Fostering Your Entrepreneurial Spirit with Nate Andorsky

09/30/19 • 25 min

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/

Find out more about Nate:

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

Creative Science: https://creativescience.co/

Previous Episode

Owning Your Niche

S1, E1: If anyone knows about owning your own niche, it is Jasmine Smith. As an event producer, wedding expert and founder and creator of D.C. Wedding Week, which she describes as "events and experiences for wedding creatives that activate diverse ideas, empower people and spark opportunities," Jasmine has not only carved out a niche in her field of expertise but in a niche industry!

Jasmine's story is one of overcoming adversity, being your own biggest advocate in keeping your hand raised high and continuing to ask for what you want!

Her Rise...

Ambitious and hard-working Jasmine said she began working as a teenager and has always had some type of hustle. Jasmine's future would continue to look bright as she landed a dream internship her senior year of high school.

"...my story is a little different because I was also pregnant with my son my senior year of high school. I had already applied for this internship before I knew I was pregnant"

"Life doesn't go the way you plan it," Jasmine said. "It never does," host Stephanie Arbetter said.

"So, I went to college I worked full time during the day. I went to school at night. Sometimes my son would be in class with me at night. And so within three years, I got my bachelor's in marketing," Jasmine said.

In this episode, Stephanie gets real with Jasmine about what it takes to succeed as a freelancer, to honing in on your skill set, to finding a new passion and what it takes to build an empire in a niche industry.

Find out More about Jasmine:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasminesmith1126/

Website: jasminesmithco.com

Next Episode

Blending Passion and Profession with Katie Urban

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!