An ode to my late grandfather.
Paul Millerd is a self-proclaimed "curious human" who also happens to be the author of The Pathless Path, Imagining a New Story For Work and Life. I zipped through the book in about two days and would highly recommend it to anyone of any age who's looking for a different way to live. In the book, Paul walks you through his own journey of overcoming burnout and how he's managed to build a life that is based on experiments -- a creative endeavor.
4-year college? Community College? Apprenticeship? Start your own business? Enter the workforce? There are so many options for what you can do post-high school, that it can be paralyzing. What if instead of thinking about it as a right and wrong choice, you instead think about it as: What's the best choice for me?
This episode covers 7 tips to help high school graduates navigate life as they step into the next phase and soak up as much as they can.
Free Booklet to help you figure out what you want to do with your life: https://bit.ly/32X079C
What a wild ride it's been over the last two years interviewing over 130+ guests over my two podcasts. In this episode, I explore why I started my podcast, the purpose it served in my life, and my tips for podcasting.
Jonny Miller is the creator of the Nervous System Mastery program and host of the Curious Humans podcast. He is also an startup founder coach, breathwork practitioner, and emotional resilience researcher. Previously he worked at Escape the City where he ran their startup accelerator program and helped to wake up the working world.
Jonny's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonnym1ller
Katelyn is a serial career pivoter, former recruiter turned Career Coach & Strategist with Crafted Careers, and the co-creator of Sweet Spot Careers, an online course designed to help unfulfilled professionals find their career sweet spot and finally land jobs where they can thrive.
Over the years, she has had the privilege of recruiting and coaching hundreds of professionals for positions in industries that include healthcare, finance, human resources, tech, operations, higher education, and sales. Katelyn has conducted thousands of interviews, done more resume reviews than she can count, and currently helps dozens of job seekers each month navigate significant career transitions by sharing her insider’s knowledge of what companies are looking for in hiring top talent coupled with practical strategies to make it happen.
Katelyn's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelyn-richards/
Crafted Careers Website: https://www.crafted.careers/
Silicone Boone is an Ex-Amish artist from the hills of eastern Kentucky. With minimal exposure to contemporary music in his formative years, his songs can feel both aged and newly born. In 2019 he released "The Reaches," a concept album on outer space that explores the seemingly endless reaches of human longing.
Website: http://siliconeboone.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/siliconeboone
Rebekah Bastian is an entrepreneur, award-winning writer, artist, tech executive, mentor, wife, mother and aerial acrobat. After 15 years at Zillow, with roles including vice president of product and vice president of community and culture, Rebekah is now CEO & Co-founder of OwnTrail.
Rebekah's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekahbastian/
OwnTrail: https://owntrail.com/
A podcast featuring anonymous 17-25-year-olds, where they are asked 10 questions in 10 minutes.
Lindsay Gordon is a career coach for analytically minded people who want to stop doing what they think is "right" in their career and start doing what's right for them. She helps people get clear about what's right for them in a job and why, confident about their skills and abilities, and able to communicate that to interviewers, managers, and colleagues.
Lindsay started her career working as a recycled water engineer in Melbourne, Australia before landing at Google doing technical support for the Google Apps team. After 5 years of technical support, she transitioned into career development at Google before starting her own business.
Lindsay has been featured in publications such as Business Insider and Thrive Global and holds a BS in Bioengineering from The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and a Core Strengths Coaching Certificate from San Francisco State University. She loves applying her engineering brain to helping people find careers that fit, baking complicated pastries, and barbershop singing.
Sam is the Founder of McNerney Insights & Marketing, which provides an easy, fast, and accurate way for brands to get feedback on their positioning. He has spent the bulk of his career thus far working for Publicis North America, the creative agency. He also has tools in brand & marketing, consumer research, and writing & editing. In addition to all of this, he has written about market research and behavioral science for magazines such as Scientific American (Print & Online) and Psychology Today.
In this episode, we talk about taking the leap to work on his own, what makes good branding, and the power of market research.
Bryan Besecker, CFA, CAIA graduated from Villanova University in 2009. He has worked at BNY Mellon Investment Management in a variety of roles first in sales and then on the research side. He is currently a VP Investment Strategist and has supported several Chief Economists and Strategists in distilling macroeconomic trends and market insights into implications for investing. His research has been used to help fund sales, client relationships, marketing, product strategy, and communications. After attempting to transition into venture capital, he has shifted to an entrepreneurial side project focused on edtech. His first idea was an alternative career resource marketplace and then pivoted to helping high school students with career exploration before college as he believes too many students are going to college when they are not ready then end up getting a bad return. He is proudly from Philadelphia and is a big fan of basketball, especially the Philadelphia 76ers and Villanova. You can read more about his edtech projects here.
Kellee Stall was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She spent her childhood in Lilburn, Georgia, and her high school years in Mandeville, Louisiana.
At 18, Kellee moved to Crystal Lake Illinois where she earned her BFA in Acting and met her husband, Tim Stall, of 27 years. She founded and operated Inhabit Theater Company, an immersive, pop-up theater performing original stories throughout Northern Illinois. Kellee collaboratively wrote comedic plays with the actor’s and musician’s talent in mind then placed these plays in site-specific locations like coffee shops, bridal boutiques, and empty houses for sale. Kellee spent 23 years in the Midwest as an acting coach, talent scout, director, and playwright.
