Are you looking to work professionally as a community builder? Listen to this episode with Jessica Lowenstein who has been working professionally in the field since 2016. She is currently Head of Community and Events at Hampton, a community for founders and CEOs. She has had numerous other community roles. In this episode, you will learn about how the profession has evolved, what she loves about the work, what she looks for when hiring for community roles, and what Hampton's community team looks like. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Are you a community builder looking to build a portfolio career? Listen to this podcast episode with Mallory Contois, the Founder of the Old Girls Club (OGC) and Head of Community at Mercury. In this episode, you will learn how Mallory launched OGC and how she built it to be async-focused and how it was helpful for her to get her current role. Mallory is also passionate about portfolio careers and emphasizes the importance of having a clear investment thesis to guide career decisions and advocates for monetizing passions. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Being a community builder is hard. You may want to grow your community but also want to do it thoughtfully. You may want to scale its intimacy but not if it is going to hurt the quality of the community. And then there are business model considerations and challenges. In this Podcast Mixer episode, 10 or so community builders discussed these kind of challenges. If you are a community builder or want to be, this episode may definitely be for you! 

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Osnat Benari is an author, product management leader, coach, advisor, and more. She is the author of a new book called Starting From Scratch. Osnat also known as Os wrote the book after going through many career pivots and reinventions. She realized that she had a method for adapting to change. She interviewed 200+ other people who had also undergone changes, and was able to also distill their wisdom into the book for you. You will also learn about Os' views on a Portfolio Career. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Jonny Miller is a course creator, podcaster, writer, and more. After leaving a startup in 2016, Jonny has been exploring, freelancing, and doing a lot of personal and professional experiments. 2022 was a banner year for him though. In it, he moved to and got settled in Colorado, developed deeper relationships, and had a record year professionally with his new course, Nervous System Mastery. In this episode, you will learn about inner work, better understanding your self, how emotions affect things, how breathwork can be helpful, and the power of writing an Annual Review about your prior year. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Ankit Shah is a Founder, Writer, and Community Builder. In 2014, he started Tea With Strangers, a community organization with 20,000+ members and 300 hosts who have organized 2,000+ events. In this special live episode in front of an audience, you will learn what Ankit realized from having so many conversations with strangers and ultimately why Ankit decided to stop the organization. In 2020, Ankit wrote a lengthy blog post titled Being Alone and gave a TEDx Talk on this same topic. In this episode, you will learn about how being alone is different than being lonely and how cultivating a better relationship with yourself improves your other relationships. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Taylor Elyse Morrison is a Founder, Podcaster, Facilitator, Writer, and Builder. In late 2022, Taylor publicly posted on LinkedIn reintroducing herself and her Portfolio Career. In this episode, you will learn about why she posted this, the core skills in her Portfolio Career, and how she thinks about the benefits of building a Portfolio of projects and products around one asset. She is the Founder of Inner Workout, a company focused on helping with your self-care system. Taylor is publishing a new book that will be available in March 2023. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Khe Hy is the Founder of a RadReads, a Writer, and a Creator. Khe has created the "$10K Work" framework to help you level-up. Instead of doing lower leverage and high-quality skill work, Khe wants to help you maximize your time and live a high-quality life. In this episode, Khe does a deep dive on the $10K Work framework and provides multiple examples of how you could apply to your work, life, and relationships. When you are building a Portfolio Career, being efficient and effective is critical. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Alexis Gay is a comedian and podcast host. In early 2020, one of her videos went viral online. At the time, she was working full-time in the tech sector. Since then, she has gone full-time on her own work as the host of the Non-Technical podcast and as a stand-up comedian. In this episode, you will learn how she made this leap. You will also learn about her creative process, how doing improv has been helpful, and how a creative work streak or sprint can help you learn and level-up quickly. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Have you ever wanted to write a book? Have a story inside of you that the world could benefit from? Diana Hawk wrote the book that she wanted to read growing up. Her new book, As Beautiful as It Seems, is now available in December 2022. In this live episode, you will learn how she wrote the book while working, the life lessons in the book, and the personal journey and reasons why she wanted to publish the book now. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Starting a community often times is a personal project and for personal reasons. Jimmy Daly started a Slack group for other content marketers to have casual career chats. This community grew into a large one, and now a thriving community business called Superpath. You will learn how Jimmy has created multiple community revenue streams and built a win-win community business with Superpath. You will also learn about the state of the job market for content marketers and freelance writers. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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We often think about physical fitness, but what about your emotional fitness and mental health? Alexa Meyer is the Cofounder and CEO of Coa, a company that is making emotional fitness a proactive practice with group classes led by therapists. In this live podcast social event episode, you will learn the 7 traits of emotional fitness, how Alexa connected with her cofounder via a direct message on Twitter, and lessons learned from building a new company. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Do the best opportunities and feelings typically happen when you bet on yourself? Ann Hiatt is the author of Bet On Yourself. She is also a pioneer of the Chief of Staff role. She has worked with Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and Marissa Mayer. In this episode, you will learn about the Chief of Staff role, earning respect from high-profile people, breakout opportunities, and the benefit of doing thankless work. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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What is something that has changed you? In this episode, you will hear short stories and discussion on this topic. You will learn how projects, relationships, cities and more changed people. You never know what the next thing will be that changes you. Listen and enjoy this episode!

