368. How to find your dream career in your 20s ft. George Appling
The Psychology of your 20s
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Find your dream job in your 20s is no easy feat, in fact your dream job probably doesn't exist, but you CAN determine what kind of career path is best for you based on your personality. Today we have on George Appling whose research on the 5 career paths can help us determine where to next! Our discussion includes:
- The five main career paths and what they entail
- When should you pursue your passion & when should you pursue financial stability?
- Why money doesn’t always make us happier
- The necessary role of failure and experimentation when finding purpose
- How to become a “passionpreneur”
- What Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran & Matthew McConaughey have in common that makes them successful?
Plus so much more, listen now!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Jemma Spike and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk |
| 0:15.4 | through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology. |
| 0:27.9 | Hello everybody. Welcome back for another episode of the podcast. It is so great to have you |
| 0:33.3 | here back for another guest episode as we break down the psychology of our 20s. |
| 0:38.6 | One of my favorite things about running a podcast is that I get to just like have these |
| 0:44.0 | hour long conversations with people who have just done really cool, really unexpected |
| 0:49.2 | things with their life, things that I can honestly say I don't think anybody else has ever done. And today we have |
| 0:57.1 | one of those people. George Appling has a Harvard MBA. He was the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. |
| 1:04.3 | And he now runs one of the world's largest Renaissance fairs. He runs a beer business. He owns a ranch in Austin. |
| 1:13.8 | Between those two timelines, he has also done a dozen of other really cool, interesting things, |
| 1:20.4 | all because he understands this theory of matching your career path to your personality and your identity. In fact, through his own work and |
| 1:31.1 | his own research, he's actually identified the five types of careers people are drawn to and how we |
| 1:37.6 | can use this theory to identify what we should be doing with our lives at this very moment. I am so excited for you |
| 1:46.8 | guys to hear our conversation. I'm so excited to have him on the show. Without further ado, |
| 1:51.4 | George Appling, welcome to the psychology of your 20s. Thank you so much for coming on. |
| 1:56.4 | Thank you, Gemma, for having me. Yeah. I'm super excited about this one as we were talking about before we started recording. |
| 2:03.6 | I've spoken to you for a little bit here, but can you tell the listeners about yourself and about |
| 2:08.6 | what you do, what you like, who you are? |
| 2:10.6 | Sure. |
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