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November 06, 2022299: Juggling Risk and Pursuing Passion while Pivoting in a Recession with Adrian Klaphaak
When times are uncertain should we be playing it safe? We all have a different relationship to risk—and recession-talk tends to turn the dial up on anxiety about what the future has in store. Today, I’m back in conversation with Adrian Klaphaak, talking about how to be pragmatic, taking the economic environment into account, while also keeping a flame lit for pursuing our bigger dreams.

More about Adrian: Adrian Klaphaak is a coach, purpose guide, entrepreneur, and founder of A Path That Fits Career and Life Coaching. His coaching approach is holistic—a constant balance between getting results and a quest for meaning and fulfillment. He describes himself as “a deep seeker with a constant itch to make things happen.”

Are you looking for a little support and guidance on finding your purpose, or best next step? Check out Adrian’s Career Pathfinder Program and use the code PIVOT for a special offer on the group training.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
Your calling can evolve over time and adapt to your changing situation. Be open to altering or amending your immediate next steps to meet current needs while still working towards your ultimate purpose.
Even when it’s not a good time to make a big change, you can still plant seeds for the future: cultivate your relationships, enhance your skills and abilities, and start a new project.
We ask a lot of careers: that they provide for us financially, fulfill our emotional and aspirational goals, and meet our social needs, among other responsibilities. If your career can’t do all of that, the solution might not be to replace it but to add what is missing elsewhere.
✅Next Action: Take a success inventory for something you are feeling insecure or unsure about: What gifts has this area given you? What have you gained? When you listen deeply, what’s in you that wants to be expressed? Identify what is working, and decide from there if you need to make changes.

📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Life After College
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgess
🔗Resources Mentioned:
Adrian on the web, Yelp, Facebook, LinkedIn
Course: Career Pathfinder
Video: Finding Your Calling by a Path the Fits
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
283: What Are You Here to Do? How to Find a Path That Fits with Adrian Klaphaak
288: Embracing Uncertainty — Mic Flip with Adrian Klaphaak
114: “Failure is the Frame, Not the Picture”

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48 min
October 30, 2022298: Networking in a New Niche and Becoming Broadway Investors with Dorie Clark and Alisa Cohn
Have you ever gotten a sudden sense of certainty that you need to pursue something — maybe something totally different than your career or typical areas of interest?

I had the pleasure of podcasting in-person with today’s guests, Alisa Cohn and Dorie Clark, to learn more about how their interest sparked to co-found a Broadway theater investing company together. Building upon their successful careers in the business arena, we talk about what it’s like to start from scratch in a new industry when it comes to networking, investing, collaborating, and experimenting.

More About Dorie: Dorie Clark helps individuals and companies get their best ideas heard in a crowded, noisy world. She is a keynote speaker and teaches executive education for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School. Dorie is the author of The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World (her latest), Reinventing You, Stand Out, and Entrepreneurial You.

More About Alisa: Alisa Cohn has been coaching startup founders to grow into world-class CEOs for nearly 20 years. She is the author of From Start-Up to Grown-Up. A one-time startup CFO, strategy consultant, and current angel investor and advisor, she was named the number one “Global Guru” of startups in 2021 and has worked with startup companies such as Venmo, Etsy, and more. She was also featured on Tim Ferriss’ podcast in episode 539, where she shared publicly for the first time that she coached his team for several years

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
When you’re starting something in a new industry, build your network in that direction by hosting, not just waiting for invites.
Try Alisa’s go-to opener for conferences—so simple it’s easy to skip: “Hi, my name is X, What’s yours?” At networking or professional events, most people are there because they want to make connections.
On failure: There is a difference between asking yourself, “Did you make a good decision?” and, “Did you get a good outcome?” If you are confident in your decisions, the outcome becomes less important.
✅Next Action: Host an event in the next few months where you can bring together a variety of people who wouldn’t ordinarily meet each other, ideally in an industry you are passionate about (even if you’re new to the space).

