Ditch your passions and start with purpose says Laura Simms
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Laura is an expert in meaningful work who challenges conventional wisdom by asking people to ditch their passions and start with purpose. She left her dream career to help people quit their dead-end jobs, find careers that feel like home, and start businesses that make a difference.
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| 0:00.0 | What's Shaken Fire Nation? |
| 0:03.5 | JLD here and welcome to episode 1739 of EO Fire. |
| 0:09.4 | Right now it's today's most inspiring entrepreneurs 7 days a week. |
| 0:15.2 | Check out our free podcasting course so that you can create, grow and monetize your |
| 0:20.4 | podcast free podcast course dot com. |
| 0:25.0 | Now I'll show it today's featured guest Laura Sims. |
| 0:28.7 | Laura are you prepared to ignite? |
| 0:31.1 | Yeah let's burn it up. |
| 0:32.2 | Yes. |
| 0:33.0 | Laura's an expert in meaningful work who challenges conventional wisdom by asking people |
| 0:37.4 | to ditch their passions and start with purpose. |
| 0:40.4 | She left her dream career to help people quit their dead end jobs, find careers that feel |
| 0:45.0 | like home and start businesses that make a difference. |
| 0:48.5 | Laura take a minute, fill in some gaps from that in-show and give us a little glimpse |
| 0:52.0 | of your personal life. |
| 0:53.7 | Yeah so today I'm a mom. |
| 0:57.2 | I've got a hilarious three year old son. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm going to be celebrating my 10 year wedding anniversary this year. |
| 1:06.1 | And I guess for me to be able to sit in my home office and talk about the work that I do |
| 1:12.4 | in the family that I have is such like a far cry from where I thought I might be. |
| 1:20.2 | Several years ago I used to be an actor and I was in that career for about a decade and |
| 1:24.8 | really really loved it until I didn't. |
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