Pay Attention to What Ignites You with Jody MacDonald
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Imagine this: Your job is good, and safe, but it’s not fueling anymore. You decide to quit your “real” job and sell all your belongings to live a life of adventure. And just as you are waving your last goodbye, the unthinkable happens and it changes everything.
Like most of us, award winning photographer Jody MacDonald didn’t know what her path would be. Yet when her wake up call came, she listened. From train hopping in the Sahara to paragliding in the Himalaya, she's no stranger to adventure and exploration. Her work blends insightful storytelling, big adventure expeditions and social change in the hopes of promoting the preservation of wild places. Men’s Journal named her “One of the 25 Most Adventures Women in the Past 25 Years and National Geographic said she’s one of the top female adventure photographers pushing the limits.
I've admired Jody's work from afar for years. Her life story and career arc is remarkable. It set her on a path to tackle some of the life’s biggest questions and what she has learned is pure gold.
In this episode:
- Why waste your time on things that make you unhappy? What Jody does to tune into her inner compass
- Trying to stand out? Put yourself into the shoes of the person evaluating your work
- Social media is a double edge sword. Jody shares how she tries to manage it
- How to harness life’s hardest lessons/tragedies and refocus on what really matters
- And so much more…
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine this. You sum up all of the courage you have to do things that the most, the dearest, most close people in your world are telling you not to do. You know in your heart it's the right thing to do. Of course, society is telling you |
| 0:21.7 | know your job, your parents, a lot of people in your life who you care about and respect. |
| 0:25.9 | They're saying, don't do it. You sum up the courage, you make the decision, and you start |
| 0:32.5 | to go. You leave, you wave goodbye to everybody. You're literally, it's your last day at the job, |
| 0:37.4 | you're, you're, you know, waving on your way out the everybody. You're literally, it's your last day at the job. |
| 0:40.8 | You're waving on your way out the door. |
| 0:42.6 | You close the door behind you. |
| 0:43.3 | You turn around. |
| 0:48.5 | And as you first two or three steps away from walking out of your job, |
| 0:52.8 | walking out of your entire previous life in a way, and then the phone rings. |
| 0:56.7 | You pick up the phone. and in that one phone call, |
| 1:06.4 | everything changes. That is just one fraction of something that I cover with our guest today in this show. You are going to love this woman. Jody McDonald is an absolutely spectacular photographer, |
| 1:13.9 | an award-winning photographer. She is no stranger to adventure and exploration. |
| 1:18.9 | National Geographic lists Jody as one of the nine female adventure photographers who push |
| 1:24.0 | the limits. Men's Journal names Jody one of the 25 most adventurous women of the past 25 years. |
| 1:31.7 | And the list goes on in the furthest, the most untamed corners of our planet. |
| 1:39.6 | She spent her formative years, get this, in Saudi Arabia, before sailing around the world multiple |
| 1:46.9 | times over the course of a decade. She's been to more than 90 countries. She's train hopped in |
| 1:53.1 | the Sahara and paraglided in the Himalaya. If you want to talk about a remarkable life and a very, |
| 1:59.7 | very non-traditional life, you are going to just melt when you listen to Jody McDonald tell her story. So many stories. Adventures around the world. Adventures both externally and internally wrestling with life's biggest questions. You're gonna love this conversation with Jody so much. |
| 2:19.7 | I can't wait, you're just gonna, you're gonna melt. |
| 2:21.7 | I'm gonna get out of the way, |
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