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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast

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Speaker 2: One of our favorite segments in the Almost Famous podcast

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Speaker 2: is almost good Advice. We come to you with some

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Speaker 2: of your questions that you've written in to Ashley and myself.

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Speaker 2: We always get excited to answer the questions or just

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Speaker 2: work through them with you. We can't promise the best answers,

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Speaker 2: but we can have promised some almost good advice. The

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Speaker 2: first one comes from Corrn. It says this, I've been

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Speaker 2: working in the same job for over five years, and

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Speaker 2: while I appreciate this ability, I don't find it fulfilling anymore.

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Speaker 2: I dream of pursuing a career in graphic design, but

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Speaker 2: I'm terrified of leaving my current position and starting over.

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Speaker 2: How do I find the courage to make this leap

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Speaker 2: and turn my passion into a career.

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Speaker 3: I wonder what she's doing currently, if it has anything

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Speaker 3: to do in the Grassip graphic design territory. I'm working

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Speaker 3: with sam job for five years. I think that how

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Speaker 3: to find the courage, Well, you know what can help

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Speaker 3: you a little bit is if you start working like

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Speaker 3: a little freelance somewhere in graphic design, whether you start

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Speaker 3: doing something on your own. That way, you have dipped

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Speaker 3: your toe into that pool. Maybe you're already making contacts.

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Speaker 3: You're just you know, you're getting a feel for the industry,

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Speaker 3: and then you can leave your job, because then you'd

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Speaker 3: feel a little bit just more secure in your decision.

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Speaker 3: You're making sure that it's something that you really do

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Speaker 3: feel a passion for and one end a field that

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Speaker 3: you think you could excel in.

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Speaker 2: Ashley, it's such good advice. Really, I was going to say,

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Speaker 2: the only thing I could speak of to this question

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Speaker 2: is my own experience. And so when I started Generous Coffee,

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Speaker 2: I was working a full time job in financial services.

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Speaker 2: What a lot of people don't know is I work

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Speaker 2: that job in financial services still two years after I

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Speaker 2: was the Bachelor.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like when we started the podcast, in the first

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Speaker 3: couple of months, I was like, Ben, you should probably

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Speaker 3: cut But it was exactly what you probably should have

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Speaker 3: done because you had the fallback.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. I had the fallback. I had the insurance, I

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Speaker 2: had the retirement, you know, I had the things that

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Speaker 2: were stable. And it wasn't until I felt like, hey,

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Speaker 2: I can take this risk. Now still risky, but at

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Speaker 2: least I am more set up to go on my

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Speaker 2: own and if that doesn't work in six months seven months,

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Speaker 2: then I will at least be able to find hopefully

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Speaker 2: a new job. And you know how many years in

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Speaker 2: and I haven't had to go back yet to Corporate America,

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Speaker 2: which I'm very thankful for. But actually i'd say part

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Speaker 2: of that, you know, part of the thing not mentioned here.

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Speaker 2: I think your advice is perfect. So I was kind

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Speaker 2: of moonlight starting Generous as I was working for the

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Speaker 2: financial services company and I was doing iHeart kind of

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Speaker 2: the three of them, and so I was doing this

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Speaker 2: podcast in the evenings or after work or during my

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Speaker 2: lunch break, and then I was work at home and

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Speaker 2: work on Generous and do you know, work pretty much

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Speaker 2: to the rest of the evening. There's things I had

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Speaker 2: to sacrifice during that season of life, right, A lot

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Speaker 2: know you are, I think, Kinn. The best option here

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Speaker 2: would have the experience and understand the terminology, understand what

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Speaker 2: people are looking for more, just in case you wanted

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Speaker 2: to apply for a job with another business in graphic

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Speaker 2: design specifically. And so I think there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: That's how you So you know, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: I think it takes a lot of risk, but I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, totally great advice, Ben.

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Speaker 2: I think you said it first. I just said the

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Speaker 3: Way, but in a very much more articular.

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Speaker 2: Dale is up next. He says, I work long hours

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Speaker 2: My personal life is suffering because of it, and I

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Speaker 2: There there's a few questions I would ask you. Do

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Speaker 2: Well, he doesn't bring up family within this whole conversation.

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Speaker 2: think if you have a family, you have to put

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Speaker 2: They don't want to hear about your struggles. They don't

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Speaker 2: let me hear it. I want to know where you're

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Speaker 2: at in life. I want to hear more about your job.

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Speaker 2: But there's also a respect factor there where for the

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Speaker 2: building closer friendships. I'm not going to say it happens immediately.

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Speaker 2: here's my advice for you. You have to bring it up

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Speaker 2: does mind it. When they're employees in a respectful and

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Speaker 2: as a result, my personal life is struggling because of it.

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Speaker 2: Is there anything we could do to try to assist

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Speaker 2: your business to respond, Let them try to problem solve. Really,

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Speaker 2: that's why they're there. You know they don't do We

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Speaker 2: don't as executives, don't do a lot more than manage

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Speaker 2: while at the same time doing a small little problem

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Speaker 2: solving here and then. But We're really counting on you

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Speaker 2: to express to us what your needs are so that

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Speaker 3: And I was just going to add that if taking

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Speaker 3: I'll do that on Tuesday or Thursday or Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: My final piece of advice, and this is more actionable

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Speaker 2: dale would be to get a mentor or a coach

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Speaker 2: lay out, Hey, here's the things on my on my

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Speaker 2: Is there any things that you see I'm doing inefficiently

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Speaker 2: it's emails. I did that for twenty minutes, and then

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Speaker 2: I work on a document for ten minutes. All these things,

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Speaker 2: I think laying some of this stuff out, you know,

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Speaker 2: go home and be a better person to your friend's family,

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Speaker 3: question if online dating is worth it. How can I

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Speaker 3: I consider other ways to meet people? Well, Sarah, what

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Speaker 2: So it's just that's hard to do because it's hard

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Speaker 3: This one is for you, Ben, because I feel like

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Speaker 2: It's you get to the solution like you, just like

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Speaker 2: No, I think mine sounds like you know, I just

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Speaker 3: them and not your dream version of them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, nobody's going to match the dream.

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Speaker 3: That was a better put. You did great, just said

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Speaker 3: it like that.

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Speaker 2: And when you said it out loud, and then we

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Speaker 2: put this together, figured it out, it's all great. Uh.

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Speaker 2: That's another episode of almost good advice. Hopefully we shared

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Speaker 2: some almost good advice with all of you. Please continue

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Speaker 2: to write us in with any of your questions, concerns,

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Speaker 2: life moments, life questions. We're here to walk through them

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Speaker 2: with you, to process out loud, maybe for you, so

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Speaker 2: that we can be the voice or the put words

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Speaker 2: to the questions that you have. So until next time,

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Speaker 2: I've been Ben.

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Speaker 3: I've been Ashley. See ya.

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