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Permission to Explore: Navigating Career Transitions with Annette Garsteck · Groove with Portia

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Welcome to Group of Porsche, the podcast that uncovers the hidden treasures within grief.
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I'm your host, Porsche the Producer, and I'm inviting you to join
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me on a transformative journey where we would exchange laughter, of course, the
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best medicine of them all, reflect on cherished memories, remember that time that
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the little boy grabbed my hand instead of his mother's at the amusement park yikes,
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And of course, discover gratitude while navigating one of life's hardest challenges,
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loss. So get ready to grew with me, Porsche the Producer, let's
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dive in. Hey listeners, welcome back to Group of Porsche. I am
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your host and face Porsche the producer. And before we begin, as always,
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and greatest of all, grew with Porsche. So, today, you guys,
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I have the honor of being joined by who I will call a reinvention
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pioneer who was on a mission to guide more women to a space of empowerment
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and fulfillment by rediscovering their professional purpose and also redefining success. So welcome,
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my good friend and founder of a net Garsteck career consulting miss A net Garsteck
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herself. Hello, Annette, how you doing, oh porschha, thank you
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so much for having me. I'm doing great. Thanks, awesome, awesome,
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every day is great. That ends in why and Anet you always know.
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I love to start off my conversations with gratitude. What are you grateful
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for today? I am grateful today that I woke up a day above ground
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is always a really good day. And I'm super grateful for all of these
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tools that bring us together, Like I mean, my goodness, we can
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meet anybody on Zoom and have a relationship. I love that. I'm super
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grateful for you and all of my other entrepreneur friends because being a business owner
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is not an easy thing to do on your own, and nobody tells you
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in the beginning, but you really need to surround yourself with other like minded
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people that keep you going, that tell you it's okay to fumble, that
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tell you they've been through the same thing and help you keep going, you
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know, and Nette, I want you to elaborate more on that, because
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that leads right into our conversation, right Because as entrepreneurs, there are several
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pits of grief that we fall into on the entrepreneurial journey. So and Nette,
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can you share with our listeners how you are navigating or in a sense
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staying afloat with the different waves of grief that come from being a business owner,
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right from shifting communities to maybe in the beginning, not having a support
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net or that boat of support. So elaborate more on that for our audience.
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Sure, I think the change comes when you leave your corporate role.
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I was in corporate America for over fifteen years. I worked for some really
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big companies. So working in corporate America has a support system built in for
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you, right. You have colleagues, you have peers, you have direct
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reports, you have vendors, you have customers. You're never really alone,
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and you get to work through things as a group because you work with other
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people. So that really shifted when I started my entrepreneurship journey, and I
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wasn't expecting it at all. So I started connecting virtually, of course,
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because I started my business officially right before the pandemic hit. And then I
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started connecting virtually with like some really great groups here in Northeast Ohio over Facebook.
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And then those friendships have gone from the virtual world to the real world
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like with you. And so the grief that was manifesting itself at that time
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was more like doubt. I kept asking myself, am I doing the right
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thing? How did I get here? What am I supposed to do next?
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What am I supposed to do it all right? And so those questions
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were hard, and then once I found a group of people to talk about
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it with, it was less jarring, less disorienting, and it was just
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part of Okay, I don't know what I'm doing because I haven't found exactly
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where I'm going. And then once I found my path, then it was
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a lot clearer to me what I should be doing. And knowing that self
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doubt is okay. It just means you're growing and stretching and I'm trying new
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things and it's uncomfortable and it's weird, But that doesn't make it wrong,
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and it doesn't mean that it's not for me, oh one hundred and that
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I think you know that doubt piece you know. Of course, there's so
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many different that are popping in my head, especially this one right here,
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because as we make that pivot or shift from corporate, there's what I call
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that loss of identity where the doubt comes in, right, because we don't
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have that support backing our work, backing our performance, or validation that we're
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qualified for whatever role we occupy, right versus when we become a business owner.
