Why You Should Have At Least 2 Careers with Kabir Sehgal
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Kabir works in strategy at a Fortune 500 company and is an ex-VP at J.P. Morgan. He is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books including "Coined" and "Home," a book of poetry written with Deepak Chopra. He is a multi-Grammy Award winner and US Navy veteran.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! Shake the room fire nation! A JLD here and welcome to episode 1753 of EO Fire. |
| 0:11.8 | Right shot with entrepreneurs on fire, seven days a week and knock over that domino |
| 0:18.8 | start your chain reaction of awesome with thefreedomjournal.com. |
| 0:24.6 | Now I'll shout out with today's featured guest, Kabir Segal. Kabir, are you prepared |
| 0:29.6 | to ignite? Yes sir. Yes. Kabir works in strategy at a Fortune 500 company and is an |
| 0:36.4 | XVP at JP Morgan. He is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books including |
| 0:42.6 | Coined and Home, a book of poetry written with Deepak Chopra. He is a multi Grammy award |
| 0:49.6 | winner in US Navy Veteran. Kabir, take a minute, fill in some gaps from that in-chown, |
| 0:55.2 | give us a little glimpse of your personal life. My personal life is I relax by creating |
| 1:01.2 | work and some of my best friends are the ones that I work on creative projects with musicians, |
| 1:06.9 | artists, writers. I love building relationships around projects. |
| 1:11.3 | So one thing I want to talk about specifically today with you, Kabir is your area of expertise. |
| 1:16.0 | So you've done a lot over the years but what would you say your area that you are most |
| 1:20.3 | competent in life is right now? John, I think probably doing more than one thing, working |
| 1:26.5 | more than one career is what I'm, what I've gotten really good at is hand juggling |
| 1:30.3 | many balls and executing across jobs that are somehow I've nothing to do with each other |
| 1:35.6 | but I find that they do and I think that's my expertise. Why should have more than one |
| 1:39.6 | career? And I do love the access diversification that's not putting all of your eggs in one |
| 1:44.6 | basket but what don't we know as entrepreneurs, the listeners of this show like what don't |
| 1:50.3 | we know about that type of diversification that we probably should? |
| 1:53.8 | Well a couple of things. I think first you can subsidize your skill development. Like |
| 1:58.2 | a lot of folks want to go start their, start to start up and strike out for their own |
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