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The Power of The Pivot | How to Embrace the Detours of Life & Realize You've Already Arrived


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Some have called me the pivot queen. As a riskier person by nature, it's been a bit less challenging for me to pivot than most people I've met and I have found that continuing to enhance our ability to shift direction swiftly is a massive life skill and deeply connected to masterful listening.

This episode dives deep into what it means to live a RAD life, that is, to have Really Awesome Detours and the courage to pivot when it makes sense. I share a pretty epic story about my journey through the corporate world, and how meeting the incredible Sam Shank, the founder and CEO of Hotel Tonight (now a part of airbnb) was another massive pivot that instantly reframed my relationship to failure.

Most people are afraid to pivot because they don't want to feel like they're failing themselves. What if failure was just as fulfilling as success? What if it's even better? Often pivoting gets equated with quitting and quitting gets affiliated with failure. I say, quitting is one of the smartest things I've ever learned to do. It's just about doing it at the right time for the right reason.

In this episode I invite you to embrace the powerful pivots of our one precious life. I dedicate this episode to the greatest pivot of my life, my canine companion Rad. I also dedicate this one to Dr. James Doty whose book, "Into the Magic Shop" that I speak about might have been the greatest pivot of my life. And, if you want to read more about the power of knowing when to quit/pivot/take a really awesome detour, I am linking the book, "The Dip" by another one of my greatest mentors, Seth Godin.

Here's to leading a RAD live and allowing ourselves to change course when we realize we might be winning the wrong race.

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Into the Magic Shop
The Dip

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Masterful ListeningBy Svetlana Saitsky