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Right, we have to in a sense learn to promote ourselves and find
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that community of like minded people to remind us of our value and worth when
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we're feeling that what I call my inner critic, whose name is rump ros
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self doubt come in and knocking on the door. And so a net for
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our listeners who are tuning in, right, for those of you who are
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new to obviously entrepreneurship. Right, I kind of lost my training thought,
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I'll be real honest, how petty squirrel moll. But where I was going
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with the whole self doubt thing was that loss of identity, right, and
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a nette, how did you in a sense learn to work through that inner
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critic voice of self doubt and turn it into self confidence and work through that
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grief. That's a great question. So I think the loss of identity is
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not really a loss of your identity. I think it's something we forget about
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ourselves. It's a truth that we let be buried. So This happens all
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the time. When you're in corporate America. Right, you have a coworker
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or colleague that is very difficult, So you bury the parts of you that
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find it difficult to work with this person so that you can soldier on right
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and move forward. And similarly, you forget about the pieces of yourself that
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enjoy I don't know, promoting yourself on social media media, or promote yourself
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in a networking group, or you forget about the part of yourself that really
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hates spreadsheets, right because you have to do them when you're in corporate America,
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and when you're an entrepreneur or when you're looking to make a transition and
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rEFInd your passion and purpose, you can remember those parts of yourself so you
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have not lost your identity. I can assure you that what you have done
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is you've suppressed him or her, and you've put them in the back burner,
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and you have to let them back out and show that it's okay.
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You can be who you are. You can work at a place that has
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the same values as you or and I just posted about this morning on Instagram,
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is you can create the kind of work life that makes sense for you,
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because corporate America is not the end all be all. It's still a
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very big portion of how people work. But the big companies aren't even the
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ones that are promoting jobs right now. Right if you want to get a
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job, you should probably be looking at a mid to small size firm that's
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under two hundred and forty nine employees, because those are the folks hiring,
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you know. And that what's coming through for me right now is this level
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of what I call these limiting beliefs that we have about ourselves that contribute to
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the self doubt, that contribute to the grief and loss of our quote unquote
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identity. And like what you said, we tend to, in a sense
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marry ourselves to a role and forget that we were somebody before this role,
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right and so a Nette, what would you say was the limiting belief that
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you had that once you in a sense divorced from your corporate entity and went
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on your own or gone rogue on your own path of entrepreneurship, what would
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you say was that limiting belief that kept you in a sense a little bit
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of a prisoner. And how did you learn to unshackle yourself from the prisoner
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mindset and become victorious. Okay, that's a great question. So I was
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raised by baby Moors, and so of course that meant that I was sort
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of indoctrinated with this belief that once I started working, I would find a
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really good company and then I would stay at that company until I retired thirty
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years later. I don't know about you, Porsha, but that's how I
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grew up. So that was the belief. That belief was shattered for me
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really really early on in my career. So I think I was about I
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think I was working professionally as a full time employee for about four years,
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and I had been promoted already and I was now a salaried Yeah, I
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was like pretty special. I felt it. And then about a couple of
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weeks into my employment, I got my first buyout letter. Like, seriously,
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I was not even promoted for a couple of weeks and they're giving me
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an offer offering to essentially you retire and leave my job for this amount of
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a one time buyout. And let me tell you that one time buyout was
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not even five thousand dollars. So I'm like, oh my god, I
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just got here. They don't want me here anymore? Do I have to
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take this buyout? What is this? I was the side of myself,
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and so I talked with my supervisor, my manager that I really trusted,
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and he's like, oh, I'll salaried employees got that letter. I'm like,
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so they don't want any of us here. He's like, no,
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they want people that are expensive, right, long term employees that are hedging
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on retiring to take the buyout offer so that they can save money. And
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I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, this is not what I thought
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it would be. So I knew from that point that I couldn't just let
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my career happen to me. That I had to take charge of it,
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and I carried that theme throughout the rest of my career. I use that
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theme to often help it my direct reports that we're working for me in corporate
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America, Because when I'd see something in somebody, let's say I worked with
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you, I'd be like, Porsha, you're meant for more. What are
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you still doing here? What are you still doing here in this job than
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only gives you a two or three percent raise every year? Do you know
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what you're missing out on? And then, of course when I would help
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somebody that I worked with, word would kind of get around and then I'd
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help other folks. And so that's how I really got interested in helping people
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focus on their careers and find what they're meant for instead of just letting their
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career happen to them. I think that answers your question, right, ones,
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because I mean, in a sense, right, you who found this
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opportunity within the obstacle. Right, they're giving you this buyout letter telling you,
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hey, thanks for your service. We've taken what we needed from you,
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and now we want to in a sense, save money, but cut
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you out of the equation. Right. We're dividing things but also multiplying in
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other ways. Right. So in a sense, you know they bought you
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out, but really, the way I look at it, you bought into
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a purpose driven calling, right, And a lot of us who are in
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that boat of transition it looks rocky, right, because we don't see all
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the steps in entrepreneurship versus when you hold a corporate role. Okay, we
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know what our Monday through Friday is gonna look like depending on our role.
