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#204: Allen Farrington is the co-founder of Axiom, a bitcoin-native venture capital firm.  He explains what it’s like working as an investment manager, the hurdles involved in creating an investment firm, and the skills you need to start a business. 

What you’ll learn

• [01:33] What venture capital means. 
• [03:06] The difference between private equity and venture capital. 
• [04:57] How Allen started working in investment management. 
• [08:35] The benefits of applying to jobs when not under pressure. 
• [09:48] What it’s like working as an investment manager. 
• [13:20] How some investment firms treat new employees. 
• [15:17] How Allen got involved with bitcoin and had the idea to start his own business. 
• [22:35] Transitioning from working for an investment firm to starting your own firm. 
• [23:10] The challenges of starting your own business. 
• [25:15] The levels of wealth you deal with in the venture capital industry. 
• [26:58] The skills you need to start a business. 
• [30:23] How to find investors for a new venture capital firm. 
• [31:18] Unexpected challenges involved in starting a bitcoin venture capital firm. 
• [35:27] The challenges of sitting on the board of a company you invest in. 
• [37:55] Common tensions between the founder of a company and its board of directors. 
• [40:08] The difficulty of creating an effective marketing message. 
• [43:12] The future for Axiom. 

Resources mentioned in this episode
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• Seeing Like a State, James C Scott
• The Art of Not being Governed, James C Scott
• Against The Grain, James C Scott
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
• Cities and the Wealth of Nations, Jane Jacobs
• The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry

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https://changeworklife.com/thinking-big-starting-a-multi-million-dollar-investment-fund-from-the-ground-up/

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#203: Steph Gillies is a Career Story Coach and professional writer.  She explains the non-linear nature of careers, the three stages of finding a new career, and how to make yourself stand out.

What you’ll learn

• [01:45] How Steph worked 32 jobs in 15 years. 
• [03:30] The fear of specialisation as a multi-passionate person. 
• [04:51] What makes someone a generalist. 
• [7:26] The opportunities to become a generalist within a specialised field. 
• [8:10] What it’s like working in short job positions with high turnover rates. 
• [9:40] Common thoughts to have if you’ve been laid off. 
• [12:06] How to combine jobs in your resume to improve the presentation.
• [13:40] How recruiters respond to combining jobs in your resume. 
• [15:18] The non-linear nature of careers. 
• [19:14] The three stages of finding a new career. 
• [20:38] How to identify what makes you unique. 
• [23:45] Why you should include your hobbies on your resume. 
• [24:37] How to gain clarity in what career you want to be in. 
• [27:21] The type of positions a generalist should apply for. 
• [29:26] How many types of jobs you should target. 
• [31:10] The best jobs for generalists. 
• [32:52] How to know what to focus on in your CV. 
• [36:10] Why your resume needs to be clear. 
• [37:55] What to write on your CV if you’ve taken time off to look after family. 
• [43:08] How to know what a job will be like. 
• [46:16] How generalists can change organisations. 
• [46:57] How long it takes to assess the suitability of an organisation. 
• [49:10] Writing entrepreneur resumes. 

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• Glassdoor
• Reddit
• How to be Everything, Emily Wapnick
• Change Work Life Coaching

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https://changeworklife.com/can-you-be-a-generalist-in-the-workplace/

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#202: Bill Aronson is a COO, CFO and expert on bridging the gap between technology and business.  He explores how metaphors shape the way we see the world, how our mindset affects our reality, and how we can use metaphors to improve ourselves. 

What you’ll learn

• [03:59] How metaphors shape our place in the world. 
• [04:31] Why humans have a brain. 
• [10:41] What a metaphor is and where they come from. 
• [14:56] How metaphors influence the way we act. 
• [16:16] The three metaphors that shape the way people live their lives. 
• [20:24] The three major influencers of our behaviour. 
• [23:20] The type of organisations that focus on the now. 
• [25:15] The power of an organisation's culture. 
• [26:48] How to use metaphors to improve yourself. 
• [28:10] Dissecting the metaphor ‘Banging my head against a brick wall’. 
• [32:14] The different aspects of freedom. 
• [33:38] Using metaphors to describe traumatic events. 
• [35:38] Questions you can ask to understand someone’s true desires. 
• [39:15] The importance of metaphors and ways to understand how you’re behaving. 
• [39:58] The difference between transformation and change. 
• [41:09] How mindset affects reality.

