The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
11/01/21 • 58 min
In this episode we discuss:
- What is the Pathless Path?
- Why Paul left his dream job
- A letter Paul wrote to himself
- How do you get started on the Pathless Path?
- What quitting your job teaches you about yourself
- If there's no path, how do you know if you’re on the right track?
- Dealing with uncertainty
- What's next for Paul
Further Reading:
- Nat Eliason on "Reclaiming the Joy of Work" (https://www.nateliason.com/medley/283)
- What Ben Hunt calls "Industrially Necessary Work" (https://think-boundless.com/ben-hunt/)
- Andrew Taggert's "The Way Of Loss And The Way Of Wonderment" (https://andrewjtaggart.com/2019/09/12/coming-to-the-other-side-of-total-work-the-way-of-loss-and-the-way-of-wonderment/)
More from Paul:
- Paul's website Boundless https://think-boundless.com/
- Paul's podcast, Reimagine Work https://think-boundless.com/podcast/
- Paul's substack newsletter Boundless https://think-boundless.com/boundless-newsletter/
- And on Twitter: https://twitter.com/p_millerd
In this episode we discuss:
- What is the Pathless Path?
- Why Paul left his dream job
- A letter Paul wrote to himself
- How do you get started on the Pathless Path?
- What quitting your job teaches you about yourself
- If there's no path, how do you know if you’re on the right track?
- Dealing with uncertainty
- What's next for Paul
Further Reading:
- Nat Eliason on "Reclaiming the Joy of Work" (https://www.nateliason.com/medley/283)
- What Ben Hunt calls "Industrially Necessary Work" (https://think-boundless.com/ben-hunt/)
- Andrew Taggert's "The Way Of Loss And The Way Of Wonderment" (https://andrewjtaggart.com/2019/09/12/coming-to-the-other-side-of-total-work-the-way-of-loss-and-the-way-of-wonderment/)
More from Paul:
- Paul's website Boundless https://think-boundless.com/
- Paul's podcast, Reimagine Work https://think-boundless.com/podcast/
- Paul's substack newsletter Boundless https://think-boundless.com/boundless-newsletter/
- And on Twitter: https://twitter.com/p_millerd
Previous Episode
How to Earn Six Figures without a Job — Freelance WordPress Developer Tom Hirst
In this episode we discuss:
- How Tom got started freelancing
- Landing the first client
- Do you need to be able to "sell yourself" to make it as a freelancer?
- Getting out of the "feast/famine" cycle that traps many freelancers
- What are the biggest mistakes that most people make when first starting out as freelancers?
- What would Tom do if he was starting over again today?
- Should you use marketplaces/platforms like UpWork to sell your services as a freelancer?
- Is it important to choose a niche?
- Where Tom gets virtually all of his new leads from
- The advantages of "working in public"
- Finding success on Twitter
- Tom's viral Twitter thread on pricing freelance projects ( https://twitter.com/tom_hirst/status/1277933730078785537
- How to create additional sources of income as a freelancer (besides client work)
- Translating freelance expertise into creating and selling content online
- Tom's new agency, Run the Show (https://twitter.com/rtsagency) that specializes in Headless Wordpress
- What is "Headless Wordpress" and why would someone use it?
You can find links to all of the resources we discussed and more on Tom's website here: https://www.tomhirst.com/links/
Next Episode
The New Fatherhood with Kevin Maguire
Kevin Maguire writes "The New Fatherhood" a weekly newsletter dedicated to "Helping dads be better dads."
Kevin is also a former Google employee and the founder of QuickHatch (https://quickhatch.xyz/) where he uses Design Sprint thinking to help bold companies solve complex problems in record time.
In this episode we discuss:
- The three phases of scarcity that we experience throughout our lives
- What's missing from the existing advice for dads that prompted Kevin to start The New Fatherhood
- Writing a book one week at a time
- Putting the "dominoes" in the right order for your business to grow and succeed
- Struggling with screen time as a parent
- The training we get for becoming dads. What advice do new dads need to hear?
- Fatherhood lessons from Bandit the Dog and setting the bar higher for dads
- That hardest thing for me about being a parent
- Why did Kevin leave Google, one of the best companies in the world to work for?
- Moving away from San Francisco and the USA to optimize for family life
- Advantages of living in Barcelona and attitudes towards children in Spain
- There's more to life than "What's your name, what do you do?"
- The power of vulnerability, especially for men
- Should we encourage kids to play video games?
- How to approach choosing where to live with a family
Links:
- The New Fatherhood on Substack (TheNewFatherhood.org)
- The New Fatherhood on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/newfatherhood/)
- Selected issues from the New Fatherhood
- Brene Brown on the Power of Vulnerability (https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability/transcript?language=en)
- David Brooks' book, The Second Mountain (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MC94WDB/)
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