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We know that when our lunch break is, we know when it's time to
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get off work. And if we're gonna get stuck and rush our traffic and
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be ready to pull two picks out of our head type of thing. You
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know, you get the whole cabut that, and you know I applaud you
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for answering that call, right, because let's be realistic. I love the
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word vision, right. I consider myself a visionary because the word vision has
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two eyes for a reason, it doesn't have an S at the end,
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because only the vision has been given to you and a lot of people.
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Because others don't see the big vision, they tend to run away from their
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calling instead of running to it. And so Anette, before we jump into
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the next part of the conversation, if one of our listeners was interested in
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connecting with you and learning more about your work, is there a website or
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social media handle you can share with us today? Yeah, so you can
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find me on anetgarstuck dot com. That's my personal website. I hang out
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on LinkedIn also under my name and at garstuck, and then on Instagram at
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at an et garstuck. Excellent excellence to those of you who want to connect
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with the net. You've got her on all the major platforms. You can
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probably just google her too and you'll find her right find me, you know,
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Anette, one of the things that I love about you is that through
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all the odds, you manage to find an opportunity, and you also help
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your clients to see the opportunity within the obstacle of them navigating this new world
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of job seeking careers, redefining success and purpose. And as we both know,
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grief brings a wave of emotions. Right, And let's be realistic.
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When you were talking about this buyout letter, I'm thinking about all the emotions
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you're going through, like, oh my god, how am I going to
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pay my bills? If I've got kids, how am I going to support
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them? Don't have grown kids that are in college or on their way to
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You got to pay for prim and all the other things, and then don't
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be taken care of a sick parent in between that. So, as we
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both know, grief brings a plethora of emotions. And for somebody who's seeking
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a new career, they're flooded with all of those things. So how can
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they really focus on their main goal when their attention span is stretched? So
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in net, for our audience, how do you in a sense, help
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your clients right identify their passions, their values, their strengths, and align
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that helped them to align those with their next career path, considering that their
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focus is in so many different other areas because of the in a sense beginner's
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grief journey that they're about to embark on. Sure and Porsha, I dare
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to say that the grief has already been some thing a job seekers been processing
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through. And the reason I say that is because something happened that let them
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know I can't stay here any longer. And there's a million different options for
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that. Right. It could be that they are no longer working with their
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favorite leader, that their colleague has resigned, the project they're on has no
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more fonding and it's being disbanded, and so is the team. A merger
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and an acquisition. Often that's where people find themselves redundant. They were laid
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off, they were fired. I mean, there's a million reasons. So
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by the time I talk to somebody, if they're just in the beginning stages
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realizing that something's off and they want to make a move, or they've already
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been made a move against them and they have to respond to it, the
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grief is already in process. So a few for our first meetings then sometimes
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go into verbally processing that right because they've told their significant other, their best
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friend, but they haven't processed through it with a third party objective person.