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• Selective attention test video
• “Loch Ness is a giant spirit level”
• I Is an Other, James Geary
• Metaphors in Mind, James Lawley and Penny Tompkins
• The Cathedral, Bill Aronson

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https://changeworklife.com/all-in-the-mind-how-personal-metaphors-shape-your-work-and-life/

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#201: Kelly Campbell is a Trauma-Informed Leadership Coach for emerging and established leaders.  She explains the different sources of trauma, how it can affect your work, and what you can do to heal your trauma.

What you’ll learn

• [02:01] Why Kelly became trauma specialised coach.
• [04:50] The trauma Kelly faced growing up.
• [06:31] Effective business characteristics that trauma creates.
• [07:37] How to identify burnout.
• [10:19] Unhealthy characteristics that are praised in a business context.
• [11:12] How companies should approach burnout.
• [12:49] What childhood trauma involves.
• [15:35] The compounding nature of trauma.
• [17:31] How to not internalise traumatic events.
• [20:45] How trauma presents itself in the workplace.
• [23:25] The importance of identifying underlying traumas.
• [26:20] The necessity of identifying the source of your traumas.
• [28:32] How to know you’ve successfully addressed your traumas.
• [30:30] How realistic healing your traumas is.
• [31:34] What you can do to heal trauma by yourself.
• [34:18] When to get external support for trauma.
• [35:20] The problems with talk therapy.
• [37:17] The type of practitioners that can help people with trauma.
• [41:26] What happens when you address your trauma.

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• CDC-Kaiser Permanente Study on adverse childhood experiences
• Bessel van der Kolk
• My Healing Menu

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https://changeworklife.com/how-trauma-affects-you-at-work-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

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#200: Al Elliott is a podcast host, mentor, business leader and friend.  Al and I explore how I transitioned from a lawyer to a career coach, the three stages of creating a business, and the lessons I’ve learnt from a year of self-employment.

What you’ll learn

• [03:40] How I transitioned from a lawyer to a career coach.
  [06:38] What it feels like to leave a career you’ve been doing your whole life.
  [11:33] Advice for people who are starting a new business.
  [15:52] The problem with having too many options.
  [22:28] Mentoring university students.
  [23:56] How to find the right niche for you.
  [26:30] How ChatGPT can help you find the perfect career.
  [28:44] The thought process you need to follow to find a well paid niche.
  [34:03] How to know if you’ll enjoy your career.
  [37:12] When you start a business should you enjoy it?
  [41:22] The difference between doing what you love and loving what you do.
  [44:56] The difference between a lifestyle business and a scalable business.
  [48:18] The type of people that are successful at building a scalable business.
  [50:07] The different motivations people have for starting a business.
  [52:49] How long it takes for a business to start making money.
  [56:36] How to validate a business idea.
  [59:32] Steps you can take to learn about what the market wants.
  [1:04:53] The three stages of business.
  [1:10:25] The type of people that are good at starting a business.
  [1:13:10] How to increase the number of conversions an email campaign has.
  [1:16:10] How to convert a conversation to an offer.
  [1:21:30] The experimentation phase of starting a business.
  [1:23:49] Lessons learned from starting a business.
  [1:27:53] How to use ChatGPT to practice conversations.
  [1:30:22] A review of what I’ve done in the last year for my business.
  [1:35:44] What I’m excited about and what I’m scared about.
  [1:39:37] The opportunities that come through networking.