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Could your personal project accelerate your career? I was lucky to be invited to speak at a Propel, a community for builders, event recently. The interactive session was focused on how podcasting for 4 years has accelerated my career. You will hear how I got started, what has kept me going, how you can send a cold email, and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Has the pandemic hurt the relationships and friendships that you have in your life? In this episode, you will learn from author and connection coach, Jillian Richardson. We discuss some core ideas in Dr. Marisa Franco's book, Platonic, and more. You will also hear about the benefits of hosting events, reaching out to people, finding shared activities, navigating the messy middle of friendship and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Taylor Harrington is the Head of Community at Groove. We both started our professional community roles right around the same time of summer of 2021. In this episode, we share our lessons learned and reflections from our professional roles. We also talk about how we have been hosting events personally to help build community as well. You will also hear what our day-to-day roles look like and some ideas about how to break into the community professional field as well. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Are you interested in learning more about TikTok? It's been an incredible platform for new and existing creators to build an audience and potentially new revenue streams. For Ariel Viera, he has grown a 500,000+ audience following on the platform. In this live podcast event episode, you will learn how Ariel did it, going viral, and details about how his process. You will also learn how Ariel has developed multiple income streams as well. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Are you looking to make more friends? How about deepen existing relationships? Dr. Marisa Franco is the author of a new book called Platonic, How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make-and Keep-Friends. In this episode, I detail some of the core ideas that stood out to me, steps I have been taking to make friends, and how a Portfolio Career is helpful for making friends. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Do you have a story that you need to tell? Genevieve Kim is the Founder of Triangleflash Studio and the EYE SEE YOU project. Photography changed her life. Her gave her the confidence to create and led to new projects and work. Genevieve has reinvented herself many times. In this episode, you will learn how you can do so yourself. Genevieve is also the author of a new memoir called Yes To It All. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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In this live episode with an audience, Abena Anim-Somuah talks about her experience building The Eden Place, a new community-based dinner experience company. You will learn about her initial soft-launch dinner, her public launch and how she has focused on making each dinner more successful. Abena also talks about the importance of building a support system, the importance of setting boundaries as a Founder, hosting events, and building community. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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The Chief of Staff role can be an incredible launch-pad to many other roles and career options. For Simon Rodrigues, he decided he wanted to work independently and start a newsletter after leaving his CoS role in 2022. For Simon, the decision was around wanting to work with a lot of autonomy. The Chief of Staff is often mis-understood and this episode will help better understand it and how you could get a CoS role. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Do you think it is getting easier to pivot into new roles and fields? Well, Mehak Vohra believes so. And her company SkillBank is helping people transition into digital marketing roles. You will learn how Mehak started SkillBank and has grown it. In addition to SkillBank, Mehak has accomplished a lot. You will learn about her dropping out of college, starting and building an agency, and why Mehak wanted to build a company instead of a personal brand. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Do you want to share more of your ideas online? Do you think creators are shaping society more than ever? Catherine Yeo is the author of The Creator Revolution book. She believes that it's never been a better time to be a creator. In her book, she also shares how creators are shaping our society from the media we consume and what we buy. In this episode, you will learn about Catherine's creator journey, how she wrote the book, tips for creators, and the different types of creators. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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What is something that you have overcome? In this episode, you will hear short stories from people about overcoming something in their lives. Hopefully it helps you realize that whatever you are going through today that it can get better. For me, it was overcoming shyness. I am not shy anymore and this has greatly improved my life. Listen to hear amazing stories!

