If you're tired of waiting on someone; If you're tired of ghosting; If you're tired of being tired from a job search - time to #GOGOGO with me read on

Happy New Year and I know for many it isn't a Happy One. I get it. For those who it is Happy I see you. I'm really happy but I get to help people go from misery to fulfillment. I'm in a different space. I work with the broken/the fearful/the smart folks who can't figure out why they can't find a job to OMG LAUREN I GOT THE OFFER. I'm in a different space because I worked through what some of you are experiencing right now. For those who think nothing is wrong I beg of you to see more of what is going on TODAY! The amount of people who are being laid off aren't being shared by the media outlets. Shockers. Remember - this is what is being reported and if they stage it - it's smaller. 13K from Facebook, 18K from Amazon, 8K from Salesforce, 1500 from here, 60 from here - and what if your company is small so no none pays attention? We're looking at millions of people who are being laid off.

In 2001 was my firstrecession. I was naive and I'm annoyed at how foolish I was because recovering from this took years - financially and self-esteem wise.

I'm 51. I have no experienced 3 recessions to date. This next thing we're headed into looks like a depression. I have friends and clients who are very senior at companies who share what is going on with me - I'm talking CEO's COO's and CFO's. They don't sugar coat it. When I ask are we going into a depression it's a RESOUNDING YES.

Over the past year I worked with over 400 folks to put them into roles. They came to me broken, scared, frustrated, mad, annoyed, and burned out. This is where I excel but these folks came to me. They met me halfway. They didn't ghost me. They showed up when I had a call that was scheduled.

In 2001 I was working at a temp agency where my manager would occasionally walk around carrying a golf club. He was insulting, he was lazy, and he was dumb as a box of rocks. He sat at his desk reading The New York Times and telling stories of the good old days in San Francisco when they would have lines of folks waiting to go into his staffing agency and his brilliant idea was to serve lemonade to the people on the line. I'm not kidding.

I was hired as a salesperson for this temp agency. I went from making $225 to $45K overnight. I had 10 years of solid recruiting/headhunting/director of recruiting x3 at great companies to working for this dipshit.

Here's the thing: I needed this job. I don't come from a family with a trust fund and my personality has never been to ask for help. My parents wouldn't have been able to help me with my rent.

I went to Williams-Sonoma to get a part time job while I looked for a job and I got the job the week after September 11th. It was around the corner from my apartment and I worked nights and weekends and days until I landed the job working at the temp agency working at a place that wasn't clean and had this guy at the helm.

I hustled. I worked my tail off. It was a terrible time in NYC. I was calling on people who had lost someone they loved on September and I was asking for business. I look back at the years from 2001 to 2007 and I'm floored at my resilience, strength and tenacity. Those are skills I help people build up again when they're scared, annoyed, fearful, and quite frankly sick of looking for a job alone.

The man I worked for constantly insulted me and I was going around the 5 boroughs to develop business for this company. I was on dollar vans in Crown Heights going to hospitals to see if they'd use us for admin staffing and everything in between. If they had a job order, I would ask to work on it. I would get rejected 50 or 100 times a day on the phone it didn't matter I kept going and I want you to do that too with me telling you what to do and how to do it.

The man I worked for (golf club) hated it there, and didn't do any work. He was a blowhard who asked me once what my SAT score was and I quickly said 1480 (or something high like that). When I was leaving work that day a man I worked with who was super nice and funny said - Hey Lauren - I can't believe you had such a high SAT score. That's amazing.

I replied - That wasn't my SAT score. Do you think I'd be working here if I had a score like that? I barely broke 1000. He was laughing. I wasn't - I thought how insulting and pathetic to ask someone their SAT score - this my friends is what so many of you are dealing with and I see you.

When you have a great career and you hit a wall - I see you.

When you're struggling to make ends meet because of inflation - I see you.

When you're working for a dipshit like this and you can't understand why - I see you.

I see you but if you want me to help you so you can move out of this - you need to get to me. Those who show up and say I want help I help them. That's what I have thousands of people in roles over the past 25 years and I'm never going to stop. Ever. I want you to feel the same way about your career.

The only person who can get you back to where you were is you. Simply put if you're staring at LinkedIn reading the sad shares of people who want everyone to help them but they ghost people like me when they schedule time with them - please understand that staring at any platform including this one which is pretty great won't do that for you.

In 2001 I was in your spot. I had my head under the sand. I didn't plan for what was around the bend that I couldn't see but with age comes wisdom. I've got the experience, the know how and all of the above to get you back on safe ground.

Meet me half way. Respond to the call to action. Join a call. Don't think you know everything. I'm an expert and I go to the experts for help with things I'm not strong at like accounting, and finance. I could watch a YouTube on a dental implant but pretty sure I'm not going to give that a shot.

It's the same with job search. If you don't know what you're doing - get on my calls. Get in my emails.

While I share inspiration here - that's not what I do all day long working. And yes, I"m working. And I'd love to see you working at something you like or maybe even love but in the meanwhile we'll focus on getting those bills paid RIGHT now the same way I did with the shitty agency I worked for and the tough job at William-Sonoma on nights and weekends for 2 years that I was so grateful to have - your time is NOW LFG. #GOGOGO #youvegotthis

If you want to receive my emails (because I do NOT share everything here on LI) it's laurenmcdonaldgogogo.com if you don't love email I can't help you there. No one loves emails but it's the only way I can get to you directly.

2023 is going to be brutal. Get prepared and stop telling yourself things will figure themselves out bc I did that in 2001 and I regret it to this day. We're adults and it's time to take accountability and start kicking some serious a$$! I am so happy with the results of 2017 to present for me and I want you to feel the exact same way this year and going forward! HAPPY New Year EVERYONE! LFG!