Ambition Within Cynicism: Organizing Creative Chaos with Abbi Miller

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Katie Dalebout

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4.9 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week, I talk to business strategist Abbi Miller about navigating pivots in both personal and professional life. Abbi was on the podcast five years ago, and her perspective on time management, which she calls Time Pessimism, is a concept I’ve found helpful ever since. Since then, much has changed for her both personally and collectively (including becoming a mom). In this episode, we catch up on everything she’s learned since then, including how to work with the muse when it strikes and how she sets up systems to support that flow. We also discuss how to deal with cynicism and find ambition again, and her strategies for effective quarterly goal-setting. Plus, Abbi gets me to open up about some of my own career changes and how I’ve been navigating them within my life. And you can hear me talk about it more on her show, where she had me on as a guest too.

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0:00.0	Do I base what is worthy of my time on the past or the future?
0:12.0	Do I replicate, rinse and repeat what has worked, or do I dream and forecast and live
0:20.5	into what has yet to be?
0:25.1	Okay, hi, welcome back.
0:28.0	This week I talk to a friend of mine, Abby Miller.
0:32.3	Maybe she's a friend of yours too.
0:33.8	It's rare to have a repeat guest at all, although I seem to be doing it more than usual lately,
0:41.8	catching up with friends and using this as an opportunity to do so with you eavesdropping.
0:46.2	But Abby's been on the podcast before several years ago. She's actually been on a couple times.
0:51.9	We talk about it in this, but we did a live episode together in Austin that maybe some of you are still listening now who were listening back then and came.
1:02.5	It was really, really fun.
1:04.0	It was right before the pandemic.
1:05.6	And anyway, Abby's great.
1:08.3	It was awesome to reconnect with her. And she reached out to have me on her podcast,
1:13.4	which if you want to go listen to, it's a part one of this in a way. Or it'll give you some,
1:22.6	if you can listen to this one first, it'll give you some insight on some of the things that I bring up here because,
1:28.2	as you can tell, things have been sporadic at this program. If you are someone who's been
1:36.4	listening for a while, you maybe noticed or maybe didn't. I don't, you probably didn't. Who am am i to think you noticed but in case you did you're
1:47.0	about to hear a little bit about what has been going on for me and how i've been dealing with some
1:55.5	feelings of cynicism and loss of ambition but also having some lofty goals at the same time.
2:03.7	And in this, Abby gets me to open up a bit, and you get to see how she supports people as a business strategist, which she is.
2:15.1	And we talk about pivoting.
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