Today’s podcast guest Alexis Grant started running content campaigns for small businesses as a side hustle while she was looking for a new job in journalism. She’d just taken a year off work to travel through Africa and accidentally found success AND a full-time job at U.S. News & World Report. Turns out, the success she’d built with her side hustle eventually turned into her full-time career and her passion for building alternative careers became her income as well.
Alexis shares great tips in today’s episode for creating your own alternative career and gives straight talk on topics related to money, building your work around your passion, and what it’s like to be a sustainable entrepreneur. Her advice to start before you’re ready, though scary, is exactly why she’s a perfect guest for this show.
So what’s all this have to do with yoga? Turns out yoga is a great metaphor for the entrepreneurial life. Today’s conversation explores staying sane and balanced in a busy life, at the same time that it dives deep into why it’s so important to constantly experiment and take risks.
Every time you step on your yoga mat, you take a risk. You risk doing a new pose, holding a well-known pose for a breath longer, or trying a modification. You risk opening up to the truth your body is trying to tell you. When you start your yoga practice before you’re ready, you open up to a whole world of preventative healing that will make your life so much richer. That is why today’s conversation, although not directly about yoga, is still about yoga.
As Alexis likes to say, “if you’re feeling something, you’re doing it right.”
Listen in and if you’re a writer or you’re interested in exploring an alternative career, check out Alexis’ sites below.
What you’ll learn:
- Tips for starting an alternative career
- Why it’s normal to be in a constant state of transition
- What it means to be multipassionate and how to tie your interests together
- Another way to make ends meet when you’re trying to plan for the future
- How to be an entrepreneur with your time and your money, even if you don’t have your own business
- Why the first thing you try probably won’t work
- Why money really matters
- How to build flexibility into your work schedule
- How listening to your body can help prevent burnout
Questions to ask yourself:
- Who are you?
- What do you do?
- What are you in demand for?
- Are you settling?
- What are you enjoying in your life?
- Are you waiting to do what you want to do?
- What one thing can you do every day to make the day worth it?
