Do you REALLY want to turn your hobby into a career?

Mental Makeover

Lauren Curtis

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This episode might make some people uncomfortable because it goes against the saying "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life". I think that statement is very naive and ignorant to the reality of business and being your own boss, and gives people a false sense of hope that monetising your passions will always end well. The truth: it might have the opposite effect. In this episode I talk through why I feel that sometimes hobbies should be left as just that: hobbies, and why the opportunity to make money from them should only be considered if you're primarily driven by financial success, or business success, and NOT happiness! I hope you enjoy, and please don't forget to subscribe, rate and review! THANK YOU :)

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0:00.0	Hey guys, I'm Lauren Curtis.
0:02.2	I'm a social media influencer with over 7 million followers across my platforms.
0:06.5	The Mental Makeover podcast shares relatable, honest and actionable advice on all things happiness,
0:12.4	body image, self-love, relationships, spirituality and reaching your goals.
0:17.8	Hey guys, welcome back.
0:26.7	Today, I want to chat about a, it wasn't really a question. I guess it was a question. I asked people on Instagram at Los Curtis what they would like me to speak about
0:33.4	on my podcast and someone wrote, would love to hear about if you've had reservations about staying in this line of work.
0:41.6	Sometimes when we've built something for ourselves, like an agency, business or in your
0:45.6	case, an empire, it feels like we have pressure from everyone to stay in it and we forget
0:50.4	that we chose it ourselves.
0:52.3	I doubt I've explained this very well, but I'd love to know
0:55.1	if you've experienced this, and if so, how do you deal with it? It's a great question, and it's
1:00.8	something I definitely relate to in more ways than one, and I'm sure pretty much everyone listening
1:10.3	to this can relate to on some level or may
1:14.6	relate to it in the future. So I studied photography my first year out of high school. I absolutely
1:21.9	loved photography. It was like my only hobby. It was just what I did in my spare time.
1:27.8	I loved nature photography and like macro photography.
1:31.4	So it made perfect sense for me to then study photography at TAFE afterwards.
1:36.2	It was what I wanted to do for work.
1:39.6	It just made perfect sense.
1:41.3	I mean, everyone always says if you do what you love, you'll never work
1:45.5	a day in your life or something like that. So I was like, okay, then cool, I'll study photography.
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