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“I had very much been raised with the mindset that the single career was the way that you define success. You pick a job, you stay in that field… [but] I found a bunch of different stuff that I enjoyed. And at one point, in December maybe, you said to me, “Rebecca, you know, you're self-employed now.” And I was like, “Oh, yeah, I guess I am.” - Rebecca Walter

Rebecca Walter joined us to share her brave career story of redefining career goals, career growth, and skill-building phases can be your path toward a more dynamic and rewarding career path as you choose to shift what success means to you. 

Rebecca's story includes transitioning from her reliable, long-term career in education into exploring her many skills and goals to arrive at the surprising choice to craft a multifaceted career phase of solopreneurship. She shares her unique experience and process, based on trying and building new skills, exploring her assumptions in decision making, and choosing to develop a new mindset balancing self-permission and real-world constraints. 

In her process of growth, she identified her desire for breadth and multi-faceted choices to fulfill her personal and professional goals. We discuss the allure and benefits of part-time contracts and freelancing, social jobs like waitressing, and structures that integrate pauses and vacations that balance personal and professional needs.

Rebecca is a brave role model who has chosen to build fulfillment in variety, flexibility, and value-based career building. Listen in for two fo her brave role models, two humans from very different generations and for very different reasons. 

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Hot topics from this episode:

• Personal Career Paths: career breadth over depth for a multifaceted career
• Transition from education to solopreneurship
• Redefining Success: shifting views on what constitutes success
• Temporary and part-time jobs and their unexpected rewards

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