Portfolio Career Podcast: Recent Episodes
David Nebinski
Are you struggling to create a career and life vision that you love? Portfolio Career Podcast is here to provide proven success stories, actionable tips, and key skills to do this for you. David Nebinski talks with people who have designed their Portfolio Career that allows for growth, resiliency, and happiness. Tune in to build and grow your Portfolio Career. Let's have some fun!
Olivia Leavengood shares her journey from full-time Chief of Staff to bootstrapped Founder to fractional chief of staff, and she's now niched down into helping B2B founders master founder-led sales. She breaks down why niching down is key to building a fractional or consulting practice, why warm referrals drive most early-stage B2B sales, and how AI is shifting where founders should spend their scarce time. Olivia also introduces her "When to Think of Me" doc, a simple, low-fi alternative to a personal website that keeps her top of mind with her network. Enjoy!
In this episode, Nkem Oghedo and David Nebinski talk Chief of Staff transitions, the "identity economy," and why leaning into the unknown beats chasing certainty. Nkem shares the news that she's stepping away from fractional work to go full-time with one of her clients, and what that means for her portfolio career going forward.
Natalie Trotta used to be a Chief of Staff. Now she is building her own consulting business. She started off calling it fractional work and now it has grown. You will learn about how she positions herself, how she has found clients, the importance of conversation, and much more. If you are a Chief of Staff thinking about what is next or wanting to start doing consulting or fractional work, this episode is for you!
In this episode, you will learn about how I am building my portfolio career, how it compares to the prior quarter and what I have learned through this. You will learn about what has been energizing me in my work and how I enjoy work that is compounding and growing. I also talk about a new project and what stood out to me about it. Enjoy!
Neil Yeoh, Founder and CEO of OnePointFive, shares lessons on bootstrapping his company through six brutal years to build a 20-person team and and his community-led growth playbook of flywheels, LinkedIn, and building a minimum viable audience along the way. Enjoy!
Are you building a company, community, or a movement? What have you learned? In this Hot Pod podcast mixer episode, you will hear from a handful Founders and Community Builders about lessons from building their project, movement and /or company. You will learn about tactical approaches and mindset approaches well. Enjoy!
Olivia O'Sullivan, Partner & COO at Forum Ventures, joins David Nebinski to talk community-led growth: why community roles are so hard to get buy-in for, how to translate "soft" community metrics into the numbers leaders actually care about, and how Founders are thinking about community-led growth in 2026. If you are a community builder or Founder, this episode is for you!
Carly Cassidy thinks a lot about friendship. She has a podcast called Core Friends and wants to have a group of core friends herself and cultivate close friendships. In New York and maybe other cities, this is hard. She wrote a Substack post about this topic. While being a soloprenuer, I have been thinking more about friendship and wanted to talk with Carly about this. You will learn about both of our experiences. Enjoy!
Ben Winn, VP Community and Content, makes the case for going "terminally IRL." As AI floods the internet with slop and bots overtake human traffic, he argues the real edge is showing up in person. He breaks down how to spot quality events, why brevity wins in outreach, and why he wants to get on a texting basis with more people.
Annie Riley, CEO of Fort Light and Host of the Best Manager Ever podcast, talks about the vulnerability of putting yourself out there while building a business tied to your identity. You will also learn about a breakthrough blizzard video to rehabbing the word "manager" and choosing real over polished. You will also learn about how she bought the Fort Light business. Enjoy!
Grace Clarke went viral for her annual planning template, then left her job, moved, and became a teacher running AI for Normal People classes in NYC. She and David talk about why your plan should go off the rails, building your own AI "board of directors," and the messy open questions about personal IP, jobs, and what it means to own your career in the age of AI.
Charlie O'Donnell, a 20+ year NYC tech venture veteran and author of Founder Unfriendly, joins David to talk about the art of staying genuinely connected. They dig into "heartbeat emails," why trust is really just information, and how showing up as a three-dimensional person (not just a LinkedIn profile) is the real secret to fundraising, career growth, and community building. Charlie shares community building tips as well! Enjoy!
What if you took your time and built a business at your own pace? That's what Brian Helfman, the Founder of Third Nature has been doing. He has been building his Adult Summer Camp business for 10+ years. He is building this in addition to working on other things. He is also a recent father as well, and you will learn about how he thinks about work as a Dad now. If you are a community builder, this episode is for you!
Tarlon Khoubyari, San Francisco Events & Community Lead at Rho, shares how she approaches events as a product — iterating on formats, curating rooms intentionally, and turning in-person gatherings into a real revenue driver for her company. If you are a community builder or want to build community, this episode is for you!
Hannah Zhang is building a “5-to-9” business alongside her day job at a startup. In two years, she has built a six-figure business as a creator. She has over 170,000 followers on Instagram and writes a newsletter. In this episode, you learn about why nonlinear careers are the future, structuring brand partnerships, and the importance of creating a direct relationship with your audience with something like a newsletter. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Ben Bradbury, Co-founder and CEO of Reading Rhythms, returns to share how a rooftop book reading event with 10 friends became a thriving community business with nearly 700 reading parties around the world. We cover brand partnerships, community building strategy, and their new app, and much more! If you are looking to build a community-based business, this episode is for you!
Clare Purvis, the Founder of WELL, a community for women in digital health, joins the show to discuss how she pulled off her first-ever ticketed Summit. The conference had 70+ women and was focused on peer-to-peer learning. She built the conference similar to the programming in her online accelerator program. Clare has been building her business for a few years. If you're building a community business or thinking about hosting your first big in-person event, this episode is for you.
LinkedIn strategist and community builder Molly Godfrey shares how she's generated $5M for clients using LinkedIn. She shares what types of posts actually work, how to think about top vs. bottom of funnel content, and why consistency (not perfection) is the key to building a business and brand on the platform. Enjoy!
Nicole Kelner shares how a Substack post about finding quiet in NYC became a Rizzoli book deal called Quietest Places in New York City. You will learn more about the book and the ideas in it, in this episode. You will also learn about Nicole built a habit-tracking app called Free Time recently too. She is taking action on her ideas and you can too!
Are you looking to be more self-employed or self-funded? Listen to this episode where I talk about how my portfolio career has evolved over the last six months of working on my own. I am currently kind of paralell pathing two similar work streams. You will learn about the two, three month chapters and how things feel more durable and compounding now compared to a few months ago. Hosting events, connecting with friends, and loose ties have all been helpful too. Thank you for being part of this journey! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
I cohosted the first-ever Community Led Growth Conference (CLG) with Zach Hawtof on Friday March 13th. On Monday March 16th, we chatted about it in this podcast episode. We talked about how the conference came together in two months, how it was sold-out, our programming choices, and how a few serendipitous things came together for the conference to happen. The conference was a big success and we wanted to share all about it in case you want to host something like this!
Avital Knoller is the Head of Ecosystem at Orchid Security. In this episode, she shares her 10 years of hard-won community building wisdom. You will learn about growing Wiz's community to a Google-acquisition exit, B2B community building, and why she believes we're in the golden age of community building.
Miri Buckland never planned to be a Founder, until a Stanford class project turned into Landing, a social app that grew to over a million downloads without spending a dollar on marketing. After six years of pivots, community building, and ultimately shutting it down, she's back at zero-to-one with Extra, a new email app launching this spring. We talk community-led growth, committing to the pivot, and why every launch is a starting line, not a finish line.
In this episode, I talk with Justin Moore, the author of Sponsor Magnet, about how creators can successfully land and manage brand sponsorships. Justin shares insights from his experience running sponsorship challenges and coaching creators, emphasizing that mindset, particularly overcoming money-related fears and childhood financial baggage, is often a bigger barrier than the tactical side of pitching. You will also learn about Justin's "ARC" framework for structuring sponsorship packages, the value of multi-format content strategies, and how to position yourself as a consultant-like partner to brands rather than just a vendor. We also discuss Justin's upcoming "anti-conference" called Sponsor Games, designed to make creator education more hands-on and community-driven.
What does community-led growth look like? A group of founders, marketers, and community builders unpack community-led growth from every angle: why human connection beats performance marketing, how communities create multiple business entry points, and why earning organic growth is slow but worth it. Zach Hawtof, the Founder of Tightknit, and I cohosted this podcast mixer in advance of the Community-Led Growth conference in March in NYC. If you are interested in CLG, we hope this conversation is helpful!
Simi Shah, the Founder of South Asian Trailblazers, shares how she turned a pandemic-era podcast into a thriving community with live podcast events. Simi shares how she also discovered her "reverse product-market fit” with her agency when people asked her for media strategy advice. You will also learn about personal branding fundamentals, why storytelling is ultimately about empathy and human connection, and about the Chief of Staff role, as Simi is a former Chief of Staff. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Alex Chung, Founding Head of Growth at Goodword, shares her approach to building meaningful professional relationships. She discusses the power of follow-up and follow-through, how she connected with entrepreneur Andy Dunn by offering value first, and why being "a little unhinged" is sometimes necessary to make things happen. Alex also talks about her role blending marketing, sales, and community-building at an AI-powered relationship management startup, and why shared interests, like running, can be a more authentic way to strengthen connections than just grabbing coffee. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Lisa Skye is the Founder of SkyeCo and is a prolific community builder. In this episode, she shares her unconventional path from BNI chapter President, to WeWork early employee, to launching SkyeCo, a structured networking community for mostly for business owners. Lisa discusses the outsized impact of being "dangerously consistent” and the benefits of consistently showing up in networking groups. Whether you're a founder looking to grow your network or someone curious about intentional community building, you will listen this episode with Lisa!
Rebekah Rombom shares how she transitioned from a nearly decade-long role at Flatiron School to building a fractional executive practice—not by design, but by staying busy with consulting until she realized she didn't need a traditional job. Rebekah emphasizes two powerful principles: clearly articulating what you actually want (so people can help you get there), and consistently doing what you say you'll do (which remains surprisingly rare). For anyone considering fractional work, she offers practical insights on being self-directed by showing up ready to onboard yourself and delivering impact without hand-holding. Key takeaway: You can design your life, most barriers are self-imposed, and authentic clarity about your priorities opens more doors than you'd expect. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Chris Schembra, the Founder of 7:47 Club, reveals how he's built a thriving solopreneur business over 10+ years by doing less, not more. Learn why focus equals growth, how asking one simple gratitude question to 808 founders led to a new podcast and eventually new business, and why thoughtful LinkedIn comments generate better leads than posting your own content. Chris also shares practical insights on relationship building, the three roles every entrepreneur must balance, and why saying no is the ultimate growth strategy for solopreneurs. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
In this episode, David breaks down the key insights from Justin Moore's book Sponsor Magnet: How to Attract, Price, and Execute Your Dream Brand Partnerships. You will learn practical frameworks for securing brand partnerships and sponsorships, including the ROPE method for crafting compelling pitches (Relevant, Organic, Provide Proof, Easy to Execute) and the ARC framework for understanding brand objectives (Awareness, Repurposing, Conversion). David shares how to think like a consultant rather than just a creator, tie your pitches to existing brand campaigns, and build win-win-win partnerships that benefit you, the brand, and your audience. These principles will help you approach sponsorships more strategically. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Will Mannon and David Nebinski reflect on their whirlwind tour bringing the online community magic to in-person events across 13 events in 13 cities in late 2025 during the Internet Serendipity World Tour powered by Circle. They share what worked (local co-hosts, creator marketing partnerships, the structure of the facilitated events), what was tough (holiday timing and marketing timing) and how they might do things differently in the future. This episode is essential listening for anyone planning large-scale events, 0-1 community building, or is deeply interested in the intersection of online and offline connection. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Host David Nebinski gathers friends around a table to reflect on recent changes and transformations. What begins as a celebration of David's recent career leap, leaving his job and building confidence through action, the episode evolves into a deeper conversation about navigating life's biggest uncertainties. The group explores accountability partnerships, the power of reframing change as something to celebrate rather than fear, and how experiences with loss can awaken both presence and responsibility. A raw, honest discussion about taking control where you can and accepting what you cannot. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Are you looking to know what is like to find work you want to do? Paul Millerd is the author of The Pathless Path and Good Work. In this episode, he talks about the art of staying in the game without chasing metrics, how to think about work without letting it define your identity, and a framework for designing dream projects that actually fit your life. You will also learn about podcasting on your own terms, curiosity conversations, and the importance of creating a new narrative when thinking about leaving a job. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Carly Valancy, the Founder of The Reach Out Party, believes that you should take more agency over the people who are in your life. In this episode, she shares practical strategies for reaching out to people you admire and building sustainable connection habits. She thinks that networking doesn't have to feel icky when you do it your way. In this episode, you will also learn about the successful Anti-Networking Party that she recently hosted in New York City. You will also learn the highs and lows of hosting events. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
What is your definition of leadership? In this episode, Stephen Shedletzky also known as "Shed" shared his definition of leadership and asked for feedback from other people attending this Podcast Mixer event. You will hear about whether leaders are necessary, challenge conventional definitions of leadership, and discuss the balance between charisma and quiet leadership. If you are interested in leadership, this episode is for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Ashwini Anburajan shares her journey from Chief Revenue Officer to CEO at Obi, a rideshare aggregator app. In this live episode recorded in New York City, Ashwini discusses the critical first 90 days of her new role, why the company pivoted before, and the challenges of scaling a startup. She also reveals why she's hiring a Chief of Staff , so that she can focus on revenue growth and product development. Whether you're interested in startup leadership transitions, transportation tech, or Chief of Staff roles, this conversation offers practical insights on career growth and company building.
Rina and David candidly discuss their parallel career transitions and the unexpected ways they've supported each other through the uncertainty. Rina shares her journey from leaving her first 9-to-5 role to launching a daily TikTok practice that unexpectedly built community and income. Together, they explore the difference between chasing opportunities that fall into your lap versus pursuing the dreams that truly scare you, the power of accountability partnerships during transitions, and why doing the thing you've been putting off might be exactly what you need. If you're navigating a career change and feeling alone, this conversation will remind you that transitions take time and you don't have to do it alone.
Erica Akitani-Bob is currently the Chief of Staff at All Places. This is not her first Chief of Staff role. In this episode, you will learn about how she got her current role, advice for job seekers, how she adds value in the role, and how she tries to understand the scope of projects. This episode was recorded at an event in NYC. During the episode, you will questions from people attending the event. If you are looking for a Chief of Staff role or how to become a better one, this episode is for you!
Will Mannon and I have a shared passion for bringing like-minded people together in-person. The conversations can be incredible and wildly generative. Will was the Cofounder of Write of Passage, a popular online writing school. Through the course, he hosted a bunch of in-person meetups. In 2025, he cofounded another company called Act Two. Connected to this company, he hosted a bunch of meetups around the world during the summer of 2025. After partnering on an event in Brooklyn, we decided to partner together on the Internet Serendipity World Tour powered by Circle in late 2025. Learn about how and where we are bringing in-person events and connection around the world in 2025!
Al Simon shares his journey from selling his prior company, Elude, to launching The Lab, a creative agency helping pre-seed and seed-stage founders with pitch decks and fundraising. Al discusses the power of network building, his philosophy on staying in touch with people, and why 90% of his 90+ clients came through word of mouth. The conversation also touches on his passion for travel, focusing on happiness, and his upcoming non-alcoholic beer brand. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Morgan Brady, the Director of Community at Inc. and Fast Company, shares insights from her 10+ years building communities for entrepreneurs. She discusses the power of text message retention, hosting a 10-event road show, and why creating pre-conference connections helps introverts thrive at larger events. Morgan reveals her strategies for convincing busy founders that community is worth their time and emphasizes that transformative relationships, not just business connections, are what make community building meaningful. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Zach Hughes, a Partner at Ascendancy, shares how he built a business around strategic relationship-building. From leaving consulting after reading "The 4-Hour Workweek" to creating "winfinity" partnerships where everyone wins, Zach reveals practical strategies for leveraging relationships to accelerate your career. In this episode, you will learn about why business success ultimately comes down to relationships and story, how to "punch above your weight" through warm introductions, and starting small with 5 key relationships to improve the strength of your network. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Are you looking to level-up your events? Here are seven ways that I usually apply to my events. Hosting events has changed my life and hopefully these ways and tips help you and your events!
Yael Shemer was a community builder before she cofounded TULU. In this episode, she shares how she built her real estate tech startup from three buildings to over 400 globally in seven years. She discusses pivoting from B2C to B2B and managing the chaos of rapid scaling. You will also learn about her unconventional journey from environmental activist and waitress to tech founder, learning to leverage her authenticity and community organizing skills as strengths rather than viewing them as limitations.
Two weeks after leaving his job, David and close friends have an honest conversation about navigating career transitions in real-time. From job search struggles to unexpected opportunities, this candid discussion captures the reality of being "funemployed" while friends brainstorm potential business ideas like event design and authenticity consulting.
Whether you're in transition or considering a change, this episode offers real insights about embracing uncertainty and finding support during life's biggest shifts.
After 4+ years as a community builder at the Chief of Staff Network, David opens up about transitioning to an advisor role. Taylor Harrington interviews him about helping build the membership-based community business mainly through events and content. His role focused on growth and member experience. David shares the emotional complexity of leaving something you're known for and how he is thinking about what is next. If you are a community builder, looking to work in the field, or thinking about a work transition, this episode is for you.
In this episode, you will learn from Charlotte Jackson, Co-founder of the Candid card deck, Substack writer, and transitions coach, about transforming conversations through better questions. Charlotte explains why "What's the dream?" works better than "What do you do?" You will learn her “pebble vs. boulder" approach to asking specific, disarming questions that invite genuine responses rather than rehearsed answers. You will also learn about finding conversational "trailheads" and how intentional questions can deepen relationships and self-understanding. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Misha Glouberman has turned his passion for bringing people together into a thriving consulting business, helping organizations transform their conferences, retreats, and gatherings into meaningful connection experiences. In this conversation, Misha shares how he evolved from co-creating the popular Toronto lecture series Trampoline Hall to building a full-time career improving corporate events. He reveals his four-step framework for successful events (starting with having a clear goal), explains practical techniques like helping attendees find their conversation partners, and discusses why most event organizers focus on entertainment instead of connection. Misha also opens up about overcoming the common aversion to sales that many community-focused professionals face. If you are looking to have a career in events and community building, this episode is for you!
What happens when you apply corporate strategic planning to your own life? After 12 years in finance and burning out at a high-growth startup, Michelle "Mimi" Casazza created her own strategic framework to design her dream portfolio career. What started as a two-month sailing gig turned into four years of building multiple revenue streams as a CFO consultant and executive coach. Mimi shares her "Matria Life Chart" approach to transitioning from corporate burnout to purposeful portfolio living. Whether you're stuck in corporate or already building a portfolio career, this episode shows how strategic thinking can help you design a life you actually want to live.
When Kevin Zych left his corporate job three years ago to become a full-time live event illustrator, he had just enough proof of concept from brand sponsorships to believe he could make it work.In this episode, Kevin shares his unconventional path from English major to Zen monk to professional street artist, revealing how he built a creative career around "reportage illustration". He discusses the practical realities of going full-time creative without a plan, why he believes art creates human connection, and how his time as a Zen monastic shaped his philosophy of embracing risk and immediacy in both art and career decisions and much more.
Bart Dziedzic and Max Zucker from MrBeast's strategy team share how they went from investment banking to working at one of the world's biggest YouTube channel and media company. In this episode, you will learn their unconventional networking strategies, how LinkedIn is underrated, and the importance of adding value before asking for anything. You will also learn about community building, the creator economy's anti-establishment culture, and why 1,000 true fans beat 10 million passive followers. If you are looking into working at creator companies or transform their career through authentic relationship building, this episode is for you!
Are you looking to start your own thing? Listen to this episode with Tish Dignam about her journey from corporate to entrepreneurship. Tish emphasizes the importance of adopting a business owner mindset, including marketing, operations, and product development. Tish also highlights her emergent strategy for business growth, using AI tools like ChatGPT for introspection and market segmentation. She also shares her success with TikTok, which has generated significant inbound leads. Tish's business has evolved from brand marketing coaching to clarity coaching, driven by client referrals and her ability to help founders communicate effectively. If you are looking to start your own service-based business, this episode is for you!
