Path Found

Path Found is the podcast for anyone who’s ever asked, “What now?” This show explores the real, messy, and inspiring journeys people take to find fulfilling work—and themselves. From pivots and side hustles to mentorship and major career changes, Path Found reveals what college never taught and counselors never said.

Path Found is a arts podcast hosted by Monica Argandoña, with 51 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Monica Argandoña hosts Path Found, a arts show with 51 episodes published.

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  Episode #51

  The Translator

  Sep 27, 202626 minS1

  Send us Fan Mail Christina Searing didn't set out to work in AI. She set out to build "portable" business skills, inspired by her father, and let a love of travel steer her into consulting, where every three-to-eighteen months a new project felt like a new job. Over 23 years, she found her calling as a "translator" between what a business is trying to accomplish and the technology that can get it there. In this AI & Careers conversation, Christina makes a grounded case for what AI does and doesn't change. It's a genuine game-changer as a productivity tool and accelerator, but it's not a finished work product. It hallucinates, it misses human context, and it's only as good as the context it's given. For junior professionals, that's a trap: work can look polished and accelerated while lacking richness and judgment. Her advice to anyone entering business: don't build your identity around mastering one tool, because the tools keep changing. Build the durable skills instead. Critical thinking, communication, business judgment, curiosity, adaptability, and the human ability to connect dots across disparate threads are the skills that will matter. Get diverse experiences. Network relentlessly, because the most effective path to an early job is still a human one. And take more risks early; borrow someone else's confidence when you don't have your own, and say yes to the stretch you don't feel ready for. Listen to “ Path Found Podcast ” Real stories of pivots, side quests, and scenic routes that inspire new possibilities. New episodes drop every Thursday. Subscribe & Listen : https://www.youtube.com/@PathFoundPodcast ★ Follow, rate, and share if you’ve ever taken the scenic route. Get Involved: See the work we’re doing at Keystone Network - Web: https://keystonenetwork.org Submit your comments, questions for guests, or suggest new guests you’d love to hear from! Instagram: @pathfoundpodcast

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  Episode #49

  The Midlife Rollercoaster

  Sep 3, 202633 minS1

  Send us Fan Mail Leon Kazandjian never had a linear career, and he’d tell you that’s the point. The son of a car mechanic, he grew up taking things apart just to understand them, a habit that survived a mediocre school record and a teaching degree he abandoned almost immediately. What followed was a reinvention marathon: an aircraft mechanic’s license earned with a 4.0 and a Golden Wrench Award, a year at Raytheon, two weeks at LAX, two and a half years running a gold-prospecting store in Pasadena, and nearly two decades inside California’s correctional system, where a job he thought was counseling turned out to be guarding a juvenile facility. He worked his way from correctional counselor to chief engineer, keeping a 1939 institution and its 8,000 residents supplied with water, power, and steam on a shoestring budget. The last three years brought the sharpest turns: an early retirement under pressure, a chaotic startup, a hospital HVAC job, a park superintendency he loved and lost, and finally, through the same networking that carried him everywhere, a role as an MEP coordinator building data centers, reading blueprints for the first time in his fifties and thriving. The thread running through all of it isn’t a job title. It’s the five-year-old on the floor, sticking his finger in a light socket, certain there had to be something inside worth understanding. Listen to “ Path Found Podcast ” Real stories of pivots, side quests, and scenic routes that inspire new possibilities. New episodes drop every Thursday. Subscribe & Listen : https://www.youtube.com/@PathFoundPodcast ★ Follow, rate, and share if you’ve ever taken the scenic route. Get Involved: See the work we’re doing at Keystone Network - Web: https://keystonenetwork.org Submit your comments, questions for guests, or suggest new guests you’d love to hear from! Instagram: @pathfoundpodcast

