Erica Williams Simon, entrepreneur and author: “The only way out of feeling stuck is to move.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Erica Williams Simon is a writer, host, and the CEO of Sage House media. Her new book reveals how she re-wrote her life story and shares how you can do the same. She walked us through how she makes tough decisions, starting with how she quit a perfect-on-paper job and moved across the country. In this episode, Erica shares how she learned to ask meaningful questions (4:12), how to manage the financial risk of leaving a job (14:47), and the art of crafting your story (20:02).

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by H&R Block Tax Pro Go, expert tax prep without the office
0:07.4	visit.
0:11.4	The only way out of feeling stuck is to move and by movement I mean create some
0:18.3	space in your life to start trying to think deeply and proactively about what can I do to change things what can my next
0:25.1	step be you won't necessarily find the immediate answer but it's asking the key
0:29.6	questions that I think can help I'm Carly Zaken I'm
0:33.4	I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to skim from the couch.
0:36.6	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:40.3	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team
0:43.0	to the rough stuff like negotiating your salary
0:46.0	and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:48.0	We started the skim from a couch,
0:50.0	so what better place to talk it all out
0:52.0	than where it began on a couch?
0:54.0	Today we welcome Erica William Simon to Skimmed from the Couch.
1:04.0	Erica is a writer, podcast host, and the CEO of Sage House Media.
1:09.0	As a self-described professional question-asker, she facilitates conversations to inspire
1:14.7	social change. Her new book, You Deserve the Truth, discusses the career decision she
1:20.5	made in order to rewrite her life story and she shares how you can do the same.
1:25.0	Erica we are so excited to have you with us mainly because you have interviewed us
1:31.3	many times and now we have you on the other side of the table.
1:34.3	I'm kind of excited.
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