Episode 171: Unconventional
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Erica Heilman is the host of the podcast Rumblestrip. The Atlantic recently named her series ‘Our Show’ the best podcast of 2020. But before she was a brilliant podcaster, Erica was a lot of other things. She was a seller of muffins, she was a theater performer, she milked cows, she worked on a TV news show, then in documentaries, then for a healthcare website…and that’s not all.
It took Erica a while to get where she wanted to be. And she’ll be the first to admit she had no idea where that was.
She is not the only person who’s struggled to work out, what am I doing? What am I good at? How best do I use the skills I actually have? Some of us take longer to get there. We wish it were different, but it’s not. This is a show about the messiness of the unconventional career path.
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| 0:33.8 | No pressure. |
| 0:35.0 | Just help. |
| 0:35.9 | But for now, just relax. |
| 0:37.8 | Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. I'm Ashley Melmtight. |
| 0:56.6 | This time, what it means to have an unconventional career path. I don't regret having such a |
| 1:03.4 | strange and wandering work life. I don't regret it mostly because I don't see the point in regretting it, |
| 1:10.3 | but I don't feel proud of it either. |
| 1:13.1 | I feel like it's I am of a piece in this way. |
| 1:16.7 | It's how I roll. It's how I am. |
| 1:19.5 | The messy business of getting to where you want to be. |
| 1:23.5 | Coming up on the broad experience. |
| 1:34.8 | Thank you. Coming up on the Broad Experience. When I left university, I had quite a few friends who seemed to know exactly what they wanted to do with their lives. |
| 1:41.5 | They went straight off to train as accountants, teachers, lawyers. I was |
| 1:46.7 | envious, not because I wanted to be any of those things, but because at 21 I had no idea what I |
| 1:53.6 | wanted to do other than a vague idea that it was something in the arts. They, on the other hand, |
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