In a world that often feels chaotic and uncertain, how do we discover what truly matters? In this Hot Pod event episode, you will hear stories about people have been finding meaning through learning, community, service, and more. Whether you're navigating a major life transition or simply seeking deeper satisfaction, this conversation offers insights and ideas for you to hopefully find more meaning.
Are you looking to make work more enjoyable and meaningful? Listen to this episode with Bree Groff, the author of "Today Was Fun.” In this episode, you will hear Bree share her seven rules for better days. Bree advocates for being a "meets expectations employee and an exceeds expectations human," focusing ambition on relationships and personal fulfillment rather than solely on work success. In addition to some moments of personal stories, this episode concludes with Groff's daily journal prompt: asking "Was today fun?" and identifying one moment of joy, even on difficult days, as a way to actively seek and appreciate the happiness available in everyday life. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Are you looking into better understand yourself and the world around you? Listen to this new episode Mari Andrew about her new book, "How To Be A Living Thing," which explores lessons from animals. Mari discusses her cat Sunny, who taught her about unconditional love and autonomy. She highlights the sensitivity and emotional intelligence of horses, which mirror human emotions. Mari also reflects on rats, likening them to our societal shadows. She emphasizes the importance of embodiment and intuition, drawing parallels between human and animal behavior. She also touches on the connection between pregnancy and creativity, advocating for a devotion to embodiment. Here we go with Mari!
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Hosting good events is a life hack. You can meet incredible people, build your network, have fun, etc! In this episode, I detailed 7 tips for hosting a great event. After that, I shared about the events I have hosted since 2022 and what I have learned from them. Excited for you to build and grow your portfolio career! Happy hosting!
Are you looking to better understand yourself and take agency of your own life more? Lawrence Yeo, in his new book called The Inner Compass, suggests to follow your inner compass more. In this episode, you learn about how to navigate the tension between certainty and curiosity when facing uncertain decision, why removing societal conditioning is essential for finding contentment, viewing uncertainty as an asset rather than a liability, and the benefits of journaling. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to stand out when building your business? Listen to this new episode with Phil and Xandie. You will learn about how Phil developed his unique selling point to clients by talking to them. You will learn about how Xandie decided to start her business and got her initial customers. You will also learn about the importance of relationships and building relationships when building your business. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Jenny Rothenberg, Cofounder of Smooth Media, shares real strategies behind sustainable creator monetization. We dive into content-market fit—creating content your audience actually wants rather than chasing viral moments—and why events might be the most underutilized monetization strategy for creators today. Whether you're looking to monetize for the first time or diversify your income streams, this conversation offers actionable insights you can implement immediately.
Are you looking to date? Listen to this Podcast Mixer episode where three people share their stories, experiences, and interests on dating. There is a common theme around the importance of friendship and maintaining a friendship while dating. If you are interested in dating, this episode is for you!
Are you looking to date or find a partner? If so, how are you thinking about it? Ben Von Wong has created a dating framework to help him think about dating. In this episode, you will learn about the framework and the reasons why he created it. You will also learn about the importance of friendship and clear communication in dating.
Are you looking to build a service-based business? For Jess Goldberg, she initially started building her leadership and communication business on the side while working. Her clients loved her work and referrals started to come in, and keep coming in. She found even more success offering a course on Maven, and then the rest became history. In this episode, you will also learn some communication tips and frameworks. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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This episode was special. Chris Schembra is a really good friend. And he is a really good question asker. I wanted to share an update with you and Chris made this happen. We covered a lot of topics that I may not have talked about before. You will learn about prior life chapters and how that has helped shaped who I am today. I hope this episode is interesting to you. Please let me know what you think! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Are you looking to host dinner parties? Saba Ahmed is the Cofounder of Tiny Dinner, a company that hosts dinner parties in homes. In this episode, you will learn about how many people is good for a dinner party, the importance of curating an attendee list, where dinner parties should be held and so much more! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Have you ever been frustrated with a situation? Amanda Pena, creator of The Rules of 30 Instagram account with over 130,000 followers, turned her frustration into impact. Amanda's account went viral, resonating with many women in their 30s. In this episode, you will hear more about her spiky point of view on societal pressures and the benefits of delaying life milestones, and much more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to level-up your life? Listen to this episode to hear Life Hacks from the three people. This episode was recorded at the Life Hacks mini-conference. You will learn about tech tools, ways to improve your email outreach, and so much more! Tune to level-up!
In this episode, we explore the creative process from initial spark to finished work. Discover how creators across all disciplines develop their ideas, use AI, balance structure with spontaneity, and develop resilience. Whether you're a seasoned artist or just beginning your creative journey, join us for practical insights on transforming your ideas into art. This episode was recorded during a Hot Pod Podcast Mixer with 8 or so people. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Valerie Chapman shares her journey from being laid off twice to becoming a LinkedIn creator, achieving over 120 million impressions in 90 days. Valerie shared how she is leveraging AI to build powerful personal brands on LinkedIn. She also often posts about AI on LinkedIn, and how she saw a gap in the market to do so. Valerie also stresses the need for people to use AI for strategic planning and to brainstorm a bigger life for themselves. If you are looking to level-up and learn about AI, cold email, creating content and video content and more, this episode is for you!
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Bethany Crystal discusses her transition from a fractional worker to an AI founder. She shares her experience of using AI often in her role at a dev shop and how it saved her life during a near-death experience. Bethany highlights her new app, MuseKat, designed to help parents explain museum exhibits to their kids using AI-generated audio stories. Bethany also reflects on the evolving job market and the need for individuals to adapt and leverage AI tools to stay relevant. She shared how she is building this app as a way of creating a container that works for and excites her while wanting to be part of the growing AI sector. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Can our thoughts truly shape our reality? In this episode, we explore manifestation through many different lenses. Is it the same as goals or something else? In this episode, you will hear 7-8 people discuss this and more. Tune in and maybe you will manifest something :)
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In this episode, you will hear from Wen-Jay Ying, Founder of Local Roots, a modern CSA that recently ended its core operations after 14 years. Wen-Jay discusses her journey, starting from her passion for local food and her decision to create a business that supports organic and sustainably grown ingredients. She highlights the challenges faced during the pandemic, including increased demand and operational stress. Despite the success, Wen-Jay decided to pivot and is now focused on new business ideas. If you are looking to pivot or start a new chapter, this episode is for you!
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Are you looking to grow your impact, influence and income? This episode was recorded during the Strategic Storytelling Summit that I cohosted with Terry Rice. In this episode, you will hear three people share about how they are using stories and storytelling as a way to grow. For many of us, telling our story is very important. Listen to this episode to hear about how three people tell their story and more! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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In this episode, we dive into the power of collaboration and how communities have grown through with other organizations and communities. During this Podcast Mixer episode, you will hear multiple stories from people sharing real-world stories, practical strategies, and lessons learned. This conversation will give you valuable insights on building and sparking meaningful connections and amplifying your impact. Tune in and discover how working together can make our communities stronger!
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When was the last time you had a hard conversation? What did you learn from it? What did you wish you would've done differently. In this episode, you will hear stories about people having a hard conversation. I hope this episode makes future hard conversations easier. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
In this episode, you will learn from Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Founder of Ness Labs and the author of a new book called Tiny Experiments, about the power of personal experimentation. Anne-Laure shares how she crafted an experiment to write a book on experiments, and explains practical methods for designing your own life experiments. She emphasizes the importance of setting deadlines and embracing uncertainty. She also touches on the emotional aspects of letting go of desired outcomes and her own definition of success. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do you know your enneagram type? Have you ever considered how your type impacts your connect with other people. In this episode, Jon Wu talks about the enneagram personality test, why he loves it, and how it can help you better understand yourself. In this episode, we talk about our enneagram types and how they show up in the world, and how to potentially navigate hard conversations. If you are looking for a way to better understand yourself and your relationships, this episode is for you!
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Have you ever made a mistake? Probably, right? Building community is hard and mistakes happen. Listen to this episode where 10 or so community builders shared stories of mistakes, learnings, and how they are thinking about these situations now. Maybe if you aren't making mistakes, you aren't trying hard enough. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Are you looking to building a community-focused business? Listen to this episode with Emily Chertow, the Founder or Journaling Classes. She has been hosting journaling classes for over 6 years. Since early 2024, she has been full-time on building her business. In this episode, you will hear about starting her community, inflections, and learnings from going full-time. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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What does it mean to live an A+ life? Katy Atherholt and I both explored this topic and chatted about it in this podcast episode. After a separate conversation, we both decided to write an essay on this topic and then we discussed it on this podcast. Interestingly, we both had different points of view and could see each other's prospective. Your point of view is likely different too, which is amazing. When you know what A+ looks like, hopefully it means it is easier to live it.
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Kameron Monet is an attorney, content creator, and entrepreneur with over 60,000 Instagram followers and nearly 100,000 YouTube subscribers. She began creating YouTube videos in 2014, initially for fun, and later monetized her content. Kameron posted videos while she had a traditional job as a lawyer and many of them became very popular. She talked about leaving her job, becoming a consultant, and now how she works on her own as a lawyer for content creators. In this episode, you will learn about the power of niche content and how it only takes one video to change your life. We also talked using YouTube and Instagram stories to create community and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Join us as we explore the art of bouncing back from life's challenges in this powerful episode. This episode was recorded among 8 or so people at a dinner table. You will hear stories from people who turned their setbacks into springboards for growth and learnings. Whether you're dealing with career hurdles, personal struggles, or unexpected detours, this conversation offers valuable insights to help you not just recover, but emerge stronger from life's setbacks.
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In this episode, meet Remington Davenport, who left her career in sales to pursue her passion: creating the world’s backgammon club in NYC with the NYC Backgammon Club. Remington shares how she moved to NYC and didn’t see any backgammon events that really resonated with her - so she started hosting her own. The word began to spread, and her events started growing in popularity and frequency. So, she decided to go full-time on this. You will learn about her decision to do this, about partnering with venues, and what she has noticed about building her community and more. If you are interested in community building or following your passion, this episode is for you.
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Did you build community in 2024? How are you thinking about it in 2025? In this episode Veronica Kaulinis, the Founder of Vulnerable AF, and I discuss the answer to these questions and more. You will learn about the momentum of hosting good events, the benefits of curation, why more time spent upfront is helpful later on, and so much more. If you are interested in community building, this episode for you!
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Are you looking to work professionally as a community builder? Listen to this episode with Jessica Lowenstein who has been working professionally in the field since 2016. She is currently Head of Community and Events at Hampton, a community for founders and CEOs. She has had numerous other community roles. In this episode, you will learn about how the profession has evolved, what she loves about the work, what she looks for when hiring for community roles, and what Hampton's community team looks like. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you a community builder looking to build a portfolio career? Listen to this podcast episode with Mallory Contois, the Founder of the Old Girls Club (OGC) and Head of Community at Mercury. In this episode, you will learn how Mallory launched OGC and how she built it to be async-focused and how it was helpful for her to get her current role. Mallory is also passionate about portfolio careers and emphasizes the importance of having a clear investment thesis to guide career decisions and advocates for monetizing passions. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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What are you excited about? What are you inspired by? Hearing stories about these two topics.... can be inspiring! For episode 350, I hosted an event and invited people to share these stories. Thank you for being part of my podcasting journey, even if this is just for your first episode. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Yena Kim has built the Menswear Dog brand and business for 10+ years, which is crazy and inspiring to think about. You will learn about how her dog, Bodi, first went viral and then how Yena quickly responded on this fame through partnerships and more. In this episode, you will learn about working on things you love, making it easier to work with press, how the creator economy is growing, why online marketing on your own is becoming increasingly important. Unfortunately, Bodi passed away a few days before this podcast recording and Yena talks a little bit about this. This was a special and powerful episode and I hope you enjoy it!
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Are you looking to build community? Jaclyn Pascocello is the Founder of Fabrik, a home for community builders. They currently have a physical space open in Tribeca for community builders to host gatherings. I am a member and have hosted a few events there. In this episode, we talk about launching Fabrik, event insights for community builders, and so much more!
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Are you looking to live a life with relationships and friendships at the center of it? In this episode, my good friend Lani Assaf and I walked and talked about our lives and how we are both living like this. We also talked about the challenges and joys of maintaining friendships, the impact of working remotely, and the need for spontaneity and intentionality. Lani emphasized the value of containers for freedom, joy, and play, while I highlighted the significance of repeated interactions and shared experiences. We both reflect on the changing seasons and their impact on their lives, and what else has been on our minds living in Brooklyn. Hope you enjoy it!
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Are you looking to build or grow a community? Listen to these 5 hot takes from community builders. These mini-clips were recorded at my Community Builders and Creators mini conference aka C3 in November. If you are interested in community building, this episode is for you!
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In this episode, you will hear stories of when people were scared and afraid of something. Through inspiring stories, actionable tips, and a few laughs along the way, we’ll show you how to be scared and brave —at the same time. Whether you’re facing a career pivot, a big life decision, or just a new personal challenge, this episode will give you the tools to push past your fear and go for it anyways.
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What does it mean to truly feel alive? In this episode, we dive into the moments, choices, and emotions that awakened a deeper sense of vitality. Whether it’s connecting with people, connecting with music, or a general sense of safety, we discussed stories when people felt alive. Tune in, and let’s discover together what makes us feel most alive.
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In this episode, you will hear the origin story of a community, my Hot Pods, a business, and much more. You will hear about these key moments, what we learned from them, and how things are going now. Tune in to hear stories of creativity, inspiration and passion from those who dared to take the first step. If you've ever wondered how great things begin, this is the episode for you!
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Being a community builder is hard. You may want to grow your community but also want to do it thoughtfully. You may want to scale its intimacy but not if it is going to hurt the quality of the community. And then there are business model considerations and challenges. In this Podcast Mixer episode, 10 or so community builders discussed these kind of challenges. If you are a community builder or want to be, this episode may definitely be for you!
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What is something that has changed you? In this episode, you will hear short stories and discussion on this topic. You will learn how projects, relationships, cities and more changed people. You never know what the next thing will be that changes you. Listen and enjoy this episode!
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What is something that you have overcome? In this episode, you will hear short stories from people about overcoming something in their lives. Hopefully it helps you realize that whatever you are going through today that it can get better. For me, it was overcoming shyness. I am not shy anymore and this has greatly improved my life. Listen to hear amazing stories!
Should you live with your friends? What happen can happen when you live with people for 3 years? Rina, Juvoni, and I have lived together for three years. We have learned a lot about each other. Juvoni and I didn't initially know Rina, but now she is a close friend. We got together for a chat before Rina moved out. If you want to learn more about us, roommate dynamics, about being a better roomate, this episode is for you!
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Are you looking to slow down to speed up? Steve Schlafman is the Founder of Downshift, a coaching company helping high-performers downshift towards a new life. They offer the world's first decelerator program. Steve has been on the podcast twice before, and in this episode, we also discussed the current state of my podcast in an open and vulnerable way. I hope you enjoy getting to learn more about my view on the content of the show and more too. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Has someone taken a chance on you or bet on you early? When this happens, it can have a big and/or lasting impact. In this episode, a few friends shared stories about when someone bet on them early, what they learned from it, and more. Today is a good day to thank someone who bet on you, or to take a chance on someone else. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to find a romantic partner? In this episode, three people talk about what is going on with their dating lives and what kind of person they may be interested in. A common theme was about being intentional about dating. If you want to learn about dating, relationships, and more, this episode is for you!
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Are you looking for a breakthrough? The next one could happen soon. In this podcast episode, you will hear multiple stories from people sharing breakthroughs. You will hear all types of breakthroughs. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to build a community or grow one? In this episode, you will hear from 3 community founders about how they are building their communities. You will learn from Ben Bradbury about throwing large-scale reading parties and more at Reading Rhythms. You will learn from Rachel Saslaw about growing StoryTell while working full-time. You will learn from Elle Wilson about building a friends of friends dating event community called Met Through Friends. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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In this episode, we dive into the pivotal moments that changed the course of our lives. Whether it’s a career breakthrough, a personal revelation, or an unexpected experience, these turning moments can shape who we are and who we become. Listen to this episode where you will hear 7 people's turning moment stories. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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What has been an inflection moment for you? In this episode, you will hear from three other community builders sharing about the inflection moments for their communities and for them personally. Your next inflection moment could be right around the corner. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you going through a transition? In this episode, you will hear stories about prior transitions and learnings from it. You will also hear stories about how people are currently going through transitions currently. We are regularly changing and evolving, hopefully this episode helps you in whatever you may be going through. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you trying to build a project, side hustle, or a business? If so, you will likely have to get through the hard part. It could be internal. It could be external. Or both. In this Podcast Mixer episode, you will hear stories, experiences, and advice from founders and creators who have navigated the hard part and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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This episode was originally aired on the Chief of Staff Podcast, which is a podcast I help produce. In this episode, I chatted with my coworker and General Manager of Chief of Staff Network, Rahul Desai. We talked about our Chief of Staff experiences, how we work together, how we support Chiefs of Staff, tips to get a Chief of Staff role, and so much more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Is it possible to feel love in other ways besides romantically? In this Podcast Mixer episode, you will hear stories about celebrating love in all of its forms. Talking about love with friends is fun too. I recommend it. I hope this episode makes you feel more hopeful too. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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During this Hot Seat Podcast Mixer episode, you will learn about organizing a race spontaneously, a self-actualization framework, and lessons learned from collecting beanie babies during the craze. This episode was recorded live in front of an audience of about 20 people in an apartment. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to cultivate deeper relationships? In this episode, a group of ~10 people discussed and shared many actionable tips and stories for you. Common themes discussed were showing-up, following-up, being thoughtful, sending mail, and more. In a big city like NYC, it can be hard to cultivate deeper relationships - so hopefully this episode helps. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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What were you like as a child? How do you think that experience shaped you to who you are today? In this Podcast Mixer episode, you will hear stories about how sensitivity is a strength, and about losing a good friend growing up. We can learn from others experiences to help guide our future. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to develop a Portfolio Career? One thing that is important to do so is: setting boundaries. Ruthie Berber, Lindsey Lerner and I chatted about our Portfolio Careers and setting boundaries as community builders during a live podcast recording at a NY Tech Week event. You will also about work trends, other community building tips and much more! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Have you ever thought about leaving your dream job? What if it was the right thing to do for you? Carrie Sun is the author of a new book called Private Equity. The book is a memoir about Carrie being the sole assistant to a top Wall Street firm's billionaire founder. In the book and in this episode, you will learn about the work culture that Carrie was part of, why she decided to leave, and the importance of thinking about the work system we are a part of (and may need to change). Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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In this episode, you will learn about how someone learned a foreign language for love, and how that experienced shaped someone. You will also learn about the hard part of community building from an experienced community builder. This episode was recorded in front of an audience where they will ask the speakers questions. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to build a community? You should listen to this episode. You will hear about how Dulma Altan built a community around creating content that changed her life and the power of a daily habit challenge. You will hear about how Neil Yeoh, the Founder of OnePointFive, built his community business. And you will also hear about how Nikki D’Ambrosio started working at Reading Rhythms, the fast-growing community. This episode was recorded live at my Community Builders and Creators mini-conference called "C3" in May of 2024. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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In this episode, you will learn about the creative process and journey of music from Johnny Hwin. You will learn about how Priti Trivedi writes short films and how AI may be effecting this industry. You will also learn about playing to your strengths from Jason Shen. This episode was recorded live in front of an audience with ~20 people. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Have you taken a creative sabbatical before? Ankit Shah is currently taking this sabbatical and is really enjoying it. He has been able to focus on projects that are meaningful to him. Ankit is the Founder of Tea With Strangers, and loves bringing people together too. In this episode, you will learn about running, writing, meaning, prioritization and so much more! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to be a creative for many years? Mari Andrew's creative work has taken many forms. She was a very popular watercolor illustrator, has written two books, writes a popular newsletter, and recently created new "felted wool painting" that was displayed in a pop-up exhibit in New York. During this episode recorded in front of audience in Brooklyn, Mari shares about her creative process with her new art, how she thinks about which medium to create in, starting new chapters, mindset, and so much more! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to be a better friend? I talked with Nikki D'Ambrosio and Martina Crane about how to be a better friend. We had a casual conversation about hosting events, attending events, group chats, voice notes, errand dates and so much more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Have you been on the hot seat before? What would you share? What would people ask you about? Listen to this Podcast Mixer episode where 3 people are on the Hot Seat in front of an audience of about 15 people. You will hear stories about the life lessons of playing basketball, how to have hard conversations, frequency healing, and so much more!
