Have a Nice Life

May 15 2024 9

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Most career advice ignores realities of trauma, systemic oppression, and assumes you’re clear on your dream job. Not this time! Welcome to your anticapitalist survival guide to finding work that works for you, having enough money, and balancing your values and goals with the world we're in. Learn to redesign your work and financial life without having to know the future, despair, hate your life, or love wage labor.
Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance.
You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites.
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How Pilots and Prototypes Will Help You

May 15 2024 40 mins

Even when you have a sense of what you want, it’s reasonable that gathering other kinds of information can be wise, before committing to a specific direction. Pilots and prototypes are kinds of experiments that help you try on or try out a way of living before you fully commit, and are excellent ways to learn things in your body that you can’t learn from imagination or research

Networking and Creating Productive Chaos

May 08 2024 37 mins

If networking sounds horrifying, do! not! fear! In this episode of Have a Nice Life you’ll learn how and why to talk to people and try stuff without any name tag or blazer, the superpower that is productive chaos, the secret stash of people who can help you, and why you don’t need to fake anything to get a lot out of chaos networking.Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damie

How to change and learn safely, no net required.

May 01 2024 39 mins

This episode is for anyone who wants to be better at changing and will not spout privileged nonsense about jumping and the net will find you, since that is simply not available to a lot of people. Instead, we’re going to teach you how to make trying things and building towards change safer to try.Change can feel - and be! - risky, but what can you do to reduce that risk and chang

Pulling good-for-you ideas out of a brainstorm

Apr 25 2024 22 mins

So you have a brainstormed and you have seven rough ideas of what your life could be - WELL NOW WHAT? Fear not: in this episode you’ll learn three ways to pull ideas that are good for *you* out of a brainstorm.Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a c

Brainstorming career ideas

Apr 17 2024 61 mins

What to do with all your context, criteria, and research when you also know in your heart you want to be a sandcastle artist, poet, or person who wishes to preserve their creativity for after work? This episode dives into brainstorming your career ideas - and helps you get around the ways you might halt your brainstorm before it gets good.Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah

Research to expand your ideas part 3: Considering Self Employment

Apr 13 2024 25 mins

BONUS episode! What if all your ideas and percolation lead you to wonder about self-employment? In this case, here’s a short series of questions to ask yourself and drive some research into if self-employment is a route you might want to consider. Pippi and Hadassah can both confirm it is both awesome and a ton of extra work. Is it the right thing for you? Listen to learn how to

Research to expand your ideas part 2: Types of Jobs

Apr 12 2024 35 mins

Jobs, roles and titles - besides “postal worker” and “firefighter” and “teacher” what other kinds of jobs are out there – and how in the world do you find out what they are, what the people who have them do, and what they’re paid?? This episode details places you can drill into a job type search, to give you ideas for what your next job might be.Hosted by Hada

Expanding your ideas part 1: Financial Imagination

Apr 10 2024 25 mins

This episode walks you through data on the income people need to cover costs, holds your hand as you jump into a pool of numbers, and leads an exercise on how to expand your ideas of what kinds of income are real in the first place.Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a c

Setting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Going Deeper

Apr 06 2024 35 mins

Creating a vision starts with the details and you’ll come up with more details about your life from these exercises! In this episode, Pippi and Hadassah introduce three more ways to come up with elements of your life - time, money, and imagination - which you’ll use later in the series to inform your ideas. The Have a Nice Life workbook has more detailed, visual versions of the

Setting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Starting with Anti-ableist Self-Acceptance and a Values/Talents Map

Apr 03 2024 35 mins

You probably don’t know exactly what your ideal work + life shape looks like, and if so you are normal! You might not be sure how to start to imagine such things, or you suspect you’ve buried or cast aside some pieces that might be clues to what you need. In this episode you’ll learn two practices to set criteria about what you want: one about anti-ableist self-acceptanc