338: Passive Income and How To Give Advice (feat. Meg Lewis)
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This week, we catch up with Meg Lewis, a designer, coach, writer, speaker, business-owner, podcaster, and all-around fun human being. We talk about building passive income streams, how to give advice, having strong opinions, and facing public criticism β among many other things. And as always, we share our cool things of the week included a very timely hygiene product, new mobile apps, and a YouTube playlist.
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Interview:
- Today we caught up with Meg Lewis, a writer, designer, podcaster, business-owner, comedian, and so much more. Seriously, Meg is prolific.
- We catch up on how we're faring working from home during the corona virus pandemic and share tips for newly-remote workers.
- Loom is a useful app to share your screen with a little extra personality.
- We talk about managing many projects, building a stream of passive income, the tradeoffs of building an audience, the merits of giving advice, and much more.
- Meg now hosts Overtime by Dribbble, where she's been able to explore the idea of having strong opinions.
- We catch up on how we're faring working from home during the corona virus pandemic and share tips for newly-remote workers.
- Follow Meg on Twitter, Instagram, and Dribbble.
- Meg's other projects are Ghostly Ferns, Full Time You, Sit There & Do Nothing, The Overtime Podcast by Dribbble, Fool Proof. She also speaks and writes.
Cool Things:
- Meg shared her bidet attachment from Tushy and their delightful t-shirts about buttholes.
- Brian shared the new GitHub mobile apps for Android and iOS. Download 'em!
- Marshall shared War Stories, a YouTube playlist where developers tell stories of creating some of the most popular video games of all time.
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