In episode 32, we're joined by Peter Bond, the head men's basketball coach at Azusa Pacific University. In his first season, he led the team to a 25-4 record and a #6 ranking nationally only to find out on the eve of the NCAA Tournament that the postseason was cancelled due to #COVID19. On this week's episode, we talk with Peter about the highs and lows of his first year, how he got into coaching, and the biggest disciplinary mistake he made in Year 1. Join us! And Go Cougars.

Prior to the interview, hear about Kent sneaking into the Amazon offices and whether the new work-from-home normal will actually make work perks feel like perks again (vs. a consolation for spending your whole day in the office).

• Follow Peter on Twitter: @coachpeterbond
• Follow the APU cougers: @apucougars and @apubasketball
• See an epic shot of Coach Bond in action: https://athletics.apu.edu/staff-directory/peter-bond/9

"Have surfboard, will travel." That basically sums up what our guest this week has been up to for the past decade. Ben Weiland joins us -- a filmmaker and illustrator who has traveled the world in the name of cold water surf exploration. Does your Dream Job include obscure travel to some of the coldest and most unforgiving places on earth...to film surfing? Then Ben's your guy.

The results of his work have been breathtaking. Films such as Arc of Aleutia, UNNUR, and Under an Arctic Sky -- which have been featured in top film festivals.   Hear more of his story on the pod this week. And then head over to his Instagram @benweiland for links to some of his recent work.

We hear Ben's story this week. Join us

• Find Ben Weiland on Instagram
• UNNUR on YouTube
• Arc of Aleutia Trailer
• Under An Arctic Sky website
• Chris Burkard on Instagram

“How can we make it more fun, cool and profitable to solve problems?”

That’s the guiding question that spans multiple #dreamjobs -- at Uber, Lyft, and now Homie -- for this week’s guest: Kris Cuaresma-Primm.

This episode covers it all - from Kris growing up in a hippie commune in Hawaii, to becoming student body president at UC Berkeley, to relentlessly pursuing individuals (making them binders, writing them letters) he admired and wanted to work for (including Leigh Steinberg, the inspiration for Jerry McGuire!), to tackling major social topics through tech in Las Vegas. 

Kris drips with conviction and mission - we dare you to listen to the conversation and NOT leave motivated to run through walls to make your job more fun and mission-driven.

#bestoneyet #missiondriven #communeliving #homie #lasvegas #socialimpact #career #onpurpose #bindersfullofdreamjobs #dreamjobpodcast

What do you do when your decade-long dream of winning the Tour de France comes to a premature end in your early 20s? You turn around and co-found one of the most successful companies in the history of the New Zealand tech sector. (400+ employees, $130 million in annual revenue, and - as of this recording - a market cap of over $2 billion.)

Or at least that's what you do if you're Eliot Crowther, our guest on the podcast this week, and the co-founder of Pushpay. Eliot is one of those guys who oozes passion and purpose in everything he does, and that comes through loud and clear (and Kiwi-accented) in everything he shares during our conversation. We talk about...

• The challenges of starting and then running a transoceanic organization. (Pushpay has offices in Seattle, Colorado Springs, and Auckland, NZ.) 
• The "tension" between living your values and doing what's required for your business. 
• How he knew when it was time to step away from the company he started.
• The difference between happiness and joy (#MoreMoneyMoreProblems)
• And a lot more! 

Give it a listen and let us know what you think! And then get #BackToWork. 

• Pushpay's website

“I did my first birth and it was like the light coming on, or the match striking, and I knew this was the path I needed to go on..”

Not all of us experience moments of clarity that lay your dream work before you - but learning from those who do is what this podcast is all about. 

Our guest this week is Vanessa Garey, midwife nurse practitioner, certified doula, and podcaster extraordinaire. We learn all about her path to finding birth as a calling, and take genuine inspiration from her ability to succeed in 3 dream jobs with a family of 4 kids!

We reflect on people who just have the ‘motor’ to drive multiple jobs at once, how even professed dream jobs aren’t a panacea and present real tradeoffs, and a bit on our own experiences with life’s most sacred moment! 

This is also week 2 of the @atyourcervixofficial podcast takeover of The Dream Job. When this podcast started, the over/under on Kent & Onnie even mentioning the word cervix was 1.5. Let's hope you had the over.

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• Vanessa on Instagram
• At Your Cervix on Apple Podcasts
• At Your Cervix on Instagram

"Software engineers are going to rule the world one day, and if you're not going to be one of them, you need to be friends with them."

Sage advice from our guest this week, Denae Bauer, who - as the Global Training Program Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) - will surely be identified as "one of the good ones" when the software engineers do finally rise up and assume their rightful role as rulers of the free world.

While being a global training manager at a gigantic tech company may not sound like the most purpose-driven of jobs, Denae does a great job of pulling out the specific things within her job that connect directly with her passions: building community, helping people develop new skills, and traveling. We talk a lot on the podcast about how "dream jobs" have as much do with what you bring to them as they do with what the jobs actually entail and Denae clearly brings a TON of passion and enthusiasm to her role at Amazon. We also talk to Denae about her experience co-hosting the At Your Cervix Podcast, which she describes as an ongoing conversation between her and her friend Vanessa (our guest next week!) about all things all things women’s, mental, and sexual health.

