Portfolio Career Podcast with David Nebinski

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...

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 T...

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 thank...

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! As always,...

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...

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 i...

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 d...

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 bu...

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. E...

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...

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 cou...

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...

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 jo...

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 o...

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 changemak...

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 o...

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 learnin...

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 rec...

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...

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. I...

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...

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 abo...

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 Mus...

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 cou...

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 Ope...