251: Taking the Leap Into your Dream…the Smart Way with Mike Lewis
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 18 January 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Mike Lewis shares his journey from professional private equity to professional squash and provides perspective on how/when/why to jump into what you really want to do.
You’ll Learn:
1) When it’s time to jump
2) The right mindset for taking your jump
3) Actionable ways to tune into your internal voice and deepest desires
About Mike
Mike Lewis is the Founder and CEO of When to Jump, a global curated community featuring the individuals, stories, and ideas relating to leaving something comfortable in order to pursue a passion. Launched in 2016, the platform has attracted millions of impressions through digital and print media, in-person experiences, and collaborations with leading brands including Airbnb and Lululemon. In January 2018, his book, When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn’t the Life You Want (Henry Holt Macmillan) releases worldwide. The book features over forty case studies with insights, frameworks and guidance around when to pursue a passion.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Mike’s Book: When to Jump
- Mike’s Website: WhenToJump.com
- Book: Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim
- Book: Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi
- Book: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Book: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 251 with Mike Lewis. I think you |
| 0:26.0 | will really enjoy hearing from Mike because he's a guy who's done it. Living the dream, |
| 0:31.5 | he's talking about what it takes to take that leap associated with |
| 0:35.6 | exiting something that's kind of comfortable and predictable into something |
| 0:39.5 | that's new and exciting and different that maybe you've been thinking about for a while but there's |
| 0:43.8 | some risk there. |
| 0:44.8 | So you're going to learn one actionable ways to tune into your internal voice and deepest desires. |
| 0:50.3 | Two, when it's time to make the jump and 3. The right mindset for taking your jump. |
| 0:56.0 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adams that we've referenced here, |
| 1:00.0 | that's on over at awesome at your job. dot com slash f two five one. |
| 1:04.0 | And while you're there, I hope to check out some of our cool resources, |
| 1:06.0 | one I'll point you to right now, |
| 1:08.0 | is the 10 days to winning at work email course. |
| 1:10.0 | So that is a collection of the most bite-size actionable tips from my enhanced |
| 1:14.7 | thinking collaboration training programs which historically have slashed on average |
| 1:18.7 | 86 minutes of waste per person per week out of there. So you got more free time to have cool strategic creative work stuff |
| 1:26.9 | or just head home early. |
| 1:28.2 | So that's over at awesome at your job.com, |
| 1:30.2 | the 10 days to winning at work email course. |
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