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So I do a lot of listening and sometimes I end up being in those
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meetings with my jaw like right on my desk, like that actually happened to
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you. A little bit of empathy goes into that, and then what we
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start to do is identify, because we already have identified what you don't want,
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right, the grief journey has made it crystal clear that you don't want
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X, Y or z. So now that we have that out of the
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way, we can check off that point. Now we can say what do
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we want? What's important to you, Porscha. What is it that you
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want to work on next. What's a part of you that you used to
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set aside at work and now you don't want to do that anymore. What
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are arrangements are important for you? Do you want to hybrid arrangement or remote
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arrangement? Do you want to go into the office Because some people do have
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that. You know they're an extrovert and they want to actually be with other
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people, and they've been lacking it for the past three and a half years
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and they're ready to go back. So there's a lot of things to take
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into consideration, but we're already good because they already know what's happened to them
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and they have this great starting point. Sometimes what happens in the job search
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is they've been going at it alone for a little bit already, and that's
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where we have to bring it back in and say, Okay, you've been
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going at it alone. You haven't been doing it wrong, but obviously it's
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not working as the way you imagine it too. So now we're going to
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optimize what you've been doing, redirect some points, and perfect what you've perfect
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the actions you're going to take to get the results that you want. You
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know, and that I'm glad that you hit on that, because in the
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very beginning, I know a lot of us are kind of forced into a
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stage of transition in our careers, right, like what you mentioned, whether
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it's a buyout, you're on the verge of getting fired, you do get
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fired, you get laid off, maybe there's a medical situation, right and
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it's hard for us to really see the positive in the situation when our focus
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is on all the things that are being lost in a sense, yes,
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right, and so on. That for our audience who is tuning in,
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right, what's maybe a mantra that they can say to themselves every single day
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in the mirror when they're on this journey. Right. Because I'm somebody who
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does right out my mantras every day and I recite them in the mirror for
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twenty one days. I do that. Shout out to one of my good
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coaches who taught me that trick. Because it's all about what we feed our
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mind, right, what we know, what we surround ourselves. What is
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it the saying of where the average of the five people we surround ourselves with.
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Yes. And I also think that what we feed our mind is essential
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to our growth and development. So what would you say in net is like
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your mantra or a mantra that they can say to themselves when they're in that
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boat of transition to transformation as they're embarking on their new career search. I
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love that, So I do have my clients think of their own mantras.
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But if they're at a loss for something or they don't exactly have the confidence
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yet to give the mantra. I always like to say that you bring a
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unique value to whoever you interact with. So if I were to make that
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first person, if I were saying it to myself in the mirrorsm doing my
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hair, I bring unique value to every person I interact with, and that
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alone makes you a person of value. That should really quiet your inner critic.
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I know yours is named rump roast. I don't name mine, but
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you know, some days you have to say that to yourself, and you
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can say that at any time and push. I think it's important to remember
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that the person you talk to most every single day is yourself. Your mind
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is boom boom boom. There's a soundtrack going on in there all the time,
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whether you say it out loud or not. Your body, your brain,
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your heart is hearing it. So you want to make sure that you
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feel it with good things. And if you can stop yourself from the bad
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self talk, notice it, you know, and one of my coaches taught
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me this trick. Right where you notice it, you write it down and
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then you're able to let it go. You can just kiss it into the
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wind. Okay, I wrote it down. It's gone from my brain now.
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And it's that same process where if you make it to do list,
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you write it down, you freed up the space in your brain and now
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you don't have to think about it anymore because it's on the to do list.
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And that's exactly the process you should use with your inner critics to stop
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it from jibber jabbering to you all day long, one hundred percent. And
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then see, I tell mine to shut up, like literally sometimes I just
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if it's getting too much clatter in my head or I'm like, just speak
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quiet. I'll shout it sometimes and mister Fletcher looks at me, like,
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mom, who are you talking to? It's not you, mister Fletcher.
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It's not you this time. You're being good. So definitely acknowledge it is
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what I recommend to our audience and let it. Tell it to be quiet,
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tell it to have a seat, because it take a back seat.
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I'm doing me, you know, And that what just came back for me
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is I remember what you just said in our previous question. You know,
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when you talked about how working with your clients you identify what they don't want
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right in their next career endeavor and so, and that I know it can
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be a challenge at times, and I know I can speak for myself to
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say what I really do want, right, and so for our audience.
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And then how do you work with your clients to help them state what they
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really do want? Because if they're so fixated what they don't want, don't
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want, how do you help them to really shift their mindset to what their
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heart truly wants and redefine again, redefine what their success path looks like.
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So, if you know what you clearly don't want, but it's harder to
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vocalize what you do want, and maybe that's because you don't even know it's
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possible. Right, So we can sort of go in between there and start
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to dream. Okay, let's forget that this job does or does not exist,
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and let's just dream. What would the dream job look like? You
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know, so for Porsche, for you, what would that look like?
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For you? Would that look like something where you can be creative and not
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work on those stinky spreadsheets? Yes, I imagine you'd like for a creative
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work. I imagine you'd like to work with some people on meaningful projects.