📘Books:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business,
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Life After College
From Start-Up to Grown-Up: Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your Business by Alisa Cohn
The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark
🔗Resources:
Dorie on the web, Instagram: @dorieclark, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube
Alisa on the web, Twitter: @AlisaCohn, LinkedIn: @AlisaCohn
Alisa’s Podcast: From Start-Up to Grown-Up
Videos: The Real Reason You Feel So Busy and What to Do About It (Dorie's TEDx talk), How to Start Investing in Broadway Theater
Podcast Recording: Gotham Recording Studio
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
058: Monetize Your Ideas with Dorie Clark
066: Create Multiple Streams of Income with Dorie Clark
033: Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following with Dorie Clark
297: How to Create a Failure Resume
Free Time 043: From Start-Up to Grown-Up (and Coach to Author) with Alisa Cohn and 035: The Long Game with Dorie Clark

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1 hr 19 min
October 23, 2022297: How to Create a Failure Resume
What’s your favorite kind of failure? The question isn’t if you’ll fail or get rejected, but when. So don’t let it stop you from taking action or making decisions. Today I’m sharing more on a favorite practice that I’ve heard others espouse: creating a failure resume.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
Being afraid is fine. Ask, “Is it enough to stop you?” If the answer is yes, what can you do to sidestep that issue or shift direction?
How do you define failure? Are you thinking about quantitative outcomes like financials or metrics, or is your definition more qualitative?
Remember to consider the third side of the coin: the neutral middle where you can reflect, learn, and adapt.
✅Next Action: Compile your failure resume. List everything that you personally consider a failure, including a few rejections large and small. While you’re doing so, consider what the outcomes of those failures were: What did you learn? Who did you meet? What next action did it inspire?

📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel Pink
🔗Resources Mentioned:
Jenny’s private BFF Community for Heart-Based Business owners
Submit your best do’s and don’ts by leaving Jenny a voicemail
Share this episode with a fellow Pivoter
Articles: Create a Failure Resume, Do You Keep a Failure Resume?, and Wearing Your Failures on Your Sleeve
TheFailCon.com
Videos: The Gambler, Three Sides of the Coin
Podcast: FLOPS: A Podcast About Failure
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
296: Top 3 Do’s and Dont’s When Leaving a Corporate Job
118: Union Theological Seminary—Reflections on My First Month of Grad School
123: Peeking Out from the Plateau — My Latest Pivots (and Why Plateaus Actually Signal Progress!)
60: How Emotionally Agile Are You? Strategies for Setbacks with Susan David
127: Live from the Vulnerability Hangover! Launching @LifeOfALebaneseArtist with Michael Karsouny
JB on SPARKED with Jonathan Fields
112: My 3 Biggest Business Regrets
114: “Failure is the Frame, Not the Picture”
019: Most Valuable Activities with Dave Crenshaw

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29 min
October 16, 2022296: Top 3 Do’s and Dont’s When Leaving a Corporate Job
We have had so many shakeups in the last couple of years that I’d be surprised if most of us haven’t considered pivots large, small, and totally surprising. Inspired by a thread in our BFF Community, I’ve put together a list of do’s and three don’ts for leaving a corporate job. How you leave any relationship is as important to how you begin, especially if there are personal or professional connections you want to bring forward with you!
If you’re all set, but you know someone who is in the midst of a big career transition, you can share this episode with them via pod.link/pivotmethod, allowing them to open the episode in the podcast player of their choice :)
If you have a question about navigating what’s next, leave me a voice note at Pivotmethod.com/ask »

