Long Bio

Maggie Mistal is a certified career and life-purpose coach who became known for hosting "Making a Living with Maggie," a weekly national radio show on SIRIUS XM satellite radio. Her motivational advice to combine passion and talent with career transformed the lives of listeners and clients. Maggie's infectious energy and positive attitude toward work and careers has been a breath of fresh air for weary workers. 

Maggie is frequently in the media as a career expert. She has appeared several times on CNN to discuss finding jobs in a bad economy. And in 2008, CNN called her "one of the nation's best known career coaches." She has been quoted in the New York Times, the New York Post, the Washington Post, FoxBusiness.com, WallStreetJournal.com, Forbes.com, USA Today, New York Newsday, AM New York, the Metro, and the Boston Globe. Other guest radio spots include LiteFM 106.7 in the New York Metro area as well as CBS Radio.

As an author, she has had a career column in Whole Living Magazine, and has written articles for the workplace website NicoleWilliams.com, and blogs career advice tips on Martha Stewart's Radio Blog, Whole Living Blog, and her own website MaggieMistal.com. 

In her successful career consulting practice, Maggie helps people identify their ideal careers and walks them through the steps needed to make a living at what they love to do. Unsatisfied employees of all levels and backgrounds seek out her coaching to transform their careers. Even top corporations such as Wyeth, PepsiCo, CIGNA and Randomhouse call on Maggie to develop their employees and managers. 

Maggie is also an affiliate coach of Vocation Vacations, the only company of its kind that allows people to test-drive their dream jobs. And she is a career development trainer for Focused Consulting LLC. You can also find Maggie using her career coaching services to help the unemployed and under-employed as a volunteer for Streetwise Partners in New York. 

Before starting her own career consulting business, Maggie was Director of Learning & Development for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and then became Martha Stewart Living Radio’s Career Coach. 

Her experience has positioned her to speak at leading events for career-minded professionals such as the Women’s Congress, in Boston, the largest business-to-business conference and exhibition for women in the U.S.; and FRDNY Fundraising Day, in New York, the nation's largest one-day conference on philanthropy.