It’s Expensive to Dream: The Truth About Working Towards Your Dream Career with Blake Newby
She's So Lucky
She's So Lucky
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Dreams are beautiful because they fuel our creativity, give us purpose, and sometimes, they even come true.
Today I have the honor of chatting with content creator and former beauty & style editor for Essence Magazine, Blake Newby on pivoting in your career, taking advantage of where you are, and how to lean on your support system in order to reach your goals.
We Also Talk About…
- Blake’s transition from being a corporate beauty editor to venture scout and full time content creator
- Betting on yourself
- Embracing uncertainty
- Managing anxiety before it derails you
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.0 | Thank you for tuning in to balance black girl. |
| 0:10.0 | My name is Les. I'm your host and I appreciate you |
| 0:14.3 | tapping in today on the show we talk about all of the different areas of life that |
| 0:19.2 | help us feel healthy happy and thriving and a big theme for me this year as well as on the podcast, and I think for a lot of you too has been |
| 0:27.0 | embracing pivots, what it looks like to embrace change, whether that's in our personal lives, |
| 0:31.7 | our career, |
| 0:33.0 | switching directions. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm really excited to be joined by an amazing guest |
| 0:37.5 | today who can tell us a little bit about Pivots, |
| 0:40.0 | because she's had some pretty big Pivots |
| 0:41.6 | over the past year. |
| 0:42.5 | So please join me in welcoming Miss Blake, |
| 0:45.4 | Newby, Creative, Editor. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm so happy to have you here. |
| 0:50.6 | Yes. |
| 0:51.2 | I've been pivoting. |
| 0:52.0 | In big ways. Yes, I've been pivoting. In big ways. |
| 0:53.0 | Yes, I've been pivoting. |
| 0:54.0 | I enjoy it. |
| 0:55.0 | Absolutely. |
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