Episode 352: Do we have to love our work?

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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https://fizzleshow.co – Special guests Paul Jarvis, Sarah Peck and Melissa Smith join me today. Do we have to love our work? We start by talking about the pressure of today's "passionate work" mantra. We also discuss how to ask for and get what you want, and how to be more productive using a virtual assistant.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome to The Fizzle Show. I'm your host, Corbett Barr, and this is our show about earning a living independently doing something you really care about. We have three guests joining us today. The first is Sarah Peck, founder of Startup Pregnant, which aims to radically rethink what parenting and working
0:21.1	can and should look like. Sarah joined us last month on episode 346, where we talked about
0:26.8	personal branding. Welcome back, Sarah.
0:29.6	Woohoo. I'm glad to be here. Thank you. We also have another returning guest with us. Paul
0:34.5	Jarvis is a designer, podcaster, online course teacher, and
0:37.9	software creator. He's also the author of Company of One, Why Staying Small is the next big
0:43.6	thing for business. Paul, thank you for being here. Yeah, thanks for having me. Thanks for having me back.
0:48.9	Yeah, returning guest. I love it. And finally, we have a new guest with us today. Melissa Smith is founder and
0:56.1	CEO of the Association for Virtual Assistance. She's also the author of Hire the Right
1:02.0	Virtual Assistant, How the Right VA Will Make Your Life Easier, Create Time, and Make You More
1:07.4	Money. Melissa, thank you for joining us today. Yeah, I'm excited to be here with
1:12.0	Paul and Sarah today. It's fun. Yes, awesome. I thought we would start off by maybe having a
1:18.9	deeper discussion about something that I read on Paul Jarvis's blog recently. Paul, you said that
1:25.2	work seems to have taken on an almost religious-like meaning where the ethos of
1:30.7	happily grinding it out for most hours of most days is thought of as good and just, and that
1:37.2	we've also set this expectation where we haven't really made it unless we have a meaningful,
1:42.9	fulfilling jobs to do. And we just keep telling ourselves,
1:45.8	it's meaningful and fulfilling that it's then okay if it consumes most of our lives. So you were
1:51.8	really trying to ask the question here, I think, do we have to love our work? What were you
1:59.1	getting at there? Was there something behind this that caused you to
2:01.6	kind of ask this question out loud?
2:03.0	I'm too much deep thinking, usually how most of my articles come about. But I think a lot
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