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Welcome to Invincible Career — a newsletter by Larry Cornett that helps ambitious professionals live better lives. If you find this article helpful or interesting, consider sharing it with a friend or two. If you’ve been reading and enjoying my newsletter for a while, consider a  premium membership  that gives you access to my private community , weekly office hours, and exclusive professional dev...

Read an updated version of this article: Larry Cornett  is a  leadership coach and business advisor  who hosts a private mastermind community for ambitious professionals with weekly challenges, office hours, and 24x7 support. If you’re interested in starting your own business someday (or accelerating an existing one), check out his “ Employee to Solopreneur ” course (launching in 2022). Larry live...

📚 If you’ve ever thought about starting your own business at some point in your career, check out my Solopreneur workshop . I see too many people stuck in a “holding pattern” in their lives and careers. If you push, you find out that they already know what they should do. They just refuse to accept it. In some cases, it seems like they’re waiting for a “hero” to come along and rescue them. The pr...

“ Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making. ” — Michelle Phan I’m vacationing in Maui this week (and sneaking a little work in). Therefore, it seems appropriate to use a surfing metaphor to...

Note: I’m creating a series of courses, live coaching, and a peer community to help guide people on a journey from Employee to Solopreneur . The launch date will be in 2022. If you’ve ever thought about starting your own business at some point in your career, sign up to be notified . See you there! My guest for this episode is Andrew Shearer . Andrew is a former product management and user experie...

Note: I’m creating a series of courses and building a community to help guide people on a journey from employee to solopreneur. The launch date will be in 2022. If you’re interested in learning more, sign up to be notified here . Thanks! I was catching up with an old friend recently. We’ve supported each other through the many twists and turns of our careers. During the call, she said to me, “ It’...

Welcome to Invincible Career — a newsletter by Larry Cornett that helps ambitious professionals live better lives. You can read  what it’s all about here . If you find this article helpful or interesting, consider sharing it with a friend or two . If you’ve been reading and enjoying my newsletter for a while, consider a  premium membership  that gives you access to my private community , weekly of...

Welcome to Invincible Career — a newsletter by Larry Cornett that helps ambitious professionals live better lives. You can read  what it’s all about here . If you find this article helpful or interesting, consider sharing it with a friend or two . If you’ve been reading and enjoying my newsletter for a while, consider a  premium membership  that gives you access to my private community, weekly off...

Welcome to Invincible Career — a newsletter by Larry Cornett that helps ambitious professionals live better lives. You can read  what it’s all about here . If you find this article helpful or interesting, consider  sharing it  with a friend or two. If you’ve been reading and enjoying my newsletter for a while, consider a  premium membership  that gives you access to my private community, weekly of...

Welcome to Invincible Career — a newsletter by Larry Cornett with advice for ambitious professionals. You can read what this is all about here . If you find this article helpful or interesting, consider sharing it with a friend or two. If you’ve been reading and enjoying my newsletter for a while, consider a premium membership that gives you access to my private community, weekly office hours, and...

Did you know that a bad boss and toxic work environment might be  worse for your health  than smoking? People often joke around about how much they hate their jobs and managers. But, the stress is apparently no laughing matter. Researchers from Harvard and Stanford conducted a meta-analysis of more than 200 studies to understand the effects of stress in the workplace. Some of their findings: * Wor...

I remember it feeling like the end of the world. I thought I'd never be happy again.  I experienced numerous failures at a young age. I bombed out my first year of college and lost my scholarship. I broke up with my girlfriend. My car broke down, I didn’t have a good job, and I had no idea how I was going to pay my rent. When I was younger, failures like these were such an enormous setback. If som...

Looking for a new job? Your weak ties may be more helpful than your close friends. Want to start a new business or grow your customer base? You’re probably better off building new connections with acquaintances than tapping into your colleagues. What is a weak tie? Well, it’s someone you know, but not very well. Or, you were close a long time ago but haven’t been in contact for years or decades. T...

My guest for this episode is Fiona Pagett . She is a 52-year old single mother of two young people, now in their twenties. She has enjoyed a colorful career in broadcast journalism (check her out on BBC Scotland !), corporate communications, video production, personal training, and — most recently — real estate.  Proactive, and not afraid to make different life choices, Fiona has changed careers o...

I was standing at a whiteboard in a large conference room with Prabhakar Raghavan . If you’re not familiar with who he is, he’s currently a Senior Vice President at Google, where he is responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments products. However, when I worked with him, he was the Chief Scientist running Yahoo! Labs and one of the smartest people I’d ever met. I was...

My guest for this episode is Marvin Liao . He’s an investor-operator, executive coach, and formal advisor to several large family offices. We crossed paths over 10 years ago at Yahoo, and I’ve been following his career pivots and journeys around the world ever since. Marvin is a partner and board member at Game Groove Capital , an international gaming holding company. He was previously a partner a...

A friend of mine made a significant career pivot years ago. He decided that he wanted more out of work and life, so he invested in himself and went after it. He’s been very successful! However, he discovered that odd experience which sometimes happens when you change, grow, and move in a new direction. His old friends wanted to hold him back. Sadly, he found that he had to create a new circle of f...

My guest for this episode is Sam Sycamore . Sam is a writer, web developer, tree hugger, and avowed music junkie. He currently works as Head of Content Strategy & Marketing at Hashnode , a global tech blogging platform that enables bloggers to tap into a fast-growing and supportive community of readers, writers, and tech enthusiasts. Sam began his career online as a music journalist, contributing...

"You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't." — Alain de Botton Fame, fortune, and family. Why can’t we have all of those at once?  Why can’t we be amazingly successful at work and wonderful partners to our loved one? Why can’t we rocket up the career ladder and be great parents? Why can’t we be in peak physical...

Would Apple be a $2 trillion company if Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs had been more alike? I highly doubt it. Thanks to my time working at Apple many years ago, I had the opportunity to experience the personalities of both Steves. I can tell you that they were very, very different people. " The day we started Apple he changed. He changed his personality forever because he now was a founder of a com...

I don’t remember what my friend did, but suddenly a drill sergeant was in his face screaming at him. He called him every name in the book and told him how stupid he was. At the end of his tirade, the drill sergeant stopped talking and kept staring into my friend’s face. He was expecting some sort of reaction or response. But, my friend maintained his composure . He stared straight ahead, looking p...

My guest for this episode is Sami Gardner . She is a career coach who specializes in helping creative and technical professionals develop their dream careers. Sami redesigned her own career to travel the world and has helped job seekers from San Francisco to São Paulo. Sami believes that if you kickstart your career, you kickstart your life . She shares her career journey from librarian to a caree...

I’m sure you’ve already heard this, but when it comes to social media, we are the “product.” The services are technically free , but we all pay a price. The big platforms make a killing off of the time you spend there, thanks to their highly personalized ads. They know everyone you are connected to, who you engage with, what you click, what you share, etc. Businesses leverage that massive amount o...

My guest for this episode is my good friend Anna Codina from Costa Rica. She is a content strategist with over a decade of experience in the industry and has worked with brands such as Adobe, Evernote, and Wildlife Fund. Anna’s simple content strategy attracts the top 10% of her client’s best-paying customers and helps busy entrepreneurs create relatable storytelling and purposeful messaging. She...

You don’t always recognize opportunity when it knocks. That’s especially true when you answer the door only to discover that more work is waiting for you. Many years ago, I was a designer at eBay. During one particularly challenging project, my product manager got called away for jury duty. Unfortunately, there weren’t any other PMs available to take over. Now, if you’re not familiar with what it...