✅ Do’s
Add work friends to LinkedIn while you work at your current organization. Even better, make a list and set reminders of the top 20 that you want to proactively keep in touch with over the next few years.
Craft a heartfelt message sharing what you’ll be up to in your next phase and ways to get in touch. Make sure to send one to your internal contacts and one to people outside of the company, like vendors you have good relationships with.
Spend time on your internal resume, focusing on reach, results, and impact of the projects you worked on.
Bonus: Create a guide to the role. What does the next person need to know? What will help them get up to speed? What would you suggest changing?
🚫 Don'ts
Leave the next team member in a lurch when it comes to your role and responsibilities. Create a transition doc with as much documentation and project next steps.
Fail to set boundaries for how available you will be to questions after you go. Decide in advance: how/when/for how long can people get in touch?
Worry if you need a month (or more) to downshift and decompress. If you can, take a pre-cation before starting your next opportunity, or you might risk a visit from the Furry Rest Monster!
Bonus: Don’t be hard on yourself if the next move doesn’t quite pan out…remember, decisions are data!
📘Books:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, Life After College
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
🔗Resources:
Jenny’s private BFF Community for Heart-Based Business owners
Submit your best do’s and don’ts by leaving Jenny a voicemail
Share this episode with a fellow Pivoter
Podcast: SPARKED by Jonathan Fields
Articles: Why You Should Take a Pre-Cation Before Starting a New Job and For Millennials, Is a "Pre-Cation" the Next Big Perk?
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
JB on SPARKED with Jonathan Fields: How to Choose Freedom Over Familial Responsibility, How to Scale While Staying True to Yourself, and How to Know When to Jump Into Your Side Hustle
Pivot 045: Post-Launch Pivot Point + Visit From the Furry Rest Monster
Free Time 125: How to Create Your Own CRM with Alex Sherwood

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26 min
October 09, 2022295: Create a Memory of Your Future Self — On Hypnotherapy with Inna Aizenshtein
Twenty years ago, my dear friend and today’s guest, Inna Aizenshtein, moved to New York City to pursue a career in fashion. She succeeded despite dealing with a succession of demanding, stress-inducing bosses and eventually realized she was no longer willing to suffer the health consequences of doing work that was no longer aligned. Today we’re talking about the many small shifts that led to a more monumental pivot into a completely different career, now running her own business as a hypnotherapist, leveraging the power of TikTok to attract clients.
More About Inna: Inna Aizenshtein is a hypnotherapist and coach who examines the role that shame and fear play in the unfolding of our lives. Prior to her career in hypnotherapy, Inna worked in the fashion industry for 14 years, most recently as a creative director. Inna initially became interested in hypnotherapy while searching for a healing modality to help repair her nervous system after years of physical and emotional burnout. She now helps people work through and release outdated subconscious blocks so they can reclaim their worthiness and become more magnetic, primarily through TikTok shorts (where she has over 1.5 million views) and in 1:1 sessions with clients.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
The subconscious mind is responsible for the majority of your actions and impulses. When you can access it, a huge amount of your own mind becomes available to you.
Creating a memory of your future self, seeing yourself having achieved what you want to achieve, gives you the feeling of freedom, health, and happiness. Then your body can help you understand how to get there.
Be willing to notice when a scarcity mindset kicks in. Remember to allow more to come to you. Life is a creative process, and nothing is wasted.
✅Next Action: The next time you’re “in the grip” of a stressful experience, change your state by first noticing how those emotions feel in your body, allowing all sensations to have their say. Name what you are experiencing, and if you can, journal on what you are going to do about it.

📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
🔗Resources Mentioned: Inna on the web, Instagram, TikTok

🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
016: Stacy Sims On Somatics: Why How You Sit Might Cause Stress
027: Intuition And Frequency With Penney Peirce
Free Time 111: Building a Second Brain with Tiago Forte
Free Time 137: Attracting Clients Through TikTok (without Letting the Algorithm Drive You) with Inna Aizenshtein

