The Portfolio Career Lab

In this episode, I sit down with pro football player and financial advisor Dimitri Stanley. Dimitri, a former wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, explains the mixed reaction to LeBron’s Polymarket deal within the athletic community and what these betting platforms are really designed to do to consumers.

Connect with Dimitri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitri-stanley-big14/

Support my work: The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform.

Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/

This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. The sponsor was Manual Override. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. Narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.

Remember when we all genuinely believed B Corps and a DEI task forces were going to fix capitalism? I know I do.  My guest in this episode is the founder of 3Bears Kai Algar.  Kai and I revisit the millennial business cringe that was a hallmark of the 2010s, the anger that started percolating in the 2020s as we realized how little had actually changed, and the different model for business that's beginning to emerge in response: mutual aid networks.

Connect with Kai: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaialgar/

Support my work: The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform.

Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/

This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. The sponsor was Manual Override. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. Narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.

In this episode, I sit down with former Meta Senior Software Engineer Chanel Johnson to talk about outgrowing and ultimately walking away from her career in Big Tech. We get into the grief of leaving behind something you spent years working toward, what it means to redefine professional success, and how Chanel has pivoted to education to tackle the AI literacy gap. We also discuss the polarized conversation around AI, why we need more nuance in how we talk about these technologies, and what the tech industry could learn from the educators preparing the next generation to use them.

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This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. The sponsor was Manual Override. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. Narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.

This last and final part of this US midterm episode series is about a topic that impacts all of us as portfolio careerists: healthcare.

My guest today is Brad White. Brad is a former teacher and school founder who now runs a fractional consulting company that serves the education sector called Updraft. Brad recently came home from a family trip to a letter from his insurer, Blue Cross, Blue Shield letting him know that his premium was going from fourteen hundred dollars a month to two thousand

He shares how he and his family are weighing the benefits of two W-2 job offers that came through in the last couple of weeks, versus keeping the doors open on the fractional business that he's run now for four years. We also talk about raising kids with two self-employed parents and how he and his wife make big financial decisions together.

Connect with Brad:

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-white-58320669/

Updraft Education: https://www.updrafteducation.com/

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The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform.

Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/

Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://linktr.ee/BrieAbramowicz

Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab

This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. This season’s narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.

I personally HATE the phrase "keep politics out of work". Work is inherently political, and yet we're constantly being told to keep our political beliefs separate from our professional lives. Which raises a really interesting question that I've personally been wrestling with leading up to the midterm elections. What does it actually look like to use your portfolio career to stand up for the issues you believe in? I certainly haven't completely figured that out for myself yet, but I wanted to talk to people who have. In this second episode of the series pertaining to the election here in the US.

In this episode, I sit down recently with Miami-based HR director Natalee Rivero, founder and board member of Cubanos Pa'lante, for a heartfelt conversation about the federal racial gerrymandering lawsuit her organization brought against the state of Florida with the help of the ACLU. We also get into the personal side of this story, navigating a cancer diagnosis and job loss in her family while fighting for a democracy, in which, as she puts it, "the books aren't being cooked" when it comes to voting.

Connect with Natalee:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataleerivero/

Cubanos Pa'lante: https://cubanospalante.com/

Support my work:

The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform.

Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/

Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://linktr.ee/BrieAbramowicz

Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab

This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. This season’s narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.

In this episode, I sit down with Heidi Hackemer, a brand strategist living in rural Pennsylvania. We discuss how opposition to a proposed data center in Wayne County is bringing neighbors together across political divides to regulate the data center's construction.

Connect with Heidi:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidihackemer/

Heidi's Data Center video:  https://lnkd.in/p/gCB7UJUS

Support my work:

The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform.

Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/

Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://linktr.ee/BrieAbramowicz

Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab

This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. This season’s narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.

 In this episode, I sit down with Heidi Hackemer, a brand strategist living in rural Pennsylvania. We discuss how opposition to a proposed data center in Wayne County is bringing neighbors together across political divides as they work to develop a county ordinance regulating its construction.

Connect with Heidi:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidihackemer/

Heidi's Data Center video:  https://lnkd.in/p/gCB7UJUS

Support my work:

The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform.

Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/

Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://linktr.ee/BrieAbramowicz

Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab

This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. This season’s narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.

What if building a successful business online has less to do with cracking the algorithm and more to do with trusting your own taste? In this episode, I sit down with Heather Barnett, a commercially savvy and hilarious, B2B copywriter based in the UK.  We discuss Heather's unorthodox strategy for creating content for Linkedin and Tiktok and how that creates pathways to speaking and freelance copywriting gigs.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherebarnett/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@heatherbarnettb2b

The Cauliflower Brain Video: https://lnkd.in/p/gTg4r_pE

Support my work:

The Portfolio Career Lab is an an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, culture, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. It's mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform.

Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/

Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://linktr.ee/BrieAbramowicz

Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab

This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz and sponsored by Manual Override. Audio engineer by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. This season's narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.

When I first started building a portfolio career, it was kind of a fringe thing to do. That’s no longer the case. There’s a whole economy now of online businesses and courses glorifying leaving your 9-to-5 job.

In the premiere of the 4th season of https://www.instagram.com/rukiyaross/

Support my work: The Portfolio Career Lab is an an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, culture, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. It's mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform.

This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz and sponsored by Manual Override. Audio engineer by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. This season's narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with the esteemed Siona Peterous.

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This episode is a pre-recorded webinar hosted by my friends from Hello Generalist. I share a bit about the thesis of the book as well as get into some of the big ideas from the book that now power my coaching business.

If you’ve been thinking about writing a book or are considering starting a newsletter, this is a great starting point for turning those big ideas rattling around in your brain into a body of work.