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So we talk about things in theory, right, because theory is a lot
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less scary. It's an idea, it's not something you actually have to do.
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And then once the theory is out there, then we go on a
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hunt for an ideal or a target job. Right, so you can scour
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the internet, and again I lift some restrictions if you're really focused on working
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in person. But you can't find a dream job within twenty five miles from
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your house, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. So let's open the filters
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that we have on ourselves and expand and try and get to that ideal or
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target job and is it out there anywhere? Does it exist anywhere? And
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then once we find that, then we can sort create how we're going to
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market you for someone that needs somebody like that ideal job described. And that's
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a good way to put it in net because I think, and I know
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for me, I was somebody who was afraid to say what it was that
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I really truly wanted because I never saw an example. Right. You know,
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we don't give ourselves permission to dream. You know, I always ask
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people what do you want to be when you grow up? I still ask
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that question. So I'm going to ask you, in Nette, what do
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you want to be when you grow up? So I think this is a
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wild question, and my thought process on it is evolving. So, you
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know, doing this full time for the past three and a half four years,
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I think that that's not a real life scenario. I would challenge you
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to add this to the end, Porscha, what do you want to be
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next? What's next for you? Because I don't know what that's going to
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look like when I fully grow up? Am I ever going to fully grow
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up? When am I grown up? Like those are all like really very
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big world questions. So what do you want to be next? And that
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captures the essence of what you're going through right now? What got you here
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to this spot? What kind of changes in your life happened? Lots of
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people go through a job transition because they had a big life transition. Maybe
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they were caring for someone in their life and that person has passed on.
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Maybe they were caring for their children and now their kids are out of the
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house and they're empty nesters. Maybe they were really taking care of a business
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problem and the business problem is gone because they've found a solution for it,
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and they found themselves in this place where they're like uh, next. So
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answering the question what do I want to be next? What's next for me?
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It's probably a better question because it's really focused and it's not so abstract.
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It's not so big that I can't imagine. Like, honestly, if
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you would have asked me what I want to be when I grow up when
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I was a kid, I would have told you a doctor. Once I
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got to Kent State and I took calculus, I'm like, oh no,
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we are not going to be a doctor. So that's how I think about
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it. That doesn't mean that I'm not doing something that is meaningful. It's
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just this evolution of who I've become in the things that I'm really really good
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at and leaving behind the pieces of me that aren't a strong like my calculus
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muscle. It just wasn't installed, so you know, and that I like
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that. I'm going to definitely integrate that in my conversation with people, and
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I'm even going to answer that question for our audience. Please tell me,
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does Portia want to be next? Yes? So I definitely want to be
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of service to people in the capacity of those who are making their transition,
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those who are in a sense walking back home, or what I said with
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Casey the Death Dealer on our previous episode, A group of Porsche to be
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a crossroad companion. So that is what's next for Porsche the producer. This
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is the first time I've announced that, so love it. On a lookout
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for that journey and endeavor of Porsche the producer, the growth of Porsche.
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You know, it's funny and that when I think about where I started to
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where I am today, when you talk about what's next for me, I'll
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be honest, I never would have thought that where I am today was gonna
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be the seat that I occupied. Because some of you know this story that
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my life almost ended in twenty seventeen when I almost jumped off bridge because I
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met that cross road in my career endeavor where I was unfulfilled. There was
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a lot of shame, there was a lot of grief, but I didn't
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recognize it at the time. I'm grateful for my soul mom. Shout out
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to Sarah Sweeta who called my cell phone right when I was about to jump
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and told me to take my black a to the hospital because I was not
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well and the only thing that died that day. In two thousand and seventeen
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was Portia living the life that other people wanted her to live. And so
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I'm grateful that I listened. I answered that call no pun intended, instead
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of like, yep, you know what. No, she heard me,
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she understood. And I think, you know, as we're in this space
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of entrepreneurship, right, we need other people again that community, to see
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us, to hear us, to embrace us in this transition, because let's
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be honest, and entrepreneurship is definitely a rollercoaster ride. Sometimes it's like the
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Millennium Force and other times it's like the slow little merrygo rap, the one
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at Kitty at the kiddie park. Yeah, it's like weird and like shaky.
