Optimizing Your Career By Saying No To Good Opportunities

Kristy had landed her dream role traveling the world, drinking wine (and getting paid to do both!) She had put in a lot of hard work to figure out her ideal career and make a career change, but it turns out she still wasn't done! Kristy Wenz shared her initial career change story from communications to wine travel on the HTYC podcast in 2018. In today's episode, she returns to discuss how she's continued optimizing her career into better and better iterations of her dream career.

What you'll learn

• Why learning to say no is so important when optimizing your career
• How to overcome the fear of leaving your once ideal role
• The importance of creating your list of must-haves

Kristy's original episode - Episode 255: How Kristy Celebrated Small Victories on the Way to Her Dream Career (Apple Podcasts / Spotify)

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Related Episodes

1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts
2. Designing Career Experiments and Testing New Careers (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)