Ep232: How to Future-Proof Your Creative Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Résumé | with Christina Wallace

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Today's guest is Christina Wallace who is an entrepreneur, author, and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business school. Christina is a self-described "human Venn diagram" who has built a career at the intersection of business, technology and the arts. If you've been a listener of my podcast for sometime or have attended my latest workshops, you will most likely recognize that term as something I highly support.

In our conversation, Christina and I talk about the history of how industrialization shaped the needs of the human species to specialize, but how that shift has now turned against the working class. We also talk about how the pandemic became the catalyst to trigger the rapid shift that made specialization become not only outdated, but the biggest risk in our time. We delved deeper into why the specialization model simply doesn't work anymore given the rapid changing circumstances we're going into right now, and what exactly we need to be focusing on as we move forward.

Christina and I also talk about building The Portfolio Life, which is the title of her book as well as a key strategy to become irreplaceable (even in these rapid changing times when many roles are being rendered obsolete). She takes us through the steps she describes in her book to find the intersection of everything in your life so you can identify what makes you who you really are as well as discover the value you can offer in any industry. Whatever industry you're currently in, this conversation will help shed light on your next steps if you feel you're behind and need to catch up with our constantly evolving world.

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Here's What You'll Learn:

• We thought the pandemic changed everything…but why is everything changing even faster now?
• How humankind shifted from generalists to specialists during the industrial revolution (and this matters so much now)
• Why having one clear speciality might be the biggest risk of our time
• If the business model in our grandparents’ time made them so successful, why can't it work for us now?
• What happened to the career ladder we were all supposed to be climbing…
• The meaning and difference between a deliberate strategy and an emergent strategy (and which one you should be using now)
• The danger of defining yourself by your career or skill set
• The benefits of transitioning to another career (and no, you’re not “starting all over again”)
• How you can use a Venn diagram to build your own Portfolio Life
• Why there is absolutely nothing wrong with failure (unless one of these two things happen…)

Useful Resources Mentioned:

The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card

The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity

Ep230: The Performance Paradox