859. Like Nature, Liz Abhors a Vacuum

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Liz Kislik is a problem-solver. "Every six months I was promoted into a new job because I would do the job before I was promoted to it. I, like nature, abhor a vacuum. There were always other things that needed to be done, so I would just start doing whatever wasn't working right. And then the management would promote me." She rose to Executive Vice President by age 29 in a telemarketing firm, but she quit that job at 30–without a plan of what she would do next. A few days later, her phone began to ring.

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.6	Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:14.3	I'm your host, Don Hutchison.
0:16.7	Every Monday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:26.8	On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.
0:37.8	I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Liz Kislik.
0:41.6	Welcome, Liz.
0:43.2	Thanks, Don. Glad to be here.
0:45.2	Good. It is our pleasure.
0:46.8	Liz, are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:50.7	Absolutely.
0:52.2	All righty. We want to hear the whole story. Liz Kislik is a management consultant, an executive coach, and a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review in Forbes. She helps family-run businesses, national nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies like American Express, Girl Scouts, Staples, Jansine Pharmaceuticals, and Highlights
1:13.3	for Children, solve their thornyest problems while strengthening their top and bottom lines
1:18.7	in the process. She's delivered a TEDx on why there's so much conflict at work and what you can do
1:24.6	to fix it and has served as adjunct faculty at NYU and Hofstra University.
1:30.2	Well, Liz, that's a summary of your exciting career.
1:33.4	Tell our listeners around the world what you're engaged in right now that has you motivated and fired up, if you will.
1:40.5	Okay, so I'm particularly interested in some work I'm doing with some of my clients now in the area of succession planning.
1:50.7	This is really crucial in organizations of all sizes and it's particularly important in family businesses.
2:01.5	And you get to deal with what's going on in the business, what's going on in the family,
2:09.5	and what's going on in each individual's work life and life and think about the future and take into account how everybody
2:20.7	feels.
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