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For a long time, our corporate jobs offered us more than just a paycheck. They offered us a promise: work hard, and in exchange, you would be given an entry ticket to a certain place called the middle class. But that social contract is now fraying. And as the safety net bundled with the 9-to-5 erodes, millions of knowledge workers are now being pushed into an unfamiliar, unrecognizable job market with no map and very little floor.The Portfolio Career Lab is a podcast that explores this phenomenon: the reasons so many professionals are polyworking and the myriad of inventive ways they are closing the gap between how they actually want to work and live and how our social safety net was actually designed. In this 4th season of the show, we will explore a new set of economies that has bloomed as people try to make ends meet: from sports betting and sex work, to a sprawling world of cash advance apps and o
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- 3 days ago28 min
A Pro Athlete's Take on the Sports Betting Industry & Lebron's Polymarket Deal
In this episode, I sit down with pro football player and financial advisor Dimitri Stanley. Dimitri, a former wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, explains the mixed reaction to LeBron’s Polymarket deal within the athletic community and what these betting platforms are really designed to do to consumers. Connect with Dimitri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitri-stanley-big14/ Support my work: The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform. Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/ Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GG7LXFK1 Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. The sponsor was Manual Override. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. Narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.
- 3 days ago37 min
The Bootstraps Trap: Why Mutual Aid is a Better Model for Small Business
Remember when we all genuinely believed B Corps and a DEI task forces were going to fix capitalism? I know I do. My guest in this episode is the founder of 3Bears Kai Algar. Kai and I revisit the millennial business cringe that was a hallmark of the 2010s, the anger that started percolating in the 2020s as we realized how little had actually changed, and the different model for business that's beginning to emerge in response: mutual aid networks. Connect with Kai: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaialgar/ Support my work: The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform. Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/ Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GG7LXFK1 Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. The sponsor was Manual Override. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. Narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.
- 1 weeks ago35 min
Leaving Meta to Tackle the AI Literacy Gap
In this episode, I sit down with former Meta Senior Software Engineer Chanel Johnson to talk about outgrowing and ultimately walking away from her career in Big Tech. We get into the grief of leaving behind something you spent years working toward, what it means to redefine professional success, and how Chanel has pivoted to education to tackle the AI literacy gap. We also discuss the polarized conversation around AI, why we need more nuance in how we talk about these technologies, and what the tech industry could learn from the educators preparing the next generation to use them. Connect with Chanel: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chanel-johnson-a36235131/ Website: www.officehourswithchanel.com Support my work: The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform. Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/ Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://linktr.ee/BrieAbramowicz Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. The sponsor was Manual Override. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. Narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.
- 2 weeks ago37 min
Navigating Healthcare Costs As a Self-Employed Freelance or Fractional Worker
This last and final part of this US midterm episode series is about a topic that impacts all of us as portfolio careerists: healthcare. My guest today is Brad White. Brad is a former teacher and school founder who now runs a fractional consulting company that serves the education sector called Updraft. Brad recently came home from a family trip to a letter from his insurer, Blue Cross, Blue Shield letting him know that his premium was going from fourteen hundred dollars a month to two thousand He shares how he and his family are weighing the benefits of two W-2 job offers that came through in the last couple of weeks, versus keeping the doors open on the fractional business that he's run now for four years. We also talk about raising kids with two self-employed parents and how he and his wife make big financial decisions together. Connect with Brad: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-white-58320669/ Updraft Education: https://www.updrafteducation.com/ Support my work: The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform. Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/ Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://linktr.ee/BrieAbramowicz Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. This season’s narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.
- 2 weeks ago42 min
Hope Is a Discipline: When Politics Become Part of Your Portfolio Career
I personally HATE the phrase "keep politics out of work". Work is inherently political, and yet we're constantly being told to keep our political beliefs separate from our professional lives. Which raises a really interesting question that I've personally been wrestling with leading up to the midterm elections. What does it actually look like to use your portfolio career to stand up for the issues you believe in? I certainly haven't completely figured that out for myself yet, but I wanted to talk to people who have. In this second episode of the series pertaining to the election here in the US. In this episode, I sit down recently with Miami-based HR director Natalee Rivero, founder and board member of Cubanos Pa'lante, for a heartfelt conversation about the federal racial gerrymandering lawsuit her organization brought against the state of Florida with the help of the ACLU. We also get into the personal side of this story, navigating a cancer diagnosis and job loss in her family while fighting for a democracy, in which, as she puts it, "the books aren't being cooked" when it comes to voting. Connect with Natalee: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataleerivero/ Cubanos Pa'lante: https://cubanospalante.com/ Support my work: The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform. Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/ Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://linktr.ee/BrieAbramowicz Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. This season’s narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.
