864: How to Design a Career Portfolio that Beats Burnout, Navigates Disruption, and Future-Proofs Your Career with Christina Wallace
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Christina Wallace discusses the benefits of having a diverse work portfolio that will help you weather any storm.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to diversify your work
2) How to lessen friction and hit your flow
3) The three questions that surface your hidden needs
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— ABOUT CHRISTINA —
Christina Wallace is a human Venn diagram with a career at the intersection of business, technology and the arts. A writer, podcaster, serial entrepreneur, and erstwhile theater producer, Christina spent a decade building businesses in New York City. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, an active startup mentor, and angel investor. Christina holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and theater studies from Emory University and an MBA from Harvard. In her free time she likes to sing in choirs, climb mountains, and run marathons (slowly). She lives in Cambridge with her husband and their two energetic children.
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• Website: PortfolioLife.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower by Morra Aarons-Mele
• Book: The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton Christensen
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How To Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete Makaitas. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to Episode 864 with Christina Wallace. |
| 0:23.0 | Christina has a really cool perspective on how to design a career portfolio. |
| 0:27.0 | Not just one thing and all the cool benefits that flow from that in terms of beating burnout, navigating disruption, |
| 0:34.0 | being future proof in your career and your skills and where you're headed. |
| 0:38.0 | So you'll learn one, how to diversify your work. |
| 0:41.0 | Two, how to lessen friction and hit your flow. |
| 0:44.0 | And three, the three questions that surface your hidden needs. |
| 0:47.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced, please visit us over at awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep864. |
| 0:56.0 | And while you're there, check out some of our goodies from the Goldnugget email list, which summarizes the actionable wisdom. |
| 1:01.0 | Two, the full text searchable transcripts across all 864 of these episodes. |
| 1:05.0 | A lot of goodies are at awesomeatyourjob.com. |
| 1:08.0 | Now, here's some goodies about Christina. |
| 1:10.0 | Christina Wallace is a human-vin diagram with a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. |
| 1:16.0 | Christina is a writer, podcaster, serial entrepreneur, and former theater producer who has spent a decade building businesses in New York City. |
| 1:24.0 | She's currently a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, an active startup mentor, and an angel investor. |
| 1:29.0 | Christina holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and theater studies from Emory University and an MBA from Harvard. |
| 1:34.0 | And every time she likes to sing in choirs, climb mountains, and run marathons slowly. |
| 1:39.0 | She lives in Cambridge with her husband and her two energetic children. |
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