Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.

Number 641. I'm your host, Don Hutchison. Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone around the world

who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction,

and freedom. On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business

development who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners

along their journeys. I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert, Dustin Peterson. Welcome, Dustin.

Thanks, Don. Glad to be on the podcast today. Yes, we're delighted to have you on the show. A few

words about Dustin. He's the author of Reset, How to Get Paid and Love What You Do, founder and CEO of

Proof Leadership Group and a career coach. After working an unfulfilling job in public relations,

he set out to find his passion and live it, learning along the way the steps to identify

purpose and articulate talents. He now dedicates his time to helping others discover

their best fit career. He has taught and trained leaders at Rice University, Indiana University,

and UNLV, and has trained, coached, and consulted for numerous organizations in the private,

public, and nonprofit sectors. He completed his MS and educational leadership from Indiana

University and his BS and communications at Brigham Young University, Idaho. He lives in Houston

with his wife and four kids. Well, before we get into today's topic, which is fascinating in my

world, choose your career from the inside out, not the outside in. Take just a couple of minutes

and tell us how you got here. Just give us a sort of a pithy summary of your career. Yeah, sure,

I'd be glad to. So much like some of the folks that I'm going to describe today, I made a decision

about my career based off of really limited information. So when I was at BYU, Idaho, I sat down with the career counselor at one point

and went in hoping this individual would be able to help me figure out what to do with my life. And I sat down with them and he said, well, tell me what you like to do. And I said, well, I don't know. I like people. And he said, good, good. Do you feel like you can relate with people? I said, yeah, I think so. And he said, boom, you should be in public relations.

And just like that, I chose it. And I said, well, then I'm going to go be in public relations. And Don, I did that, went through that major. And when I graduated, in fact, I was going through those classes, I thought, boy, this isn't really very interesting, but maybe it'll get better when I get into the work for it.

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