How to Pivot Out Of a Family Business (or Biz that Feels Like Family) to Follow What Sparks You.
Jonathan Fields
Helping leaders, teams & individuals reconnect with possibility in the face of uncertainty | Sparketype? Founder | Keynote Speaker | Award-winning Author | Advisor
Today we hear a powerful story about the blended opportunity and also tension that sometime emerges when you blend a career with a family, especially a family business, where you have a certain role and set of abilities, but also feel a growing call to shift focus to something new, and how that brings up all sorts of questions about everything from familial responsibility to purpose, passion and the freedom to choose your next move.
This is exactly the predicament that our? SPARKED Podcast listener Paula is wrestling with. She’s asks:?
“When a path seems laid out for you (and expected of you), how do you make aligned choices that bring freedom & purpose?”
To help tease out insights, ideas, and strategies, we're joined by SPARKED Braintrust mentor, Jenny Blake. Jenny is the bestselling author of Life After College, the groundbreaking book PIVOT, and her recently published Free Time, and also an incredible career and business strategist.?
You can listen to today's SPARKED Podcast episode below, or find it on your favorite podcast app.
And, remember, we all have a unique imprint for work that makes us come alive: your Sparketype?. When you discover yours, everything - your entire work-life journey and even parts of your personal life and relationships - begin to make sense, and, you feel better equipped to find, do, or create work that (finally) sparks you!?
To learn your Sparketype, check out the free Sparketype? Assessment.
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Human-Centric Leader and Strategist ? Empowerment, Purpose Enablement, Transformative Change
2 年Jonathan Fields- I listened to your Sparked podcast for the first time yesterday, including this episode. Love the length, love the format, and like Good Life Project, it was personal, engaging, and purposeful. The assessment simplified what so many other assessments complicated. I am a Maker-Maven with an Anti-Performer. As I read the book, though, I felt very connected to Sage as well. Have you encountered anyone that has 2 shadows? I don't remember the results breaking it down by percentage so it was hard to see how close Maven and Sage might have been. Thanks for your work on this. I truly appreciate it!
Job Search Specialist Helping Professionals Go From Job Search Stress to Ready For Success in 90 Days | YCM Podcast Host | e-book author of The 7 Steps To Career Change Success
2 年Sylvia Kelly I think you would enjoy this episode as it reflects some of the challenges you help women overcome in their careers