Escape the nine to five: how to design your career – Details, episodes & analysis

You’ve listened to previous episodes of Escape the Nine to Five, and you’re wondering, what on EARTH happened to Steve?

I was JUST starting to enjoy this show and he dropped off the radar.

There’s a reason.

Noticing the majority of my audience were veterinarians, I redirected the podcast, focusing on ONE audience I knew I could serve well.

If you’re ONE of those veterinarians, a medical professional, or just a working professional who wants good, evidence-based career advice, then listen to my NEW show, Next Step Vet.

LISTEN TO THE NEW PODCAST HERE: https://www.tinyurl.com/nextstepvet

If you’re a veterinarian interested in taking the next steps in your career, designing a career that works for you, and bringing you more joy and fulfilment, be sure to listen and subscribe to our new show, Next Step Vet.

So you can stop feeling stuck in your job.

And start designing a career that works for you.

LISTEN TO THE NEW PODCAST HERE: https://www.tinyurl.com/nextstepvet

We're taking a short break from releasing episodes while we focus on a rebrand for our core listeners.

If you would like to reach our host, Steve Oehley, contact him here:

work: steve@nextstep.vet

personal: steve.oehley@gmail.com

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Podcast genre: career change, career transition, work life balance, great resignation.

Podcast also known as: escape the 9 to 5

Episode show notes:

We all know famous mentors.  

Gandalf the Grey. Albus Dumbledore. Yoda. Mufasa.. 

If you're going to successfully escape the nine to five, you're going to need a mentor, but how do you find a mentor, how do you know this person is the right fit for you?

>> OUR GUEST THIS EPISODE: Kevin Chemidlin. 

He quit a comfortable nine to five job at an insurance company to become an entrepreneur. After a few failed ventures, he launched Philly Who, a podcast for entrepreneurs in Philadelphia. 

He had so much success growing this podcast, he launched Grow The Show, where he teaches other podcasters how to grow and monetize their podcast business.

>> WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

1. Why the random mix of skills you've learned will come handy in ways you never expect.
2. How finding a mentor will save you time and ensure someone is invested in your success.
3. How I can help you escape the nine to five.

Kevin’s target daily engagement: https://growtheshow.com/targeted-daily-engagement-how-to-use-social-media-to-double-podcast-audience/

>>TO GET MENTORSHIP YOURSELF:

Email me: steve@escapetheninetofive.net or join our Facebook page below.

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>> TAKE HOME CHALLENGE: PLAN YOUR TIME & MONEY

Lock yourself in a room for an hour and write down how you're spending your money. How much do you need to spend to live as well, as how much you need to realistically spend a week on your side project?

It might be worth doing this on an Excel sheet to make sure you're not missing anything. And that the math adds up. Secondly, write down how much time you need each week to spend on your side project.

Podcast genre: career change, career transition, work life balance, great resignation.

Podcast also known as: escape the 9 to 5

Imagine getting a call from an elderly person who says:

"I am future you, currently lying on my death bed, and I want to share all the regrets you're going to have in your life, so that you don't make the same mistakes."

What do you think you'll most likely regret at the end of your life?

While we move through our day to day life, we rarely stop and think about what our last days would be like. What might you regret at the end of your life?

We can't talk to our future selves, but in this episode, you can get the next best thing.

In Bronnie Ware’s book, ‘The Top Five Regrets of the Dying’, she shares her experiences with palliative care patients on their deathbed and what they most regretted about their lives.

>> WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

1. What are the five most common things people regret at the end of their life.
2. How to avoid making the same mistakes in your own life and career.
3. What steps you can take today towards escaping the nine to five.

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>> TAKE HOME CHALLENGE: SUCCESS JOURNAL

Write down at least a one positive experience or success from today. It doesn't have to be anything amazing, even something as simple as sharing a joke with a colleague or opening a door for a stranger.

If you're anything like me, you might come from an upbringing where only the big successes are celebrated. By acknowledging the small successes, it will literally re-wire your brain to think more positively. Keep it by your bedside table (somewhere you won't forget). It's a daily habit that will literally take you 30 seconds each day.

Podcast genre: career change, career transition, work life balance, great resignation.

Podcast also known as: escape the 9 to 5

"Is having work-life balance achievable?"

"Is it realistic?"

"What does work-life balance even mean to me?"

These might be questions you've asked.

You want a successful career, you want to earn good money, but you're also getting stressed out. You're not spending enough time with family and friends, barely any time for hobbies, let alone some exercise at the end of your workday.

Something's gotta give.

>> OUR GUEST THIS EPISODE:

Who better to discuss work-life balance thank Nigel Marsh; an advertising executive who lost his job with four young kids and decided to remain unemployed for a year to spend time with his family and figure out what work-life balance meant to him.

