06 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ 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. ## [How to pivot your career when you can't afford to fail](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/how-to-pivot-your-career-when-you) _2025-11-03 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ What reinvention looks like for those of us without safety nets ## [The career ladder is broken. It's time to build a ramp.](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/the-career-ladder-is-broken-its-time) _2025-10-28 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ Rethinking what progress looks like when the old playbook no longer applies ## [Sometimes you actually should work for free](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/sometimes-you-actually-should-work) _2025-10-20 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ A practical checklist for figuring out when doing unpaid labor can advance your career—and when it’s just exploitation. ## [The power of going quiet](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/the-power-of-going-quiet) _2025-10-01 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ Why the best creatives know silence is strategy ## [Stop romanticizing your twenties](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/stop-romanticizing-your-twenties) _2025-09-10 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ How AI videos are selling us surrender disguised as comfort ## [There's a difference between using a city and loving it](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/theres-a-difference-between-using) _2025-08-21 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ The heartbreak of watching your city become someone else's stepping stone—and what it really means to belong to a place, even temporarily ## [The quiet death of workplace friendships](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/the-quiet-death-of-workplace-friendships) _2025-08-13 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ How AI and gig work are dismantling the last place human connection happened by accident ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zi55iSJOdWki) _2025-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [Nobody loves a city like someone who wasn’t born there](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/nobody-loves-a-city-like-someone) _2025-08-07 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ The particular intensity that comes from falling in love with a place instead of being born into it. ## [Your white-collar job is about to get gig-ified](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/your-white-collar-job-is-about-to) _2025-07-30 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ CEOs aren't just predicting the future of work—they're programming you to accept what Congress is about to make inevitable. ## [You believe college taught you critical thinking. It actually taught you not to question.](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/you-think-college-taught-you-how) _2025-07-23 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ Inside the prestige trap: how elite education manufactures conformity, repackages it as critical thought, and sells it as superiority. ## [College sold us a dream and delivered a generational nightmare](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/college-sold-us-a-dream-and-delivered) _2025-07-16 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ How college became a rigged game that charges luxury prices, delivers less, and keeps families afraid to opt out ## [College is preparing kids for jobs that won't exist](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/college-is-training-kids-for-jobs) _2025-07-09 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ Before you mortgage your family's future on a college degree for your child, ask yourself if it's still worth it ## [Remember who you were before the world told you to forget](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/remember-who-you-were-before-the) _2025-07-02 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ How chasing the wrong success makes you a stranger to yourself ## [I thought I was pulling back. But I was actually launching the slingshot.](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/i-thought-i-was-pulling-back-but) _2025-06-26 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ I'm so excited to share what’s coming next ## [You can't future-proof your career by playing yesterday's game](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/you-cant-future-proof-your-career) _2025-06-15 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ Everyone knows the tournament is over. But no one wants to be the first to leave the court. ## [Your job used to impress people. That era just ended.](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/your-job-used-to-impress-people-that) _2025-06-11 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ You've built your life on a version of work that no longer exists—and everything you thought you knew about success is about to flip. ## [Anthony Ettinger on LinkedIn (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/N6jPrrLPPCwu) _2025-06-11 · **Sponsored**_ Public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/anthonyettinger. ## [You're allowed to travel without transformation](https://carmenvankerckhove.substack.com/p/youre-allowed-to-travel-without-transformation) _2025-05-28 · Carmen Van Kerckhove · Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove_ The hidden pressure to make every trip meaningful (and why it's okay to just enjoy yourself)