The Venture Life with Riley McGhee

Tara’s story is both inspiring and educational... and potentially terrifying if you’re not big on taking risks.

If you’ve ever given any thought to a career in the music industry, you know that despite your dreams of making it big in the music business, it’s downright hard.

If you’ve always known exactly what you’re supposed to do in life, then there’s a really good chance that you haven’t tried to do it yet.

Former Navy SEAL John Allen credits much of his success (and his life) to having the help and support of a strong and capable team around him, but it wasn’t always smooth sailing.

Have you ever wondered what your purpose is? Who you’re meant to be? Etc?

It was a big decision to leave behind a solid career in corporate, but Blaine decided to take the leap anyway.

Today’s episode is packed full of business advice, transparency, and lots of laughs. This conversation is so much fun and so effortless - which makes sense considering Whitney is a networking expert. She works as a success and mindset coach and is also the host of her own podcast, which you’ll hear about in today’s episode.

Em is an artist and designer who specializes in helping brands to tell a story through their visuals. She spent three years as a Chief Creative Officer in the tech scene, but as of April 2018, she founded Taurean Trade, a small nomadic design company where she gets to work with people around the world both in person and remotely.

Burt Giges is a bit of legend in the field of sport psychology. Nicknamed the "Yoda" of the field, Burt has studied how people change for over 50 years. Aside from his professional expertise, he has a wealth of personal experience, having traversed three distinct careers in his life time. As a physician & medical researcher, a psychiatrist, and then finally as a sport psych practitioner, Burt has made countless personal and career decisions that have lead to an astonishingly successful and inspirational life-long journey.

If you’ve ever felt like you were stuck in a job or a career that wasn’t a good fit for you, or maybe there was just something that didn’t feel right about it, Andrew proves that you can do something about it.

Having stumbled out of college and into a corporate sales job, Andrew climbed the ladder pretty quickly to build what most would call a successful and stable career. But, after some life altering circumstances he decided to quit his job in order to help a group of guys he’d never met film a documentary on the other side of the country over the course of a year.

Today, Andrew is back on the east coast living in Philadelphia and working as a freelance videographer. He’s also the man responsible for editing the short clips that you see on social media for @theventurelife and needless to say, he’s loving the process and the journey.

In this episode you’ll get to hear Andrew’s story of how he came to be where he is today, and what some of the challenges were that he faced along the way.

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