He's also done a wildly popular TED talk on work-life balance, authored multiple books including his latest book "Smart, Stupid & Sixty". Nigel has his own podcast, The Five of My Life, as well as speaking around the world about his experiences.

His book: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/smart-stupid-and-sixty-9780143794363

Website: https://www.nigelmarsh.com

>> WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

1. What timeframe you should measure your own work-life balance by.
2. Why the world's problems are not your problem.
3. Don't wait for death, disease, redundancy or divorce to make change; you can start small.

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>> TAKE HOME CHALLENGE: WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Privately, ask yourself:

• What type of person do I want to be?
• What type of life do I want to lead?
• What type of legacy do I want to leave?

Then ask yourself:

• What type of person am I?
• What type of life am I leading?
• What type of legacy will I leave, if I carry on this way?

Identify if there is a gap between those two things and finally ask yourself:

• Am I going to do anything about the gap?

Decide don't slide.

Podcast genre: career change, career transition, work life balance, great resignation.

Podcast also known as: escape the 9 to 5

So you're looking to leave your nine to five job, right? You want to do something different.

But you're probably a bit lost.

You've changed jobs - likely multiple times - but what you really need is a complete career change.

You might be thinking, where do I even start?

in season one of escape, the nine to five, host Steve Oehley spoke to some people who'd made the leap, including uncovering some of the myths we tell ourselves that hold us back.

in season two, we're doing a deeper dive into how to make a career change and I will be sharing more of the framework I've created to help you escape the nine to five job.

Some of our guests this season include career experts, Kathy Caprino and Joseph Liu. Author and Tedx Speaker, Nigel Marsh, and award-winning National Geographic Photographer, Jason Edwards.

We end each episode with a few tips from our guests and each week I'll give you a take home challenge to help you on your own career change journey.

We'll be releasing episodes weekly, with guest episodes every fortnight and in the alternating weeks we'll be releasing quick bite episodes with specific career advice.

If you'd like help on your OWN career change journey, click the link below:

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Podcast genre: career change, career transition, work life balance, great resignation.

Podcast also known as: escape the 9 to 5

Do you ever look at someone living a dream job and think, "I wish I had the guts to do something like that"?

You notice people in these dream jobs and think they don't seem particularly intelligent or talented. Deep down, you know if you try it's possible to land a dream job.

You're not happy in your current profession and you've always wanted to change, but you've probably made excuses to avoid the scary part change. That's really the crux of what makes us gaping the nine to five hard. It's fear of the unknown fear of change. Fear of failure.

Join host Steve Oehley as he talks to Cam Calkoen about embracing fear.

>> OUR GUEST THIS EPISODE:

Cam Calkoen is an inspirational speaker, born with cerebral palsy. Instead of worrying about the way he walked and the way he talked, Cam turned these perceived weaknesses into his biggest strengths, becoming an athletic gold medalist and an inspirational speaker.

IG: @camcalkoen

>> WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

1. Why to never let yourself become comfortable in your job.
2. Why you should always do something that scares you, each and every day.
3. How to avoid a life of regret.

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>> TAKE HOME CHALLENGE: FEAR SETTING

Based off Tim Ferriss' book, the Four Hour Workweek, write down your fears, not your goals.

1. Define your nightmare, the absolute worst thing that would happen if you did what you were considering doing. Envisage this and painstaking detail. Would it be the end of your life? How likely do you think this would actually happen?
2. What steps could you take to repair the damage? If the worst case scenario happened, chances are it's easier than you'd imagine.
3. What are the outcomes or benefits both temporary and permanent of more probable scenarios. Now that you've defined your worst nightmare. What are the more likely outcomes? How likely is it that you could produce even a moderately good outcome?
4. If you were fired from your job today, what would you do to keep your finances under control? Or if you quit your job, how hard would it be to go back to your old job or a similar one, if you really had to?
5. What are you putting off out of fear? Usually what we most fear doing is what we most need to do. As Tim Ferriss' says a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
6. What is it costing you financially, emotionally, physically to postpone action. Don't just measure the downside of action, measure the downside of inaction. If you don't do what excites you, where will you be in one, five or ten years. The cost of inaction is the greatest risk of all. You don't want to be one of those people living a life of regret.
7. What are you waiting for? Measure the cost of inaction, realize the downsides of change are unlikely, and fixable, and develop the most important habit of all - ACTION.

Podcast genre: career change, career transition, work life balance, great resignation.

Podcast also known as: escape the 9 to 5

You're here because you feel trapped in your nine to five job.

If you're like most people, there's probably plenty of hobbies you enjoy doing in your personal life. But none of them feel like something you can turn into a comfortable paying job.