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  Episode #48

  The Judgement Stays Human

  Aug 27, 202637 minS1

  Send us Fan Mail Chris Davis didn't know what he wanted at eighteen, and he still didn't know at twenty-one, a fact he admitted out loud, in an interview, to a partner at a law firm. That honesty got him gently shown the door and pointed him toward a year of service work in San Francisco that he now credits with shaping his values. Three decades later, he runs his own employment law firm, and he's watching the entry rungs of his profession change under him. In this AI & Careers conversation, Chris walks through what his firm has actually automated in a thousand-client mass arbitration, where the confidentiality lines are, why he still hired a first-year associate this year, and why the parts of lawyering that matter most — persuasion, judgment, telling a client the truth they don't want — aren't going anywhere. Part of our AI & Careers series. Listen to “ Path Found Podcast ” Real stories of pivots, side quests, and scenic routes that inspire new possibilities. New episodes drop every Thursday. Subscribe & Listen : https://www.youtube.com/@PathFoundPodcast ★ Follow, rate, and share if you’ve ever taken the scenic route. Get Involved: See the work we’re doing at Keystone Network - Web: https://keystonenetwork.org Submit your comments, questions for guests, or suggest new guests you’d love to hear from! Instagram: @pathfoundpodcast

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  Episode #47

  The Average Never Wins

  Aug 20, 202635 minS1

  Send us Fan Mail Elizabeth didn't set out to be a designer. She spent the early part of her career in nonprofits, organizing, grant writing, and communications, and kept noticing that the tasks she liked best were the ones involving presentation and visuals. After two successive jobs disappeared to cutbacks, she decided she'd rather have her livelihood in her own hands. She started building websites for clients she knew she could deliver for, learned by doing (slowly, she admits), and eventually went back for a design degree that showed her the size of the gap she'd been working across. Nearly fifteen years into running Silvermine Creative, she's watching the field change again. This isn't a Luddite position: she uses AI daily, for custom code, troubleshooting, tightening her own copy, and generating imagery for clients who can't photograph their real customers. But she's specific about where it stops. It can't see the work coming together as it goes. It can't look at a model in an unnatural pose and think "that looks painful." It can't pick between two directions because one of them grabs you. She also walks through the ethics she's actually landed on rather than the ones that sound good: controlling inputs so she isn't laundering someone else's work, sourcing reference material from public domain and licensed sources, choosing platforms based on how they were trained and who they fund. And she's honest about the paradox — the environmental footprint, the opacity, and the fact that opting out entirely would just hand her spot to someone with fewer scruples. Listen to “ Path Found Podcast ” Real stories of pivots, side quests, and scenic routes that inspire new possibilities. New episodes drop every Thursday. Subscribe & Listen : https://www.youtube.com/@PathFoundPodcast ★ Follow, rate, and share if you’ve ever taken the scenic route. Get Involved: See the work we’re doing at Keystone Network - Web: https://keystonenetwork.org Submit your comments, questions for guests, or suggest new guests you’d love to hear from! Instagram: @pathfoundpodcast

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  Episode #46

  The Longway Into Hollywood with Brian DeAngelis

  Aug 13, 202657 minS1

  Send us Fan Mail Brian DeAngelis knew by about age ten that he wanted to make movies. Getting there took a lot longer than that. He didn't get into a single film school he applied to out of high school, so he went to UC Santa Cruz and built his own program out of whatever he could find and joined a fraternity, mostly because he was an introvert and knew he needed an obligation that would get him out of his room. That fraternity is where his first industry job came from. A few years producing in Silicon Valley followed, then a full-court press on film school applications: cold calls to admissions offices, flights to Los Angeles, and a professor who crumpled up his resume in front of him and asked what was actually interesting about him. He landed at USC's graduate film program, then in animated comedy development at Illumination, and today he's in studio operations at Warner Bros., where he sees the part of the business most creative people never do. This episode is part of our AI & Careers series, and Brian gives one of the clearest accounts we've heard of what artificial intelligence is actually doing inside a major studio right now — not the headlines, the day-to-day. But the conversation is bigger than that. It's about how opportunity really moves, why the friend on a junior agent's desk may matter more than the executive, and why, in Brian's words, "all of the people who do so much hard work here at one point or another are successful because they had the audacity to play." Listen to “ Path Found Podcast ” Real stories of pivots, side quests, and scenic routes that inspire new possibilities. New episodes drop every Thursday. Subscribe & Listen : https://www.youtube.com/@PathFoundPodcast ★ Follow, rate, and share if you’ve ever taken the scenic route. Get Involved: See the work we’re doing at Keystone Network - Web: https://keystonenetwork.org Submit your comments, questions for guests, or suggest new guests you’d love to hear from! Instagram: @pathfoundpodcast

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