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55 min
October 02, 2022294: Confidence Conundrums and Attention Budgets with Terri Trespicio
“Creativity is a muscle, not a metric.” If you hold back because you’re afraid of feedback, you won’t have a life infused with creativity. After all, your attention budget is limited, so where do you want to spend it?
My friend Terri Trespicio is joining me today (in person!) to talk about navigating compliments and criticism, keeping our creative muscles strong, and slowly but surely building confidence along the way.
More About Terri: Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, brand advisor, and author of Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life That Matters to You (Atria / Simon & Schuster, December 2021). Her TEDx talk Stop Searching for Your Passion has more than 7 million views, and Hubspot named her one of the Top 18 female speakers who are killing it.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
If you can’t trust yourself, trust your audience — see what it feels like to be warm, open, connected, and vulnerable. This can go a long way in terms of how confident you feel and appear.
Uncouple wanting something from the idea of missing or lacking something. You can desire without coveting, and that wanting keeps us striving.
Having an intermediary can help you hold boundaries, especially when you know you may be likely to negotiate yourself down.
✅Next Action: Hit publish on something (anything!) even if you’re not fully confident in it yet, giving yourself the chance to be surprised.

📘Books:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, Life After College
Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life That Matters to You
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Think and Grow Rich
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
🔗Resources:
Terri on the web, Unfollow Your Passion, Instagram: @ttrespicio
TEDx talk: Stop Searching for Your Passion
Videos: Girl, You Don’t Need Makeup, What Female Military Leadership Can Teach Us about Overcoming Self-Doubt
Marketing Mentor: Ilise Benun
Jenny’s blog post from 2017: Self-Love Formulas Are Bulls**t
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
269: How to Stand Out When Everyone is Peddling the Same Sh*t with Terri Trespicio
277: Expansive Impact with Sarah Young
254: The Practice—On Generosity, Peculiarity, and Showing Up with Seth Godin
107: How to Know When You’ve Gotten Pricing Wrong with Jacquette M. Timmons
020: Pricing Psychology with Jacquette Timmons
123: “Pricing is Branding” — Anti-Time Management with Richie Norton
228: How I Run My Business Without Social Media

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42 min
September 25, 2022293: 🍝 Are you a Spaghetti-Twirler or a Spaghetti-Thrower?
Are you an asker or a guesser? In 2015 while I was deep in hermit mode writing Pivot while living in a tiny studio apartment in Nolita (North of Little Italy), a friend texted: “Hey, do you mind if I crash on your couch tomorrow night?”
To this day, I still feel somewhat bad about my answer . . . but every bone in my body was saying, “Yes, I mind.” I said no. Years later, I still wonder: Should I have rolled with the punches, accepted the spontaneous company, and just said yes?
Today I’m sharing a framework that changed my life when I first read about it in Jocelyn Glei’s book, Unsubscribe—the difference between ask culture vs. guess culture. Or, as I like to think about it, spaghetti throwers vs. spaghetti twirlers. Which one are you?

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
Would you go out of your way to initiate what someone just asked you for? If not, say no!
Build awareness about your own style: Are you a giver, taker, or matcher? A spaghetti twirler or a spaghetti thrower? If you know what you are by nature, you can respond to (and make!) requests more intentionally.
As Jocelyn Glei writes, “What if you stepped into the asker's shoes every time you got an email that felt like an imposition? Reframe the situation, put the ask in perspective, and consider the opportunity with a relaxed attitude.”
✅Next Action: Establish your own rule of thumb for asking and giving in your relationships. Do you want to wait for 10 touchpoints before making a request like Alex Rodriguez? A year of time like Dorie Clark? Find something that feels joyful and in integrity to you.

📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
🔗Resources Mentioned:
Articles: Tangerine’s (Andrea Donderi) reply to What's the Middle Ground Between FU!' and 'Welcome!'? and Oliver Burkeman’s Guardian column: Are You an Asker or a Guesser?
Podcast episode: Clearer Thinking—Ask Culture vs. Guess Culture
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
Free Time 035: The Long Game with Dorie Clark
Jocelyn Glei’s Hurry Slowly Podcast
254: The Practice—On Generosity, Peculiarity, and Showing Up with Seth Godin
205: Delightful "5-Star" Relationships with Marriage Coach Maggie Reyes
282: The Honor Roll Hangover with Melody Wilding