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This episode was recorded live at the Community Builders and Creators mini-conference in New York in March. You will hear from Terry Rice talking about overcoming setbacks. You will learn how Tawny Lara has expanded her brand over the years as the Sober Sexpert and the author of a book called Dry Humping. You will also learn about David Spinks talk about community emergence and how communities may emerge more than they are built. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Have you been on the hot seat before? What would you share? What would people ask you about? Listen to this Podcast Mixer episode where 3 people are on the Hot Seat in front of an audience of about 15 people. You will hear stories about trying to find balance, transitions, the messy middle, and growing up with two dads, and so much more!
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How well do you know yourself? Do you like taking personality tests to better understand yourself? In this episode, Lola Martinez and I discuss the Enneagram test and its methodology mentioned in the book, The Wisdom of the Enneagram. We share our types, reflections, and even some stories about how this lens shows up in our worlds.
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Have you been on the hot seat before? What would you share? What would people ask you about? Listen to this Podcast Mixer episode where 3 people are on the Hot Seat in front of an audience of about 15 people. You will hear stories about being brave, intergenerational trauma, and making money as a street poet and so much more!
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Are you look to improve your relationships in 2024? Samanee Mahbub and I both read The Way Forward by Yung Pueblo and discussed the core ideas in the book. There are three main themes around improving your relationship with yourself, with others, and what a good life looks like. We used the book to also talk about our own lives and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Have you been on the hot seat before? What would you share? What would people ask you about? Listen to this Podcast Mixer episode where 3 people are on the Hot Seat in front of an audience of about 15 people. You will hear stories about abstaining from many areas of life, friendship, relationships, psychedelics, creativity, technology, and so much more!
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In what areas of your life are you a perfectionist? Did you know that that could be a good thing? Katherine Morgan Schafler is the author of the popular book called The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control. In this Podcast Mixer episode with a live Q&A, you will learn the different types of perfectionism, the intersection of perfectionism and creativity, Katherine's journey to writing this book, and so much more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Have you been on the hot seat before? What would you share? What would people ask you about? Listen to this Podcast Mixer episode where 3 people are on the hot seat in front of an audience of about 15 people. You will hear stories about friendship, community building, moving to NYC, relationships, Reading Rhythms, and so much more!
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Are you looking to be more creative in 2024? On this episode, Kai Zheng and I discussed the popular book, The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. You will learn the core ideas on the book and hear how we are thinking about them in our own lives. This was fun. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Have you been on the hot seat before? What would you share? What would people ask you about? Listen to this Podcast Mixer episode where 3 people are on the hot seat in front of an audience of about 20 people. You will hear stories about friendship, community, moving to NYC, leaving NYC, transitions, and so much more!
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What does modern dating mean to you? Is it using apps less? Using them more intentionally? Are you going to singles events more? We dive into all of this in this episode with Allie Hoffman. Allie is the Founder of Equanimity Equation and the creator of The Feels, a singles event series in NYC, DC, Philly, and LA. You will hear about what Allie has learned about from producing these singles events too. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to build more wealth in 2024? Tori Dunlap is a money expert. She is the Founder of Her First $100K, a financial education company. She is the author of New York Times Bestselling Author, Financial Feminist, which is also the name of her leading business podcast. In this episode, you will hear candid stories about leaving jobs, inflection moments for Tori, the type of content that really performs well on social media, and so much more! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Have you been on the hot seat before? What would you share? What would people ask you about? Listen to this Podcast Mixer episode where 3 people are on the hot seat in front of an audience of about 20 people. You will hear personal stories, professional stories, and so much more!
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Have you been on the hot seat before? A time when someone or multiple people asked you pointed questions. Maybe it was hard for you, maybe it was not. Either way, it was worthwhile. So, we decided to take this proven conversation format to the podcast for a Podcast Mixer episode with 20 people in attendance and participating. In this episode, you will hear 3 people on the hot seat getting asked a wide-range questions. Hopefully you will get to better understand people and their journeys through this podcast episode.
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Are you looking to have more meaningful relationships in 2024? In this Podcast Mixer episode, you will hear short stories about how people met a romantic partner, a friendtor which is like a mentor, and/or a Cofounder. The stories show how relationships can form in unexpected ways or in quick moments. Relationships help with the quality of your life, and I hope this episode helps. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Episode 300, wow! Thank you for being here! Have you ever wondered about the specific moments that changed people's lives? Well, this Podcast Mixer episode is just that. You will hear 4 stories about life transitions, work relationships, business decisions and more. If you want to understand these moments and the stories behind it for hopefully your next inflection point, this episode is for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking for a refreshing and an empowering view on productivity and time management? On this episode, Lani Assaf and I discussed the popular book, Four Thousand Weeks by OIiver Burkeman. You will learn the core ideas on the book and hear how we are thinking about them in our own lives. This was fun. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Personal projects are magical. Through them, you can learn new skills, develop a body of work, build relationships and more. Those relationships could turn into friendships. Friends that emerge that will be with you for a long time. In this Podcast Mixer episode cohosted with Jacey Adler, the host of the Recalibrate podcast, you will hear stories about people's personal projects: how they started them, learnings along the way, how they kept going, and the projects have helped them personally. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to make a big decision or get better at making decisions? Listen to this new Podcast Mixer episode where 5 people will short stories about how a decision they made. Hopefully by hearing these stories, you will also realize that in most decisions you have the agency to decide. This episode was recorded in Austin, Texas too. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to level-up your life? Taking advantage of life hacks could be one way to do so. Whether its an under-priced good or service, or another kind of arbitrage, life hacks can be an incredible way to improve your life. In this Podcast Mixer episode, you will hear 5 short stories from people about their life hacks. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to create more art? Ayaka Matsui performs on the piano in a very unique way. She does "improv" on a piano. Yeah, that's right - "improv" on a piano. After a personal event, she realized that she should look to play this way after being trained as a classic pianist as a kid. In this episode, she shares how she does this, letting go of chasing perfection, starting her and building her creative agency, working on both of these pursuits in parallel and so much more! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to make a transition? it can be challenging. Hearing other people's stories might be able to help. In this Podcast Mixer episode, you will hear 5 people's stories about how they are transitioning or transitioned. Most of the stories are work-related. I hope these stories are helpful! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to live a more balanced life? After taking a sabbatical, Maria Potoroczyn is focused on building a rainbow life. One where each thread is unique and joyous. She is now focused on this after taking a sabbatical. On the heels of that experience, she launched amble, a newsletter that is a personal rebellion against a culture of workaholism. Maria currently has an impressive day job, and is extremely intentional about how she wants to live. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to start a new project or a new company? Hearing stories about how other people have done so can be very empowering. In this Podcast Mixer, you will learn about how 4 people started something. Hopefully this episode is a spark for you to start something and/or to keep going. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking into improve your romantic relationships? Tawnya Lara believes that removing alcohol can help! She is the author of a new book called Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without the Booze. She believes alcohol has served as a crutch for people, and believes there are better ways and reasons to deeply connect and date without it. In this episode, you will learn about how she wrote the book, emotional intimacy, internal courage vs liquid courage, how she is building towards the life she wants and so much more! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Has a book changed your life? The right book, at the right time, can be incredibly powerful and empowering. In this Podcast Mixer episode, you will hear 5 stories about books that changed people's lives. Hopefully you learn about a book and/or a story that inspires you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Johnny Hwin is an entrepreneur, investor, artist, musician, and a community builder. He has done this in both San Francisco and now in New York City. You will learn about what Johnny has learned from living in a community space in both cities and bringing a lot of people together. Johnny has been involved with many business and is currently help incubate businesses as well. He recently released a new song called Metropolis Heights. You will learn about his creative and personal journey to do so too. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking for clients as a soloprenuer, freelancer, or a small business owner? Good news! Listen to this Podcast Mixer episode where multiple people shared how they got clients. You will hear multiple short stories about unexpected conversations, referrals, and/or about building credibility led to new clients and/or potentially more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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We have all been there. Adversity. No matter where you are in life. You had to overcome something to get to where you are now. For my birthday, I wanted to host a Podcast Mixer with friends. My birthday is a day where I have had to overcome the loss of my Dad. So I wanted host a Podcast Mixer to learn more about my friends, and share a little bit about my journey. I hope this episode sparks reflection and hope for whatever you may be going through!
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Looking to get more leverage and have more synergy in your life? Siya Raj Purohit is the Global Edtech & Workforce Development Lead at Amazon Web Services and Cofounder of Pathway Ventures. She believes there are many benefits to working on both of these things at the same time. Siya also published a book she was 18 and is passionate about the future of work and careers. In this episode, you will also learn about overcoming rejection, building relationships with peers and mentors, and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking for a new role? It can be challenging in this job market. However, hearing stories about how people literally got their job could help. In this Podcast Mixer episode, you will hear more than 4 people who shared getting jobs, including at least one role that was very recent. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you interested in working multiple jobs at the same time? Bethany Crystal does this now! In more detail, she does not work on one job for more than 50% of her working hours. With a not ideal economic environment and more people desiring work autonomy and flexibility, fractional employment work has become more popular. You will learn what type of work Bethany does, how she is able to leverage her background now, why you may need to send outreach emails to find clients, and so much more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to improve your relationship with others? Dr. Emily Anhalt believes this starts with your relationship with yourself. Dr. Emily Anhalt, the Co-Founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Coa, believes one way to do so is through therapy. Coa offers group emotional fitness and mental health classes. In this episode, you will learn about getting feedback, doing emotional push-ups, taking a proactive approach to your mental health, sympathy vs empathy, and so much more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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When Samanee Mahbub was in college at Brown University, she learned about the importance of relationship building. She has continued that through her many experiences, travels, and now living in New York. Given her love of stories and storytelling, she is a Product Marketing Lead at Lumos. Speaking of stories and community building, Samanee cohosts a monthly event series in NYC called Storytell. She hosts a lot of other events in NYC too, which you will learn about. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Has an experience changed you? How about recently? Hearing about life-changing experiences from others can help us better see our lives, and also see possibility. In this podcast mixer episode, you will hear short stories from four people to hopefully help you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to find more meaning in your work? Seth Godin is the author of 21 international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about work. His books include Tribes, Linchpin, The Dip, This Is Marketing, and The Practice. His latest book is called The Song of Significance, a new manifesto for teams. In this Podcast Mixer episode recorded live in front of an audience, you will learn about creating more meaning, the importance of finding a good boss, what we can learn about work and teams from bees, and so much more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to making a living as an artist, creative, or dancer? Or how about build a company to help creatives? Ramita Ravi has been doing both. She was the first South Asian to be featured on So You Think You Can Dance show. She is also the Cofounder and Co-CEO of Artswrk, a talent marketplace for artists and creatives. In this episode, you will learn about inflection points, pursuing becoming a professional dancer, freelancing for tech companies, and how and why she has been building her new company. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Starting a company is hard. In this Podcast Mixer episode, you will hear from four founders about the company they are building. The idea they have, the problem they are solving, and how things are going. There is a lot to learn from this. The story, energy, and positioning of this (and more) is something we can into our work and our careers. Hopefully this episode will help you start a company, a side hustle, or a personal project. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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When we are focused on the things that are moving the needle for us, great things can happen. For Ben Bradbury, he is focused on building media businesses at Workweek. For me, I have been focusing on in-person experiences for work and Podcast Mixers personally. Our focus is leading to great things. In this wide-ranging professional catch-up among close friends, you will also learn about community building, event experience design, being a creator vs a media business, and so much more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Your network and relationships are critical to your career and life. For Michael Saloio hosting dinners has been really impactful and helped him start Huddle, a network of top designers and builders startups can plug into. In this episode, Mike shares specific approaches and tactics that he uses to build relationships and stay connected with a lot of people in a meaningful way. Mike and Huddle also believe in Portfolio Careers. You will learn Portfolio Career trends and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to have healthy relationships across all areas of your life? In this podcast mixer episode, you will hear four people share relationship breakthrough and key moments stories. Tony Robbins has said, "the quality of your life is the quality of your relationships." If you are looking to have healthy relationships, this episode for you! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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This is a special episode! I answered a few questions from friends in this episode for you about podcasting, projects, and something personal. I also shared about where I have been spending my time, and what has thankfully been going well. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to make a big life decision soon? Maybe a career one? Decisions can be scary. Hearing from others can help though. In this podcast mixer episode, you will hear four people share short decisions about decisions they made. If you are about to make a decision, this episode for you! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to be more open and vulnerable in your life? Gly Gabriel believes that being vulnerable (in a thoughtful way) can unlock incredible conversations and things internally and externally for you. Gly had followed all of the “supposed to do” life ideals, scripts and paths: go to Harvard, work on Wall Street, etc. And then one day decided to make a change and live a different life with different values. If you are looking to make a change or be vulnerable, this episode is for you! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Mari Andrew is a writer, illustrator, and an author. In 2015, she decided to create one new watercolor illustration daily for a year. She started posting them on Instagram and started gaining a lot of followers. She now has over 900,000 followers. With this large audience, she was able to get a book deal to publish her first book Am I There Yet? In this episode, you will learn about her getting sick while writing this book, how she aims to be very specific and personal with her writing and work, her creative process, and her current 2023 theme “I have everything I need.” Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do you want to improve your relationship with work? How about to reclaim your life from work? Simone Stolzoff is the author of a brand new book called The Good Enough Job. He is also building out his Portfolio Career. In this episode, you will learn about how about to potentially take a more transactional approach to work and so much more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career.
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Lauren Ducrey is a poet, author, facilitator, and community builder. She is passionate about making poetry more accessible for others to write and read. She believes there are multiple ways that poetry can help people’s wellbeing. In this Podcast Mixer episode, you will learn Lauren’s ahas with poetry, how she wrote her book called Tongues Tied, and her creative process. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to have your work fit into your life? Christina Wallace is the author of a brand new book called The Portfolio Life. In 2017, she wrote a key article about Portfolio Careers. Then, as her life evolved, she realized that she wanted to design her life, not just her Portfolio Career. In this episode, you will learn core ideas in her new book and so much more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to celebrate your progress and life more? Jelena, the Founder of The Confetti Project, wants to help bring more joy more into people’s daily lives. Her company initially started as a side project. And then the pandemic greatly impacted her business, and now recently she has entire a new chapter. In this live podcast mixer episode, you will hear the emotional journey that Jelena has been on as a founder, her new Celebration Lab experience in NYC, and how much of our daily lives is a duality. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to build a social impact focused company? Stephen Sokoler is a serial entrepreneur. While in Australia, Stephen stumbled across a book that opened his eyes to meditation. Soon after, he started Journey in 2015. In this Podcast Mixer episode, you will learn about company inflection points, the ups and downs of being a founder, and what Stephen and Journey are really excited about now. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Have you ever been moved by words before? For Max Stossel, he saw a poet perform and was moved by it. He decided to perform poetry as well, and started to love it. After doing live poetry performance shows, he created a short film that took 7 years to make. While doing this, Max did other things to find other sources of income. In this episode, you will learn about how Max has generally kept his art separate from making a living, creativity, and doubling-down on yourself. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to make a job transition? Heather Joelle Boneparth decided to leave a successful career in corporate law. When the company asked her to come back to the office to work full-time, she quit. She wrote about leaving in her newsletter called Our Tiny Rebellions. In addition to writing the newsletter and being a mother to two kids, Heather is now the Director of Business and Legal Affairs at Bone Fide Wealth, a business she helped build with her husband. If you are interested in writing, navigating internal narratives, and pivots, this episode is for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to invest more into your relationships and friendships? Isa Watson is the author of a new book called Life Beyond Likes and believes that social media can hurt our ability to build real friendships. In her book and this episode, you will learn about taking a social media hiatus, what people don't post online, and how to cultivate friendship and connection. Isa is also the Founder of Squad and you will hear about her journey building the company as well. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do you feel like you have a message that you need to share? Stephen Shedletzky is the author of a book to be released in late 2023 called Speak-Up Culture. He believes that many important and helpful messages are unfortunately voiceless because people do not feel safe enough to share them. He is on a mission to help solve this. For 11+ years, Stephen also known as "Shed" worked at Simon Sinek Inc. in many different roles. In this episode, you will also learn about how Stephen started working there and with Simon, how he stated developing his own body of work, and how you could define your purpose. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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What could happen if you started believing that your perfectionism is a good thing? Katherine Morgan Schafler is a psychotherapist, writer, and speaker, and former on-site therapist at Google. She is the author of a brand new book called The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control. In this Podcast Mixer episode with live Q&A, you will learn the different types of perfectionism, the pros and cons of each type, cultivating your power, how perfectionism is a good thing, and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to have more autonomy with your work? Consider starting a personal project or freelancing on the side. Joy Batra is the author of a new book called The Freelance Mindset. In the book, you will learn how freelancing and entrepreneurship are similar, and the benefits of freelancing. Joy has been freelancing for 10+ years on the side and wrote this book to help you find more fulfillment. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Building a business is hard. Sahil Lavingia is Founder of Gumroad and he has seen his fair share of ups and downs to say the least. He has had to lay people off, experience rapid unexpected growth, and so much more. In this episode in front of an audience, he shares what truly matters to build a company, inflection points, and why is currently optimistic. Sahil is also an investor and the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff is a writer, community builder, student, and founder. While in school, she decided to learn in public by writing articles and then sharing them online about what she was learning at school. This led to her writing 100 articles in 100 days. During this writing journey and adventure, Ness Labs, the company and community, was formed while she was in school. In this episode, you will learn about finding her first customers, the generation affect, how building a community can help you creatively, and much more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Milly Tamati is a founder and community builder. She has other founded companies and had worked in many non-traditional capacities. During the summer of 2022, she posted in another online community and wanting to connect with other "generalists." That post started a movement and ultimately a new paid membership community called Generalist World. In this episode, you will learn about how Milly started the community, how the business model has evolved, and how being a generalist is valuable. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Arielle Nissenblatt is a community builder, a newsletter writer, a podcast producer, and a podcasting educator. Podcasting has changed Arielle’s life and she wants others to experience this too. She is the founder of the EarBuds Podcast Collective and is Head of Community & Content at Squadcast. If you are interested in starting or growing your podcast and/or related body of work, this episode is for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Ollie Henderson is a writer, podcaster, and future of work enthusiast. In 2020 while exploring a new life chapter, Ollie started creating content online for the first time. Since then, Ollie has consistently been creating content. And in early 2023, Ollie published a new book Called Work/Life Flywheel. The book and this episode details this approach that is believe to be better than trying to seek work-life balance. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Steve Schlafman is a coach, writer, and father. Before this, Steve was an investor at some of the leading venture capital firms in New York City. When he was investing, Steve got interested in coaching and starting doing both of them at the same time. In 2021, Steve decided to walk away from his own investment fund. In this live episode in front of an audience, you will learn why Steve made that decision, how to think about transitions, and how you could start a coaching business. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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2022 was a great year for me. I wanted to share 15 learnings from my year for you. A few themes in 2022 were IRL events, consistency, New York, relationships, and community. Thank you for being part of the show in 2022, and I am excited to build and grow our Portfolio Careers together!
