427 - Should You Choose a Safe Career or Follow Your Dreams?
The Marie Forleo Podcast
Marie Forleo
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🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Do you pick the “safe” job…or pursue your dream career? When life forces you to choose between security and inspiration, what do you pick? Here are 3 truths to help you decide — in business or life.
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| 0:00.0 | I've got something so exciting to share with you and if you're a business owner, you're going to want to pay attention. |
| 0:06.3 | Dream Business Boot Camp is back and it's completely reimagined for 2025. |
| 0:11.5 | This isn't just any workshop. It is a free three-day experience designed to help you take control, take action, and get the money and the freedom that you deserve. |
| 0:21.6 | It all starts February 11th and trust me, you don't want to miss it. |
| 0:25.6 | Head to dreambusiness bootcamp.com right now to save your spot. |
| 0:29.6 | 2025, this is your year, so let's make it happen together. |
| 0:35.6 | Should you follow your dreams or should you play it safe? |
| 0:39.5 | This episode will show you how to tune in, how to trust your gut, and make the best |
| 0:44.6 | decision for you. |
| 0:46.8 | Choosing a path because you think it's safe and it'll make you money will eventually |
| 0:51.5 | be deadly for your soul. |
| 0:54.1 | You know, when I started my business, I was enormously in debt, and I had to take on all |
| 0:58.4 | kinds of side jobs, and I lived on the cheap in order to get unstable financial ground. |
| 1:04.1 | You know what? |
| 1:05.1 | That actually took me seven whole years. |
| 1:07.8 | I made a lot of tough choices during that time. |
| 1:10.1 | I ate a ton of mac and cheese, |
| 1:12.4 | and I deferred big things like buying a house. And I am so glad that I did that because here's |
| 1:18.1 | what I've learned about business in three simple truths. Truth number one, never start a business |
| 1:24.9 | just to make money. Starting any business means a ton of hard work, |
| 1:30.0 | which I know that you know that fact. And if you're not 10,000% committed to it and have |
| 1:35.2 | some degree of love towards it, it's never going to survive. Now, yes, I know that there are |
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