For a Living: Recent Episodes
Lauren Perry-Carrera
A podcast that tells the stories of people who are earning a living in unconventional ways while pursuing passion and purpose.
Episode Overview:
Money mindset coach, Zoey Berghoff works as an AirBnB Coach, helping advise young adults looking to invest in Air BnBs as passive income.
Highlights:
-Picking an AirBnB location
-How AirBnB management opens you up to travel
-Having a marketing mindset around AirBnB hosting
-How to factor seasonality into your listing
-Owning an AirBnB for passive income but also factoring in equity
-What the heck is AirBnB arbitrage??
-How much initial capital is required to start this?
-Let's get your finances in order... track your expenses!
Episode Overview:
Professional sugar baby, Christina Kim, drops out of college to pursue sugar dating and start Agency, her own sugar dating company.
Highlights:
-Avoiding college debt by becoming a sugar baby
-What is sugar dating?
-Is sugar dating sex work?
-Lauren’s abysmal dating life
-Sugar dating: the intersection of financial literacy, female empowerment and sexual empowerment
-Sugar dating your way to becoming a CEO
-The stigma around sugar dating
-Safety in sugar dating
-”Dating is just collecting datapoints”
-Could sugaring be problematic or disempowering?
-How to tell if you’d make a good sugar baby
-The case against monogamy
Episode Overview:
Alisha Welch leaves behind her job as an engineer to work at a ski resort and travel to Japan to teach English.
Highlights:
-Working as a plastics engineer…while being an environmentalist
-What it’s like to do seasonal work at a mountain
-“I’ve never seen someone so excited about a minimum wage job”
-Loving outdoor activities / mountain biking will fuck you up
-10 points for Canada, and other musings on universal healthcare
-Living for the stoke levels of a powder day on the mountain
-Leaving your friends and family to move across the world
Episode Overview:
Contiki Travel Trip Manager Rob Knott leaves behind the riveting world of geology to get paid to travel for a living.
Highlights:
-The boom and bust of working in minerals and mining
-Becoming a Contiki guide…the most intense job training I have maybe ever heard of
-Just because a country isn’t interesting for more than a day, doesn’t make it a bad country to visit (and other travel insights)
-Straddling the line between the edge of your comfort zone… and danger
-Travel= a metaphor for life / it’s all about setting expectations
- “Let’s talk shit about America for a second” (and other really eloquently phrased things)
-Why you should consider living abroad
-Rob talks about his love for rocks everyone falls asleep
-One rock pun slips through the cracks
-Rob discusses (and compliments???) Lauren’s big personality
-Loving the shit out of your job…best job in the world?
Episode Overview:
Stand-up and sketch comedian, Steph Tolev, finds joy in making people laugh for a living.
Highlights:
-What it feels like to “bomb” as a comedian
-LIVE, ON-AIR Covid test results!!
-”Next up… a lady?” / Why are we afraid of vagina-possessing people being funny?
-Dating as a comedian
-Getting ghosted….F you Thomas!
-How to go from thinking you’re funny… to making money as a comedian
-Doing service to the world through humor
-Being a goof for a living
Episode Overview:
Spiritual manifestation coach and Ayurvedic Practitioner, Latha Jay, finds her purpose after quitting medical school.
Highlights:
-”One day I just woke up, and I left”...leaving medical school to become a farmer
-The fear of disappointing your parents
-Going from pre-med, to farmer, to fashion designer, to yoga teacher, to health coaching to photographer to journalist exhales…paths are not linear!
-Being in your early 20s is like throwing spaghetti against a wall
-The health benefits of meditation
-Where western and eastern medicine converge
-Manifesting your way to the ideal-mate
-Spiritual growth is not a linear process
-Finding your Dharma
-How suffering brings clarity
-Shedding limiting beliefs that are holding you back
Episode Overview:
Performer and teacher, Jillian Paige, pursues her love of musical theater.
Highlights:
-How to become a personal trainer
-A critique of the fitness industry
-Loving your body through a pandemic
-Pursue your dream before financial stability, “fuck it”
-A Meisner-technique exercise in real-time / the power of discomfort
-Why Lauren will never be Hannah Montana
-Performing arts and feeling like a failure
-Starting a small business / the risks of not working a 9-5
Episode Overview:
Wrangler, Reilly Harrison, quits her job in politics to pursue her dream of working in the outdoors.
Highlights:
-From metropolitan DC to Wapiti Wyoming
-What would you do if no one was watching?
-Romance at the Rodeo
-What does it mean to be a Wrangler?
-Golden Handcuffs… not as fun as it sounds ;)
-Being chill is not cool
-TikTok romance / hot guys live in Wyoming…?
-The correlation between horse-girls and leash children explored
Episode Overview:
For a Living Host, Lauren Perry-Carrera, introduces the premise of the podcast through the story of her own personal journey with Corporate America.
Highlights:
-A cheeky visualization exercise
-Lauren’s entire life story, which no one asked for, or wanted
-The time Lauren lived in a van, which yes, makes her cooler than you
-TW: mention of suicide (25:22)
-The tea around being an Investment Banker. Spoiler alert, it sucks
-A brief historical analysis on the Prostetant work-ethic yawn
-Introducing: your inner child
-For a Living and what to expect from the pod
-Bonus section: life-update