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Osnat Benari is an author, product management leader, coach, advisor, and more. She is the author of a new book called Starting From Scratch. Osnat also known as Os wrote the book after going through many career pivots and reinventions. She realized that she had a method for adapting to change. She interviewed 200+ other people who had also undergone changes, and was able to also distill their wisdom into the book for you. You will also learn about Os' views on a Portfolio Career. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Jonny Miller is a course creator, podcaster, writer, and more. After leaving a startup in 2016, Jonny has been exploring, freelancing, and doing a lot of personal and professional experiments. 2022 was a banner year for him though. In it, he moved to and got settled in Colorado, developed deeper relationships, and had a record year professionally with his new course, Nervous System Mastery. In this episode, you will learn about inner work, better understanding your self, how emotions affect things, how breathwork can be helpful, and the power of writing an Annual Review about your prior year. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Ankit Shah is a Founder, Writer, and Community Builder. In 2014, he started Tea With Strangers, a community organization with 20,000+ members and 300 hosts who have organized 2,000+ events. In this special live episode in front of an audience, you will learn what Ankit realized from having so many conversations with strangers and ultimately why Ankit decided to stop the organization. In 2020, Ankit wrote a lengthy blog post titled Being Alone and gave a TEDx Talk on this same topic. In this episode, you will learn about how being alone is different than being lonely and how cultivating a better relationship with yourself improves your other relationships. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Taylor Elyse Morrison is a Founder, Podcaster, Facilitator, Writer, and Builder. In late 2022, Taylor publicly posted on LinkedIn reintroducing herself and her Portfolio Career. In this episode, you will learn about why she posted this, the core skills in her Portfolio Career, and how she thinks about the benefits of building a Portfolio of projects and products around one asset. She is the Founder of Inner Workout, a company focused on helping with your self-care system. Taylor is publishing a new book that will be available in March 2023. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Khe Hy is the Founder of a RadReads, a Writer, and a Creator. Khe has created the "$10K Work" framework to help you level-up. Instead of doing lower leverage and high-quality skill work, Khe wants to help you maximize your time and live a high-quality life. In this episode, Khe does a deep dive on the $10K Work framework and provides multiple examples of how you could apply to your work, life, and relationships. When you are building a Portfolio Career, being efficient and effective is critical. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Alexis Gay is a comedian and podcast host. In early 2020, one of her videos went viral online. At the time, she was working full-time in the tech sector. Since then, she has gone full-time on her own work as the host of the Non-Technical podcast and as a stand-up comedian. In this episode, you will learn how she made this leap. You will also learn about her creative process, how doing improv has been helpful, and how a creative work streak or sprint can help you learn and level-up quickly. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Have you ever wanted to write a book? Have a story inside of you that the world could benefit from? Diana Hawk wrote the book that she wanted to read growing up. Her new book, As Beautiful as It Seems, is now available in December 2022. In this live episode, you will learn how she wrote the book while working, the life lessons in the book, and the personal journey and reasons why she wanted to publish the book now. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Starting a community often times is a personal project and for personal reasons. Jimmy Daly started a Slack group for other content marketers to have casual career chats. This community grew into a large one, and now a thriving community business called Superpath. You will learn how Jimmy has created multiple community revenue streams and built a win-win community business with Superpath. You will also learn about the state of the job market for content marketers and freelance writers. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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We often think about physical fitness, but what about your emotional fitness and mental health? Alexa Meyer is the Cofounder and CEO of Coa, a company that is making emotional fitness a proactive practice with group classes led by therapists. In this live podcast social event episode, you will learn the 7 traits of emotional fitness, how Alexa connected with her cofounder via a direct message on Twitter, and lessons learned from building a new company. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do the best opportunities and feelings typically happen when you bet on yourself? Ann Hiatt is the author of Bet On Yourself. She is also a pioneer of the Chief of Staff role. She has worked with Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and Marissa Mayer. In this episode, you will learn about the Chief of Staff role, earning respect from high-profile people, breakout opportunities, and the benefit of doing thankless work. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Could your personal project accelerate your career? I was lucky to be invited to speak at a Propel, a community for builders, event recently. The interactive session was focused on how podcasting for 4 years has accelerated my career. You will hear how I got started, what has kept me going, how you can send a cold email, and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Has the pandemic hurt the relationships and friendships that you have in your life? In this episode, you will learn from author and connection coach, Jillian Richardson. We discuss some core ideas in Dr. Marisa Franco's book, Platonic, and more. You will also hear about the benefits of hosting events, reaching out to people, finding shared activities, navigating the messy middle of friendship and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Taylor Harrington is the Head of Community at Groove. We both started our professional community roles right around the same time of summer of 2021. In this episode, we share our lessons learned and reflections from our professional roles. We also talk about how we have been hosting events personally to help build community as well. You will also hear what our day-to-day roles look like and some ideas about how to break into the community professional field as well. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you interested in learning more about TikTok? It's been an incredible platform for new and existing creators to build an audience and potentially new revenue streams. For Ariel Viera, he has grown a 500,000+ audience following on the platform. In this live podcast event episode, you will learn how Ariel did it, going viral, and details about how his process. You will also learn how Ariel has developed multiple income streams as well. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to make more friends? How about deepen existing relationships? Dr. Marisa Franco is the author of a new book called Platonic, How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make-and Keep-Friends. In this episode, I detail some of the core ideas that stood out to me, steps I have been taking to make friends, and how a Portfolio Career is helpful for making friends. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do you have a story that you need to tell? Genevieve Kim is the Founder of Triangleflash Studio and the EYE SEE YOU project. Photography changed her life. Her gave her the confidence to create and led to new projects and work. Genevieve has reinvented herself many times. In this episode, you will learn how you can do so yourself. Genevieve is also the author of a new memoir called Yes To It All. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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In this live episode with an audience, Abena Anim-Somuah talks about her experience building The Eden Place, a new community-based dinner experience company. You will learn about her initial soft-launch dinner, her public launch and how she has focused on making each dinner more successful. Abena also talks about the importance of building a support system, the importance of setting boundaries as a Founder, hosting events, and building community. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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The Chief of Staff role can be an incredible launch-pad to many other roles and career options. For Simon Rodrigues, he decided he wanted to work independently and start a newsletter after leaving his CoS role in 2022. For Simon, the decision was around wanting to work with a lot of autonomy. The Chief of Staff is often mis-understood and this episode will help better understand it and how you could get a CoS role. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do you think it is getting easier to pivot into new roles and fields? Well, Mehak Vohra believes so. And her company SkillBank is helping people transition into digital marketing roles. You will learn how Mehak started SkillBank and has grown it. In addition to SkillBank, Mehak has accomplished a lot. You will learn about her dropping out of college, starting and building an agency, and why Mehak wanted to build a company instead of a personal brand. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do you want to share more of your ideas online? Do you think creators are shaping society more than ever? Catherine Yeo is the author of The Creator Revolution book. She believes that it's never been a better time to be a creator. In her book, she also shares how creators are shaping our society from the media we consume and what we buy. In this episode, you will learn about Catherine's creator journey, how she wrote the book, tips for creators, and the different types of creators. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do you want to have a body of work that speaks for itself? One that attracts clients? And one that attracts friends? Visakan Veerasamy is a prolific content creator. He is the author of two e-books and also has over 40,000 followers on Twitter. In this episode, you will learn about how to best use Twitter and how to make friends on it. You also learn about the benefits of "doing 100 things," how one tweet can change your life, and how creating a Patreon account helped his life. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do you want to make more of an impact? Author, teacher and social entrepreneur Alex Budak wants to help you make change and be even more of a changemaker. In this episode, you will learn how changemaking can occur in small moments and can be very cost-effective too. You will learn some core ideas in Alex's new book called Becoming a Changemaker like creating a changemaker project and the changemaker canvas. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Sometimes your project can take you to unexpected places. For Nicole Kelner, she started making watercolor art consistently in the beginning of 2022. Quickly, she focused exclusively on making climate change art. She began sharing her work on Twitter, leading to inbound interest on what she should paint next and commissioned art pieces. Ultimately, it led to her leaving her job to work full-time on her own work and art projects and business. In addition to her transition, if you are looking to learn about leveraging Twitter to find clients, this episode is for you! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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With a small audience, you can still make an impact and generate opportunities online. That's one of the takeaways from this episode with Stew Fortier, the Cofounder of Foster. Foster is a Y-Combinator backed startup that helps writers improve the quality of their work. Stew publishes his own ideas on Twitter and in his newsletter. In this live episode with audience Q&A, you will learn his learnings from writing online, community building, and building Foster through growth and product evolution. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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When you do work consistently, new ideas emerge over-time. In this episode, you will learn how podcasting consistently for four years has led to new skills and projects over-time for David Nebinski (the host of the show). You will hear how David now has a podcasting system and workflow to help him publish consistently. You will learn more about his podcasting course and his recent live podcast recording event as well. You will also hear questions from show listeners as well. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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The quality of our lives is based on the quality of our relationships. But are we intentional about improving the quality of our relationships? Norman Tran is the Cofounder of The Space Between. Their flagship Cohort Based Course is called Relating Between the Lines. In this episode, you will learn how to improve your relationships, communication tips, and how Norman found his purpose. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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I can imagine COVID-19 impacted your life, work, and so much more. For Chris Schembra and his company 7:47, a book tour and his entire business was upended. His in-person business was forced to pivot to virtual. In this special live podcasting episode with an audience, you will learn how Chris found early customers for the 7:47 Virtual Gratitude Experience and scaled the product and his company. In late 2021 though, things changed for Chris personally. And you learn how he found Gratitude Through Hard Times which is the name of his new book. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Carla Stickler is currently a software engineer at G2 in Chicago. She spent a large portion of her career as an actor. She made a dramatic return to the stage during the height of the 2021/2022 COVID surge in New York. Carla was featured on NPR, ABC, Vulture, Inside Edition, and Nightline for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway after 7 years away from the role and a career change into tech. In this episode, you will learn about seizing opportunities, the power and benefit of sharing your story, why you don't need to be a starving artist, her journey into tech and how you could get started, and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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In 2020, the world of work dramatically changed. Workers have adjusted and found it might be easier now to build a Portfolio Career than before. Investors like Virginie Raphael saw these shifts too. Through her own firm Full Circle, she is investing into companies that are building into a world with Portfolio Careers and firmless professionals being more common. In this episode, you will learn about emerging business models, leading companies, and how Virginie hired someone with a Portfolio Career. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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How have you decided how to live? Derek Sivers wrote a book called How To Live, which details 27 conflicting ways of living to hopefully help you decide. In this episode, you will learn common through-lines among the 27 conflicting ways, how you should think about the 27 ways, and how to think about your career. You will also learn actionable ideas from another one of Derek's books called Your Music and People and about his popular decision-making framework, "Hell Yeah or No." Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
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Need a new strategy or tactics for navigating in the current economic market? Nick deWilde has practical advice for you to navigate the downturn. His ideas are helpful if you are soloprenuer and/or if you are looking for a new job. Nick is the Cofounder of Invisible College and the creator of the Jungle Gym newsletter. You will learn how he has navigated the last 12 months as well, and why now could be a good time for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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What do Operations professionals do? How could you brand yourself in Operations and build a career out of it? Caro Griffin loves answering these questions. She has been working in Operations for 10 years. She is currently the VP of Operations at Tech Ladies and the Founder of Opsy, a community for Operations leaders working in tech. You will learn how to think about positioning yourself in the Operations field, freelancing, the power of low-code tools, and the growth of Operations roles. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Emerging technology is creating new work opportunities for people. It also provides us new terms that we can apply to our existing work and how we think about it. In this episode, Ilana Ettinger shares how some practices that happen natively in Web3 can be applied to Web2. You will also learn other Portfolio Career trends like people negotiating to have a side hustle when starting a new job. Ilana also shares her recent career transitions and how she has been able to get referrals as well. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do you want to have a creative career? Lawrence Yeo is the Founder and Creator of More To That, a blog that has many deep dive essays. He is a consultant and course creator as well. In this episode, we talk about a recent post called The Arc of the Practical Creator. The post details three stages balancing the passion for creativity with the practicality of making money. If you are interested in having a creative career, this episode is for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do you want to have a career centered around relationships and helping people? Perhaps, the community industry is a good fit for you. Since 2007, Rosie Sherry has been working in this field. She is the Founder of Ministry of Testing and notably was the Community Manager at Indie Hackers. Rosie is a prolific tweeter and writer. In 2022, Rosie became a self-employed community builder offering a variety of products and services. In this episode, you will learn about Minimum Viable Communities, how to build a community-led business, and why conversation is at the heart of communities. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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What could you do in two hours that could improve your quality of life? Nick Gray wants you to host a 2-hour cocktail party to build big relationships, which can help your career. When Nick moved to New York City, he tried organizing all types of events to build relationships. He realized that a 2-hour cocktail party was the best event for him to host. His new book, The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, is out in June 2022. In this episode, you will learn how to organize your own cocktail party and other life hacks. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Want to pivot into a new industry or field? Nora Ali has pivoted from finance to startups to media, while working at leading companies along the way. Each of these chapters gave her the experience, skills, and relationships to help her for her next chapter. Nora is building a new media company. While doing so, she is also the cohost of the Business Casual podcast produced by Morning Brew. In this episode, you will learn how Nora has attracted new opportunities, successfully reached out to people and pitched new opportunities, and how to pivot. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Do you want to think and act in your career like entrepreneurs do? Consider reading The Startup of You book. This episode is a summary of a 2022 updated version of this book written by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha. The latest version includes how having a Portfolio Career is viable these days, and how to think about it. In this episode, I share and discuss Portfolio Career insights and other top ideas from the book. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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In 2018, Justin Gordon started the Just Go Grind podcast. And his life has not been the same since. That show has published over 320 episodes. In this episode, you will hear how one episode helped led to Justin getting his current job at Director of Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital. Justin also hosts another podcast through Vitalize Venture Capital. If you are interested in how podcast can accelerate your career and help you build relationships, this episode is for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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We know that have a mentor or mentors in our life is a good idea. But how do we actually form relationships with mentors? Janice Omadeke is the Founder of The Mentor Method, a startup helping companies large mentorship programs. In this episode, you will learn how to find mentors, how mentors could help, and how Janice scaled her side hustle into the company that it is today. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Podcasting has transformed my life. And I want to share my podcasting knowledge and process to hopefully help your podcast and Portfolio Career. To do so, I recently launched a new podcasting course called How To Start and Scale a Podcast. In this episode, I shared an overview on the 9 lesson email video course, the benefits of creating anything, and why now is a GREAT time to start a podcast. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Did your work and life dramatically change starting in 2020? For Katie Gatti, it did. When her in-person side hustle was no longer an option, she started taking her personal finance content much more seriously. As part of this, the Money with Katie brand and business was born. She recently sold her business to Morning Brew and is now a full-time creator with multiple income streams. In this episode, you will learn how she grew her side hustle and business, how you could collaborate with brands on content, and personal finance tips too. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Haley Bryant started teaching indoor cycling classes while working full-time in 2016. She used the savings from this to buy a condo. She has used other side hustles and personal projects like advising companies, blogging, and angel investing to build her Portfolio Career. She is currently the General Manager at Golden Wok and a Venture Partner at Hustle Fund. If interested in side hustles and angel investing, this episode is for you! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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We typically think we need to wait 10+ years before taking a sabbatical from work. Amy McMillen decided to take one much earlier. During her sabbatical, she wrote a book called Reclaiming Control. In this episode, Amy talks about overcoming burn-out, the benefits of writing a memoir type of book, and why it's not your jobs job to make you happy. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Society wants you to believe that you should get good grades in, climb the corporate ladder, get married, buy a house, and then retire happily ever after. But, that is not the only life path. Paul Millerd has introduced a new path called The Pathless Path. This is also the title of his book. In this episode, I share key ideas from the book, including the differences between the Default and Pathless Path. And how you can define and create your own success with the Pathless Path. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
As always, this episode with notes is on my website.
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Change is happening all around us. Unfortunately, it can very hard when it is us dealing with change. People are changing jobs more and more these days, in addition to many other life changes. Rei Wang is the cofounder of The Grand, a new and innovative group coaching company. In this episode, you will learn how to better understand change. Rei is also an angel investor into companies that focus life transitions. If you are going through a transition and/or are building a community-centric business, this episode is for you! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Allison Esposito Medina has built Tech Ladies, the largest community of women in tech. It initially started as a coffee networking gathering in New York City in 2014. More than 7 years later, the community now helps 100,000+ women. When Tech Ladies started, Allison was also working another job. In this episode, you will learn how she grew the community, and when she decided to go full-time on it. In this episode, you will also learn about branding, consistency, community building, and job searching advice. Excited for you the build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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What is one of the important skills for your career? Your creativity. Maria Brito used to be a corporate lawyer in New York. After leaving law, Maria became an art advisor, creator creator, and more. She tapped into her creativity and created her own lane and path. She is the brand new author of How Creativity Rules The World. If you are look into learn more about your creativity, this episode is for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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We are often told to believe that there is one path for us to follow. However, through my journey, I have taken many different paths. And sometimes, multiple ones at the same time! Rebekah Bastian is the author of Blaze Your Own Trail and the Cofounder of Own Trail. The book and her company help you see this too, and empower you no matter where you are. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Three years ago, Daniel Vassallo quit working at Amazon. He was a very highly-paid software developer there. Without a job lined up, he wanted to create his own path. He currently has a portfolio of small bets (products, services and more) and wants to help you do the same. Daniel has over 110,000 Twitter followers. In this episode, you will learn how to use Twitter tips as well. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Sharing your ideas publicly and reaching out to people are two good things for your career. For Paige Finn Doherty, sharing on Twitter helped her get a job which then lead to more opportunities. She is the author of Seed To Harvest, a simple book to help you understand the venture capital business. She is currently the Cofounder Behind Genius Ventures and the host of the Seed To Harvest podcast. She is also passionate about cold email sharing actionable tips and stories here for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to improve your Zoom video meeting presence and effectiveness? Lorraine Lee was an early employee on LinkedIn's video product team. She is now on a mission to help people stand out more over video. In February 2022, she has a brand new cohort based course out called Engage Your Virtual Workforce. In this episode, you will learn actionable tips for your next video meeting and develop your brand on LinkedIn. Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
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When I started the podcast in the summer of 2018, two of my roommates then were Juvoni Beckford and Kean Gardner. For episode 200, I was able to celebrate it with them and share their insights for you. In this episode, you will hear their life updates, the transitions they are going through, what they are prioritizing in 2022, skills they want to learn, why a writing practice is important to both of them and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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One of the easiest ways to change your prospective and who you can become is by changing the people you are around. For Katya Stepanov, she was inspired by creatives and entrepreneurs who were creating their own paths in New York City. In addition to many person projects, Katya is the Cofounder of the Inheritance Project and Rebis Immersive, a storytelling advisory company. If you are a coach or a facilitator looking to learn how to sell-into companies and grow, this episode is for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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It's been a hard 2 years in many ways for us. Some of us have dealt with burn out during this time and or are currently dealing with it. Morgane Michael is an educator, podcaster, and now an author with an overall focus on mobilizing kindness. Her new book is called from From Burnt Out to Fired Up to help people overcome burn out. In this episode, you will learn how Morgane's podcast and other creative practices led to this book and her book deal with a publisher. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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When Lisa Cuesta first got involved with the cryptocurrency sector in 2017, the sector mostly contained whitepapers and ideas compared to companies and real projects. Since then, the sector has grown and matured, especially in the last 18 months. In June 2021, Lisa published a blog post sharing why she was transitioning full-time into the sector. In this episode, we discuss her transition, crypto and web3 industry trends, and how she is also investing on the side. Being an investor and an operator is a trend that she thinks will continue to grow. Excited for you to build and your Portfolio Career!
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How was your 2021? I wanted to share 20 reflections from my year. Many of the reflections are related to my Portfolio Career. Some include stories and insights into how I am thinking about my Portfolio Career now. In 2021, I had 3 different jobs and gigs and I talk about that journey in hopes that it helps you. Thank you for being part of the show in 2021, and I am excited to build and grow our Portfolio Careers together!
As always, this episode with notes is on my website.
