Hustle and Hack Your Way To Happiness with Anna Akbari

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John Lee Dumas

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🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Anna is a sociologist, writer, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Sociology of Style, an image and life coaching company, and a partner in HVCK, a Silicon Valley innovation consultancy. She is a frequent public speaker and media personality and has written for and been featured by Forbes, CNN, The Atlantic, The Economist, and dozens more. Her new book is Startup Your Life: Hustle and Hack Your Way To Happiness.

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0:00.0	Light that spark fire nation, a JLD here and welcomed episode 1653 of EO FireWrite
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0:20.0	podcast course.com. Now let's chat with today's featured guest Anna Ackbari. Anna, are
0:26.6	you prepared to ignite? I am. Yes. Anna is a sociologist writer and entrepreneur. She's
0:33.2	a founder of Sociology of Style, an image in life coaching company and she's also a partner
0:38.8	in HVCK, a Silicon Valley innovation consultancy. She's a frequent public speaker in media
0:45.5	personality and is written for and been featured by Forbes, CNN, The Atlantic, The Economist
0:50.9	and dozens more. Her new book is Start Up Your Life, Hustle and Hack Your Way to Happiness.
0:58.6	Anna, take a minute. Fill in some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse of
1:02.8	your personal life. My personal life, well, I live in California. I moved from New York
1:09.3	over to California and I used to focus a lot on as a professor and an academic and now
1:15.3	I'm all entrepreneur and writer. So it's been a great transition. Love all of that. We're
1:21.4	going to be diving more into your transition, your journey and fire nation. If you recognize
1:26.0	the name, the voice, you have a good memory because Anna was episode 118, which was over
1:33.4	1,000, 150 episodes ago, which is just mind blowing. And I mean, it's been a while because
1:40.2	that also equates a number of days as well. So we haven't been on a podcast episode together
1:44.5	for over 1,500 days. And go back and listen episode 118, Fire Nation. You'll have a blast
1:50.5	with that. But let's fast forward to today. And I want to talk about right now what you
1:55.5	consider your area of expertise. What is that?
1:59.3	Well, I'm a sociologist. So I, that's the easiest and most succinct way for me to talk
2:06.8	about my general expertise. But if I go a little bit deeper, I would put it in a couple
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