In 2017 she moved to Charlotte North Carolina where she currently casts, produces, and acting coaches for local film companies.
As an assemblage artist, she approaches her art as she would a theatrical piece.
Kellee collects and casts found objects into a scene to provoke a humorous dialogue or a crucial conversation.
She often collaborates with other artists in an attempt to advance the dialogue of her work.
In July 2021, Kellee produced “Duets” an immersive art show which featured 10 local Charlotte artists and performers. This sold-out event allowed patrons the option to support artists by tipping their art.
Kellee’s art and set design was featured in Winston Salem The Breath and The Clay 2021 live & online conference. Kellee received a HUG grant from “Charlotte is Creative” for producing “Plastic Perspective” show in 2019. Her solo show “Identity Crises” featured 11 pieces shown at New City Gallery, Charlotte in the summer of 2018.
We usually shy away from what we want the most. We let fear and excuses stand in the way. We think we need external forces or validation to push us along. Truth is, you already have what you need. Find out where it is and how to use it.
Formally the executive pastry chef for The Fig Tree Restaurant, Samantha opened Wentworth & Fenn, a unique bakery that creates wedding cakes, special event cakes, and custom seasonal pastries that are sold out of a 1961 Shasta Camper, named Selma, and bakery located at Camp North End.
Samantha was named ‘Best Pastry Chef’ in Charlotte, NC for 2017, she’s traveled to New York to cook at the legendary James Beard House, and she was nominated for ‘Best Pastry Chef of the East Coast Region’-James Beard Award in 2016.
You can find Allen at the bakery most days creating new, exciting pastries!
Website: https://www.wentworthandfenn.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wentworth_and_fenn/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wentworthandfenn/
If asked what home was to you, what would you say? Is it your mom's spaghetti or the way the room smells when you get home from work? Is it a person or place? Each of us has a different definition of what home is and how much it means to us. However, the concept of home is important to each of us. Home is stability. Home means that you can drop your walls.
Full article: https://www.riseyear.co/post/how-to-build-a-home-in-2-steps
Victoria Ransom is a serial entrepreneur from New Zealand who currently is the CEO and Co-Founder of Prisma, an online, innovative school for 4-8th graders that tailors education to their abilities and goals for the future. Previously, Victoria started a social marketing SaaS company called Wildfire Interactive, but sold it in 2012 to Google.
Prisma was started in April of 2020 with the vision of being the world's most effective Connected Learning Network (small cohorts of kids learning together with the support of coaches all across the world) that not only equips kids to live now, but also prepares them for their adult lives.
Prisma's website: https://www.joinprisma.com/
Victoria's Twitter: https://twitter.com/victoria_ransom
Miriam Dorsett is a full-time artist, serial entrepreneur, and community activator. Her passions are the arts, our community, technology and sustainability. In addition to growing her startup Chibur, she is the founder of Bootstrap Publications and Zen Zone Miami. She is a certified Climate Crisis speaker through the CLEO Institute, the Meetup Host for Product Hunt South Florida, on the organizing committee for 1 Million Cups Miami, a Founding Member of GoodHuman, and the Miami Community Manager for Entre. A self-proclaimed “digital age guru” she has more than 20 years of professional experience ranging in the fields of youth development, small business management, and digital engagement. Her second book The Lion and The Elephant has been well received by readers. This year she will make two more books available, Thank You and Tell Me Your Best Joke, and she is currently working on her title From Where I Stand which will outline her views as she prepares for her public off run.
Chibur site: https://www.chibur.info/
Miriam Twitter: https://twitter.com/eduovrignorance
Merott Movahedi is a London-based indie maker and Toptal freelance developer. In his spare time, he found that he was interested in education and wanted a way to learn more about the industry and the people in it, so he created a weekly email called 'Course Creators Weekly." For the last 65 weeks, he has been sending out 3 articles, videos, or podcasts from creators in a digestible format in an effort to help people build transformational courses.
Course Creator Weekly: https://xebel.co/
Merott's Twitter: https://twitter.com/merott
If you ask Joe to describe himself he's a self-proclaimed Doorman. I don't mean one that stands at a physical hotel and opens doors for guests. I mean one that helps open the theoretical (or sometimes real) doors that allow people to make choices that impact their life directions. Joe is concerned about showing others what they're capable of doing. In this episode we explore the current education system, writing his first book, and how he ended up where he is today!
His Bio:
2013-2016 Studied Psychology, University of Sydney
2016-2019 Co-Director of From the Ground Up, Nonprofit rebuilding schools and beginning a local business in a rural Nepali village
2017-onwards Co-Founder and Managing Director, Sydney Listings, real estate experience (challenging, not my core purpose, but great learning experience)
2020 – began writing 18 & Lost? So Were We
Jan 2021 Co-founded Constant Student, along with Scott McKeon, co-author of 18 & Lost? So Were We
July 2021 Also co-founding currently the Intentional Gap Year Program with Byron Dempsey, co-author of 18 & Lost? So Were We
Joe's Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDoorman_
Joe's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-wehbe-b25922115/
Joe's Website: https://withjoewehbe.com/