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But that's the thing, Porsche. There's no blueprint at all. I
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talk about there being there no blueprint for entrepreneurship, but really, your career
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is what you make it. We can't even imagine working in the career that's
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going to be for us five years from now, or even three years from
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now. A bunch of the things that you're doing right now, like podcasting.
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Podcasting wasn't a career ten years ago. It definitely wasn't even an option
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imagined when I was growing up, So to let our inner critic or to
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let our a magdala keep us safe, because that's what your brain was trying
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to do to you. In twenty seventeen, it was like, you're out
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of options. This is the only way I can imagine to keep you safe.
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We needed to be kept safe right when bears were outside of our cave,
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right and we are walking out of the cave, going to hunt or
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gather whatever where we're supposed to do, and so keeping ourselves safe was great.
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There's not a lot of high risk to trying something else out, but
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surrounding yourself with community, either an entrepreneurship community, a professional community, a
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community of other women, a community of other men, a community of other
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people that love you is always appropriate. And you can talk with people about
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your career. If you can't come to a career coach, you can build
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your own community. You need about a group of five people to get together
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and discuss issues like this open to me in this meeting? Am I the
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crazy one? You know those threads unread? It start like that. You
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don't have to keep it to yourself. You can talk it through. Can
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you talk it through with somebody? That's really close to you, like your
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significant other, you could but right there also there to protect you, so
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their perspective is very skewed. You need an outside group of people that's willing
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to be honest with you and willing to help push you out of your comfort
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zone into something new and exciting. And trust me, it's low risk.
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It is not like walking out of the cave and walking you know, and
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staring at a bear. It's truly worth it. I definitely agree because you
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need that community support and to be able to vocally state I want to become
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a doctor. Even though I'm fifty, it's still possible. You can still
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turn your career trajectory around as long as you believe and put in the work,
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the doors are open for you. And not to be afraid. I
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think we again our brain tries to keep us safe. Yeah, and again
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we have to tell our inner critic to be quiet, have a seat.
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And I know for me, I always tell my friends what's the hurt,
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right, what's the hurt? Take that baby step, and the baby step
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can just be at least doing the research, because I know for me,
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I was sometimes afraid to even just do the research on something and just me
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taking that initial baby step open my eyes to a new world of possibilities.
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That's really what your career is about. Your career should let you live the
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kind of personal life that you desire. So identifying what it is that you
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want and then going after it, even if it's just research, even if
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you're ruling something out, it's okay to explore, and you should never not
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explore. And the other piece of advice that I'd love to give is take
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the meeting. If somebody is calling you, if somebody's messaging you off your
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LinkedIn saying they want to talk about a job, you should always take the
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meeting. If somebody has a question about what you do currently and they want
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to talk about it because they're interested in it, take the meeting. You
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never know what connection or relationship will be able to serve you in a future
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time. And the more people you know, the more people you have thinking
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about you, rooting for you, speaking your name into rooms where you can't
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be present, and that's what you want. So I encourage everyone to take
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the meeting. That's a word my drop right there. I mean, just
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what's the hurt again? You just never know. It's like you know,
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it's like being a jack in the box. You know what you're gonna get
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and neither do we. So just it's the luck of the draw sometimes.
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And what's the saying opportunity is preparation meeting, what the being in proximity?
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Yeah right, so you just never know. It could be months years down
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the line that just because you said yes, that door of opportunity open for
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you organically. Well, Annette, I want to say thank you from the
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bottom of my heart from just coming on and sharing so much with not just
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me, but also our audience. Number one, how to redefine what success
35:32
looks like in our life. Number two leveraging our grief to our advantage,
35:38
acknowledging that grief is a part of the journey, but it doesn't have to
35:42
be a permanent stop. And number three taking the meeting, just saying yes,
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because you never know what will happen just from you taking that leap of
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faith again. And that for our audience who is tuning in, if they
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want to connect with you and learn more about you, please share your website
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and social media handle for us. Absolutely come check me out at anet garstock
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dot com. It's just my name and I'm also available to connect with you
36:10
on LinkedIn and Instagram. Excellent, excellent, Well everybody, that was our
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reinvention pioneer, miss a net garstick that you heard from. And that concludes
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another episode a Grew of Porsche Season number two. Thanks for listening, Peace
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