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• Episode 178: How to keep mentally fit, move from surviving to thriving and avoid burnout - with Al and Leanne Elliott of Truth, Lies and Workplace Culture
• Samaritans
• University of Westminster mentoring
• My First Million Podcast
• The Millionaire Fastlane, MJ De Marco
• Unscripted, MJ De Marco
• Chris Cardell
• The Mom Test, Rob Fitzpatrick
• Ask, Ryan Levesque
• Smart Passive Income
• $100M Offers, Alex Hormozi

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/one-year-in-lessons-from-my-first-year-as-a-full-time-coach/

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#199: Sarah Burrows is an accredited Career and Business Coach who helps women lost in their careers discover a purpose-filled career or business.  She explains how Neuro Linguistic Programming can improve your confidence, the power of language, and how to change the way you view yourself.

What you’ll learn

• [01:42] What Neuro Linguistic Programming is.
• [02:49] The power of the language you use to talk to yourself.
• [03:33] Neuro Linguistic Programming skills that can make you feel confident.
• [04:36] How Sarah became a coach and NLP practitioner. 
• [06:31] What’s happening in our brain when we feel anxious or trapped.
• [07:43] How the brain has evolved to respond to danger.
• [08:46] How lacking confidence stops people from making a career change.
• [10:18] The danger of familiarity.
• [11:30] The most common causes of self-doubt.
• [14:15] Why we shouldn’t take other people's opinions at face value.
• [17:20] Typical thought patterns of people who need to be more self-confident.
• [21:00] How to know if it’s an excuse or a reason.
• [24:22] How and why to challenge your assumptions about a career change.
• [25:32] How to improve your self-confidence.
• [27:36] How to change the way you view yourself.
• [33:00] The self-fulfilling prophecy of self-talk.
• [34:39] How to align your physical sensations with your mindset.
• [37:15] How to reframe fear to excitement.
• [37:57] How support networks can help you build confidence.

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• ChatGPT

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/overcoming-self-doubt-and-building-the-confidence-to-change-career/

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#198: Ramon Santillan is a renowned interviewing expert who focuses on helping neurodiverse people ace their job interviews.  He explains the challenges neurodiverse people have in interviews, how we’re expected to act in interviews, and the different body language cues you should read and use.

What you’ll learn

• [01:30] How Ramon became an interview coach.
• [05:25] Why Ramon specialises in coaching people who are neurodiverse.
• [08:50] What neurodiversity means.
• [11:23] Challenges neurodiverse people have in interviews.
• [13:48] Common difficulties neurodiverse people face when selling themselves.
• [15:24] How neurodiverse people can understand how to act in an interview.
• [19:00] Exhibiting and reading body language.
• [21:46] Common interview questions that neurodiverse people struggle with.
• [25:06] How to make interviews conversational.
• [25:46] How to manage anxiety and overstimulation during an interview.
• [30:44] Whether or not to disclose your neurodiversity in a job application. 
• [35:35] What to do if you’re interviewing a neurodiverse person.
• [43:26] What interviewers look for in an interview.

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• Crazy Good Interviewing, John Molidor
• Who: The A Method for Hiring, Geoff Smart and Randy Street

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https://changeworklife.com/how-neurodiverse-job-seekers-can-ace-interviews/

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#197: Rob Dix went from investing as a hobby to becoming one of Britain’s best-respected finance experts.  He explains the problems with traditional financial advice, the three different types of investment motivations, and how to make financial decisions that align with your goals.

What you’ll learn

• [00:51] Common personal finance tips.
• [02:18] Why Rob wrote his personal finance advice book and who it’s for.
• [04:10] How the pandemic highlighted the money printing aspect of our economy.
• [05:51] The problems with classic financial tips.
• [08:15] Where people who aren’t financially literate should get help.
• [09:49] Why cash savings are less important than people think.
• [10:44] The myth of early retirement.
• [11:27] What you should focus on instead of saving.
• [12:18] Why you shouldn’t look forward to retiring.
• [14:55] The myth of risk minimisation.
• [17:17] The psychology behind investment strategies.
• [19:43] The way financial advisors view risks.
• [20:46] The benefits of using the traditional index fund approach.
• [21:19] How long it takes compound interest to create exponential growth.
• [22:50] The myth of index fund diversification.
• [25:38] The different ways to measure inflation and why CPI doesn’t help you.
• [27:45] The inherent risk involved in financial decisions.
• [29:42] The three different motivations behind investing.
• [30:40] The problem with buying a home as an investment.
• [34:55] How house prices change over time.
• [36:24] The danger of following traditional financial advice.
• [38:54] How to approach your finances without getting overwhelmed.
• [42:23] How to make a financial plan to meet your goals.

