277. Career Talk: 7 Lessons I've Learned In 7 Years Of Self-Employment
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
If you were to tell me that I'd be loving being my own boss seven years ago when I got let go from my last job, I don't know if I'd believe you. For today's episode, I'm giving insight into how I got to where I'm at, and then I share seven lessons I've learned in this life chapter — and also answering listener questions like:
- What do I do for health insurance?
- How did I know that self-employment was for me?
- How do I create boundaries and work/life balance?
- The helpful tool I use to guide what work I do.
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| 0:00.0 | during the moments when that imposter syndrome kicks in that am I good enough for this? |
| 0:04.2 | Is this for me? |
| 0:05.9 | I stop and I ask myself, why not me? |
| 0:25.8 | What's going on, Herdlers? Emily Abadi here. |
| 0:27.0 | You are listening to episode 277 of Hurdle. |
| 0:31.2 | A wellness-focused podcast where I connect with everyone from your favorite athletes to top |
| 0:35.6 | experts and industry CEOs about their |
| 0:37.7 | highest ties, toughest moments and everything in between. We all go through hurdles in life, |
| 0:43.6 | and my goal through these discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and move |
| 0:48.7 | with intention so that you can stride toward your own big potential. And of course, |
| 0:53.8 | have some fun along the way. |
| 0:57.2 | Something that you have all let me know listeners is that you love a solo episode and I know |
| 1:04.8 | that five minute Fridays are just me behind the mic but there are different topics, different |
| 1:10.2 | things that I want to take the time to dive into mic, but there are different topics, different things that I want to take |
| 1:11.2 | the time to dive into, especially when there are a lot of messages coming in. So today's |
| 1:19.3 | episode is all about working for yourself. I'm giving you the seven lessons that I've learned |
| 1:26.6 | over seven years of self-employment. |
| 1:30.6 | And I'll get into all the particulars today. |
| 1:33.3 | So what I've been doing over the last seven years, what I was doing before I started working for myself, and answering a lot of questions that came in. |
| 1:43.2 | Ranging from, what do I do about health insurance? |
| 1:46.3 | Spoiler alert, it is not inexpensive. How do you manage your finances and plan? How do you structure |
| 1:52.4 | your days? And how do you balance your work and personal life when the lines are easily blurred? |
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