Episode 35. Think Differently: Insights From A Marketer To Help Level Up Your Career

<p>"Stop comparing yourself to people, just stop, stop doing that period. Everybody had to start somewhere, everybody you're comparing yourself to was exactly where you were at some point and it doesn't happen overnight … Even though life is short, I think if you can just kind of say hey it's going to take time, I'm never going to be a finished product, I'm going to die being an unfinished product and just enjoy the process and the journey." Travis L. Scott shared with me on Episode 35 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.</p> <p>Travis is a marketing and sales specialist and the Founder of Rainier Digital which helps companies solve interesting operational problems when it comes to marketing and sales. He also is the host of the Marketing UnBoxed and The Winding Road Podcasts.</p> <p>After graduating high school, he attended Ball State University, eventually transferring to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana where he graduated with a degree in Environmental Science.</p> <p>Early in his career, he decided he wanted to learn more about business so he went back to school and obtained an MBA with a focus in marketing from the University of Colorado. Since then, he has worked in sales, recruiting, and eventually marketing spanning a startup in Seattle to Microsoft to a small B2B distributor in Denver.</p> <p>He realized how similar marketing is to just about everything in life since it's so deeply rooted in psychology.  That's when he realized he could help people by teaching basic marketing principles and demonstrating how they can apply to your career.</p> <p>Travis is also the author of “Think Differently: How Recruitment Marketing Gets You Noticed Over The Noise”.</p> <p>Travis and I had a great conversation and talked about the following:</p> <p>The importance of resilience and ignoring negative self talk,</p> <p>How curiosity and the love of learning helped him start podcasting without prior experience,</p> <p>Reassessing his priorities following the pandemic,</p> <p>Strategies for overcoming agei