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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello, and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 230 with Lori Pickard.

I think you're really going to dig this conversation because apparently you're into

learning stuff using your devices like a smartphone like a podcast

apt etc and Lori Pickert has cracked the code on really making the most of

what's out there and what's available even so much so that she crafted her own MBA, Master of Business Administration, education

for a very low price. So you're going to learn one, all about MOOC's massive open online

courses. What are they? Where to find them and how to pick

the winners? Two, how to use loss aversion to avoid quitting online courses. And three, how to

build a prestigious network without going to a prestigious university.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced here,

you can find that over at awesome at your job.com slash F230. And while you're at awesome at your job.com slash up 2.30 and while you're at awesome at your

job.com I encourage you to check out some of our nifty resources one I just

put up recently it's in a hello bar it says hello it greets you right when you show up on a page. It's at the very top and that links you to a free trial of LinkedIn Learning which has a ton of these courses that we're talking about and it's very handy and a good way to get

set up for a free spend through all of that that away.

Now here is Lori's story when some of the most prestigious business schools

in the world began providing free versions

of their courses online, Lori Pickard

saw an opportunity to get the business education

she had long desired at a fraction

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