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In this episode I spoke with Amanda Branson. Amanda started her career in management consulting and then worked as a Chief of Staff in a startup. More recently though, she has taken on her own marketing freelancing and started a podcast called Professional Life Crisis. Think of Amanda as a career big sister for 20 somethings navigating through their early career years. Amanda and I have been on similar journeys of starting our podcasts around the same time and it was wonderful to talk with her about her process of starting this podcast and what she has learned from this project.

Take-aways:

Perfection is the enemy of good - Amanda has made a commitment to herself to show up and publish an episode every week. Perfection gets in the way of doing this.
Be clear about your why - Amanda is clear about why she is doing her podcast and committing time to her personal project.
Passion and Paycheck eras - Amanda is currently in a passion era but she acknowledges that these eras are temporary and change throughout our careers!

Check out Amanda’s podcast, Professional Life Crisis! https://open.spotify.com/show/5xDZJOPtcgZ1S0RZlbbaxE?si=04778f74ea25449d