Ep150: Emilie Wapnick on How to Be Everything
About Emilie Wapnick
Emilie Wapnick is a writer, career coach, blogger, and community leader. She is the founder and creative director at Puttylike.com, where she helps multipotentialites (people with many passions and creative pursuits) integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling, and fruitful careers and lives. Unable to settle on one path herself, Emilie studied music, art, film production and law, graduating from the Law Faculty at McGill University. Emilie’s TED talk has been viewed over 3.7 million times, and has been translated into 36 languages. She’s been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Financial Times, The Huffington Post, BBC, and Lifehacker. Her book How to Be Everything: a Guide for Those Who (Still) Don’t Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up, comes out with HarperCollins in May 2017.
Key Conversation Points
Finding motivation for overcoming a specific fear
Why boundaries for yourself and others are important
How to engage others with a proper buffer
Differentiating between a niche audience and a broader one
Defining “multipotentialite”
The relationships between different fields
How to decide if you should monetize a passion
The simplest way to tell others what you do when you do many different things
Avoiding limiting language
Resources Mentioned in the Podcast
How To Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don’t Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up — Emilie Wapnick
PuttyLike — Start Here
Emilie’s TEDx Talk
Connect with Emilie
Emilie’s Introvert Island Book Selections*
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help | Amanda Palmer
When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi
A Journal to Write In
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