Annika Lewis had been writing about web3 and cryptocurrencies for some time. After a conversation with a friend, she decided to leave the venture capital industry to work at Gitcoin, a DAO. Her journey to this role is filled with interesting stories and actionable insights. If you are looking to learn more about how work and Portfolio Careers are changing because of cryptocurrency and web3 technologies, this episode is for you. Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
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Writing a book is hard. With two people writing it together, there are synergies and accountability benefits. For Ashika Kalra and Jade Chen, they decided on writing a book profiling personal stories of 25 female leaders in New York City. By connecting with these leaders over cold email, they completed interviews and the beautiful book together. They did so while both working busy and impactful full-time jobs. Behind Her Vision was released in December and this episode discusses their journey and how you could write a book. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Emerging technologies are changing the world of work. In 2021, there has been a growth in popularity in DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) has an organizational structure. Kinjal Shah cofounded an investment DAO called Komorebi Collective. Kinjal is also an investor at Blockchain Capital. In this episode, you will about how to get involved with DAOs, the benefits of them, and how its possible that you could participate in multiple DAOs for a combined full-time job.
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
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In 2021, there has an explosion of interest, activity, and investment in the Web3 sector. Dror Poleg is an author and also teaches a new cohort-based course called Hype-Free Crypto. In this episode, you will learn how to think about Web3, how to potentially get started, and why there is a lot of interest in the space. On a high-level, Dror shares why he is super bullish on the power and possibility of the internet to build relationships, become more anti-fragile, and spark professional opportunities. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Arlan Hamilton is first non-celebrity Black women to be featured on the cover of Fast Company. She is the Founder of Backstage Capital, author of It's About Damn Time, has her own educational academy, and is recently the Founder of Runner. In this episode, you will learn how Arlan started building these complimentary ecosystems, why information is valuable, and how it only takes one "yes" for you to find your next big opportunity. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Growing a coaching business is hard work. For Nikki Goldman, she has been able to grow her B2B coaching business, I/O Coaching, by producing great work. She has been able to grow it largely without using social media. You also learn about how to have hard conversations and the future of Portfolio Careers. Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
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Sahil Lavingia's new book, The Minimalist Entrepreneur, provides a roadmap for a different path compared to the one painted by Silicon Valley. A few pillars are starting, creating content, and being active in community. These pillars can be viewed as foundational to building a Portfolio Career. In addition to being the CEO of Gumroad, Sahil is a painter, course creator, investor, and now an author. His company, Gumroad, hires quarter-time executives to allow for them to work on other things and build out their Portfolio Career. In this episode, you will also learn how working remote has opened up space and potential opportunities for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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The world of work is changing. New roles and paths are being created daily. For Steph Smith and Calvin Rosser, they have decided to not pursue corporate ladder, but instead create their own path. They cohost The Shit You Don't Learn in School podcast and also work on other projects. If you are looking for proven approaches idea, frameworks, and how you could be more anti-fragile in your career, this episode is for you! Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
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Freelancing is a great way to do work that you actually made. In this episode, you will learn how it can happen in a few different ways as a business owner, employee or soloprenuer. Jen Waldman and Peter Shepherd both consider themselves freelancers, while approaching the work with a different lenses to provide you multiple ideas and approaches to understand. They co-host The Long and The Short of It podcast together making this conversation action-packed and engaging for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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In 2017, Paul Millerd left working for a consulting firm in New York. He has since been on the Pathless Path and designing his life around other things like writing and freelancing. Paul is now writing a new book called The Pathless Path to help normalize the path of going off the traditional or historical script. If you are looking to better understand your current or possible relationship to work, this episode is for you! Paul is a consultant, course creator, podcaster, and newsletter writer. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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Are you looking to jump-start your Portfolio Career? Podcasting has changed my life. It has helped me build and grow my Portfolio Career. In this episode, you will learn 30 reasons how podcasting could help your career. This episode is a follow-on to an earlier episode when I shared 15 reasons. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
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We often told to find a job that looks good on paper. Unfortunately, many of those jobs are leading to a lack of fulfillment and excitement. Jen Glantz is the creator of the Odd Jobs newsletter, which profiles how you can find an "odd job." One that could be more exciting and rewarding for you. Her main business, Bridesmaid for Hire, is a service that led national fame including Good Morning America and The New York Times. She is a 3x author and podcast host as well.
In this episode, you will learn:
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why Jen wants to help you find an odd job
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the importance of figuring out who you want to be the hero too
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why consistency is important for creators
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why understanding what fascinates you is a great question to ask yourself
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website!
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Do you Google people before you met them? Turns out, pretty much everyone does that for you as well. Kim Kaupe is the creator of the brand new cohort-based course called Career Capital. In her course, Kim aims to help you improve how you show up when you are Googled. Kim is also an expert on using LinkedIn and Kim shares actionable tips for you in this episode. You will also learn how Kim has created a portfolio of online courses. Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
Learn more about Kim's Career Capital course that starts in October HERE
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When we seek support, we can open ourselves to new opportunities. For Victoria Song, she has worked over 25 coaches. She learned the coaching ins-and-outs and is now an advisor and coach to leading technology company entrepreneurs. After starting her career as a venture capitalist, she had an epiphany and want to help people be more heart-centered and aligned with their work. She is the new author of Bending Reality. Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
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Launching a Cohort-Based Course for the first time could be very scary. When you are working full-time as well, it could seem even harder. For Sara Sodine Parr, she had thinking about creating a course in 2020. Her background and expertise is in customer research to help companies build products that users want. In the summer of 2021, she launched her new course, Build The Right Thing.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how she was able to do so while working
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how teaching sharpens your thinking
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how it opened up new opportunities for her
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Writing one book is good for your career. But how about publishing 7 and writing 10? For Luca Dellanna, he likes the idea of having a portfolio of books and work to help different people in different ways. He also likes how this makes his career more antifragile. He is an expert on this topic and teaches an Antifragile Organizations Cohort-Based Course. In this episode, we talk about career antifragility and one of Luca's recent books, 100 Truths You Will Learn Too Late. Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
In this episode, you will learn:
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the benefits of creating a not to-do list
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4 factors that disproportionally affect your career
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how the 80-20 can be applied to your career and life
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why many benefits come from compounding work and relationships
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When did you realize that could be a community builder? Laís de Oliveira believes that everyone has the capacity to do so, if we choose to do so. Professionally, the opportunities to do so are growing by the day. Laís is the author of the book, Hacking Communities, after she learned frameworks after somewhat stumbling into the community building field. Today, she is the Program Director for the On Deck Community Builder Fellowship helping community builders grow professionally.
In this episode, you will learn:
-how everyone can be a community builder
-frameworks and mental models to apply immediately
-how a professional community builder can grow professionally
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
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If you knew that change was the constant, what would you do differently? April Rinne's new book called Flux: 8 Superpowers For Thriving in Constant Change helps you discover and adopt a new mindset and compass to move forward. One of the Superpowers is "Creating Your Portfolio Career." April was a prior podcast guest on the show also. In this episode, I summarize the book for you. Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
As always, this episode with notes can be found on my website
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The tables were turned and Carly Valancy interviewed me to share some updates on my end! Recently, I got a new job and I wanted to tell you about it. Currently, Carly is the Director of Community at NuMarket and the Cofounder of The Reach Out Party. We talk about reaching out, staying in touch, and the benefits of podcasting. Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
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Have you ever wanted to launch a side hustle? It can be really hard to learn about ways to make some extra money with your ideas, interests, and skills. Insert: Side Hustle Stack. While on a gap year from Stanford, Lila Shroff co-created the Side Hustle Stack for people to learn ways to make some extra income and build out their Portfolio Career. Lila is also a Research Analyst at Atelier Ventures, a venture fund focused on the passion and creator economy. Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
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In 2018, I created my podcast through a Cohort-Based Course created by Seth Godin by Alex DiPalma. Since then, the growth of Cohort-Based Courses has only accelerated. In the summer of 2021, Katherine Roan, JP King, and myself were honored to be three of the 14 freelance coaches in Maven's How To Build A Cohort-Based Course course. In this episode, you will hear our experience, how we think about coaching in a CBC, the different types of coaches in a CBC, the skills we developed, and more.
You can learn more about Maven and incredible courses now available here.
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
You are One Email Away from a new job, relationship, project, and more! In this special bonus episode, you will hear 5 stories from prior Portfolio Career Podcast guests and episodes. From this episodes, you will hear how a thoughtful email and outreach can really go a long way. The barrier to connect with someone is really low. It's time to reach out and go after what you want! You will hear from Chris Williamson, Shripriya Mahesh, Scott Britton, Shivani Berry, and Andrew Barry.
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
So excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
Personal projects can have multiple benefits. First, you are scratching your own itch and you are learning along the way. Second, they can lead into additional opportunities. For Adam Ashton, he has started many personal projects: podcasts, courses, and books. In 2020, many of them resulted in paid projects. Adam is the co-host of the 300+ episode What You Will Learn podcast. In 2021, he and his co-host wrote a new book called The Sh*T They Never Taught You.
In this episode, you will learn:
- why doing the work is the best way to learn
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how there are different types of paid podcasting projects
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why existing work is the best "proof of work"
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
Have you thought about all of the combined risks that you take? Michele Wucker wants you to know that You Are What You Risk, which is the name of her new and latest book. In this episode, you will to better understand your risk profile, your risk fingerprint, and risk umbrella. Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with Michele on Twitter!
Are you looking to start a new consulting practice? Try starting with your existing employer, especially if you are thinking about leaving. Terry Rice has been self-employed for 6 years. He currently works as a Business Development Expert-In-Residence at Entrepreneur Magazine. He also helps people start their own coaching or consulting practice.
In this episode, you will learn:
-why your existing employer could be your first consulting client
-how to scale a consulting business
-why the pandemic has caused people to reevaluate their jobs
-how Terry went viral on LinkedIn and what came from it
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with Terry on Instagram!
Do you want to achieve professional and career growth fast? Consider cold emailing leaders in your field. For Nik Sharma, he realized the power of cold email in high school. Yes, high school. In this episode, Nik details tactics, insights, and stories including about successfully emailing Mark Cuban. Nik is the Founder of Sharma Brands and is also known as "The DTC Guy" because of the brand and reputation he has built through his work with Hint Water, JUDY, and Pill Club to name a few.
In this episode, you will learn:
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details, strategies, nuance with cold email
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why cold emailing for someone else has benefits
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why being funny and creative is rewarded when cold emailing people
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why "DTC" or direct-to-consumer can also be applied to finding a job
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how to find your next side hustle by talking to a leader in your field
As always, this episode with notes can be found on my website
Learn more from Nik on Twitter
Would you like to have a bigger network? Have more people that know you? Well starting reaching out to them over email. Molly Beck is the author of Reach Out and Cofounder of the Reach Out Party. Reaching out to someone new every day transformed her career, and it can do so for you too. You will also learn the importance of following-up, how to do so, and the value of creating any personal project. Molly is also the Founder of Messy.fm, an audio for work startup. You will also learn about podcasting.
In this episode, you will learn:
-how reaching out transformed Molly's career
-the importance of following-up with people and how to do so
-how Molly's blog opened up new opportunities
-why Molly is passionate about personal podcasts
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with Molly on Twitter!
Are you interested in a career path as a community builder? Well, it's now becoming easier to do so! For many years, companies have not prioritized hiring professional community builders and community teams. Times are a changing. Yuval Yarden is Head of Community for Venwise. She is passionate about helping people find jobs as community builders and that it is an attractive career path. Learn practical and actionable tips in this episode!
In this episode, you will learn:
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why building community professional is a growing and meaningful career path
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why it's important to be consistent with your side projects
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the rule of 3 for community building
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with Yuval on LinkedIn!
What would it look like it if you bet on yourself more? Shivani Berry decided to take a leap and start a new coaching and leadership business without any clients. She is the Founder and CEO of Ascend, a leadership program for women. In this episode, you will learn how Shivani started her business in 2019 and has been able to scale it since.
You will also learn:
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why a lot of Ascend's growth has come from word of mouth
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the importance of putting yourself out there
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how the growth of online learning has contributed to Ascend's growth
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with Shivani on Twitter!
Are you excited about the online learning industry? Charlotte Crowther is an online course creator advisor and the Founder of MySnapshot. She has worked with leading course like Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain and Ali Abdaal's Part-Time YouTuber Academy courses.
In this episode, you will learn:
-the processes behind creating a course
-why the online learning industry is exciting
-how Charlotte started her company and product
-how you could get professionally with online courses
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with Charlotte on Twitter!
Shripriya Mahesh has a diverse career with excellence in many fields: film, photography, building products, investing, and blogging. Shripriya Mahesh is currently the Founding Partner of Spero Ventures, an early-stage venture capital investing firm. Throughout her career, she has made changes and focused on adventure and regret minimization. These days, Shripriya believes that we are in the age of agency and encourages to listen to your own voice and act on it.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how to think of your career as a product
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why picking the harder career option is likely the better choice
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why blogging helps spark conversations
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
You can connect with Shripriya on Twitter here.
Tina He is an investor at Pace Capital, a leading VC fund in New York. Since 2018, she has been writing and growing a newsletter called Fakepixels. In this episode, you will learn how she started the newsletter and how she grew it. Tina is passionate about side projects and provides actionable ideas for your existing or potential projects.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how Tina started her newsletter called Fakepixels
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why skills and your actual work is becoming more important than prior company names
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the benefits of creating another account to test and experiment with new ideas
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how Tina started working at Pace Capital
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
You can learn more about Tina on Twitter and through newsletter.
Having good relationships is fundamental for career growth. Cat Hernandez has been helping people get jobs, hiring people, and also some times letting go of people for over 10 years. Because of this and more, she has pulled into new jobs by contacts. Since 2015, Cat has been working with founders as an investor at Primary Venture Partners and now at The Venture Collective. This type of work naturally leads to long-term meaningful relationships. If you are interested in expanding your network and better understanding long-term relationships, this episode is for you!
In this episode, you will learn:
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how Cat has been able to find new roles
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what Cat loves about being a venture capitalist
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why helping others has a way of finding its way back to you
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the importance of having network expanding conversations often
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with Cat on Twitter!
David Kidder is the Cofounder and CEO of Bionic, a company that ignites growth revolutions for large organizations. David is an angel investor to 40+ startups and an author, including The Startup Playbook and New To Big.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how to use a start-up playbook for long-term personal and professional growth
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the best advice that David got from Elon Musk
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why "how to lead yourself" is an important question to ask yourself
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the 5 part framework top entrepreneurs generally use
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why now is a great time to refound your life and ask yourself hard questions
Learn more about David on his website and his company, Bionic.
As always, this episode with notes was available on my website.
Are you looking to find a career-market-fit like a company looks for product-market-fit? Listen to Scott Britton, Cofounder of Troops, talk about his journey to currently in this ideal state. Along his highly accomplished career so far, Scott has still experimented and iterated on many different things, including selling courses, writing a book on life hacks, and starting another startup.
In this episode, you will learn:
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the importance of finding career-market-fit
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why its OK to pivot early and often
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Scott's latest life hacks (no morning meetings, Roam Research, podcasting)
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how Scott and Troops use their podcast for business purposes
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why the best outcomes come from sticking with something for a long time
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with Scott on LinkedIn, Life-Long Learner, and his podcast, Built By Humans.
Do you want to grow your career and life? Teal Founder and CEO Dave Fano is helping people create meaningful careers through tools, resources, and community. Dave was previously the Chief Growth Officer at WeWork and has seen how and why people level-up professionally and wants to provide that for more and more people.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how people are getting hired these days
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why we are living in a new age of agency
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the importance of knowing what you want
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why growth marketers are in increasing demand
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why fractional employment is emerging; and
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Teal's free Career Growth Summit this week
As always, this episode with notes is on my website.
Connect with Dave on Twitter and learn more about Teal HERE.
Have you ever dreamed of making a living as an independent content creator? Kinsey Grant was the host of the very popular Business Casual podcast, but the opportunity to become an independent creator was too appealing. During March 2021, she left the fast-growing Morning Brew to take a leap.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how Kinsey grew the Business Casual podcast,
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what Kinsey she likes about podcasting as a platform,
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why now is the best time for independent content creators
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the steps Kinsey is taking as she is building her next TBA next chapter
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
You can connect with Kinsey on Twitter and learn more through her newsletter.
What would it look like if there was more joy in our days? How about more joy in the workplace? Sarah Wood is on a mission to empower more Joy Soldiers, people who activate joy in others, in the workplace. Following her TEDx Talk in 2019, Sarah has particularly been doing this work. Following a serendipitous moment, Sarah is now the Head of Community and Growth at Upstream.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how to cultivate more joy
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how you could seize a breakout career opportunity
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why you don't have to be an extroverted cheerleader to be a Joy Solider
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why we as humans are wired to remember the negative things that happen, not the positive ones
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Learn more about Sarah on Twitter and her website.
What if your career was a start-up? The start-up of you! What if you professionally applied the same principles and frameworks that start-ups do? Among many other accomplishments, LinkedIn Cofounder Reid Hoffman and Village Global Cofounder Ben Casnocha authored The Start-Up of You in 2012 to help answer some of these questions for you. In this episode, I summarized the key takeaways and insights for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career.
In this episode, you will learn:
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the importance of being in permanent beta
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the start-up of you skillset
You can purchase the book HERE.
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Do you want to teach a transformational online course? Curious Lion Founder Andrew Barry has been a professional in the corporate training and learning and development industry for 15+ years. In 2019, he started studying and embracing transformational online courses more. And in summer 2020, he had a lightbulb moment. After that, he started sharing his knowledge online more and more. Later, through some serendipity, Andrew become the Program Director for On Deck Course Creators, a brand new program launching Spring 2021. If you are looking to be a course creator, this episode is for you!
In this episode, you will learn:
-why frameworks are helpful to become a course creator
-why teaching is an important skill but is learnable
-how to know if you can become an online transformational course creator
-the benefits of learning in public
As always, this episode with notes is on my website.
You can connect with Andrew on Twitter!
Are you looking to start a new coaching side hustle? Rebecca Garcia and Melissa Wong work both full-time at Facebook and Nextdoor, respectively. In addition, they are passionate about helping others level-up. They both share stories and experiences about how they have been able to find clients, determine their offerings, and ultimately solve people's problems. If interested in being a coach or growing your practice, this episode is for you!
You will learn:
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the importance of trust of finding clients
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why coaches are increasing demand
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how to find partnerships and collaborations for referrals and prospects
As always, this episode with notes in my website.
Connect with Rebecca! Connect with Melissa!
Smiley Poswolsky is a millennial workplace expert, motivational speaker, and author of The Quarter-Life Breakthrough and The Breakthrough Speaker. His TEDx talk on "the quarter-life crisis" has been viewed more than 1.5 million times. In May 2021, Smiley's next and newest book, Friendship in the Age of Loneliness, will be available.
In this episode you will learn,
-how to maintain your friendships
-how Smiley pivoted his work in 2020
-how to think of your Portfolio Career in terms of lily pads
This episode with notes is on my website.
Connect with Smiley on Twitter and his website.
Claire Wasserman is an educator, author, and founder of Ladies Get Paid, a book, educational platform, and global community that champions the professional and financial advancement of women. The community has grown to over 75,000 members.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how Claire wrote her book, Ladies Get Paid
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how to think about yourself as your own business
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the importance of networking and finding opportunities through your network
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becoming a better negotiator by asking follow-up questions
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how doing one thing can lead to more and bigger opportunities
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with Claire on Instagram!
Launching a startup is really, really hard. For John Henry, he does not want it to be an expense of creating content. Since 2014, John has consistently produced content and hosted branded podcasts with eBay, WeWork, Samsung, and The Washington Post, etc. He also hosted a TV show called Hustle on VICELAND. In 2020, John cofounded Loop, an insurance technology company. While launching the startup, John is doubling-down on producing content because of its impact. If producing content is important to you, this episode is for you!
In this episode, you will learn:
-the benefits of creating content
-the growing career fields in audio and podcasting
-how to break into a new sector
-why John is investing into his media team while launching a new startup
This episode with notes is available on my website
Connect with John on Instagram and Twitter to learn more about Loop and his ideas
David Spinks is the cofounder of CMX, where over 20,000 community professionals gather to learn and support each other. In 2019, CMX was acquired by Bevy, where Spinks now serves as the VP of Community, helping companies launch and scale event-driven community programs. David's new book, The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage, is available in March 2021.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how David has created his own career path
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how to start and grow a community
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David's book writing journey
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the importance of building community as a freelancer or solopreneur.
This episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with David on Twitter and learn more about his book here.
This is a special episode with my sister, Dana Lund. After getting married in 2018, Dana and her husband moved to Miami on a whim. You will learn how she eventually figured out what she wanted to do, how she worked two jobs at one point, and the work she is doing now as a real estate broker in Miami. You will also learn how we both and our family dealt with losing our Dad in 2006 and how a charitable race helped us find our footing. You will learn how our team, Team Nebinski, in the race helped me build confidence and skills that I would later use for my Portfolio Career.
This episode with notes is available on my website
To connect with Dana, you can do so here.
Before it was even a thing, Diane Mulcahy created the first course in the country on the Gig Economy and in the MBA program at Babson College. Out of that course grew a book, The Gig Economy. Diane works in the Gig Economy as a consultant and advisor to Fortune 500 and startup company clients, and as a speaker, writer, and adjunct professor.
In this episode, you will learn:
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key insights from Diane's book, The Gig Economy
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how to take advantage of opportunities in 2021
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how to create inbound opportunities through content marketing
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how the gig economy for professional workers is continuing to grow
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with Diane on Twitter!
For the last six years, Jonathan Basker has grown his own, independent company.He has done so WITHOUT having a website. He has worked in the recruiting, HR, and leadership sectors with and at leading firms like Etsy, Betaworks, Handy, Bark, and InVision just to name a few. He is currently a consultant usually taking on interim roles and a coach.
In this episode, you will learn:
-how Jonathan started working WITH companies, instead of for them
-how helping a friend led to Jonathan starting his coaching work
-the ups and downs of having a Portfolio Career
-how Jonathan determined his pricing strategy
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Connect with Jonathan on Twitter
Are you looking for a practical overview and toolkit for your Portfolio Career? Consider reading Emma Gannon's The Multi-Hyphen Life book! Emma is the host of UK's Number 1 Career podcast, Ctrl Alt Delete, with over 8 million downloads. She has blogged since 2009 and is the author of five books. She wrote this book after enjoying a Multi-Hyphen Life. A hyphen is a type of work or activity in someone's portfolio. This episode shares best insights from the book!
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Please learn more about the book here
Please learn more about Emma Gannon here and connect with her online (Twitter and Instagram)
Let's make it pivoting easier. Veronica Kaulinis and Michelle Welsch join me to talk about how we can get better at pivoting, an important skill to learn for your Portfolio Career. 2020 taught us that we need to be more prepared for change. In this panel-style episode, you will hear pivot stories, experiences, and insights. Michelle is based in Nepal and Veronica is in Bali creating a global conversation with diverse perspectives. After this episode, you learn more how to pivot with energy and excitement.
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
You learn more about Veronica on her website
You learn more about Michelle on her website
When an opportunity arises, you sometimes have to take it. Ali Kriegsman is the Cofounder and COO of Bulletin, a venture capital-backed retail technology company. Running a company is extremely demanding. When a literary agent reached out, she decided to take the opportunity. Her book, How To Build A Goddamn Empire, will be available in April 2021.
In this episode, you will learn:
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the importance of finding creative outlets when not fulfilled
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why having existing published work demonstrates your ability for future and bigger opportunities
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the importance of believing in yourself
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why it's OK if your side-hustle is not big
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Learn more about Ali on her website
Will Bachman is the Cofounder of Umbrex, a community for independent management consultants. He started the community after leaving the leading management consulting firm, McKinsey, and starting his own independent management consulting practice. He is passionate about helping independent professionals thrive through his 340+ episode podcast called Unleashed.
In this episode, you will learn:
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why the independent consultant market is growing
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how to think about your career and relationships with a five-decade horizon
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the importance of being specific as an independent professional; and
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how to have better client context discovery conversations.
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Connect with Will through Umbrex
It's a New Year and it likely means you have new ambitions for your Portfolio Career. Putting yourself out there in the internet is an meaningful strategy to find unique opportunities and ones that you are specific to you. This bonus episode including 6 clips from prior episodes to help you do so. You will hear from Jerome Lamaar, Darrah Brustein, Paul Jun, Erica Blair, Colin Campbell, and Natalie Sportelli. Tune to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Are you trying to better understand your journey in 2020? Lisa Carmen Wang, the Founder of The Confident Investor, is one of the most self-aware people that I know. In this episode, you will learn how she has been reflecting on 2020 and frameworks she has been using to determine her work and relationships going-forward. You will also learn mindset tactics to deal with imposter syndrome.
In this episode, you will learn:
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why letting go can lead to breakthroughs
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how to overcome lack of enoughness feelings
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the benefits of writing down your superpowers
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the importance of focusing on impact over scale and growth
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how to overcome imposter syndrome
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Connect with Lisa on Instagram and LinkedIn!
Liz Wessel is the Cofounder and CEO of WayUp, a venture-backed company and platform used by millions of early-career professionals to get hired. Liz has also been featured in Business Insider and Fast Company about her success with and recommending cold emailing for help. You will learn job search advice and cold emailing, and how Liz has been building her Portfolio Career.
In this episode, you will learn:
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one the best cold emails that Liz got
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the importance of follow-up after you receive advice
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how Liz got passionate about cold emailing
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how angel investing makes Liz a better leader
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job searching advice during the current work-from-home environment
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Connect with Liz on Twitter!
In July 2019, Carly Valancy's life started to change. She devoured the ideas in Molly Beck's book, Reach Out, and made a plan. Every work day since, she would reach out to a different person. After 100 days, her life changed. Among much more, she ended up collaborating with Molly and founded The Reach Out Party, a workshop to help people reach out together.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how Carly's life changed after reaching out every day since July 2019
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the four types of reaching out in the Reach Out book, and a fifth one that Carly invented
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why reaching out can help you find your voice and build your confidence
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how a practice of reaching out can lead to professional growth
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
Connect with Carly on Instagram
Seth Godin is the author of 20 international bestselling books and the founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo Workshops. His latest book is called The Practice. In this episode, you learn about the core ideas in the book, especially related to podcasting.
In this episode, you will learn:
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the difference between being a podcaster, a creative podcaster, and a professional podcaster
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what it means to ship creative work
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how sunk costs can fuel you to keep shipping
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Seth's views on a Portfolio Career
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how you should think about creative work if you have a day-job
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Is it possible to go an outreach message to a new client? This bonus episode including 6 clips from prior episodes to help you do so. You will hear from Wes Kao, Jay Clouse, Tony Bacigalupo, Samantha Clarke, Tom Critchlow, and Julia Lipton! Tune to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website.
This is a special bonus episode. David is interviewed by his very first guest, Kean Gardner. David shares lessons learned from 2+ years of podcasting and developing a portfolio of work around his Portfolio Career Podcast.
You will learn:
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how there there are tiers and plateaus in a podcasting journey
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how creating a podcast can lead to a modern marketing set of skills
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benefits of podcasting that people overlook
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how podcasting has led to professional work organically
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
In 2020, Özlem Özkan published a memoir called The Student. Most of her career has been as a teacher, in addition to experience in business development and sales. Her passions lies into at the intersection of leadership, common values among different cultures, and personal growth. This led her to starting her podcast, Bridging, in 2020. If you are interested in launching a podcast or writing a book, this episode is for you!
In this episode, you will learn:
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why and how Özlem wrote her book
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why Özlem thinks everyone should a write a book
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how Özlem pivoted and was able to get some opportunities
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the core pillars that Özlem has focused on throughout her Portfolio Career
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Connect with Özlem on Instagram
Anne Stark Ditmeyer has been living in Paris since 2009. She launched her Pret-A-Voyager blog in 2007 and it has been her best business card. She has not applied for a job in 10+ years. Anne is passionate about Portfolio Careers. She has worked at the intersection of multiple fields. Currently, she is mostly focused on online workshops and creativity coaching.
You will learn:
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how opportunities and relationships themselves from Anne's blog
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how Anne doubled-down on creating and leading workshops
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how to think about a Portfolio Career and to create your own
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how a magical connection led to a special, personal project
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Connect with Anne on Twitter and Instagram
Chris Williamson is the host of the Modern Wisdom podcast, a 240+ episode show started in early 2018. With a background of peak performance physically, Chris has brought that level of rigor to his show. This was a jam-packed episode!
In this episode, you will learn:
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how to create wealth
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the importance of hard work and consistency
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the leverage and opportunities we have to be a creator on the internet
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key takeaways and insights from the Atomic Habits and Navalmanack books
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Follow Chris on Twitter and Instagram
What has been the most unexpected career change you have made? Cynthia Pong was a public defender for over 6 years before a big pivot. Her pivot to coaching happened in a few different steps and iterations along the way. Now, she is a career coach and strategist, and recently named one of LinkedIn's Top Voices. She also recently published a new book called Don't Stay In Your Lane.
In this episode, you will learn:
-why career change is a continual and ongoing thing, even if you aren't actively searching for a new job
-how Cynthia transitioned from being a public defender to coaching
-how she was able to get coaching clients and create a beneficial referable program
-how Cynthia found product market fit with her offerings
-how one press article had a big impact
-how to become a better negotiator
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Connect with Cynthia on LinkedIn and Instagram
Job searching is hard. Sometimes as a Generalist you have too many choices and potential options to potentially pursue. Nick deWilde embarked on a job search in 2020 and then the pandemic hit. He blogged about his journey and eventual landing spot at Guild Education in his newsletter, The Jungle Gym.
You will learn:
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how to approach a job search as a generalist
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the importance of creating and sharing narrative hooks
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how creating content while working will be normalized
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how to think about your work in the context in a Portfolio of meaning
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the difference in approaching founders vs hiring managers
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Connect with Nick on Twitter
While on sabbatical from startups a few years ago, Julia Lipton went abroad and saw a lifestyle that fundamentally changed her. She saw people making as much money as she was previously and working much less. She began consulting and now lives a Portfolio Career and is helping others do the same. She is the Founder of Awesome People Ventures, consults for another investment fund, and recently produced the Awesome People Talent Accelerator. You will learn practical insights and tips learned through the Accelerator to help you become self-employed or find more clients.
In this episode, you will learn:
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why emailing your friends or key professional relationships is overlooked
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how to find your self-employment "sweet spot"
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why consulting and flexible work is an increasing trend
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Julia's best remote working tips after doing so for many years
This episode with notes can be found can be found on my website
Follow and connect Julia on Twitter at @julialipton
Serena Kern-Libera released her first music album in 2013. She has collaborated with leading musicians and artists like Rishi Rich. Professionally, she has also been an acclaimed lawyer and trade policy expert in London. She believes these two distinct and separate careers have complimented each other. Her passion to have the next generation find their passion led to Serena cofounding Discover2Dream.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how writing and performing her own music was a catalyst and turning point for her music career
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how some of her greatest collaborations come from unexpected chance
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why she wishes that she embraced her Portfolio Career earlier in her career
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how to think about a having a skills umbrella
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why a Portfolio Career can make you more interesting and help with your mental health
This episode with notes is available on my website
People often talk about wanting to have an impact in their local community. Marcus Goodwin is leading by example once again, as he is running for Washington DC Council in the November 2020 election. Marcus previously ran in 2018 as well. You will learn how Marcus has adapted his campaign first time, the skills it takes to lead and run a campaign. One of Marcus's campaign slogans is People Over Politics, as you will learn how he has been building community around his efforts. These grassroots approaches and leadership actions are applicable to many other professional efforts.
You will learn:
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the professional and personal skills required to run a good political campaign
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what Marcus did professionally in-between his two campaigns
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how Marcus is using his professional background and skills to have a bigger impact and find purpose
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why representation and having a voice is critical
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
The passing of a loved one is extremely difficult. It often eventually reminds us what really matters and the life that we want to live. For Elisabeth Cardiello, losing her Dad resulted in her eventually starting her company, Caffe Unimatic. Coffee and conversations over coffee was a signature experience and moment of connection between her and Dad. Elisabeth has started a project called Brave Conversations Over Coffee to help people become better communicators and listeners. You will learn how she is growing this initiative and has been helping others work on creating a life centered around their values and legacy.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how to map out a legacy
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how to live true your values
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how a thoughtful and passionate email can open up opportunities
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how much our mindset impacts our actions
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is here
When talent meets opportunity, incredible things can happen. For Katie Hunt, she has been a leadership force at many leading companies like Warby Parker, Hinge, and 30+ other companies that she has consulted for. She is currently the Cofounder of The Fund and the Cofounder of SHOWFIELDS. Before these two companies, she was an Independent Consultant for startups. Through iteration and then focusing on her superpower more, she learned when and how she could pitch and secure projects and clients. In this episode, you will learn how to do so too.
In this episode, you will learn:
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why it is important of pitching the exact and specific project that you know you can excel in
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why consulting is also like dating
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why it is better to pick the right team than the right idea
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how SHOWFIELDS and the team adapted during COVID
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is on my website
Developing and building a personal brand online is hard, especially on Twitter. Natalie Sportelli is an expert on Twitter, and you will learn strategies and tactics so that you can too. Natalie currently leads brand and content for Lerer Hippeau, a leading early-stage venture capital firm in NYC. You will learn how and why she works on side projects, including her new newsletter called Found Objects. If you are interested in creating an online brand and audience, this episode is for you!
You will learn:
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how to use Twitter to build an audience and personal brand
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the importance of overcoming fear about creating content online
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why side projects are important to help your career development
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how to become an intraprenuer at work
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
WOW. Thank you for two years of podcasting together. If you have listening and supporting for two years now, THANK YOU. If this is your first episode, THANK YOU. This bonus episode a reflection on the two years, gives you an on my Portfolio Career, and a few things you can do today!
To subscribe to my every two weeks One Email Away newsletter for opportunities, please do so here.
What would a remarkable job-matching newsletter look like? Tom Guthrie did just that with onejob. It was born out of his experience helping people trying to find and source primarily Chief of Staff opportunities. Tom grew this newsletter and community, and turned into a material revenue source. Through this network, Tom recently co-founded Propel, a curated network of rising stars who want to build the next big thing as founders or executives. Tom is currently in his second year at Columbia Business School and is also an investor at Rucker Park Capital and Dorm Room Fund.
In this episode, you will learn:
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How a good newsletter is like a good product
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How to find a Chief of Staff opportunity
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How so many people do not like their job, meaning you are not alone if you feel that way
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How starting and growing a newsletter can lead to interesting opportunities
As always, this episode with notes is available at on my website
Samantha Clarke has been an early advocate and practitioner of the Portfolio Career lifestyle. She is the author of Love it or Leave It, which includes sections on a Portfolio Career. She has also taught How To Build a Portfolio Career classes with Guardian. Happiness is her purpose umbrella and her consulting work for companies and individuals is underneath it. You will learn the benefits of mapping out your work to create an umbrella and statement to celebrate yourself and your work!
You will learn:
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how to cultivate a purpose umbrella
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learnings from Samantha's TEDx Talk on why we should break up with work
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Portfolio Career takeaways Samantha's book, Love It or Leave It
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the 5 W's of a Portfolio Career
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why a Portfolio Career is a celebration of who you are and your work
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Kim Kaupe is the Cofounder and CEO of The Superfan Company, a fan engagement agency. The company has collaborated with A-list properties such as Oprah, The New York Mets, KISS, Shawn Mendes, ACE Comic Con, Miller Coors, and Paul McCartney. She is the host of the LinkedIn Live series Coffee with Kim, a global keynote speaker, teacher of multiple LinkedIn courses, and more. She did not intend to be an entrepreneur and have an expansive portfolio, meaning that you can do if you want to!
In this episode, you will learn:
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the importance of a designing a business that works for you, not what outsiders think
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how Kim created her content series, Coffee with Kim
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the impact of sending personalized handwritten notes
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Hana Jung loves surfing. She has learned how to ride the waves of life too. After having a successful career in marketing roles in New York, she left for an unknown path. With her focus on service, he eventually then founded Re:Boot Experiences to help leaders connect, learn, and expand. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
In this episode, you will learn:
- what Hana has learned from surfing
- how One Email helped Hana pivot
- what Hana has learned from her coaching clients
- how to design and develop a digital offering
As always, this episode is available on my website
What is in your portfolio? Salman Ansari has been a Founder, CTO, web & iOS engineer, teacher, writer, illustrator and a DJ. Currently, he writes essays and mainly advises startups. One of his recent essays, The Polymath Playbook, went viral. We talk about this essay and more for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
You will learn:
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the importance of having a foundational skill
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how to overcome challenges that come with being a polymath
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the importance of writing for yourself and not an audience
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
The global pandemic has stress-tested so many of our careers and lives. What if our Portfolio Careers were anti-fragile? What actions could you take for this to occur?
Khe Hy left a very accomplished 15-year career on Wall Street for a new unknown chapter. For the last 5 years, he has run his own business and has been called "Oprah for Millennials." His RadReads newsletter now reaches 20,000. You will learn how "learning in public" and doing work "that is fun" has resulted in growth and resilience.
You will learn:
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how one press article in CNN resulted in 9,000 new email subscribers
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why it is important to find work and projects that are fun
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the benefits of learning in public resulting in Khe hearing interest from people for him to start a course on using Notion
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ways to gain leverage as a solopreneur
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website
Should we be looking at our careers differently instead of jobs? Hayley Darden recently published a blog post titled, It’s Time to Retire the Idea of Jobs. She wants us to think differently about contribution, talent matching, and organizational design. She has worked in the recruiting and learning development sectors, has read over 1000s of resumes, and worked on many creative projects. All of this and more resulted in a special conversation with ways forward for you and your Portfolio Career!
You will learn:
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The importance of thinking about the "verbs" instead of your title
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Why you always get to own your story about your career
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Why so many jobs come through relationships, which is a good thing
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Why our ability to learn and grow is a underestimated strength when thinking about what to do next
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
For the last almost 3 years, Wes Kao has run her own marketing and strategy firm. She is an end-to-end marketer helping B2C brands launch new products and create new categories. Before that, she was co-creator and Executive Director at Seth Godin's altMBA. In the past fifteen years, she has launched 150+ products, features, and campaigns at Flite, BareMinerals, L’Oreal, and Gap. You will learn how to rigorously determine a plan to market products and also yourself, if you are unclear about your path.
You will learn:
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The Importance of Increasing Your Box and Opportunity Set
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Why End-To-Marketing Is An Important Skill Set
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How To Reframe an Outcome
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The Importance of Understanding Incentives When Engaging With People
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
April Rinne is equal parts global authority, advocate, ally and adventurer. She has been an early expert and practitioner of the Portfolio Career lifestyle movement. She is an advisor to policymakers, startups, and global development firms, to name a few. She is also a globetrotter with insatiable wanderlust; her work and curiosity have taken her to more than 100 countries. In 2011 she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In addition to learning the benefits of a Portfolio Career, you will learn about a Flux Mindset. April is writing a book on a Flux Mindset currently.
You will learn:
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How teaching and a service-based mindset can help you easily transition from projects, sectors, and jobs
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How your Portfolio Career may be initially mocked but is eventually really respected
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How a portfolio is greater than the sum of its parts
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How to adapt to a world of constant change
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How to apply a Flux Mindset to your Portfolio Career
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Kat Vellos is the author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships which was released inJanuary 2020. Based on the overwhelming support of the book and her related expertise as a Connection Coach, she left her prior job to go full-time on speaking, coaching, consulting, and advising. She is also theFounder of both Bay Area Black Designers and Better than Small Talk. Previously, she was User Experience and Product Designer at Slack, Pandora, and multiple Silicon Valley startups. If interested in her book’s origin story, how she wrote it, and her journey afterwards, this episode is for you!
You will learn:
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how to better develop and improve relationships as an adult
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how Kat was able to write her book while working
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the benefits of having a creative outlet while also working full-time
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why it is important to publish your work, and you never know the unexpected benefits until you do so
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how profound acts of kindness and generosity can be
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is here
Has your Portfolio Career changed due to given COVID-19? Have you moved locations? For Lakshmi Parthasarathy, she decided to leave New York City and work remotely in Columbia by herself on a whim. Travel and adventure have always been a passion for her, so she decided to jet-set. You will learn about she has been able to explore interests while also working remotely as a software engineer at FreeWill.