From a discussion of "nightmare jobs" to recommendations about how often it's okay to cry under your desk at work to a conversation about the things that happen when toddlers start talking about "their parts"...we pack a lot into the episode this week. Give it a listen! And then get #backtowork

• Denae on LinkedIn
• Denae on Instagram
• At Your Cervix on Apple Podcasts
• At Your Cervix on Instagram

What happens when you leave the cushy path of business school and consulting to launch an experiment in human connection and vulnerability?

We had no idea (and we admit the idea made our pits sweat a little) until interviewing Romi Elan, founder of Soulplay Festivals – a community that invites you to experience a new way of being through heart-opening connection, personal expansion, blissful dance, and deep reflection. Soulplay brings people together to connect, explore new things, and grow.

A recurring theme on the pod is that Dream Jobs aren’t a panacea – in fact, the path to work that's meaningful and satisfying may be more difficult than the status quo. In this episode, we touch on: the challenges of choosing meaning over material, the power of expectations (societal, familial, cultural) in shaping our choices, and the trade-offs so many of us experience in corporate life, namely the challenge of succeeding AND being vulnerable.

Join us as we take off the masks this week and get vulnerable!

#backtowork

Here's how most of us approach the tragedy of human trafficking: we watch "Taken" twice, share a Facebook post about how some kid definitely ALMOST got trafficked from an IKEA parking lot, and then vow to home school our kids until they're 25.

Here's how Emily Kennedy approaches the tragedy of human trafficking: she founded an artificial intelligence company that uses facial recognition to help law enforcement agencies reduce investigative timelines and successfully catch and prosecute traffickers. (Resulting in the successful identification of 3,800 trafficking victims in 2019 alone.) She gives keynotes across the country and around the world (and before Congress!) on the realities of human trafficking and the role each of us can play. She gets recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, one of Entrepreneur's Most Powerful Women, and a Toyota "Mother of Invention." And oh yeah...she does all of this before the age of 30.

Emily joins The Dream Job this week to talk about her first encounter with trafficking at the age of 16 and how that grew into a passion that has guided her career ever since. She talks about finding her voice and leading with confidence as a female founder in industries (tech and law enforcement) that are typically dominated by men. And she saves time at the end to debunk the Wayfair trafficking conspiracy and offer practical ways for anyone to join the fight to end trafficking. It's a powerful and important conversation. Give it a listen! And then get #backtowork.

LINKS:

• Marinus Analytics Website
• Emily's personal website
• The Empower Podcast with Emily Kennedy
• Polaris Project
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Ever considered leaving the corporate life behind for a life of freelance? Us neither...

That is, until our conversation this week! It turns out freelance can be *much more* than the, transactional life of upwork, fiverr, guru, taskrabbit, hourly nerd, mechanical turk, or any other of the multitudes of ‘marketplaces’ for labor out there. Who knew?

Rachel Cross is who. Rachel worked for 12 years in corporate marketing jobs before stepping out into solopreneurship. She gave herself 6 months of runway to launch a firm and land her first client. The Rachel K Group, has thrived since – with Rachel at the helm as the ‘Chief Business Sherpa’ (we think that means CEO), specializing in launching brands, developing world-class marketing communications, and helping creative professionals start the solopreneur business they’ve always dreamed of.

Join us as Kent and Onnie talk through the challenge of small talk during COVID, propose a ‘corporate America Bingo’ card, and then get flat-out inspired by their conversation with Rachel.  

#backtowork 

LINKS:

• Rachel on Instagram
• Rachel on LinkedIn
• Rachel's Company's website
• Rachel's website
• Quitter by Jon Acuff (book referenced)
• Start With Why by Simon Sinek (book referenced)

Whether or not you're a fan of craft beer (and if you weren't a fan before 2020, honestly...what else will it take?), we can all acknowledge that the growth of the craft beer industry was unquestionably one of the defining food and beverage trends of the 2010s. The number of craft breweries in the US skyrocketed from around 1,500 to north of 8,000, and - in the process - Americans learned that beers could come in different colors beside "dehydrated urine yellow." We learned that bars could be built around things besides sports games and local cover bands. We learned not only how to pronounce gose, but also what they taste like. (Editor's Note: they're disgusting.)

Our guest on the podcast this week was there for all of it. After starting as the weekend bartender in Half Acre Beer Company's taproom, Lee McComb did just about every job in the brewery before eventually becoming the Specialty Beer Manager overseeing Half Acre's program of award winning small batch and limited release beers. (They have nearly 250 different rated beers on Beer Advocate!) 

From a simple hobby to a decade-long career, Lee has been able to translate his interest in home-brewing into not only a profession but a true craft. Lee shares a few of the things that make Half Acre so special as a brewery, the impact #COVID has had on their business, and how he balances good beer vs. good business. Give it a listen while #daydrinking at your desk this week. And then go out and buy a six-pack from your favorite local brewery! Let's all get through this mess together. 

• Lee on Instagram
• Half Acre on Instagram
• Half Acre on the web