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17 min
September 18, 2022292: True Fun vs. Fake Fun with Catherine Price
“Fun isn’t just a result of human thriving; it is a cause.” Our guest today, Catherine Price, is breaking down the difference between True Fun (the intersection of playfulness, connection, and flow) and Fake Fun, the hypnosis of passive consumption.
Fun creates the ultimate flow state: a self-reinforcing cycle that helps us prioritize the things that bring us joy. Life isn’t all joy, of course, and we also talk about the nerves that can result from things like preparing to give a TED talk. We discuss overcoming those nerves and how Cathering gave one of the most well-received talks that year.
More about Catherine: Catherine Price helps people scroll less, live more, and have fun. She is a science journalist, speaker, and the author of books including How to Break Up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life and The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again. Catherine is also the creator and founder of Screen/Life Balance.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
Fun is a feeling, not an activity. It can result from anything, even trivial things! Seek out what gives you the feeling of playful connected flow.
What are your fun magnets? The situations, settings and groups you know are likely to be fun. If you identify where you’re the most likely to have fun, you can plan for it and enjoy it more often - but keep your mind open for unexpected, serendipitous fun, too.
Notice and call out the moments when you are having real fun. The more new experiences you have, and the more aware you are of the fun you’re having, the more opportunities you are going to have for it.
✅Next Action: Provided by Guest
Conduct a mini-science experiment on yourself to identify your fun magnets. Think of a few moments recently where you have felt true fun (playful, connected flow) and write them down. Do they have anything in common like people, setting, activity, and mood? Once you have identified something likely to be fun, try to schedule it for yourself in the next week. Notice if you have fun doing it, and what kind of impact it has on your energy and mood.

📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
How to Break Up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again
VITAMANIA: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food
Mindfulness: A Journal
101 Places Not to See Before You Die
The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook
🔗Resources Mentioned:
Catherine on the web, Instagram, Twitter
Personality Quiz: What's Your Fun Personality Type?
TED Talks: Why Fun is the Secret to a Happier Life, Flow, the Secret to Happiness
NYT Quiz: What's Your Fun Vibe?
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
281: Feeling Impostery? Become a Qualified Curator Instead of an Expert
251: Listener Q&A on (Furry) Imposter Monsters
228: How I Run My Business Without Social Media
059: Captivate: Secrets from Viral TED Talks with Vanessa Van Edwards

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48 min
September 11, 2022291: Free Time Crossover – Protect Your Idea Factory, Build a Creative Flywheel, and Go Behind-the-Scenes of Book Publishing with Todd Henry
Today’s episode is a crossover from the Free Time podcast. Enjoy!
Today’s guest is an expert in cultivating creativity — and in remaining consistent over the long arc of content creation. Todd Henry is the author of six books, and today we’re talking about how to stay motivated in the publishing industry, where the market reflects winner-take-all dynamics, and the long tail is verrrry long.
More About Todd: Todd is the author of six books, including The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Louder Than Words, Herding Tigers, and Motivation Code, and host of The Accidental Creative podcast and the Herding Tigers podcast. He empowers companies and teams to be creative, prolific, and brilliant in their work through his books, podcasts, and keynote speaking. Today we’re going behind the scenes His new book, Daily Creative: A Practical Guide for Staying Prolific, Brilliant, and Healthy, encourages you to thrive as a creative through daily practice.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
Solve a problem that people know they have; frame your products and services in terms of how they accomplish a job that people need done.
Your creativity is one of your most precious resources. Protect your Idea Factory and measure the quantity and quality of ideas you generate
Set Wildly Important Goals; Todd’s are: quality, awareness, and revenue diversity. Every day you should be figuring out how your work will help you achieve them.
📝Permission: Practice pruning; there’s probably something you’re doing right now that has already served its purpose and run its course. You hereby have permission to drop it!

✅Do (or Delegate) This Next: Outline your business model as a flywheel. For help with this, read Jim Collins’ fantastic monograph, Turning the Flywheel.

📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice
Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
Louder than Words: Harness the Power of Your Authentic Voice
Herding Tigers: Be the Leader That Creative People Need
The Motivation Code: Discover the Hidden Forces That Drive Your Best Work
Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
🔗Resources Mentioned:
Todd on the web, Instagram: @toddhenry, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
Todd’s Podcasts: The Accidental Creative podcast, Herding Tigers podcast
Articles: NYT on the long tail of book publishing: Will the Biggest Publisher in the U.S. Get Even Bigger?,
Video: Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED Talks: Your Elusive Creative Genius, Success Failure and the Drive to Keep Creating
Cal Newport: Write an Attention Charter
Disney Business Model
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
111: Building a Second Brain with Tiago Forte
123: “Pricing is Branding” — Anti-Time Management with Richie Norton
Pivot 051: Die Empty with Todd Henry
Pivot 088: Artist Seth Price on Finding Freedom in Bad Ideas, Balancing Commerce and Creation in Business
Pivot 254: The Practice—On Generosity, Peculiarity, and Showing Up with Seth Godin

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September 04, 2022290: May Cause Side Effects—Life After Antidepressant Withdrawal with Brooke Siem
“The [drugs] exist only for my mind, each orange prescription bottle a subconscious reminder that I Am Depressed and I Am Broken and I Need Fixing.” Brooke Siem returns to the podcast today to talk about her new memoir, May Cause Side Effects, and her conviction that: “It’s not my responsibility to edit my story for the sake of somebody else’s feelings.”
Brooke believes that you can recover from long-term chronic depression, and after huge trauma and grief—that your brain and your body are primed to be in a state of healing, but you have to help. We also discuss the writing and publishing process, and how she stays true to herself while discussing these sensitive and often controversial topics. If you haven’t already, you might consider listening first to episode 107: (Un)Medicating Grief—Recovering Feeling After Decades on Anti-Depressants with Brooke Siem.
More About Brooke: Brooke Siem is the author of the upcoming book, May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir, in which she reveals the messy reality of antidepressants and withdrawals. She is also an award-winning chef, Food Network “Chopped” champion, and co-author of the cookbook, Prohibition Bakery. Brooke understands first-hand how antidepressants are not the solution to combating depression; ultimately it takes deep self-work to come out on the other side of depression.
For the full backstory of her experience going on and off prescription drugs, listen first to our previous Pivot conversation: 107: (Un)Medicating Grief—Recovering Feeling After Decades on Anti-Depressants with Brooke Siem.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
Antidepressants don't help everyone, and there's nothing wrong with you if they don’t.
Similarly, roughly 50% of people will have withdrawal symptoms from antidepressants. That’s a huge chunk of people, and it’s not a reflection on anything about you if it happens.
Stream-of-consciousness writing can unearth surprising details and memories. If you set yourself a word quota and have to meet it whether or not you’re feeling inspired or on-topic, you can come up with some surprising ideas.
📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir
Prohibition Bakery
🔗Resources Mentioned:
Brooke Siem on the web, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn
Articles: Washington Post: I spent half my life on antidepressants. Today, I’m off the medication and feel all right. New York Times: Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit, NYT: This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She's Not Alone, NYT: What if the Placebo Effect Isn't a Trick?, Brooke's NY Post article: Why We Should Stop Casually Prescribing Antidepressents to Teens
Brooke on Medium
Videos: The Legacy Show: Taking Control, Chopped - Season 32, Episode 6
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
107: (Un)Medicating Grief—Recovering Feeling After Decades on Anti-Depressants with Brooke Siem
073: What's more important to you than perfection? With Jenny Blake
103: Strong Inside Out—Pivoting from OCD and Depression toward Mind-Body Alignment with Amy Clover
083: Pivot From Working in the Morgue to the Ministry with Former Forensic Pathologist Dr. Thomas Andrew
Free Time 079: Behind the Launch with Antonio Neves (Part 2)

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