Have a Nice Life

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.

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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!]. 

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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, t...

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...

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...

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.

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BONUS episode! What if all your ideas and percolation lead you to wonder about self-employment? In this case, here’s a short series of questions to ask yourself and drive some research into if self-employment is a route you might want to consider. Pippi and Hadassah can both confirm it is both awesome and a ton of extra work. Is it the right thing for you? Listen to learn how to start to figure that out, for you.

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What to do with all your context, criteria, and research when you also know in your heart you want to be a sandcastle artist, poet, or person who wishes to preserve their creativity for after work? This episode dives into brainstorming your career ideas - and helps you get around the ways you might halt your brainstorm before it gets good.

Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist,...

So you have a brainstormed and you have seven rough ideas of what your life could be - WELL NOW WHAT? Fear not: in this episode you’ll learn three ways to pull ideas that are good for *you* out of a brainstorm.

Have a Nice Life is 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 - c...

This episode is for anyone who wants to be better at changing and will not spout privileged nonsense about jumping and the net will find you, since that is simply not available to a lot of people. Instead, we’re going to teach you how to make trying things and building towards change safer to try.

Change can feel - and be! - risky, but what can you do to reduce that risk and change safely for you? This episode tells storie...

If networking sounds horrifying, do! not! fear! In this episode of Have a Nice Life you’ll learn how and why to talk to people and try stuff without any name tag or blazer, the superpower that is productive chaos, the secret stash of people who can help you, and why you don’t need to fake anything to get a lot out of chaos networking.

Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategis...

Even when you have a sense of what you want, it’s reasonable that gathering other kinds of information can be wise, before committing to a specific direction. Pilots and prototypes are kinds of experiments that help you try on or try out a way of living before you fully commit, and are excellent ways to learn things in your body that you can’t learn from imagination or research. We love them! 

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When we’re about to make a decision, it can feel high stakes. How do you REALLY know what direction to take - and what if you want to change later? What if your “knowing” or “deciding” buttons are frayed from trauma or operating in survival mode? 

In our last few episodes we’ve talked about how to reduce the risk of getting it wrong with criteria and prototyping, so today we talk about ho...

You’re done! Kind of. What if you have made a Big Life Decision, but later you want things in your life to be different? That would make you NORMAL. As you grow and your life changes, your criteria will probably change. We want you to plan to evolve along with your life and be ready to continue to tell yourself the truth about what you want and need.

Reflecting and learning - and letting it be ok that you get to change - w...

In Season 1 of Have a Nice Life, Pippi and Hadassah talked about how to come up with criteria for yourself when it comes to understanding what you might do for work; but coming up with job ideas can still be very hard! So in this bonus episode, we go into ways people can use three tools - AI, skills assessments, and experience mapping - to identify fields, jobs, and types of work that we might want to explore more. This is for peop...

In earlier episodes of Have a Nice Life, Pippi and Hadassah talked about running experiments on your ideas and testing prototypes to get more information to help you make decisions. There’s so much to say about this, and in this bonus episode, we go into more detail on exactly what we mean by a career change experiment, its specific question and prototype components, and how to define and run an experiment to get more informa...