The Passionately Curious Podcast

In today’s episode, I want to talk about income projects (also called job projects) and passion projects (also called vocation projects) and why it’s important to keep them separate. I would also like to talk about why it’s important to prioritise income projects as a solopreneur and how to ensure that there is a sufficient pipeline of income projects so that we can keep doing our work. #PassionatelyCurious #Solopreneurship Thank you to our sponsors: Sunsama - https://try.sunsama.com/y7dcvg8p2qhz Deel - http://deel.com/partners/pacurious Links: Elizabeth Gilbert's Course on Creativity: https://acumenacademy.org/course/elizabeth-gilbert-creativity-workshop Seth Godin's Book, "The Practice": https://seths.blog/thepractice/ Saurabh's blog: https://blog.passionatelycurious.in

Distribution is the biggest challenge when it comes to creative work and business. In this episode, we talk about why distribution is important and how you can leverage it in your work.

In this episode, the host Saurabh Mithal talks about different strategies to overcome procrastination and ship the work that matters.

We look forward to your feedback and questions. Reach out to us at hello@passionatelycurious.in

Here's how Michael describes himself:

I’ve had successful jobs – selling Christmas cards, paper boy, putting together boat lights, singing telegrams. I also had other desires…

Built — a professional acting, singing and modelling career working with — Howard Da Silva, John Raitt, Howard Keel, Allan Jones, Bobby Van, Tovah Feldshuh, Ford Models… at the Kennedy Center and other theatres across America. (I even sang for President Jimmy Carter.)

Shifted — from the arts into customer service and sales at an International Cruise Corporation.

Lived — some of my greatest happiness, stress and creativity for over 20 years as a headhunter in New York City – finding people jobs.

Not ‘hit and run’ fill a job and move on but real passion to find the right person for the right job so they could be wildly happy and expressed. It mattered to me. Still does.

I am profoundly grateful to have worked with some of the best people in — finance, entertainment, insurance, advertising, non-profit, architecture, fashion, accounting, legal, publishing, real estate…

Today — I have the privilege to be a Seth Godin Akimbo Workshop Coach as well as a Certified Life – Career – Change Coach, helping create change in people's lives and answering the question: What do you want? And then… making it happen!

I’m honoured that my writings have been published at Arianna Huffington’s – Thrive Global, The Huffington Post, Medium, Maria Shriver’s Website, LinkedIn, Michael Port,

The Fordyce Letter. Mélange Magazine and others.

Yes. It’s true. I do live on the Caribbean Island of Saba where I actively blend my coaching skills with my real estate work. (Saba Island Properties). I see it this way:

Your life is already ‘…wild and precious’. You’ve just hung it somewhere and it’s waiting for you to discover it all over again.

To know more about Michael, visit https://michaelfeeleylifecoach.com/

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In this episode, Saurabh talks about our stories about money and how we can change them into stories of abundance.

Please enjoy the talk!

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This episode is brought to you by:

Deel - Onboard employees and contractors in minutes and pay them in 150+ countries with Deel.

http://deel.com/partners/pacurious

&

Sunsama, the digital daily planner that helps you feel calm and stay focused.

https://try.sunsama.com/y7dcvg8p2qhz

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You can connect with the host, Saurabh Mithal, through the links below:

Visit The Passionately Curious Website: https://www.passionatelycurious.in

Sign up for Saurabh's daily blog: https://blog.passionatelycurious.in/subscribe

Follow Saurabh Mithal on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabhmithal

In this episode, Saurabh talks to Anna about living a creative life, her journey to become a professional and why climate change matters to her.

Please enjoy the conversation!

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Anna lives in Iquitos, Peru and reflects several times per week via her blog on empathy, respect, and the creative life. She loves sharing ideas about leadership and building a value-based international career that you’re proud of in Peru or anywhere.

She’s also a storyteller, researcher, creative, and loves to listen.

She believes ingenuous international human development aligned with the Earth is the only path forward.

Connect with Anna here:

Website: https://www.annakohlersmith.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annakohlersmith

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This episode is brought to you by:

Deel - Onboard employees and contractors in minutes and pay them in 150+ countries with Deel.

http://deel.com/partners/pacurious

&

Sunsama, the digital daily planner that helps you feel calm and stay focused.

https://try.sunsama.com/y7dcvg8p2qhz

You can connect with the host, Saurabh Mithal, through the links below:

Visit The Passionately Curious Website: https://www.passionatelycurious.in

Sign up for Saurabh's daily blog: https://blog.passionatelycurious.in/subscribe

Follow Saurabh Mithal on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabhmithal

In this episode, Saurabh talks to Brian Helfman (Founder of Third Nature) about what Third Nature means, how they help people find clarity, confidence and direction and the impact of technology and AI on how we feel and connect.

This episode is brought to you by:

Deel - Onboard employees and contractors in minutes and pay them in 150+ countries with Deel.

http://deel.com/partners/pacurious

&

Sunsama, the digital daily planner that helps you feel calm and stay focused.

https://try.sunsama.com/y7dcvg8p2qhz

Brian Helfman is the founder of Third Nature where he and his team help multi-passionate individuals live fulfilling, meaningful lives.

Website: https://www.third-nature.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhelfman/

Please enjoy the conversation!

