Portfolio Career Podcast

Are you looking to start a new consulting practice? Try starting with your existing employer, especially if you are thinking about leaving. Terry Rice has been self-employed for 6 years. He currently works as a Business Development Expert-In-Residence at Entrepreneur Magazine. He also helps people start their own coaching or consulting practice.  In this episode, you will learn: -why your existing...

Do you want to achieve professional and career growth fast? Consider cold emailing leaders in your field. For Nik Sharma, he realized the power of cold email in high school. Yes, high school. In this episode, Nik details tactics, insights, and stories including about successfully emailing Mark Cuban. Nik is the Founder of Sharma Brands and is also known as "The DTC Guy" because of the brand and re...

Would you like to have a bigger network? Have more people that know you? Well starting reaching out to them over email. Molly Beck is the author of Reach Out and Cofounder of the Reach Out Party. Reaching out to someone new every day transformed her career, and it can do so for you too. You will also learn the importance of following-up, how to do so, and the value of creating any personal project...

Are you interested in a career path as a community builder? Well, it's now becoming easier to do so! For many years, companies have not prioritized hiring professional community builders and community teams. Times are a changing. Yuval Yarden is Head of Community for Venwise. She is passionate about helping people find jobs as community builders and that it is an attractive career path. Learn prac...

What would it look like it if you bet on yourself more? Shivani Berry decided to take a leap and start a new coaching and leadership business without any clients. She is the Founder and CEO of Ascend, a leadership program for women. In this episode, you will learn how Shivani started her business in 2019 and has been able to scale it since.  You will also learn: - why a lot of Ascend's growth has...

Are you excited about the online learning industry? Charlotte Crowther is an online course creator advisor and the Founder of MySnapshot. She has worked with leading course like Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain and Ali Abdaal's Part-Time YouTuber Academy courses.  In this episode, you will learn: -the processes behind creating a course -why the online learning industry is exciting -how Charlo...

Shripriya Mahesh has a diverse career with excellence in many fields: film, photography, building products, investing, and blogging. Shripriya Mahesh is currently the Founding Partner of Spero Ventures, an early-stage venture capital investing firm. Throughout her career, she has made changes and focused on adventure and regret minimization. These days, Shripriya believes that we are in the age of...

Tina He is an investor at Pace Capital, a leading VC fund in New York. Since 2018, she has been writing and growing a newsletter called Fakepixels. In this episode, you will learn how she started the newsletter and how she grew it. Tina is passionate about side projects  and provides actionable ideas for your existing or potential projects.  In this episode, you will learn: - how Tina started her...

Having good relationships is fundamental for career growth. Cat Hernandez has been helping people get jobs, hiring people, and also some times letting go of people for over 10 years. Because of this and more, she has pulled into new jobs by contacts. Since 2015, Cat has been working with founders as an investor at Primary Venture Partners and now at The Venture Collective. This type of work natura...

David Kidder is the Cofounder and CEO of Bionic, a company that ignites growth revolutions for large organizations. David is an angel investor to 40+ startups and an author, including The Startup Playbook and New To Big.  In this episode, you will learn: - how to use a start-up playbook for long-term personal and professional growth - the best advice that David got from Elon Musk - why "how to lea...

Are you looking to find a career-market-fit like a company looks for product-market-fit? Listen to Scott Britton, Cofounder of Troops, talk about his journey to currently in this ideal state. Along his highly accomplished career so far, Scott has still experimented and iterated on many different things, including selling courses, writing a book on life hacks, and starting another startup.  In this...

Do you want to grow your career and life? Teal Founder and CEO Dave Fano is helping people create meaningful careers through tools, resources, and community. Dave was previously the Chief Growth Officer at WeWork and has seen how and why people level-up professionally and wants to provide that for more and more people.  In this episode, you will learn: - how people are getting hired these days - w...

Have you ever dreamed of making a living as an independent content creator? Kinsey Grant was the host of the very popular Business Casual podcast, but the opportunity to become an independent creator was too appealing. During March 2021, she left the fast-growing Morning Brew to take a leap.  In this episode, you will learn: - how Kinsey grew the Business Casual podcast,  - what Kinsey she likes a...

