Second Breaks

Lydia Lee, from Screw the Cubicle, doles out a ton of helpful and practical suggestions for anybody who's thinking of making a leap into entrepreneurship. Highlights of Episode 36 Lydia Lee’s career journey, the moment she realized she had to change direction, and how she made it happen What helped her the most during [...]

Anja Schuetz, the founder of Conscious Crypto Community, covers the basics: blockchain technology, the different cryptocurrencies, where to buy, where to use, and how not to panic when the market corrects itself. Highlights of Episode 35 What’s Blockchain Technology, what’s cryptocurrency, and the difference between the two Bitcoin, Dash, LiteCoin, Ethereum et al Where [...]

Highlights of Episode 35

• What’s Blockchain Technology, what’s cryptocurrency, and the difference between the two
• Bitcoin, Dash, LiteCoin, Ethereum et al
• Where to buy cryptocurrencies
• Where to use cryptocurrencies
• How to approach investing in cryptocurrencies
• What’s with the crypto valuation swings? Is this stable?

  

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Anja Schuetz, the founder of Conscious Crypto Community, covers the basics of cryptocurrencies, and how not to panic when the market corrects itself.

Topics Discussed in Episode 34

• How Ashlie Kennedy prepared for this career change by focusing on the numbers
• What pushed her to act on her store plans sooner than she planned
• What helped her the most during times of self-doubt and bouts of second-guessing herself
• The things that she’s learning now as a solo-store proprietor
• Prioritization, learning how to say ‘no’, and taking things one step at a time

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Ashlie Kennedy on her transition from a banking & finance career to becoming a business owner/proprietor of a home and gift boutique store in Amelia Island, Florida.

Topics Discussed: How Ashlie Kennedy prepared for this career change by focusing on the numbers What pushed her to act on her store plans sooner than she planned What helped her the most during times of self-doubt and bouts of second-guessing herself The things that she’s learning now as a solo-store proprietor [...]

Topics Discussed in Episode 33

• Why Alice Karolina Smith initially left design school even though it was her first love and how she found her way back to it
• The process she and her mother followed to decide her next steps
• How career limbo felt like for her, what was difficult about it and how she helped herself during those years
• How to get out of career limbo and indecision
• What she learned about herself following that period
• Why it’s important to ask for help

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We've all felt how it is to be unsure about our career direction. Alice Karolina Smith shares her experience with career limbo and how she eventually overcame it.

Highlights of Episode 32

• Why creating S-M-A-R-T goals doesn’t automatically make meaningful or resonant goals
• The secret to holding on and maintaining the commitment and motivation to work on your goals thru-out the year
• The reason why we set goals to begin with
• What it means when you set too many goals
• The problem with the mandatory annual-goal setting process at work and how to make it work for yourself
• The low-hanging fruits approach and why it may not be good for your self-confidence

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