Mike Lewis - How to Jump to Your Dream Life

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Business, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Our guest this week is Mike Lewis, Founder and CEO of When To Jump. When Mike was twenty-four and working in a prestigious corporate job, he eagerly wanted to leave and pursue his dream of becoming a professional squash player. But he had questions: When is the right time to move from work that is comfortable to a career you have only dared to dream of? How have other people made such a jump? What did they feel when making that jump—and afterward? Mike sought guidance from others who had “jumped,” and the responses he got—from a banker who started a brewery, a publicist who became a Bishop, a garbage collector who became a furniture designer, and on and on—were so clear-eyed and inspiring that Mike wanted to share what he had learned with others who might be helped by those stories. Out of these stories came When To Jump, a community dedicated to exploring the fundamental question we all think about: when is the right time to go do what you really want to be doing? Mike is the author of the brand new book, When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want, and he is also the host of the new hit podcast, When To Jump. — This episode is brought to you by: Health IQ, an insurance company that helps health conscious people get special life insurance rates. Go to healthiq.com/SPP to support the show and see if you qualify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.3	forever. I wish I paid more attention in that class. You know, I'm going to be honest. I don't
0:49.6	understand that. As a man, I don't get it. welcome to smart people podcast.com hello and welcome to smart people
0:59.1	podcast where we have conversations that satisfy your curious mind chris stemp here as always your
1:06.5	host bringing it to you thanks for joining this week on show, we found a kindred spirit, if you
1:13.9	will. And what I mean by that, many of you know this podcast was born out of confusion. John and I,
1:21.1	no idea what we wanted to do with our lives, took extended hiatus from work. And out of it, we said, let's talk to some smart people.
1:30.3	Maybe they can give us the keys to the kingdom.
1:32.6	And in some way, they did.
1:35.0	We both have jobs we love now.
1:37.7	Well, that might be considered our jump story.
1:42.9	Our guest this week is Mike Lewis, and he is founder and CEO of
1:47.8	When to Jump, a global community dedicated to exploring the fundamental question so many of us think
1:55.3	about. When is the right time to go do what you really want to be doing? So as you can imagine, like I said, a kindred
2:02.8	spirit. In this when to jump community, Mike has created a place where people from all walks
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