Breaking Work

#488: Jacob Morgan is the international best-selling author of 5 books, keynote speaker, and professionally trained futurist. His passion and mission is to create great leaders, engaged employees, and future-ready organizations. Jacob is also the host of "Great Leadership With Jacob Morgan," one of the world's most popular leadership podcasts. His work has been endorsed by the CEOs of: Unilever, Cisco, Mastercard, Nestle, Best Buy, SAP, KPMG, T-Mobile, Audi, Kaiser Permanente, and many others. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his amazing wife Blake, their two kids, and their two Yorkie rescue dogs. You can learn more about Jacob, contact him, and get access to his content by visiting TheFutureOrganization.com.

In this episode Jacob and I talk about quitting his job, how a cup of coffee changed his life, and we really go deep on vulnerability. How being vulnerable can help build trust, but also how leading With vulnerability is an entirely different skill set.

In fact, Jacob wrote a book on the topic called Leading With Vulnerability comes out October 3.

#487: Career change, fear and money.

Those concepts are tightly interlinked. Much of my work is trying to break the traditional conceptions of this trinity, so we can step boldly forth on our path. I've wanted to get the financial perspective nailed down for some time, but haven't found a financial expert that could really smash the way we think about money in times of change. Until now.

Richard Archer is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Financial Planner for ambitious, driven, and intentional professionals. He helps people make big financial decisions and transitions with confidence. Richard believes money is a tool and he helps his clients use their money to live authentic lives, not just save it for retirement. In fact he says, "if you die with $5M in the bank, I've failed."

Richard is here for all the exciting and courageous conversations around money, fear, risk, investment and using it as a tool to intentionally design your life. Welcome to the show, Richard of Archer Investment Management.

#486: How do you get yourself to do hard things that you don't have to do? We all want to make big changes, but we often falter with the execution piece. Whether that's changing careers, losing weight or or completing our first triathlon. I think this is the central problem everyone who's ever attempted to start a side hustle faces. You want to do something new, but you don't HAVE to.

My friend Kathleen Elkins know a little bit about this problem. Kathleen's job as a correspondent at Insider, covering investing and the path to financial freedom is to get the stories behind every day people who gain financial independence. And to get to that point, you gotta do some hard things whether that's buckling down on debt, starting a side income stream or investing in real estate without knowing anything about it.

Also, Kathleen recently completed her first Ironman triathlon with a friend. Completing an Ironman is a master experience in getting yourself to do really hard things. Since I love Ironman, I wanted to have Kathleen on to detail her experience and what she's learned about herself and about the habits of everyday people who put themselves through the race to financial independence. I hope you enjoy this masterclass on embracing the process with the one and only Kathleen Elkins.

She started her career as an editorial intern at Business Insider in 2015, covered personal finance at CNBC Make It for four years, and returned to Insider in 2021.

She graduated from Williams College in 2014 and currently resides in Los Angeles.

#485: You well know that feeling of being trapped. I need to do something else, but I can't because . . .

Well, I'm going to let you in on a secret. That dread and anxiety goes away the minute you are confident in another option.

You don't even have to leave your job or get a new boss. All you need to believe is that you can say "adios" whenever you want.

So, here's 5 ways to increase your options so you don't have to give AF at work.

#484: I talk a lot about risk and uncertainty, but one of the most counterintuitive lessons I learned from my time in finance, entrepreneurship, and design is that there is an upside to uncertainty.

Sometimes chance encounters we never would have expected break our path and launch us in a better direction. These are our happy accidents.

Dennis Geelen is an accidental solopreneur.

After being laid off from his corporate job in 2018, he decided to bet on himself and launched a business consulting company, Zero In. Through Zero In, Dennis helped companies 'solve indifference' by implementing strategies to build a more customer-centric and innovative organization.

Author of the best-selling book 'The Zero In Formula', Mr. Geelen has worked with companies in several industries, spoken at countless events, conferences, workshops, and webinars, with dozens of guest appearances on international podcasts.

And now? Dennis also helps other solopreneurs get started. His latest book, 'The Accidental Solopreneur', and online course 'The Solopreneur Playbook' provide strategies and tactics for success.

Dennis is also the author of the Happy Accidents weekly newsletter and co-founder of the Solo Creator Summit. The Solo Creator Summit will take place September 20-21.

#483: Learn about how a laugh may have broken Mark Twain's suicide attempt and how this applies to you.

#481: Today I'm going to show you the three step, cycle of change you can use to make a habit out of changing yourself to hit your goals and transform your growth.

#482: Imagine hearing growing up and hearing metal shell casings hit the street. Imagine being abandoned by your father, and then later your step father.

Then imagine creating over $50M in sales for a niche finance company, only to create your own business so you could travel around the world and work from anywhere.

This is Jermane Cheathem's story. He could have been a victim like so many others in his early life. But he broke that identity. Instead he learned to trust himself, engineered his environment and built a bulletproof mindset that he could accomplish anything.

Today Jermane helps others find freedom and entrepreneurship by teaching them the niche world of equipment finance sales.

Jermane just blew me away with his enthusiasm and impenetrable mindset. This conversation definitely made me want to level up in many ways, starting with my mind!

#480: Sometimes all it takes for a break moment is a conversation with an old friend.

Gabe Marusca, was born in Romainia, and started on a typical life. Low paying job, dreaming about doing something else. Then a friend shared his entrepreneurial knowledge and changed broke Gabe path and changed his life forever. Now Gabe is known as The Nomad Solopreneur, was a freelancer for nearly 6 years. In 2016, inspired by a new outlook, he started his solo web design business, Digital Finest, becoming a solopreneur.

For over 4 years, Gabe has managed his business while exploring the globe.

He has lived in 10 different countries and visited 26, giving him a unique perspective on remote work, which he believes is the future of work.

Gabe's mission is to help 10,000 freelancers escape the "time-for-money" trap. He shares actionable resources on that through his social media channels and weekly newsletter. In January 2023, he launched The Nomad Solopreneur Show. A podcast where he challenges his guests to find solutions to freelancers' everyday challenges.

#479: We all dream of making a big change. We wonder how others do it. At the heart of making any change is the battle in our minds between belief and fear.

Having some fear is healthy, but too much paralyzes us. Having too much belief can lead us to make big mistakes. We need to be in balance, and the key to balance is seeing risk clearly and putting it in its place. We can't escape risk, but we can become comfortable with it.

In this episode, we will cover:

• How your biases affect risk
• Top biases to be aware of for better risk-taking
• Tactics for overcoming biases
• Top questions to ask to take better risks