How do you celebrate big changes in your life? Olivia Howell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fresh Starts Registry and March Lion Media. At Fresh Starts she helps people create registries for all their life milestones, not just weddings or having children.

In this conversation, we explore–

• The importance of making hard decisions & the support we need to make them

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Links:

• Visit the Fresh Starts Registry website 

What do you do when you know what you want to do? This week I’m talking to sustainability consultant and founder Eliza Erskine about what work looks like for her.

Eliza Erskine is the founder of Green Buoy Consulting, a sustainability consultancy that provides ESG consulting, strategy and B Corp certification to high-growth companies. In this conversation, we talk about sustainability in all levels of our careers, businesses and lives. Together we explore–

• What ESG is & why it matters

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Links:

• Connect with Eliza on LinkedIn

How does failure help us grow? And how does not knowing something make us even more experimental? This week I’m talking to people ops expert Lisa Zaythik about what work looks like for her.

Lisa is the Chief People Officer and part of the founding team at AppsFlyer. In this conversation, we talk about career growth, start-up growth, and personal growth. Together we explore–

• How Lisa transitioned from marketing to operations

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Links:

• Connect with Lisa on LinkedIn

What does it mean to do less while following your passions? This week I’m talking to creative coach and workshop facilitator Anne Ditmeyer about what work looks like for her.

Anne is American by birth and French by hard work. Pulling inspiration from her design background, she guides people through creative experiences—which includes mapping on bananas—to get participants out of their head and looking at the world in new ways.

In this conversation, we look at the world in new ways through the lens of creativity & work. Together we explore–

• Anne’s journey from designer to creative coach

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Links:

• Visit Anne’s website

Today’s episode is a little different than usual, because I’m getting personal and talking about suffering. This year has been hard for so many people, and I want to encourage all of us (myself included) to acknowledge our suffering and to admit that we might not be able to do our best work all the time. 

This episode is for you if you’re feeling overwhelmed, upset, exhausted or in pain. I hope it resonates, and if it does please DM me on Instagram! I love talking to listeners.

Links:

• The Gap - This American Life

How do you grow and challenge yourself without burning out?

This week I’m in conversation with Efrat Dagan. Efrat is the CEO and Founder of WorkAround, Strategic Talent Acquisition Services. Efrat has led Google Israel's Staffing for about a decade and managed the recruitment of six Google offices in Europe, including Israel, Russia and Northern Europe and Waze. Simply put: Efrat can help figure out your growth pains.

In this episode, we talk about—

• What work looks like for Efrat

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Links:

• Visit the WorkAround website (Hebrew)

This week we’ve got another Rooms & Words team member on the podcast! Madison T. Clark is a content writer and social media strategist with over eight years of experience in the communications sector. She’s an avid traveler, a long-time remote worker, and a full-time freelance writer.

Together we talk about–

• Madison’s freelance career & what work looks like for her

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Links:

• Visit Madison’s website

What’s your relationship with productivity? Are you working to grow at all costs or are you centering ease & joy in your day-to-day? 

Today I’ve invited Liron Lavi Turkenich back on the podcast to join me in conversation about our last episode with Jenny Blake and her book Free Time. 

Together we talk about–

• Reframing productivity so it’s not about growing at all costs

Liron shares so many amazing resources. You’ll definitely want to check out the links below, then please subscribe, rate & review the podcast wherever you listen. And subscribe to the LLW newsletter for more updates from Chedva!

Links:

• Listen to Jenny Blake on episode 14 of Looks Like Work

I love Jenny Blake’s book Free Time so much that my entire team is reading it together and implementing the ideas. So, as you can imagine, I am thrilled to have Jenny on the podcast today!

Jenny Blake is an author and podcaster who helps entrepreneurs move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. She is the author of Pivot and Free Time, which just came out in March.

In this episode, we talk about–

• The value of adding “founder time” to your week

I love this conversation so much. I hope you’ll listen and share it! Then tune in next week for a follow-up conversation with past podcast guest Liron Lavi Turkenich about how we’re implementing the book in our work and lives.

Links:

• Find Jenny’s book & podcast at itsfreetime.com

What does it mean to you to start from scratch? How often have you done it in your career or life? This week I’m talking to Osnat Benari. Osnat is a product strategist and builder and an active mentor for startups and young professionals. She is the founder of Web3 strategy & creative agency DragonsCanFly and the author of Starting from Scratch, a book about managing change and making smart career choices.

In this episode, we talk about—

• The three things you need to start from scratch

This conversation left me feeling so inspired to keep following my interests and starting from scratch. And now thanks to Osnat, I have a process to guide me.

Links:

• DragonsCanFly 

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