414: Corporate Refugee Knew It Was Time to Go

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Douglas Heikkinen was in the hyper-driven financial world of the 1980s, in its heyday, with a powerful mentor who demanded his best. He loved it. But after 13 years, changes in the firm—and in himself—he knew the time had come for him to move on. The firm had become too corporate for his liking. An uncertain world of high risk and potentially great reward lay before him. He was thinking like an entrepreneur.

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.7	Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 414.
0:16.3	I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.5	Every day, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered
0:22.0	his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:28.3	He was in the hyper-driven financial world of the 1980s in its heyday with a powerful mentor who
0:34.1	demanded his best. He loved it, but the day came when Doug knew it was time to go.
0:39.4	An uncertain world of high risk and potentially great reward laid before him.
0:44.4	Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Doug Heikinen.
0:48.5	Welcome, Doug.
0:49.8	Thank you.
0:50.8	Doug, are you using.
0:52.1	Well, thanks.
0:52.8	It's our pleasure to have you on the show.
0:54.1	Are you using your talents doing work that you love?, are you using. Well, thanks. It's our pleasure to have you on the show.
0:56.5	Are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:57.4	Absolutely.
0:59.8	All righty, we want to hear the whole story.
1:04.5	Doug Heikinen is the co-founder and publisher of iris.xyc.
1:11.4	He has over 25 years of experience as a marketing and communications professional to the financial sector and others.
1:15.8	He's a defector from the corporate world, taking with him a thorough understanding of the mindset of capital business. He co-led two successful startups in 2004 and 2008,
1:22.6	M. Financial Wealth Management and Filligree Advisors, and in 2009, he successfully ran a Northwest brand design
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