Encore: Too Many Graduate Students, Too Few Jobs

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Anna Cragin was halfway to her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, with visions of pursuing two great loves—teaching and figuring things out. Then, reality set in. Far too many graduate students were chasing far too few jobs. Anna faced the pivot point of her life. Now, as the Productivity Advisor at Freeficiency, she is teaching online entrepreneurs how to improve mindset, reduce anxiety, and design their ideal life through effective time management. She applies her research to design ways to work with and around our brains to reach our goals in business and in life.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, world, and happy holidays to you and yours from the Discover Your Talent
0:14.9	podcast team.
0:16.5	I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.9	Our gift to you this week is three encore interviews of some of the
0:23.0	most popular shows from the last 12 months. We hope you enjoy them, and we look forward to sharing
0:28.7	the journeys of more fascinating guests in the coming year. Halfway to her PhD in cognitive
0:34.9	neuroscience, Anna saw herself becoming a tenured track professor,
0:39.8	following her two great loves, teaching and figuring things out. Then reality set in. Far too
0:45.8	many graduate students were chasing far too few jobs. Figuring things out took on our new meaning
0:51.3	as she faced a pivot point in her life. I'm delighted to bring you
0:55.2	our featured guest, Anna Craigon. Welcome, Anna. Hi, Dawn. Great to be here. Thank you. Anna, are you
1:01.7	using your talents doing work that you love? Every day. Okay. Well, we want to hear the whole story.
1:08.0	Anna Cragan is the productivity advisor at free efficiency. She teaches online
1:13.0	entrepreneurs how to improve mindset, reduce anxiety, and design their ideal life through
1:19.7	effective time management. She has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, and she applies brain
1:25.3	and behavior research to design ways to work with and around our brains
1:30.2	to reach our goals in business and in life. Anna, that's a summary of your career. Tell our listeners
1:34.8	around the world what you're engaged in now that has you excited and motivated, if you were,
1:38.7	please. Sure, yeah. So every Sunday I do a live show on Facebook. So live video is kind of this new thing. And I don't usually jump on new things, but I did this time. And I am just incredibly excited about it. I love the medium. I love the real time interaction. I get to chat with other entrepreneurs who are solving productivity challenges in creative ways.
2:04.2	So this life show is pretty much everything.
2:07.5	It's my life right now.
2:08.7	And I love it so much.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Don Hutcheson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Don Hutcheson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.