Build Your Portfolio Career

HBR IdeaCast

Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 27 July 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Kabir Sehgal, a corporate strategist, Grammy-winning producer, investment banker, bestselling author, and military reserve officer, talks about building and thriving in a portfolio career. He discusses the benefits of pursuing diverse interests, the tradeoffs and productivity discipline demanded by that career choice, and he offers tips for managing a schedule with multiple work activities. And he argues we should stop calling these second careers "side hustles." Sehgal is the author of the HBR article, “Why You Should Have (at Least) Two Careers.”

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
0:05.9	HPR's podcast Coaching Real Leaders brings you behind closed doors as Muriel Wilkins coaches anonymous
0:11.9	leaders through raw honest career questions
0:14.6	that we all face.
0:15.9	Listen and follow coaching real leaders for free
0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:32.8	I'm Sarah Green Carmichael.
0:35.3	The Gig Economy is one term for the way we're all supposed to work someday, juggling multiple jobs
0:40.6	at the same time.
0:42.2	Another word tossed around in media stories often is portfolio career,
0:47.0	which sounds a little fancier, and maybe a bit more positive, right?
0:50.0	You have a diversified portfolio of investments, and you can almost picture that leather
0:55.2	portfolio carrying all your sheaves of paper under your arm, that is until you trip and they
1:00.6	all go flying into the wind. Juggling jobs and building them into a career,
1:05.0	maybe it sounds exhilarating to someone who's tired of the daily grind
1:08.0	with the same old job, but can also sound really exhausting and scary.
1:13.8	So today you're going to hear from someone who's living and thriving in his portfolio
1:17.6	career.
1:18.6	Camille Segal is an investment banker and a Grammy winning producer.
1:22.4	He's also a best-selling book author and a U.S.
1:24.7	Naval Reserve officer. In his free time, he writes for HBR.org, which is how I came to know
1:30.0	about his kaleidoscopic career.
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