You will also learn:
-How to network to potentially get a job at Google, where she previously worked.
-How her company, FreeWill, is building a culture while working remotely
-Why she is also enjoys and often writes on Medium
-Why this time period could be perfect to re-design your lifestyle
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website.
Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Neil Soni has built, grown, and created new ventures – both within the world’s largest brands and as an independent entrepreneur. Neil is currently the Founder & CEO of Unlimited Brewing Company, the world’s first platform for customizing and personalizing beer. He also runs a growth and innovation consulting practice, which helps startups and Fortune 500 companies partner and invest in cross-industry technology and commercial opportunities. Neil is the author of The Startup Gold Mine: How to Tap the Hidden Innovation Agendas of Large Companies to Fund and Grow Your Business.
In this episode, you will learn:
-how unexpected email breaks led to new ventures
-how taking notes after a new job ending up starting an unexpected book launch
-how companies are increasingly wanting to work with freelancers
-the importance of also creating products, in addition to your freelance work
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Georgie-Ann Getton-Mckoy wrote a book called The Art of Getting Sh*T Done. It details her professional journey filled with tons of projects, accomplishments, and accolades. As a follow-up to our prior podcast conversation, you will hear how her Portfolio Career has evolved after publishing the book. You will also learn about The Power of Being Broke, in case you have been reevaluating your career during quarantine. You will also learn about a software platform to host networking events. This is an inspiring and high-energy conversation!
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Are you interested in doing more strategic work as a freelancer? After leaving Google, Tom Critchlow has been self-employed for six years. He shares his journey and his Strategic Independent framework to help you get better clients, paid more, and have more resiliency. One of the core principles is to ask for “context” for your work. You will also learn about crafting and creating your own identity, and how blogging has been so helpful for Tom in doing so. His collection of posts led to interesting conversations, clients and will eventually become a book.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how to think about crafting and creating your own professional identity
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a unique approach to blogging
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the importance of asking for context
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creating a hub of work and ideas
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a certain style of work called executive sparring
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
When was the first time you worked in a co-working space before? Tony Bacigalupo started Manhattan's first coworking location, New Work City, in 2007. He is passionate about bringing people together and meaningful human connection. Most recently, he has been advising and coaching coworking space owners. In this episode, he provides tactical insights on how to start conversations that matter, facilitating Zoom events, and fostering online communities.
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available.
Do you wish you had more reach with the work you do... or could do? Wish you had more opportunities? Do you wonder if prior work and skills are going to come into use in the future? Wonder if it is OK if you haven't found the "one thing" yet?
I read the book, Range, by David Epstein to answer these questions for you. This book is a extremely helpful to learn about about different case studies, examples, principles and worldviews to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
300 podcast episodes. Katie Dalebout has recorded over 300 podcast episodes. She is the host of the Let It Out podcast. She started the podcast in 2013. She was working full-time and podcasting. She also wrote a book during that time period on journaling. You will learn the benefits of these two key parts of Katie's Portfolio Career.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how Katie grew her podcast and was able to monetize it
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how Katie thinks about One Email Away and related kismet experiences
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the benefits of podcasting
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how creative projects do not always work out
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Taking The Podcasting Fellowship led by Seth Godin and Alexandra DiPlama in the Summer of 2018 was transformational for me. In that workshop, I also met Maria Xenidou. After completing that workshop, we were lucky to be invited to be as coaches in The Podcasting Fellowship for three cohorts. In the Fall of 2019, we piloted and successfully a new advanced podcasting workshop. You will learn about this special mutual journey of ours.
In this episode, you will learn: 1) the benefits of taking online workshops, 2) how to create a workshop, 3) how to find and develop adjacent skills and projects, and 4) the mutual benefit of being a few steps ahead to help others and more! A fun and casual conversation!
Link to prior episode between Maria and David in November 2019
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes can be found here
Are you looking to jump-start your Portfolio Career? A podcast has been incredible learning opportunity and platform for me. Thank you for being part the journey. In this episode, I share with you 15 reasons how a podcast could help you. You will also learn about my Portfolio Career journey more since starting the podcast in summer of 2018.
As always, this episode with the 15 reasons and more about me is available on my website
I have received a lot of value from online workshops. From being a student, a coach, and then co-creating one, I have learned a lot of skills, met a lot of friends, and developed a body of work from them.
Howard Gray runs a new workshop on creating workshops through his company Wavetable. You will learn more about this exciting and emerging work and opportunity you may have to build and grow your Portfolio Career.
I am honored to talk to Howard for a second time on the podcast. The first time, you learned a lot about learning and growing "lowercase skills" for your Portfolio Career.
You will also learn about Hidden Networks, and how to use a framework to uncover "hidden" opportunities.
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website.
Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Thrilled to have Jay Clouse back on the show for you. Jay is the founder Unreal Collective, a community for founders, freelancers, and creators. Unreal's flagship product is a 12-week accelerator program. He also created the Freelancing School to help freelancers make a living. He is the host of a new show called Creative Elements and the co-host of upside podcast.
Jay has extensive insights and experience in creating projects and work online. You will learn key insights on how he is navigating the current environment and how you can create a body of work that becomes a flywheel wheel.
In this episode you will learn:
-how to not talk yourself out of a great job or project (i.e. experience ladders)
-relationship and conversation best practices
-the difference between habits and commitments
-how Jay finds new projects and work
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Dorie Clark has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and was recognized as the #1 Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. Clark, a consultant and keynote speaker, teaches executive education at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School, and she is the author of Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You and Stand Out.
Dorie has been a pioneer in the Portfolio Career movement. It's a true honor to talk to her about her core ideas, and how we can make progress during this difficult environment.
You will learn:
-how to reinvent yourself
-the benefits of a portfolio career
-how to use social proof and the halo effort to your advantage
-the difference between sales and marketing for your career
-how to start a coaching business
-the benefits of building an audience
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Roughly two-thirds of full-time workers experience burnout on the job, according to a 2018 Gallup study of nearly 7,500 employees. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health and wellness is effecting us further and in new ways.
Today's guest is Cassandra Bianco, the founder of WELL*BEINGS, a global health and wellness community. You will learn how she grew this community and the benefits of a non-linear path. As a special bonus, she blessed us with a special guided meditation at the end of this podcast to further help during this time of unease and uncertainty.
Cassandra was recently featured in The New York Times.
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website.
Samantha Radocchia, or "Sam Rad" for short, is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, author, and emerging tech advocate who combines the mindsets of an anthropologist and a technologist. She has also completed over 700 jumps as a competitive skydiver.
After leaving Chronicled in 2019, a company she cofounded, she went on a personal journey to figure out what to do next. You will learn her personal experiences, lessons learned and steps she took during this transition. She has used those lessons to start make progress during our current global transition period as well. She recently started a new marketplace project, Homefront Supply, to help during the COVID-19 crisis.
In this episode, you will learn:
-why personal progress in any form is important during major changes
-the importance of grounding yourself during a period of transition
-how Sam specifically wrote her book, Bitcoin Pizza
-how major change also creates opportunities
-how Sam overcame fear to become a global keynote speaker
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website at www.portfoliocareerpodcast.com
Thank you for supporting me and my podcasting journey. Thrilled to celebrate episode #100 together. I could not be more honored and lucky to do so with Juvoni Beckford, who has been foundational to me living in New York City.
Juvoni Beckford is currently a software engineer at Google and co-founder of Personal Development Nerds. From growing up in a difficult environment, he learned how to maximize any opportunity and resource given and to create his own. Based on market dynamics for software engineering jobs, he decided to teach himself how to code, in addition to obtaining a business degree.
He reads around 50 books per year and uses an engineering mindset to apply to all areas of his life. This episode is full of short-term and long-term ideas for personal and professional life.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how and why Juvoni taught himself how to code
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lessons learned from getting his current job as a software engineer at Google, and leveraging prior opportunities each time
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how to apply an engineering mindset to personal development
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the benefits of writing annual reviews and how Juvoni does so
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the importance of deep work for chunks of time and then reflecting and evaluating; and
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the importance of managing your emotions
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Learn more about Juvoni on Twitter and his website
Jack Butcher is the founder of Opponent and Visualize Value. Over the past year, Jack has built Visualize Value into a sustainable business and community. Jack built this unexpectedly and from personal interest and passion and wanting to better understand timeless life and business principles. Jack has grown the Visualize Value Instagram account to over 40,000 followers. One of the company's core products is the Daily Manifest, which helps you plan and take action on your daily performance. If you are freelancer, creative, or business owner that runs into the same problems, this episode is for you.
In this episode, you will learn about:
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the mistakes that freelancers and creatives often make
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the importance of layering skills
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how to create content that drives awareness of your products
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how to create something remarkable that brings attention to you
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lessons learned from growing Visualize Value into a sustainable business and community
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how to turn your projects into products
To learn more about Jack and Visualize Value, please learn more on Instagram and Twitter. Highly recommend.
As always this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website at Portfolio Career Podcast.
Jake Kahana is a designer and entrepreneur who teaches creative leaders the tools and skills to build thriving creative teams. He is a cofounder of Caveday, a company founded to maximize productivity for individuals and corporations through facilitated deep focus sessions and deep work training. Their global community has participated in over 10,000 hours of deep work “in The Cave.” As a founding US faculty member with The School of Life, Jake teaches workshops in emotional intelligence for corporate teams.
In this episode, you will learn:
-how Jake thinks about the difference between life and career planning
-how personal projects can lead to unexpected outcomes
-the different types of freelancers
-the importance of "doing the work" compared to branding perfection
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
To learn more about Jake, please see his website
Have you ever thought about designing your life around sleep? After experiencing burn-out and insomnia, Mollie McGlocklin solved her own sleep problem and then began helping others. She is the founder of Sleep Is A Skill. You will learn practical sleep tips and how Mollie is also launching a podcast and a course.
In this episode, you will learn:
1) how sleep is a skill
2) how sleep can be a trojan horse to improving other areas of your life
3) how Mollie developed an expertise in this field, found clients, and grew her business; and
4) lifestyle design insights
As always, this episode is available with time-stamp notes on my website
Paul Jun has been writing online for 9 years, even while in college. Based on his self-education expertise and passion, he has written three books on the topic. He is a currently the Editorial Director of COLLINS, a writer, and photographer. He is former Head of Content for CreativeMornings and helped launch Seth Godin’s altMBA program, and co-founded The Observers.
You will learn how the internet and writing have been fundamental to his experiences, personal transformations, and building and growing his Portfolio Career.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how to use the internet to learn
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how learning is a habit that needs to be nurtured
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what the benefits of writing online and privately are
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how to think about "learn vs earn" when evaluating projects and opportunities
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how to approach a group of diverse peers to help understand the value you can bring
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how to use the internet to propel your job search and uncover blind spots and new opportunities
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Would you like to learn more from books? Adam Ashton is the cohost of the leading podcast, What You Will Learn. The project started in 2016 with a very simple approach and focus. You will hear how the project has evolved, how Adam designs his life, key takeaways from books he believes are most relevant to people with portfolio careers!
You will also learn:
-the many benefits of podcasting
-how projects evolve in unlikely ways
-how feedback can help or hurt your work
-how Adam has evolved his thinking on real-world professional experience vs project
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my podcast
Robin Rice is a pioneer in online social change projects. Her “Be Who You Are Academy” has trained more than 15,000 students. Her YourHolidayMom.com project during Thanksgiving and New Year's Day gained 35,000 interactions in the first 40 days online in 2012. Robin is also a 4x time international bestselling author and thinking partner to leaders worldwide.
In this episode, you will learn:
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how Robin initially designs her projects
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how Robin enrolls a team for her projects
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why projects become easier over-time
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how stories effect our behaviors and actions
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how Robin launches her projects
Robin Rice's website
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Society encourages us to focus on being one thing, one label. But why is that? How could our lives be different if we focused on designing them around learning and continuous growth.
Steph Smith wrote a blog post called You Don't Need To Quit Your Job To Make. We talked about this blog post and many others from her blog that has reached 300,000 people.
In this episode you will also learn:
-where people should spend more time in their job search
-the benefits of writing online
-why skill acquisition is super important is today's information-age economy
-the importance of learning how to learn
-how to design your days and the benefits of remote work
Excited for you to Build and Grow Your Portfolio Career!
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website.
Steph's work can be found on her website and on Twitter.
There is no time like the present to start creating assets, companies, and following your purpose. Miracle Olatunji is the author of the Purpose: How To Live and Lead With Impact book and founder of OpportuniMe. While she is still in college!
As always this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website.
Have you thought about who supports the careers of people that follow the non-traditional path after college?
Unfortunately, there are not many resources. Yash Tekriwal is working on fixing this.
After graduating from the University of Virginia, Yash Tekriwal started asked himself forward-thinking questions. In addition to being the founder of LifeSchool, he has been building projects, fostering communities and coaching many people to do the same earlier and earlier in their careers.
In this episode, you will learn:
-where people often get stuck
-how to showcase your work to accelerate your career development
-that you are not alone in your journey
Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
This episode with time-stamp notes is available on website.
Would you like to write a book one day? How about having your friends and community support your goals? This episode with Olive Persimmon will help try to do both.
Olive is a two-time author and is casually working on a third book. In this episode, she shares lessons learned from
She has publicly stated her goals for 2020, and talks about how her coworkers and friends are supporting her.
She also shares the business of public speaking.
Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website.
Are you interested in storytelling and particularly video storytelling? My guest today is Ariel Viera, the founder of CEO of Urbanist. His Facebook Live show has amassed over 7 million views!
In this episode, you will learn:
-how to tell stories
-how to think about business leaders from your art/hobbies
-where content creators gets things wrong
-how to think about mastery with your craft, business, and art
Excited for you to Build and Grow your Portfolio Career!
Resources:
- Ariel's website
- Urbanist Facebook page
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Do you want to have a thriving Portfolio Career?
In this episode, David shares his key takeaways from Cal Newport's book, So Good They Can't Ignore You. David unpacks his Portfolio Career related to this book for you to think about your own.
Some key ideas from the book mentioned:
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Why Skills are More Important Than Passion
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How to think about being a craft person
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Why it is important to work in emerging fields
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Why it is important and helpful to take small bets on projects
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How adjacent skills, fields, and opportunities can help you develop your skills further, make sure you don't miss a certain area, and help you become known or an expert in your work.
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The four rules in the book, and more!
Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Resources
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So Good They Can't Ignore You
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Cal Newport
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One Email Away
As always, this episode with notes is available on my website at www.portfoliocareerpodcast.com
Would you like to know some key ideas from prior guests?
This episode includes prior recorded clips from Seth Godin and Jillian Richardson. David narrates these clips, and provides personal insights and examples for you to further learn from.
In this episode, you will learn:
-how organizing helps your Portfolio Career
-how the internet has created more opportunities to organize
-how a creation event can help you
-how opportunities are one email away
Resources
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Episode with Seth Godin
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Episode with Jillian Richardson
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One Email Away
Have you ever felt like you had more to grow and serve? Michelle Welsch had a inspiring life in New York City leading an event series and working with Fortune 500 Companies. In this podcast, you will learn how and why Michelle left NYC to operate a school in Nepal and the Portfolio Career she has designed for herself.
In this episode, you will learn:
-how change starts with community
-how the right community can help you become "someone"
-why picking yourself is important
-how you can create the Portfolio Career that you want for yourself
Resources
1) Michelle's website
2) Michelle's school, Learning Center
3) Project Exponential
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on website at www.portfoliocareerpodcast.com
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David's website
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David's book, Flow Of Innovation
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website at www.portfoliocareerpodcast.com
Resources
1). Colin's Medium articles and interview series, Life of Thought
2). One of Colin's favorite blog posts
3). An article about Colin working for Gary Vaynerchuck
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website @portfoliocareerpodcast
Resources:
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The Joy List, weekly email newsletter
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Unlonely Planet, Jillian's book
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Jillian's website to see her work, speeches, and more
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website at portfoliocareerpodcast.com
Resources
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Laurence's website - Learn To Code With Me
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Laurence's podcast, Learn To Code With Me
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Laurence's 100 podcast episode
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Laurence Instagram account
This episode with time-stamp notes is available on website @portfoliocareerpodcast.com
Resources:
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Maria's LinkedIn profile where she daily blogs
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Maria's Impact Learning podcast
This episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website at www.portfoliocareerpodcast.com
Resources
1.RaisedBy.Us's website
2.Matt's LinkedIn profile
As always, this episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website
Resources:
1). CBM on Instagram
2). Akua on Instagram
3). Akua's website
4). Summit's website
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Resources:
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Veronica's website
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Information about Veronica's community and event series, Vulnerable AF
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Resources:
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Lucia's LinkedIn profile
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Lucia's podcast website, Rock The Boat
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Resources
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Dennis's Instagram account
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Dennis's coaching website
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Personal Development Nerds Facebook group
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Dennis's Spotify playlists
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Resources:
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Nick's website
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Go Beyond, Nick's mastermind retreat for social impact leaders and investors
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Resources:
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Lisa Wang's website
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Lisa Wang's Enoughness podcast
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Lisa Wang's Instagram account
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Resources mentioned:
1) The Conversation Factory
2) The Conversation Guide download
3) Caveday
4) Daniel's speech on Faciliation As Narrative
5) Danny Meyer's book, Setting The Table
6) Ian Altman's book, Same Side Selling
As always, this "conversation" with notes is avalable on my website.
Resources:
1) The Empathy Email Workshop that David Nebinski solely produced and led
2) Portfolio Career Podcast episode with Darrah Brustein referenced
3) Morgane Michael's Small Act, Big Impact work and website referenced
4) Maria Xenidous's LinkedIn profile where she writes. A recent post was mentioned during this episode
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Resources
1) Michelle Florendo's website
2) A sample of Michelle's Upgrading Your Decision Making toolkit
3) Michelle's podcast, Ask A Decision Engineer
4) The Podcasting Fellowship
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Resources:
- Steve Dean's website, Dateworking
- Steve Dean's Medium profile
- Steve Dean on LinkedIn
- Overview on Jobsuitors, company Steve cofounded
As always, this episode is available with time-stamp notes on my website.
Resources:
1) Sara's website
2) Sara's Instagram account
3) Sara's podcast, Medium Well
4) The specific Medium Well podcast episode mentioned
5) The Joy List
6) Unlonely Planety, a new book by Jillian Richardson
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Resources
- Seth Godin's website
- Seth Godin's daily blog
- Seth's blog posts mentioned
a) The World's Worst Boss
b) Thirty years of projects
c) Where Are The Linchpin Jobs 4. The Akimbo Workshops 5. The Podcasting Fellowship 6. altMBA 7. Akimbo Podcast
This full episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website (LINK)
Resources:
- Jenn's travel company and communty, Map & Move
- Jenn's Instagram account
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Resources:
1) Rebecca's website with insights
2) Rebecca's Instagram account
3) Rebecca's Twitter account
4) Resources to find contract and freelance work: Creative Circle, Vitamin T, Catchafire, and Aquent
Time-stamp notes
This episode with time-stamp notes is available on my website.
