Episode 552 of the Read to Lead podcast is an encore presentation of what was originally episode 286.

Escape the 9 to 5, create a life you love, and still pay the bills with Marianne Cantwell.

I see branding and strong communication as politeness.

I think it's a way of not asking someone else who has just met you to do all the work to figure out who you are and to assume that you're so important that they should do that.

Thank you for joining me.

My name is Jeff, and this is the Read to Lead podcast.

It's dedicated to your personal and professional growth.

My hope is to help you bridge the gap between what you intend to do and what you actually do.

That's why we read the books that we do. Each and every week, we sit down with a successful and inspiring author, and we dig

into his or her latest book and their unique insights on a number of different topics. We're being

joined today by author Marianne Cantwell. She's written a book called Be a Free Range Human,

escape the nine to five, create a life you love, and still pay the bills.

Marianne says that between working a job and being, say, a startup entrepreneur, there's a space in between,

where we can spend the majority of our time doing things we truly love and get paid for it at the same time.

I'll be asking Marianne to share about what she means when she says our weaknesses are actually strengths, but just in the wrong environment, the

importance of starting with what you have and why it's important to ask yourself why you need

what you think you need, what she's learned about things like standing out from the crowd

and personal branding and much, much more. In contrast to that, I'd like to share with you a new podcast or a podcast new to me that I

recently discovered.

It's a show that helps grow your skills and impact at any job that requires thinking

and collaborating.

That's just about every job, right?

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