Resources mentioned in this episode
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• 7 Myths About Money, Rob Dix
• The Price of Money, Rob Dix
• Episode 26: How property investment can change your life – with Rob Dix of The Property Hub
• Episode 153: Inflation, interest rates and recession: what it means for you and what you can do about it - with Rob Dix of The Property Hub
• Change Work Life Coaching

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/7-myths-about-money-the-outdated-financial-beliefs-which-are-making-you-poorer/

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#196: Louise Kershaw is an Executive Coach who helps people find careers that align with their values and give them true career fulfilment.  She explains the different types of burnout, the early warning signs of burnout, and how to avoid experiencing burnout.

What you’ll learn

• [01:38] Why Louise left HR and retrained as a coach.
• [04:28] The different aspects of burnout.
• [05:13] How to work out if your career is right for you.
• [07:12] Why people get stuck in careers they don’t enjoy.
• [08:45] The definition of burnout and what makes it different from stress.
• [10:54] The positive aspects of stress.
• [11:27] What it feels like to experience burnout.
• [11:43] The different types of burnout.
• [14:34] How lack of progression can cause burnout.
• [15:39] The danger of being underworked.
• [16:57] How a lack of belonging can cause isolation burnout.
• [18:55] The pros and cons of remote working.
• [19:55] How being misaligned with an organisation's culture can cause burnout.
• [23:03] The negative effects of masking at work.
• [24:09] The early warning signs of burnout.
• [26:09] How untreated burnout can affect you.
• [27:39] What to do if you’re experiencing burnout.
• [28:40] How to distinguish drivers and values.
• [30:08] How to uncover what your values are.
• [32:37] How much of burnout is due to your mental state.
• [36:20] The crossover between different types of burnout.
• [38:19] How to avoid burnout and the danger of the arrival fallacy.
• [40:20] How different personalities flourish in different roles.
• [41:33] How to explain to your boss that you’re experiencing burnout.
• [46:25] The shame involved with experiencing burnout.

Resources mentioned in this episode
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• Job demands-resource model
• Emotional labor
• Burnout, Emily Nagoski
• Unstressable, Alice Law and Mo Gawdat

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https://changeworklife.com/the-four-types-of-burnout-causes-and-coping-strategies/

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#195: David Bell is a founder and director of PCD Group and has over 15 years of experience in advising high net worth clients on personal tax and financial planning.  He explains what goes into creating an effective networking event, what it’s like having a hobby that is also a business, and when to go full-time with a business you’re creating.

What you’ll learn

• [01:41] How the PCD Group helps professionals in the Private Wealth sector network.
• [02:55] The problems with cocktail party networking.
• [05:38] What goes into creating an effective networking event. 
• [07:31] The benefits of business cards and why some people don’t use them.
• [09:55] How David became an expert in networking.
• [13:45] The challenge of starting a networking group.
• [15:50] How to know which opportunities to focus on.
• [19:36] The intentional steps behind career changes.
• [21:41] Building sales skills and other lessons from previous jobs.
• [25:17] How to not take business changes personally.
• [26:18] Having a hobby that is also a business.
• [29:55] When to go full-time with a business you’re creating.
• [33:00] The benefits of having a fallback plan.
• [33:55] How the pandemic affected networking businesses.
• [39:15] How a business's finances change when it moves online.
• [41:56] The effort that went into keeping a networking business running during Covid.
• [43:26] The current state of the PCD Group and what the future looks like.

Resources mentioned in this episode
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• Wave Connect Digital Business Card
• Dixon Wilson
• Ingenious Media
• Merrill Lynch
• Lombard Odier
• “Life’s not a rehearsal”
• The Muppet Christmas Carol

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/building-a-business-from-networking/

Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!