Second Breaks

Second Breaks

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Second Breaks episodes

  • [49] Why Join an Accountability Group | Allison Lockett

    "Whether it’s coaching or getting an accountability partner, you still have to go back and do the work. The work is yours to do." —Allison Lockett

    Highlights of Episode 49

    • What is an accountability group and what it’s not
    • What makes for a good accountability partner
    • How to structure accountability meetings
    • Frequency, timing, and length
    • How to ask someone to be your accountability partner


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    36 min
  • [48] Why Understanding Your MBTI Helps Your Career with Alethea Fitzpatrick

    Highlights of Episode 48

    • What MBTI is and what it’s not
    • What natural preference means
    • Why it’s not bad to act out of our natural preferences
    • How understanding the team’s MBTI type can help improve team dynamics
    • Why we may test differently at different times of our lives


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    35 min
  • [47] From an IT Career to Teaching and Creating Art with Paivi Eerola

    Paivi Eerola had spent her entire life studying and working in IT. With a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, she spent her first professional years teaching other IT professionals.

    After a while, she moved to programming and later, to project management of large-scale IT integrations, and then to selling enterprise-level IT solutions. And as if all that wasn’t enough, she also went back to school to acquire a second degree in Industrial Design.

    But Paivi’s first love was art. Growing up in a small town in eastern Finland, she learned to draw as a child to while away the long quiet days. And although her IT career took off taking her to other directions, she longed to do something creative where she could connect with her rich inner world and imagination. In this episode, Paivi shares how her transition from an IT career back to Art happened.

    Highlights of Episode 47

    • The real reason why Paivi Eerola went back to school to study Industrial Design
    • How blogging—and specifically sharing her early drawings—helped her find and understand her audience
    • How her engineering background guided her approach to her artwork and helped her identify a product that became an early source of passive income
    • The surprising lesson she learned about herself from these transitions and why she considers it a gift
    • Why revisiting a book you liked as a kid can help you reconnect with your imagination and your view of the future


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    38 min

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Coffee chats with people I want to learn from — about life, work, becoming, and figuring things out (often in midlife, but not always). Hosted by Lou Blaser.