Have a Nice Life
Hadassah Damien and Pippi Kessler
Have a Nice Life is a podcast hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and design strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. Season One is HANL: A Career Change Survival Guide and has a companion workbook by the same name. Most career advice ignores realities of trauma, systemic oppression, and assumes you’re clear on your dream job. Not this time! Welcome to your anticapitalist survival guide to finding work that works for you, having enough money, and balancing your values and goals with the world we're in. Learn to redesign your work and financial life without having to know the future, despair, hate your life, or love wage labor. Check out the workbook if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Season Two is HANL: Good Work and draws on Pippi and Damien's expertise as organizational consultants. Good Work is focused on crisis leadership, making reality-focused adaptations to organizations and projects, and what people can do to be strategic, good leaders in a bad time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Apr 12, 2024 • 35min
Episode 7: Research to expand your ideas part 2: Types of Jobs
Jobs, roles and titles - besides “postal worker” and “firefighter” and “teacher” what other kinds of jobs are out there – and how in the world do you find out what they are, what the people who have them do, and what they’re paid?? This episode details places you can drill into a job type search, to give you ideas for what your next job might be.Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 10, 2024 • 25min
Episode 6: Expanding your ideas part 1: Financial Imagination
This episode walks you through data on the income people need to cover costs, holds your hand as you jump into a pool of numbers, and leads an exercise on how to expand your ideas of what kinds of income are real in the first place.Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance.You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 6, 2024 • 36min
Episode 5: Setting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Going Deeper
Creating a vision starts with the details and you’ll come up with more details about your life from these exercises! In this episode, Pippi and Hadassah introduce three more ways to come up with elements of your life - time, money, and imagination - which you’ll use later in the series to inform your ideas. The Have a Nice Life workbook has more detailed, visual versions of these exercises if you prefer to see them like that.Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance.You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 3, 2024 • 35min
Episode 4: Setting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Starting with Anti-ableist Self-Acceptance and a Values/Talents Map
You probably don’t know exactly what your ideal work + life shape looks like, and if so you are normal! You might not be sure how to start to imagine such things, or you suspect you’ve buried or cast aside some pieces that might be clues to what you need. In this episode you’ll learn two practices to set criteria about what you want: one about anti-ableist self-acceptance, and another about your values, talents, and desires. These are specifically grounded in what you need and who you are, so you can start to form the shape of your future life.Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance.You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 27, 2024 • 32min
Episode 3: Eight Step Framework to Figure Out Your Nice Life
In this episode we explore the eight steps we’ll take you through in the rest of the series. Both Pippi and Hadassah work with a methodology called Design Thinking, and we’ll be leaning on it in this work, so we learn about how it’s going to be used to help you figure out how to Have a Nice Life [and without any unnecessary corporate lingo, fear not!]. If you're a visual learner and want to see a chart of the framework, you can find the Have a Nice Life workbook on pippikessler.org and ridefreefearlessmoney.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 20, 2024 • 34min
Episode 2: Why It’s Hard to Figure Out Work That You Want: Systemic Problems
This series is about finding jobs we’ll like that provide money to be sustained by; about how not to be ground down and instead more aligned with our values, regardless of how you feel about work. But why is this so hard?In this episode we examine the current moment and historical events that have lead to systemic barriers making finding work that works for you challenging for so many people.Listen to this if you are struggling with feeling like it’s possible to figure out work and money for yourself. And if you want lots of stories about #vanlife, and to free yourself from self-blame.Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance.You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 20, 2024 • 36min
Welcome to Have a Nice Life: Meet your Hosts
Welcome to Have a Nice Life! A miniseries on career changing, from career coach and organizational psychologist Pippi Kessler, and money coach and business strategist Hadassah Damien, two lefty queers who’ve both taken a winding path to good work and stability.In this intro episode we share our backstories and why we’re making this series.This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance.You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
