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David Jay and Nadia are joined by recovering lawyer, Amazon best-selling author, and life/business coach Caroline Greene. Caroline talks about the challenges working parents may run into while trying to start a business and how to overcome them. She also gives steps anyone can take to find work that is fulfilling.

Author and counselor David Blake Chatfield joins David Jay and Nadia to discuss his international best-selling book Taking Control: Cracking the Code to Happiness. Relationships play a central role in the book, because they really are one of the most important things in life and have a huge impact on your happiness. If you're in any type of relationship that doesn't make you feel good or you're sitting around waiting for someone to change, David has some advice for you. He tells you how to stop letting bad relationships with "friends," family, and others drag you down and start creating healthy relationships by being a person of integrity.

In this episode you will learn: why it can be difficult to accept people as they truly are, why you end up and stay in toxic relationships, what signs to look out when you're in a toxic relationship, how to remove yourself from an unhealthy relationship, how to create and maintain healthy relationships, and how to crack the code to happiness.

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David Jay and Nadia are back with author, international speaker and HuffPost contributor Maura Sweeney as she talks about getting out of your comfort zone to enhance your life and steps you can take right now to achieve personal happiness and fulfillment in life.

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Author and entrepreneur Damon J. Smith joins David Jay and Nadia to tell the story of how he came back from a career-ending injury as a professional athlete and went on to pursue other fulfilling career opportunities. The moral of the story is that sometimes the plan you have for your life has to change, and with the change of course, you may uncover opportunities you never even dreamed of.

In this episode you will learn: how to approach figuring out your next career move, what it is like to work in Silicon Valley and how to navigate the tech hub as a minority, and how to reinvent yourself in your career.

View the show notes at http://weirdthingcalledlife.com/54 to get in touch with Damon.

David Jay and Nadia discuss careers, or lack thereof, and give unconventional gigs or projects that you can mix and match to make your own unique career.

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Does the start of the new year have you thinking about finding a new job? Both David Jay and Nadia recently started new jobs, and in this episode they discuss actions you can take to get the job you want in 2016. The suggested tactics have helped the hosts advance their careers and move into new positions. If you're interested in working for the federal government, David Jay offers job search tips and covers some of the perks of being a federal government employee. As a former consultant, Nadia sheds light on working on government contracts.

In this episode you will learn: four important things you should do to find your next job—determine your ideal position, tell everyone you know that you're looking for a job, gain the skills and credentials to make you a great candidate for the job you want, and connect with people in the industry online and offline; how to start a federal government job search; what it's like to be a federal government employee; and how to gain government work experience without being a government employee.

View the show notes and let us know where you are in your job search at http://weirdthingcalledlife.com/52.

Happy New Year! David Jay and Nadia kick off 2016 by speaking with dating coach Veronica Grant about how you can find a special someone by Valentine's Day by dating yourself to find the right partner.

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Certified Financial Planner Sophia Bera joins David Jay and Nadia to answer common questions millennials have about money and personal finance, including how to improve your financial situation and prioritize your financial goals.

In this episode you will learn: what steps you can take to get your finances in order, start saving, and paying off debt; how to work with a financial planner and the common financial decisions a planner can help you with, such as how to manage your student loans, get out of credit card debt, and enroll in your company's 401K retirement account; how and when to start saving for retirement and how much to save, how to start investing outside of a retirement account, when to rent vs. buy a home; when's the right time to buy a home; important money lessons you should have learned, but probably didn't; what actions you can take before the end of the year to reduce your taxes for 2015; and how to be proactive in your career and increase your income with a side hustle.

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Think you're funny enough to make a living out of it? David Jay and Nadia talk to comedian Chuck Roy about what it takes to be funny and how to get paid from it.

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Many of us experience a period in our twenties and early thirties when we're not content with where we are in life and feel stuck. Could this be a quarter life crisis? This week's guest, author, life coach, and speaker Christine Hassler, explains what a quarter life crisis is and shares her experience going through a crisis after having a successful career in her twenties as a Hollywood agent. Christine learned a lot during her own crisis, and instead of keeping that knowledge to herself, she uses it to help young adults get through their crises.

In this episode you will learn: what a quarter life crisis is, why a quarter life crisis should be seen as an opportunity for healing and transformation instead of something to fear, what actions you can take to work through your quarter life crisis, how to truly find happiness, how overparenting has negatively affected generation Y, why young adults experience “Expectation Hangover,” and how the relationship you have with yourself affects your quality of life.

View the show notes and tell us about your experience going through a quarter life crisis at http://weirdthingcalledlife.com/48.