Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

And I'm Laura Owens.

And I'm Sarah Owens.

And Sarah is my daughter and Laura's sister.

And she's joining us on this episode of Nobody

Told Me as we talk about millennials in the workplace with our guest, Adam Smiley Poswalski,

a millennial workplace expert and bestselling author of the book, The Quarter Life Breakthrough,

invent your own path, find meaningful work, and build a life that matters.

Smiley, thank you so much for joining us today.

Thanks for having me. It's great to be here.

Why did you decide to become a millennial workplace expert? And what exactly does that job involve?

Yeah, it's a great question. I think in classic millennial form, I didn't actually intend on setting out to be a millennial workplace expert. I kind of fell into it. I had been writing a lot about my own quarter life crisis and being stuck in a job that really wasn't the right fit. I used to work in federal government in Washington, D.C., for the US Peace Corps, which is a tremendous

organization, but I was kind of in this role that didn't really suit me and didn't really know

where I fit in. And I was, you know, 28 at the time, which is old, but not really that old,

but like many millennials, I was kind of going through this period of freaking out and comparing

myself to my friends on Facebook and social media

and not sure what I was going to do with my life. And I started writing and blogging about it a lot

and ended up self-publishing and then publishing a book about my quarter-life crisis and this

kind of quest for meeting in the workplace and what I was looking for and documenting the stories of a lot of other

young people that were unhappy and kind of didn't know why.

And that actually turned into this work as a millennial workplace expert because I found

that there was actually a lot of interest and demand on the corporate side, on the company

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