What would it look like if there was more joy in our days? How about more joy in the workplace? Sarah Wood is on a mission to empower more Joy Soldiers, people who activate joy in others, in the workplace. Following her TEDx Talk in 2019, Sarah has particularly been doing this work. Following a serendipitous moment, Sarah is now the Head of Community and Growth at Upstream.  In this episode, you w...

What if your career was a start-up? The start-up of you! What if you professionally applied the same principles and frameworks that start-ups do? Among many other accomplishments, LinkedIn Cofounder Reid Hoffman and Village Global Cofounder Ben Casnocha authored The Start-Up of You in 2012 to help answer some of these questions for you. In this episode, I summarized the key takeaways and insights...

Do you want to teach a transformational online course? Curious Lion Founder Andrew Barry has been a professional in the corporate training and learning and development industry for 15+ years. In 2019, he started studying and embracing transformational online courses more. And in summer 2020, he had a lightbulb moment. After that, he started sharing his knowledge online more and more. Later, throug...

Are you looking to start a new coaching side hustle? Rebecca Garcia and Melissa Wong work both full-time at Facebook and Nextdoor, respectively. In addition, they are passionate about helping others level-up. They both share stories and experiences about how they have been able to find clients, determine their offerings, and ultimately solve people's problems. If interested in being a coach or gro...

Smiley Poswolsky is a millennial workplace expert, motivational speaker, and author of The Quarter-Life Breakthrough and The Breakthrough Speaker. His TEDx talk on "the quarter-life crisis" has been viewed more than 1.5 million times. In May 2021, Smiley's next and newest book, Friendship in the Age of Loneliness, will be available.  In this episode you will learn,  -how to maintain your friendshi...

Claire Wasserman is an educator, author, and founder of Ladies Get Paid, a book, educational platform, and global community that champions the professional and financial advancement of women.  The community has grown to over 75,000 members.  In this episode, you will learn: - how Claire wrote her book, Ladies Get Paid - how to think about yourself as your own business - the importance of networkin...

Launching a startup is really, really hard. For John Henry, he does not want it to be an expense of creating content. Since 2014, John has consistently produced content and hosted branded podcasts with eBay, WeWork, Samsung, and The Washington Post, etc. He also hosted a TV show called Hustle on VICELAND. In 2020, John cofounded Loop, an insurance technology company. While launching the startup, J...

David Spinks is the cofounder of CMX, where over 20,000 community professionals gather to learn and support each other. In 2019, CMX was acquired by Bevy, where Spinks now serves as the VP of Community, helping companies launch and scale event-driven community programs. David's new book, The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage, is available in March 2021.  In th...

This is a special episode with my sister, Dana Lund. After getting married in 2018, Dana and her husband moved to Miami on a whim. You will learn how she eventually figured out what she wanted to do, how she worked two jobs at one point, and the work she is doing now as a real estate broker in Miami. You will also learn how we both and our family dealt with losing our Dad in 2006 and how a charita...

Before it was even a thing, Diane Mulcahy created the first course in the country on the Gig Economy and in the MBA program at Babson College. Out of that course grew a book, The Gig Economy. Diane works in the Gig Economy as a consultant and advisor to Fortune 500 and startup company clients, and as a speaker, writer, and adjunct professor.  In this episode, you will learn: - key insights from Di...

For the last six years, Jonathan Basker has grown his own, independent company. He has done so WITHOUT having a website. He has worked in the recruiting, HR, and leadership sectors with and at leading firms like Etsy, Betaworks, Handy, Bark, and InVision just to name a few. He is currently a consultant usually taking on interim roles and a coach.    In this episode, you will learn: -how Jonathan s...

Are you looking for a practical overview and toolkit for your Portfolio Career? Consider reading Emma Gannon's The Multi-Hyphen Life book! Emma is the host of UK's Number 1 Career podcast, Ctrl Alt Delete, with over 8 million downloads. She has blogged since 2009 and is the author of five books. She wrote this book after enjoying a Multi-Hyphen Life. A hyphen is a type of work or activity in someo...