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Three Rules

Leaving the Corporate World

Three Rules

Matt D'Avella

Education, Self-improvement

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

I sat down with Jacob Sokol of sensophy.com and host of the WTF Should I Do W/ My Life podcast. We talk about his story of leaving the corporate world to follow a more uncertain path of self-development and life coaching.

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0:00.0

You can't think your way out of overthinking.

0:04.0

And that's what all of us try to do.

0:06.0

That's Jacob Sokol, and he's trying to help you figure out what the fuck you should do with your life.

0:12.0

Jacob's a friend and neighbor here in Brooklyn.

0:14.0

I met him on the internet back in 2013, and no, it wasn't on Grindr.

0:20.0

We met on Twitter. He runs a website called Sensefifee.com

0:23.1

and is host of the WTF Should I Do With My Life podcast, where he mentors millennials struggling

0:30.0

to find their path in life.

0:31.4

You know, I'm on this self-knowledge quest to figure out more and more what's possible with life.

0:38.3

In our conversation, we talk about how he got started out and some of his early struggles and breakthroughs.

0:43.3

Holy shit. Dude, that was like someone handed me a briefcase with a million dollars.

0:47.3

We talk about everything from personal finance to my sex life.

0:51.3

If I were saying, Matt, think about when you and your girlfriend had that epic sex, right?

0:54.5

It was like the best 20 seconds of my life. My name's Matt Diabella, and you're listening to The Ground Up Show.

1:00.6

You are a life coach. Is that the term you would use, or is that, it's kind of seen as...

1:08.1

I'm a Jedi mind trick master.

1:18.1

You know, I actually want to start using a different term because life coach, I think a lot of people look at that like something is wrong with their life.

1:24.7

But if I say success accelerator or, you know, peak performance coach, like there's a different connotation.

1:26.4

You're like, oh, fine me up for that um but what

1:29.0

i must say is that i'm really enjoying drinking this beer while it's good dude right isn't it's nice

1:33.8

it's really nice you know i am very interested in a niche that i do not believe exists in the market

1:39.5

which is drunk life coaching oh drunk life coaching and that drunk podcasting life coaching. And that drunk podcasting.

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