- Kat's website
- Kat's Instagram account for great marketing insights
- About Spec, a company Kat that cofounded
- Kat's podcast, Millennial Innovators podcast
To listen to the podcast with time-stamp notes, please head to:
www.portfoliocareerpodcast.com/kat-lisciani
Resources
- Erin Claire Jones website
- Erin Claire Jones Instagram account
- Accessing your Human Design Chart
- The Assemblage
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Resources:
- Seth Godin's blog post, Lifelong Connection
- My thankful interview on the Impact Learning Podcast
- The Tim Ferriss Show with Julie Rice live recording
- What You Will Learn Podcast
Resources:
- Austin's LinkedIn profile for regular, action-packed insights
- Austin's company, Cultivated Culture, filled with free resources
- Viral blog post about Austin's journey and learnings to getting a job at Microsoft
Resources:
- Casey's website to learn more about Casey
- Casey's current company, Upstock
- More information about Couchsurfing.com
- A recent keynote by Casey
- Book recommendation: Tribal Leadership
Resources:
- Scott's company, Firneo
- Scott's recent blog post, Don't Rely On Your Career Commas
- Scott's book, What Exactly Is Business Development
- Scott's blog, Start Of The Deal
- Scott's twitter account (@slpollack)
Resources:
- Dashing Leadership, Brian's coaching business website
- Brian's Twitter account
Resources:
- The Doodle Challenge
- The Doodle Challenge on Kickstarter
- Christina's personal portfolio website
Resources:
- Chris's company website - The Forcing Function
- Chris's social media - @SparksRemarks
Resources:
- Chris's company website - The Forcing Function
- Chris's blog post on 100+ productivity resources and insights
- Chris's blog post on a practical guide to growth as a precursor to his coming book
- Chris's social media contact information (@SparksRemarks)
Resources:
- Jerome LaMaar's instagram account
- Jerome LaMaar's website
- New York Times article on Jerome and The Bronx
- Article on Jerome and Beyoncé collaborating
Resources:
- The Podcasting Fellowship
- The Akimbo Workshops
- Maria Xenidou's Impact Learning podcast
- Morgane Michael's Kindsight 101 podcast
- Kean Gardner's Instagram account
- Gabrielle Pitman's Musicians Can Thrive podcast
Resources:
- Ben's personal website
- Company that Ben works at, Project 33
- Ben's podcast, Subject Matter
- Ben's LinkedIn profile
Resources:
- Stacey Ferreira's personal website
- Forge
- 26 Things I've Learned in 26 Years
- Forge Origin Story
- Speech: What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
- Book: 2 Billion Under 20
Resources:
- Impera Strategy
- Tristan's LinkedIn profile
- Tristan's Instagram account
- The Education of Millionares book recommendation
Resources:
- Darrah's website
- Darrah's Instagram account
- E-book: 55 questions to ask instead of what do you do
- 9 questions to have your closed, trusted network help you out
- A free masterclass with Darrah and Deepak Chopra
- Darrah's article in Forbes on co-mentoring
Resources:
- Chelsea's website
- Blox 7, Chelsea's blockchain marketing agency
- Alchemy Spaces, Chelsea's new economy retreat center in Italy
- Blog: 49 Questions to Ask Instead of "What Do You Do?"
- Blog: Gigs Not Jobs
- Book: Its a Shareable Life
Resources:
- Howard Gray's website
- Howard's twitter account
- Blog: how to survive living your first year in New York City
- Blog: lowercase skills
- Blog: The Microscope & The Telescope
- The Dip by Seth Godin
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Resources:
- 7:47 (dinner series and company)
- Chris's instagram account
- Cal Fussman's podcast
- 6 habits of highly empathetic people
- Mark Manson’s book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck
Resources:
- Jay Clouse's personal website
- Unreal Collective
- Upside podcast
- Jay's twitter account
- Jay's LinkedIn profile
- The Podcasting Fellowship that Jay and I met through
Resources:
- Ramit Sethi - I Will Teach You To Be Rich
- David Allen - Getting Things Done book
- Designing Your Life book
- Rescue Time productivity tool
Resources:
- Erica's personal website
- Erica's Facebook profile (@ericablairlive)
- Erica's twitter account (@ericablairlive)
Resources:
- Alexa's website
- Alexa's instagram (alexa.eden)
- Transportation Transportation (underground meditation)
Resources:
-Life Skills That Matter website
-Life Skills That Matter accelerator
-Stephen's twitter
-Stephen's Self-Assessment Challenge
-Stephen's Life Skills That Matter podcast
Resources:
- Georgie's website
- Pre-sale of Georgie's book - The Art of Getting Sh*t Done
- Fierce Clarity class by Nicole Walters
Resources:
-Frank Denbow's personal site
-Inflection
-INK'A
-Mom's company, Joy With Paper
-Frank's twitter account (@frankdenbow) and Instagram account (@frankdenbow)
-Sage Labs, a product marketing consulting company
Resources:
- I/O Coaching website
- LinkedIn profile
- LinkedIn article: The Other Kind of AI
- Nikki's instagram (@nikgold)
Resources:
- Small Act Big Impact
- Her science-backed 21 day kindness challenge
- Kindsight 101 podcast
- The Podcast Fellowship (Summer 2018)
- The Podcast Fellowship Round 2 (Autumn 2018)
Resources:
-@rayslaterb Instagram
-Ray's LinkedIn profile
-Remote Year
-Ray's book, Golden Boy
Resources:
-Oppticity company website
-Muriel's speech at Katapult Future Fest in Spring 2018
-LinkedIn profile
Resources:
-Nataliya's company website - www.balancedfashion.com
-Nataliya's blog - https://nataliyamakulova.com/
-Nataliya's Instagram - @natalimka
Resources:
- Christina Wallace's website
- Forbes Article: Why Everyone Should Consider Building A Portfolio Career
- Podcast - The Limit Does Not Exist
- The Future Belongs to Human Venn Diagrams speech at TEDxSan Antonio
- Contact information on Twitter @cmwalla
- Bionic
Resources:
- Contact information on LinkedIn
- Coaching website
- New email newsletter
- altMBA
Resources:
-Gregg's personal website
-Gregg's podcast, Tiny Leaps, Big Changes (iTunes)
-Free chapter to new book:
-How to Hold a Conversation
Key quotes
-“When I was thinking about the life that I want to have 10, 20 years from now.. how do I combine investing, coaching and facilitation into one so that I can be of service to people”
-"I probably would’ve gone inward"
-“I view coaching as an entirely distinct skillset... Building a skill that I don’t think is going to go out of fashion"
-“I believe investing should be a business that should be in service of entrepreneurs. I believe that entrepreneurs are our customer”
Resources:
-Steve's twitter account
-Primary Venture Partners
-Finding Your Own Voice blog post by Steve
Quotes
-“I think most that is going to change in the future.. is that you won’t have to choose one thing. You will be able to have this entire portfolio that is mixing and matching, and balancing… very much like an investment portfolio
-“I see myself as a learner…I learn for a living.... And the way I fund my learning is by packaging up what I have learned into products"
-“You can handle anything as long as your mind is free and clear”
-“The ability to make things will be fundamental to your identity, your reputation online, fundamental to entrepreneurship, to freelancing..."
-“Think in terms of chunks”
-“Every 6-18 months since then, I change what I am doing pretty dramatically”
Resources
-https://www.fortelabs.co/
-The Rise of the Full-Stack Freelancer blog post
-Building A Second Brain
-Tiago's twitter @fortelabs
Quotes:
-"Every part of my life is designed"
-“It was a very smooth transition, but it was a 5 year transition”
-Most people are surprised that photography [business] is actually 5-10% photography
Resources:
-Phillip's website with contact information
-Phillip's work with an Anthropologie brand
-Phillip's work in a Vogue shoot
Resources:
-Alex's website
-The Podcast Fellowship led by Alex and Seth Godin
-Alex's podcast course on CreativeLive
-A leading podcast that Alex produces with Seth Godin, Akimbo
-A top podcast that Alex produces, Food 4 Thot
Key takeaways:
-Had to do a lot of "unlearning" to what it means to be an entrepreneur, what it means to design the life that I want, what it means to find his own balance.
-Burning Man was transformational.
-Started his career focusing on analytical work and then transitioned into sales. Because he did not want to be potentially pigeon-holed.
-The blockchain sector has some of the smartest people Anthony has ever met. He believes there is an opportunity to assemble and lead a team, given that the sector's complex ideas need to be made easy for businesses and companies to use
-Believes he was born lucky and privileged and after seeing people with lesser means in poorer countries when traveling. This has really motivated him to have more purpose in his work.
Quotes:
-"And when I didn’t have work anymore… I didn’t know who I was."
-“Believing in myself, loving myself as who I am has allowed me to have tremendous breakthroughs”
-“All these individual points in my career that I thought were pivots are actually just a story and a narrative that are weaving together and combining all of my skills and my expertise”
-“I am at a point now where helping others grow, gives me so much gratitude.. But how many have I helped grow personally and professionally?”
Resources and recommendations:
-Five Minute Journal for reflection
-Spark for email
-Calendly for calendar and meeting requests
-The Assemblage
-YPO
-DEED
Key highlights:
-Mural is a platform and product for knowledge workers to lead with their best work, as opposed to job titles. Believe everything will be on the cloud and one link away. Able to showcase select work for selected people. Could also be used to update certain people on regular basis like advisors and past collaborators.
Three components in picking and working on new projects:
- does it have a sustainable business model
- is it something that I enjoy doing
- does it move the world forward for a group of people that I care about
Advice while working on projects:
- What were the outcomes did you drive?
- What did you actually learn and are the skills transferable?
- What mini networks did you create and have because of your portfolio career lifestyle? You are building something incredibly proprietary -- a web of trust across projects that you have created.
Quotes:
-“I have been on a journey to discover my purpose”
-“You are building your network when you don’t even realize it”
-“Your narrative becomes non-traditional and you need to deliberate about how you tell your story”
Resources:
-Mural
-Ajay's Mural - a portfolio of his best work and direct link
-Personal website
-LinkedIn March 2018 published work - "how to build your "portfolio" as a product manager"
-Recent blog post titled "Any Given Monday"
Quotes:
-“We look for people that are willing to put in the work”
-“Everything we can do is help you break through the signal barrier. We help you create that signal”
-“It's not enough to just do stuff and to learn stuff, you have to exhibit that in some way”
-"How can we get people from low-income to high-income, and code was an obvious answer. In the long run, Lambda will not just be a code school."
-“The impact we have is very very tangible. We take that responsibility very seriously."
-“For most of them, we could swing their lifetime earnings by a couple of million dollars.”
Key resources and references:
-Example of Lambda School's non-profit helping someone
-www.lambdaschool.com
-Austen Allred's twitter account for frequent inspiration and updates
-Secret Sauce book and resources
Key quotes:
-“No day looks the same for me”
-“it [Caveday] grew organically. None of us were trying to start a business."
-“A couple of years ago, I said I am freelancer and I don’t feel free.”
-"3rd Street Blackout was like having a 30 person startup with an end date.”
“When stuck, the kindest thing to do is to be really clear on what I am looking for.”
-"There are four energies to get stuff done: nurture, getting stuff done, being strategic, and then being a leader"
-"If you are risk averse, a portfolio career is essential"
Key resources:
-Caveday
-Odd Job Nation and a related video
-3rd Street Blackout
-Book - Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield
Contact information:
Personal website - www.jeremyredleaf.com
Key highlights:
-Been obsessed with well being, food and nutrition as a kid
-After Cornell, she couldn't find a job that she could make an impact in initially.
-Creates communities and events because she wants inherent kind and compassionate people to thrive given the tough and harsh living environment in NY
Key quotes
-"What I really like to do is bring people together to experience new information to shift behavior."
-“Think critically, taste, talk, learn and experience"
-“Working on projects allows me to feed my soul and to eliminate depression. It's my anti-depressant."
-"My plate is very full"
In addition to being a professional salsa dancer, she mentioned a few other projects:
-We Are Supernatural
-Pause (meditation pop-up)
-Seeds in the City podcast
Contact information:
Instagram: TheAlinaFeed
LinkedIn: Alina Zolotareva
Notable quotes:
-"I told my boss “I want to build a startup and she was like…. you should leave”
-“I just sorted of tried things and the fearlessness to just try it opens a lot of a lot of doors”
-“I think having the one thing that you are good at” and it is part of your job, you are naturally going to excel
Key highlights:
-Talks a lot about how to bootstrap and self-fund a new company and project
-Believes we are in the early stages of Blockchain, which is forming a new internet and a new value transfer module.
For additional resources:
-[Nike wins over political moderates with new Kaepernick TV ad] article 1
Notable takeaways and resources mentioned:
-Self-care is important. If you are busy, it means things are going well. But think about systems you have in-place to be more efficient.
-The Jordan Harbinger Show
-The Bee Token
Notable quotes:
-“I like doing things that make people happy and that’s my happy place”
-“You only get these brief opportunities in life and you have to decide very quickly whether you are willing to jump through them or not”
-“I guess I live for those type of moments”
-“Give more than I received ends up paying me back"
If interested to learn more and to connect with Jeff, please see:
A Bit Cryptic Podcast
Podcast Twitter
Email is jeff@thoughtleadersdinner.com
Notable quotes:
-".... yeah and then I guess I became a professional"
Key takeaways:
-His client variety type creates diversity, new opportunities, and resilience
-We discuss getting started in a new field, a new project, and how to think about compensation for it or not
-If your customer is getting paid a lot of money, then it is OK to ask for money in return.
-The schooling luck, parenting style, and how he and his daughter are often drawing around the house
-He will be starting a podcast soon because he wants to learn from others. He believes he will be able to gather insights from that work and pull it into his other work.
For additional resources and contact information, please see:
-Personal and Company website: http://www.visualizegood.co/
-BJ Fogg's website: https://www.tinyhabits.com/
Notable quotes:
-“Almost any problem you have, someone else really intelligent in human history has thought about it and documented their thinking”
-“Blessing and maybe a curse, I just have loved to learn new things.”
-References a Charlie Munger quote: “a couple good mental models is all you need to succeed in life and your career”
A few other key points:
-Chris talks about psychology and human behavior in that when kids learn they can create something, it gives them so much joy. Chris believes this is how we are wired and to remember this.
-Chris would like to improve on staying to in touch with people from prior jobs and projects, and also delegating tasks to others sooner.
-Chris believes startups provide this biggest opportunity to learn a lot of different things.
-Chris talks about time and energy management and maximization as well.
Resources:
David Graeber's book: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
For additional information to learn and connect with Chris, please see:
Personal website: https://chrisbolman.com/
Brightest:
Recent blog post reference that talks about components to Portfolio Career:
Museum of Pizza website:
(opening in New York City in October for the month)
A few notable quotes:
-"Figure out what you want to do, and then relentlessly pursue it"
-"Is your time aligning with your priorities?"
-"Communication is fundamentally the most important skill anyone can have"
-"Once you figure out how you communicate and how someone communicates differently than you, it's a game changer."
-"There are four different primary communication systems described as birds: eagle, owl, dove, and peacock."
(Note: Which one are you? Would love to hear and learn.)
For additional resources and more about Olive, please see:
-Her website: https://www.olivepersimmon.com/; and
-Her TEDxAsbury Park talk titled, "How to Be a Great Lover (Not What You Think)":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhsxLq0-Hfo&t=9s
In addition, we talk about these key items:
-three key skills needed in our current and future economy
-creating your own mission statement
-writing your own obituary to think about the legacy you want to live
-the value of having mindset and skillset flexibility and agility, and having resilience.
-the need and opportunities created from personal branding and relationships
http://site-291824-3360-1155.strikingly.com/
Ben Bradbury talks about his journey to New York City and how he overcame financial stress to then having financial flexibility. He mentions his "three things" as a triangle for his Portfolio Career. By focusing on strengthen those three things over-time, productizing them, and then offering them free to new key contacts, Ben has been able to have his work contribute to a TED Talk.
A few notable quotes:
-"Focused on making the most of my MINUTES"
-"Turning what I know into an asset"
-"Having a Portfolio Career gives you the ability to meet and connect with new people in a meaningful way"
-"I am learning about what to do say no too"
Advice on starting a new project or revenue stream is a two-part exercise:
- Suggests to learn what your unfair competitive advantage is. "What do you find easy that your friends find very hard?"
- Once you determine #1, then give that skill or value-add to someone you can learn from with no expectation of getting anything back in return.
Once Linda Kristoffersen got tremendous help and support from a new friend, leading to a great consulting job at a leading firm. Even more so since then, Linda has LEANED INTO new projects and opportunities, and actively gives back to others. As an engineer and technologist at hear, she brings her problem-solving mentality to her work. After having lived and grown up internationally, Linda is looking to solve world problems, and respects companies and leaders that seek to make change.
Linda offers in-depth career advice and lessons learned along her journey and growth. She is very inspired by her friends and peers that are working on exciting projects too.
Notable quotes:
-“Blockchain found me, not the other way around”
-“Live on the edge of your abilities”
-"In terms of your career, fear doesn’t exist."
Linda is looking to learn and network with peers looking to solve world problems. In addition, Linda is particularly looking to connect and collaborate with women interested in blockchain technology.
Alex Portera is the Cofounder of Nowhere Men, a freelance writer and video producer. A decision to "just travel" and to participate in the Mongol Rally somewhat unexpectedly turned into the Nowhere Men. This Facebook Watch show has a weekly documentary style to it. In a short period, they have produced over 100 episodes with some episodes exceeding over 200,000 views.
A few other highlights:
-"People are good." Through his travels and weekly videos, Alex inspired by people and people that have helped him, despite mainstream news. He says this has changed him as a person.
-Alex talks about his love for his cofounders as well.
-Reading the book, So Good They Can't Ignore You, by Cal Newport had profound impact on Alex. It was a freeing book for him.
-Alex recommends to "follow your curiosities and interests" as much as possible, and to maintain consistency with them.
If interested in to connect, support, and learn from Alex, please find him at:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nowheremenadventures
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowherementv/
As both a CTO and CMO, Nate Cooper helps entrepreneurs and content producers to create recurring revenue through membership sites. He was the Founder and CEO of New York City-based EdTech startup, Reboot Labs. In addition to previously being a teacher at General Assembly, School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology, he is the author of Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS and WordPress. He also is the host of the Cut Your Learning Curve podcast.
A few notable insights:
-some lessons learned as Founder and CEO of Reboot Labs
-how he deeply values his degree in the Liberal Arts (not widely known). He believes it is important for building projects and companies.
-his reasoning for becoming a podcaster and key themes that keep coming up from guests, particularly around motivation, psychology.
For more information and to support Nate's portfolio career, please go to:
www.natecooper.co/
For free resources and for a free strategy call, please go to:
www.natecooper.co/free
An exciting interview with Jillian Richardson! Jillian learned that she was going to be a writer as early as a kid. A key internship in college gave her the confidence to launch writing career. After moving to NYC and not having real human connection and relationships, Jillian started The Joy List, a newsletter of community and uplifting events in New York. This was sparked by going to Camp Grounded. In addition to the newsletter and writing thought leadership pieces for executives, Jillian hosts conference and events. She is extremely focused on her mission to make New York City and major cities less lonely. She is also currently writing a book called Unlonely Planet.
In addition, Jillian offers some key advice regarding entrepreneurship, lessons learned, systems building, and talks about personal topics as well.
"Scratching her own itch." Jillian has a knack and headstrong personality for solving social and society problems she sees. Quickly.
In addition to some key people mentions and thanks, she also mentioned these resources:
Camp Grounded:
http://campgrounded.org/
The Joy List:
http://joylist.nyc
Contact information:
www.thatjillian.com
https://www.instagram.com/joylistnyc/
thatjillian@gmail.com
Thanks for listening!
An exciting interview with Kean Gardner! Kean has four different projects and interests to grow and optimize his portfolio career. More recently, Kean has developed a new skill as a stand-up comedian in New York City. Kean mentions helpful personal and career development insights, information, and tactics. And a few funny stories. Enjoy this to further develop your portfolio career!
A few other key takeaways and insights:
"I just said yes to everything back then"
An exciting interview with Kean Gardner! When he goes to a party, he often looks to see if someone is dancing or not to start a conversation.
In addition, Kean talks about his work in personal finance, travel, and as a property manager. More recently, Kean has developed a new skill as a stand-up comedian in New York City.
Kean mentions helpful personal and career development insights, information, and tactics. And a few funny stories.
Kean is particularly interested in discussing ideas on collaborating and scaling his dancing craft and growth professionally.
Contact information:
https://www.facebook.com/kean.gardner
https://www.instagram.com/becauseikean/
keankeeks@gmail.com
Hope you enjoy this episode to further develop your portfolio career and connect with Kean!
Please listen to this trailer to learn more about the Portfolio Career podcast. Hope you learn a lot to build and grow your Portfolio Career.