While quits can be temporary, sometimes you've decided so definitively that you want to close a chapter of your life that you'd like to make sure your quit is permanent.
This week's guest, Nathan Church, owner of On Track Wellness and OTW Martial Arts, did just that. When he left the corporate world and decided to begin working in fitness and martial arts, he took several steps to make sure the lure of a regular paycheck didn't draw him back in and away from pursuing his dreams.
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If you're not in your dream job or your ideal city, you may think of quitting it all and moving. But how do you get to where you'd like to be...and how do you know that new reality is going to serve you better than the current one?
This week's guest, entrepreneur and storytelling consultant Mark Guay, knew he had to leave New York and his teaching career. So he began to envision living in a new climate and working from home. And over time, the exact visions he'd been manifesting slowly became reality.
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Once you've checked all the boxes on the list of societally-mandated goals, what comes next? And what do you do when you realize those goals weren't at all what truly mattered to you as a person?
This is exactly what entrepreneur, humanitarian, and all-around inspirational human Retta Abraham faced a couple of years ago when he'd gotten married and achieved a successful career on Wall Street. And his journey from that realization to quitting Wall Street to starting his own company is a beautiful guide on how to successfully undertake self-evaluation and transformation.
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Many of the biggest fears related to quitting a job come from the uncertainty - the not knowing what comes next. Will we find another job? Will it be better than the one we're quitting?
If you happen to be facing those fears, let Mark Lovett, the founder of Storytelling with Impact, and the organizer for TEDxSanDiego, give you some great advice on how to alleviate those fears, with bonus advice on how to combat the dreaded 'imposter syndrome.'
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On this Independence Day episode, Lynn Marie discusses five quits that can lead to increasing YOUR sense of freedom: freedom from others' expectations, from attention distractions, and from societal norms, among other things.
So grab a hot dog and a firecracker (or not, that actually sounds like a dangerous combo!) and take a listen to the quits the founding fathers forgot to tell you about!
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