You can connect with the host, Saurabh Mithal, through the links below:

Visit The Passionately Curious Website: https://www.passionatelycurious.in

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This episode is brought to you by:

Deel - Onboard employees and contractors in minutes and pay them in 150+ countries with Deel.. http://deel.com/partners/pacurious

& Sunsama, the digital daily planner that helps you feel calm and stay focused. https://try.sunsama.com/y7dcvg8p2qhz
In this episode, the host Saurabh Mithal talks about coffee chats and the possibility that they create.
Please enjoy!

Connect with Saurabh Mithal & Passionately Curious.

Sign up for "The Passionately Curious Blog" (Saurabh's free daily blog): https://blog.passionatelycurious.in
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This episode is brought to you by Deel - Onboard employees and contractors in minutes and pay them in 150+ countries with Deel.. https://get.deel.com/er42kc18kn3z and Sunsama, the digital daily planner that helps you feel calm and stay focused. https://try.sunsama.com/y7dcvg8p2qhz In 2016, Ineke Camille (@inekecamille) made the courageous leap to become a solopreneur and let go of the security of the monthly paycheck. Walking away from a career in publishing, she reinvented herself as a podcast manager, working to help entrepreneurs and community leaders leverage the power of podcasting to connect with their audience. She works with women-led socially responsible businesses and non-profits to launch and manage their podcast, so they can spread their message easily. Connect with Ineke here: Website: https://www.zouritsolutions.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/inekecamille Please enjoy! Connect with Saurabh Mithal & Passionately Curious. Sign up for "The Passionately Curious Blog" (Saurabh's free daily blog): https://blog.passionatelycurious.in/subscribe Visit The Passionately Curious Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xBPKASLRyl05AtEGz9mjr Follow Saurabh Mithal on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabhmithal

Visit https://www.passionatelycurious.in to connect.

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Manasvini Krishna is an entrepreneur and the founder of Boss as a Service. She is an inspiration and we talk about how she worked through multiple ventures and shifted her career from law to entrepreneurship. We also talk about what early founders can do to become more successful.

To know more about Manasvini, please visit:

https://twitter.com/Manasvinik

https://bossasaservice.com

Heidi McKee is a freelancer and consultant and has lived and worked in the US, France, India and other countries. She has successfully built a career where she can embrace her desire to travel and live around the world. Incredibly positive and audacious, Heidi will inspire you to take the difficult actions that can propel your life and career forward. 

To know more about Heidi, please visit her LinkedIn Profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-mckee-60156171/

To read more, visit https://blog.passionatelycurious.in

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Read Saurabh's blog at https://www.saurabhmithal.com

Check out our programs at Passionately Curious at https://www.passionatelycurious.in

Learn more about Tom and his work at https://lgibooks.com

Money is a good thing. Money makes life better, almost everything better.
Money is also a non-negotiable. You can’t choose not to play the money game. Money is how the world works.

Money is a skill. Both earning money and spending money.

The skill of earning money is called marketing. Money is a return gift. You earn money because of the change that you bring for someone else. No change, no money. No one else, no money.

Change is necessary but not sufficient to earn money. You need to create trust, enrolment and tension. You need to create a product or service that someone can buy or subscribe to. You need to create a path for them to enrol with you on the journey that you want to take them on. You need to create tension so that they can overcome their resistance or inertia and embrace the change that you are offering.

Even spending and investing money is a skill that very few people have mastered. This is the skill of asset allocation. How do you invest your money, time, energy, attention can have a significant impact on how you grow and how you live.

Casual commitments happen when something is good to have, not a must-have. We feel that it’s a must-have but still, we are not committed. A must-have is non-negotiable. The day can’t end without that happening. So, we can’t have too many must-haves.

For me, one must-have I have daily is my daily blog. Second is the writing hour, which is becoming a part of my day. It is simply a thing that I do. I think almost everything else is a good-to-have wanting to be a must-have.

Good-to-haves are good. They create guilt when we treat them like must-haves.

Yes, I want to play the guitar, start learning ruby on rails, read Ghalib, record a podcast daily, record a video daily, work out, practice dance, meditate twice a day, read for an hour, do the akimbo lessons, eat healthily.

Yes, I want to do them daily, but they are not must-haves. They can’t all be must-haves. And there is no point having them as must-haves in my mind. I have to think in terms of appetite. How many hours am willing to allocate to these activities?

Getting anything done takes time, energy, and attention. And we have limited amounts of them. So, we can’t just freely commit them to random tasks. That’s like using a credit card mindlessly to make purchases you don’t need and can’t afford. It makes sense to spend some time selecting things that you want to commit to.

There has to be a process to this. Even, rather especially, for personal tasks and hobbies. Because when it comes to work, somehow, we can be more mindful. But in terms of our personal time, we tend to be more mindless.

People like us do things like these. 

Seth Godin uses these 7 words to explain marketing and numerous other things that happen in our lives. The challenge here is to find out ‘who people like us are’ and ‘what things like these’ are.

You are the average of 5 people you spend most time with. 

This leads me to the age-old adage that everyone has heard but few know what to do with it: you are the average of 5 people you spend most time with. 

This is one of the rare commonly known wisdom which is actually true. Your habits, your results, your bank balance, your waist line, your relationship status. A lot of these would come out to be very close to the average of the 5 people you hang out with most. 

So, one way to change yourself would be to slowly but intentionally changing the people you spend time with. 

How to be more specific about what we want?

Do you feel the need to seek permission before you start anything?

Here, I talk about how that was ingrained in us and what we can do to overcome this.