Worthfull Project

"When we are willing to take a read on the room every time we get into a workflow with someone else, that goes miles to help us make sure we are respecting their worth and that can be reciprocated back to us."

I've been learning a lot this year about showing up to my work in the way I want people to see me so that I attract the work I want -- which means the people I want to work with. It's relevant to me because I own my own business and choose my clients and co-workers but I think it's relevant to all of us because we all do work with other people and we want them to "get us" and our worth and respect it. I'm sharing 3 ways I've learned to work with people who get me, and no surprise, that means that I respect their worth first.

"It's a wild time for us reckoning with the effects of the media that we've created."

I am being a little tongue-in-cheek with the name of this episode because my company's name is Worthfull Media. However, it literally means media that shows someone's worth, which is my goal with all the work I do. As I've been investing in my own values-driven work and business, I've been thinking a lot about how we consume media and how it affects our worth. It's a wild web to untangle, but I think it's so worth it, and I'm sharing some of the ways I've learned to make worthfull media choices for myself.

• Rethinking Categories of Media blog post by Seth Godin
• Max Fisher episode on the Rich Roll p

"It's been really positive for me to trust that my worth is behind my intuition and energy and if I paid attention to it, it would guide me to the work that I'm best built to do."

You've maybe heard about Human Design as a trending way to understand your personality and energy. It's a system for understanding yourself that's been around for a few decades, but it's really hot right now in the world of self-development. I've been slowly learning about my own design for the past year or so and it's been really interesting and helpful for me to apply to how I work, what I work in, and what to pursue in my work. I wanted to share this on the podcast during our worthfull work season because I think the idea behind human design is very closely related to owning our worth at work.

• Human Design Blueprint
• Erin Claire Jones

"We work best in seasons. Our worth understands seasons."

I've been having the same conversation with friends and clients lately and it's about how we are humans, not machines, and that means we have different energy and productivity capacity in different seasons. That means seasons of the year, seasons of work, seasons of life, seasons of relationships, seasons of energy, and more. How much we produce will never change our worth, but it will change how we feel about ourselves, especially if we aren't honoring the season we are in.

"If you want to shift people's lives, do less."

I read something in an email from writer and book coach Alexandra Franzen last week that resonated deeply. She said, "The simplest product or service is often the best. If you want to shift people's lives, do less." I was inspired to record an episode on this idea for our season of worthfull work because I think it's key to owning our worth in our work. The myth of more has never been more dominant than now, but it doesn't mean that it's true.

"When we are doing worthfull work, there's an expansion that happens and a vulnerability that goes along with it."

You know the vulnerability that comes from making something new and inviting other people to see/watch/read/listen/use it? I've been feeling that this week as I mailed out invitations to the opening party of my new studio. It reminded me that the vulnerability of expansion isn't bad, but it usually shows up when we enter new waters in our worthfull work.

"Oftentimes the fog is super valuable, even if it's super uncomfortable most of the time . . . it's valuable if we decide to find value in it."

I'm sharing some perspective that I now have from the last year -- specifically how I moved from a foggy hibernation professionally to an energetic creative period with an abundant flow of clients. I believe that foggy hibernations can be very valuable and important, however uncomfortable they may be. But I also believe that it's really helpful to have some guideposts to follow as we step by step make our way out of them. That's what I'm sharing from my own life -- I hope it serves you in some way.

"It's so much more valuable within your career, and remember career can mean anything right now, to attach yourself to missions, ideas, and causes versus people, companies, and brands."

Because I've been reading and listening to some trend reports on our current economy, society, and culture, I've been thinking about how the inevitably of bubbles bursting relates to our worthfull work. We know from history that no hot item/brand/person/industry will stay that way forever. But if we have attached our worthfull work to missions and causes versus companies or people, it's not a big deal when the bubble bursts on the specific space we've been working in. We can gracefully shift into the new space we find opening and go on contributing our worthfull work over there.

"We don't have to be pro athletes to understand that bad things happen if you go all in for too long on anything, anywhere in your life."

I've been thinking lately about how much I've been told during my professional career that if I really want to be successful, I need to go all in. That idea has never fully resonated with me and I'm just starting to unpack why. Going all in is meant for sprinting - short intense bursts of focus or output. And for most of us, those moments are few and far between. Our worth knows that and reminds us that it's good to not go all in most of the time.

• EP 165 The Passion v. Skills Myth