We're focusing on the topic and idea of resistance this month. And I suspect we'll return to it again and again over the coming years. Because as far as I can tell, it never goes away completely, and can resurface in sneaky ways- to the point that you might not even realize you're resisting something!

This week, we're wrapping up our August theme around Doing Work Around Something You Love. As with a lot of the stories we tell on the show, she's in the thick of figuring out how to merge her love of travel and new experiences with a business model that satisfies her – and pays the bills.

We rarely talk about the early stages of a new career or side project. How do people get started? What's it REALLY like as you go through it? It's sometimes rainbows and unicorns, but not all the time. I'm taking you through MY four stages of a new career right here, right now.

This week on Episode 014: Building Your Side Hustle With Focus and Sanity, we're talking with Mari DiChiara, Founder of Mari on the Map, a different kind of travel experiences and advice blog. I'll let her tell you more, but the big thing that makes me go back to the site almost weekly is that she really succeeds in making sure people with limited vacation time and dollars look back on the trip with really great memories and know that all of the travel experiences they had were totally worth their limited time off.

Alex Harper, CEO of Women of Culture, a women's arts organization in NYC, discusses creating what she's passionate about + juggling a full-time graphic design job. Our Day In the Life series continues with Alex's rundown of what it's like to be a graphic designer, too.

SO…..you wanna be a digital nomad, butttttttt:

• You don't know where to start
• You'll most definitely relegate yourself to a life of Cup O' Noodles and overdrawing your checking account
• Who are you to quit a stable job with a steady paycheck?
• You're the most undisciplined person ever and will binge watch "Glow" on Netflix all day

I could keep listing all the things that could possibly come up when you contemplate actually going for something that's been your dream for awhile now, but I think you're intimately aware of them all.

INSTEAD, let's do two things:

1. Grab our Bust Your Fear Worksheet here, which we talk about on the show

1. Turn to the Career Passport Podcast this week and talk to Erin Greenawald, who spent about six years as an editor of branded content for the Muse, a hugely popular career website for millennials. Erin quit the Muse and flew off into the sunset to become a digital nomad seamlessly and she lived happily ever after.

Sike. It didn't happen like that at all, and Erin is giving us the real skinny on how she realized she wanted to do this, how she pushed through resistance to stick to the goal and how she actually is working through structuring her life (hint: it's a work in progress).

"When it came to where I was professionally, my heart and my gut had different opinions (than my mind) on what I should be doing." – Erin Greenawald, on how she realized she wanted a change

If you've wanted to make a leap like this- or really trying anything new like a new entrepreneurial venture, for example, this show is a MUST. LISTEN. I'm going to include some of the gems here but to get the full raw beauty of this show, you gotta listen.

• When thinking about a big change, ask yourself: "Could you use what you have to give yourself the freedom to clear out what's not working and open up space to find what is working?"
• Structuring an unstructured life: It's trial and error and a lot of reevaluating
• The notion of patience around an unstructured move like this - a different perspective on career (and the impact of social media on your feelings on your career)
• What if EASE is a metric to help you define success? (Versus hours logged or 'working yourself to death"
• How to use authenticity to attract your tribe and potential digital nomad work
• Change is ongoing- it's not like most people wake up one day and say, "I'm making a change!!" and then they go full steam ahead with their plan with no reservations. There are ongoing hurdles and this is NORMAL.

Anyway, I'm going to hand it over to your earbuds now so you can grab the episode on your way into work. Maybe, just maybe, it will plant a further seed in you to take the smallest ittiest bittiest next step in your quest to be a digital nomad of some sort.

And don't forget- we're on a lot of other platforms now for the Podcast, in case you don't have iTunes. You can check 'em out below.

Show Notes (Timings are approximate)

2:15 How Erin realized she wanted to try the "digital nomad" lifestyle + imposter syndrome

5:20 The moment she realized she had to radically listen to her gut

7:00 Perspectives on change

10:35 "Sending Ships" Tool

12:30 Examples of Ships

16:00 What has clicked into place for Erin and what's she still working on?

18:00 The positives of 'moving home'

19:20 Structuring days as a digital nomad

24:50 Patience

28:30 Authenticity as a tool to attract your tribe and opportunities

30:45 Resources Erin consulted to figure this out

35:00 Rapid fire Travel Questions

Resources:

Agenda for 2017 Hustle Fest- at the New Women's Space

Angela Jia Kim's "Sending Ships" ToolCrisis Textline

Sheryl Sandberg's Career Jungle Gym – in Lean InErin's article on the decision to quit her job: https://grow.acorns.com/having-a-cash-cushion-allowed-me-to-quit-a-job-i-hated/

Books:

The Artist's Way- 12 week program on re-tapping into your creativity

Danielle LaPorte: The FireStarter Sessions

There's something for everyone in this episode, and I'm so excited to be able to share it with you.

We have Garvey Chui, Founder of the Verb Group, among many other things that you'll learn about in this episode, on the show this week to talk about two things:

• What it's like to be in Learning and Development, as part of our ongoing "Day in the Life" Series
• How to weave together a narrative that may seem "all over the place" to the untrained eye (and by extension, how to do all that you love in your work and life)

The Career Passport is about NOT having your dream job, and Garvey is an excellent example to underpin how important I think this crucial idea is.