Do you want to have a body of work that speaks for itself? One that attracts clients? And one that attracts friends? Visakan Veerasamy is a prolific content creator. He is the author of two e-books and also has over 40,000 followers on Twitter. In this episode, you will learn about how to best use Twitter and how to make friends on it. You also learn about the benefits of "doing 100 things," how one tweet can change your life, and how creating a Patreon account helped his life. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Do you want to make more of an impact? Author, teacher and social entrepreneur Alex Budak wants to help you make change and be even more of a changemaker. In this episode, you will learn how changemaking can occur in small moments and can be very cost-effective too. You will learn some core ideas in Alex's new book called Becoming a Changemaker like creating a changemaker project and the changemaker canvas. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Sometimes your project can take you to unexpected places. For Nicole Kelner, she started making watercolor art consistently in the beginning of 2022. Quickly, she focused exclusively on making climate change art. She began sharing her work on Twitter, leading to inbound interest on what she should paint next and commissioned art pieces. Ultimately, it led to her leaving her job to work full-time on her own work and art projects and business. In addition to her transition, if you are looking to learn about leveraging Twitter to find clients, this episode is for you! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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With a small audience, you can still make an impact and generate opportunities online. That's one of the takeaways from this episode with Stew Fortier, the Cofounder of Foster. Foster is a Y-Combinator backed startup that helps writers improve the quality of their work. Stew publishes his own ideas on Twitter and in his newsletter. In this live episode with audience Q&A, you will learn his learnings from writing online, community building, and building Foster through growth and product evolution. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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When you do work consistently, new ideas emerge over-time. In this episode, you will learn how podcasting consistently for four years has led to new skills and projects over-time for David Nebinski (the host of the show). You will hear how David now has a podcasting system and workflow to help him publish consistently. You will learn more about his podcasting course and his recent live podcast recording event as well. You will also hear questions from show listeners as well. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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The quality of our lives is based on the quality of our relationships. But are we intentional about improving the quality of our relationships? Norman Tran is the Cofounder of The Space Between. Their flagship Cohort Based Course is called Relating Between the Lines. In this episode, you will learn how to improve your relationships, communication tips, and how Norman found his purpose. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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I can imagine COVID-19 impacted your life, work, and so much more. For Chris Schembra and his company 7:47, a book tour and his entire business was upended. His in-person business was forced to pivot to virtual. In this special live podcasting episode with an audience, you will learn how Chris found early customers for the 7:47 Virtual Gratitude Experience and scaled the product and his company. In late 2021 though, things changed for Chris personally. And you learn how he found Gratitude Through Hard Times which is the name of his new book. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Carla Stickler is currently a software engineer at G2 in Chicago. She spent a large portion of her career as an actor. She made a dramatic return to the stage during the height of the 2021/2022 COVID surge in New York. Carla was featured on NPR, ABC, Vulture, Inside Edition, and Nightline for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway after 7 years away from the role and a career change into tech. In this episode, you will learn about seizing opportunities, the power and benefit of sharing your story, why you don't need to be a starving artist, her journey into tech and how you could get started, and more. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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In 2020, the world of work dramatically changed. Workers have adjusted and found it might be easier now to build a Portfolio Career than before. Investors like Virginie Raphael saw these shifts too. Through her own firm Full Circle, she is investing into companies that are building into a world with Portfolio Careers and firmless professionals being more common. In this episode, you will learn about emerging business models, leading companies, and how Virginie hired someone with a Portfolio Career. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career! 

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How have you decided how to live? Derek Sivers wrote a book called How To Live, which details 27 conflicting ways of living to hopefully help you decide. In this episode, you will learn common through-lines among the 27 conflicting ways, how you should think about the 27 ways, and how to think about your career. You will also learn actionable ideas from another one of Derek's books called Your Music and People and about his popular decision-making framework, "Hell Yeah or No." Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Should you live with your friends? What happen can happen when you live with people for 3 years? Rina, Juvoni, and I have lived together for three years. We have learned a lot about each other. Juvoni and I didn't initially know Rina, but now she is a close friend. We got together for a chat before Rina moved out. If you want to learn more about us, roommate dynamics, about being a better roomate, this episode is for you! 

