015: Build A Life You Don't Need A Vacation From (with Khe Hy)
Jun 18, 2024
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Former Wall Street professional Khe Hy discusses leaving a high-paying job to focus on surfing, family, and creating. Topics include pivoting from traditional paths, prioritizing aliveness over financial gain, experimenting in career choices, and the challenges of being a full-time creator.
Optimizing life for aliveness leads to fulfillment and growth in creative pursuits.
Experimentation is crucial for discovering new interests and potential career paths in creativity.
Deep dives
Optimizing Life for Aliveness and Finding Courage to Pivot
Kei shares his experience leaving a $2 million Wall Street salary to focus on creating, surfing, and building his businesses. He emphasizes the importance of optimizing his life for aliveness, focusing on what can go right rather than wrong when making significant changes. Kei discusses having the courage to pivot away from successful careers, highlighting the need to reframe concerns and prioritize feeling alive in one's choices.
Experimentation and Low-Risk Ventures in Creativity
The podcast delves into the value of experimentation in creative endeavors, advocating for low-risk ventures to explore different mediums or topics. Kei and Matt discuss the importance of trying new things, such as Kei's venture into beat making lessons, to discover interests and potential career paths. They highlight the need for creators to immerse themselves in the process and embrace experimentation for personal and professional growth.
Navigating Boundaries and Prioritizing Lifestyle Choices
Kei and Matt emphasize the significance of setting boundaries and aligning work with lifestyle choices. They discuss the importance of understanding personal trade-offs when pursuing creative paths and making decisions that resonate with individual values. Kei shares how he balances work commitments with personal priorities like surfing and family time, underscoring the importance of lifestyle alignment in career decisions.
Seeking Aliveness and Embracing Incremental Progress
The podcast advocates for seeking aliveness in daily pursuits and incremental progress towards feeling more alive. Kei emphasizes the value of aiming for slight improvements in aliveness each day rather than drastic transformations. It highlights the power of using personal fulfillment and passion as guiding factors in creative endeavors to foster growth and satisfaction.
How do you build a life you don’t need a vacation from?
That’s why we become creators, right? To skip the 9-5, work for ourselves, help others, and live our dream?
To answer the question, Matt interviewed long-time friend and HeyCreator Summit speaker Khe Hy — the perfect person to answer this question, because he walked away from a $2 million salary on Wall Street for a life of surfing, family, entrepreneurship and creating.
As you’ll hear, Khe optimizes his life for ALIVENESS and drops gems throughout this fun & insightful conversation.
(0:00) — Intro
(1:00) — Pivoting away from what doesn't serve you
(4:40) — Optimizing for aliveness
(9:49) — Why you need to experiment
(17:46) — The death of the follower
(27:58) — Everyone wants to be the noun, nobody wants to do the verb
(33:23) — How much Khe made on Wall Street vs. becoming a creator