Raise your (virtual) hand if any of the following has happened in the last week:

• You slept til the last possible second, missing breakfast at home and forgetting the lunch you packed.
• You raced into work like a bat out of hell and were thrown into a series of meetings and forgot breakfast….and maybe lunch
• You set aside time for lunch but it got hijacked by a meeting or someone else's agenda (And grab a listen to this episode on mindfulness and boundaries for additional resources on this)
• You were starving at work and only had sugary candy or salty crap to rely on
• You felt run down and/or exhausted.

I think most of us, myself included, have our virtual hands in the air right about now. The truth of the matter is that it's EASY to have any of those scenarios happen, but before you spiral into the depths of despair over that, it's also way easier than you think to stop that vicious cycle in its tracks.

Enter Jessica Cording, MS, RD, CDN and founder of Jessica Cording Nutrition. She works with individuals and corporations (like, maybe yours?) to help them feel better at work so that they can feel good, be productive and not want to crawl back into their bed the second they wake up in the morning.

We're talking with Jess about lots of goodies today including:

• How to make breakfast work for you (even if you're 'not a breakfast person)
• Her favorite "Non-Sad Work Lunches" that are easy to make and filling. You can grab the full recipes here.
• Her story: how she got into this field (in case it's a field of interest for you too!)
• How to meet yourself where you're at, rather than trying to force huge changes overnight
• Changing nutrition habits in your 30s, when you can no longer have a 20 piece bucket of KFC and be fine the next day (No? Just me?)

So do yourself a solid on the way home from work tonight and take a listen to this week's show. And then put ONE thing into place that you'll try this week to help yourself FEEL BETTER with food. And comment in the comments below with what you chose and we'll chat! Listen to the episode by clicking the button below

Jess's Intro: 1:50

Drama Free Healthy Living: 10:20

Jess's guiding principles: 10:45

What I Ate Wednesday: 12:00

Nutrition – how does it impact career? 13:20

Entrepreneurs and Nutrition: 15:40

Blood sugar management 18:35

Breakfast: 19:45

Nutrition baseline guiding principles: 20:50

The skinny on carbs: 24:20

Client success story: how someone turned it around…and how you can too: 25:55

Changing habits in your 30s: 28:50

Jess's fave healthy eats dish: 32:15

How to find Jess + Rapid Fire Travel Questions: 33:30

Jess's Non-Sad Work Lunches

Jess's Facebook Page for recipes and tips: https://www.facebook.com/JessicaCordingNutrition

Jess's Instagram: www.instagram.com/jesscording

Jess's site: http://www.jessicacordingnutrition.com/

The day ran me, rather than the other way around. This is how I used to live my life, when I'd tear into work like a bat out of hell and without stopping to take a breath or have a sense of presence, I'd plunge straight into the dozens of emails I'd invariably gotten since 9pm the previous night. Then I'd work (in a super stressed out way, thinking everything was urgent) straight through til the second I had to leave, when I'd race to the next thing.

Years later, I'm still dealing with the chronic pain those old pesky habits (and many others) have left me with. Which is why I'm VERY eager to share this week's Career Passport episode with you, "Your Presence Can Open Career Doors"

We have Minna Taylor, CEO and Founder of Energize Your Voice, on the show today to talk about how presence – both vocal and physical – can really open doors for your career and your life.

We're talking about all types of professional contexts where presence – or a lack of it – can be the very thing holding you back. And we're giving you tools to start making some quick fixes now. You can grab the tool we created for this show here, which has scripts and checklists for the scenarios we mention in the episode.

On the show, we're talking about:

• How to use presence to answer the often dreaded, "So, what do you do?" question
• How to own your upcoming interview
• What to do to show up with more presence at meetings
• Using presence for conflict resolution in the office
• Quick ways to use preparation to enhance your presence in meetings
• How a lack of presence and bad habits can 'show up' (and not go away!) in chronic ways over time

This episode is a must-listen for anyone who:

• Has been on tons of job interviews where they're perfect for the job, but can't understand why they're not getting call backs
• Is exhausted by all the running around and feels run by their day
• Is nervous to speak up in meetings and doesn't know when or how to interject a thought or idea
• Wants to progress their career and have been given feedback that they need to speak up or "own" more but they're not sure how or are afraid.

0:43 Introduction to Minna Taylor

1:30 How she got to be doing presence work

3:50 Why is having a strong presence so important for your career?

7:50 Bringing these unconscious behaviors to the conscious level

9:50 How do you handle the "What do you do?" question when you're between jobs or don't like what you're doing?

13:55 How do you own the interview process using vocal and presence techniques?

16:50 Using storytelling as a tool

17:50 How to come up with interview questions to ask your interviewer through curiosity and presence?

18:57 Other work situations –conflict resolution and meetings

27:00 Long-term ramifications of NOT having presence

27:50 Minna's Go-To Resources and tools

30:20 Minna's Workshops & Offerings for Personal Goals and For Companies

Our downloadable tool we talk through on the show!

Minna's Humming Series Videos

Minna's Workshop Offerings

Minna's Corporate Offerings

Improv Classes in NYC:

The Magnet- if you want community and lower stakes

UCB: More rigorous

The Pit

How to Find Minna:

Web: www.energizeyourvoice.net

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/energizeyourvoice/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/energizedvoice/