Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, Build a Life Bigger Than Your Résumé | Christina Wallace

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Ep232: How to Future-Proof Your Creative Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Résumé | with Christina Wallace
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Today's guest is Christina Wallace who is an entrepreneur, author, and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business school. Christina is a self-described "human Venn diagram" who has built a career at the intersection of business, technology and the arts. If you've been a listener of my podcast for sometime or have attended my latest workshops, you will most likely recognize that term as something I highly support.
In our conversation, Christina and I talk about the history of how industrialization shaped the needs of the human species to specialize, but how that shift has now turned against the working class. We also talk about how the pandemic became the catalyst to trigger the rapid shift that made specialization become not only outdated, but the biggest risk in our time. We delved deeper into why the specialization model simply doesn't work anymore given the rapid changing circumstances we're going into right now, and what exactly we need to be focusing on as we move forward.
Christina and I also talk about building The Portfolio Life, which is the title of her book as well as a key strategy to become irreplaceable (even in these rapid changing times when many roles are being rendered obsolete). She takes us through the steps she describes in her book to find the intersection of everything in your life so you can identify what makes you who you really are as well as discover the value you can offer in any industry. Whatever industry you're currently in, this conversation will help shed light on your next steps if you feel you're behind and need to catch up with our constantly evolving world.
[CHAPTERS]
00:04:50 | The big shift kickstarted by the pandemic
00:10:08 | How human evolution transitioned to specialization
00:18:47 | Specialization - the biggest risk in our time
00:24:16 | Does that mean I have to be Jack of all trades, master of none?
00:41:44 | How can I be the CEO of my life when it's too much responsibility that I can handle?
00:45:13 | Constructing your own Venn diagram
01:05:31 | But what if I fail in this new direction I'm taking?
01:12:42 | But I don't have room for diversifying and building a life portfolio
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