- 2 weeks ago33 min
How Rural Pennsylvanians Are Uniting to Fight Back Against Data Center Development
In this episode, I sit down with Heidi Hackemer, a brand strategist living in rural Pennsylvania. We discuss how opposition to a proposed data center in Wayne County is bringing neighbors together across political divides to regulate the data center's construction. Connect with Heidi: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidihackemer/ Heidi's Data Center video: https://lnkd.in/p/gCB7UJUS Support my work: The Portfolio Career Lab is an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, cultural, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. Our mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform. Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/ Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://linktr.ee/BrieAbramowicz Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz. Audio engineering by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. This season’s narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.
- 3 weeks ago27 min
Trusting Your Taste Over the Algorithm
What if building a successful business online has less to do with cracking the algorithm and more to do with trusting your own taste? In this episode, I sit down with Heather Barnett, a commercially savvy and hilarious, B2B copywriter based in the UK. We discuss Heather's unorthodox strategy for creating content for Linkedin and Tiktok and how that creates pathways to speaking and freelance copywriting gigs. Connect with Heather: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherebarnett/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@heatherbarnettb2b The Cauliflower Brain Video: https://lnkd.in/p/gTg4r_pE Support my work: The Portfolio Career Lab is an an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, culture, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. It's mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform. Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/ Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://linktr.ee/BrieAbramowicz Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz and sponsored by Manual Override. Audio engineer by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. This season's narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with Siona Peterous.
- 3 weeks ago34 min
Escaping the Corporate Ladder for the Creator Treadmill
When I first started building a portfolio career, it was kind of a fringe thing to do. That’s no longer the case. There’s a whole economy now of online businesses and courses glorifying leaving your 9-to-5 job. In the premiere of the 4th season of https://www.instagram.com/rukiyaross/ Rukiya’s Viral The internet is a slot machine video Her website: https://rukiyaross.com/ Rukiya's Risk Snapshot Calculator: https://cantcatchabreak.rukiyaross.com/ Support my work: The Portfolio Career Lab is an an independently produced podcast, newsletter, and community exploring the economic, culture, and social forces causing professionals to leave traditional salaried work. It's mission is to help creatives, artists, freelancers, and solopreneurs find the courage, inspiration, connection, and support they need to grow their portfolio careers. If you enjoyed this interview, there are a handful of ways to support the platform. Follow me on Substack: https://theportfoliocareerlab.substack.com/ Buy Polyworker on Amazon: https://linktr.ee/BrieAbramowicz Pay my team: https://buymeacoffee.com/theportfoliocareerlab This episode of “The Portfolio Career Lab” was written and produced by Brie Abramowicz and sponsored by Manual Override. Audio engineer by Darko Savija. Video editing and newsletter production by Brie Abramowicz. Graphics co-produced by Heidi Stanley and Brie Abramowicz. This season's narrative strategy by Brie Abramowicz in collaboration with the esteemed Siona Peterous. Subscribe today at Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Podbean.
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For a long time, our corporate jobs offered us more than just a paycheck. They offered us a promise: work hard, and in exchange, you would be given an entry ticket to a certain place called the middle class. But that social contract is now fraying. And as the safety net bundled with the 9-to-5 erodes, millions of knowledge workers are now being pushed into an unfamiliar, unrecognizable job market with no map and very little floor.The Portfolio Career Lab is a podcast that explores this phenomenon: the reasons so many professionals are polyworking and the myriad of inventive ways they are closing the gap between how they actually want to work and live and how our social safety net was actually designed. In this 4th season of the show, we will explore a new set of economies that has bloomed as people try to make ends meet: from sports betting and sex work, to a sprawling world of cash advance apps and o
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