Leaping without a Plan B with Tess Vigeland
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2016
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Tess Vigeland, veteran radio producer and former anchor for public radio’s Marketplace, join us to discuss her story of leaping without a plan B.
Highlights
- Developing an awareness of the moments we fall in love with our work
- The challenges of coming up with your own definitions of success
- Why we all don’t have to be special
- The mentality that sets us up to feel like failures
- How definitions of success change over the course of our lives and our careers
- Lessons in mastery from more than 20 years in radio
- Navigating loss of identity that comes with significant changes in your life
- Navigating the psychological challenges of leaping into uncertainty
Books and Resources
Quotes
Everybody doesn’t have a calling, but why should they? @tessvigeland via @unmistakableCR
You have one life to live. Live it the way you want to live it. @tessvigeland via @unmistakableCR
You can’t be a journalist if you don’t have a curious mind. @tessvigeland via @unmistakableCR
There’s a great responsibility to making sure people are informed about their world. @tessvigeland via @unmistakableCR
People back from the cliff because they can’t imagine who they are without what they do.
If the self-help books worked, we wouldn’t have so many of them.
Tess Vigeland is a veteran journalist, and a well-known voice to millions of American radio listeners. She is the CEO of Tess Vigeland Productions, a Los Angeles-based multi-media company. Tess spent 11 years as an anchor for public radio’s Marketplace, including six hosting the personal finance show Marketplace Money. Her first book, titled “Leap: Leaving A Job With No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want,” was published in August 2015, by Random House Harmony.
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| 0:00.0 | Radical can be very increment, it can still be a small thing that is still radical for you |
| 0:07.3 | emotionally, psychologically, even physically. |
| 0:11.6 | And doing that is even physically. |
| 0:19.0 | And doing that is just plain hard because you have to get over so many psychological hurdles of expectation of what you want your life to look like, what you |
| 0:27.4 | think other people think your life should look like. I mean all of that plays |
| 0:31.6 | into those decisions that you make as a child or as an adult. |
| 0:37.6 | And they're just not easy and nobody makes them easy for you. |
| 0:43.0 | Again, because there's this prescription of what your life is supposed to look like, |
| 0:47.0 | and it's supposed to have a linear upward trajectory. |
| 0:49.0 | Once you make that decision, you move up and up and up and up and up and up and up along the same career ladder, the |
| 0:55.0 | same family ladder, and you just take it from there. When you jump off of |
| 1:00.3 | something like that, or make a change, you start questioning your own sanity. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window |
| 1:16.8 | into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started |
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