It's chilling when you realize that like a little idea that you have that you just like want to

follow the urge to do can have such a ripple effect. Hey guys, you're listening to the big conversations

podcast. I'm your host, Haley Hoffman Smith. I'm an entrepreneur, a bestselling author, and a Forbes most

influential speaker.

You're in the right place if you're ready to step into the bigger life that you were destined

for because we're about to get real on how to do so. So let's get started with today's

big conversation. Hello, my friends. Welcome back to big conversations. Okay, settling in for the long haul on this

episode, I feel like it might be a part one, part two type ordeal, but I recently got the idea

or the calling that I should make an episode about how I began my career and my career journey

to date. And what I'll say as a disclaimer

before we get started is that this story has so many ups and downs. You're going to be like,

what was happening? Like, why couldn't she make up her mind? I'll explain literally everything,

every single step, but it is a long and winding story. I think the value in it though is that I learned so much so quickly. It almost

feels like I crammed, you know, like 20, 30 years of exploring different careers and going after

my dreams in different ways down into like five years over the course of college and graduating

college and everything that I did to become an entrepreneur. And the other value in that is that I'm

sure you'll hear something in my story that resonates with you. And as always, I believe that if

you were called to listen to this episode, even the fact that you found me, like there's, there's fate

and all of that. I also

think the calling that I received to record this episode was very timely. I never thought to do

that before, which is funny because my podcast in general used to be a much more tactical

business-based podcast. If you go back to some of my very first episodes, it's about like giving

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