Word to the Rise | A Career Advice Podcast

S1, E2 Word to the Rise is a podcast full of honest conversations with individuals achieving success in the modern working world. In this episode, we welcome Nate Andorsky, an entrepreneur who blends behavioral economics, data, and technology to help socially focused companies and nonprofits build and scale technology. Nate geeks out about the intersection of human behavior and technology and the ways in which it can improve human outcomes.

We had a refreshing and insightful conversation about using your childhood interests to drive your career decisions, how to handle being fired with grace, and why mentorship isn’t always just from one person.

Find out more about Nate:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nate-andorsky-16556a8/

Creative Science: https://creativescience.co/

Kathleen Barber is a former attorney, incurable wanderer, and yoga enthusiast. Originally from Galesburg, Illinois, she is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Northwestern University School of Law. She now lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and son. Her first novel, Truth Be Told (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, August 2017, originally published as Are You Sleeping), has been adapted as a series for Apple TV+ by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine media company. Her second novel, Follow Me, is forthcoming from Gallery Books on February 25, 2020.

Friends Omar Soliman and Nick Friedman turned a summer junk hauling business into an international franchise. Here's how two "college hunks" built a culture that grew their brand.

It started out like many summer gigs: Childhood friends Omar Soliman and Nick Friedman were sitting around a table, figuring out how to make money while they were home from college.

The duo and their friends had landed on the idea of hauling people's trash in a beat-up cargo van borrowed from Soliman's mother.

"We were drinking beer and throwing out ridiculous, funny names, and my mom said, 'You're like college hunks who haul junk,'" Soliman recalled. "We thought, 'Hey, that's a cool name.'"

Little did they know that this was the beginning of an international franchise, now known as College H.U.N.K.S. Hauling Junk & Moving.

With a brand name and a solid concept, the rag-tag group of college students posted flyers around the suburbs of Washington, D.C. It didn't take long for the calls to start coming in, and the friends spent the next few months waking up at sunrise and driving the van around to haul garbage for local residents. They had earned more than $8,000.

For the first time in their young lives, Soliman and Friedman had found their passion — not moving garbage, but being entrepreneurs.

• Exponential Organizations Book
• Millionaire Matchmaker Episode with Omar and Nick
• Sapiens Book & Sequel

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CollegeHunks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collegehunks/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CollegeHunksHaulingJunk/ Website: https://www.collegehunkshaulingjunk.com/

Jess Moss is a Washington DC-based travel writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, US News Travel, Fodor's Travel and more. She recently published her first book, Easy Weekend Getaways from Washington DC, which is a guide to escapes within about 3 hours of DC.

Jess also works full-time at Marriott International, where she does editorial strategy for Marriott Bonvoy Traveler.

We had an insightful conversation that included evolving with rapid change in content, how to walk away from your supposed dream job, and what it's really like to write a travel book.

If you're interested in a career related to content or travel, this episode is for you. Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe.

Today on the podcast we welcome Katie Urban a public relations professional and lifestyle blogger.

Katie began her career in marketing for a DC-based real estate developer and handled everything from digital analytics to social media, graphic design, website design, copywriting and events. She earned a Masters at Georgetown in Public Relations and Corporate Communications, and she currently does PR at Capital One for the flagship consumer cards; she also runs a lifestyle blog called A Touch of Teal.

We covered it all in our conversation, including ways to move from a small company to a global corporation and shift industries while doing it, how to use your community effectively while job searching and ways to travel like the bloggers do.

If you’re interested in ways to blend your passion and profession, this episode is for you. Don’t forget to rate, review and subscribe!