How ‘getting fired’ can motivate you to pursue your dream! Episode 211

<p>SHOW NOTES: Episode 211, Part 2 with Andrea Koppel</p> <p style="font-weight:400;">EPISODE TITLE: </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">“How ‘getting fired’ can motivate you to pursue your dream!” Episode 211</p> <p style="font-weight:400;">THIS WEEK’S TOPIC:</p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Have you ever been miserable in a job, but are too afraid to quit? Maybe it’s a job you once loved, but outgrew? Maybe you think you can’t afford to quit, or can’t take a risk that quitting might leave yourself or your family financially vulnerable? Or, maybe your life changed and the job doesn’t fit your priorities anymore? </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Whatever the reason, I’ll bet you can relate.</p> <p style="font-weight:400;">HOW THIS RELATES TO INFLUENCE: </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">When you are miserable — in a job or otherwise — it can be especially hard to bring your full self to a project or to engage fully in your life or work. Mindset matters a great deal as no situation, project, or job is perfect 100 percent of the tie. But if you can’t fundamentally change what’s wrong, sometimes the best course — at least in the short term — may be to focus on those aspects that you do enjoy and that do speak to you, at least until you are able to make a more significant pivot. </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">A key component of influence is understanding our value and how to deploy it in ways that help us connect and create value for others. When we do that, it also tends to create more value for ourselves as well. </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Influence also means we learn how to understand our fear, and what’s driving it, and the best ways to address it, just as this week’s guest talks about in this episode. </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">THIS WEEK’S GUEST: </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">ANDREA KOPPEL is an award-winning journalist and founder of Time4Coffee Podcast and the College to Career Academy. She spent two decades in journalism, the last 14 of them with CNN before being fired in 2007. That sent her on a