Hey everybody, welcome to the Fizzle Show. I'm your host, Corbett Barr, and this is our podcast

about earning a living independently, doing something you really care about. And today, our guest

is Lydia Lee. Lydia runs Screw the Cubicle at Screw the Cubicle.com, where she helps purpose-driven people discover

the right business idea, bring it to life and own it so they can quit the nine to five and

start living a life of freedom. She calls herself a work reinvention coach and from what I gather

she's also quite the world traveler. Lydia, thanks so much for being on the show today.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm so glad we finally get to have this conversation. Absolutely. I've been looking forward to it.

And I thought, since we haven't had a chance to talk before, and maybe some folks listening to this aren't familiar with you either, that we could start out with your story. I'd love to know

to begin with, just walk us back and tell us how you started your career. And do you mean my

career in corporate or my career in entrepreneurship? Well, let's go back a little bit and

go into the corporate life because I like to visualize how people lived

before they were entrepreneurs and what was going through your mind and maybe what the

breaking point was that helped you start making that transition. Yeah, happy to share. Well,

Corbett, if you looked at my old resume, it kind of looks like it's for five different people.

I was one of those individuals that sort of jump shipped from job to job every two years,

except for my last corporate gig. And I was sort of someone that I guess you would categorize

as sort of a multi-passionate or I think nowadays the new term is multi-potentialite where you have multiple

talents and gives and you sort of get bored pretty easily doing the same thing over and over

again. But my latest, I guess the corporate experience I had before jumping into entrepreneurship

was that I worked in the international education industry. So

primarily my job was a business development director. And I traveled a lot for that. I was living

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