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Need a new strategy or tactics for navigating in the current economic market? Nick deWilde has practical advice for you to navigate the downturn. His ideas are helpful if you are soloprenuer and/or if you are looking for a new job. Nick is the Cofounder of Invisible College and the creator of the Jungle Gym newsletter. You will learn how he has navigated the last 12 months as well, and why now could be a good time for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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What do Operations professionals do? How could you brand yourself in Operations and build a career out of it? Caro Griffin loves answering these questions. She has been working in Operations for 10 years. She is currently the VP of Operations at Tech Ladies and the Founder of Opsy, a community for Operations leaders working in tech. You will learn how to think about positioning yourself in the Operations field, freelancing, the power of low-code tools, and the growth of Operations roles. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Emerging technology is creating new work opportunities for people. It also provides us new terms that we can apply to our existing work and how we think about it. In this episode, Ilana Ettinger shares how some practices that happen natively in Web3 can be applied to Web2. You will also learn other Portfolio Career trends like people negotiating to have a side hustle when starting a new job. Ilana also shares her recent career transitions and how she has been able to get referrals as well. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Do you want to have a creative career? Lawrence Yeo is the Founder and Creator of More To That, a blog that has many deep dive essays. He is a consultant and course creator as well. In this episode, we talk about a recent post called The Arc of the Practical Creator. The post details three stages balancing the passion for creativity with the practicality of making money. If you are interested in having a creative career, this episode is for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Do you want to have a career centered around relationships and helping people? Perhaps, the community industry is a good fit for you. Since 2007, Rosie Sherry has been working in this field. She is the Founder of Ministry of Testing and notably was the Community Manager at Indie Hackers. Rosie is a prolific tweeter and writer. In 2022, Rosie became a self-employed community builder offering a variety of products and services. In this episode, you will learn about Minimum Viable Communities, how to build a community-led business, and why conversation is at the heart of communities. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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What could you do in two hours that could improve your quality of life? Nick Gray wants you to host a 2-hour cocktail party to build big relationships, which can help your career. When Nick moved to New York City, he tried organizing all types of events to build relationships. He realized that a 2-hour cocktail party was the best event for him to host. His new book, The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, is out in June 2022. In this episode, you will learn how to organize your own cocktail party and other life hacks. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Want to pivot into a new industry or field? Nora Ali has pivoted from finance to startups to media, while working at leading companies along the way. Each of these chapters gave her the experience, skills, and relationships to help her for her next chapter. Nora is building a new media company. While doing so, she is also the cohost of the Business Casual podcast produced by Morning Brew. In this episode, you will learn how Nora has attracted new opportunities, successfully reached out to people and pitched new opportunities, and how to pivot. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Do you want to think and act in your career like entrepreneurs do? Consider reading The Startup of You book. This episode is a summary of a 2022 updated version of this book written by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha. The latest version includes how having a Portfolio Career is viable these days, and how to think about it. In this episode, I share and discuss Portfolio Career insights and other top ideas from the book. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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In 2018, Justin Gordon started the Just Go Grind podcast. And his life has not been the same since. That show has published over 320 episodes. In this episode, you will hear how one episode helped led to Justin getting his current job at Director of Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital. Justin also hosts another podcast through Vitalize Venture Capital. If you are interested in how podcast can accelerate your career and help you build relationships, this episode is for you. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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We know that have a mentor or mentors in our life is a good idea. But how do we actually form relationships with mentors? Janice Omadeke is the Founder of The Mentor Method, a startup helping companies large mentorship programs. In this episode, you will learn how to find mentors, how mentors could help, and how Janice scaled her side hustle into the company that it is today. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Are you looking to slow down to speed up? Steve Schlafman is the Founder of Downshift, a coaching company helping high-performers downshift towards a new life. They offer the world's first decelerator program. Steve has been on the podcast twice before, and in this episode, we also discussed the current state of my podcast in an open and vulnerable way. I hope you enjoy getting to learn more about my view on the content of the show and more too. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Podcasting has transformed my life. And I want to share my podcasting knowledge and process to hopefully help your podcast and Portfolio Career. To do so, I recently launched a new podcasting course called How To Start and Scale a Podcast. In this episode, I shared an overview on the 9 lesson email video course, the benefits of creating *anything*, and why now is a GREAT time to start a podcast. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Did your work and life dramatically change starting in 2020? For Katie Gatti, it did. When her in-person side hustle was no longer an option, she started taking her personal finance content much more seriously. As part of this, the Money with Katie brand and business was born. She recently sold her business to Morning Brew and is now a full-time creator with multiple income streams. In this episode, you will learn how she grew her side hustle and business, how you could collaborate with brands on content, and personal finance tips too. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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Haley Bryant started teaching indoor cycling classes while working full-time in 2016. She used the savings from this to buy a condo. She has used other side hustles and personal projects like advising companies, blogging, and angel investing to build her Portfolio Career. She is currently the General Manager at Golden Wok and a Venture Partner at Hustle Fund. If interested in side hustles and angel investing, this episode is for you! Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!

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