269: How to Stand Out When Everyone is Peddling the Same Sh*t with Terri Trespicio

How do you "stand out when "everyone is peddling the same sh*t"? That's what Terri Trespicio and I are talking about today—a deep dive into how her early experiences with poetry writing, jewelry sales, magazine editing, and stand-up comedy gave her lifelong career skills and taught her what it really takes to stand out.

More About Terri: Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, brand advisor, and author of Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life That Matters to You (Atria / Simon & Schuster, December 2021). Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has more than 7 million views and Hubspot named her one of the “Top 18 female speakers who are killing it.” More at territrespicio.com.

Resources Mentioned:

• Connect with Terri: Terri Trespicio
• Instagram: @ttrespicio
• Terri's book: Unfollow Your Passion
• TEDx talk: “Stop Searching for Your Passion”
• Books Mentioned: The Practice: Shipping Creative Work, The Long Game: How To Be A Long Term Thinking In A Short Term World, Sell or Be Sold: How To Get Your Way In Business And Life
• Related Pivot Podcast Episodes: 264: Embrace Your Onlyness with Nilofer Merchant
• Related Free Time Episodes: 012: Generating Personal MBA Momentum with Josh Kaufman, 035: The Long Game with Dorie Clark

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