This week, we speak to someone who's going to challenge that assumption.

Join host Steve Oehley as he talks to Hannah Mellsop about how to use social media to grow your brand.

>> OUR GUEST THIS EPISODE:

Hannah Mellsop. She's the founder of Real Rad Food, which is a plant-based dessert company. She started it as a side hustle, making healthy treats as a creative outlet, sharing her treats on social media.

What started as a hobby. She grew from the ground up attending local markets and growing organically. She now employs a team of five people and ships food online throughout New Zealand. She is living proof you can turn your hobbies into a thriving business.

IG: @realradfood

>> WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

1. You learn how you can test the market on social media, to discover if these legs to turning your hobby into a genuine business.
2. Why you should always start it as a side hustle.
3. Why you've got to be prepared to walk through the C.R.A.P. to get to the destination.

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>> TAKE HOME CHALLENGE: SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT.

Before starting a side hustle, I recommend becoming active on social media. This will be different for every person, but I'll give you an example to help you out.

I have a friend who LOVES fishing. If he posts photos of himself fishing on social media, chances are with the number of people who post similar photos he is NOT going to be able to turn this into a side hustle.

However, like any business, if he gets more SPECIFIC, he might find a NICHE that hasn't been tapped yet. Maybe he posts about the handmade fishing flies he enjoys making, that are particularly good at catching a certain type of fish. Or he goes on a Facebook community page and offers advice to more amateur fishermen than him. As he builds credibility, a business opportunity could be formed.

No business, big or small, tries to appeal to everybody. Find a niche on social media you're interested in, and spend time building an audience there.

Podcast genre: career change, career transition, work life balance, great resignation.

Podcast also known as: escape the 9 to 5

I'm going to address the elephant in the room here.

Not everyone listening to this podcast is suited to escaping the nine to five. Maybe you like listening to the stories, but actual changes too scary, or really you're comfortable in your nine to five job and don't want big change.

Chances are, you're not a hundred percent happy in your current role. While this podcast is your guide to escaping the nine to five, you need to decide if you're unhappy in your job or unhappy in your profession.

There's a significant difference.

Join host Steve Oehley as he talks to Robbie Allen about career changes within an organisation.

>> OUR GUEST THIS EPISODE:

Robbie is the founder of Insidery, whose slogan is the best insight into a job comes from those actually doing it. He helps young people starting off on the perfect career path by hearing from those on the inside. But before doing all this, he discovered how to change career without leaving a workplace, transitioning from a business management role in an advertising agency to a role as a strategist and the same agency.

Link: www.insidery.co

>> WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

1. Why you should break down the change into something you can dip your toes into.
2. How sharing your idea with family and friends will not only help give other perspectives, but also provide some much needed accountability to actually make change.
3. How to audition for roles within your current workplace to prove to yourself and to your colleagues that you can actually make change .

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>> TAKE HOME CHALLENGE: CONTACT AN INSIDER

There's something you've always wanted to do on the side. Quietly you think to yourself, if I could get PAID to do this, I would do it full time. I almost GUARANTEE you, there is someone out there doing what YOU enjoy most, and getting paid for it.

Get in touch with someone who's making a living out of YOUR dream job and ask them HOW they got there. Even if this person is FAMOUS, there are ways to get in touch and ACTUALLY get a response.

Podcast genre: career change, career transition, work life balance, great resignation.

Podcast also known as: escape the 9 to 5

Chances are you've had periods in your life where you've hated your job.

Maybe, you've used an overseas trip to escape. The problem with this is it's only temporary.

For those of you who have seen The Matrix, there's a moment in the movie when Neo has to choose between the blue pill and the red pill. Whether or not you choose to change incrementally or jump, there is always going to be a moment in this journey where you have to take a leap of sorts.

Join host Steve Oehley as he talks to Jenna Mueller about whether or not your should leave your job.

>> OUR GUEST THIS EPISODE:

Jenna Mueller was in a corporate marketing role in the states. Miserable in her job, Jenna tried the strategy of jumping. She found there was a safety net waiting for her when she jumped, travelling to Australia and finding her passion as a yoga and fitness instructor

IG: @jennamuellerfitness.com

>> WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

1. Why you should surround yourself with people that lift you up.
2. Why you've got to be clear about what you want and why you want it.
3. Why you should jump, IF you're completely miserable in your job. This advice isn't for everyone.

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>> TAKE HOME CHALLENGE: THE LITTLE VOICE.

Almost everybody has a little voice in their head telling them what they actually should be doing. If you've ever had that moment, take whatever that is and find a way to introduce it into your life, weekly if not daily.

Podcast genre: career change, career transition, work life balance, great resignation.

Podcast also known as: escape the 9 to 5